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A Soldier Reflects: We're still dying in Afghanistan

02-12-2006 20:32 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Culture | World

“If, in willful or blind ignorance, we do not challenge our government to change the role of our troops from aggression to genuine peacekeeping and reconstruction, we are all responsible for the Afghan and Canadian lives about to be lost.”

Alaska news portal embarassed over Rumsfeld photomontage

02-12-2006 15:13 | Anti-militarism | Culture | World

Media jamming!

Democrat Side of War Party Calls for More Mass Murder and Misery in Iraq

02-12-2006 14:35 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

“Although the Democrats are very uncomfortable with the way the Iraq policy is being executed, they are at pains not to appear that they are shortchanging troops in the field,” Loren Thompson, CEO of the Lexington Institute, yet another “think tank,” this one connected at the hip to the neocon infested Center for Strategic and International Studies, told the Associated Press. “This is their opportunity to show that they, too, are pro-defense,” that is to say pro-killing Iraqis in prodigious numbers with an inventory of truly heinous weapons.

AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE U.S. PEACE MOVEMENT

01-12-2006 15:50 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Other Press | World

Neither the impending report from the congressionally authorized Iraq Study Group nor the new Democratic-controlled Congress are about to call for an end to the Iraq war.

Iraq: Long history of multi-faith co-existence in jeopardy

The term "Turkmen" means little to most western people, even those here who think they are up on Iraq ethnography. This is because Turkmens have not figured in media reports for reasons that will become clear. But watch for it. Iraqi Turkmen will soon demand world attention.

Iraq, for outside observers is increasingly a land of ethnic and death statistics, usually in the context of the current conflict. More and more, Iraq is debated in terms of the Sunni-Shia-Kurd formula, as if Kurd were not themselves populated by sunni and shia devotees. Forgotten are the once romanticized Marsh Arabs of the south. (For the most part, they have moved to the cities.) Christians are also set aside, as are Iraqi Jews. Iraq's Christians represent probably the earliest Christian community anywhere, and along with Iraqi Jews, demonstrate the long history of multi-faith co-existence in this part of the world. Iraqis had rightly been proud of that.

Situation in Venezuela is again critical

01-12-2006 14:42 | Anti-militarism | World

"December 3, 2006 will remain in history painted red." (Hugo Chávez)

Marx pointed out that the revolution needs the whip of the counterrevolution. After the big opposition rally on Saturday, the supporters of Hugo Chávez responded massively last Sunday with the biggest demonstration since the start of the Bolivarian Revolution. It was possibly the biggest demonstration in the history of Venezuela. The left wing website Aporrea referred to "the red tsunami". Up to two million Chavistas, in a sea of red, poured onto the streets and filled the Avenida Bolívar - and the whole of Caracas ‑ where Chávez was to deliver his final speech of the election campaign.

People fighting back in Tonga - IMC activists reports and photos

01-12-2006 03:08 | Anti-militarism | Indymedia | Social Struggles | World

Riots broke out in Tonga's capital Nuku'alofa after a pro-democracy demonstration on Thursday, 16th November, in the Kingdom. About 3000 people marched onto parliament with banners calling for immediate reform, others attacked public figures, while another labeled the current structure a "deadly virus". In the afternoon, after parliament was cancelled, protesters started smashing government buildings and set fire to businesses owned by the Prime Minister and the King in the city centre and turned cars over. Windows were smashed in the Prime Minister's Office, Parliament House, the Magistrates Court,the Public Service Commission Office, the Ministry of Finance and three vehicles overturned and government cars smashed in government parking lots. One company targeted was power company Shoreline, owned by the King. The aristocratic class control the economic and political aspects of life against which the people have been resisting for years. The protests and riots are part of the struggle against the feudal system which is oppressing the Tongan people for years.

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Human Rights Watch has lost its moral bearings

Just at the moment Fatma was choosing death and resistance over powerlessness and victimhood -- and at a time when Gaza is struggling through one of the most oppressive and ugly periods of Israeli occupation in nearly four decades -- Human Rights Watch published its lastest statement on the conflict. It is document that shames the organisation, complacent Western societies and Fatma’s memory.

two examples on a phony discourse: democracy in the Middle East

The excerpts below from Newsweek and The Independent are the latest examples of the neo-colonial agenda's phony discourse.

Though its primary targets are various Asian nations and the Muslim diaspora living in North America and Europe, its ultimate aim is to subjugate the entire humanity.

Bush to deliver ultimatum to Iraqi prime minister at Jordan summit

The planned meeting between US President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in the Jordanian capital of Amman failed to go ahead yesterday, after a secret White House memo detailing US plans for Iraq, and critical of Maliki, was leaked to the New York Times.

Attacks against civilians accross Iraq to halt the resistance

30-11-2006 01:12 | Anti-militarism | Other Press | Repression | World

The human community must wake up. The sufferings of the Iraqi people are tragic and criminal. Whole cities are under siege: Fallujah, Sammara, Kirkuk, Haditha, Hit, Ramadi. Latifiyah, Tarmiyah, Baaquba, Moqdadiyah, Buhruz, Madaen, Abualkhasib, Al-Zubeir, Fahamma, Tel Afar, Husaiba …

The attacks aim to stop the spreading resistance to occupation. Now the resistance is everywhere: in the north, middle and the south. It encompasses all the Iraqi populations: Arabs, Shias, Sunnis, Turkomen, seculars, Kurds, Assyrians and other Christians, and Sabbits and Yaziids.

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Iraq cartoons tracked by the US Central Command

29-11-2006 15:21 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Repression | World

The kind of visitors who are coming to my Tales of Iraq War blog never ceases to amaze me...

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Two new cartoons about Iraq (by Latuff)

29-11-2006 12:13 | Anti-militarism | World

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

Bush visits Middle East to intensify Iraq war

29-11-2006 07:42 | Anti-militarism | Other Press | World

The thrust of today’s talks in Jordan between George Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is clear in advance. Bush, accompanied by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, will insist that the Iraqi leader bow down to US demands for a bloody crackdown against the largest faction in his own government, the anti-occupation Sadrist movement headed by cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and its Mahdi Army militia. An unnamed senior US official bluntly told the New York Times: “It’s decision time and everybody knows it.”

The Downside of ‘Liberation Democracy’

28-11-2006 16:06 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | World

A recent study highlighting the rapid expansion of organised criminal activity in those areas where NATO and the U.S. have engaged in aggressive military intervention offers further evidence of the lasting negative social consequences of foreign occupation by neo-colonial powers. As corporate driven America attempts to assert its dominance over weaker nations, organised crime, quick to exploit traumatised societies, becomes the principal beneficiary in the 'war against terror' and the spread of ‘democracy, liberty’ and free market capitalism – what is good for capitalist America is even better for a crime boss!

No oil no War

28-11-2006 16:04 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Other Press | World

Alternative energies are now obligatory. This is the true emergency

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Debating "War and Peace" behind Closed Doors: NATO'S Riga Security Conference

From a US standpoint, this meeting will be used to build a European consensus on America's "long war". The purpose of the meeting is to rally support for the US led military adventure in the Middle East and Central Asia, which is intimately related, from a strategic standpoint, to the battle for oil and oil pipeline corridors.

The US-NATO military build-up in the Persian Gulf and the Eastern Mediterranean as well as Washington's "New Middle East" will be on the agenda.

The QUICKTIME REPORT 28 /11/06 - SEE GLOBALLY!

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Antiwar activist arrested for throwing firecrackers

27-11-2006 20:51 | Anti-militarism | World

Estonian antiwar activist Kalev Rebane was arrested today for throwing firecrackers in front of the US Embassy in Tallinn, Estonia. The incident took place just hours before the arrival of US President George W. Bush.

The Geopolitics behind the Rwandan Genocide: Paul Kagame accused of War Crimes

26-11-2006 22:27 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Other Press | World

Paul Mugabe's testimony regarding the shooting down of Habyarimana's plane ordered by Kagame is corroborated by intelligence documents and information presented to the French parliamentary inquiry. Major General Paul Kagame was an instrument of Washington. The loss of African lives did not matter. The civil war in Rwanda and the ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives.

World Anti-militarism Newswire Archive

A Soldier Reflects: We're still dying in Afghanistan

Alaska news portal embarassed over Rumsfeld photomontage

Democrat Side of War Party Calls for More Mass Murder and Misery in Iraq

AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE U.S. PEACE MOVEMENT

Iraq: Long history of multi-faith co-existence in jeopardy

Situation in Venezuela is again critical

People fighting back in Tonga - IMC activists reports and photos

Human Rights Watch has lost its moral bearings

two examples on a phony discourse: democracy in the Middle East

Bush to deliver ultimatum to Iraqi prime minister at Jordan summit

Attacks against civilians accross Iraq to halt the resistance

Iraq cartoons tracked by the US Central Command

Two new cartoons about Iraq (by Latuff)

Bush visits Middle East to intensify Iraq war

The Downside of ‘Liberation Democracy’

No oil no War

Debating "War and Peace" behind Closed Doors: NATO'S Riga Security Conference

The QUICKTIME REPORT 28 /11/06 - SEE GLOBALLY!

Antiwar activist arrested for throwing firecrackers

The Geopolitics behind the Rwandan Genocide: Paul Kagame accused of War Crimes

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