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"Catastrophic Emergency" in US: Building a Justification for Waging War on Iran

25-06-2007 08:51 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Terror War | World

According to neocon Walid Phares, writing for FrontPageMagazine, Iran and Syria are “involved in a regional campaign to seize as much physical terrain and score as many victories across the Middle East in order to consolidate their strategic posture” before Bush leaves office. Phares’ “Tehran-Damascus axis” is “arming and supplying neo-Taliban and other Jihadi forces in Afghanistan,” stirring up sectarian divisions in Iraq, and “has unleashed two blitzkrieg-like offensives” in Lebanon and Gaza.

troublesome culture, society, and people's choice over borderless economy, trade

25-06-2007 05:27 | Culture | Education | Globalisation | World

how to face great opportunities and challenges of globalized finance, business, labor, resources, wealth, democracy and people's freedom? Talk to 3 provocative thinkers Andre Gunder Frank, Chalmers Johnson, and George Zhibin Gu.

The Neoliberal Catechism

24-06-2007 22:28 | Globalisation | World

Turning away from the state causes old age poverty and endangers life and limb.. The consequences of privatization are faded out in the US and Germany.. Defining freedom as only entrepreneurial freedom and freedom of capital can be veiled very simply.. The majority of the population still holds to balancing measures.

Journalists Witness American Torture

24-06-2007 21:52 | Terror War | World

Two German journalists have stated that they witnessed prisoner abuse while on patrol with troops from the North Carolina based 82nd Airborne Division in Afghanistan.

Is Witness Intimidation Really Legal During Employment Tribunal Proceedings?

24-06-2007 21:05 | Education | Repression | Workers' Movements | World

The Crown Prosecution Service has taken up and immediately dropped a case of alleged witness intimidation against high level officials at Kingston University on the grounds that no crime had taken place, since the acts occurred in connection with Employment Tribunal proceedings. Can it really be the case that Witness Intimidation is, in effect, perfectly legal when it occurs against parties to an Employment Tribunal? Could Parliament really have meant for it to be that way when they wrote the Criminal Justice and Police Act of 2001?

US JUdiciary CVorrupted By fbi and cia

24-06-2007 19:23 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

The following report presents evidence of the total corruption of the judiciary of the uSA by the intelligence agencies of the united states of america.

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They’ll Break the Bad News on 9/11: FRANK RICH; A Vice President Without Borders

24-06-2007 14:46 | Anti-militarism | World

THE COMPLETE ARTICLES WITH ALL HYPERLINKS AND MORE

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Amnesty International vigil and sleep out in Edinburgh Friday June 22nd 2007

Some photos from the Amnesty International sleep out in Edinburgh for refugees. There is a link to more photos from the sleep out in Birmingham.

Sacco-Vanzetti 80th anniversary approaches

23-06-2007 19:40 | History | Repression | Workers' Movements | World

23 August 2007 will be the 80th anniversary of the state murder of Niccola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Italian-American anarchist militants, they were convicted of murder during the 'red scare' by a prosecutor who didn't hesitate to use their radicalism to bias the jury against them and before a prejudiced judge.

Lines of Hunger.... East London's answer to Glastonbury 1 O'Clock Sat 23 June07

23-06-2007 10:23 | Analysis | Globalisation | World

Glastonbury yesterday did not mark a world wide movement for ending poverty. Yet poverty was the theme of the speech given on the same day in the US by John Edwards, one of the Democratic contenders for the office of president there. And today's print edition of the Independent [London UK] is leading with the theme of food scarcity across the globe. With rising population numbers globally and massive immigration of the poverty-affected people towards the 'West and North', poverty is the bigger challenge than any other today...So what is going on in Brick Lane London E1 about it today?

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Mammoth electoral fraud in Philippines elections: Padding and shaving

23-06-2007 08:07 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Nearly three weeks after election day, there are still no definitive results for the Philippine elections to the Senate and House of Representatives. Counting is still continuing and in a number of provinces it has not even begun. This has nothing to do with inefficiency and everything to do with ballot-rigging. The Philippines is one of the most corrupt ‘democracies’ in the world.

New Genoa G8 video The Diaz raid, July 2001

23-06-2007 02:08 | Indymedia | Repression | Social Struggles | World

This revised edition video shows the opening moments of the Diaz raid at the end of the Genoa G8 in July of 2001. Over 300 police took part in the raid, expecting to find violent protesters.

What they found were 3 journalists and 90 environmentalists, social workers and pacifists. In what can only be described as a bloody massacre, 62 people were hospitalized. Some with life threatening injuries.

China To Drop Iraq’s Debt In Hope Of $700m Oil Deal

22-06-2007 22:01 | World

China has announced the cancellations of the debt owed from Iraq to the Chinese government and have promised to aid the reconstruction of the country and help rebuild its economy.

This Week in Palestine – Week 25 2007

22-06-2007 17:31 | Palestine | World

This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org, for June 16 through 22, 2007.

Nigerian general strike

22-06-2007 16:02 | Sheffield | World

General strike to escalate if demands not met

Who Frees Us From Capital?

22-06-2007 12:21 | Globalisation | World

Whole continents bowed to the Washington Consensus in the hope of growth and prosperity..The World Bank must end its embittered attack on distribution policy. Privatization awakened false hopes.. Evo Morales in Bolivia nationalized the oil and gas economy and raised the monthly minimum wage to $100.. If capitalism is a religion, there are fewer and fewer believers.

Lawyers claim British government approved systematic policy of torture in Iraq

22-06-2007 11:45 | Iraq | Repression | Terror War | World

Lawyers are claiming that the British government approved a systematic policy of torture of detainees in Iraq.

Empire as a Way of Life, Part 9

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 ninth of these seminars and the text upon which it was based. The last seminar has taken place and will be posted to the site when the audio is available.

This seminar, recorded on 15th May 2007 by the L.A. Sound Posse, runs for 44 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
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 4 | mp3 | doc
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 5 | mp3 | doc
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 6 | mp3 | doc
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 7 | mp3 | doc
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 8 | mp3 | doc

Fred Thompson, Please Go Back to Hollywood

21-06-2007 18:57 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

“Fred Thompson, who may join the Republican presidential race, said today that the U.S. and its allies should consider a blockade against Iran before military action to curb the nation’s nuclear ambitions,” reports Bloomberg. “Thompson didn’t give details about his view for a possible blockade or discuss whether it should be limited to naval power or extended to cover Iran’s land borders with Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey or Azerbaijan.”

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The World Bank's Customers Are Disappearing

21-06-2007 12:40 | Globalisation | World

Many developing countries that only gained needed credits on World Bank conditions are poorer today than before. The Good News is that the cartel of creditors is dissolving. The wards of the World Bank are freeing themselves from its coercion. Former debtors threaten to become independent and have their own system.

World Newswire Archive

"Catastrophic Emergency" in US: Building a Justification for Waging War on Iran

troublesome culture, society, and people's choice over borderless economy, trade

The Neoliberal Catechism

Journalists Witness American Torture

Is Witness Intimidation Really Legal During Employment Tribunal Proceedings?

US JUdiciary CVorrupted By fbi and cia

They’ll Break the Bad News on 9/11: FRANK RICH; A Vice President Without Borders

Amnesty International vigil and sleep out in Edinburgh Friday June 22nd 2007

Sacco-Vanzetti 80th anniversary approaches

Lines of Hunger.... East London's answer to Glastonbury 1 O'Clock Sat 23 June07

Mammoth electoral fraud in Philippines elections: Padding and shaving

New Genoa G8 video The Diaz raid, July 2001

China To Drop Iraq’s Debt In Hope Of $700m Oil Deal

This Week in Palestine – Week 25 2007

Nigerian general strike

Who Frees Us From Capital?

Lawyers claim British government approved systematic policy of torture in Iraq

Empire as a Way of Life, Part 9

Fred Thompson, Please Go Back to Hollywood

The World Bank's Customers Are Disappearing

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