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This is a cross-post from Just Journalism.
Following Tuesday’s speech by David Cameron in Ankara, where the British Prime Minister controversially described Gaza as a ‘prison camp’ in the context of regional challenges that Turkey should help to resolve, The Guardian yesterday published an editorial on the growing influence of the secular Muslim country. While ‘Turkey: [...]

Press conference of the International Committee Against Stoning
11am – Friday 30 July 2010,
Conway Hall,
Red Lion Square,
London
WC1R 4RL
New information on the threatened execution of 43 year old Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, and others who have been also sentenced to death by stoning in Iran, will be revealed at a London press conference this Friday by Mina Ahadi, [...]

Lee Barnes, BNP Legal Director, reports on the on-going BNP meltdown:
Every day now the leadership challenge within the BNP is dragging the party deeper and deeper into the gutter.
The supporters on all sides are waging a war against each other that is causing immeasurable harm to the party and the British Nationalist movement.
It appears [...]

David Cameron on Turkey:
Turkey is a great NATO ally and Turkey shares our determination to fight terrorism in all its forms, whether from al-Qaeda or from the PKK.
Turkey’s prime minister:
“Despite bloody attacks against civilians and security forces, there are countries which have failed to cut the financial channels of the terrorist organization, turned a blind [...]

This is a cross post by Mark Gardner of The CST Blog
Film director, Oliver Stone, famously knows a thing or three about conspiracies. Odd then, that when telling the Sunday Times about his next project, the “Secret History of America” he should have fallen foul of the hoary old one about Jews running the world.
Stone’s comments [...]

This is a cross post by Edmund Standing
The Nation of Islam (NoI) is a ‘black nationalist’ organisation that preaches a bizarre Afrocentric form of Islam based around the teachings of Elijah Muhammad, an American black separatist who teamed up with George Lincoln Rockwell of the American Nazi Party to preach a message of racial disharmony. After [...]

Remember Counterfire?
It was the pre-existing political project into which Lindsay German and John Rees parachuted after they fell out with the SWP at the beginning of the year. It was going to open itself up to the ‘movements’ and use new technology to revolutionise the Trotskyesque left. It was going to be, like, totally massive.
Six [...]

The Twentieth Century will possibly go down in history as the genocide century. One of the most appalling examples of this horrendous crime was that of the Cambodian Genocide. The reign of the Khmer Rouge  in Cambodia commenced in April 1975 and ended in January 1979.  In a period of less than four years approximately [...]

This is a cross-post from a piece Just Journalism Executive Director Michael Weiss published at Standpoint. With a major research assist from habibi.
Given David Cameron’s latest statements on Gaza, the flotilla, and Turkey’s proper place in the European Union, it’s worth exploring Ankara’s new geopolitical strategy in the Middle East. The following piece argues [...]

Oliver Stone has issued the following statement:
“In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry. The fact that the [...]