Defeating Cameron’s British budget cuts

By: Tuesday August 3, 2010 3:39 pm

The movement to defeat the budget cuts David Cameron proposes for Great Britain will be a tough one. But there may be lessons here for the inevitable budget cuts proposed by Obama at the end of this year.

Relax, Britain. We’re Upset with BP, Not the British People or Nation

By: Friday June 11, 2010 5:08 pm

PBS News Hour tonight spent 15 minutes fretting about some manufactured controversy between America and Great Britain. But I can’t find any evidence that any sensible American or any sensible US official who is even remotely upset at the British people, the UK or its government. So everyone relax.

UK/US Asylum Seekers Find Death, Abuse, and Criminal Indifference

By: Monday March 15, 2010 8:35 pm

A family leaps to its death off the fifteenth story of an apartment building in Scotland. The immediate cause — their asylum application was denied, and they were about to be kicked out of government housing. Thousands of torture victims languish in UK and US prisons, waiting for their day in court to prove their asylum claims. But their waits grow longer, and their conditions more desperate.

Brits Are Fed Up with GOP Lies On NHS

By: Thursday August 13, 2009 1:16 pm
(Promoted by lancesteagall - Give the microphone to those who know.)

More than a million Britons have now joined the Twitter pro-NHS campaign, including many whose lives have been helped by the service.

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