UK Indymedia - UK Terror War Newswire Archive

Kick Israel out of European football

25-06-2010 09:38

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.

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One DEAD in Athens from Bomb explosion in Ministry of Public order

24-06-2010 18:30

next to the office of Mr Hrysohoidis , Minister of public order a bomb explodion in parcel had as result the destruction of most of the 7th floor of the ministry of public order.
Minister Hrysohoidis was not injured but one of his close asociates and partner is Dead..

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26 June:International Day Against Torture:Demo in Support of Rendition Victims

23-06-2010 17:46

26 June is international day in support of victims of torture - please come and support a demonstration outside the US Embassy in Mayfair, London, calling on the US administration to end its policy of kidnap and torture around the world, AKA extraordinary rendition

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Friday, June 25th KFA pickets at South Korean and US Embassies

22-06-2010 08:28

Dear Peace and Progressive Organisations,
The History Society of the DPRK makes the important point that the massacres, war crimes and genocides practiced by barbaric US imperialism and the satellite "UN Forces". against the Korean people between 1950-1953, put the atrocities of the Hitler Nazi clique into the shade.

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Towards an Economy of Plunder

21-06-2010 14:15

"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."

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

20-06-2010 11:55

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.

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US and EU impose extra sanctions on Iran

19-06-2010 10:14

The US and European Union (EU) ratchetted up the pressure on Iran over its nuclear programs this week with additional sanctions on top of those adopted last week in a UN Security Council resolution. The latest moves set the stage for an escalating confrontation with Iran, which has denounced the latest UN resolution as “illegal”.

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Five US soldiers charged with murdering civilians in Afghanistan

19-06-2010 10:12

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.

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democracy village fair and peace weekend 19th to 20th June Parliament Square

18-06-2010 16:16

Could we ask you to unite in support and join us this weekend, if you can't personally attend, please network this message so that you have some representatives present there, many thanks, PEACEfestUK

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

17-06-2010 12:17

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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AFGHANISTAN: WHY THE TROOPS SHOULD COME HOME

17-06-2010 11:52

Cambridge Stop the War Coalition are holding a public meeting on
Afghanistan with:

Karla Ellis (Military Families against the War)
Judith Orr (Stop the War Coalition national officer)

on Friday 18th June at 7.30 pm in the Friends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane,
Cambridge.

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Wikileak Case Echoes Pentagon Papers

16-06-2010 22:53

Almost four decades after Defense Department insider Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers – thus exposing the lies that led the United States into the Vietnam War – another courageous “national security leaker” has stepped forward and now is facing retaliation similar to what the U.S. government tried to inflict on Ellsberg.

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Now the Saville report is out, what about the Ballymurphy families?

16-06-2010 11:33

On Monday 9th of August 1971 Interment without Trial was introduced by the British Government in the North of Ireland.

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Charges dismissed on "Bonhoeffer 4" war resisters in Australia

16-06-2010 07:46

Charges Dismissed on 4 Australian Christian Peace Activists Arrested Resisting the War on Afghanistan

Wednesday, 16 June, 2010

The charges against the Bonhoeffer Peace Collective - four Christian peace activists who infiltrated the secret Australian military base on Swan Island in March and shut down the switchboard, a satellite and causing a lock down on the base, effectively disrupting the Australian war effort in Afghanistan - have been dismissed.

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Parliament Square, Friday 11th June 2010

14-06-2010 20:39

Some photos of some the various sights on the square that day.

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Democracy Village - Sat 12 June - pics

13-06-2010 20:56

Images from the Democracy Village in Parliament Square on Saturday, 12 June 2010 - more interesting than Trooping the Colour.

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Yeah, Israel stormtroopers attackd Gaza flotilla with PAINTBALL GUNS (by Latuff)

13-06-2010 18:06

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff, on behalf of brave Palestinian people and their struggle against US backed IsraHell's state terror.

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US Co.. Epicyte With USDA Funding Developed Seed Corn Containing Spermicide

11-06-2010 20:30

While billionaires Michael Bloomberg, Bill Gates, and others met in the last
12 months to discuss ways to control population,
corn containing spermicide was funded by the US Dept of Agriculture, while 'vaccines' containing Chorionic Gonadotropin to
prevent pregnancy, etc.were developed by the World Health Organization

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26 June:Demonstration in Solidarity with Victims of Extraordinary Rendition

10-06-2010 11:12

26 June is international day in support of victims of torture. Over the past decade, up to 200,000 people all over the world have been swallowed alive into the black hole of extraordinary rendition - torture, kidnap, simulated live burial, sensory deprivation, physical, psychological and sexual torture...all in a day's work for the torturers

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Trail of Tears for Afghanistan - 25 June to 1 July - London to Colchester

09-06-2010 20:13

A TRAIL OF TEARS FOR AFGHANISTAN: A PATH OF RESISTANCE FROM LONDON TO COLCHESTER

25 June - 1 July 2010

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