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Switzerland: Police brutality against RTS. 245 activists detained

03-12-2007 13:54 | Repression | World

Nearly 500 riot cops with tanks and water cannons stopped a peaceful RTS-party. The cops used pepperspray, non-lethal guns and did beat people. They detanied 245 people.

Britain exports ‘le hunt sabotage’

03-12-2007 13:29 | Animal Liberation | World

“It is a recent phenomenon that came from Britain,” said one hunt enthusiast, describing a wave of commando-style actions against stag hunts by saboteurs clad in black. One hunt west of Paris said it was targeted in October by a group of three dozen militants from a French organisation called Animal Rights. They prevented huntsmen letting hounds out of a lorry. Police have been called to protect various other hunts from interference by the men and women in black.

The Hidden Holocaust--Our Civilizational Crisis Part 2: Exporting Democracy

Part two (part one) of an article by Nafeez Ahmed on the history of imperial genocide follows, the subject of this article was the subject of recent public meeting, The Hidden Holocaust - Our Civilizational Crisis.

Armenia - The Unanswered Question

03-12-2007 11:35 | History | Repression | Social Struggles | World

On Tuesday 6th November, Aegis Trust and Nottingham Student Aegis Society, in association with Nottingham Playhouse, a pre-show talk for Beast on the Moon to look at the history behind this compelling play took place. Enclosed is the report with pictures.

UK film of olive harvest wins plaudits in Palestine

03-12-2007 09:34 | Palestine | World

A documentary made by UK independent film-maker, Ed Hill, has won praise in the Palestine magazine THIS WEEK IN PALESTINE in a review by renowned writer Sam Bahour.

The Amis-Eagleton controversy: The British literary elite and the war on terror

03-12-2007 08:20 | Analysis | Other Press | Terror War | World

The novelist Martin Amis appeared in the Guardian on Saturday to rebut the charge of racism that novelist and screen writer Ronan Bennett levelled against him the previous week in the same paper. Amis denied being a racist, professed himself disgusted by Islamophobia and praised the “beautiful reality” of Britain’s multi-racial society.

Chilean Government Gives 7 Million Dollars to Political Campaign

02-12-2007 23:40 | World

The socialist chilean government gives more than 7 million dollars to former presidents to political campaigns,

Ten Reasons to Suspect "Save Darfur" is a PR Scam to Justify US Military Interve

02-12-2007 22:54 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Globalisation | World

The star-studded hue and cry to "Save Darfur" and "stop the genocide" has gained enormous traction in U.S. media along with bipartisan support in Congress and the White House. But the Congo, with ten to twenty times as many African dead over the same period is not called a "genocide" and passes almost unnoticed. Sudan sits atop lakes of oil. It has large supplies of uranium, and other minerals, significant water resources, and a strategic location near still more African oil and resources. The unasked question is whether the nation's Republican and Democratic foreign policy elite are using claims of genocide, and appeals for "humanitarian intervention" to grease the way for the next oil and resource wars on the African continent.

2 Fur Farms raids in Spain - Mink Freed

02-12-2007 19:15 | Animal Liberation | Ecology | World

Media in Spain have reported raids on two mink farms located on opposite sides of the country. Bermudez fur farm in Bando, near Santiago de Compostela (Galicia), 20,000 mink released from their cages. Bermudez fur farm in Bando, near Santiago de Compostela (Galicia), 20,000 mink released from their cages.

Video released from lab raid, Italy

02-12-2007 19:04 | Animal Liberation | World

Video has been released from the October 10 raid on a reseach center during which rabbits, ducks, rats, mice and over 200 chickens were liberated.

Chavez Policy a Threat to US Imperialism.

02-12-2007 18:30 | Anti-militarism | Workers' Movements | World

The Dollar has been the pillar of the USA´s financial Imperial age, and has enabled them to build the most powerful military force in history. This hugely powerful military machine has been steadily spread around the world promoting US financial domination for more than half a century. However, the Democratic Republic Of Venezuela has already had a significant impact on reversing the malign effects of the foreign policy of it and its allies, by promoting liberation from financial oppression.

Olmert: No Timetable for Peace Talks

02-12-2007 18:29 | Anti-racism | World

ALERT: Annapolis a Charade: Olmert Plotting Massive Aggression

In Germany, according to historian Richard Evans, in 1931-1932, if enough Germans of conscience had begun to say No -- history would have had an entirely diferent outcome.

If we go any further down this road the tears will be those of conservatives as well as progressives. They will be (Israeli) tears.

The time for weeping has to stop; the time for confronting must begin.

Adapted from "American Tears"
www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/american-tears_b_68141.html

The timing is interesting, given the "Annapolis Conference", which serves to be about PR alone, as Olmert has already ruled out any Negotiations or Compromise in the name of peace.

If you follow the events surrounding Israel's "Disengagement" from Gaza, you will quickly understand that this was the plan all along. While Israel was making a public spectacle of "forcing Jews to leave their homes", it was quietly surrounding the Strip with artillery emplacements, in an operation ominously named "First Rain".

Under this operation, Gaza basically became a "Free-Fire Zone", and several artillery and gunship strikes killed a high number of civilians. Finally, when one of these batteries fired upon and murdered a Palestinian family - picnicking on a beach that had been Segregated "Jews Only" only weeks before, Hamas finally decided to call an end to its unilateral, two-year cease-fire.

(In essence, they took Israel's bait. After all, you can't excuse your Aggression and label it "defense" if you're not being intermittently attacked. Never mind the hypocrisy underlying the entire media's framing of that whole debate ...)

When the Palestinians responded by electing Hamas to power (yes, elected), Israeli Extremists and their Ideological, bought foreign co-conspirators imposed unilateral sanctions on Gaza, a bit of Collective Punishment which increased the hardship of those stuck in the world's largest Concentration Camp.

When they felt Gaza had been substantially weakened, the US and Israel undertook a Coup attempt, using corrupt elements within the Fatah Party, provoking a violent response by Hamas, which expelled the group. Most of the world's media ignored the events leading to this "crisis", and instead only repeated the Propaganda emanating from the US and Israel, which used this to further increase sanctions against Gaza.

Most recently, Israel stepped up its Collective Punishment, except that human rights groups and legal advisors to the Government halted some of its approved measures, because they run contrary to International Humanitarian Law.

This was sold as another "response to rocket attacks" (again highlighting the hypocrisy of the debate's Framing - are the Palestinians allowed to defend themselves from strikes which actually KILL people ... ?), even though high-ranking officials said that this was NOT, in fact, a response to these attacks, but a way to "distance Israel from Gaza's infrastructure".

The real reason for this whole episode, of course, has been to "soften up" the Gaza Strip for a long-planned military attack, a way to undermine the resolve, and hopefully rid this territory of Palestinians altogether.

Olmert signalled long ago that he would not entertain any serious discussions at this summit, essentially selling out the Israeli public's desire for peace.

Now, Israel appears to be preparing to issue the usual 'justifications' for an Act of Aggression they planned long ago, by calling it a response to violence their own behaviour has provoked. The media's silence on these issues in past months signals their readiness to help in this regard.

Seeing the pattern yet?

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/11/386082.html

Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land

02-12-2007 16:00 | Analysis | World

An analysis of the Israeli Government and the media's (mainly American) role in misrepresenting (and therefore, perpetuating) Israel's war to wipe Palestine off the map.

Photos and short report of World against War conference

02-12-2007 15:12 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Iraq | World

Some notes and 20 photos from the World against War conference in London on Saturday 1st December 2007.

Brian Haw - 6 and a half years not out!

02-12-2007 14:48 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Iraq | World

Short piece with 4 photos of Brian's continuing demonstration.

Charity's Nativity Scene Includes Apartheid Wall

02-12-2007 14:05 | Anti-racism | World

Tear Down The WALL!!

- Pink Floyd

Animal Advocates all dressed up to make Edinburgh Fur-Free

02-12-2007 11:09 | Animal Liberation | Social Struggles | World

Edinburgh-based animal rights group has launched a campaign to make Edinburgh fur-free and is organising demos against shops selling fur in Edinburgh on the 15th and the 22nd of December.

International Animal Rights Day Candlelight Vigil, Edinburh 10th December

02-12-2007 11:07 | Animal Liberation | Social Struggles | World

Celebrating the 10th International Animal Rights Day, Edinburgh the Fur-Free City (EFFC) and 1World Scotland are organising a candlelight vigil outside the Scottish Parliament.

Scottish Police arrest Campaigner for Anti-Race Leafleting in Dundee

02-12-2007 11:01 | Anti-racism | World

On Tuesday evening in Dundee, 27 November, the police arrested a comrade from Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!/Revolutionary Communist Group.

U.S-Instigated War Brings Mass Death to Somalia

01-12-2007 23:37 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Repression | World

The United States remains, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world," through its own wars of aggression and by fomenting and manipulating conflicts that kill millions. It is also the most cynical power on the planet, crying crocodile tears over the carnage in Darfur (in which the U.S. is complicit) while simultaneously unleashing wholesale death in Somalia. Half a million Africans face starvation and disease as a direct result of U.S. instigation of the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia - an extension of Bush's "war on terror" and the underlying quest for Africa's wealth. United Nations officials now describe Somalia as the worst humanitarian crisis on the continent - more dire than Darfur.

World Newswire Archive

Switzerland: Police brutality against RTS. 245 activists detained

Britain exports ‘le hunt sabotage’

The Hidden Holocaust--Our Civilizational Crisis Part 2: Exporting Democracy

Armenia - The Unanswered Question

UK film of olive harvest wins plaudits in Palestine

The Amis-Eagleton controversy: The British literary elite and the war on terror

Chilean Government Gives 7 Million Dollars to Political Campaign

Ten Reasons to Suspect "Save Darfur" is a PR Scam to Justify US Military Interve

2 Fur Farms raids in Spain - Mink Freed

Video released from lab raid, Italy

Chavez Policy a Threat to US Imperialism.

Olmert: No Timetable for Peace Talks

Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land

Photos and short report of World against War conference

Brian Haw - 6 and a half years not out!

Charity's Nativity Scene Includes Apartheid Wall

Animal Advocates all dressed up to make Edinburgh Fur-Free

International Animal Rights Day Candlelight Vigil, Edinburh 10th December

Scottish Police arrest Campaigner for Anti-Race Leafleting in Dundee

U.S-Instigated War Brings Mass Death to Somalia

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