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Wednesday, November 23
View Article  LETTER FROM LONDON: Blair Threatens Press Over Bush's Plan to Bomb Al-Jazeera
by Geoff Staples on Wed 23 Nov 2005 05:04 PM GMT
Dale Reynolds in London for RadioLeft.com
 
The Times of London, owned by conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch, leads media reports on the Blair administration's efforts to muzzle The Times and other British newspapers on reporting an alleged phone call between Prime Minister Blair and George W. Bush, in which Blair dissuaded Bush from bombing Al-Jazeera, the free Arab-Muslim news service based in Doha, Qatar. For the full story please go to this link:
 
 
 
The report on the alleged Bush plan to bomb Al-Jazeera was first published on November 22nd by The Daily Mail, another conservative newspaper which many media ...   more »
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Wednesday, November 16
View Article  LETTER FROM LONDON: Tony Blair's former Ambassador to US scathing on Iraq
by Geoff Staples on Wed 16 Nov 2005 07:04 PM GMT
Many people here are talking about Sir Christopher Meyer's collection of memoirs, DC CONFIDENTIAL, serialised in The Guardian. This is an account of the Blair administration's dealings with the Bush people during Meyer's tenure as Britian's Ambassador to the USA. He is scathing of Blair and Bush, as an excerpt (below) from the memoirs suggests.
 
 
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Wednesday, November 9
View Article  BLAIR DEFEATED ON TERRORIST MEASURE
by Geoff Staples on Wed 09 Nov 2005 08:32 PM GMT
Dale Reynolds
for Radio Left
London, England
9 November 2005
 
The Labour government's has suffered its first defeat in eight years in a House of Commons vote. A proposed amendment to the Terror Bill, to extend police authority to hold a terrorist suspect without charge, from the current 14 days to 90 days, was defeated by a vote of 322 to 291 -- a 31-vote majority for those against the proposal (with about 50 MPs absent).
 
The Conservative Party, who if in power would probably insist on an even harsher elimination of the freedom and rights of terrorist suspects, voted en masse against the government amendment. Their leader, Michael Howard ...   more »
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