US Boosts Arms For Gulf Tyrannies

        "The Bush administration is expected to announce a massive series of arms deals in the Middle East tomorrow that are being seen as part of a diplomatic offensive against the growing influence of Iran in the volatile...

Tory Leadership Dispute Spills Out

"David Cameron has defended his Tory party leadership and warned there will be "no retreat to the comfort zone". It comes as a newspaper report said at least two Tory MPs were calling for a vote of no confidence in him. Coming third in two by-elections, a row over grammar...

EU Constitution Slipped In

On one hand we're told by Blair's 'spokesman' that:"This treaty should be an amending treaty. Previous amending treaties have not required a referendum and we do not believe that this treaty should have the characteristics of a constitution."(1)Well that not true, as...

Review of BAE Bribery Scandal

 "Lord Woolf, the former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, is to head an independent review of business practices at BAE Systems.BBC Business Editor Robert Peston has learned that Lord Woolf is to chair an ethics committee to look into how the defence giant...

UK Kept In Dark About EU treaty

 "Why are the British people not being told what is being done in their name?" - Mark Francois, Conservative M.P(1)Secrecy is one of the main principles of statecraft. The reason for its use is obvious. Stephen Zunes, a professor at the University of San Fransisco in his...

Media Tries to Ignore Kucinich and Paul

Discussion about the US Presidential race is interesting nowadays, though only us alternative reporters will cover certain issues."We have always been told that what makes America great was that anyone could grow to become President of the United States. Well, is that really...

BAE Systems Bribed Ex-Saudi ambassador

 "A Saudi prince who negotiated a £40bn arms deal between Britain and Saudi Arabia received secret payments for over a decade, a BBC probe has found. The UK's biggest arms dealer, BAE Systems, paid hundreds of millions of pounds to the ex-Saudi ambassador to the US,...

Blogger Caught Pretending to be James Bond Extrodinare

 Last time it was Mossad, this time UK intelligence is blown out of the water with the revelation of a self-portrayed insider of Britain's security services. Streams of Consciousness is a blog by an apparent fraud who wanted others to think she has(had?) exclusive...

Dimitri Simes Forgets US Leaders' Priorities?

        Mr. Simes knows full well why US leaders have not "started a meaningful foreign policy debate in the United States."(1) As his colleague Michael Lind wrote; "Precisely because the hegemony strategy is so alien to American and...

Ministry of Truth: 'Experts' Shut Up Please

A quick, accurate and witty assessment has recently been made by the blogger of Ministry of Truth. On the self appointed 'experts' in the press, etc. Here it is:""For all the professional commentariat complain bitterly of their rather ‘robust’ and ungentle handling by...

BBC Caught Misrepresenting US Dems

      Once again I've caught the BBC not being precisely correct on the issue of Iraq and the position of the US Democrats:"anti-war campaigners have accused them of caving in to pressure from the White House. (1)"Interesting, one only has to go...

Sadr uses dramatic reappearance to deliver blast of anti-US rhetoric

           "The nationalist Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has reappeared before thousands of supporters for the first time in months to call for American troops to end the occupation of Iraq. ...

Network Rail bosses back down on bonuses

         "Network Rail executives were forced to freeze their bonuses yesterday, hours after a public outcry over plans to defer payouts for maintenance workers over the fatal west coast train crash at Grayrigg.Executive directors...