Friday, 15. September 2006

The fall of Tony Blair

Truthout
by Chris Floyd

09/14/06

It may look and feel like a farce right now, but one day some future Shakespeare might write it as a tragedy: the fall of a powerful, popular leader broken on the wheel of war. For make no mistake: if not for the criminal folly of the Iraq invasion, British Prime Minister Tony Blair would not have been unceremoniously shoved toward the exit last week by his own party, including some of his fiercest loyalists. The man who once commanded one of the largest majorities in the history of the ancient British Parliament, who won three successive national elections and appeared to have sealed his party's hold on power for decades to come, has seen his stature and authority eaten away by the hubris that led him to join George W. Bush's duplicitous, disastrous Babylonian Conquest...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091406J.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

War protesters banned from Labour conference

Independent [UK]

09/15/06

Labour chiefs have been accused of trying to stifle free speech after the grieving families of servicemen killed in Iraq were banned from demonstrating outside the party's annual conference in Manchester. The city's Labour-controlled council has denied them permission, on health and safety grounds, to set up a 'peace camp' to coincide with the start of the conference on 24 September...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1603689.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Blair hit by Lebanon backlash as minister admits ceasefire 'mistake'

The war lasted 34 days. It left 1,393 people dead. Another 5,350 injured. And more than 1,150,000 displaced, of whom 215,413 are still homeless. The damage amounts to more than £2.6bn. Exactly one month after it ended, a Foreign Office minister admits that Tony Blair should have called for a ceasefire.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1578727.ece


From Information Clearing House

A Walk Through the Rubble: Israel's Use of American Cluster Bombs

http://counterpunch.com/lamb09142006.html


From Information Clearing House

Lessons of Lebanon

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14962.htm

Clare Short: I'm standing down so I can speak the truth

I am profoundly ashamed of the Government. The Labour Party has lost its way.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14969.htm



'Fast-track discipline' for Short after Blair attack

She criticised Mr Blair's "craven" support for US policies and said he had made the world a more dangerous place.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article114970.htm

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