Open Editorials
Welcome to the Open Editorial pages of IranSolidarity. Here, you can read original articles written about Iran, the US and the UK and the rhetoric and propaganda which is building to yet another war in Iran.
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Current Articles
30/10/2006 - danger of WAR ON IRAN is at its height
Author: Keith Motherson
From : Keith Mothersson Sent :keith.mothersson@phonecoop.coop 29 October 2006 13:46:44 To : "Keith Mothersson" mothersson@phonecoop.coop Subject : danger of WAR ON IRAN is at is height Dear Pete Wishart, I am writing this to you both as my local MP and as you are the SNP Whip. I should add that I am also circulating this to other
18/10/2006 - Message of Peace and Solidarity
Author: keith motherson
Dear Editor, - As Ramadan draws to a close I, a son of the manse and now a practicing Buddhist, would like to send a message of peace and solidarity to our fellow citizens who happen to follow Islam, a path of Peaceful submission to a higher/deeper Divine order. Recent weeks have seen a feeding frenzy of biased comment and articles in the nati
11/10/2006 - How the Mighty have Fallen!
Author: KosmiKK
"Media organisations could receive the Nobel peace prize in future," Professor Geir Lundestad, secretary of the Norwegian Nobel committee, told MediaGuardian.co.uk. Prof Lundestad speaks on behalf of the five committee members, who tend not to talk about their work to the media. He serves as an adviser to them and sits on all their deliberations
05/10/2006 - Does Tommy need voice experts?
Author: paul anderson
From the Guardian "The News of the World, which is appealing against the defamation decision, took the tape to four voice verification experts. One, Tom Owen, who analysed tapes of Osama bin Laden for the FBI, told the newspaper: "Everything points to this tape being a genuine recording of the individual Tommy Sheridan." But Mr Sheridan dis
03/10/2006 - Is Tony Blair an MI5 agent?
Author: KosmiKK
Is Tony Blair an MI5 agent? Ex-MI5 officer David Shayler alleged so at a public meeting in Bristol last week, as was reported in the Bristol Evening Post. Money quote: Mr Shayler believes Dr David Kelly was an MI6 agent who was murdered and he alleged that Tony Blair worked for MI5 before he became Labour leader. Unfortunately, Shayler's e
29/09/2006 - Torture as an 'unAmerican' activity.
Author: Paul Anderson
Torture as an 'unAmerican' activity. Paul Anderson (SCOTTISH INTERNATIONALIST) The one thing about the hypocrisy of US foreign policy is that it espouses the values of western liberalism 'freedom and democracy'. It hated the one time US puppet Saddam's alleged torture and mass murder but now there is blowback, that overshadows the pretend bl
28/09/2006 - Open letter to Glasgow Herald
Author: Keith Motherson
From: "Keith Mothersson" mothersson@phonecoop.coop To: "Herald" letters@theherald.co.uk> Subject: A propos Ian Bell Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 01:20:31 +0100 Ian Bell invites us to reflect how it would have gone down if John Reid were to have warned Northern Irish parents to keep a close eye lest their children become involved with terroris
17/09/2006 - “Better the Sultan’s turban than the Cardinal’s hat”
Author: colonsay
“Better the Sultan’s turban than the Cardinal’s hat” Apart fom the sinister decision to launch an attack on Islam at this moment in history when the supreme question of war or peace hangs in the balance, there is a rather bizarre aspect to this whole affair viz. the curious decision to quote a Byzantine emperor’s views on Islam. Byzantium h
17/09/2006 - Brown and Retreat from Empire.
Author: colonsay
Brown and Retreat from Empire. A vague air of depression hangs over the place as the realization sinks in that the counter-coup has been and gone. As in Von Stauffenberg’s plot an insufficient explosive charge was used and the fuhrer was able to emerge more or less unscathed. The motivation for that plot would have been comparable; military reve
13/09/2006 - When will someone on Britain's left break ranks?
Author: Colonsay
Craig Murray’s appeals for scepticism regarding the latest supposed Muslim plot to carry out terrorist attacks have marked a possible turning point in popular attitudes towards the so-called war on terror. His blog has apparently been inundated with hits suggesting, as he puts it, that he has struck a nerve. Evidently, not everyone keeps swallowing
