Libertarian perspectives on building a new grassroots anti-authoritarian movement in Israel/Palestine to press forward from the bottom up through people's politics and radical direct democracy to a solution beyond the nation-state, 'regaining the commons' on both sides of the divide. Other papers on this site, recent Lausanne conference, also of interest.
"My son was just a bit of meat to them, just a number. This is not our war, my son has died in their war over oil and they haven't even taken the trouble of picking up the phone to say they're sorry for our loss."
-Rose Gentle [mother of soldier killed in Iraq]
A guest-house owner is facing rising anger at refusing to lodge a gay couple due to their "unnatural behaviour".
British nuclear giant British Nuclear Fuel, or BNFL, today announced its plans to shut down one of its oldest nuclear power plants— the four reactor Chapelcross station in Scotland.
By Jude Sheerin, Scottish Press Association
The heartbroken mother of a British soldier killed in Iraq today hit out at Prime Minister Tony Blair and Defence Minister Geoff Hoon.
Rose Gentle, 40, said her son Gordon, who died in Basra yesterday, was nothing more than “a bit of meat� to the Premier and Mr Hoon.
She said her son, a 19-year-old soldier in the First Battalion Royal Highland Fusiliers, had been killed in a “war over oil�.
Speaking at the family home in the Pollok area of Glasgow, Mrs Gentle said: “Why don’t Tony Blair and Geoff Hoon send their own families out to Iraq?
“My son was just a bit of meat to them, just a number. They don’t care about him all they’re worried about is the next election.
“This is not our war, my son has died in their war over oil and they haven’t even taken up the trouble of picking up the phone and say they’re sorry for our loss.�
Fusilier Gentle was killed in an improvised explosive device attack on British military vehicles while on routine patrol in the southern Iraqi city yesterday morning.
Also speaking at the family home in Templeland Road, the soldier’s uncle, Gordon, 41, said: “It’s disgusting the way they’ve treated us, poor Gordon was just fodder to them. You’d think he (Mr Hoon) could find the time to pick up the phone and ring us.�
Fusilier Gentle also leaves his father, George, 45, and sisters Pamela, 21, and Maxine, 14.
The family yesterday hit out at the Army and claimed the teenager had not received adequate training and said Iraq was no place for a recently-qualified soldier.
3 activists prosecuted for endangering life and obstructing a public highway while the policeman who seriously injured two of them remains un-examined and on duty
Previously, I posted an article about Blackwater employing fascist mass murderers and torturers from the so-called dirty wars against leftists in Latin America. Now, it seems that former members of South Africa's secret police, who tortured and killed black activists during apartheid, are also mercenaries in Iraq.
