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America's Profound Shame

03-04-2007 17:28 | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

Excerpt from the Preface to the book "Prisoners of the Cave" to be available shortly at

http://www.humanbeingsfirst.org

Effort

03-04-2007 17:26 | Ecology | World

EU to reduce greenhouse gases

Swiss Court Ruling Allows Euthanasia For Mentally Ill

03-04-2007 16:11 | Health | Repression | Social Struggles | World

A RULING by Switzerland's highest court has opened up the possibility that people with serious mental illnesses could be helped by doctors to take their own lives.

Switzerland already allows doctor-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients under certain circumstances. The Federal Tribunal's decision puts mental illnesses on the same level as physical ones.

The move has been labelled as "dangerous" as it could lead to a rapid rise in the number of people travelling to Switzerland for assisted suicide.

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81 States and the European Commission sign UN Disability Convention

03-04-2007 16:02 | Culture | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Today at UN Headquarters in the General Assembly plenary room, the UN
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional
Protocol were formally opened for signature, marking the first opportunity
for States to become signatures and start the process to become States
Parties.

The AEI's attack dogs jump onto the 'Iran hostage crisis' bandwagon

03-04-2007 15:21 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

The attack dogs at neoconservative headquarters in Washington, DC, are at it again. They have seized on the ‘crisis’ that was brought about by the capture of the 15 British sailors and marines by the Iranians inside Iranian waters to call again for confrontation and war against Iran.

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Empire as a Way of Life, Part 4

The current imperial slaughter in the Middle East, justified by the "Global War on Terror", that has resulted in at least 600,000 deaths in Iraq, is nothing new — the U.S. Empire has a long and sordid history of genocidal mass murder.

The history of the US imperialism and Empire is the subject of a series of ten monthly seminars from Dr John Marciano, "Empire as a Way of Life". Attached is a recording of the fourth of these seminars and the text upon which it was based. The first 7 of these seminars have taken place and the intention is to have the whole series published on this site; the last 3 will take place between now and June.

This seminar, recorded on 19th December 2006 by the L.A. Sound Posse, runs for 36 minutes and includes the discussion following. It has been made available under a Creative Commons license. If this recording is broadcast please let the L.A. Sound Posse know. This recording was originally made available on the A-Infos Radio Project site.

The following text has been reproduced here with the kind permission of Dr John Marciano and he can be contacted at johnmarciano@mac.com. He introduced this series of seminars in the following way:

A fundamental purpose of our meetings is to understand the systemic nature of the U.S. Empire and the economic and military imperialism that is its lifeblood. The historian William Appleman Williams argues that empire became "a way of life" in the U.S., a "combination of patterns of thought and action that, as it becomes habitual and institutionalized, defines the thrust and character of a culture and society." This "way of life" has convinced many U.S. "Americans" they have a right or "manifest destiny" to impose their political and economic policies upon others.

Dr John Marciano is Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Cortland, where he taught courses on social and historical foundations of education and class, gender and race.

Previous parts of this series:

Empire as a Way of Life, Part 1 | mp3 | doc
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 2 | mp3 | doc
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 3 | mp3 | doc

Anarchist website exposes huge Tory scandal

03-04-2007 11:43 | Culture | Other Press | World

Investigative journalism at its best with political conviction and hard facts

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“Commercial interests must take second place to protection of the population’s h

03-04-2007 10:38 | Ecology | Health | Cambridge | World

BAYER´s Toxic Waste Incineration:
“Commercial interests must take second place to protection of the population’s health”
Contrary to previous announcements, the BAYER Group has entered into international trade in toxic waste. For the time being BAYER plans to incinerate 4,500 metric tons of highly toxic hexachlorobenzene from Australia, for which the company will receive three million euros.

War Crimes Video Evidence: US Troops Randomly Killing Iraqi Civilians

03-04-2007 09:59 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | World

Home made video by US forces in Iraq shows trigger happy troops shooting anything that moves on an Iraqi street, then attacking a building where civilians try to take cover.

SSRIs and Columbine: Michael Moore Rethinks Bowling for Columbine: were

03-04-2007 07:24 | Technology | World

The two kids who committed the massacre, one was on Luvox, a prozac class antidepressant

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31/03/07: Video, report and a few home truth's - Reclaiming The Future

03-04-2007 00:42 | Free Spaces | Repression | World

Late night phone calls and all I wanted to do was sleep. Riot police had turned up at the Reclaiming The Future party on Holloway Road in North London. So, exhaustion and a crippled mind be damned, Oscar Beard used his electric bill money to get a taxi to the area and cover the latest threat to society, probably greater than terrorism - people partying and having fun.

UN Security Council Helps Disarm a Prospective Further Victim of U.S. Aggression

03-04-2007 00:28 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Iraq | World

Now, four years later, the Security Council has outdone itself. Not only has it failed to condemn the U.S. and Israeli threat to attack Iran—the threat itself a violation of the UN Charter,[4] and one made ever-more real by the U.S. invasions of neighboring Afghanistan and Iraq during this decade alone, now followed by a huge U.S. naval buildup near Iran's coast to levels not seen since the U.S. launched its war on Iraq four years ago in what the New York Times just called a "calculated show of force."[5] But even worse, the Council has aided and abetted these potential aggressors by adopting three resolutions in the past eight months under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, each of which affirms that Iran's nuclear program is a threat to international peace and security, and reserves for the Council the right to take "further appropriate measures" should Iran fail to comply—that is, should Iran not cave-in to U.S. demands on exactly the terms demanded.[6]

Letter to comic releif

02-04-2007 23:49 | Repression | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

This is an email I sent to comic releif, weeks after Blair appeared. I simply can not put it behind me.

Who IS running this bushite nazi liar show?

02-04-2007 21:34 | Repression | Terror War | World

Who IS running this bushite nazi liar show, where they, our
elite corporate media masters, kill our stupid kids with their
flagrant naked monster lies, while refusing all calls for
clarity, Johnny America really wants to know. Like
immediately. Help us out here some man, don't be evil.

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Has the UK lost its 'edge' in foreign policy?

02-04-2007 21:28 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

The recent story of the arrest of 15 British sailors in the Persian Gulf has revealed interesting and often hidden facts regarding the current administration in Britain.

Morgan Pressel Cinderellas from John Kennedy into Tiger Woods

02-04-2007 19:16 | Anti-militarism | Climate Chaos | World

A Cinderella story.

Hundreds Defy th checkpoints in Nablus

This one of a series of reports from a Brighton based activist from Occupied Palestine

I will be here for the next month making links with grassroots groups in the Tubas/Jordan Valley Region with other activists from the Brighton Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group (tubas.brightonpalestine.org) and working with the International Solidarity Movement (www.palsolidarity.org).

I will be sending short reports about the effect of the Israeli occupation on everyday life and Palestinian resistance to the occupation…

THE WALL MUST FALL

Beyond Munich: The UN Helps Disarm a Prospective Further Victim of US Aggression

02-04-2007 13:49 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

Imagine that when Hitler was threatening to invade Poland, after having swallowed Czechoslovakia—with the help of the Western European powers' appeasement of Hitler at Munich in September 1938—the League of Nations imposed an arms embargo on Poland, making it more difficult for the imminent victim to defend itself, and at the same time suggested that Poland was the villainous party. That didn’t happen back in 1939, but in a regression from that notorious era of appeasement something quite analogous is happening now.

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A wanton cover-up: No British soldiers found guilty in murder of Iraqi worker

02-04-2007 13:24 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Repression | World

On September 14, 2003, Baha Musa, a 26-year-old hotel receptionist and father of two, was detained along with several others in a raid by the Queens Lancashire Regiment in the Haitham Hotel in Basra. Over the course of the next 36 hours, Musa was humiliated, starved, robbed, forced to drink his own urine, choked and repeatedly pummeled by perhaps dozens of British soldiers. He died as a result of the sadistic abuse.

London Protest Over West Bengal Massacre

02-04-2007 13:20 | Repression | World

At 4.00pm-5.30pm on Monday April 2, environmental campaigners, anti-capitalists and South Asian activists in Britain will be picketing outside the Indian High Commission in London in protest at the massacre of peasant farmers in West Bengal by state forces earlier this month.

World Newswire Archive

America's Profound Shame

Effort

Swiss Court Ruling Allows Euthanasia For Mentally Ill

81 States and the European Commission sign UN Disability Convention

The AEI's attack dogs jump onto the 'Iran hostage crisis' bandwagon

Empire as a Way of Life, Part 4

Anarchist website exposes huge Tory scandal

“Commercial interests must take second place to protection of the population’s h

War Crimes Video Evidence: US Troops Randomly Killing Iraqi Civilians

SSRIs and Columbine: Michael Moore Rethinks Bowling for Columbine: were

31/03/07: Video, report and a few home truth's - Reclaiming The Future

UN Security Council Helps Disarm a Prospective Further Victim of U.S. Aggression

Letter to comic releif

Who IS running this bushite nazi liar show?

Has the UK lost its 'edge' in foreign policy?

Morgan Pressel Cinderellas from John Kennedy into Tiger Woods

Hundreds Defy th checkpoints in Nablus

Beyond Munich: The UN Helps Disarm a Prospective Further Victim of US Aggression

A wanton cover-up: No British soldiers found guilty in murder of Iraqi worker

London Protest Over West Bengal Massacre

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