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Tara’s Last Stand?

25-07-2007 10:14 | Ecology | World

violence on tara
7 arrests
court case today
urgent help needed

S.I. Activist Imprisoned by the Icelandic State

25-07-2007 01:01 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Repression | World

24 July 2007

The Icelandic government and ALCOA have gained their first political prisoner with their repression of protest against the heavy industry policy.

A twenty three year old British Saving Iceland activist who was arrested today on the action against Rio Tinto-Alcan, has been imprisoned for eight days.

13 arrested at Rio Tinto-Alcan smelter blockade

ICELAND: Today about 20 protesters climbed cranes and blocked access to the Rio Tinto-Alcan smelter in Hafnarfjordur. 13 were arrested and one is still being held hostage by the police in Reykjavik. Saving Iceland has organized a 'summer of dissent' as a part of a campaign against the war-mongering aluminum industry and their subservient pets in Government. Beyond protesting against the devastating exploitation of Iceland's rivers and wilderness for cheap energy, the network is linked to groups with the same corporate enemies in Brazil, Trinidad, South Africa, and India. The struggle continues with Iceland's second Critical Mass this Friday.

Filipino workers slam Arroyo for its consistent failure to clip the jobs crisis

24-07-2007 13:45 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

A dismal failure! This is the verdict of workers belonging to the Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) as they slammed the Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) administration ahead of her State of the Nation Address (SONA) for its consistent failure to clip the jobs crisis.

Syria to Employ Hezbollah Strategy

24-07-2007 09:55 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

It makes certain sense Syria, with its puny military—when stacked up against Israel, armed to the teeth by the United States—and its out-moded Russian tanks and planes, would eventually adopt Hezbollah’s winning strategy, as there is simply no way it can go up against Israel on the battlefield. Naturally, this new development pokes a big hole in the Likudnik and neocon agenda to take out all of Israel’s enemies in turn.

Justice, The Australian Way

24-07-2007 00:09 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Terror War | World

Can you imagine what would happen if Dr Haneef is a white Anglo-Australian detained in India, accused of trafficking in narcotic drugs? Actually, you don’t have to imagine. The entire Indian justice system will be on trial in Australia, accused of corruption and injustice. In Australia, a Guantanamo Bay justice applied to Dr Haneef even with the presumption of innocence.

Emergency laws make extending pre-charge detention unnecessary

23-07-2007 21:54 | Terror War | World

Shadow Home Secretary David Davis told journalists today that anticipated future terror emergencies do not warrant new laws to extend pre-charge detention.

Galloway thrown out after clash in Commons

23-07-2007 21:02 | Iraq | Other Press | Repression | World

Respect MP George Galloway was thrown out of the Commons chamber after repeatedly clashing with Speaker Michael Martin.

not sorry: cops still spinning Menezes execution

23-07-2007 12:57 | Repression | Terror War | World

At the same time as the family of Jean Charles de Menezes were holding a memorial to mark the 2nd anniversary of his death, the cop who devised the Operation Kratos policy which killed him was busy defending her bloody legacy to the press.

Barbara Wilding, now Chief Constable of South Wales Police, told the South Wales Echo: "[Shoot-to-kill is] the most awful title and not one that should ever have been put to that policy. We should have challenged that right from day one."

It's a tough sell, given that the policy is to "identify, locate and neutralise the threat [by] deliver[ing] a critical head shot with 9mm rounds". Another key difference from the normal firearms policy is that a senior officer gives the order to fire, and the marksman must shoot whether or not he sees a threat, a distinction which goes unmentioned in the endless terror-hyping PR pieces, although Police Review had reported this in December 2004: "the Met decided to 'urgently revisit the legal basis' of the anti-terror Operations Kratos and Clydesdale after members of the force's firearms unit laid down their weapons [...] it is understood that they involve senior officers ordering a police marksman to shoot suicide bombers in London [...] the SO19 officers were concerned about their legal position if they were ordered to take a 'head shot' of a suicide bomber."

The Justice4Jean family campaign is holding a public meeting tonight, details below.

Kurdish Journalist, Activist Sentenced To Death In Iran

23-07-2007 11:57 | Iraq | Social Struggles | World

July 19, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Islamic regime of Iran - northwestern Kurdistan Province have condemned two ethnic Kurds to death for acting against the 'country's national security'.

Saving A President

23-07-2007 10:58 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

With 18 months left in office and his presidency foundering, George Bush is like a cornered animal desperate enough to try anything to survive. Surrounded by a dwindling, but still potent, number of hard liners, this article suggests a disturbing scenario ahead that bodes ill for the nation and world if it happens. It appears the Bush administration's scheme involves changing the subject by scare-mongering that may be followed by staging one or more major home-based terror attacks on the order of 9/11, then waging war with Iran on the phony pretext Tehran threatens US and regional security. Further strikes may also be planned against the tribal areas of Pakistan along with backing Israel's intentions against Syria, Hezbollah, and Hamas. These will be ominous developments if they happen as explained above. In an effort to survive and finish out their term in office, George Bush and Dick Cheney may be willing to gamble everything for what, in the end, can't be achieved.

next Disarm DSEi Public Meeting @ rampART London 28th July

Disarm DSEi Public Meeting Saturday 28th July, 2pm-4pm
rampART centre, 15 Rampart Street, London E1 2LA

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=534642&Y=181247&A=Y&Z=1

Tube : Whitechapel, Shadwell, Aldgate, Aldgate East, Tower Gateway
Bus : 15, 115, D3, 100

There will probably be police photographers outside the meeting, don't be intimidated. You might choose to wear a scarf in this unpredictable weather.

Mandar Obedeciende...

23-07-2007 01:40 | Globalisation | Repression | Terror War | World

Only the most malevolent of people can fully ignore in themselves empathy for their fellow man. Even when clouded by war and prejudice, poverty and religion, the massive majority of us, deep down, know right from wrong at the base level. Why then does conflict like the one described below continue? Not for freedom's sake, that's for sure...

Neocons Set Stage for Pakistan Attack

22-07-2007 23:28 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Terror War | World

Like a Frankenstein monster that escapes the castle and preys on innocent villagers, “militants” of the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan, itself a creation of the doctor Frankenstein relationship between Pakistan’s ISI and the CIA, are out of control, thus prompting the U.S. to threaten invasion.

26hr WTC security breach 2 days before 9/11

22-07-2007 16:28 | Analysis | History | Terror War | World

British IT engineer Scott Forbes was working in New York's World Trade Center in September 2001 and lost 89 of his work colleagues in the 9/11 attacks. This is a 25 minute mp3 interview with him for free dissemination... ..

Agent Orange online petition

22-07-2007 13:30 | World

Asking for support for the victims of Agent Orange the chemical used by US forces in Vietnam over a ten-year period from 1961-1971

The Militarization and Annexation of North America: SSP Unmasked

22-07-2007 11:44 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Repression | World

Besides the Bush administration's imperial aims and permanent war on the world, add the one at home below the radar. Its weapons include the WTO, NAFTA, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), FBI, CIA, NSA, NORTHCOM, militarized state and local police, National Guard forces, paramilitary mercenaries like Blackwater USA, and all other repressive instruments of state power and control. They target the people of three nations slowly becoming one headquartered in Washington.

Letter to the Philippine President on widespread violations of human, democratic

22-07-2007 11:25 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

The Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) hereby raises to your office as Chief Executive of the land our concerns about the reports that at the International Labor Organization Conference Committee on Standards meeting held in Geneva, the Philippine representative rejected said committee's recommendation for the ILO to send a high-level mission to the Philippines to look into the case of involuntarily disappeared and murdered trade union activists and leaders.

More Repression In Oaxaca

Brutal beating to activists by the fascist and criminal police. Comrade left in the brink of death.

Bush Executive Order: Criminalizing the Antiwar Movement

21-07-2007 11:30 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Repression | World

The Executive Order criminalizes the antiwar movement. It is intended to "blocking property" of US citizens and organizations actively involved in the peace movement. It allows the Department of Defense to interfere in financial affairs and instruct the Treasury to "block the property" and/or confiscate/ freeze the assets of "Certain Persons" involved in antiwar activities. It targets those "Certain Persons" in America, including civil society organizatioins, who oppose the Bush Administration's "peace and stability" program in Iraq, characterized, in plain English, by an illegal occupation and the continued killing of innocent civilians.

World Newswire Archive

Tara’s Last Stand?

S.I. Activist Imprisoned by the Icelandic State

13 arrested at Rio Tinto-Alcan smelter blockade

Filipino workers slam Arroyo for its consistent failure to clip the jobs crisis

Syria to Employ Hezbollah Strategy

Justice, The Australian Way

Emergency laws make extending pre-charge detention unnecessary

Galloway thrown out after clash in Commons

not sorry: cops still spinning Menezes execution

Kurdish Journalist, Activist Sentenced To Death In Iran

Saving A President

next Disarm DSEi Public Meeting @ rampART London 28th July

Mandar Obedeciende...

Neocons Set Stage for Pakistan Attack

26hr WTC security breach 2 days before 9/11

Agent Orange online petition

The Militarization and Annexation of North America: SSP Unmasked

Letter to the Philippine President on widespread violations of human, democratic

More Repression In Oaxaca

Bush Executive Order: Criminalizing the Antiwar Movement

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