World Anti-militarism Newswire Archive

Missile strike on Pakistani Islamic school slaughters 80

01-11-2006 12:53 | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

A devastating pre-dawn missile strike on an Islamic school in Chingai in the remote Bajaur agency of Pakistan has left at least 80 students and teachers dead. The attack, which levelled the buildings and left just a handful of survivors, has provoked angry protests throughout the country.

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NATO forces carry out massacre of Afghan civilians

01-11-2006 12:51 | Anti-militarism | World

Official estimates of the civilian death toll from NATO air strikes in southern Afghanistan on October 24 are disputed, but some sources report up to 85 killed.

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STITCHING UP DEMOCRACY: the "war inquiry" debate: what it took to "fix" it

01-11-2006 12:46 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | World

Democracy "reflects the majority opinion in the population. The percentage of British people that think the iraq war was a "stitch up" is certainly over 50 % ( - in the USA too, so with mid-term elections approaching, thats a factor) . . . . So, when all the "opposition" factions unite around a vote for a near immediate inquiry into how this came about, with lots of people in the square, showing support. . . . ?

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poem for fallujah

01-11-2006 07:53 | Anti-militarism | Repression | South Coast | World

Poem for refugees anywhere

SDO - Dropout factor mp3

01-11-2006 05:13 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Climate Chaos | World

Media summaries, N-Dee on various Australian non war diversions, 29mins stereo

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Australia: Why does backbencher preach hate?

01-11-2006 04:22 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | World

A Federal Liberal backbencher in now preaching racial hatred in Australia when we have laws against inciting violence and preaching racial hatred. How come he doesn't know the laws? And who put him up to it?

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Community Speaks Out: War Crimes

01-11-2006 02:30 | Anti-militarism | Health | Repression | World

We just can't believe that the country would not support this, we say this for all Australia but we also say this for the International community and all those dead Iraqi people.

War criminal doesn't deserve to lead Australians

31-10-2006 21:53 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | World

I think a lot of the responsibility lies with the Australian communities themselves and they need to rise to that responsibility here and take action.

Bush's War Course against Iran Leads to Ruin

31-10-2006 12:06 | Anti-militarism | World

That a war of aggression of the US against Iran makes no sense is understood in Europe but not in the Bush administration.. No miliitary solution is possible for the problems with Iran. Diplomacy is the only possibility.

Limiting the Catastrophe

30-10-2006 18:18 | Anti-militarism | World

Leslie Gelb in Time Magazine writes that admission of a defeat in Iraq is not the worst thing but rather serves to minimize the extent..According to La Republica, Since president Bush kindled the fire, he now has to put it out. The pyromaniac is forced to become the firefighter.

Filming his own death

It always hits me that first a 'white' woman or man like now Brad Will has to be killed in a local struggle anywhere on earth, and preferably a journalist or similar, before the mainstream propaganda media move. Even if they mostly distort reality: 'Fix the facts around the policy' - as they say.

Preventing Wars in the Nuclear Age

29-10-2006 17:47 | Anti-militarism | World

"As a wave cannot exist for itself but always shares in the waves of the ocean, we can never experience our life for ourselves along but only in the shared experience of life around us. The ethic of reverence for life demands that we do something for people."

The Mystery Of Israel's Uranium Bomb

29-10-2006 15:18 | Anti-militarism | World

Based upon the available evidence, Israel's assault on Lebanon was aimed at the country's civilian population. This was apparently carried out in order to Terrify the remaining population to flee, "softening up" S. Lebanon for a planned Occupation.

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Worldwide Children's Revolution To Try to Save the Human Race From Extinction?

“A worldwide Children's Revolution to try to save the human race from extinction caused by global warming and climate change could start in London, England, on 4 November 2006.”
This is the introduction to a short news item posted by the Earth Aid Environmental Campaign with the Washington, DC Independent Media Center,

http://dc.indymedia.org on 28 October, 2006.

Germany's military to take on global role

28-10-2006 20:49 | Lebanon War 2006 | Anti-militarism | World

Germany will today adopt the most radical restructuring of its military since 1945, turning the Bundeswehr into an international intervention force.

It will see Germany's military officially abandon its primary postwar task of defending the country's borders in favour of a more robust role for German troops on international missions.

UN General Assembly Vote for Global Arms Trade Treaty

27-10-2006 19:33 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

Overwhelming majority of world’s governments vote to start work on an international Arms Trade Treaty
27 October , 2006

For immediate release

Control Arms Campaign: Oxfam International, Amnesty International and the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA).

Deepening crisis of US occupation regime in Iraq

27-10-2006 11:27 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | World

President Bush’s press conference Tuesday was dominated by the worsening position of the US occupation regime in Iraq and its impact on US politics only two weeks before the midterm congressional elections. Bush faced sharper questioning than usual from the normally docile press corps, as well as public criticism from within his own party.

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Craig Murray: Legality, Morality and the War on Terror

Video of a talk by Craig Murray [former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan], Legality, Morality and the War on Terror, recorded at Sheffield Hallam University on 9th October 2006.

END OF THE ENDRUN? Exec sentence :24 years. . . .SO THAT WE DONT THINK ?

- IT DOESNT TAKE A LEFTY TO SAY THAT THIS BIT OF NEWS HAS GOT BACKPEDALLED IN THE MAINSTREAM PRESS. . . . in as much as its talked about, even the "whistleblower" seems to want to blame these two people for everything - BUT THAT SEEMS TO AVOID LESSONS THE WORLD NEEDS.
( WITHOUT dismissing words as "commie", "liberal" or "lefty" - do the 2+ 2 =4 )

Pics show german soldiers in Afghanistan `playing´ with a skull

26-10-2006 15:51 | Anti-militarism | World

Germanys biggest boulevard-newspaper "BILD" today printed photos showing german soldiers in Afghanistan showing a skull for trophy and fixing it to a patrol car. Among these pics also one showing a soldier trying to put his penis into the skull.