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Monday, 19 September 2011
George Galloway: Greeks beware of EU gifts
The financial crisis unleashed then has morphed around the world and shows no sign of abating.
Indeed the normally news-light summer months brought a slew of shocking surveys revealing falling business confidence, plummeting employment and economic activity from the US, through to Europe to Japan.
Of the big zones of the world economy, only China showed a pulse. Now we stand on the brink of further round of chaos and collapse.
Talk of a double-dip or W-shaped recession is misplaced. We have had no recovery to speak of and instead have been locked into an L-shaped limbo for many months, shuffling towards another precipice.
Monday, 12 September 2011
George Galloway: How the world is haunted by the aftermath of 9/11
THE bells which tolled around the world yesterday tolled for all of us.
The 3000 citizens of the world who perished in blazing inferno, plunging aircraft, or diving from high windows to escape the flames first and foremost. But the more than one million whose life's blood was taken in the aftermath too.
There are no memorials to them beyond the expressions of "regret" from just a few of the guilty men. Colin Powell now regards the tower of lies higher than the Tower of Babel he told the United Nations on the eve of the illegal war on Iraq as "a blot" on his record.
And the Labour leader Ed Miliband, whose brother David was one of the foremost propagandists for the slaughter, has described New Labour's role post-9/11 as "a mistake".
From the other war-criminals, Tony Blair, Iain Duncan Smith, George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and the Washington gang - regrets, or indictments, there are none.
Cold comfort for the nameless, faceless uncountable victims of the aftermath.
The 3000 citizens of the world who perished in blazing inferno, plunging aircraft, or diving from high windows to escape the flames first and foremost. But the more than one million whose life's blood was taken in the aftermath too.
There are no memorials to them beyond the expressions of "regret" from just a few of the guilty men. Colin Powell now regards the tower of lies higher than the Tower of Babel he told the United Nations on the eve of the illegal war on Iraq as "a blot" on his record.
And the Labour leader Ed Miliband, whose brother David was one of the foremost propagandists for the slaughter, has described New Labour's role post-9/11 as "a mistake".
From the other war-criminals, Tony Blair, Iain Duncan Smith, George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and the Washington gang - regrets, or indictments, there are none.
Cold comfort for the nameless, faceless uncountable victims of the aftermath.
Monday, 5 September 2011
Israel and the abiding lesson of history
If I were a Jew or Gypsy, Nazi barbarity would be the most atrocious event in history. If I were a Black African, it would be slavery and apartheid. If I were a native American, it would be the discovery of the New World by European explorers and settlers that resulted in near-total extermination. If I were an Armenian, it would be the Ottoman massacres.
I happen to be a Palestinian, and for me it is the Nakba.
Humanity should consider all the above repugnant. I do not consider it advisable to debate hierarchies of suffering. I do know how to quantify pain or measure suffering. I do know that we are not children of a lesser God.
Afif Safieh – Palestinian diplomat
The UN’s controversial report into Israel’s attack on the Palestinian aid flotilla in May of 2010, when the Turkish ship the Mavi Marmara was assaulted by Israeli commandoes from both sea and air and nine passengers killed, yet again focuses the world’s attention on Israel’s ability to commit acts of piracy in international waters, state sanctioned murder, and crimes against humanity with impunity.
Worse, in a new departure for the UN an act of collective punishment in the shape of Israel’s ongoing blockade of Gaza, hitherto illegal under international law, has been rubber stamped, thus defacing at a stroke one of the cornerstones of international law that has been in place since the end of the Second World War.
Sunday, 4 September 2011
No joy for EDL racists in Tower Hamlets
Saturday was an extremely successful day in Tower Hamlets. That is the overwhelming sentiment among the community forces that were central to making it happen and among those who came from outside; it is also attested to by the chatter among the EDL.
The EDL did not set foot in Tower Hamlets. They were contained in the City of London and got not even as far as Oswald Moseley’s assembly point in October 1936, let alone marching through the area. Their numbers were probably in the region of 800 and appeared to be distinctly lacking in the kind of quality cadre that has been central to the advance of the far right where it has made the furthest sustained gains in Europe. As they walked past empty office blocks from Bishopsgate past Camomile Street to their kettle there were distinct signs of frustration.
The EDL did not set foot in Tower Hamlets. They were contained in the City of London and got not even as far as Oswald Moseley’s assembly point in October 1936, let alone marching through the area. Their numbers were probably in the region of 800 and appeared to be distinctly lacking in the kind of quality cadre that has been central to the advance of the far right where it has made the furthest sustained gains in Europe. As they walked past empty office blocks from Bishopsgate past Camomile Street to their kettle there were distinct signs of frustration.
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