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In the wake of the Afghan Election: NATO Intensifies Military Deployments, Carna

07-09-2009 09:10 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | World

In Afghanistan, the U.S. is waging its longest war since that in Vietnam and NATO is fighting its first ground war.

Not, never, willing to acknowledge that the Afghan war is in fact a war, Washington and Brussels from the NATO summit in April until now have attempted to justify their troop buildups in South Asia as motivated primarily by insuring that the second presidential election in Afghanistan since the joint U.S.-NATO invasion of 2001 proceeded uninterrupted. A ruthless counterinsurgency and bombing campaign was thus portrayed as another war for democracy.

Disarm DSEi Map of the City of London

www.dsei.org

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Chiapas News August/September 2009

06-09-2009 18:00 | Zapatista | World

Summary

Twenty of the paramilitaries who were among the material authors of the Acteal Massacre in 1997 were released from prison on 12th August, and the cases of 37 more are under review. A week later, documents were declassified which prove that the Mexican government and its army authorized the paramilitary activity in Chiapas which led to the massacre. The Acteal massacre was, therefore, un Crimen de Estado (a state crime) perpetrated by the government of President Ernesto Zedillo. The message sent, that of impunity for atrocity, has encouraged the growing presence of armed paramilitary groups already active in the area. The men are members of the Army of God, an evangelical group. Violence is increasing and tension is high.

The 300-350 Show: Climate Camp Ireland & Scotland

06-09-2009 15:54 | Climate Chaos | World

Report backs from the Climate Camps in Ireland and Scotland.

Global Systematic Discrimination against the Poor due to be signed by States

06-09-2009 13:46 | Globalisation | Repression | Social Struggles | World

An Optional Protocol is due to be signed by States which, because of its exclusion of the core minimum obligations of the State, will allow States to systematically discriminate against the poor. In addition, it allows for the creation of a far more dependent people unable to help themselves.

Solidarity with Camp Ashraf Hunger Strikers, London - pictures

06-09-2009 09:31 | Globalisation | Repression | Terror War | World

On day 40 of the international hunger strikes taking place around the world in sympathy with the hunger strikers in Camp Ashraf, Iraq, London hunger strikers hold a solidarity vigil for those still arbitrarily detained in custody by Iraqi security forces.

Brian Haw in Parliament Square - 3,018 days and counting!

I spent a night in solidarity with Brian Haw on August 19th - his 3,000th day of protest. I enclose 12 photos.

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BNP´s Leader to Appear on BBC Question Timel

06-09-2009 04:45 | Anti-racism | Repression | Birmingham | World

The Fascist British National Party´s leader Nick Griffin may be asked to appear on Question Time, the BBC has said. A spokesman for the broadcaster said it was bound by rules to treat all political parties with "due impartiality".

The BBC has a duty to treat all political parties equally, so it could be said that they are not at fault here, but Griffin´s appearance would pose problems for the Labour Party: they have a long-standing policy of not sharing platforms with Fascists. Will they do a U-Turn here and lend the BNP more legitimacy?

The debate between Steve Best and Gary Francione

06-09-2009 03:44 | Animal Liberation | Social Struggles | World

So here we are, waiting for the debate between Steve Best and Gary Francione. But the real problem with Francione and everyone who opposes violence or disagrees with Dr. Best’s defense of effective militant direct action is not just about their ideas on animal rights or animal liberation or neo-abolitionism; it’s about their idea of Freedom and the struggle to see it realized. Arguing that violence for animal causes is unjustified is like saying that all the illegal violent animal liberators are evil and should go to jail. In these times of the Patriot Act and the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, in these times when corporate-state oppression is expanding globally, in these times when the liberation of a cow/pig/dog/chicken from a concentration camp is considered terrorism and the liberator subject to criminal penalties, whoever does not stand proudly to support this so called “terrorism” is against Freedom and is the enemy of the animal liberation movement. State repression is increasingly harsh, which requires fierce resistance.

An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting dispossession

06-09-2009 00:35 | Anti-racism | Palestine | Sheffield | World

Professor Jeff Halper is an Israeli Jew and the Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)

http://www.icahd.org/. Jeff was on the first of the Free Gaza boats that broke the siege of Gaza. He was jailed for this when he returned home to Israel and is currently out on bail. He has been awarded Palestinian citizenship and has won various honours including the Kant-World-Citizen-Prize for 2009 and the Rachel Corrie Peace Award and was a 2006 nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize

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Opinion: Honduran coup has been far from bloodless

05-09-2009 22:52 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

"Women protesters can face worse. On Aug. 14, a young mother was grabbed by police while participating nonviolently in a large protest. They separated her from male detainees and drove her out of town, where four officers of the National Police raped her and then raped her again with a baton.
Rapes while in custody, assassinations and disappearances that are terrorizing Hondurans remain largely unreported in the U.S. press. On July 11, for example, Roger Ivan Bados, a longtime trade unionist and activist in the opposition party Union Democrática, was forcibly removed from his home and killed. Others who participate in demonstrations or other activities have been kidnapped, then found dead."

IAEA Chief: Iran Threat "Hyped" - The Leaking Game

05-09-2009 22:49 | Anti-militarism | World

Great to hear him weigh in on the issue.

He also said any attack on Iran would be "an act of Madness" that would enflame the entire region, if not the world.

"Western nations and others worry Iran is moving toward development of nuclear warheads."

No they don't. Their own intelligence services have said there is no such program in existence, nor does Iran show a desire to move towards weaponization.

The ONLY people claiming otherwise, entirely without evidence, are the Israeli, American, and British Extremists who plotted to attack the oil-rich regional rival, long before Ahmadinejad or the atomic energy program were issues.

These are the same people who lied to us about the threat posed by Iraq's non-existent arsenal of WMD, in order to scare us all into a nightmare of a war and occupation.

greek embassy in serbia attacked and anarchists arrested

05-09-2009 17:36 | Repression | World

A group of six anarchists were arrested in Belgrade at the 3rd of september under suspicion being connected with Black Elijah (Crni Ilija), which took responsibility for the 24th August molotov attack on the Greek embassy in Belgrade.

Fall Delegation to Bolivia: Food Sovereignty and Indigenous Resistance

05-09-2009 17:28 | Ecology | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Fall Delegation to Bolivia: Food Sovereignty and Indigenous Resistance

Spend Thanksgiving celebrating indigenous resistance and exploring food sovereignty issues in Bolivia, the first country in the hemisphere to be governed by an indigenous president.

Stop Ffos-Y-Fran. InformAction

05-09-2009 13:20 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Energy Crisis | World

"This opencast mine is a massive scheme that will blight our lives for at least the next 17 years, and it's only 37 Metres from the nearest housing estate and edge of a large community! We are suffering desperately with the noise from the operation (60dbA+ at times and regularly at 55dbA) and - to varying degrees governed by the topography, weather conditions, and wind direction - from the dirt and dust output also."

http://www.stopffosyfran.co.uk/index.html

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PanAm 103 Over Lockerbie

05-09-2009 11:53 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

If there's anyone out there who is not already thoroughly cynical about those on the board of directors of the planet, the latest chapter in the saga of the bombing of PanAm 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland might just be enough to push them over the edge.

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Lockerbie - Never mind the political point-scoring... who planted the bomb?

05-09-2009 11:47 | Analysis | History | World

Friday Drivetime - Bristol’s weekly current affairs roundup. Discussing the big stories in Bristol and around the world with Martin Summers & Maryna Morris

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Washington Refuses to Call Off Its Dogs in Honduras

05-09-2009 11:40 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

"While President Obama issues vacuous statements claiming to support the general principle of electoral democracy, his own State Department officials blame President Zelaya for provoking the coup.” Nobody in Latin American believes the U.S. is not complicit.

Direct Action; Mexico, Australia, France, USA, Spain & Italy

27th August - 4th September

WINDOWS SMASHED AT PET STORE (Mexico)
MEAT WHOLESALERS GRAFFITIED (Australia)
TRAPS DESTROYED, SONGBIRDS FREED (France)
TRAPPING WEBSITES MINED FOR DATA (USA)
BURGER KING CLOSES ITS DOORS AFTER F.L.A. ATTACKS (Mexico)
ANTI-BULLFIGHTING SLOGANS PAINTED (Spain)
HARES LIBERATED (Italy)
UNILEVER PRODUCTS SABOTAGED (Mexico)
NOVARTIS PRODUCTS RUINED (Mexico)
MAXMARA SHOP GLUED (Spain)
BULLFIGHTING POSTERS PAINTED (Spain)

ELF Topples Radio Station Towers in Washington

05-09-2009 01:06 | Ecology | World

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 4, 2009

Earth Liberation Front Topples Radio Station Towers in Snohomish County, WA

World Newswire Archive

In the wake of the Afghan Election: NATO Intensifies Military Deployments, Carna

Disarm DSEi Map of the City of London

Chiapas News August/September 2009

The 300-350 Show: Climate Camp Ireland & Scotland

Global Systematic Discrimination against the Poor due to be signed by States

Solidarity with Camp Ashraf Hunger Strikers, London - pictures

Brian Haw in Parliament Square - 3,018 days and counting!

BNP´s Leader to Appear on BBC Question Timel

The debate between Steve Best and Gary Francione

An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting dispossession

Opinion: Honduran coup has been far from bloodless

IAEA Chief: Iran Threat "Hyped" - The Leaking Game

greek embassy in serbia attacked and anarchists arrested

Fall Delegation to Bolivia: Food Sovereignty and Indigenous Resistance

Stop Ffos-Y-Fran. InformAction

PanAm 103 Over Lockerbie

Lockerbie - Never mind the political point-scoring... who planted the bomb?

Washington Refuses to Call Off Its Dogs in Honduras

Direct Action; Mexico, Australia, France, USA, Spain & Italy

ELF Topples Radio Station Towers in Washington

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