UK Anti-militarism Newswire Archive
Brighton Demo in support of the Arab Uprisings - Friday 9th June
09-06-2011 22:29
Outside Santander opposite Churchill SqBradley Manning Comedy Night Benefit - Monday 13 June
09-06-2011 19:59
NATO’s terror bombing of Libya
09-06-2011 14:13
The relentless bombardment of Tripoli over the past 48 hours represents a new stage in one of the most naked acts of imperialist aggression since the wars of conquest launched by Hitler and Mussolini in the 1930s.NATO political cult - Bilderberg convenes in St. Moritz, Switzerland
09-06-2011 09:57
Prevent: A Totally Illiberal Strategy
08-06-2011 12:21
I have now ploughed through all 120 pages odd of the Government’s new Prevent Strategy, which manages to be even more illiberal and more turgid than the original. It claims that the last Prevent Strategy was misguided – but for all the wrong reasons. Rather amusingly, it starts with a message of endorsement from Lord Carlile – who also endorsed the last strategy which it criticises so strongly. The truth is, Carlile will endorse anything for any government which gives him status – he loves status – “It has my considered and strong support” he concludes his endorsement – you have to imagine saying it with marbles in your mouth and a degree of insufferable pomposity – “It has my considered and strong support”- wanker.
UG#553 - US Interventionism, Then and Now (Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali)
08-06-2011 09:34
raisin a stink at the baby show
06-06-2011 21:43
Despite ridiculously high levels of security, anti arms trade activists managed to enter the recent Baby Show at the NEC in Birmingham. The backstage area of the main stage and the stands of principal sponsors were attacked with stink bombs.Nine countries gather to create Latin American Union of News Agencies
06-06-2011 19:27
“The main element for us is the possibility of building an information reference for the whole continent, capable of looking at the reality of the Latin American and Caribbean nations with our own eyes, not with the eyes of the North or Europe,” Fernandez said.
The Obama surveillance state
05-06-2011 13:10
Libya: no signs of 'rebel' successes !
04-06-2011 22:01
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/ for more information from Wayne Madsen on Libya and other important issues .......
baby show actions
04-06-2011 06:02
This is a round up of campaigning against the Baby Show / Clarion Events in Birmingham at the end of May.Mindanao, Philippines: Community wants GPH-NDF to leave them in peace
03-06-2011 14:55
'The Floodgates of Anarchy' and the fan of a government that boils people to death
02-06-2011 19:36
Anarchist Stuart Christie and his peculiar literary bedfellow, the neo-conservative Steve Schwartz.Demo in support of Syrian protestors - Old Steine War Memorial in Brighton
02-06-2011 09:45
Old Steine War Memorial between 4-6pm on Friday June 3Netanyahu’s speech to the US Congress: Racism, war-mongering and fabrication
01-06-2011 21:06
Netanyahu devoted a considerable part of his speech to a call for more aggressive action against Iran, which is surrounded by U.S. military power and has been subjected to several rounds of United States and European Union economic sanctions.
He called for a policy stipulating “that all options are on the table.” This position, shared by the Obama administration, is a coded way of saying that Iran could be the target of military attack, including the use of nuclear weapons.
Obama's UK-fest : Vision of a war without end
31-05-2011 23:15
As the U.S., and British body bags returned from Afghanistan continue to mount, the BBC's audience learned that troop levels had been: "plussed up" and that: "the Taliban is now back on its heels." The occasional minor glitch of entire prisons inmates escaping, U.S., bases under attack, supply convoys routinely incinerated in industrial numbers (he didn't put it quite like that) had been because the U.S., had been: "distracted by the war in Iraq."
Woman protester brutally attacked for disrupting Netanyahu's speech to US Congre
31-05-2011 20:30
Abileah interrupted Netanyahu with a banner that said “Occupying Land Is Indefensible” and shouting, “No more occupation, stop Israel war crimes, equal rights for Palestinians, occupation is indefensible.” She rose up to speak out just after the Prime Minister talked about the youth around the world rising up for more democracy.
As this 28-year-old Jewish American woman spoke out for the human rights of Palestinians, other members of the audience—wearing badges from the conference of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee—brutally attacked her. The police then dragged her out of the Gallery and took her to the George Washington University Hospital, where she was being treating for neck and shoulder injuries.
Monday 30th May in the Jordan Valley
30-05-2011 19:30
Heavy military training today in the ValleyManchester students chase arms company off campus
29-05-2011 10:12
Representatives of BAE were invited by the Mathematics Department to take part in an “industrial maths workshop” , intended to provide students with “experience in engaging with industry”. An email sent around the department also noted that another intention of the day was for the arms dealer “to fund a (sic) MSc project in which the supervisor will receive £500 to his/he r research budget”.
Reforming Our Understanding of Violence
28-05-2011 09:46
Structural violence is the effect of a systemic imbalance in society that prefers the interests of some over others. Its dynamics are less visible than that of direct violence, where the causes are generally easier to identify. The use of direct violence is mostly a state affair manifested in armed conflict. The participation of the general population is predominantly one of inaction. Structural violence, however, tends to involve the participation of the general population which is both a cause for concern and optimism.