Sept. 22, 2007 (LPAC)--At precisely the moment when Argentina is preparing a new offensive at the United Nations, to assert its claim to sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands, Britain has provocatively announced plans to annex thousands of square miles around those islands in the South Atlantic. Britain illegally seized the islands from Argentina in 1833, and has held them, under the name "Falkands," ever since. When Argentina retook them in 1982, Britain and NATO unleashed a colonial war against that country to punish it for daring to assert its sovereignty.

Under the headline, "The New British Empire? U.K. Plans To Annex South Atlantic," London's Guardian reports, "Britain is lodging its claim at the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf which will extend the normal 200 mile limit to 350 miles, which could bring it into conflict with Argentina, which also claims the Island." It is preparing similar claims around Ascension Island and Rockall, the latter being in the north Atlantic.