Ian Sinclair at the Morning Star...did an interesting interview with "Catherine, a prostitute, dominatrix and activist with the International Union of Sex Workers..."

"...[W]e didn't go out and rescue the miners, take them away and give them a wash, and say ‘come and do this you will be much happier'. We gave them rights, we gave them bargaining power."

by Ezra Halevi - 03 August 08

Haaretz editor and board member Danny Rubinstein does not retract his categorization of Israel as an “apartheid state” before the UN. He claims many at Haaretz agree...Rubinstein had addressed the UN’s Palestinian Rights Conference in Brussels on his way to a World Zionist Organization-sponsored speaking tour in Britain last week. His speaking engagement before the local Zionist Federation was cancelled due to the outcry over his statements, but a local Conservative synagogue hosted the lecture...

LONDON - Security has become by far the largest cost for field trials of genetically modified crops in Britain as researchers seek to protect sites against vandalism, a scientist said on Monday.

There is no level to low for the insurance industry when a profit can be made. At the expense of humanity, insurance companies come to the aid of iron fisted General Than Shwe of Burma. Though Than Shwe is being allowed to starve thousands of people to death, insurance companies world wide have come to the aid of this criminal regime.

By Andrew G. Marshall - July 10, 2008

...[W]hy [was] Iraq...occupied[?]...If the answer is...to spread democracy and freedom and rid the world of tyranny and terror, then it doesn’t make sense that the British or Americans would orchestrate terror...However, if the answer to the question...was not to spread democracy and freedom, but to spread fear and chaos, plunge the country into civil war, balkanize Iraq into several countries, and create an "arc of crisis" across the Middle East, enveloping neighboring countries, notably Iran, then terror is a very efficient and effective means to an end.

SchNEWS | Friday 11th July 2008

Forward Intelligence Teams (FIT)...are uniformed officers, whose job it is to build profiles on those opposed to the status quo. The same few officers from a variety of police forces turn up at anti-capitalist, anti-arms trade, animal rights, squat evictions, the climate camp...They in turn pass...information onto agencies such as the National Public Order Intelligence Unit and the National Extremism Tactical Co-ordinating Unit.

By John Pilger - Znet

An...imposing wall of silence ensures that the British public remains largely unaware of the industrial killing of civilians in Britain's modern colonial wars...[T]his is in keeping [with] what the Americans call "the national security state", which seeks the control of domestic dissent while pursuing military aggression abroad.

by John Pilger - 25 June 2008

In [this] latest column...John Pilger describes another Britain: "a vicious, sectarian and mostly unreported war" against Muslims. People snatched from their homes following 9/11 are consigned to a Kafkaesque oblivion, and worse.

LONDON (Reuters) - Oil leapt $5 to a new record high near $147 a barrel on Friday, spurred by growing worries of threats to supplies from Iran and Nigeria and the possibility of a strike by Brazilian oil workers next week.

by Heather Mallick - Wednesday July 2, 2008

Come to Canada! But only if you've got a job.

Stories of Canada looking to poach British citizens are wildly exaggerated. We're only interested in professionals who can help us dig up oil.

By Priyamvada Gopal - June, 29 2008

As Zimbabwe spirals into further political chaos, [Robert] Mugabe and his party's addiction to power will further indulge an equally self-serving Western appetite for spectacles of Third World despotism. If Mugabe finds it convenient to invoke the demon of colonial oppression...he also enables British politicians to spout pieties condemning violence while their own nation is currently implicated in two dubious and bloody wars...The British government turns accusatory fingers in Zimbabwe's direction while Mugabe shouts back anti-colonial slogans...The only innocents, however, are ordinary Zimbabweans.

By SchNEWS, Britain's Direct Action Newsletter

"The planned [Stop the War]/[Socialist Workers Party] demo against [US President George W. Bush's] last UK visit...was more exiting than [your] standard march [and] chant affair...Despite the best efforts of the 'Stop the War' coalition to serve up a generic McMarch against the "World's No.1 Terrorist", an [up-for-it] crowd of some 2,000 people defied the wishes of the police and STW stewards and tried their damnedest to deliver their message in person..."

by George Monbiot - The Guardian

The people who help to generate the public demand for long prison terms (newspaper [owners] and editors) and the people who mete it out (judges and magistrates) are drawn overwhelmingly from the property-owning classes...Money breeds paranoia, and paranoia keeps people in prison.

[The British Broadcasting Corporation] consistently is pro-Israel and supportive of western and corporate interests.

SchNEWS, Britain's Direct Action Newsletter - Friday, June 6, 2008

With red flags flying, three soundsystems, a cardboard tank and the inevitable samba band around 500 people were met by a surprisingly small number of police on the Level in Brighton. At around 1pm having confirmed the factory was open the march moved off towards EDO MBM, around a mile and a half away, chanting “Smash, Smash EDO”..."We came here to fight the arms trade – we’re not gonna be pushed into a playpen."