World Anti-militarism Newswire Archive

STOP THE WALL. June 5th, Naksa Day

03-06-2004 11:40 | Anti-militarism | World

June 5th, Naksa Day

No Occupation! No Apartheid! No Expulsion!

UNRWA Condemns Rafah School Shooting

03-06-2004 11:34 | Anti-militarism | World

UNRWA Press Release 2 June 2004
UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East-Headquarters Gaza
website: www.unrwa.org
Press Release No. HQ/G/18/2004
2 June, 2004

UNRWA Condemns Rafah School Shooting

Abuse of Iraqi prisoners provokes anti-gay hate among Arabs and Muslims

The US military’s use of homosexuality to humiliate Iraqi prisoners has been condemned as “homophobic sadism” by the gay rights group OutRage! It says the officially sanctioned culture of homophobia in the US armed forces is directly to blame.

Activist Jailed for Breach of the Peace

02-06-2004 13:17 | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

On 1 June, 2004, Ludd, a For Mother Earth Scotland activist handed himself in to the police. A hearing was anticipated on 2 June, 1994. He is spending this time in jail for refusing to pay a £550 fine, imposed on him for opposing Government’s Weapons of Mass Destruction. He was charged only with of a breach of the peace. He was immediately taken to jail for 28 days on an extract warrant.

Mistakes and Apologies

31-05-2004 21:36 | Anti-militarism | World

Mistakes that aren't mistakes in reality, but part of a strategy of US global domination and apologies for imperialism that are insincere or ludicrous.

The Empire's Fiasco

29-05-2004 16:36 | Anti-militarism | World

"The loud-mouthed goals of the imperial presidency are already buried in the desert sand of Iraq. The world is more complicated and contradictory than these men thought. The world cannot be controlled militarily. The military cannot be made the lasting foundation of politics.. Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are already guilty.." translated from German

George W. Bush master of ceremony for Iraqi killing fields in Belgium

29-05-2004 09:36 | Anti-militarism | World

Gent, Belgium, May 28 2004 - The sun is blazing near one of the main railway stations in Belgium. A bride and groom sit still on a chair with red stained blood running down their white face. They are death. Thirty corpses with white masks wrapped in blankets lay around the just-married couple. Many travellers at the Gent railway station know immediately that this street-theatre is referring to the innocent Iraqi civilians killed during a wedding party by the occupying U.S. forces in Iraq during the night of May 19th 2004.

Security is Indivisible

27-05-2004 16:31 | Anti-militarism | World

The policy of preventive war has brought only chaos and disaster. The failure of this policy of Washington and its allies can be referred back to two fundamental errors. The first concerns the basic assumption that terrorism is the real sickness while it is the symptom of an evil. The second error is in overrating military weapons.

Online protest

27-05-2004 15:59 | Anti-militarism | London | World

Hi, anyone seen this yet?

http://www.livemarch.com/marchHome.jsp?marchID=19

Sounds like a good idea. they have a website as well -

http://geocities.com/tellbushtheworldsaysno

Illumination Without Batteries: Of Gas, Glow Sticks And War

This essay is a reflexive commentary on the current war in Iraq and the US military's abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.

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FREEDOM SUMMER PALESTINE 2004 STARTS ON JUNE 25

27-05-2004 10:55 | Anti-militarism | World

(For UK information visit ISM LONDON

http://www.ism-london.org)

Freedom Summer Palestine 2004 is conceived to be 56-day campaign (one day for every year of displacement and dispossession) against occupation, whereby Palestinians mobilizing with the participation and support of their international supporters, will draw the attention of the world to the true nature of the situation on the ground in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and leave no doubt in anyone’s mind that the Palestinian struggle is a just struggle for dignity, human rights and freedom.

America's most enduring legacy to Iraqis

25-05-2004 16:59 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

The White House has announced (news, wire services) that the U.S. will pay to have Abu Ghraib prison demolished and replaced with a new maximum security prison, and in addition will construct an entire system of new state of the art prisons throughout Iraq.

Roger Morris: A Call to Conscience

Please circulate this article widely, to friends, family, lists, the papers (Guardian and Independent?) and American Embassies, MPs...

Ron Cobb Cartoons from 1968

So, what's changed in 36 years...

Go To Hell Bush!!!

25-05-2004 02:24 | Anti-militarism | World

European leaders are now under fire by the Bush to bail his ass out of Iraq. The Bush administration is seeking support for a UN resolution for a US led multination security force to uphold order in Iraq. Over sixty years ago the leaders of France and England confronted another madman in Munich. Instead of standing firm they agreed to sell out Czechoslovakia after Hitler assured them that he had no aims for further expansion. However, before the war was over Hitler had conquered all of Europe. Tyrants are never satisfied.

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Abu Ghraib Abuse Scandal gets worse

24-05-2004 16:38 | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

click on the links below-

More On Torture Of Women In Iraq

23-05-2004 23:46 | Anti-militarism | Gender | World

RE: Black Women's Rape Action Project; Women Against Rape
More photographs have come to light, which have been sent out recently with our statement to women legislators in US and UK about the rape of Iraqi women by the military. Please demand an answer from your MP, and send them our statement (www.womenagainstrape.net), and send us their reply.

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On that Iraqi wedding party and more

23-05-2004 15:28 | Anti-militarism | World

Here are more reports on Iraq not highlighted in our corporate press. Please spread them around. Jamie
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ZNet | Iraq
Wedding Party Massacre in Iraq
by Rory McCarthy; UK Guardian; May 21, 2004

Mahdi Nawaf shows photographs of his family members - father, wife and six children - killed in a US attack on what is claimed was a sleeping village Photograph: Anna Niedringhaus/AP
The wedding feast was finished and the women had just led the young bride and groom away to their marriage tent for the night when Haleema Shihab heard the first sounds of the fighter jets screeching through the sky above.

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Petition to Stop US Military Aid to Israel (please sign)

21-05-2004 20:01 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Repression | World

Please sign the petition below at:

http://www.stop-us-military-aid-to-israel.net/petition

Tajikistan: Strategic U.S. Victory, Tactical Setback

21-05-2004 17:48 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | World

US Strategists will hail Russia'a withdrawal from Tajikistan as yet another Cold War victory. But while politicians pat each other on the back, all sorts of smugglers -- from drug dealers to militants -- will be hiking the mountain paths along the Afghan-Tajik border, headed toward the world beyond.