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International flaw: With new Iran sanctions, POTUS calls Tehran's kettle black

04-10-2010 15:52 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Repression | World

On Wednesday afternoon, in a joint press conference, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner announced that the United States had imposed a new set of unilateral sanctions, including a travel ban and freezing of assets, against a number of top-ranking Iranian officials whom it accused of "serious and sustained human rights abuses" since the presidential election last year. The measure, which comes less than four months after the UN Security Council's latest illegal resolution and the Obama administration's last round of economic sanctions, was enacted via an Executive Order signed into effect last night by the President.

The double standards of the US government continue to betray its real intentions and motivations regarding the Middle East, namely the maintenance of military hegemony, allegiance to Zionist mythology, and the continued demonization and threatening of any country that dares question the moral superiority of the United States or opposes American and Israeli imperialism in the region.

Continuing Conflicts that Create Refugees, September 2010

04-10-2010 10:45 | Migration | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

October 2010 Watchlist
Conflict Risk Alerts - None
Conflict Resolution Opportunities - None

International Crisis Group

http://www.crisisgroup.org/

Human Rights of Migrants without papers (irregular migrants)

04-10-2010 08:14 | Migration | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Statement of the Global Migration Group on the Human Rights of Migrants in Irregular Situation

Nepali Police disrupt election

04-10-2010 05:18 | Anti-racism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Yesterday Nepali police disrupted the first round of the exile Tibetan elections.

Activists disrupt police recruitment event, Brussels

03-10-2010 15:22 | Gender | Repression | Social Struggles | World

On Saturday 2nd October three activists disrupted a police recruitment event in Commensurate Ixelles, Brussels, following a week of harassment at the Brussels No Border camp. The public event was well attended and the activist took this opportunity to ask some questions of their own.

Planning Application Now In for UKCMRI Huge Lab proposed for Central London

After years of controversy a planning application for the huge UKCMRI bioresearch laboratory proposed for central London has now been registered with Camden Council. Anyone living anywhere can email or write to the council with objections/comments - there is a limited amount of time for people to put in objections, officially until 14th October 2010. More details below......

US Army in Afghanistan: SCREWED! (by Latuff)

03-10-2010 10:11 | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

Behind the coup in Ecuador – The attack on ALBA

03-10-2010 07:53 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The latest coup attempt against one of the countries in the Bolivarian Alliance For The People of Our America (ALBA) is attempt to impede Latin American integration and the advance of revolutionary democratic processes. The rightwing is on the attack in Latin America. Its success in 2009 in Honduras against the government of Manuel Zelaya energized it and gave it the strength and confidence to strike again against the people and revolutionary governments in Latin America.

Challenging The Jurisdiction Of The Judiciary Within England & Wales

02-10-2010 16:40 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

At 10.30am on Monday 4th October 2010, Mr. Grant of Campaign For Truth & Justice will appear on invitation by the establishment to the Royal Court of Justice, where he aims to lawfully CHALLENGE THE JURISDICTION OF THE JUDICIARY WITHIN ENGLAND & WALES, with documented evidence of the same Judiciary’s violations of national and international laws.

£400M research - No Nuke Dump Site in W Cumbria

Prof David Smythe (Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, University of Glasgow), an earth scientist who was employed by Nirex to find a nuclear waste repository in West Cumbria, is not opposed to geological disposal in principle but he says the scientific research carried out in the 1990s which cost the public purse £400M shows that -
No site in West Cumbria is suitable for geological disposal of nuclear waste!

Ecuador's Correa Haunted by Honduras

02-10-2010 14:25 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

"The co-ordinated actions in various cities, the takeover of Quito's airport by a section of the armed forces – all this indicated a planned coup attempt."

This Week in Palestine Week 39 2010

02-10-2010 10:03 | Other Press | Palestine | Social Struggles | World

Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for 25th, September through October 1st, 2010

NATO expands Afghan war into Pakistan

02-10-2010 08:39 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | World

On October 7 the United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization military allies will begin the tenth year of their war in Afghanistan, over 3,000 miles from NATO Headquarters in Brussels.

The following month midterm elections will be held in the U.S. and NATO will hold a two-day summit in Portugal. The American administration is eager to achieve, or appear to have achieved, a foreign policy triumph in an effort to retain Democratic Party control of the Congress and NATO something to show for the longest and largest military mission in its 61 years of existence.

Not satisfied with the Vietnam that Afghanistan has become, NATO has now launched its Cambodian incursion. One with implications several orders of magnitude greater than with the prototype, though, into a nation of almost 170 million people, a nation wielding nuclear weapons. Pakistan.

Associated Press, NY Times, Miami Herald Glorify Bear Murder By Arrow

various campaigns to end brutality to bears

Philippine Labor party, PAL ground crew to support flight attendants strike

02-10-2010 02:30 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

The labor group Partido ng Manggagawa (Worker's Party) and the Philippine Airlines Employees Association (PALEA), the ground crew union at the national flag carrier, both expressed support for the planned strike of the Flight Attendants and Stewards Association of the Philippines (FASAP).

Oppose English Defence League in Blackburn Lancs Sat 2nd October 2010

The English Defence League [EDL] are going to be protesting tomorrow Saturday 2nd October 2010 outside Kentucky Fried Chicken [KFC]. They are protesting because KFC serve Halal meat. THe protest will be at KFC Haslingden Road Blackburn Lancashire.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=157451460934608

Ed Miliband may have to learn much about Harriet, Gilligan and dossiers!

02-10-2010 00:35 | Analysis | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | World

Does Ed Miliband care about Harriet Harman's lifeline to George Galloway? The lifeline was most unexpected. However it is now very much a reality in the East End. By the time George Galloway surfaces in the East End, the lifeline will become quite tangible...It is very likely that George Galloway will stage a very subtle and effective propaganda onslaught of his own…He could not thank Harriet Harman enough, we have found.

Repression in Brussels

01-10-2010 21:45 | Migration | Repression | Social Struggles | World

All kicking off in Brussels, but a lack of reporting on the UK Indy site. Heavy repression, violence and mass arrests, there is a mass demonstration tomorrow...keep checking the BXL indy site for videos and regular updates.

‘Not Red Ed’ – reinventing Labour, again and again

Amazing, after thirteen years of neo-Thatcherism, the beaten ‘party of labour’ all of a sudden rediscovers its ‘roots’. Who could trust such people? If the whole charade wasn’t such a miserable and desperate attempt to regain the ‘high ground’, Labour’s attempt to reinvent itself again, it would be nothing short of laughable.