Posts by Tony Greenstein

First Cameron cuts their money, then he uses a disabled child as an election gimmick This is a government which openly proclaims it intends to cut 20% from Disability Living Allowance by renaming it PIP (Personal Independence Payment).  The Daily Mirror recently ran an article that 32 people a week are dying because of the…

 Colombia – Trade Unionists Targeted at the behest of Coca Cola:  Right-wing paramilitaries under arrest in Colombia Colombia is an ideal US style democracy.  The US, in the name of the ‘war against drugs’ armed and equipped the regime’s death squads, allegedly to fight the guerillas but in fact to do the dirty work of…

Joshua Trevino, The Guardian‘s US columnist advocates Shooting Political Opponents and Establishing Concentration Camps It all began with an altered press release from the Guardian.  The original stated that: Today the Guardian announced the addition of Josh Treviño to their editorial team. Formerly of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Treviño will be the newest Correspondent…

Time to Boycott the Guardian It’s been interesting reading the comments on Comment is Free, below Joshua Trevino’s attempt to justify his now notorious comment about how ‘cool’ it would be to murder a few more peace activists.  With the exception of a few paid Zionist bloggers (yes Israel is paying bloggers to blog on…

Meet the Guardian’s new US correspondent – an advocate of concentration camps, beating up gays and murdering peace activists – Nice one Messrs Freedland & Rusbridger Trevino Called for the Murder of Alice Walker and American Peace Activists on Gaza Flotilla concentration camp This is what Trevino advocated in Iraq and supported i South Africa…

Amnesty International Support for the war in Afghanistan Indian women protest – Britain also occupied  India in order to ‘protect’ women Amnesty International is the Mother Teresa of the charity sector.  It opposes torture, the death penalty and helps highlight the plight of political prisoners.  To  oppose anything Amnesty does is almost to be in…

Below is an article I was sent by a member of the RMT union.  It is about the government’s use of prisoners as cheap labour.  Instead of paying decent trade union rates of pay forced labour from convicts is being used.  The result?  Staff are fired.  And no doubt they will be called ‘scroungers’ when…

Israel Lobby Watch Bogus allegations of “anti-Semitism” create real climate of fear for Arab, Muslim students in US Ross Benjamin of Amcha – the McCarthyite Face of Bogus Accusations of anti-Semitism Real anti-Semitism – A Jewish woman hiding her face as she is forced sit on a ‘Jewish Bench’ – Seasoned supporters of the Palestinians…

How ironic that Netanyahu’s own nephew is a conscientious objector.  But it isn’t that strange.  Moshe Arens, former Likud Foreign Minister, had a son Yigal who was an anti-Zionist.  In these times when war fever is all around, and an attack on Iran is ever more likely,  it is fitting to remind ourselves that even…

On the Brink?  The Saudi Monarchy Two excellent articles on the United State’s primary prop in the Gulf region, Saudi Arabia.  Saudi Arabia is key to the continuing flow of cheap oil to the West.  Its ruling caste, the corrupt Saudi ruling family, was placed on the ‘throne’ by the US and in particular Standard…