http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.htmlThis page chronicles the betrayal of western civilisation by the West.en-gbTue, 27 Dec 2005 08:04:28 GMTCopyright: (C) David Colquhounhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc.html15Asked by BBC Radio how he would judge Blair's support of Bush, Carter said: "Abominable. Loyal. Blind. Apparently subservient. And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world.”.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#carters1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#carter120 May 2007USAThe UK now has one CCTV camera for every 14 people. The Information Commissioner and Deputy Chief Constable, both criticised the drift towards excessive surveillance.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#orwell1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#orwell120 May 2007UKCompare David Keogh’s conscience with Tony Blair’s. Keogh is in jail.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#secrets1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#secrets115 May 2007UKAfter 19 school shootings in ten years, nothing could be less surprising. But Americans still deny the obvious.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#vtechhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#vtech17 Apr 2007USAThe coroner’s verdict at last. “The attack on the convoy amounted to an assault.”; “It was unlawful because there was no lawful reason for it and in that respect it was criminal.”; “I believe that the full facts have not yet come to light,”; “I don't think this was a case of honest mistake.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#hull1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#hull116 Mar 2007UKMousa died in British custody after receiving 93 separate injuries during two days of relentless beatings in September 2003. Now a Court Martial of 8 people has cleared all but one. They could not penetrate the wall of silence. The Court revealed that UK authorised torture methods that broke the Geneva Convention. Be ashamed.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#mousa1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#mousa114 Mar 2007UKThe UK’s Director of Public Prosecutions speaks out against the Bush-Blair line and defends the rule of law..http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#dpp1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#dpp124 Jan 2007UKFive years, hundreds of prisoners, and not a single one of them brought to trial yet. Also some very distasteful views on torture from Scott Adams, creator of the ‘Dilbert’ cartoon strip..http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#guant4http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#guant413 Jan 2007USABush’s Christmas presnt, according to Private Eye. And Roy Hattersley writes “because of the boneheaded stupidity of the Washington neocons who dreamed up the invasion “, and concludes “The worst diplomatic blunder since Suez? By comparison, Suez had a happy ending.”.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#eye1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#eye15 Jan 2007USAJeff Stein, editor of Congressional Quarterly Homeland Security, questioned some senior politicians and officials. None knew Sunni from Shiite, and some were vague about Hezbollah. Including Representative Terry Everett, Republican of Alabama, vice chairman of the House intelligence subcommittee on technical and tactical intelligence.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#stein1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#stein12 Jan 2007USAIn spite of everything, 24,920,007 Americans still voted for George Bush.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#midterm06http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#midterm0614 Nov 2006USAIn interviews for Vanity Fair, the worst neocon hawks Richard Perle, Kenneth Adelman and Dvid Frum admit that they were wrong in their prediction that the war would be a “cakewalk”. They now accuse Bush of utter incompetence’. And all four military newspapers say ‘Rumsfeld must go’. On top of that, Ted Haggard, an evangelist close to the White House, is fired after getting caught with a male prostitute (!)http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#perle2http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#perle24 Nov 2006InternationalA recent survey (from Johns Hopkins, Baltimore) estimated the number of deaths caused by the war in Iraq as 390,000 and 940,000. That is a death rate 58-fold greater than under Saddam Hussein. This is far higher than had previously been guessed from press reports, but an assessment in Nature suggests that the numbers are unlikely to be seriously wrong.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#deathshttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#deaths22 Oct 2006InternationalBBC World Service survey asked 27,000 people in 25 countries about there attitudes to torture. Italy comes top, with the biggest vote against torture (81% ) and also the smallest vote for (14%). All of Europe plus Australia and Canada come out quite well. The USA lags well behind. And Israel was the noly country in which more than half approved of torture (though only when Muslim voters were excluded).http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#tort2http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#tort219 Oct 2006InternationalChief of the General Staff General Sir Richard Dannatt, the head of the British Army, has bluntly contradicted what Tony Blair has been saying for the last 3 years.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#dannatt1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#dannatt117 Oct 2006UKJohn Reid, the UK’s neoconservative Home Secretary, shows himself once again to be an apology for a human being, a true advocate of the endarkenment..http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#reid2http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#reid21 Oct 2006InternationalA summary of links to the last six weeks’ news. Lest we forget.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#gwb1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#gwb130 Sep 2006InternationalInvestigative reporter does it again in the New Yorker. “The definition of insanity is continuing to do the same thing and expecting a different result”.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#hersh2http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#hersh215 Aug 2006USAHRW has obtained evidence from US soldiers in Iraq which shows that torture of prisoners was “routine” long after Abu Ghraib, and was sanctioned at a high level.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#tort1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#tort123July 2006USATwo Americans, Charles A. Kupchan and Ray Takeyh, have written a nice analysis of the ghastly problems in the Middle East, in the International Herald Tribune.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#leb1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#leb121 July 2006USAThe notoriously one-sided extradition treaty, passed by the UK parliament in the panic of 2003, appears to have been written abroad.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#extra1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#extra120 July 2006InternationalA fascinating talk by Lisa Jardine on BBC Radio 4 related the loss of freedoms imposed by Elizabeth First at the end of the 16th century, in the paranoia about foreign attacks that followed the Spanish armada.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#jardine1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#jardine17 July 2006InternationalA stinging editorial in the New York Times..http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#nyt1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#nyt16 June 2006InternationalMassacres at Haditha, Ishaqi and others. Low rank people only brought to book, and some exonerated by courts martial. Is this justice?.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#haditha1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#haditha17 June 2006InternationalA US judge has ruled that, regardless of whether or not a German citizen was abducted and tortured, "private interests must give way to the national interest in preserving state secrets"..http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#masri1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#masri119 May 2006InternationalBush breaks many laws, and politicises science. Blair’s priority now seems to be dismantle his own Human rights act, with the help of John Reid, the new Home secretary and neocon sympathiser..http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#free2http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#free215 May 2006InternationalThe Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill, in its original form, allowed ministers to change just about any law without reference to parliament. That is not acceptable in a democracy. The bill has been delayed again.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#regbill1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#regbill114 April 2006UKThe full text of interviews with Lieutenant General Schmidt and General Hill Secretary show that Donald Rumsfeld was personally involved in the late 2002 abusive interrogation of a Guantanamo detaineehttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#zinnihttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#zinni15 April 2006USAYet more military people object to Rumsfeld. Six generals in the last week.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#zinnihttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#zinni14 April 2006USAA court martial decides “I did it under orders” is an adequate defence.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#ks1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#ks114 April 2006USAInternational laws hinder UK troops says UK Defence secretary, John Reid.Defence secretary calls for Geneva conventions to be redrawn. They torture so we should too. Shame.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#reid1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#reid14 April 2006UKUniversity professors denounced for anti-Americanism; schoolteachers suspended for their politics; students encouraged to report on their tutors.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#speech1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#speech14 April 2006USAOn the third anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, Robert Fisk, in the Independent, describes the war as “The march of folly led by small men dressed up as titans”. And comes up with a telling quotation.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#3rdhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#3rd20 Mar 2006USAThe Sunday Telegraph for 12th March 2006 has three articles about the case of Ben Griffin, the “SAS soldier has refused to fight in Iraq and has left the Army over the "illegal" tactics of United States troops and the policies of coalition forces.”http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#sas1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#sas112 Mar 2006USASix prominent neo-conservatives admit that they were wrong about the war in Iraq. Messrs Bush and Blair still do not.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#perle1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#perle19 Mar 2006USAThe Royal Court Theatre production of the play, 'My Name is Rachel Corrie', was based on her childhood writings. It was due to transfer to New York next month. But last week the New York Theatre Workshop cancelled the production - or, in their words, "postponed it indefinitely"The play will now be shown at the Playhouse theatre in London's West End from March 28; booking number 0870 060 6631. Book now!http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#rc2http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#rc22 Mar 2006UKThis film will appeared on Channel 4 TV on Thursday March 9th, 2006. It tells the story of the British prisoners in Guantanamo who were released without charge after more than two years. They, and also the actors who played them in the film, were detained by police at Luton airport on their return from the Berlin Film Festival, using the powers given to them by the Terrorism Act. You can now download the film.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#roadhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#road25 Feb 2006UKThe White House memo: Bush and Blair discussed using American Spyplane in UN colours to lure Saddam into war.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#memo2http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#memo22 Feb 2006UKAs we suspected all along, Blair decided to go to war long before the matter was brought to parliamenthttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#memo1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#memo11 May 2005UK PoliticsGeneral Sir Michael Rose, the former UN commander in Bosnia, spoke on the BBC's Today programme, (0732, 9 January 2006). He said Mr Blair had to take responsibility for his actions.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#rose1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#rose19 Jan 2006UK PoliticsA Vox Pop movie from CNNhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#cnn1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#cnn1Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:59:56 GMTUS PoliticsThis is why the New York Times said “Amid all the natural and political disasters it faces, the White House is certainly tireless in its effort to legalize torture.”http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#cia3http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#cia3Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:59:56 GMTUS PoliticsRight-minded Americans express their views in roadside postershttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#free1http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#free1Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:59:56 GMTUS PoliticsReports on the diary of Lance Price, the former deputy to Alastair Campbell, on Tony Blair’s attitude to the war.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#blair3http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/corrie.html#blair3Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:59:56 GMTUK Politics