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New Statesman - Fisking Blair's chapter on Iraq

The most brilliant demolition job on Blair's version of reality with those pesky little facts....

Mehdi Hasan

 

Mehdi Hasan’s polemical take on politics, economics and foreign affairs

Remembering

I was thinking about those who deserve special remembering

Terry Jupp

Terry Jupp - 1956 to 20 August 2002

Ian Tomlinson

He just wanted to go home from work - you'd think the police would have been happy to help him with that.

Instead they (at least) obstructed him, failed to help him, assaulted him and then lied about him and the people who helped him, and then he was autopsied by a pathologist not on the list, not qualified to be on Home Office list and under investigation, but that's ok with the CPS apparently. 

Jan Mohammad

Jan Mohammad, an old man with a white beard and green eyes, said angrily: "I ran, I ran to find my son because nobody would give me a lift. I couldn't find him."

He dropped his head on his palm that was resting on the table, and started banging his head against his white mottled hand. When he raised his head his eyes were red and tears were rolling down his cheek: "I couldn't find my son, so I took a piece of flesh with me home and I called it my son. I told my wife we had him, but I didn't let his children or anyone see. We buried the flesh as it if was my son."

Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid

Staff Sergeant Olaf Sean George Schmid GC (11 June 1979–31 October 2009) was a British Army bomb disposal expert (Ammunition Technician) who was killed in action in the

Rachel Corrie

Rachel Aliene Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) was an American member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).

Tom Hurndall

Thomas "Tom" Hurndall (27 November 1981 – 13 January 2004) was a British photography student, a volunteer for the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), and an

Mavi Marmara

Remembering those on the Gaza convoy, and those in Gaza they were trying to help.

Casualties
Flotilla participants
Deaths

Cevdet Kılıçlar, killed during the raid on the Mavi Marmara. Source: Iara Lee, Caipirinha Foundation

Chernobyl - 26 April 1986

Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986, at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (then in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, pa