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Fact Sheet: Twenty Reasons against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

07-05-2007 09:48 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

Here, we examine and debunk the common myths and charges against Iran and provide a list of twenty reasons to oppose sanctions and military intervention in Iran. The Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) calls for immediate and direct negotiations between the US and Iran without any pre-conditions in order to avert a new even more horrifying catastrophe in the Middle East.

Questa Settimana in Palestina - Sett. 18 2007

07-05-2007 08:04 | Palestine | World

Questa settimana in Palestina un servizio dell’International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org, per la settimana dal 21 di aprile al 4 maggio.

Switch off Capitalism...[temporarily as a test run] mp3s out

07-05-2007 01:56 | Analysis | Social Struggles | World

Mardi Grass Hemp Hours, Playspace and Scan Dot Org out now.

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Sarko Wins One for the Global Elite

06-05-2007 22:31 | Analysis | Globalisation | World

It certainly helps that enough people in France were bamboozled—as the Americans were bamboozled twice running—to put a dull shine of legitimacy on this phase of what will soon enough become one world tyranny and global slavery.

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Take Action to End the Occupation - 40 Years is Enough!

06-05-2007 17:39 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Palestine | World

40 Years is Enough!
Six Days of Action against the Occupation of Palestine - June 6-12 2007
Global Day of Action - June 9 2007

global marijuana march: 14 held in moscow

06-05-2007 17:26 | Culture | Health | Repression | World

protests against cannabis prohibition took place in over 200 cities worldwide on saturday

Water As A Weapon

06-05-2007 17:22 | Terror War | World

Embedded in the U.S. Patriot Act is a section authorizing massive depopulation

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Women in Yarl's Wood Removal Centre on Hunger Strike

Women in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre are on hunger strike protesting against SERCO's draconian regime.

TO A CITIZEN 50 YEARS HENCE

06-05-2007 10:44 | Analysis | Climate Chaos | Terror War | World

Today, as the fossil fuel era slouches to extinction, a new kind of counter culture is finding its feet. Not everyone is happy.

IRAQ: Terrorizing a Nation into Homelessness: Who is Responsible?

06-05-2007 10:12 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Terror War | World

Last January, the municipality of Baghdad published a short advertisement calling tenders to bid on burying the tens of "unidentified" bodies found in the streets of the capital every morning for almost a year now. Few months before, the Iraqi ministry of Health proudly declared that it imported two big refrigerators with a capacity of 2 hundred bodies each, to keep those "unidentified" bodies. At the same time a new very big "state" graveyard was created to bury the bodies, after giving them numbers and taking their pictures , just in case one day a family would be lucky enough to identify a son, a husband, or a father…

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The Insular Conservative: John Winston Howard

06-05-2007 06:32 | Analysis | Globalisation | Other Press | World

The Federal Minister of Employment and Workplace Relations (big) Joe Hockey was forced this week to draw his leader’s attention to the oppressive reality facing average working Australians. Crushing debt, loss of penalty rates and other entitlements have forced many Australian families to the wall. Mortgagee sales in working class areas throughout the nation have increased at an alarming rate. John Howard, the darling of big business and the Corporate sector wondered why the common people were not eating cake!

Netherlands: anti G 8 bike rally stopped by police. 115 arrested.

05-05-2007 20:01 | G8 Germany 2007 | Free Spaces | Globalisation | World

Netherlands, Utrecht: An anti-G 8 bike rally heading towards Heiligendamm, Germany, where the G 8 will take place in june, was arrested by police.
About 115 people were arrested and brought to the headquarter of the police. The bikes were taken away from the owners and are now in posession of police. Police officials say the people were arrested because they were too many to drive in normal traffic.

Empire as a Way of Life, Part 6

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 7 of these seminars have taken place and the intention is to have the whole series published on this site; the last 3 will take place between now and June.

This seminar, recorded on 20th Feburary 2006 by the L.A. Sound Posse, runs for 45 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.

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