World Anti-militarism Newswire Archive

Convenient Coincidences

19-01-2007 05:07 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Other Press | World

Analysts are trained to give special attention to what appears to be coincidence. A good example of this today would be the current hysteria in the UK over the racial vilification of an Indian actress on some inane TV show and ‘coincidentally’, in Australia, the mysterious ‘surfacing’ of an extremist DVD allegedly produced by an Australian Wahhabist Muslim. The mass media of both these nations is saturated by these attention-stealing ‘stories’. The attention of the respective populations has been conveniently diverted away from coalition forces quietly preparing for a nuclear attack on Iran. It could also be argued that the racist card is being utilised to soften western populations to the use of nuclear weapons – after all, unwashed Arabs and Persians are expendable, aren’t they?

Democrat Agenda Omissions

19-01-2007 00:52 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

It gets even worse, as it always does, as not a word is heard from Democrats that the Bush administration through lies and deceit committed what the Nuremberg Tribunal called the "supreme international crime" of illegal aggression against a country posing no threat to us or its neighbors. The new Congress also said nothing about what former UN head of Iraqi humanitarian relief called an act of genocide against the Iraqi people when he resigned from his post in anger and disgust in 1998.

11-01-07: Photos from Catholic Workers Guantanamo protest, US Embassy

18-01-2007 21:55 | Anti-militarism | Repression | London | World

Several photographs of the Catholic Workers Guantanamo Bay protest on the evening of 11/01/07.

Video: Guantanamo Vogue and Disco Dance outside Lockheed-Martin

18-01-2007 21:47 | Anti-militarism | Repression | London | World

11-01-2007: A break away group of protestors target Lockheed-Martin for profiteering from Guantanamo Bay.

(Video) Nablus: IOF-operation in the old city

18-01-2007 19:54 | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

Today, 18th of January 2006, Nablus experienced another military operation by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF).

Australian PM outlines indefinite military agenda in South Pacific

18-01-2007 09:43 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | World

The billions of dollars in public funds being poured into the military represent a massive social misappropriation. While funding for public health and education, social infrastructure, and welfare and social services have all been gutted by successive state and federal governments, “defence” spending has skyrocketed. Australia is now the eleventh largest military spender in the world and ranks ahead of countries such as Israel, Turkey, Brazil, and Iran.

Iran: Pieces in Place for Escalation, by Colonel Sam Gardiner

18-01-2007 01:22 | Anti-militarism | World

The following text by Colonel Sam Gardiner (USAF, Retired) confirms our worst fears. The US is in an advanced state of readiness to wage war on Iran.

Service members join war protest

18-01-2007 01:08 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

Several dozen service members joined peace activists today to call for an end to the war in Iraq, part of a nationwide effort that links a growing group of active-duty protesters to the peace movement.

Make Capitalism History

17-01-2007 13:22 | G8 Germany 2007 | Anti-militarism | World

The iron fist of McDonald Douglas protects the soft fist of McDonalds. Militarism represents the dark side of capitalism. We must resist normalization of war and militarization of foreign policy. Culture shock, critical thinking andlove for life and the future can change priorities and free us from fatalism, resignation, helpless-ness and the warrior cult, the bitter fruit of "failed states" (Noam Chomsky).

Turkish Army Gathered on the Kurdistan’s Boarder Ready for Attack

17-01-2007 05:24 | Anti-militarism | World

According to Kurdish sources, the Turkish army have gathered and intensified its forces on the Iraqi Kurdistan boarders ready for attack. Does it have anything to do with the American-Israeli plands to attck Iran and start a new war in the region?

Video - Amnesty action at US Embassy - Close Guantanamo

17-01-2007 02:04 | Anti-militarism | Repression | London | World

Late.

Bush administration provokes open war on Iran

16-01-2007 22:53 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | World

The neocons led by Bush-Cheney-Rice are hell-bent on forcing their original and only geostrategic plan, "finishing the job" of a conquest of the Middle East, Central Asia, the Persian Gulf, the Horn of Africa and a nuclear holocaust, during their remaining two years in power.

Planned Attack on Iran: Bush Will Expand War Before Blair Resigns

16-01-2007 22:44 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | World

According to the un-named sources cited in the Arab Times, the US timetable is being driven by the retirement of George Bush’s major ally, Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Criminal Empire

16-01-2007 12:36 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | World

Move over Mafia, Cocaine cartels, Russian, Balkan, Cuban groups, Triads and numerous other criminal organisations – the U.S. State is taking over! Today, the methodologies of the American State cannot be distinguished from the methods of organised crime. The latest executions of Saddam’s cronies and the newly signed deal to allow American Oil Companies unprecedented access and open slather exploitation of Iraqi Oil reserves leave little doubt regarding the real intentions of the illegal invasion. The Washington line of spreading ‘liberty’ and ‘democracy’ will go down in history as a feeble and transparent charade. Nevertheless, America has proven that caveman tactics of brute force and mindless violence (over 655,000 dead) succeed in satisfying immediate needs. It has also become apparent that the USA is unable to see the untenability of its actions in the long term – America has failed to assess the real costs of its morally bankrupt actions!

Craig Murray: Torture and The "War on Terror"

Former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan speaks of the shocking torture and the knowingly false intelligence produced in the so called "War on Terror".

Global Research Feature Article: The Harper Government and Canada's 'War-on-Terr

16-01-2007 00:01 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Migration | World

Global Research Feature Article: The Harper Government and Canada's 'War-on-Terror' Immigration Policy

Bush's Iraq Plan: Goading Iran into War

15-01-2007 12:42 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | World

President George W. Bush's address on Iraq Wednesday night was less
about Iraq than about its eastern neighbor, Iran. There was little new
about the US's strategy in Iraq, but on Iran, the President spelled
out a plan that appears to be aimed at goading Iran into war with the
US.

"It's 1938"

15-01-2007 11:12 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | World

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is making the rounds in the media with his "new" slogan designed to scare American Jews and Christians into supporting the bombing of Iran.

Are Iranians sleepwalking into a disaster?

15-01-2007 02:15 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

Never in the long history of Iran has a threat had such disastrous
potential as the current threat of US attack. In the past when the
Greeks, Arabs, Mongols, etc. raided, destroyed, divided the country, there
was always the potential for a strong leader to rise up in the future and
re-unify the land.