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British Voters Lie To Pollsters, Vote For Imperialism & Endless War

May 15, 2015 By Nu’man Abd al-Wahid 3 Comments

One of the most boring British election campaigns on record produced a supposedly dramatic result. Before the polls closed at 10pm on Thursday 7th May 2015, every polling organisation had the two main political parties, Conservative and Labour neck and neck. No one knew who was going to win.

But as soon as London’s iconic Big Ben struck ten an exit poll for the main television stations surprisingly showed an overwhelming victory for the Conservatives. By the time the last votes were counted on Friday 8th, the Conservative Party, led by David Cameron, had ridden home with 331 seats while Ed Miliband’s Labour Party performed unexpectedly poorly with 232 seats.

The United Kingdom’s parliament seats 650 members so the Conservatives had theoretically crossed the halfway 325 seats needed to govern the nation alone without a need to enter a coalition with a smaller party as it had done in 2010 with the Liberal Democrats. In the immediate aftermath of the Conservative victory many rightly asked why the polls for the preceding six weeks got it so wrong. Even taking into account the usual margin of errors no one had predicted this outcome. Tellingly, very few asked why a significant part of the British electorate was clearly lying to pollsters.

Filed Under: Elections, Foreign Affairs Tagged With: David Cameron, England, Middle East, United Kingdom, War

VIDEO: On Muslim Identity — What Is “British” Islam?

February 19, 2015 By Yasmin Khatun 1 Comment

Muslim identity seems to be the topic de rigueur, an issue that has the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron, on his feet and one which has also become a staple for the British and international press. But rather than an informed outlook on a complex issue with many strands, the discussion and debate has only two boxes: one for the “happy” assimilated Muslim and the other an “extremist.”

In this feature for Islam Channel’s news programme, “The Report,” journalist Yasmin Khatun explores the topic, asking “What is ‘British’ Islam?”

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, Health & Lifestyle, Media & Culture Tagged With: Abdur Raheem Green, Africa, Ahmed Thomson, anti-terrorism law, Arun Kundnani, corporate media, David Cameron, Dr. Amina Yaqin, Dr. Yasir Qadhi, England, extremism, Great Britain, immigration, inequality, Iraq War, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamist extremism, jihadis, London, mainstream media, MENA, Middle East, Muslims, terrorism, United Kingdom

Fracked Earth News: Boston’s Hot Ocean Blizzard

February 17, 2015 By Kate Lanier Leave a Comment

Every week, Kate Lanier assembles the most important global energy and climate news, including:

New England: Off the coast of New England, sea surface temperatures “are flashing red, showing an extreme warm anomaly.” That’s a direct, immediate link to the recent record snowfall in Boston. Expect more.

California: Stunning state-wide fracking waste water test results: “concentrations of the human carcinogen benzene … [at] levels thousands of times greater than state and federal agencies consider safe.” ‘Significant’ benzene levels were in 98% of the water samples. Not only that, but CA “inadvertently” allowed frackers to inject their “flowback water into protected aquifers containing drinking water.” LA Times says “halt new operations.”

Peru: Oil contamination by Argentina’s Pluspetrol in the Peruvian Amazon so upset indigenous people that they “stormed a military base being used by Pluspetrol as a storage area.” Pluspetrol is packing up and leaving Peru—and the government “is investigating the illegal use of firearms by police during the demonstrations.”

Filed Under: Environment, Foreign Affairs, Health & Lifestyle, National News Tagged With: #NoKXL, Alaska, Alberta, Amazon, Antarctica, biomass energy, Boston, BP, BP Oil, Brazil, Burlington, California, Canada, cap and trade, Charles Pierce, Chicago, Climate change, Congress, ConocoPhillips Alaska, eminent domain, energy, England, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, FBI, fossil fuel divestment, fossil fuels, fracking, France, gas, geoengineering, global warming, gold, Great Britain, Greece, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Houston, hydraulic fracturing, hydroelectric, IEA, Illinois, India, intelligence, International Energy Agency, Kanawha River, Keystone XL North, KeystoneXL North, Koch Brothers, labor, labor rights, Libya, LyondellBasell, Massachusetts, National Petroleum Reserve, Nebraska, Nepal, New England, nuclear, nuclear energy, oceans, Ohio, oil, oil prices, oil trains, Ontario, Panama, Pasadena, Pebble Mine, Pennsylvania, Peru, petcoke, poaching, Rahm Emanuel, refineriess, renewable energy, Rutgers University, solar, solar power, strike, Tom Wolf, TransCanada, union, unions, United Kingdom, United Steelworkers, United Steelworkers Union, US Army Corps of Engineers, US Bureau of Land Management, USW, Vermont, West Virginia, wind power, Wisconsin

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