Truthout "Washington’s eagerness to use military might has fueled the dangers of a nuclear weapons standoff with North Korea. Two of the sacred axioms of the Bush regime - secrecy and violence - cannot solve this problem and in fact can only make it worse. Einstein was correct - with nuclear weapons, ‘there is no secret and there is no defence’."
Gas was being given away in Britain last week after wholesale prices plunged following a surge in imports from Norway.
A year-long continuous peaceful blockade began at Faslane in Scotland last week. This is the base where Britain’s nuclear weapons are deployed.
More tenants could be left without decent homes by 2010 after housing associations were given the opportunity to apply for an extension to the government’s deadline.
The policies of the drug multinationals have ramped up the annual NHS drugs bill to over £8 billion, an increase of 46 percent in five years.
Anna Politkovskaya, the journalist murdered by a hit-man in Moscow last Saturday, was Russia’s Robert Fisk. At great personal risk she reported Russia’s criminal occupation of Chechnya.
One thousand marching in Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire. Thousands of demonstrators at Worthing and Southlands, Sussex, linking hands around two hospitals under threat.
Around 1,000 people attended a rally and march through Huntingdon last Saturday to protest against attempts to impose drastic cuts on the local hospital. The government’s free market policies have left Huntingdon’s Hinchingbrooke hospital with debts of over £24 million.
Thousands marched through the Surrey town of Epsom last Saturday to protest against attempts to downgrade the local hospital.
Workers who supply hospitals and GP surgeries across England held a 24-hour strike on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week, their second such action.
The racist onslaught on Muslims hit new and appalling levels this week.
Gordon Brown is no longer seen as the automatic choice to succeed Tony Blair. That may seem puzzling. The prime minister routinely lauds his neighbour as Britain’s best ever chancellor, and yet fails to endorse his succession.
