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Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.? We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).?

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

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offsite link Labour?s Winter Fuel Raid Costs Taxpayers ?400m as Benefits Claims Surge Thu Jan 02, 2025 20:00 | Will Jones
Labour?s raid on winter fuel payments has already cost the taxpayer ?380m after a surge in?benefits claims, analysts have warned, substantially eating into the ?1.4 billion saving claimed by Chancellor Rachel Reeves.
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offsite link Why We?ll Have to Wait a Long Time for Lockdown Mea Culpas Thu Jan 02, 2025 17:57 | Joanna Gray
It's tremendous to see 2025 kicking off with more from the Times about the devastating effect of lockdowns on children. But we'll be waiting a long time for genuine mea culpas, says Joanna Gray, for one very simple reason.
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offsite link Net Zero ?Nudge Unit? That Deployed Scare Tactics in Covid Will Push Heat Pumps on Public Thu Jan 02, 2025 15:33 | Will Jones
A Net Zero 'nudge unit' that used scare tactics during the Covid pandemic has received a ?100,000 contract from the Government to encourage the public to take up heat pumps.
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offsite link Britain?s New Class Divide: Those With Driveways and Those Without Thu Jan 02, 2025 13:14 | Sallust
With the cost of charging an EV at a public station now way higher than petrol, Britain has a new class divide: those with driveways and those without. It's a divide that Labour is making worse.
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offsite link Elon Musk: Jess Phillips Deserves to Be in Prison Over Labour Refusal to Launch Grooming Gangs Inqui... Thu Jan 02, 2025 11:13 | Will Jones
Elon Musk has said Jess Phillips "deserves to be in prison" over Labour's refusal to hold a public inquiry into?historic sexual abuse?by grooming gangs in Oldham.
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Speaking Out About the Murderous Racism of US War-Making

category national | anti-war / imperialism | press release author Monday June 08, 2020 23:57author by ShannonWatch Report this post to the editors

Taoiseach Varadkar says he is against racism but supports US racist wars in Middle East via Shannon Airport

The following is a letter to Irish media outlets from our friend, anti-war activist Tarak Kauff. Tarak spent most of a year in Ireland as a result of his non-violent action to inspect a US military plane at Shannon Airport.

Dear Sir or Madam,

I appreciate Taoiseach Varadkar for speaking out on racism and on the abysmal lack of moral leadership in the U.S. According to the Irish Times, this is what he expressed: “We’ve also seen genuine revulsion at the heavy-handed response in some instances towards peaceful protesters and journalists. And we’ve witnessed the absence of moral leadership, or words of understanding, comfort or healing from whence they should have come.”

I would however, appreciate even more, would he speak out against the murderous racism of U.S. war-making that abuses and disrespects any concept of Irish neutrality by using Shannon airport as a refueling stop for planes carrying weapons and troopsheading to and from U.S. wars of aggression in the Middle East and Africa. Last year Ken Mayers (82) a former Major in the USMC and myself (78) a former U.S. Army paratrooper, were arrested and detained in Ireland for 8 1/2 months for making our way onto Shannon airfield as two military veterans to do something for world peace, something that the Irish government, in violation of their own laws, and in violation of the precious concept of Irish neutrality, have failed to do for 19 years – that is, to inspect U.S. planes for weapons and troops with those weapons.

Again, credit to the Taoiseach for speaking out on (Trump and other's) lack of moral leadership, but he needs to continue to have the moral courage to speak out against U.S. war-making in violation of Irish neutrality.

Tarak Kauff

Veterans for Peace

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