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The election of President Trump should throw Britain’s toxic relationship with the US into severe question says Chris Nineham

Written by Chris Nineham, Stop the War coalition UK on 04 January 2017. Posted in News & Comment

The ‘special relationship’ between Britain and the US, announced by Winston Churchill soon after World War Two, has been toxic from the start. It is a collaboration that has always demanded unswerving support for US superpower aspirations. But the price keeps getting higher.  Thatcher’s partnership with Ronald Reagan involved turning Britain into an offshore nuclear missile launchpad and provided a transatlantic power base for the neoliberal economics that has wreaked such havoc around the world. The Chilcot report made it official that Tony Blair’s ‘I will be with you whatever’ relationship with George Bush was a ‘determining factor’ in Britain’s lead role in the catastrophic war on Iraq.

http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.php/news-comment/2338-trump-time-time-to-end-the-special-relationship

OpEdNews Op Eds 1/1/2017 at 17:38:07

By Ann Wright

Its been nine Christmas and New Year’s holidays that we in Hawaii have been challenging policies of the Obama administration — beginning in December 2008 before President-elect Obama was sworn into office — on the issue of his silence on the 27-day Israeli attack on Gaza that killed 1,400 Palestinians.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Nine-Years-of-Challenging-by-Ann-Wright-Challenge-Obama_Hawaii_Obama-Family-170101-288.html