Cluster bomb casualties in Lebanon rise from two per year prior to 2006 to two per day in the months following last summer's conflict with Israel. Download full report here (pdf). Handicap International.
Iraq and the Media: A Critical Timeline. How the US media "manufactured consent" in the run up to the Iraq War. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR).
Russian intelligence says US is about to attack Iran Any casus belli will doCampaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) .
The Zionist Nakba-deniers accuse Ahmadinejad of being a Holocaust denier. But what did Ahmadinejad actually say about the Holocaust?. Information Clearinghouse.
The disingenuous role of the yellow corporate media in setting up Iran for war. Ahmadinejad was talking about regime change in Israel NOT "wiping Israel off the map". The Truth Seeker Web-Site.
More on the deliberate mistranslation of Ahmadinejad's statement about Israel The rumour of the century.
. Islamonline.com
15 murders linked to police collusion with loyalists. This was how Special Branch mistreated white Catholics in Ireland. Multiply by 20 to get an idea of how Special Branch is mistreating non-white British muslims today... Guardian
The Future of Online Video: Openness Matters. RSS Can Help. Written before YouTube was swallowed up by Google, but still relevant: Participatory Culture Foundation
Robert Fisk on the US Press in the aftermath of the mid-term elections Here Come the Odious Excuses The philosophers behind the bloodbath in Iraq are now washing their hands. The Independent
British NGO report exposes privatisation of war: Corporate Mercenaries. There are 3 times more unaccountable mercenaries in Iraq than British soldiers. Download WoW Report: Corporate Mercenaries (pdf). War on Want
Following the murder of Terry Lloyd by US troops, MOD bans embedded ITV reporters because they are not rabidly pro-war enough. Independent on Sunday.
Intriguing video of David Shayler on 9-11 which supports the calls of the 9-11 Truth Movement for a proper public inquiry into the events of 9-11.
Shayler asks: Was Tony Blair an MI5 Informer in CND and the Labour Party in his youth? Iran Solidarity.
So you think that British army atrocities are something new? Read Shameful Legacy--the story of appalling British repression during the "Kenya Emergency" in the early 1950s. The Guardian
The FAQ page of this site has been extended to include an explanation of the open source movement and creative commons licensing
Short video of Manchester antiwar activists talking about the importance of the Time to Go Demonstration.
A new, hour long, video about the history of the Manchester Anti-War Movement: Tapestry of Truth.
A very snappy, well put together video clip produced by a Stop the War Coalition supporter to publicise the Time to Go demonstration.
Letter to Green Left Weekly about the SSP crisis "abridged" by editors.
Chris Nineham on the political situation after the attack on Lebanon. Video Clip.
On 24th June 2006, the day before the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers by Palestinians that sparked the vicious Isreali war on Gaza and Lebanon, the Israelis had kidnapped two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. See this tiny, forgotten paragraph: Gaza Strip Arrests in The Observer.
The Secrets of the London Cage. Beatings, sleep deprivation and starvation used on SS and Gestapo men. POW camp in Kensington kept secret and hidden from Red Cross. Guardian.
Excavating the Real History of the Russian Revolution
Understanding the real history of the 1917 Russian Revolution and the reasons for its political degeneration is an absolute must--it was the key event of the Twentieth Century. Getting at the truth is a bit like carrying out archeaological excavation since this event has been buried under a mountain of fairy tales written by Western and Stalinist falsifiers of history. Without a proper understanding of this event, it is impossible to make sense of subsequent political events in the period since 1917. For example, Italian and German fascism were direct reactions to the international impact of the Russian Revolution. And understanding the degeneration of the Russian Revolution under Stalin is the key to an accurate appreciation of the reasons for the victory of Hitler and the origins of World War 2. The following books are important for such an understanding:
1. Tania Ross (Ed.): Dispatches from the Revolution: Russia 1916-18 (1997). A collection of the articles by Morgan Philips Price who was the Russian speaking foreign correspondent of the Manchester Guardian in Russia before, during and after the 1917 Revolution. This is an especially important book for present day liberals who view the revolution negatively. The articles, which were published in the Manchester Guardian, were written by an upper class English liberal. The views expressed in these articles evolved from an initial scepticism about the Bolsheviks to a position of full support as he witnessed the revolutionary events personally. Some of his later Guardinan articles were not published because of censorship by the British authorities. The editor of this book is the grandaughter of Philips Price who has also written other works about the history of censorship in the British press. Essential reading.
2. Alexander Rabinowitch: The Bolsheviks Come to Power (1976). Rabinowitch is a Russian speaking academic at Indiana University. The significant feature of this book is that he makes exstensive use of primary sources to document the history of the 1917 Russian Revolution and the soviets (workers councils) and comes to the conclusion that the Bolshevik Party was a democratic institution during this phase of its existence ( although it later degenerated under Stalin). It is a very illuminating and readable account. Rabinowitch has also just published a follow up to this: The Bolsheviks in Power (2007)--covering the 1st year of the Bolsehvik government--which draws heavily on newly available primary sources in the Soviet era archives opened up during the 1990s. These contain the stenographic records of the Boshevik party and soviets.
3. John Reed: Ten Days that Shook the World (1918). This tells the story of the Russian revolution from a unique, first hand perspective. Reed, an American journalist, was on assignment in Russia for The Masses--then the principal radical journal in the United States--and spent his days walking the streets, reading and collecting handbills, newspapers, and posters, and talking to people. As a result, Ten Days crackles with energetic immediacy. At its best moments it reads like a novel. Like Philips Price, he became a supporter of the Bolsheviks.
4. E. H. Carr's 8 volume History of Soviet Russia is a monumental, extensively documented account of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath. Although Carr himself accepted that he was a typical English empiricist who see history as "one damn thing after another", it is full of useful information.
5. Isaac Deutscher's trilogy: The Prophet Armed, The Prophet Unarmed and The Prophet Outcast is a comprehensive biography of the central figure in the 1917 Russian Revolution, Lev Davidovitch Bronstein, better known as Leon Trotsky. Trotsky was the person who actually organised and led the revolution (and the Red Army during the subsequent Civil War) while Lenin was in hiding in Finland. Written in a majestic style, it is interesting and useful despite the fact that some of the author's spin on events and on Trotsky's judgement is one sided and muddled in places.
6. Trotsky's own 3 volume History of the Russian Revolution is available online here.
Deep Background--Untangling the Web of Deceit
1. The books of British academic Mark Curtis: Unpeople (2004), Web of Deceit (2003), The Great Deception (1998)
2. The books of Tariq Ali: Bush in Babylon (2003), The Clash of Fundamentalisms (2002).
3. The books of Norman G. Finkelstein: The Holocaust Industry (2000), Beyond Chutzpah (2005)
4. David Edwards and David Cromwell of Media Lens: Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media (2006).
5. Lenni Brenner: Zionism in the Age of the Dictators (1983).
6. Alan Hart: Zionism: the Real Enemy of the Jews, Vols 1 and 2 (2005)
1. Dave Crouch's article:
The Bolsheviks and Islam. IS Journal (Spring 2006). Excellent presentation of the policy of the early Bolshevik government (i.e. before Stalin took over) towards the Muslim peoples in Soviet Central Asia. Essential reading.
Note:The fact that scholars and independent investigators in the US and Britain are probing the evidence relating to 9/11 and 7/7 is a good thing. The fact that people are asking serious questions about the "official conspiracy theories" offered by their respective governments is further proof of the validity of the old saying: "you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Those who dismiss these endeavours, or who refuse to examine the holes in the official narrative, need to think again. The real "conspiracy nuts" are Bush, Blair and the Zionists--not those, like Annie Machon, who are searching for the truth. Here are some video clips on the subject. Click on the "YouTube" or "Google" logos to go to the sites where they are hosted - you can see them in larger screen sizes there.
Video Clips
9/11 False Flag Terrorism--Annie Machon Whistleblower 2007
David Shayler speaks on 9/11
7/7 Mind the Gap - David Shayler Discusses the London Bombings
Loose Change, 2nd Edison Cut - Dissecting 9/11
Monitoring Media Bias--Documenting the Deceit of the Warmongers
