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Australia: NSW: Sydney political scapegoats plead not guilty

31-05-2007 03:05 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

At a committal hearing earlier this year, it was alleged that police went on a fishing expedition of a few suburbs to find alleged material you'd pick up at the shops or on the internet.

Balibo, 32 years of Australian Cowardice

31-05-2007 01:02 | Analysis | Culture | Other Press | World

The infamous Balibo murders perfectly illustrate Australian cowardice and Indonesian barbarity. It should be stated from the outset that the truth of the cold-blooded murder of the Balibo five has been known since the day of the crime in 1975. The cringing attitude displayed by successive Australian governments toward the barbaric Indonesians has made Australia a laughing stock in Asia. All successive Labor and Liberal governments that perpetuated the lie of a tragic accident (caught in a cross-fire) are guilty of criminal suppression of the truth and criminal collusion with the murderers -- grubby oil deals notwithstanding.

UK lecturers to vote on Israel boycott

30-05-2007 22:43 | Anti-racism | World

Note that Livingstone doesn't mentiona any real alternatives.

There is no 'peace process' while Zionist Extremism holds Israel hostage to its will, and the American Neo-Fascists aligned with them are driving it - while telling Zionists behind closed doors that any overtures against Israel are "just for show".

Zionists Assured US Pressure on Israel "All For Show"

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IE16Ak04.html

UN Identifies Israeli Violations of Int'l Law in Gaza

30-05-2007 22:41 | Anti-racism | World

Under the Olmert Extremists, Israel has become a thousandfold worse than any Bogeyman they can scare up to frighten the public into acquiescence.

AIPAC Intervenes on Iran-Congress Folds

30-05-2007 22:40 | Terror War | World

The entire RepubliCrat Party is daring the People to stand up and actually DO something about this. Until they do, these Neo-Fascists are just going to keep making things worse.

And recent statements suggest that they may be ready to pull off another "911". Will YOU be their next victim?

Dreaming of a True Memorial Day

30-05-2007 22:38 | Anti-militarism | History | World

I took a visiting friend to view the tomb of Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King. We went inside Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Dr. King once preached, and listened to him give his own oration on how he would like to be remembered:

"If any of you are around when I have to meet my day, I don't want a long funeral. And if you get somebody to deliver the eulogy, tell them not to talk too long. Every now and then I wonder what I want them to say. Tell them not to mention that I have a Nobel Peace Prize, which isn't important. Tell them not to mention that I have three or four hundred other awards, that's not important. Tell them not to mention where I went to school. I'd like somebody to mention that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to give his life serving others. I'd like for somebody to say that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to love somebody. I want you to be able to say that day, that I did try to feed the hungry. And I want you to be able to say that day, that I did try, in my life, to clothe those who were naked. I want you to say, on that day, that I did try, in my life, to visit those who were in prison. I want you to say that I tried to love and serve humanity.

"Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice; say that I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind."

Bush decrees new sanctions against Sudan

30-05-2007 21:40 | Analysis | World

President Bush Tuesday announced that his administration is imposing a fresh set of economic sanctions on Sudan, claiming the measures are designed to pressure the government in Khartoum to halt the bloodshed in the country’s western-most province of Darfur.

Black Agenda Report.

30-05-2007 18:41 | Repression | World

It is not news.

How We’re Animalistic — in Good Ways and Bad: MAUREEN DOWD - Neocon Animals

30-05-2007 18:10 | World

THE COMPLETE ARTICLE AND MORE

Indymedia G8 Timeline online!

30-05-2007 14:15 | G8 Germany 2007 | Globalisation | Indymedia | World

From now on, you can find verified, up-to-date news also via the new Timeline webpage:

http://de.indymedia.org/ticker/en for English and

http://de.indymedia.org/ticker for German.

New Useful G8 Info Online!

30-05-2007 13:38 | G8 Germany 2007 | Globalisation | World

The Interventionist Left's (IL) website has been updated with new and important info. Take a moment to check it out!

Week of actions against NATO in Sweden

30-05-2007 11:53 | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

The 9th - 14th of May saw an intense week of actions against NATO Response Force in Göteborg, Sweden. NATO:s new response force NRF, was started on initiative of Donald Rumsfeld, and can be deployed within 5 days to, among other things, combat terrorists.
The response force held a huge naval exercise in the Baltic Sea at the end of May, and 37 ships stopped in Göteborg beforehand for preparations.

The G-8 Meeting...

Perhaps someone with one of those new computer programs developed by Bill Gates could calculate the resources being used for war expenses at the cost of education, healthcare and culture for humanity...

Afghanistan: war crimes amnesty prepares further atrocities

30-05-2007 09:46 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

US forces continued to deny basic rights to some of around 500 detainees at its Bagram base accused of links with the Taliban and Al Qaeda, Amnesty noted, and the Afghan security forces—to whom US/NATO forces routinely hand over detainees—were “accused of illegal detentions and torture and other ill-treatment.” Meanwhile local officials/commanders, some of whom ran their own prisons, were never held accountable for their actions, Amnesty said.

Republican Candidates Employ “al-Qaeda” Fairy Tales

30-05-2007 08:29 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Iraq | World

Like paranoid schizophrenic neglecting his meds, Senator John McCain tells us Osama will get us if the United States pulls out of Iraq.

Bush supporters, soon enough to lend support to McCain, Guiliani, or Romney, are so inculcated with impossible and fantastic Brothers Grimm stories about turban-wearing terrorists they have completely surrendered their higher reasoning faculties, that is if they had any to begin with.

Bush's New Middle East

29-05-2007 21:43 | Analysis | Palestine | Terror War | World

" ... under the sky
without hope
the self inside me dies ...

I will always be from nowhere
Without a face, without a history
from nowhere."

"Traveler without Luggage" by Abdul-Wahab Al-Bayyati

Saturday Inspiration: Peace is Possible

29-05-2007 20:14 | SOCPA | Repression | Terror War | World

Peace is Possible - People do Care

R.S.V.P. - Saturdays - Parliament Square

Amazing 911 truth video

29-05-2007 17:26 | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

911 truth activism

Deaths In Other Nations Since WW2 Due To US Interventions

29-05-2007 16:41 | Anti-militarism | History | Terror War | World

After the catastrophic attacks of September 11 2001 monumental sorrow and a feeling of desperate and understandable anger began to permeate the American psyche. A few people at that time attempted to promote a balanced perspective by pointing out that the United States had also been responsible for causing those same feelings in people in other nations, but they produced hardly a ripple. Although Americans understand in the abstract the wisdom of people around the world empathizing with the suffering of one another, such a reminder of wrongs committed by our nation got little hearing and was soon overshadowed by an accelerated "war on terrorism."

But we must continue our efforts to develop understanding and compassion in the world. Hopefully, this article will assist in doing that by addressing the question “How many September 11ths has the United States caused in other nations since WWII?” This theme is developed in this report which contains an estimated numbers of such deaths in 37 nations as well as brief explanations of why the U.S. is considered culpable.

The causes of wars are complex. In some instances nations other than the U.S. may have been responsible for more deaths, but if the involvement of our nation appeared to have been a necessary cause of a war or conflict it was considered responsible for the deaths in it. In other words they probably would not have taken place if the U.S. had not used the heavy hand of its power. The military and economic power of the United States was crucial.

This study reveals that U.S. military forces were directly responsible for about 10 to 15 million deaths during the Korean and Vietnam Wars and the two Iraq Wars. The Korean War also includes Chinese deaths while the Vietnam War also includes fatalities in Cambodia and Laos.

The American public probably is not aware of these numbers and knows even less about the proxy wars for which the United States is also responsible. In the latter wars there were between nine and 14 million deaths in Afghanistan, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East Timor, Guatemala, Indonesia, Pakistan and Sudan.

But the victims are not just from big nations or one part of the world. The remaining deaths were in smaller ones which constitute over half the total number of nations. Virtually all parts of the world have been the target of U.S. intervention.

The overall conclusion reached is that the United States most likely has been responsible since WWII for the deaths of between 20 and 30 million people in wars and conflicts scattered over the world.

To the families and friends of these victims it makes little difference whether the causes were U.S. military action, proxy military forces, the provision of U.S. military supplies or advisors, or other ways, such as economic pressures applied by our nation. They had to make decisions about other things such as finding lost loved ones, whether to become refugees, and how to survive.

And the pain and anger is spread even further. Some authorities estimate that there are as many as 10 wounded for each person who dies in wars. Their visible, continued suffering is a continuing reminder to their fellow countrymen.

It is essential that Americans learn more about this topic so that they can begin to understand the pain that others feel. Someone once observed that the Germans during WWII “chose not to know.” We cannot allow history to say this about our country. The question posed above was “How many September 11ths has the United States caused in other nations since WWII?” The answer is: possibly 10,000.

Anti-deportation/anti-racist protest/stall, 16 June 2007, 12pm

29-05-2007 12:17 | Anti-racism | Migration | Manchester | World

There will be another protest and campaign stall on Market Street in Manchester city centre from 12pm. All campaigns and organisations are invited. Defend all asylum seekers! No to deportation!

World Newswire Archive

Australia: NSW: Sydney political scapegoats plead not guilty

Balibo, 32 years of Australian Cowardice

UK lecturers to vote on Israel boycott

UN Identifies Israeli Violations of Int'l Law in Gaza

AIPAC Intervenes on Iran-Congress Folds

Dreaming of a True Memorial Day

Bush decrees new sanctions against Sudan

Black Agenda Report.

How We’re Animalistic — in Good Ways and Bad: MAUREEN DOWD - Neocon Animals

Indymedia G8 Timeline online!

New Useful G8 Info Online!

Week of actions against NATO in Sweden

The G-8 Meeting...

Afghanistan: war crimes amnesty prepares further atrocities

Republican Candidates Employ “al-Qaeda” Fairy Tales

Bush's New Middle East

Saturday Inspiration: Peace is Possible

Amazing 911 truth video

Deaths In Other Nations Since WW2 Due To US Interventions

Anti-deportation/anti-racist protest/stall, 16 June 2007, 12pm

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