London Riots: BBC Interview Gets Testy

Huffington Post, BBC News | Aug. 10, 2011 (News Report)

(Video) it's surprising how little has yet to emerge about the rioters themselves: What are they after? What drove them into the streets, for four nights straight, to burn buses and shatter windows?

Earlier Tuesday, the BBC interviewed Darcus Howe, a 68-year-old radical West Indian writer and journalist from Brixton, where some of the most violent disturbances took place over the last couple of days. Faced with a stern and flummoxed interviewer, Howe ... Full Story »

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 by Bob Herrschaft - Aug. 10, 2011

The video speaks for itself...there seems to be a concerted effort by much of the press to minimize the significance of the riots. Darcus Howe here implies that the grievances behind the violence are too often dismissed,calling it "an insurrection of the masses of the people". The semantics here are important, since violence against a corrupt regime, as in Syria, is often considered justified. Should we look at the U.K. in the same light?

Is not the "City of London" often the final destination of laundered money that goes untaxed? How many law-abiding, tax paying Britons are aware that the charter of the "city within a city" is a major tax haven for "dirty money" when they, themselves, are asked to pay an inordinate amount in taxes?

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