Stop the War Coalition site feed http://stopwar.org.uk Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:21:41 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1731/27/ As US and British troops prepare to attack the town of Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand Province, military commanders and the media are openly comparing the operation to the November 2004 siege of Fallujah, one of the bloodiest war crimes of the Iraq war. News - Latest Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:55:21 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1730/27/ FEBRUARY 2010: Richard Holbrooke, US representative in Pakistan, after three US soldiers killed in Pakistan: "There's nothing secret about their presence." JULY 2009: Richard Holbrooke, US representative in Pakistan: "People think that the US has troops in Pakistan, well, we don't." School bombing exposes Obama’s secret war inside Pakistan by Christina Lamb... (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7017929.ece) Obama's expanding US War in Pakistan by Jeremy Scahill... (http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100222/scahill2) News - Latest Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:55:46 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1728/268/ If we are to avoid a replay of the Iraq catastrophe, pressure to prevent war with Iran will have to start now. News - Top stories Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:26:09 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1726/268/ Selection of videos, pictures and poems by Stop the War supporters recording the spirit and purpose of the protest when Blair gave evidence to the Iraq Inquiry. News - Top stories Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:19:46 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1723/27/ The boos that accompanied Blair as he left were the most troubling opposition he experienced all day in front of this pitiful committee of establishment fogeys. News - Latest Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:20:19 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1722/27/ Grace McCann was held back by police as she attempted a citizen's arrest on Tony Blair "for crimes against peace" when he left the Iraq inquiry. News - Latest Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:29:44 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1727/27/ A new investigation reveals harrowing details about U.S. secret prisons in Afghanistan, under both the Bush and Obama administrations. News - Latest Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:03:17 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1716/184/ Iraq: The People's Dossier anticipated that the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War would be no less "dodgy" than the notorious dossiers produced by Tony Blair to justify war crimes. How right we were. A must read. Buy now... (http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1716/1/) Events & Activities - Merchandise Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:34:18 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1718/27/ This limited edition T-shirt by renowned designer Katharine Hamnett says what should be the outcome of the Chilcot Inquiry: JAIL TONY. The back reads Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime. £12 incl. p p. News - Latest Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:06:00 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1725/27/ Did the army drop the charge of desertion against L/Cpl Joe Glenton because it feared the legality of the Afghan war being examined at his court martial? News - Latest Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:50:01 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1724/268/ Israeli bureaucracy is driving Palestinians out of their homes to steal the land for illegal settlements, writes Robert Fisk. News - Top stories Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:26:32 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1721/27/ "If you are found to be lying and have misled the British public, and we were taken into an illegal war, what I want to know is, will he be tried for this crime? If not, why have this inquiry?" says father of soldier killed in Iraq. News - Latest Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:33:03 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1717/268/ George Monbiot has put a bounty on Tony Blair's head, which will be awarded to the first person to attempt a citizens's arrest for crimes against peace. News - Top stories Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:03:23 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1713/268/ If Blair cannot give satisfactory answers to the questions below, there is only one conclusion: he should stand trial for war crimes, guilty of mass-murder. News - Top stories Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:02:10 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1707/268/ We proclaim our innate goodness, our pure motives, while decrying "terrorism". To the bulk of Muslims, the greatest terrorism is the destruction of Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, the drone attacks on Pakistan and US support for Israeli terrorism. News - Top stories Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:07:25 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1699/27/ Obama and Gordon Brown say the Afghan National Army is the key to their exit strategy. But a leaked Pentagon report says it is a phantom army, a farce, and there's little chance of turning it into a cohesive fighting force. News - Latest Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:23:44 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1704/268/ A YouGov poll says 52% of people believe Blair deliberately misled the country over the Iraq war and 23% think he should be tried as a war criminal. News - Top stories Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:52:21 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1701/27/ Tony Blair's spin doctor Alistair Campbell feels "incredibly proud" about the Iraq war. One million dead Iraqis are not around to beg to differ. News - Latest Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:23:55 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1700/268/ US army commanders say the Taliban is defeated and the occupying forces are "winning" in Afghanistan. Why then did a recent briefing by the top US intelligence officer in Afghanistan conclude the opposite? News - Top stories Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:31:13 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1694/268/ It gets worse every day for ordinary Afghans but the rich live like kings in their monstrous new "poppy palaces". "We've built a lot of buildings, but we've lost a lot of hope." News - Top stories Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:26:37 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1697/268/ Michael Prysner was a US soldier serving in Iraq for two years, 2003-2005. He says, "We were told we were fighting terrorism. The real terrorist was me." News - Top stories Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:18:44 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1696/268/ Counter-insurgency (COIN) is the new buzz word for the foreign invaders of Afghanistan and Iraq. This is how to win, say Barack Obama and Gordon Brown. News - Top stories Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:34:30 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1693/268/ Shaker Aamer was cleared of any wrong doing in 2007. Why then is he still in Guantánamo, held in solitary confinement in a six foot by eight foot windowless cell? News - Top stories Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:37:18 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1692/268/ The day before George Galloway was deported from Egypt, he gave this interview about the iron wall of shame being built to starve the people of Gaza into surrender. News - Top stories Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:36:51 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1689/268/ Most people in Europe and north America know nothing about Egypt blockading the Viva Palestina aid convoy to Gaza. If only Palestinians were Tibetan, says Seumas Milne. News - Top stories Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:15:44 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1686/268/ Lance Corporal Joe Glenton's crime was to say we're making matters worse in Afghanistan and to say publicly it was immoral to carry on fighting, says Mark Steel. News - Top stories Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:44:30 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1685/268/ If we want to support the troops and the Afghan people, we need an open debate about why we are in Afghanistan and whether we should pull out, says Salma Yaqoob. News - Top stories Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:40:23 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1684/268/ Yemen has all the explosive ingredients of Lebanon, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan. But already the US hawks are itching to start another "pre-emptive" war. News - Top stories Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:01:56 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1682/268/ Following a catstrophic year for NATO forces Gen. McChrystal, commander of the US led invading armies, lays out his strategy for "winning" in Afghanistan. News - Top stories Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:33:27 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1683/268/ In 2009 Obama dramatically escalated the unmanned drone attacks on Pakistan. Result: 700 civilians killed. Oh, and five "militants". News - Top stories Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:04:42 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1681/268/ Former PM John major says he would not have supported the Iraq war if Tony Blair had told the truth. Will he join our protest when Blair appears at the Iraq Inquiry? Read more... (http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1648/273/) News - Top stories Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:09:11 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1679/268/ Barack Obama says, "Those who would slaughter innocent men, women and children must know that the United States will use every element of our national power to disrupt, to dismantle and to defeat the violent extremists." Violent extremists in Afghanistan... (http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1677/27/) Violent extremists in Pakistan... (http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1678/27/) News - Top stories Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:53:19 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1675/268/ To justify his war in Afghanistan, Obama has told a series of lies about 9/11, al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Welcome to the world of George Orwell, says John Pilger. News - Top stories Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:36:31 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1672/195/ Gaza is a maximum security prison, basically a torture chamber under a constant harsh and brutal siege. Gaza one year after Israel's attack, by Noam Chomsky. Resources - Video & Film Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:37:52 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1667/268/ "The wretched reality endured by 1.5 million people in Gaza should appal anybody with an ounce of humanity," says Amnesty International. News - Top stories Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:57:12 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1660/268/ Wars don't just hog money that could be spent helping countries adapt to climate change; they are themselves major sources of greenhouse gasses. News - Top stories Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:15:59 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1663/268/ Barack Obama likes the number 30 billion, for Afghanistan troop surges, military aid for Israel or to help poor countries counter climate change (not). News - Top stories Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:14:09 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1661/268/ Britain and the US, with their own record of war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, fear that if international law is applied to Israel, it could be catching. News - Top stories Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:33:32 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1657/268/ A Woman Among the Warlords by Malalai Joya takes a scalpel to many of the illusions surrounding the US invasion of Afghanistan. News - Top stories Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:42:45 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1662/268/ Peace grannies invade a toy store saying "war is not a game" and create havoc before being ejected by the police and continuing their protest outside the store. News - Top stories Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:24:13 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1656/195/ Tom Keys was a British soldier killed in Iraq. In this must-see BBC interview, his father Reg Keys explains why Tony Blair should be indicted as a war criminal. Resources - Video & Film Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:27:14 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1654/268/ If Tony Blair was the "pretty straight sort of a guy" he claims, this is the interview he would have given to the BBC about why he took Britain into an illegal war. News - Top stories Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:43:39 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1649/268/ The purpose of the Chilcot inquiry is to normalize an epic crime so that the only issue that matters, that of prosecution, is never raised. By John Pilger. News - Top stories Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:13:44 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1650/195/ Barack Obama accepting the Nobel Peace Prize:: "The USA has helped underwrite global security for more than six decades." So explain this video. Resources - Video & Film Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:26:34 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1646/268/ The 100th soldier killed this year died to save the face of politicians like Gordon Brown who cannot face admitting that he lost his life in a pointless war. News - Top stories Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:30:43 +0100