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Demonstration at Brighton Magistrate's Court in Support of the EDO 6

13th February 2009

Demonstration at Brighton Magistrate's Court in Support of the EDO Decommissioners

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When Will We March Against Obama?

12-02-2009 23:09 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

It isn’t too soon to protest. He told us right away that there is no change we can believe in. We don’t have to wait for bombs to fall on Iran or for more prisoners to be denied their human rights.

It is time to take not only Obama to task, but faux progressives to task as well. They are the Obamites who claimed they would hold his feet to the fire if we would just shut up and let him get elected. It is time to protest against them too and call them out for being the hypocrites they are.

Direct Action Germany: 27th Jan-7th Feb

07/02/09: Attempted arson on cars
06/02/09: Administrative building of the police attacked with butyric acid
05/02/09: Attack against the CDU offices
01/02/09: „Car-Lofts“ attacked with stones and color
01/02/09: Several buildings spraypainted
31/01/09: Again two arsons against upperclass cars
30/01/09: CDU offices trashed
30/01/09: Porsche torched
28/01/09: Action against DHL: letter boxes painted olive green
28/01/09: BMW burned
27/01/09: Again a car burned in Berlin: state security investigates

Obama's "War on Terror"

12-02-2009 12:25 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Terror War | World

The language is softened and deceptive. The strategy and tactics are not.
There are disturbing signs that business as usual is planned, more witch-hunt cases will follow, and "war on terror" efforts will persist for another four years. It's not change to believe in, in fact, none at all at a time the need is greater than ever.

Shut down NATO - Call for participation in a nonviolent action against NATO on 4

12-02-2009 12:23 | Anti-militarism | World

On 3 and 4 April the heads of state and government of NATO will meet in Baden-Baden and Strasbourg to celebrate NATOs 60th birthday. We think: 60 years of NATO are not a reason to celebrate, but a reason to resist nonviolently!

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Obama paints a picture of economic catastrophe

Addressing a national television audience in his first White House press conference, President Barack Obama, promoting his economic stimulus plan, used unprecedented language to characterize the deepening economic crisis. He described conditions of rapidly rising unemployment, growing demand at food banks, widespread foreclosures, the collapse of consumer spending and the failure of small businesses.

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NATO in the Persian Gulf: From World War 3 to the Istanbul Cooperation Initiativ

10-02-2009 21:45 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | World

In October 2008 NATO would drop the last veil and expose what the ultimate purpose of the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative was: Preparing for possible military action againt Iran.

Jean-Michel Boucheron, then outgoing chairman of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s Mediterranean and Middle East Special Group, said "that while Nato states did not have the same obligation to defend GCC countries as they would other alliance members in the event they were attacked, Nato would 'not remain indifferent' if a Gulf country were subject to aggression.

Supporters rally for soldier in brig who refused to go to Iraq

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A Short History of the Israeli - Palestinian Conflict: Past Is Prologue

09-02-2009 10:03 | Anti-militarism | History | Palestine | World

Zionism seeks "the restoration of tribalism in the guise of a modern, highly militaralized and aggressive state. (It) cut Jews off from (their) history and led to a fateful identity of interests with antisemitism (becoming) the only thing that united them.

Zionism justifies a Jewish ethnocracy with built-in structural inequalities. The Law of Return is for Jews alone. All laws are for Jews. On issues of land, housing, education and most everything, Jewish favoritism discriminates against Arabs.

If the pro-war left is dead, what’s next?

Neoconservatism thinking, according to E.D. Kain (via Sullivan), goes like this: The Islamic world is nothing like the Western world. We have few, if any, of the same values and virtually no historical commonality save our shared, centuries-old conflict with one another. The Islamic world, by and large, has none of the laws or customs necessary to develop an organic democratic society the way Western nations have. Therefore, the only way to achieve peace with the Islamic world is for them to adopt our notions of plurality, democracy, and humanism. They won’t do this on their own because of their lack of shared values, and so it follows that we must intervene on their behalf to impose these values, and fashion democracies for them in our image.

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Boycotting Israel: Enter the Dockers

07-02-2009 17:33 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Workers' Movements | World

The Histadrut trade union intends to ask the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) for assistance with the planned boycott of Israeli ships by dockers in South Africa. “The union in South Africa is against anything connected to Israel, and in the past even objected to a cooperation agreement we signed with the Palestinian transport workers union,” said Transport Workers Union chairman Avi Edri.

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No Grand Reception for the Israeli Ambassador

06-02-2009 23:46 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Repression | World

On Monday 9th February the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea are holding a lavish reception for diplomats at Kensington Town Hall - their special guest for the night will be the Israeli Ambassador.

Palestine Solidarity Campaign, along with Stop the War Coalition and British Muslim Initiative are asking all London and South East supporters to come to the town hall and show your disgust at the invitation.

Slow Resettlement for Palestinian-Iraqi Refugees

The start of 2009 offers little hope to the residents of Al Tanf, a refugee camp on the Syrian-Iraqi border housing over 700 Palestinians who had fled persecution in Iraq. No country has given any concrete pledge to take any of the refugees for resettlement in 2009, leaving them to battle the cold desert weather this winter with more despair than ever.

The Imperial Obama is Frustrated on Zimbabwe

05-02-2009 23:44 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | World

In the face of African Union support for the new arrangement in Zimbabwe, the Obama administration has very reluctantly retreated from its hyper-aggressive posture. President Obama will soon begin to justify U.S. military intervention on broad "humanitarian" grounds - a cynical game of words to mask the same crimes as George Bush's so-called "democratic" interventions.

Valentine's Mass Demonstration against Carmel-Agrexco

The Boycott Israeli Goods (BIG) campaign and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) will hold a mass picket at the depot of the Israeli state export company on Saturday February 7th at 12pm.

Strathclyde University Gaza occupation wins demands

Students who were, until this afternoon, occupying the McCance building at Strathclyde have today won some concessions and guarantees from the university.

Change? Or Just Charisma

Lest one tallies up its achievements, of the 1330 dead Palestinians: 437 children, 110 women, 123 elderly men, 14 medics and 4 journalists. 5000 injured, of which 1890 are children. An estimated destruction worth $ 1.5 billion, the use of white phosphorous and other illegal weapons, and over 1.5 million horrific stories to listen to. Only the sadistic fascist type would later bathe in self-exuberance by calling this a ``success''. Yet in Israeli politics, launching the all-out war machine and destroying the lives of innocents in the name of `security' to gain or retain votes isn't new.

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But at what cost?

I agree that the Iraqi elections at first sight seem like a success. And the news so far is very good. All the Islamic parties lost ground, especially that associated with the so-called ‘Shia firebrand’, Moqtada al-Sadr, whose share of the vote went down from 11% to 3%. The principal Sunni Islamic party, the Islamic Party of Iraq, was wiped out. Instead, a new generation of Iraqi politicians is coming forward. Many of them are young and secular. They have lived always in Iraq, not in exile; they are Iraqis with local roots first and foremost - they are not pan-Arabs or pan-Islamists. Nor do they have connections to the US. I hate to rain on the parade but that doesn't yet negate the ongoing cost of this huge blunder.

Israeli blockade stops aid to Gaza

Israel and its Egyptian ally are continuing to hamper the entry of desperately needed humanitarian goods into the Gaza Strip after Israel’s assault on the Palestinians there

Save the squat at Topf & Söhne!

05-02-2009 08:41 | Anti-militarism | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

Entrance to the Topf & Söhne squat in Erfurt, Germany. More photos here. In 2001, a group of antifascist activists connected to the anti-German movement occupied the long-abandoned Topf & Söhne factory grounds in Erfurt, Germany, where the crematoriums for the Nazi death camps were manufactured.

World Anti-militarism Newswire Archive

Demonstration at Brighton Magistrate's Court in Support of the EDO 6

When Will We March Against Obama?

Direct Action Germany: 27th Jan-7th Feb

Obama's "War on Terror"

Shut down NATO - Call for participation in a nonviolent action against NATO on 4

Obama paints a picture of economic catastrophe

NATO in the Persian Gulf: From World War 3 to the Istanbul Cooperation Initiativ

Supporters rally for soldier in brig who refused to go to Iraq

A Short History of the Israeli - Palestinian Conflict: Past Is Prologue

If the pro-war left is dead, what’s next?

Boycotting Israel: Enter the Dockers

No Grand Reception for the Israeli Ambassador

Slow Resettlement for Palestinian-Iraqi Refugees

The Imperial Obama is Frustrated on Zimbabwe

Valentine's Mass Demonstration against Carmel-Agrexco

Strathclyde University Gaza occupation wins demands

Change? Or Just Charisma

But at what cost?

Israeli blockade stops aid to Gaza

Save the squat at Topf & Söhne!

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