5 AUGUST

THE FIRST LIVERPOOL SLAVE SHIP SETS SALE [ 3 October 1699 ] On 3 October 1699, the first slave ship set sail from Liverpool. The Liverpool Merchant, under the command of Captain William Webster, sailed down the Mersey headed for the coast of West Africa where she picked up her captive human cargo. BRITISH SPECIAL NIGHT…

LET THE SAUDIS BEHAVE AS THEY WANT TO, SO LONG AS THEY REMAIN AN ALLY. 4 October 1993 – Addressing a conference entitled “Inside Saudi Arabia” at London’s Chatham House, Margaret Thatcher declared that she considered the country “a strong force for moderation and stability,” that she was “a great admirer of Saudi Arabia and…

RELIEF WORKS FOR FAMINE STRUCK IRISH VILLAGERS SUSPENDED [ 7 December 1846 ] In December 1846 Ireland was in the grip of a potato famine as well as one of the worst winters in many years and wherever a few people could be offered employment at a local public works, it provided the sole possible…

STARVATION USED AS A WEAPON OF WAR AGAINST THE XHOSA [ 26 January 1852 ] On 26 January 1852, seven columns of British colonial troops were advancing into the Amatola mountains on the eastern fringes of Cape Colony in what is today South Africa, systematically burning all the crops and settlements belonging to the Xhosa…

IRAQI HOTEL RECEPTIONIST TORTURED TO DEATH BY BRITISH TROOPS IN BASRA 15 September 2003 – An Iraqi hotel receptionist Baha Mousa was kicked, beaten and tortured to death by British troops in Basra.  He was one in a group of ten innocent Iraqi civilians who were subjected to appalling brutality. Their agony was witnessed by…

28 CIVILIANS SHOT DEAD IN ATHENS BY BRITISH ARMED NAZI COLLABORATORS [ 3 December 1944 ] Winston Churchill’s legendary qualities of courage and defiance are often celebrated. It is taken for granted that he was motivated primarily by a moral repugnance to Nazism. HIDING THE BRUTAL TRUTH ABOUT BRITISH COLONIAL RULE IN KENYA [ 3…