World Anti-militarism Newswire Archive

Divide And Rule

12-10-2007 22:10 | Anti-militarism | History | Iraq | World

US plans to partition Iraq have been on the back burner for almost two decades. Now the future of the Arab world for generations to come hangs on whether or not they succeed

US hires mercenaries for Iraq (by Latuff)

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

Iran, the Decider, and the Enablers

11-10-2007 23:27 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Terror War | World

The dates can only be guessed. November for the triggering incident, December for the trip to the U.N., February for the ultimatum, perhaps March again for the strikes. The repetition would suit his taste for boyish acts of defiance.

Dragonflies with a byte: new spy insects being used to surveil antiwar protests

11-10-2007 22:28 | Anti-militarism | Technology | Terror War | World

Yesterdays Flashpoints discussed the spy bugs that are being deployed at anti-war protests across the US with Dick Becker, International ANSWER Coalition and Ian Thompson, attorney and co-coordinator of ANSWER:

http://aud1.kpfa.org/data/20071010-Wed1700.mp3

Al-Qaeda: Sort of Like the Energizer Bunny

10-10-2007 17:12 | Anti-militarism | Other Press | Repression | World

None of this works, not very well, because people are sick and tired of hearing about “al-Qaeda,” the putative terrorist organization akin to the boy who cried wolf, forever barking but never biting because the wolf has no teeth, heck it is not a stretch to say the wolf does not exist, except in the fervid but all too prosaic imagination of think-tank neocons and the like.

Palestinian takes on UK in court

10-10-2007 11:00 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | World

A 60-year-old Palestinian will begin a case against the UK government in the High Court later when he will say that sales of arms to Israel are illegal.

[Apologies for simply posting BBC article --- anyone got any other info on this?]

Video Rush: Troops Out Now Protest, London, 08/10/1007

Video rush of the day's events.

Major factual innacuracies in BBC Report of Anti-Nuke action

The BBC, probably acting on deliberately inaccurate information provided by the Ministry of Defence, recently claimed that an Anti-Nuclear activist had to be pulled from the water around Coulport, the Royal Navy base where warheads for Trident nuclear missiles are stored. According to the activist converned, the story was quite different.

Fool me twice

09-10-2007 01:30 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Iraq | World

In short, when it comes to the Middle East, domestic politics rule. Oil and “the spread of democracy” are secondary factors. It is all the explanation you need to understand Hillary’s vote to invade Iraq five years ago as well as her vote last week to enable a war against Iran. She was not fooled by Bush in 2002, any more than she is being fooled by Joe Lieberman today.

Troops Out Now: Interview with Tony Benn

A short interview with Tony Benn to Indymedia prior to the protest.

TOPOFF 4 and Vigilant Shield 08: a view from the "feverish fringe"

All the pieces will be in place. The top officials in town. The Iranian problem presumably still unresolved. The usual alphabet soup of security agencies represented. The majority of the citizenry rendered fully docile by the reporting and editorial pablum of mass media narcotics purveyors like The Oregonian.

America's Energy Wars - A New Front - Africa

07-10-2007 22:59 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | World

With the U.S. military announcing this week that it is opening up what it is calling The Africa Command

Iran war - danger of impending false flag

07-10-2007 22:54 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

If we get October out of the way without a major incident I, for one, will be extremely relieved.
Justin

London Burma Protest

Saturday 6 October 2007, 10,000 people marched in solidarity with the peace protestors and monks of Burma.

Interview with President of Physicians for Social Responsibility

07-10-2007 14:30 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Terror War | World

Dr Catherine Thomasson is the President of the Physicians for Social Responsibility who visited Iran last March and has been giving talks in the US and Europe to avert a new war in the Middle East this time against Iran. Abbas Edalat, CASMII’s founder, interviewed her while she was visiting London to give a talk at the Royal Society of Medicine on October 4.

Cardiff Total closed in Burma protest

07-10-2007 12:14 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

A Total garage in Cardiff was closed for three hours in a solidarity action for the people of Burma

Unmasking AIPAC: Who's Afraid Of The Lobby?

07-10-2007 04:49 | Anti-militarism | World

Part of the rush to further disastrous war seems to be motivated by a distinct desire for the Zionist portion of the New Neo-Fascism to get the spotlight turned off. As the debate about the Zionist Lobby, as well as the Extremists behind it and this impending World War, these criminal lunatics are growing increasingly shrill, frightened, and desperate.