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  • 11 Nov 2012
    Remembrance not celebration: a service

    Our thanks to Karl Dallas for pointing us towards the excellent Liberation Radio Remembrance Day Service, and BCB broadcast of Benjamin Britten's moving and thoughtful War Requiem.

  • 7 Oct 2011
    London demonstrations mark tenth anniversary of Afghan war

    A call for action to rebuild Afghanistan is being backed by protest events today in London and in five other European capital cities.

  • 6 Jul 2011
    Cost of conscience: naval Afghanistan objector detained

    A horrific incident that happened three years ago has recently been reported in the Guardian as follows.

    On 4 March 2007 a convoy of US marines, who arrived in Afghanistan three weeks earlier, were hit by an explosives-rigged mini-van outside the city of Jalalabad.

  • 12 Jan 2010
    Human rights activist says 'Luton five' verdict threatens free speech

    The conviction of five Muslim men who demonstrated at a home-coming parade by the Royal Anglian Regiment in Luton is an infringement of free speech and free protest, says veteran human rights activist Peter Tatchell.

  • 29 Feb 2008
    Prince Harry denied role as natural born killer

    A Royal security expert says Prince Harry's attempt to serve with British forces in Afghanistan has handed a propaganda coup to radical anti-Western groups who will portray him as going from shooting grouse to shooting Muslims.

  • 8 Oct 2007
    Anti-Iraq war demo will defy ban on march to parliament

    Protesters calling for the withdrawal of British and Western troops from Iraq say they will attempt to defy a ban by police and the UK government which is set to prevent them from entering Parliament Square today, under obscure legislation from 1839.

  • 22 Mar 2007
    American online Christians lobby congress to end conflict

    A web-based ecumenical network of Christians from mainline denominations is contacting Congress to seek an end to the war in Iraq and a commitment to justice and peace.

  • 25 Jan 2007
    Charges against Christian anti-war protestor dismissed

    Christian peace campaigner Brian Haw, who maintained a protest against the Iraq war for over 2000 days in Parliament Square, has had a series of charges against him under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act dismissed in the High Court by Judge Quentin Purdy ‚Ä' who criticized the way the case had been brought.