[Marxism] Re: News coverage of Iraq

[Tony Hartin]

Hi Gary,

I watched the 10pm BBC 1 news last night and too was struck by a 
different tone. It was the closest thing I've seen to despair on that 
news service. It did give the sense of being finally worn down by the 
horror thats been unleashed in Iraq - that its run out of control. I 
think too we have too see this latest attack on the veil here as part of 
the same phenomenon - its clearly going in a far right direction with 
crazed calls for sacking muslim teachers, spying on "asian looking" 
students and the Tory Davis talking about forcibly excluding those who 
don't want to conform to "our" norms. The combination of Lancet report 
and Dannatt speaking his mind, and lame duck Blair has opened up the 
cracks at the top.