Manchester Attack

Patrick Henningsen and Shawn Helton
21st Century Wire

The drink soaked expensive private members clubs of London are generally home of the UK Conservative party’s ageing but still prominent base. Here, people congregate and wax prosaically about their travels to countries lik East Germany and Ceaușescu’s Romania . They speak negatively about censorship, unnecessary bureaucracy, an intimidating Stasi and a total lack of political opposition.

Though is confused, it is now clear that London has been the target of two separate though coordinated terror attacks tonight, one involving a white van which intentionally attacked pedestrians on London Bridge, and another involving stabbing attacks in Borough Market, south of the river Thames.
Reports of a third incident in Vauxhall are being discounted by the police, who say that it is not connected to the other two.
The police report that both incidents are still ongoing, and within the last hour several explosions have been heard.

21st Century Wire says…
Could a Corbyn win in the upcoming election turn things around?
Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the British Labour Party, has come out in support of the idea that Western foreign policy decisions have at least partly contributed to the rise of terror attacks like that in Manchester last weekend.

Libya’s new civil war is quickly becoming a war fought on many layered and at times competing fronts. There is now a regional, ideological and internationalised font in a war for what remains the heart and soul of a failed state that was once the most united, wealthy and stable in Africa. It was also incidentally the most effective state in Africa at prosecuting terrorism, more so even than the much larger Egypt, a country which spiritually and culturally is far more Levantine than Maghrebi (Arab Africa) as it stands.

Britain’s Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn has delivered a speech in which he blamed current and past British foreign policy for the proliferation of terrorism in the United Kingdom.
Last year, Corbyn was elected leader of the historically left-wing Labour Party which under Tony Blair moved to the neo-liberal/pro-war spectrum of politics. Corbyn’s socialist policies have earned him the ire of British mainstream media including the state-owned British Broadcasting Corporation.

21st Century Wire says…
Sometimes, you just don’t want to be right.

(ANTIMEDIA Op-Ed) In the aftermath of the gruesome Manchester bombing, which killed 22 people Monday evening, the British government rushed to the rescue, deploying soldiers into the streets of the U.K. in the name of guaranteeing security.

Brits have been struggling to figure out how their government dropped the ball and failed to prevent the Manchester suicide bombing when the attacker was already on their radar, but what many people are overlooking is the “politically incorrect” fact that it should have been obvious from the first day that the bomber’s family set foot in the UK that they’d end up being trouble. Lost amidst the flurry of media reports about this tragic incident is that the attacker’s family arrived on British soil as Libyan “refugees” decades before the 2011 NATO war devastated their country.

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May greets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at Downing Street in London, Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. (AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)