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Palestine Today 06292010

29-06-2010 19:17 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org for Tuesday, June 29 2010.

EDO decommissioners verdict imminent

28-06-2010 22:48 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | South Coast | World

The judge has started his summing up of the EDO decommissioners court case.

Masked intruders storm and sabotage UN Gaza kids' camp

28-06-2010 14:15 | Flotilla to Gaza | Anti-militarism | Palestine | World

No claim of responsiblity yet, but Islamists suspected.

Did 9/11 justify the war in Afghanistan?

28-06-2010 10:57 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | World

There are many other questions that have been, and should be, asked about this war, but in this essay, I focus on only one: Did the 9/11 attacks justify the war in Afghanistan?

This question has thus far been considered off-limits, not to be raised in polite company, and certainly not in the mainstream media. It has been permissible, to be sure, to ask whether the war during the past several years has been justified by those attacks so many years ago. But one has not been allowed to ask whether the original invasion was justified by the 9/11 attacks.

BP Hires CIA General Counsel Stanley Sporkin As Lobbyist

Poster's note:
Stanley Sporkin was General Counsel for the CIA 5 years under William Casey during
the Iran Contra years. This is the same CIA which with MI6 responded to Iran's
sovereign right to nationalize oil by overthrowing her elected government in 1953-4 and
installing the torturing Shah of Iran and BP. Next Sporkin, like
several other CIA employees, was moved DIRECTLY into federal
judgeships through Orrin Hatch, Mormon Republican from Utah,
then head of the Judiciary Committee.

Americans Prosecuted as Terrorists

Americans in Gaza Freedom Flotilla Prosecuted as Terrorists ......... AMERICA is still embarrassed by the infamous McCarthy Hearings which ruined the lives of thousands of innocents during the Fifties. Anyone then, suspected of being linked to communism was arrested, interrogated and either imprisoned or forced to give names of others suspected of communist tendencies. And so the fear and intimidation spread like a great plague across the USA. Names were blacklisted, careers and lives ruined as the authorities ruthlessly traded on peoples’ fears, paranoia and weaknesses.

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Kick Israel out of European football

25-06-2010 09:38 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Terror War | World

Time to kick Israel out of European football ...... “The lesson of South Africa is that the sports boycott helped change the old politics.” – Jim Murphy, Labour MP for East Renfrewshire. “It is a question of boycotting racism, not sport, precisely in order to restore to sport all the magnanimity of its first purpose.” – Amadou Mahtar-M’Bow, Director -General of UNESCO to the International Conference on Sports Boycott Against South Africa in 1985. “The sights in the territories even turn the stomach of someone who grew up under apartheid. The occupation reminds me of the darkest days of apartheid, but we never saw tanks and planes firing at a civilian population. It’s a monstrousness I’d never seen before.” – Ronnie Kasrils, South Africa’s minister for intelligence services in 2007.

After Lula: New cannidate of the left in Brazil takes lead

24-06-2010 15:12 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

After Lula: New cannidate of the left in Brazil takes lead

"Rousseff has the support of 40 percent of those surveyed during the past three days, compared with 35 percent for the opposition candidate Serra, Veja reported on its website."

Brazil’s 2010 Elections, Part 2: Dilma Rousseff: Our Choice

22-06-2010 16:32 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

"If elected, Dilma would likely carry on many of the same policies that Lula has advanced. This means a strong role in the economy for state companies and the continued development of Brazil’s social programs. Dilma would also be likely to maintain Lula’s foreign policy strategy of creating alliances with other developing nations, especially China, India, and Russia, as well as the friendly outreach to bordering countries that has made Brazil the leading nation in South America. Dilma, like Lula, would probably be generally friendly towards the US and the rest of the first world, but she would probably also be unafraid to take an independent stance on many key issues. Brazil’s continued opposition to US plans for renewed sanctions against Iran is an example of the type of independent stance that Dilma would likely continue. She is also likely to continue Brazil’s push for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council."

ISRAELI SHIP BLOCKED FROM UNLOADING in USA!

21-06-2010 20:58 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Social Struggles | World

Protesters in Oakland Cal. successfully block unloading of an Israeli ship (Zim Line) in protest over the blockade of Gaza & attack on the Free Gaza flotilla.

Independence FROM America Day, July 4, at Menwith Hill

21-06-2010 18:44 | Anti-militarism | Sheffield | World

Come and join Mark Thomas and friends at THE Independence gig of the year. With live music, great company and good food.

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Towards an Economy of Plunder

21-06-2010 14:15 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

"Towards an Economy of Plunder

The US media, in chorus, has upheld the "recent discovery" of Afghanistan's mineral wealth as "a solution" to the development of the country's war torn economy as well as a means to eliminating poverty. The 2001 US-NATO invasion and occupation has set the stage for their appropriation by Western mining and energy conglomerates.

The war on Afghanistan is a profit driven "resource war."

Open Letter To The British Government Regarding The Gaza Flotilla

Mr Vidler,
Your response to my email is shocking and apalling. Given that we each must take responsibility for what we do, even when done on behalf of others, I would go so far as to say that your action in writing it, even on behalf of your government calls into question your personal integrity. I will not so much as extend the polite courtesy of thanking you for response as this perhaps also is a matter of personal integrity. The rest of this correspondence is addressed to the other recipients referred to above and the government generally.

Turkish Air force attack ' killed ' Three and wounded several Kurdish citizen

20-06-2010 11:55 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Terror War | World

One week after shelling and bombing the Kurdish villages by Iran's islamic troops,

Yesterday 8 pm, Turkish air forces has bombarded the [Sidikan, Arbil province] .
Due to heavy bombarding villages one young girl killed and several others including children wounded.

Cambridge EDL break a Union Jack and Issue 'Threats'

Amusing footage emerges online of the small number of EDL supporters at last Monday's Anglian Regiment March.

The role of "mental imagery": Giving a "human face" to racism, genocide and war

For the corporate elites to continue practicing genocidal predation for power and profit in developing countries, it is necessary that the predation be cast in a false cover of humanitarian aid, democratic development, solidarity, progress, and the like, and that the most overtly murderous practices be cast as necessary in a fight against evil.

If sufficient care is not taken to secure this cover of mental imagery, then the bosses’ actions will appear more to be what they are, murderous and psychopathic, and the bosses’ children may not feel comfortable sitting on the bosses’ laps and the bosses’ partners may not feel comfortable sleeping in the same bed…

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Suu Kyi marks birthday; world remembers

19-06-2010 11:48 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Workers' Movements | World

RANGOON—From tree planting in Burma (Myanmar) to a solidarity rally in Washington and flash mobs in Britain, people around the world are holding events to mark the 65th birthday today of Aung San Suu Kyi.

Five US soldiers charged with murdering civilians in Afghanistan

19-06-2010 10:12 | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

A total of five US soldiers are now charged with murder in the killing of three civilians in Afghanistan earlier this year, according to a statement issued by the Army Wednesday. Three soldiers were charged Tuesday, joining two charged earlier this month. All could face the death penalty if convicted.

Brazil and Iran: Our motives and the bullying trio

17-06-2010 21:56 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | World

If it was possible to blatantly lie about Saddam Hussein’s "weapons of mass destruction" and then devastate Iraq, if they can lie shamelessly about the Iranian nuclear program and threaten Iran with a military strike, what is to ensure that the same thing will not happen to Brazil tomorrow? Brazil has a duty to defend the rights of Iranians today, lest we endanger our own rights in the future.

"The war is worth waging":Afghanistan's vast reserves of minerals and naturalgas

The 2001 bombing and invasion of Afghanistan has been presented to World public opinion as a "Just War", a war directed against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, a war to eliminate "Islamic terrorism" and instate Western style democracy. The economic dimensions of the "Global War on Terrorism" are rarely mentioned.

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World Anti-militarism Newswire Archive

Palestine Today 06292010

EDO decommissioners verdict imminent

Masked intruders storm and sabotage UN Gaza kids' camp

Did 9/11 justify the war in Afghanistan?

BP Hires CIA General Counsel Stanley Sporkin As Lobbyist

Americans Prosecuted as Terrorists

Kick Israel out of European football

After Lula: New cannidate of the left in Brazil takes lead

Brazil’s 2010 Elections, Part 2: Dilma Rousseff: Our Choice

ISRAELI SHIP BLOCKED FROM UNLOADING in USA!

Independence FROM America Day, July 4, at Menwith Hill

Towards an Economy of Plunder

Open Letter To The British Government Regarding The Gaza Flotilla

Turkish Air force attack ' killed ' Three and wounded several Kurdish citizen

Cambridge EDL break a Union Jack and Issue 'Threats'

The role of "mental imagery": Giving a "human face" to racism, genocide and war

Suu Kyi marks birthday; world remembers

Five US soldiers charged with murdering civilians in Afghanistan

Brazil and Iran: Our motives and the bullying trio

"The war is worth waging":Afghanistan's vast reserves of minerals and naturalgas

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