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We have ways of making you talk, Mr Blair

June 21, 2009 – 2:35 pm

It used to be difficult to shut Tony Blair up, especially on the subject of Iraq. Remember his epic war speech to Parliament, when the phrase ‘weapons of mass destruction’ was repeated more than 15 times? Now he only speaks for $400,000 a pop to neocons or lectures the Pope on theology. He might yet [...]

By John Kelly | Posted in Global security, Insurgency, Iraq, Middle East, Policy, Political spin, Spin doctors, Totalitarian drift, UK politics, War on Terror, carpet bombing, citizens' rights, miscarriage of justice | Also tagged (Sir) John Chilcot, Add new tag, Alastair Campbell, Basra, Blair, Blair's 1999 Chicago 'Humanitarian Intervention' speech, Butler enquiry, by John J Kelly, David Miliband, Dodgy Dossier, General Sir Richard Dannatt, Gordon Brown, in the interests of national security, International Criminal Court at the Hague, Iraq War, Iraq War enquiry, M16, Mossad, Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, Thus Magazine, weapons of mass destruction, Yellow Cake Nigerian uranium | Comments Off

Your mentally challenged, sociopathic Big Brother is hacking Facebook

March 19, 2009 – 5:24 pm

“Britons, never, never, never, shall be slaves.” UK National Anthem (to be replaced with ‘Do the Vernon Coaker’) A few posts back I wondered whether M15 and its master, the CIA, Twittered. Well, not for the time in the world of Thus, fact has rapidly overtaken fiction. The inept and authoritarian UK government is actually [...]

By John Kelly | Posted in Global security, Human rights, Identity cards, Law and order, Technology, Totalitarian drift, War on Terror, human rights abuse, internet | Also tagged Deep packet inspection, EU Data Retention Directive, Intercept Modernisation Programme, JIC, John J Kelly, Richard Clayton, social networks spied upon by UK government, surveillance society, Tim Berners-Lee, Vernon Coaker, Watch list, Yellow Cake uranium, ZD net | Comments Off

Torture is naughty, barbaric and illegal – except when we do it

March 18, 2009 – 4:09 pm

This week, Britain’s foreign minister will present the Foreign Office’s annual report on human rights violations around the world. For anyone who cares about Britain and human rights, it will feel difficult to ask about anything except the British government’s own entanglement in a case of torture. By Timothy Garton Ash The evidence, so far [...]

By John Kelly | Posted in Afghanistan, Global security, Insurgency, Iraq, Law and order, Prisons, UK politics, War on Terror, human rights abuse | Also tagged American Military Commission, Binham Mohamed, CIA, David Miliband, Guantanamo, human rights violations, Joint Intelligence Committee, M16, rendition, Tim garton Ash, torture, UK Foreign Office, UK Foreign Secretary, UN Convention against Torture | Comments (2)