Showing posts with label sanctions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sanctions. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

The government, IDS and Katie Hopkins are all lying about food banks – the evidence that welfare “reforms” are causing poverty and hunger

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Katie Hopkins is hardly renowned as a great intellect. In fact she’s famous for her stupidity, for example criticising people who named t...
Sunday, March 09, 2014

There are neo-Nazis in Ukraine’s new government. It’s not representative of the whole country – and it should accept autonomy for Crimea and pledge not to join the EU or NATO to avoid civil war or war with Russia

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Summary: Putin’s talk of Ukraine’s transitional government as being entirely made up of neo-nazis who target Russians is an exaggeration, ...
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Thursday, March 21, 2013

Why sanctions on Iraq could have been ended without any war of invasion or occupation ; no threat from Saddam’s regime to Iraqis or other countries existed by 2000; the genocide against the Marsh Arabs was largely over by the late 90s and could have been ended by air strikes in the Southern No-Fly Zone

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The tenth anniversary of the Iraq war has seen the repetition of many excuses for the invasion. One of the commonest is that UN sanctions ...
Friday, November 09, 2012

The US campaign against Iran and it’s nuclear programme remains either irrational or else dishonest; that includes the theory Iran would give nuclear weapons or materials to Hamas, Hezbollah or terrorist groups ; and blanket sanctions will kill civilians as surely as bombs – as in Iraq

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The third Presidential debate underlined the narrowness of the difference between the Obama administration and the Republicans on Iran. ...