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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

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

Wednesday, 13. September 2006

Blair is no help to the Middle East

Having finally obtained his visa from George Bush to visit the Middle East, Tony Blair must rank as one of the most unwelcome British visitors to the region in decades

http://www.guardian.co.uk/syria/story/0,,1870086,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Britain’s Role in the Israeli-Hezbollah War

By David Wearing

Outside of the UK, those who have not already done so must now recognise Britain – not just its current Prime Minister - as nothing less than a fully paid up and active member of the neo-conservative imperial project, and deal with it on that basis.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14938.htm

Charge of the heavy brigade: Soldiers active in the 'war on terror' cannot speak out, but their former commanders can

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1870192,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Tuesday, 12. September 2006

'Shame on You, Mr Blair': Protest Disrupts Lebanon Press Conference

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0911-05.htm

Friday, 8. September 2006

Blair jeered by college students

Tony Blair was booed and faced chants of "out, out, out" by pupils at the school at which he made a statement about his future.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/5324608.stm


From Information Clearing House

Thursday, 7. September 2006

The real threat we face is Blair

http://www.newstatesman.com/200608210022

Blair hit by wave of resignations

Tony Blair has faced a wave of resignations by junior members of his government over his refusal to name a date for resignation as Labour leader.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/5319328.stm

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