Articles by Lauren Booth

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Tony Blair & George Bush Convicted War Criminals
Lauren Booth - deLiberation, 21 May 2012

Victory in Kuala Lumpur but No Cigars in Guantanamo – Billed as a ‘court of conscience,’ the Kuala Lumpur War crimes tribunal proved to be a gathering of sharp, knowledgeable and equally kind hearted, talents from the legal and human rights world.

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Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal Day 1
Lauren Booth - deLiberation, 14 May 2012

When authority entrusted to further truth and justice betrays that trust, two options remain: one is to throw up your hands in despair and resignation; the other is to reclaim that power and to hold authority accountable. This is the statement of intent from the Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalise War on the first day of its proceedings against former US President George Bush and 11 members of his regime. Over the next five days, the Tribunal will hear from victims of US torture in both Iraq and Guantanamo Bay.

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Vittorio and Israel’s Attack On the Intellectual Intifada
Lauren Booth – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2011

The headline ‘Italian peace activist killed by Palestinian extremists’ is an Israeli propagandists wet dream. A gift as potentially large in its political implications as the now inevitable retraction by the UN of the Goldstone report. Why? Two reasons.

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An Open Letter to Israel
Lauren Booth – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Aug 2010

This morning I set out to write a piece about the looting of the aid Flotilla to Gaza, by your soldiers. As you may have read, an Israel Defense Forces officer, has been remanded by a military court, suspected of stealing laptop computers from passengers. Interestingly, Haretz newspaper, now refers to the fleet as an ‘aid flotilla.’ Which it was. Rather than the ‘terror’ fleet your leaders would have had you call it. But I digress.

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