Stop the War Coalition site feed http://stopwar.org.uk Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:29:41 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2038/27/ Tony Blair says in his memoirs that Iraq was the nightmare he did not see coming. The majority of people in Britain had no difficulty in seeing that the nightmare we faced was not Iraq, but Tony Blair and his war policies. Blair's legacy will be that of a war criminal who waged an illegal war which killed hundreds of thousands and left Iraq in pieces, and who when he left office exploited his crimes to accumulate wealth soon expected to top £60 million. We will not forget Blair's crimes or the victims, whether Iraqi civilians or British soldiers, and we will continue to campaign for his indictment for the violation of countless international laws. Which is why on Wednesday 8 September we will hold a protest outside Waterstone's bookshop in London's Piccadilly, when Blair will be doing a book-signing.Tony Blair is not like any other author promoting a new book, but a war criminal who should be behind bars awaiting trial. Protest Wednesday 8 September 12.30pm Waterstone's 203 Piccadilly London News - Latest Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:30:22 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2032/27/ 7pm House of Commons (rightside entrance), London: All welcome The meeting takes place the day before parliament votes on Afghanistan. Speakers include CAROLINE LUCAS MP, JEREMY CORBYN MP, PAUL FLYNN MP, JOAN HUMPHRIES (MILITARY FAMILIES AGAINST THE WAR) News - Latest Sat, 14 Aug 2010 05:59:36 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2053/27/ A group of military families have come together to produce a letter for MPs in the run up to the parliamentary debate on Afghanistan on 9 September 2010. The families are calling for MPs to vote to bring the troops home, which is what all opinion polls show most people in Britain want. The families are asking others who have military connections to add their names to the letter. For further information, members of military families should email here... (mailto:joanhumphreys2001@yahoo.co.uk) Read the letter or download for printing... (http://stopwar.org.uk/images//military_families_letter.pdf) Sign the letter online... (http://www.stopwar.iparl.com/petition/2) News - Latest Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:33:18 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2049/27/ If the war in Afghanistan is nothing more than a cover for finding a face-saving way to declare victory and withdraw from an unwinnable conflict, why not just do that now? News - Latest Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:25:58 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2047/27/ As Blair prepares to publish his side of the Iraq story, let none forget the immense suffering of the Iraqi people and a region still on the brink of further catastrophic conflict. News - Latest Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:15:12 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2048/27/ If there's a case for bombing Iran to stop an unproven plan to develop a nuclear weapon, shouldn't we start with the world's biggest weapons' proliferator - the United States? News - Latest Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:48:23 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2050/27/ After twelve years of sanctions and seven years of occupation, the facts of daily life in Iraq give the lie to the claim that the war has been a "success". News - Latest Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:22:50 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2046/27/ New Internationalist co-editor Hadani Ditmars describes the reality behind the "success" of the 2003 Iraq invasion, which the US says is enabling it to withdraw its combat forces. News - Latest Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:34:54 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2042/27/ The case of the Afghanistan war logs and the hounding of Julian Assange prove that there’s never been greater need to speak truth to power than today, says John Pilger News - Latest Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:40:26 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2040/27/ This gesture could be part of a plan to repair Blair's image, but some say his motivation is irrelevant because the money will be so useful. Let's test the theory, says Mark Steel. News - Latest Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:33:36 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2035/27/ "I was determined not to be blind any more. I read about the history of the conflict and began to realise I had been duped. This wasn't a war about liberation, it was about strategic influence; about economics and mineral wealth." News - Latest Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:07:08 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2041/27/ Don't be taken in by claims that the last US "combat" troops left Iraq two weeks ahead of schedule and the occupation is over, says Robert Fisk. News - Latest Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:40:53 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2034/27/ The Karzai's administration in Afghanistan is fundamentalist and it's attitude towards women is largely indistinguishable from the Taliban. News - Latest Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:33:01 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2037/27/ Barack Obama and everyone else in his spin machine should go to Iraq and look a child in the eyes and tell that child that seven years of war in Iraq has been a success. News - Latest Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:40:28 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2029/27/ The Israel boycott has seen unprecedented growth after the onslaught on Gaza and the attack on the flotilla. People of conscience round the world have crossed a threshold. News - Latest Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:33:56 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2024/27/ There were cheers and smiles in Helmand Province when David Beckham met with hundreds of soldiers, but one soldier he met isn't cheering or smiling anymore. News - Latest Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:24:22 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2030/27/ Tariq Ali says it is time for Obama to abandon all pretences used to justify a war that can only lead to more deaths but no solution. An exit strategy is now desperately needed. News - Latest Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:09:21 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2028/27/ More civilians are being killed in Afghanistan than ever before. Survivors of a Nato airstrike on 23 July 2010 describe in this video how 52 civilians were killed in their village. News - Latest Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:01:06 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2026/27/ The US government and military are making ominous threats against Wikileaks, following its release of over 76,000 Pentagon documenting countless US war crimes. News - Latest Sat, 07 Aug 2010 05:17:56 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2025/27/ The Iraq war has been a historic political and strategic failure for the US, writes Seumas Milne, so its rebranding the occupation with a form of outsourced semi-colonial regime. News - Latest Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:31:27 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2023/27/ How could we be so savage as to turn our backs on Aisha? says Time magazine. The war is once again being justified as necessary to "protect" Afghan women. News - Latest Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:52:06 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2022/27/ Tony Blair's lies that took Britain into the illegal Iraq war are proven beyond dispute. Is it wishful thinking to believe that one day he will be collared for his crimes? asks John Pilger. News - Latest Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:25:09 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2021/27/ The already alarming levels of racism in Israel are on the increase, and the demand for proof of loyalty is no longer confined to Palestinian citizens, but directed at Jewish ones, too. News - Latest Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:02:43 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2020/27/ Face reality, says Patrick Cockburn: the US-Nato exit strategy for Afghanistan is doomed. The only viable option is to start negotiations with the Taliban now. News - Latest Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:33:25 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2019/27/ Barack Obama says he's ending US combat operations in Iraq. It's not true. He's just replacing uniformed soldiers with private paramilitaries. News - Latest Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:51:45 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2016/27/ Alex Thomson reports: Operation Black Prince is yet another ludicrous public relations stunt posing as a major offensive by the British military in Afghanistan. News - Latest Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:12:37 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2017/27/ A war without end or purpose, about to enter it's tenth year, is killing Afghan civilians and invading soldiers in greater numbers than ever. News - Latest Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:40:04 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2014/27/ Guardian film-maker Sean Smith's film and diary show the reality of a pointless war that Barack Obama and David Cameron say must continue for years to come. News - Latest Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:57:38 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2012/27/ Politicians with guilty consciences now throw their weight behind justice and morality, too late for the Iraqi people whose country has been destroyed, says Sami Ramadani. News - Latest Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:38:42 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2011/27/ Joe Glenton, only British soldier to refuse to fight in Afghanistan, told a packed London meeting celebrating his release, it was "a badge of honour" to have gone to prison. News - Latest Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:37:19 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2009/27/ The leak of 91,000 secret US military documents confirms everything the anti-war movement has said for years. The war in Afghanistan is pointless and unwinnable and the warmongers have lied to us continually. It must end now. News - Latest Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:03:07 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2010/27/ Democracy Now hosts a discussion about the "game changing" impact of the 91,000 secret US military files published by Wikileaks. News - Latest Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:47:10 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1988/27/ Ross Williams, shared a cell in army prison with Joe Glenton, both soldiers imprisoned for going absent without leave from an unjustified war. Like Joe, Ross has decided to speak out against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. News - Latest Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:54:39 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2004/27/ Afghanistan is exposing the limits of US power to impose its will by force. American military might is being seen off by a ragtag army in the world's second poorest country, says Seumas Milne but refuses to admit defeat. News - Latest Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:46:53 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2002/27/ The message from the Kabul Conference on 20 July, attended by the US and its allies, was clear. The war in Afghanistan is going nowhere, we have to find a way of declaring victory and getting out by 2014. In other words, at least five more years of pointless killing. News - Latest Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:53:08 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2006/27/ Why US attack on Fallujah in November 2004 has resulted in higher rates of cancer, leukemia, infant mortality, and sexual mutations, than those recorded among survivors of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. News - Latest Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:05:30 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2007/27/ Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said in the House of Commons what is common knowledge in every living room across the land – that the Iraq war was illegal. So now bring those responsible, Tony Blair above all, to justice. News - Latest Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:53:07 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2001/27/ Irrefutable evidence to the Iraq Inquiry shows Tony Blair's lies make him directly culpable for the consequences of an illegal war, including 52 people killed in the 7/7 bombings. News - Latest Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:24:07 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2000/27/ "I can't think of a single reason to die for Afghanistan," says EU diplomat. Meanwhile, the rate of UK military deaths is twice the US level and has doubled in the last year. News - Latest Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:27:18 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1999/27/ Unlike many other performers, ex-Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten is happy to play in a country that violates countless international laws and is guilty of crimes against humanity in Gaza. News - Latest Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:53:01 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1989/27/ BBC story "Schools told 'no swimming in Ramadan' for Muslim pupils" recycled a long discredited 3-year old article in the rabidly Islamophobic Daily Express. News - Latest Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:46:28 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1996/27/ Hilary Clinton's recent speech to America's main Zionist lobby was full of stomach-churning praise for Israel, but there was a sting in the tail on Iran. News - Latest Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:58:08 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1998/27/ Seven years after the illegal and unjustified US/UK invasion, US combat troops leaving a devastated Iraq, with at least one million Iraqis killed and four million refugees. News - Latest Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:21:30 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1995/27/ As the British army announces a humiliating withdrawal from Sangin in Helmand province, Judith Orr looks at why the West is losing the war. News - Latest Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:17:15 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1994/27/ Missile rattling against Iran by the US and Israel is on the increase, despite there being no evidence that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. News - Latest Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:46:55 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1987/27/ The capacity for giving command of US armed services to psychopaths seems unlimited. Just as General Stanley McChrystal goes out one door, in comes another, James Mattis, who thinks it's "fun to shoot some people". News - Latest Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:58:11 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1984/27/ The war in Afghanistan is a catastrophe, but still the warmongers insist "progress is being made". Continued occupation and killing merely delays the inevitable end to a stupid war, says Simon Jenkins. News - Latest Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:56:16 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1986/27/ David Cameron is sticking to his "exit strategy" which sees hopelessly inadequate, corrupt and often doped Afghan forces "taking responsibility" for the US-led occupation in place of foreign troops. News - Latest Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1985/27/ The Israeli government plans to introduce a new law criminalising any Israeli supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which has gathered speed since the Gaza flotilla slaughter. News - Latest Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:53:42 +0100 http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1981/27/ Bin Laden, the Taliban: Britain has long history of colluding with militant Islamists to control oil resources and overthrow nationalist governments, says Mark Curtis. News - Latest Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:38:09 +0100