A golden opportunity
December 4, 2007
The slow drip of news about Iran and its nuclear facilities looks more and more like the unravelling of a great distortion.
We have been here before in Iraq. Then, after months of painstaking research, the UN weapons inspectors began to assert that their view was that there was no such thing left. They were promptly recalled and were kept away at the behest of Britain and the US. From then on, free rein was given to the most ludicrous speculation and downright misinformation. The invasion took place less than three months after the truth-seekers were removed from the scene. Read more
World Against War conference
December 1, 2007
Over 1,000 people attended the World Against War Conference in London’s Central Methodist Hall in London. Speakers included Tony Benn, the honorary president of the Stop the War coalition; Dennis Halliday and Hans von Sponeck, former UN humanitarian co-ordinators; Craig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan; Sami Ramadani, of Iraqi Democrats Against Occupation; and Hamdeen Sabahy, the leader of Egypt’s democracy movement.
