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22/03/07 - Norwegian Embassy/Statoil protest - human rights in Rossport

Today saw a human rights demonstration at the Norwegian Embassy in London in support and solidarity with the people of Rossport, County Mayo, Ireland.

Bristol's Dialect Radio: National ID Database Special

22-03-2007 23:49 | Analysis | Anti-racism | Terror War | World

Latest podcast from Bristol internet radio news magazine show
ID cards special.

Stop Voting - Stop Supporting Pseudo Democracies: Updated Repost

22-03-2007 23:09 | Analysis | Repression | Terror War | World

Before there can be an irreversible transformation to a Level 4 Civilization it will be necessary for a critical mass of people on this planet to come to the full realisation that the way we live now is not the way we are meant to live. Further, the way we live now cannot continue for much longer without destroying, for all time, any pretensions that the human race may have about being the highest life form that has ever existed; a superior and unimpeachable species with both might and right on its side. This section is about helping others to see the fatal flaws in the old, 'Level 3' way of living, and how they personally can play a part in saving the world.

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Empire as a Way of Life, Part 3

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 third 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 21th November 2006 by the L.A. Sound Posse, runs for 36 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 This recording was originally made available on the A-Infos Radio Project site.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.

Previous parts of this series:

Cultural Barbarians are at the Gate

22-03-2007 17:25 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | World

Presently we Iranian are facing two facets of US militaristic doctrine, on one hand, we can see their exercise of hard power and our country being encircled by US armies to the east, west and south. On the other hand, they are constantly flexing their soft power and there is no day that western media are filled with rumour, exaggerated claims and bare faced lie.

Warmongers hang out in Washington DC: Helen Clark visits the US

22-03-2007 13:25 | Analysis | Repression | Terror War | World

As the fifth year of the occupation of Iraq approaches, the United States is busily re-evaluating its military strategy there and elsewhere. On the eve of Helen Clark's visit to the US, will the Labour Government take the opportunity to re-evaluate New Zealand's military relationship with the Bush administration?

New World Order

22-03-2007 05:07 | Analysis | Globalisation | Other Press | World

A recent article brought home the shocking truth of today’s new world order by contrasting the social outrage expressed against Richard Nixon for his minor offence of a break and enter (Watergate) with today's social complacency in the face of half-a-million civilian dead in Iraq. The office of president of the USA has become an experimental position where corporate placed buffoons are allowed to reign ruin on the world. The “bouquet of flowers, mission accomplished, WMD, give war a chance”, administration has got it wrong from the start yet ‘bouquet’ Wolfowitz has been promoted to the president of the World Bank, where he continues to bungle and lose to other interests (China). The incompetent clown, Bush, remains president and the criminals who benefit remain behind the scenes profiting on the misery of others!

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War criminals need time, not a timetable: Community

22-03-2007 02:03 | Analysis | Iraq | Terror War | World

Not only has Labor left the Iraqi's in the lurch by being complicit in the illegal and degrading act of aggression killing over 655,000 people in a holocaust but now they say, after the fact, that they won't leave the Iraqi's in the lurch. So why have we been left in the lurch?

George W. Bush's Ides of March

For Iraq, March brings not alone the fourth anniversary of the illegal US led invasion, butalso the memory of the 1991 'turkey shoot' on the Basra Road and the US encouraged uprisings in the south and north - then bloodily put down - with US assistance. March marked the beginning of the forty day period of mourning for the thousands of retreating conscripts and civilian families incinerated in their vehicles, when B52's bombed the front and back of the sixty mile convoy, then relentlessly bombed the rest 'like sitting ducks', as one pilot explained.

Over 100 nations support South Africa’s call for a “time out” on new UN sanction

22-03-2007 00:21 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

Campaigners claimed today that South Africa’s backing for a 90-day time out before any further sanctions against Iran are considered, has the support of over 100 nations. The idea for a time out, first proposed by Mohammed ElBradei, the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, would be supported by all the 56 signatory nations of the Baku Declaration as well as a majority of the 118 nations of the Non-Aligned movement, according to academics in London and Washington.

Gagged! 16 - South Wales Anarchist Newsletter

21-03-2007 23:35 | Ecology | Other Press | Social Struggles | World

GAGGED! #16 mar/apr 07
South Wales Anarchist Newsletter • news.southwalesanarchists.org • PO Box 70, Newport NP20 5XX

Looks best on pdf, download & print!

http://lists.riseup.net/www/d_read/gagged/gagged16.pdf

Corner the market

21-03-2007 22:39 | World

Boost Veganism. and Read the Mormon books about food stocking NOW!

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Australia: Scapegoats 'not getting fair go'

21-03-2007 21:27 | Repression | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

Among a litany of concerns about the scapegoats' conditions, the court heard the men are locked in their cells for 18 hours a day, have little time with their families and are denied basic medical treatment.

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Boycott Of Palestinian Government Crumbles

21-03-2007 19:31 | Palestine | World

Awareness, or at least acknowledgement is growing, that Israel's Zionist hardliners, and few others, truly object to any "peace process" which might threaten their power and agenda of wipong Palestine off the map.

The Rebuilding Alliance: Rachel's Work Carries On

21-03-2007 19:29 | Anti-racism | World

Like most IDF crimes, this one happened because the people involved no longer saw Corrie as a human being, but as "the other", dehumanized to the point where she could be killed with no second thoughts.

These killings only highlight the hatred that is indicative of such fundamentalist and racist ideologies.

OutRage!- religionists demand 'Right to discriminate'

21-03-2007 16:40 | Gender | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Gay rights group OutRage! castigates the religionists demo-ing today and those opposing the new goods and services laws (Equality Act) due to be voted on in the Lords this evening.

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Multinationals finance colombian paramilitaries.

21-03-2007 13:57 | Social Struggles | World

Chiquita Brands, an US based banana growing multinational has been condemned to pay a heavy fine by its financial backing of the AUC, the right wing paramilitary colombian group. But there's more to it that has been reported in the english speaking media...

Australia: Gov't terrorism scapegoats apply for trial delay

20-03-2007 23:45 | Analysis | Repression | Terror War | World

Corrections Victoria has said praying in a group is a public safety risk and contact visits are only allowed in high security prisons in exceptional circumstances.