Global Research, November 27, 2013
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Here’s what it looks like when a respected reporter tweets about his
blackmail note to an established anti-war organization regarding the
organization’s upcoming conference in a tweet on
November 15:
I’ve informed organizers of @STWuk that I will not participate in their conference
if Mother Agnes is on the platform.
— jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) 15 Novembre 2013
The reporter is Jeremy Scahill, who was booked as the keynote
speaker and to show his film “Dirty Wars” (based on his book “Dirty Wars”) at
the November 30 International
Anti-War Conference
in London, put on by Stop the War
Coalition (STWuk),
which was first organized in 2001 in opposition to an American attack on Iraq.
More than 12 years later, the coalition notes dryly on its webpage for the
conference, “We need more effective anti war resistance internationally. This
conference is a chance to analyse, build links and lay plans.”
Scahill’s threat to boycott the conference soon became moot the
following day, when the dreaded Mother Agnes withdrew from participation. Her letter
read, in part:
“It has come to my attention that my participation in your conference
has become a matter of serious contention, even prompting some other speakers to
consider withdrawing. This is apparently due to a campaign of cruel and
unsubstantiated accusations which seek to work against my efforts and those of
the Musalaha (Reconciliation) Initiative in Syria.
“The basis of our work toward peace is reconciliation and forgiveness.
This means extending an olive branch to
