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Belgium: The dirty fingers of Laurette Onkelinx

20-02-2007 16:29 | World

The dirty fingers of the Belgian Minister of Justice
Article published in "Journal du Mardi" week of 23 January 2007

Antarctica: The Dilemmas of a Stricken Whaling Factory Ship

20-02-2007 16:27 | Analysis | Animal Liberation | Ecology | World

The Japanese Government faces tough dilemmas about the best way to move the stricken whale factory ship, the Nisshin Maru, and where best to move it to. The ship remains without engines in the Ross Sea area of Antarctica, damaged by a fire onboard. Strong concerns have been expressed by environmentalists and the New Zealand Prime Minister over the danger of an environmental disaster should the ship's substantial supply of oil leak.

The Kuala Lumpur Initiative to Criminalise War

20-02-2007 15:21 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Terror War | World

The Kuala Lumpur Initiative to Criminalise War Petition to Citizens of the World - Petition

http://www.perdana4peace.org/petition.html

Torture at Abu Ghraib: The full sworn testimony of Ali Shalal

20-02-2007 14:34 | Iraq | Repression | Terror War | World

The following text is the testimony given by Professor Ali Shalal, who was tortured at Abu Ghraib Prison. This statement was presented to the War Crimes Commission set up under the helm of former Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, as evidence in the procedure launched in Kuala Lumpur directed against US President George W. Bush, Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair and Australia's Prime Minister John Howard.

Ali Shalal, known to the World as the "man behind the hood", is a man of tremendous courage and determination. I heard his testimony, I had the opportunity of speaking to him on several occasions in the course of the war crimes Conference. We established bonds of friendship and solidarity. We shared our determination to bring the war criminals in high office to justice.

Ali Shalal is a professor of theology. He is a tremendous source of inspiration. It is important to understand that what Ali Shalal experienced is part of a routine process of torture, applied systematically to those arrested. Many of his companions in Abu Ghraib died as a result of torture or were executed upon their release so that they would not reveal the gruesome horrors and atrocities committed on the orders of the Bush administration. Also of significance, as confirmed by his testimony, was the fact that Israeli "civilians" were involved in assisting the US prison interrogators.

Ali Shalal survived and provided testimony in the name of all those who were tortured to death. Ali Salal's words will go down in history.

The war criminals in high office will be brought to justice. It is also our determination that they will be given a fair trial.

Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, 19 February 2007

Palestine: Anarchists Resist the Wall

20-02-2007 10:11 | Palestine | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Jonathan Pollak, an activist with Anarchists Against the Wall was sentenced to three months in prison, that will be activated if he is convicted of a similar charge again. Pollak was sentenced today after he was convicted together with 10 other activists for blocking a road in Tel Aviv in protest of the construction of the wall. He asked the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court to sentence him to jail time rather than community service or a suspended sentence, saying he has no intention to stop resisting the occupation. The ten other convicted activists were sentenced to 80 hours of community service.

High Court More Vulnerable To War Criminals?

20-02-2007 07:00 | Analysis | Repression | Terror War | World

Lawyers for Mr Thomas have argued the order imposed by the Federal Court is at odds with the Constitution

Australian Man Robert Jovicic Gets A Visa?

20-02-2007 02:22 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

An Australian man who has lived in Australia since he was a child has been given a two-year visa and has thanked the Immigration Sinister Kevin Andrews for allowing him to stay home. What he can be assured of though is that he is an Australian no matter what the John Howard government say.

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Support Professor Ward Churchill. Stop the Inquisition.

20-02-2007 00:20 | Education | Repression | World

The following is an essay that deconstructs the charges of research misconduct that were leveled against Ward Churchill - charges that were obvious retaliation for his comments concerning 9-11.

Please take the time to read this report. Internal appeals are now underway and it is possible that Ward Churchill may be fired from his tenured position at the University of Colorado at any time now.

If this happens, we cannot let it go unchallenged.....

On the Ground Ireland: Day four, the Monday picket, video and report

19-02-2007 21:54 | Rossport Solidarity | Ecology | Social Struggles | World

Fears on early Monday morning. Rats. Big ones. Perhaps Bertie Ahern and his corporate buddies had stormed the camp, attempted to make a profit nest under the communal bender and, as usual, couldn’t agree on anything and began squabbling, squawking and squeaking, clawing out each others eyeballs.

On the Ground Ireland: Three days in Rossport, County Mayo

19-02-2007 21:41 | Rossport Solidarity | Ecology | Social Struggles | World

The Rossport Solidarity Camp is slowly getting back to normal after the protest and spontaneous action that followed on Friday morning, 16 February, in this year of our Lord 2006.

Demands grow for release of Australian Guantánamo prisoner, David Hicks

But such is the mountain of lies from Canberra that government officials are losing track. On Monday, February 5, the government’s threadbare claims were suddenly cast aside when Howard told a meeting of government MPs that all he had to do was ask for Hicks’s release and the Australian would be repatriated.

Debunking the BBC's 9-11 Conspiracy Files

19-02-2007 21:30 | Analysis | World

The desperation underpinning these carbon-copy smears suggests that many within the media, as well as Government, understand that the Official Conspiracy Theory is a lie. Their need to run interference, and stifle questions about that day reveal their own lack of faith in the official version.

If they believed otherwise, they would simply produce a program that attempted to support the Official Conspiracy Theory with evidence, something that has never been done in well over five years.

Unwelcome Guests: #346 - Taking Action on Climate...

19-02-2007 13:46 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Globalisation | World

A two hour radio show on: Taking Action on Climate... Instead of wanking to the Dow Jones

Including audio from: George Monbiot, Mayer Hillman, Phil England

Is the Media Fomenting War between Iran and the US?

19-02-2007 13:30 | Anti-militarism | World

Boredom strikingly prevails on the media stage despite the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the forgotten conlicts in other countries.

Travelling School of Life Workshop at KnowledgeLab 4 in Nottingham

19-02-2007 11:52 | Ecology | Education | Free Spaces | World

Last Saturday, a group of people met at the KnowledgeLab 4 at Nottingham University to get to know and discuss the alternative education networkt Travelling School of Life Homepage:

http://www.tsolife.org/
Mailinglist:

http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/tsolife-disc

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The US Propaganda Campaign Against Iran

19-02-2007 11:05 | Analysis | Other Press | Terror War | World

The US government has stepped up its rhetoric against Iran this week with a presentation held in Baghdad designed to support the claim that, as worded by President Bush last month, "Iran is providing material support for attacks on American troops." [1] US officials said that weapons were being smuggled into Iraq by an elite unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard known as the Quds Force on orders "coming from the highest levels of the Iranian government." [2] But, as the Washington Post observed, "The officials offered no evidence to substantiate allegations that the 'highest levels' of the Iranian government had sanctioned support for attacks against U.S. troops." [3] That conclusion was admittedly an "inference", and the defense analyst present acknowledged the inconclusiveness of the evidence, saying, "The smoking gun of an Iranian standing over an American with a gun, it's never going to happen." [4]

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Iran: A Chronology of Disinformation

19-02-2007 11:00 | Anti-militarism | History | Terror War | World

Raw Story's inimitable Larisa Alexandrovna has recently written an excellent article detailing the neoconservatives' six-year long project to use American power to attack and produce regime change in Iran. Appended to the piece is a timeline including key Bush administration statements about Iran, "news" stories and neocon writings abetting efforts to vilify Iran, and the antics of such characters as former Congressman Curt Weldon, Iran-Contra arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar, and spy-for-Israel Larry Franklin who have worked to facilitate that attack. I've used it as the basis for this more elaborate (although surely incomplete and imperfect) chronology.

Italian judge indicts CIA agents for illegal kidnapping

19-02-2007 10:06 | Other Press | Repression | Terror War | World

The US policy of “extraordinary renditions”—the illegal kidnap and transportation of supposed terror suspects to secret detention sites where they are then tortured—was the subject of both an Italian legal investigation and a critical report by the European Parliament last week.

The Triple Bottom Line

19-02-2007 01:28 | Ecology | World

A talk with Alyson Slator on the Global Reporting Initiative.. Not only the financial bottom line counts, but also the social and environmental ones.. Obviously it is very embarrassing if a company has been cooking its environmental books.. The goal is a change in business reporting.