In 2013, David Cameron’s British government lost a Parliamentary vote on proposed military intervention in Syria.
In a heated debate, prominent anti-war MP George Galloway gave an impassioned speech outlining Britain’s hypocrisy towards Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Galloway cited Assad’s then, comparatively recent visit to Britain when he was a guest of the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
Britain once had a vibrant anti-war movement. It had one as recently as 2003 when the ‘Stop The War Coalition’ was formed to oppose George Bush and Anthony Blair’s war on Iraq. Since then, the anti-war movement in the UK has been demoralised, fragmented and remains deeply contradicted over Syria, with some people who claim to be anti-war, supporting official western policy for regime change, something that now even the Trump administration seems to have given up in respect of Syria.
Slovenia's parliament adopts amendment that declares the country’s water supplies are ‘a public good managed by the state’ and ‘not a market commodity’
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A brief word in respect for Labour MP Gerald Kaufman, who passed away a few days ago. Kaufman, who served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 until his death in 2017, was the longest-serving MP in the House. It was curious that Kaufman happened to pass away at precisely the time I was putting […]
The government’s new surveillance privileges are virtually unrivaled across the globe.
Michael Heseltine, the veteran Tory politician and reformist, said – just a day after the EU Referendum – that Brexit would provoke the “greatest constitutional crisis in modern times”. He wasn’t wrong – as recent events are demonstrating. The idea of a quick, ‘Hard Brexit’ (which sounds like a sexual euphemism, but isn’t) has probably […]
The report is sure to galvanize calls for Blair to be prosecuted at the International Criminal Court [Xinhua]
Sir John Chilcot, tasked with investigating the United Kingdom’s role in the build-up, invasion and occupation of Iraq, published his report today sending a damning indictment of Washington’s and London’s mishandling of intelligence and exaggerating the need for war.
21st Century Wire says…
Here it is, the complete first debate in parliament since the vote.
Watch all the action right here as David Cameron faces a myriad of questions on the UK’s future post-Brexit vote.
(ANTIMEDIA) United Kingdom — A British MP has died after being shot and stabbed during an attack in her constituency. Jo Cox, a 41-year-old mother of two young children, was attacked at lunchtime on Thursday outside Birstall library in North Yorkshire, where she had been holding a surgery, or face-to-face meeting, with constituents. After being left bleeding on the ground, Ms. Cox was airlifted to Leeds General Infirmary, where she succumbed to her injuries.
Hundreds of demonstrators occupied the country's parliament.
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