Politics
Olympic Reporters’ Guide to Labor Camps Published
To help foreign reporters overcome the Chinese government’s media censorship and shed light on closely shielded rights violations, the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) released today a detailed guide to detention facilities located within miles of Olympic venues and known for their severe abuse of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience.
Bilderberg 2008 Conference - Attendee List
The 56th Bilderberg Meeting will be held in Chantilly, Virginia, USA 5 – 8 June 2008. The Conference will deal mainly with a nuclear free world, cyber terrorism, Africa, Russia, finance, protectionism, US-EU relations, […]
Bushwhacked speech
This is an old but good piece of editing from (allegedly) Chris Morris, one of the foremost satirists around today. What is it? Well it’s been circulating on the internet for some time now and is a cut up of George W’s State of Union Address.
Bushwhacked [5:00m]: Blair’s Legacy: Official Secrets or Open Government?
The very day Blair formally announced his intention to step down as leader of the Labour Party, an Old Bailey judge sentenced a whistleblower to six months’ imprisonment and issued a gagging order against the media, sending a clear signal
that government secrecy remains strong. Parallel efforts by the government to undermine the two-year old Freedom […]
Transcript of Tony Blair MP’s speech, May 10 2007
Trimdon Labour Club, Sedgefield
Monday 10 May 2007
It’s a great privilege to be here with you again today and to thank all of you too for such a wonderful and warm welcome.
I’d just like to say also if I might and just […]
Harold Pinter - Nobel Lecture - Art, Truth & Politics
In 1958 I wrote the following:
‘There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.’
I believe that these assertions still make sense and do still […]
Respect MP George Galloway Appears In Front Of US Gov. Committee
WASHINGTON — The firebrand British member of Parliament who has been accused of accepting oil vouchers as part of the Oil-for-Food scandal told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday he did nothing wrong and accused the United States of diverting attention from their own crimes in Iraq by implicating him.
George Galloway said he met Saddam Hussein “as […]
“Some People Push Back” - On the Justice of Roosting Chickens
Ward Churchill (Keetoowah Band Cherokee) is one of the most outspoken of Native American activists. In his lectures and numerous published works, he explores the themes of genocide in the Americas, historical and legal (re)interpretation of conquest and colonization, literary and cinematic criticism, and indigenist alternatives to the status quo. Churchill is a Professor of […]
UK Government to deny NHS healthcare to asylum seekers
LABOUR GOVERNMENT plans to deny asylum seekers access to healthcare are in disarray as almost the entire health profession signal their opposition.
At risk: asylum seekers to be denied NHS treatmentBlink has discovered that on the final day of the Department of Health consultation a host of medical bodies have come out against the […]
Draft Community Radio Order 2004
Transcript of the Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation - Draft Community Radio Order 2004.
The Community Radio Order 2004 was accepted in parliament on Tuesday 13 July 2004 paving the way for applications from Community Organisations for long term licences to broadcast. The Committee discussion ranged from the definition of Community Radio through to […]
