By Finian Cunningham – Sputnik – 05.02.2016 Citizens of the world are being asked to dig deep for humanitarian aid to Syria. After five years of war and millions displaced there is an urgent need for the world to lend a hand, we are told. At a so-called “donor conference” in London this week, British […]
By Stuart Littlewood | My Catbird Seat | November 10, 2015 A chilling remark from a House of Lords debate just caught my eye. Hansard 4 Nov 2015 : Column GC355 Lord Mendelsohn: We welcome the appointment of the former British ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould, who will have a key role in cybersecurity inside […]
David Cameron’s Spurious Defence of British Veterans By Lesley Docksey | Dissident Voice | January 25, 2016 The PM is right to draw a line in the sand, to protect the freedom with which the military has to operate… — General Lord Dannatt, ex-Chief of Staff Prime Minister David Cameron is getting himself all wound […]
The PM is right to draw a line in the sand, to protect the freedom with which the military has to operate…
— General Lord Dannatt, ex-Chief of Staff
The latest Oxfam report on poverty and inequality in our dysfunctional world makes a depressing read. It shows that the chasm between the richest 1% and the rest of humanity has considerably widened in the last few years.
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
— Howard Zinn, 1922-2010
Inequality gap widens ‘dramatically’ as super-rich get richer. THE WORLD’S 62 wealthiest people own as much as the globe’s poorest half— around 3.6 billion people, Oxfam revealed yesterday. The total riches of the group — just nine of whom are women — has increased to £1.22 trillion since 2010, yet their wealth has not led to higher tax revenues to […]
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By Graham Vanbergen – truepublica – January 13, 2016 Last month, before the parliamentary vote on whether to bomb Syria, British Chancellor George Osborne publicly stated that the cost of extending air strikes against Islamic State into Syria would run in the “low tens of millions of pounds”. Reuters (December 1st 2015 Osborne referring to the bombing […]
If aggression against another foreign country means that it strains its social structure, that it ruins its finances, that is has to give up its territory for sheltering refugees, what is the difference between that kind of aggression and the other type, the more classical type, when someone declares war, or something of that sort.
— Sawer Sen, India’s Ambassador to the UN
By Felicity Arbuthnot | Dissident Voice | January 15, 2016 One of the tasks that we clearly have is to rebuild trust in our political system … it’s about making sure people are in control and that the politicians are always their servants and never their masters. — David Cameron, First speech as Prime Minister, […]
