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Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Baghdad: another US provocation?

08-02-2007 10:47

The abduction of an Iranian diplomat in Baghdad on Sunday evening has further heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran, amid a continuing US military buildup against Iran in the Persian Gulf.

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Terror raid leaks fuel anger

07-02-2007 23:40

Media wallas camp site at 24 Popular Rd
Today two men were released from Coventry without having been charged after the so-called terror raids in Birmingham last week.

Human rights group Liberty have expressed their concern about the media and political speculation that surrounded last week's 'anti-terror' operation. Yesterday Liberty made a Freedom of Information Request to Home Secretary John Reid highlighting the dangers of leaking information to the press.

 http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/news-and-events/pdfs/homesec-letter-feb07.pdf

Below are more pictures from the raids last week in Sparkhill, Birmingham.

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Israel's Bomb, Iran's Pursuit of the Bomb and U.S. War Preparations, part 1

07-02-2007 22:42

Four years ago today, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell played a major role in persuading a gullible, stupefied and craven American news media and public - but not a cynical world - to support the Bush administration's illegal, immoral invasion of Iraq. He did so by presenting a panoply of lies, false statements and exaggerations about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and ties to al Qaeda terrorists.

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Aufheben analysis: 'Lebanon, Iran and the 'Long War' in the 'Wider Middle East'

07-02-2007 14:53

Aufheben's (a libertarian communist magazine based in Brighton) analysis of the current Middle-East situation is now online, discussing the neocon agenda, the Lebanon conflict, class struggle in Iran and the Ahmednijad presidency, the Iraq situation, Hezbollah, the UK anti-war movement/StWC ... the best analysis i've seen, avoiding many of the common leftist pitfalls like cheerleading whoever fights America etc.

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Tensions mount between US and Europe over war threat against Iran

07-02-2007 11:24

As Washington steps up its campaign of propaganda and aggression against Iran, some leading European politicians and sections of the media have expressed their concern during the past week over the increasing danger of a US military provocation plunging the entire Middle East into chaos.

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Autonomous Bloc on Big anti-Trident March.?

07-02-2007 10:48

Let's make it happen.

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Saddam Execution Photos Displayed at Gitmo, Says Aussie Prisoner

07-02-2007 07:19

UK may already have this article - but I'm posting it because we in the US have not heard a thing about this on the US bourgeois press in 5 days - so here it is in case you missed it.

In a clumsy attempt to intimidate and terrorize prisoners of war at the US torture center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the authorities have set up displays of the execution of Saddam Hussein in the common areas of the torture camp. The story was found on the website of the Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald - Varlet

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The U.S. will not leave Iraq without first militarily weakening Iran

07-02-2007 00:28

Ever since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 took Tehran out of Washington's orbit, the United States has run its Iraq policy with one eye firmly planted on Iran.

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Cluster bomb inspectors in court

06-02-2007 21:02

The defendents
Today, six "cluster bomb inspectors" were in court, charged with Criminal Damage and the new offence of Criminal Trespass (SOCPA 128 - the Serious Organised Crime and Policing Act, item 128). The case was adjourned for two weeks, as the decision to charge was only taken two days ago and the prosecution evidence was only given to the defendants this morning. The case will resume at 10am on the 20th of February.

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Iran confronts U.S. fleet in the Gulf

06-02-2007 20:40

photo from Iran accompanying the press release
The latest...

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The Bush administration’s campaign of lies and misinformation against Iran

06-02-2007 10:36

As it prepares for military aggression against Iran, the Bush administration is once again resorting to a concoction of lies, misinformation and half-truths to provide the pretext. In his January 10 speech announcing an escalation of the war in Iraq, President Bush denounced Syria and Iran for backing anti-US insurgents and declared the American military would “seek out and destroy” these networks. He has since confirmed ordering US troops to “capture or kill” Iranian agents in Iraq.

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Hunger strikers near death in "guantanamo north"- canada

06-02-2007 03:43

please take any action you can against the Canadian embassy / consulate in support of these men who are hunger stiking for basic conditons such as medical care and are illegally detained. They are on their third hunger strike and one is on day 74 of his strike.. the call out is for wednesday but if this is to soon do something when you can!

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David North addresses public meeting in Sydney on political implications of Iraq

06-02-2007 00:14

Another ominous sign of preparations
“The speakers explained the way that propaganda can influence people. What you hear in the media often doesn’t make sense. Like the war in Iraq. What’s the real reason for it? It’s about oil. Another example is September 11. The real reason for it has never been told. The meeting went through the way that authorities can manipulate laws and use them against their own people to achieve their aims.”

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The “War against Terror” is a War against the People

06-02-2007 00:12

In this interview recorded by Swiss journalist Silvia Cattori in November 2005 - more than six months before the war launched against Lebanon by Israeli army in summer 2006 – Youssef Aschkar was warning that the destabilization of Lebanon, Syria and Iran was under way, and that Lebanon was the country most threatened and most vulnerable to the Israeli menace. In the light of the recent developments in the region, the accuracy of his analysis appears impressive and almost prophetic.

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Eyewitness Lebanon: Caoimhe Butterly Speaks Out at SOAS

05-02-2007 23:56

Eye Witness Lebanon
Conversations with
Caoimhe Butterly


Solidarity and anti-war activist who has lived with communities of
resistance in Iraq, Lebanon Palestine and Mexico



Talks about her experiences and struggles during the recent war in
Lebanon and reports on the current humanitarian situation in the south

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AUSTRALIA: The importance of being alert

05-02-2007 17:17

Wars of aggression be alarmed!
HELP PROTECT AUSTRALIA FROM A FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN BASED ON FALSE FEARS AND AT YOUR EXPENSE!

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UK Telegraph Reveals Brit Terrorist Ops in Iraq

05-02-2007 16:16

It is interesting the Telegraph.co.uk, “Lord” Conrad Black’s online version of a neocon newspaper, would publish a story admitting that the Joint Support Group, described as “a cell from a small and anonymous British Army unit,” manages “covert human intelligence sources or agents,” including double agents, that is to say the Brits are engaged in terrorist operations, as long suspected.

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Death Squad to be based in London

05-02-2007 13:19

A SAS death squad is to be established in London - see the following article.

How long before they start the killings? And how long before other big cities get their own death squads?

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From Brighton to Beirut Public Meeting

05-02-2007 10:30

Caiomhe Butterly, an activist who was in Lebanon during last summer's bombing, and speakers from the Smash EDO campaign will talk about the direct action response to the Israeli attack on Lebanon

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FLASHBACK: A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties

05-02-2007 00:52

The following essay represents, in my opinion, the accurate and detailed plan of the present Zionist regime (of Sharon and Eitan) for the Middle East which is based on the division of the whole area into small states, and the dissolution of all the existing Arab states. I will comment on the military aspect of this plan in a concluding note.