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The Spokesman is the journal of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. Founded by Bertrand Russell in 1970, it is dedicated to carrying on his work for peace and human rights.

www.spokesmanbooks.com

My Interests

Politics
Independent Journalism
Peace and War
Human Rights

I'd like to meet:

... and have met - Steve Bell, Tony Benn, John Berger, Hans Blix, Tony Bunyan (Statewatch), John le Carre, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Noam Chomsky, Ken Coates, Albert Einstein, Michele Ernsting, George Farebrother, David Gentlemen, Christopher Gifford, Mikhail Gorbachev, Trevor Griffiths, Regina Hagen, Christopher Hill, John Humphrys, James Kirkup, Naomi Klein, Gabriel Kolko, Tom Mann, Zhores Medvedev, Alva Myrdal, Lord Mountbatten of Burma, Joseph Needham, John Pilger, Harold Pinter, Joseph Rotblat, Arundhati Roy, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Rae Street, Kurt Vonnegut.

Books:

Obama's Afghan Dilemma
Trident - Nuclear Proliferation the British Way
Brown Studies
Legacies of Harm
War Crimes
Surging for Oil
Genocide Old and New
The Carnage Continues ... and now for Trident
Haditha Ethics
How to Lose a War
Extraordinary Rendition
Inside the Crusader Fortress
The Suicide Bombers
Apocalypse Soon
Albert Einstein Bertrand Russell and Manifesto 50
Fallujah Shock and Awe
From Tom Paine to Guantanamo
America's Gulag
Dark Times Torture
The Strangelove Doctrine
Speak Truth to Power
Confessions of Terrorist
Appointment in Cordoba
The New American Century
The War on Terror Runs Amok
A Better World is Possible
War is Peace
Star Wars Starts Wars
Full Spectrum Absurdity
The Last Frontier

Heroes:

www.spokesmanbook.com

My Blog

Obama’s Afghan Dilemma

Taking stock of Afghan wars ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />     When asked for his motto, Karl Marx said 'doubt everything'. Never was this better a...
Posted by The Spokesman on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:08:00 PST

Trident - Nuclear Proliferation the British Way

 Back in 1984, at a time when the British Labour Party policy favoured European Nuclear Disarmament, Gordon Brown declared that the Trident programme was 'unacceptably expensive, economically wa...
Posted by The Spokesman on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:06:00 PST

Browned Off

Although it had been gradually dawning over recent years, there has now been a sudden flash of general realisation that Mrs. Thatcher has gone on and on and on. Now it is crystal clear. Many people th...
Posted by The Spokesman on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:02:00 PST

World Against War this Sat (15/3/2008)

JOIN THE WORLD AGAINST WAR THIS SATURDAY Tens of thousands of people will converge on Parliament on Saturday calling for an end to Bush’s wars. Another massive demonstration will take place sim...
Posted by The Spokesman on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:38:00 PST

Bob Dylan (Moondog) and Bertrand Russell

Bob Dylan - December 1963 Hootenanny Magazine:Junkies an flunkies line the wind along side ban-the-bomb demonstratorsGirls're hustlin for dollars on one side a the street anGirls're sittin down for th...
Posted by The Spokesman on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:19:00 PST

Legacies of Harm - Spokesman 96

Editorial Legacies of Harm Spokesman 96..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />   The British press has already celebrated the departure of Tony Blair from Numb...
Posted by The Spokesman on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:23:00 PST

War Crimes, The Spokesman 95

On the 3rd April 2007, the Russian News Agency, Novosti, reported a statement by Yuri Baluyevsky, the head of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff. He warned that 'Washington needs to think twice be...
Posted by The Spokesman on Mon, 14 May 2007 04:27:00 PST

Surging for Oil, The Spokesman 94

Editorial Surging for Oil The year 2007 opened with a raging dispute on the implementation of the decision of President George Bush to send more than twenty thousand additional troops to join the sla...
Posted by The Spokesman on Mon, 14 May 2007 04:22:00 PST

Genocide Old and New, The Spokesman 93

Editorial Genocide Old and New The mid-term Congressional Elections in the United States gave a clear majority to the Democrats in the House of Representatives. They even gave the Democrats a narrow ...
Posted by The Spokesman on Mon, 14 May 2007 04:17:00 PST

The Carnage Continues ... and now for Trident! The Spokesman 92

Editorial Across Iraq, excluding Kurdistan, there were, in May 2006, 1,294 civilian deaths as a result of violence. The UN Assistance Mission reports that these people included 58 women and 17 childr...
Posted by The Spokesman on Fri, 11 May 2007 06:34:00 PST