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NATO official: Iran could fire conventional or nuclear missiles into Europe

01-09-2009 18:31 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Other Press | World

Echoing the six-month-long intensive propaganda campaign before invading Iraq in 2003, the leading members of the NATO Alliance (US, UK, Germany, France) and Israel are desperately trying to show Iran as a threat, without presenting a shred of evidence.

Now, an anonymous “NATO official” is claiming that Iran is posing a threat not only to Israel, but also to Europe. Even more astonishingly, after 4 years of constant scare-mongering over “Iran’s nuclear threat”, this official is reverting to Clinton administration’s “Iran’s ballistic threat” propaganda.

Palestine Today 090109

01-09-2009 15:35 | Anti-militarism | Other Press | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Tuesday September 1st, 2009

America's Tortured Past

31-08-2009 21:44 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Repression | World

In his book, "A Question of Torture," McCoy explained how techniques were developed, refined, codified in manuals, used extensively in Southeast Asia, Central America, and now everywhere, including in Iraq, Afghanistan, and at secret black sites globally. A worldwide gulag exists with no oversight or legal compliance - on US bases, torture ships, and in prisons of complicit countries. Nothing is banned, including the most inhumanely harmful abuses.

In office, Obama abandoned his promise to continue America's sordid, tortured past in violation of the rule of law, ethical and moral standards, and everything he swore he'd change.

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Israeli Occupation Soldier Shoots Blindfolded, Handcuffed Palestinian Detainee

31-08-2009 20:29 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Palestine | World

The Israel Defense Forces officer accused of ordering a soldier under his command to shoot a bound and blindfolded Palestinian detainee failed his second polygraph test on Monday, after having passed the first test in a private institute last week. The results of Monday’s lie-detector test, held under the auspices of the military police, prove that Lieutenant colonel Omri Fruberg, commanding officer of IDF regiment 71, lied in his testimony, and suggest he did in fact give order to open fire at the Palestinian detainee.

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Palestine Today 083109

31-08-2009 17:20 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Monday August 31st.

Reflections on Peaceful Protest and Constitutional Dialogue in San Pedro Sula, H

30-08-2009 22:09 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

"As a result, the political demand of the protest is simple: reinstate Zelaya as the legitimate president and permit the constitutional referendum."

Noam Chomsky Meets with Chavez in Venezuela

29-08-2009 16:02 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

"Chomsky said the growing disappointment with the Obama administration in the U.S. was predictable because the corporate media marketed Obama's presidential candidacy on the slogan of "Change We Can Believe In" but omitted concrete proposals for effective changes, and the Obama administration has since shown an incapacity to institute such changes."

Israeli PM Netanyahu: Threats to our existence must be nipped in the bud

29-08-2009 11:18 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Other Press | World

This week the leaders of Israel, UK, Germany and US launched yet another joint propaganda campaign against Iran. The aim is to get the UN Security Council to impose “crippling sanctions” on Iran, a step that would ultimately facilitate their next brutal invasion.

Actually, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that it is possible for “the coalition of the willing” to impose these sanctions “even without a UN Security Council decision”.

Meanwhile, the 118 member countries of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) (about two thirds of UN member states) have “reaffirmed the basic and inalienable right of all states to develop research, production and use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes, without any discrimination and in conformity with their respective legal obligations”.

AFRICOM: The Pentagon's First Direct Military Intervention In Africa

28-08-2009 10:23 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | World

While conducting wars, bombings, military interventions and invasions in Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, the Middle East and recently Southeastern Europe over the past half century, the Pentagon has left the African continent comparatively unscathed. That is going to change after the establishment of the United States Africa Command on October 1 of 2007 and its activation a year later.

Important interview with the Honduran resistance

27-08-2009 19:16 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

"Hondurans want a new constitution/society."

Cuban Connection: Honduran Coup

23-08-2009 17:09 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

"Perhaps slightly less well known is that, before the coup, Ralph Nodarse was an active participant in assassination attempts against president Zelaya. And it may not be common knowledge, outside of Honduras, that his name came to light in a bombing attempt against former Honduran president Carlos Roberto Reina."

Pentagon Plans For Global Military Supremacy

23-08-2009 13:32 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | World

The U.S. and NATO plans for the deployment of interceptor missiles and complementary radar facilities in Europe are not and could not be designed to protect the United States and Western Europe from imaginary Iranian intercontinental ballistic missiles and equally non-existent nuclear warheads.

Even the vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff General James Cartwright was forced to concede this even the vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff General James Cartwright was forced to concede the point at the space and missile defense conference this week.

Battle the Banks - Call for Actions against Barclays and RBS - Investors in arms

Smash DSEi, Smash the Arms Trade, Battle the Banks...

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Interference via Twitter, Dreyfuss and NED

20-08-2009 07:40 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Technology | World

Recent coordination between the Department of State and the Twitter
Corporation during the electoral unrest in Iran was a solid proof of the
close cooperation between media, the electronic industry (internet, etc.)
and the State Department.

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Brian Haw Parliament Square anti-war vigil - Day 3000 - pics

Brian has been standing vigil and camping and campaigning for peace opposite the Houses of Parliament in Parliament Square, Westminster, London for 3000 days, since June 2, 2001.

Caucasus: The War That Was, The World War That Might Have Been

19-08-2009 14:59 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Energy Crisis | World

What a resumption of fighting between Georgia and South Ossetia will entail is indicated by an examination of the scale of the catastrophe that was narrowly averted a year ago.

A coordinated attack by Georgia on South Ossetia and Abkhazia and by Azerbaijan on Nagorno Karabakh would have led to a regional conflagration and possibly a world war.

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US nuclear-powered carrier entry to Manila violates Philippine Constitution

19-08-2009 13:25 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

US nuclear-powered carrier entry to Manila violates ASEAN Treaty .

The following manifestation was made by Rep. Walden Bello of the Party-list Akbayan! on the floor of the House of Representatives of the Philippines on August 13, 2009. It was prepared by Herbert Docena of Focus on the Global South.

Open letter to David Cameron about Brian Haw

The likely next Prime Minister, David Cameron, has threatened to have long term Parliament Square peace protester Brian Haw removed from his demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament. This has very serious implications for freedom of speech.

Cracks in the Honduran Coup Regime Grow Wider

18-08-2009 20:08 | Anti-militarism | World

"Micheletti is in fact declaring the military a scapegoat for doing just once what Micheletti himself has ordered them to do a second and third time. He doesn’t really want Zelaya to stand trial because, first, the so-called evidence against the President is flimsy and falsified, and, second, because the regime fears that the very people of Honduras might assemble to break down any wall that might hold their elected president."