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An urgent call to stop the war on Iran!

14-03-2007 18:08 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

Brothers and Sisters, Iranians, Americans and peoples from around the world,
the American-Iranian Friendship Committee (AIFC) calls upon you to join us
this March 17th, show determination, resilience and unity to stop the war in
Iraq and deter the establishment from starting another war.

Targetting Tehran: the case of the missing Iranian general

14-03-2007 15:57 | Other Press | Terror War | World

Very little of the detail appearing in the media about the recent unexplained disappearance of a top Iranian general, Brigadier General Ali Reza Asgari, including his age, can be taken at face value. But all the accounts point to the involvement of the US, Israeli and/or other Western intelligence agencies in the defection or abduction of Asgari, a former deputy defence minister, who is currently being interrogated or tortured to obtain Iranian defence secrets.

Colombia, Bush visit - Soldiers against protesters

14-03-2007 15:08 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Repression | World

Massive protests greeted Bush as he came to Bogota to support his ally Uribe

Bilderberg alert - will Iran war be fixed up this weekend?

14-03-2007 14:37 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Terror War | World

It's always extremely difficult to find out when Bilderberg meetings will be - this year we've had no word from the US sources and this could very possibly be this year's early venue and date located. The hotel WAS block booked but now appears NOT to b so there may have been a last minute change of venue or ewe may be bieing led up the garden path

Glasgow: Forthcoming public meeting with Palestine ambassador

14-03-2007 13:56 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Palestine | World

Public meeting with Professor Manuel Hassassian, the Ambassador from Palestine to the UK.

Pelosi and Dems Taken to Task by AIPAC, Cheney

14-03-2007 10:09 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Iraq | World

It seems a neocon hysteria has washed over Congress, enveloping even Dems, who are presumably “liberal,” whatever that means. As it turns out, according to the “authoritative” Congressional Quarterly daily report, more than a few Democrats were opposed to Pelosi inserting language in an Iraq occupation spending bill that futilely attempted to prevent the neocons from launching their shock and awe campaign against the people of Iran.

UN To Open Permanent Probe Into Israeli Policies

14-03-2007 03:03 | Anti-racism | World

Israel has been "singled out" is based on what it has done - and is doing - in the Palestinian territories.

And fortunately, in this age of instant communication, cell phone cameras, etc., these human rights abuses cannot be hidden any more.

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El Libertario # 49: por la pasión, con la razón, para la acción...

14-03-2007 00:15 | Free Spaces | Other Press | Social Struggles | World

* Está en circulación el mas reciente número de la publicación mas regular y mas ampliamente difundida del anarquismo latinoamericano actual, que tras 12 años de existencia ininterrumpida se viene erigiendo como una referencia dentro de la escena radical del continente.

Olmert’s Testimony Reveals the Real Goal of the War in Lebanon

14-03-2007 00:06 | Lebanon War 2006 | Palestine | Terror War | World

Israel's supposedly "defensive" assault on Hizbullah last summer, in which more than 1,000 Lebanese civilians were killed in a massive aerial bombardment that ended with Israel littering the country's south with cluster bombs, was cast in a definitively different light last week by Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert.

His leaked testimony to the Winograd Committee -- investigating the government's failures during the month-long attack -- suggests that he had been preparing for such a war at least four months before the official casus belli: the capture by Hizbullah of two Israeli soldiers from a border post on 12 July 2006. Lebanon's devastation was apparently designed to teach both Hizbullah and the country's wider public a lesson.

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Australians have become a victim of terrorism

13-03-2007 21:30 | Analysis | Repression | Terror War | World

The John Howard government's terrorist antics have been the most dangerous acts of aggression on sovereign nations for 200 years. Why wouldn't people fear some form of retaliation or false flag terrorist act now? What you do is what you get! So why do it? Why take the risk? Then tell us about the risks because of what you do? Who should be scared? John Howard should be scared at the next election. We should be scared that he was elected last time and that the mass media power help reinforce that fear by propping up a war criminal and his governments terrorist antics.

Introducing A Game As Old As Empire

13-03-2007 21:26 | Analysis | Globalisation | World

After the Economic Hitmen retire from their cushy jobs of raping nations under "legal cover", they write confessionals as victims of conscience. Should we have let go Adolph Eichmann too had he written a confessional? The latter was the harbinger of misery to millions of peoples for a short span of a few years with just the stroke of a pen, and we tried him in Jerusalem. Whereas the former are the harbingers of the continued entrapment of entire nations in inextricable systems of poverty and misery for generations and they walk free in suits and ties, sometimes even heading prestigious economic institutions. Should we applaud the former EHM and absolve them of their own past monumental crimes just because they are revealing it all now post faits accomplis and laughing their way to the bank? Or should we use this information in informing our own Moral Activism to prevent future fait accompli? Should we demand from them that they deposit all the proceeds of their confessional writings in trust for the benefit of the nations they raped? Should we do something about the empire's "legal covers" and condemn them unequivocally as deliberate enablers of multi-color-collared crimes against humanity by the emperors? The choice of Moral-Activism is ours! To exercise this choice efficaciously however, we must be addressing the issues at the right levels of abstraction! The highest order bits are in the intellectual space!

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On the Ground, Ireland: New Cops New Violence Part Two

Tuesday 13 March, the second day of new guards at the Shell Gas Terminal construction site at Bellanaboy, County Mayo, North West Ireland, again saw police violence escalate further.

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On The Ground, Ireland: New Cops, New Violence Part One

Monday morning, 12 March 2007, saw the transfer of a new contingent of guards to police the Shell gas terminal refinery construction site at Bellanaboy, County Mayo, North West Ireland.

KIibera: This World Is Not Your Home?

13-03-2007 19:28 | Culture | Education | Social Struggles | World

A region bordering Ngong Forest Reserve in the western part of Kenya's capital city Nairobi is now a big media hit. After a few prominent "rescue visits" from popular society.

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Global Warming: Truth or Dare?

13-03-2007 19:28 | Analysis | Climate Chaos | Sheffield | World

NOT THE GREATEST POTENTIAL THREAT TO HUMANITY

Global warming is often presented as the greatest potential threat to humankind and as the greatest environmental and ecological threat on the planet. It is also presented as a problem that could be solved or contained by determined international collaboration - by political will if it were present.

Support the Block G8 Call for Blockades of G8 in Heiligendamm

13-03-2007 17:56 | G8 Germany 2007 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

The following text is the concept for mass blockades of the G8 Summit in
Heiligendamm, produced by the "Block G8" network (www.block-g8.org). The
network are looking for international groups, networks and organisations
willing to sign up to the Block G8 Call for blockades (below). The list of
groups in Germany and beyond who have already signed this call are at the end
of this mail. The names of future signatories will be published on our website
and in future publicity. If you would like your group`s name to be included on
the English language Block G8 flyer which will be distributed internationally
via the Rostock III Action Conference in April (see: www.heiligendamm2007.de),
please let us know by March 31st at the latest.

To sign up, please email

info@block-g8.org

See you on the streets around Heiligendamm!

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OutRage!- Letter to Pres' of Ghana-decrim gays..

13-03-2007 16:19 | Gender | Repression | Social Struggles | World

gay rights group OutRage! sends open letter to the Presdient of Ghana who is visiting London.

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Belgium Bans Depleted Uranium Weapons And Armour

13-03-2007 14:23 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Technology | World

They were first with land mines, first with cluster bombs - now Belgium has become the first country in the world to ban uranium weapons!

Greece: Students' parents clash with the police outside the court

Athens Court, Monday: Parents clashed with the police outside building 7, were the the minor charges are facing trial. The conflict started after some parents tried to enter the building, and they were pushed away by the cops. The conflict spread around and the cops started hitting. The cops sprayed some parents on the face, one parent collapsed and another one was transferred to the hospital.
Photos posted in Indymedia show a cop hitting, by holding his baton the way round, which is strictly prohibited.

Empire as a Way of Life, Part 1

The current imperial slaughter in the Middle East, justified by the "Global War on Terror", that has resulted in at least 600,000 deaths in Iraq, is nothing new — the U.S. Empire has a long and sordid history of genocidal mass murder.

The history of the US imperialism and Empire is the subject of a series of ten monthly seminars from Dr John Marciano, "Empire as a Way of Life". Attached is a recording of the first of these seminars and the text upon which it was based. The first 6 of these seminars have taken place and the intention is to have the whole series published on this site; the last 4 will take place between now and June.

This seminar, recorded on 19th September 2006 by the L.A. Sound Posse, runs for 40 minutes and includes the discussion following. It has been made available under a Creative Commons license. If this recording is broadcast please let the L.A. Sound Posse know. This recording was originally made available on the A-Infos Radio Project site.

The following text has been reproduced here with the kind permission of Dr John Marciano and he can be contacted at johnmarciano@mac.com. He introduced this series of seminars in the following way:

A fundamental purpose of our meetings is to understand the systemic nature of the U.S. Empire and the economic and military imperialism that is its lifeblood. The historian William Appleman Williams argues that empire became "a way of life" in the U.S., a "combination of patterns of thought and action that, as it becomes habitual and institutionalized, defines the thrust and character of a culture and society." This "way of life" has convinced many U.S. "Americans" they have a right or "manifest destiny" to impose their political and economic policies upon others.

Dr John Marciano is Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Cortland, where he taught courses on social and historical foundations of education and class, gender and race.

World Newswire Archive

An urgent call to stop the war on Iran!

Targetting Tehran: the case of the missing Iranian general

Colombia, Bush visit - Soldiers against protesters

Bilderberg alert - will Iran war be fixed up this weekend?

Glasgow: Forthcoming public meeting with Palestine ambassador

Pelosi and Dems Taken to Task by AIPAC, Cheney

UN To Open Permanent Probe Into Israeli Policies

El Libertario # 49: por la pasión, con la razón, para la acción...

Olmert’s Testimony Reveals the Real Goal of the War in Lebanon

Australians have become a victim of terrorism

Introducing A Game As Old As Empire

On the Ground, Ireland: New Cops New Violence Part Two

On The Ground, Ireland: New Cops, New Violence Part One

KIibera: This World Is Not Your Home?

Global Warming: Truth or Dare?

Support the Block G8 Call for Blockades of G8 in Heiligendamm

OutRage!- Letter to Pres' of Ghana-decrim gays..

Belgium Bans Depleted Uranium Weapons And Armour

Greece: Students' parents clash with the police outside the court

Empire as a Way of Life, Part 1

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