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Northcom, Africom and Other Threats

02-11-2008 22:04 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | World

The U.S. military constantly expands in size, budget and mission. Two new U.S. military "commands" have recently been activated or augmented, with ominous implications for global peace and domestic civil liberties. Africom now casts a shadow over the last continent for which the U.S. had no designated "command" structure, and Northcom, with responsibilities over the domestic U.S., is a nightmare for those who fear repressive "martial law" in America.

U.S. presidential election (by Latuff)

02-11-2008 20:50 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Iraq | World

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

NYCLAW Antiwar Digest (11.02.08)

02-11-2008 20:41 | Iraq | Palestine | Terror War | World

"There is one agenda, and whoever holds the [president's] chair will continue the other's job."

Obama in Iraq

02-11-2008 15:31 | Analysis | Iraq | Terror War | World

The following article, posted to Red Pepper's 'Change We Can Believe In?' blog on Obama might be of interest to Indymedia.org.uk readers. It's by Ewa Jasiewicz and on what an Obama/Biden presidency might mean for Iraq.

Reports From the Brighton Group - Makhool; After Hadidya We Will be Next

This is part of a series of blogs from delegation of eight people from Brighton who arrived in the Tubas region of occupied Palestine last week. The delegation is part of the project by the Brighton-Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group. The group's aims are to highlight Israeli war crimes against Palestinians in the region, raise awareness about life under occupation and create practical solidarity links between grassroots organisations in Brighton and Tubas region.

This is an excerpt from Fiona's blog

The Peter Power Terror Drill Inquest

02-11-2008 12:13 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Terror War | World

Many who've heard of or read my story ask me to explain more about the Peter Power Terror Drills I witnessed that day, as I only gave it a breif mention in The 4th Bomb. Many see this so called 'coincidence' as the strongest evidence yet of state involvement.

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Three Russian police officers admit burning suspect alive

02-11-2008 12:08 | Repression | World

The three officers are accused of detaining the man on suspicion of theft on the night of October 28-29, and then beating a confession out of him. When he then refused to sign his "admission of guilt," local media say he was "taken to the edge of the city and burned alive

Pickled Heads, Mud Cakes, Rivers Of Babylon

02-11-2008 02:01 | Analysis | World

Growth is Vanity Fair, Lear Jets, Sex in the City. Sustainability is Adbusters, bicycles, sex in the haystack. And now, just as eco awareness is spreading, the financial meltdown hits... We came for the oil, left a mountain of corpses and filled up the rivers of Babylon with shit.

Philppines: Labor export policy is anti-women, anti-development

02-11-2008 00:57 | Globalisation | Migration | Workers' Movements | World

MANILA, Philippines – The country should not take pride in being the model in terms of labor migration, according to women’s groups who are engaging the Second Global Forum on Migration on Development (GFMD).

German anti-nuclear waste newswire now active

01-11-2008 22:09 | Ecology | Social Struggles | World

Anti-nuclear activists in Germany are gearing up for another transport of highly active nuclear waste to run through France and Germany from 7 to 9 November for dumping at the north German village of Gorleben. About 20,000 police will be deployed to guard the consignment against thousands of demonstrators. At

http://www.castor.de/ticker/index_en.html is a newswire run by the protest movement. It already has some run-up stories on it.

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From the Brighton Group - Said Lataba – 31 Years in Prison,

This is part of a series of blogs from delegation of eight people from Brighton who arrived in the Tubas region of occupied Palestine last week. The delegation is part of the project by the Brighton-Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group. The group's aims are to highlight Israeli war crimes against Palestinians in the region, raise awareness about life under occupation and create practical solidarity links between grassroots organisations in Brighton and Tubas region.

This is an excerpt from Fiona's blog

African Students Demand End to Imperialist War in Congo

01-11-2008 19:11 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | World

At 16:00 UTC (11am US EST), www.UhuruRadio.com will talk live with Kambale Musavuli, student at North Carolina A&T University, who recently organized an international week of campus action to raise awareness of the crisis in Congo.

"A Second 9/11": An Integral Part of US Military Doctrine

01-11-2008 15:26 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Terror War | World

For several years now, senior officials of the Bush administration including
the President and the Vice President have intimated, in no certain terms,
that there will be "a Second 9/11". All the authoritative statements point
in chorus in the same direction: The enemy will strike again!

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Chevron-Texaco purges its website of Burma references as it stands trial

01-11-2008 12:11 | Globalisation | Other Press | Repression | World

Charges of Rape and Murder Prompt Disappearance of Entire Country from Corporate Website

SAN FRANCISCO — Chevron [trading as Texaco in the UK] has quietly removed from its website any reference to its operations in Burma [Myanmar], a country where the oil giant has been implicated in allegations of rape and murder connected to a lucrative pipeline project that generates up to $1 billion annually for the country's brutal military regime, the Amazon Defense Coalition said today.

British Army Should Not March in Belfast

01-11-2008 01:41 | South Coast | World

This is a comment opposing the British Army Marching in Belfast City Centre on Sun Nov 2nd - the Government say it is so that the local people can welcome the Royal Irish Regiment back fro Iraq & Afghanistan!!

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Trick or Treat Alistair Darling

31-10-2008 21:20 | Globalisation | World

Visit to Downing St

Right Wing Obama Love

31-10-2008 19:48 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Terror War | World

Barack Obama's charms seem to work even on the least promising prospects.
"Right wingers who openly follow the doctrine of America's right to empire
and conquest are now endorsing Obama." William Buckley's son, Christopher,
has been won over by Obama, causing Buckley to be excommunicated from the
Church of the Hard Right. Christopher Hitchens, the former radical who has
learned to love the war on terror, has found a warm place in his heart for
Michelle's husband. It must be those things Obama says so alluringly, like,
I'm going to have a foreign policy like Ronald Reagan's.

This Week in Palestine, Week 44

31-10-2008 19:11 | Anti-racism | Other Press | Social Struggles | World

This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org, for October 25 through 31, 2008.

Strange Strike - Strange Timing ..

31-10-2008 14:44 | Anti-militarism | World

With one deadly strike, the Bush administration has offered a fitting epitaph to its "might makes right" policy towards Syria — and the rest of the Middle East.
On October 26, nine days before the election, American Special Operations forces, allegedly pursuing a "top operative" of Al Qaeda in Iraq, carried out a helicopter attack on Sukkariyah, a small Syrian village six miles from the Iraqi border....>>>

Italian Student rebellion spreading: Photos and Info

31-10-2008 14:17 | Education | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The 'Wave' of struggles against Government reforms of education (the Gelmini law) has caused a mass movement to begin in Italy. For one month, students, school students and education workers have been out on the streets. Numerous University faculties are occupied and demo and blockades are a daily occurrence. Now that the Law has been passed, everyone is waiting for a possible State repression to come down hard. Numerous days of action are up and coming.

World Newswire Archive

Northcom, Africom and Other Threats

U.S. presidential election (by Latuff)

NYCLAW Antiwar Digest (11.02.08)

Obama in Iraq

Reports From the Brighton Group - Makhool; After Hadidya We Will be Next

The Peter Power Terror Drill Inquest

Three Russian police officers admit burning suspect alive

Pickled Heads, Mud Cakes, Rivers Of Babylon

Philppines: Labor export policy is anti-women, anti-development

German anti-nuclear waste newswire now active

From the Brighton Group - Said Lataba – 31 Years in Prison,

African Students Demand End to Imperialist War in Congo

"A Second 9/11": An Integral Part of US Military Doctrine

Chevron-Texaco purges its website of Burma references as it stands trial

British Army Should Not March in Belfast

Trick or Treat Alistair Darling

Right Wing Obama Love

This Week in Palestine, Week 44

Strange Strike - Strange Timing ..

Italian Student rebellion spreading: Photos and Info

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