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Basra: An Ignominious Defeat: The UK's Saigon Moment

10-09-2007 12:46 | Iraq | Terror War | World

Last week the British armed forces left Basra Palace, their last base in the Southern Iraqi city, and moved to an airbase outside the city.

Their withdrawal will be followed by the official handover of Basra province sometime in the next few months. Once that is complete, the British will finally leave Iraq.

The British withdrawal has led to a classic propaganda battle over how effective the British were in their four years of occupation.

Occupied Iraq: A Horizontal View

10-09-2007 12:43 | Analysis | Iraq | Terror War | World

A review of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq by Dahr Jamail, Haymarket Books, pp 240.

The War on Lebanon: Stage of a Broader Middle East Military Road-map

It is apparent after careful examination, that there has been longstanding intent to attack Lebanon, Syria, and Iran. Alleged reasons or pretexts are merely a form of justification to implement otherwise unjustifiable intentions and actions. These intentions (mens rea) and the subsequent actions (actus reus), meaning aggression and war, against Lebanon, Syria, and Iran are criminal acts.

BLOOD to greets un-welcomed guests and delegates in Mayfair

This morning an action took place in from of the Mayfair Hotel
where the DSEi conference is taking place from 9 am this morning.

An unidentified substance was spelled out in the pavement around the
entrance and on the walls of the Hotel

!950's Uncle Sam Revisited Newly Reconstructed for a Contemporary Audience.

09-09-2007 20:43 | Analysis | Health | Repression | World

A Tale of Paraphilia, CIA/CIA Proxy Torture, the Churches, the Judiciary, the Medical Profession, Mass Media and Mass Psychosis.

Call for Solidarity - Eviction and Social Cleansing in France

09-09-2007 14:41 | Migration | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Here below is a call for solidarity for a recent treat of eviction of more than 80 families beacause of the
social cleansing for the Rugby World Cup taking place in Paris. As already many evictions experienced
in London for the preparation of the Olympic Degeneration ( an many more evictions to come).

"Fair Play for Housing Rights: Mega-Events, Olympic Games and Housing Rights".
published on 5 June 2007 by the ‘Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions’.

http://www.gamesmonitor.org.uk/node/422

What has made fundamentalism so predominant

09-09-2007 11:33 | Analysis | Terror War | World

Karen Armstrong, the British theologian and author of numerous books on the great religions, has advanced the theory that fundamentalist religion is a response to and product of modern culture. A Catholic nun for seven years, she left her order while studying at Oxford University. She is one of the 18 leading group members of the Alliance of Civilizations, an initiative of the former UN General Secretary Kofi Annan, with the purpose of fighting extremism and furthering dialogue between the Western and Islamic worlds. Andrea Bistrich interviewed her for Share International.

IAEA Chief ElBaradei Seeks Stop to Iran `War Drums'

09-09-2007 08:12 | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

UN atomic agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei called on Iran and the U.S. to give inspectors a chance to reduce tensions over the Islamic Republic's nuclear work.

``I see war drums that are basically saying that the solution is to bomb Iran,'' ElBaradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said today in an interview in Vienna. ``It makes me shudder because some of the rhetoric is a reminder'' of the period before the Iraq war.

Solidarity Campaign Hosts Revolutionary Speakers from Africa

08-09-2007 20:16 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

The African People's Solidarity Committee has launched a campaign to gain support and resources from the white community for the international African liberation movement. The campaign will culminate in mid-October with a series of events across the U.S. featuring speakers from Africa, multi-media presentations and cultural performances. (see www.apscuhuru.org)

National Academy of Sciences Member Calls for 9/11 Investigation

08-09-2007 18:29 | Anti-militarism | World

Exclusive: The New Emmanuel Goldstein - sorry, Tim Osman - sorry, Bin Laden Tape:

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/osamaconfession.htm

Much Love, CIA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10NPDkhhlN4

APEC meeting: Sydney Declaration a Climate Distraction

08-09-2007 17:17 | Analysis | Climate Chaos | Globalisation | World

While thousands of people protested in the streets of Sydney about the war in Iraq, climate change, and civil liberties, the 21 APEC leaders made a fashion statement on the steps of the Opera House, before meeting inside and signing the Sydney Declaration - a statement on climate change, that is being widely criticised by environmentalists and climate activists.

Copenhagen Update September II

08-09-2007 16:12 | Free Spaces | Repression | Social Struggles | World

More news from Copenhagen - 69 peaceful demos totaling thousands of people, US embassy warns against activists and preparations are underway for big squatting action in October.

"Sink MediaSpree!"

08-09-2007 13:30 | Free Spaces | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

"MediaSpree versenken!"
("Sink MediaSpree!")

22.04.2007

Quarter walk / demo in Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain, Mitte (Berlin), against "MediaSpree".

"MediaSpree" is a capitalistic project made by big companies, like "O2", "Anschutz Entertainment Group" (

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschutz_Entertainment_Group ), "MTV", "Universal", ..., to build big, ugly blocks, near by the Spree river who cross 2 "poor" quarters (Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain) in Berlin.

More infos:
www.ms-versenken.org

mediaspreeversenken@no-log.org

Support displaced Palestinian families in Iraq

International concern was first raised by Astrid Van Genderen Stort, a UNHCR spokeswoman in Geneva, who stated in 2005, "They (Palestinians) have been victims of night raids, arbitrary arrests and torture carried out by Iraqi security forces."

Bin Laden: Still Dead After all these Years

08-09-2007 10:22 | Anti-militarism | Other Press | Terror War | World

It hardly comes as a surprise… Osama plans to release “a new video recording … on or before next week’s sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States,” reports the Voice of America, the propaganda unit established by the Office of War Information.

Why was a nuclear-armed bomber allowed to fly over the US?

07-09-2007 22:11 | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

Wednesday’s revelation that a US Air Force B-52 bomber flew over the length of the United States armed with six cruise missiles carrying nuclear warheads has attracted amazingly little media attention.

Fueling rising alcoholism in Iraq

07-09-2007 21:39 | Health | Iraq | Repression | World

"Iraq has one of the worst treatment and follow-up regimes for alcohol abusers in the Middle-East,"

Baloch leaders to convene World Conference ,file case with ICJ

07-09-2007 19:49 | World

Baloch nationalists under the leadership of present king , Khan of Kalat Mr.Mir Suleiman Daud Khan ; are in the final stage to file their case for autonomy of Balochistan in International Court of Justice , Hague .