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NATO Chief: Weapons of Mass Destruction threat is real and growing

28-03-2010 14:37 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Other Press | World

“The threat of Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction” was the key argument of the relentless Anglo-American propaganda campaign in the run up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Seven years later, the head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) points the finger at the next target by declaring that the threat of proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction “has remained largely abstract” until now, but it is “real and growing”.

Media Disinformation regarding America’s Afghan War

28-03-2010 10:24 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

"For its part, the occupation forces’ ISAF Joint Command issued an “operational update” mentioning that on the night of March 24/25th its forces had searched a compound outside Zerah Ghar, Tere Zayi district of Khost Province and captured “two Taliban sub-commanders” as well as “several other insurgents,” lots of ammunition and money.[18] The official communiqué concluded with the usual, “no shots were fired, and no Afghan civilians were harmed during these operations.” But a day later, when the two civilian deaths in Chergotah could no longer be concealed, NATO published the usual promise of an investigation and the “our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims of this terrible accident and their families.”

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UN Human Rights Council adopts 5 resolutions against Israel

26-03-2010 01:03 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Repression | World

The UN Human Rights Council has roundly condemned Israel in resolutions tabled under the agenda item 7, “Human Rights Situation in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories”. Five resolutions have been adopted against Israel, amounting to the greatest number of condemnatory resolutions on a single country.

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Our right to protest: Support the London-Gaza Protesters at court, Fri. 26 March

24-03-2010 15:49 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Many thousands of us came out to demonstrate against Israeli war crimes committed against the people of Gaza in January 2009.

Following these protests in front of the Israeli Embassy in London, 119 young people were arrested. They were predominantly Muslim and aged between 16-19 years, the youngest was 12. So far 78 people have been charged with offences, the vast majority of these are public order offences which hold a maximum of 5 years imprisonment.

The next hearing is scheduled for the 26th March, at 9.30 at Isleworth Crown Court. It is important that as many people as possible come out to show that they support the young people and recognise the unfairness of these convictions and will not stand for it.

Support Gaza protesters at Court - 9:30, 26th March, Isleworth

23-03-2010 12:18 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Repression | World

Many thousands of us came out to demonstrate against Israeli war crimes committed against the people of Gaza in January 2009. Motivated by images of violent death and destruction, and a desire to express solidarity with the people of Gaza, adults and children spontaneously gathered at the Israeli Embassy in London to demand justice.

Following these protests 119 young people were arrested. They were predominantly Muslim and aged between 16-19 years, the youngest was 12. So far 78 people have been charged with offences, the vast majority of these are public order offences which hold a maximum of 5 years imprisonment.

Depleted Uranium: A War Crime Within a War Crime

23-03-2010 08:32 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Repression | World

Since 1991, the U.S. has released the radioactive atomicity equivalent of at least 400,000 Nagasaki bombs into the global atmosphere.

The U.S. has illegally conducted four nuclear wars in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and twice in Iraq since 1991, calling DU "conventional" weapons when in fact they are nuclear weapons.

DU is the Trojan Horse of nuclear war – it keeps giving and keeps killing. There is no way to clean it up, and no way to turn it off because it continues to decay into other radioactive isotopes in over 20 steps.

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Seventh Anniversary: The Objective of the War on Iraq was to Destroy the State

22-03-2010 11:15 | Anti-militarism | Culture | Iraq | World

The purpose of the war waged on Iraq was from the onset the destruction of the Iraqi state. But there is more: cultural cleansing, tolerating the looting of museums, the burning of libraries and the murder of academics was part of the war strategy.

State ending will certainly become established as a concept, alongside genocide and its derivatives, such as urbicide (destruction of cities), sociocide (destruction of social fabric) mnemocide (destruction of collective memory).

The US-NATO Conquest of Africa: Militarization of the African Continent

21-03-2010 22:29 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | World

In 1884 the major European powers gathered at the Berlin Conference to divide up those parts of Africa that had escaped colonization and to create a consortium to dominate and exploit an entire continent and its peoples.

The anti-colonial struggles after the Second World War put an end to that enforced order, but 126 years later there are ominous indications that the former colonial masters are nostalgic for their past power.

Iraqi holocaust, Iraqi genocide and 7th anniversary of invasion of Iraq

20-03-2010 10:40 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Social Struggles | World

The following succinct letter is being sent to media world wide on the occasion of the 7th anniversary of the US alliance invasion of Iraq

Israeli army chief visits Turkey to hold talks on Iran’s nuclear program

19-03-2010 14:24 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Other Press | World

Already during the Clinton Administration of 1993-2001, a triangular military alliance between the US, Israel and Turkey had unfolded. This ‘triple alliance’ is coupled with a strong bilateral military relationship between Tel Aviv and Ankara.

Amply documented, Israel and Turkey are partners in the planned US aerial attacks on Iran, which have been in an advanced state of readiness since mid-2005.

Iran’s natural gas riches: US knife to the heart of world future energy

18-03-2010 23:35 | Anti-militarism | Energy Crisis | Globalisation | World

A major realignment in the world’s energy economy – one where there will be a continuing diminished role for the US – Washington’s blustering rhetoric about democracy and peace and war on terror or alleged Iranian nuclear weapons can be seen as a desperate attempt to conceal its fear that it stands to be a big loser.

Encircling Iran with wars and threatening gas supplies to possibly the world’s top future gas customer – China – is the real deal. US actions are more accurately seen as putting a knife to the energy arteries of a world economy that it will no longer be able to dominate.

Néjàd vu, all over again: The media, 'pretext', context & 9/11

17-03-2010 16:02 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Other Press | World

The mainstream media's favorite scapegoat, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, resurfaced on Saturday amidst reports that he called the attacks of September 11, 2001 "a big lie."

According to the immediate and rabid response of virtually every Western news network around, this was simply the latest insane claim of the same raving madman who has previously threatened to wipe a foreign state off the map and denied the Holocaust.

Waihopai Ploughshares activists acquitted by New Zealand jury

17-03-2010 15:49 | Anti-militarism | World

WAIHOPAI PLOUGHSHARES ACTIVISTS ACQUITTED ON ALL COUNTS BY TRIAL JURY 6.30PM 17/03/10

Adrian Leason, Father Peter Murnane and Sam Land - the three men who were charged with intentional damage and unlawful entry at Waihopai spy base - have today expressed their thanks to the jury, the judge, and the prosecution and defence lawyers.

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NATO'S Fire Sale - One Dead Afghan Child, $2,000

On January 11, 2010, we sent out a media alert titled, ‘Were Afghan children executed by US-led forces? And why aren't the media interested?’

http://www.medialens.org/alerts/10/100111_were_afghan_children.php

The alert concerned credible reports that American-led troops had dragged Afghan children from their beds and shot them during a night raid in Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan on December 27 last year. Ten people were killed, including eight schoolboys from one family. We noted that the alleged atrocity had been almost wholly ignored by the corporate media, including the BBC.

50 face imminent deportation to Iraq

16-03-2010 22:24 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Migration | World

More than fifty men from northern Iraq have been given deportation tickets telling them they will be removed to Erbil in the Kurdistan Regional Government controlled area in northern Iraq. The 50 are currently being held in immigration prisons in Heathrow, Gatwick and Doncaster. They told the detainees that they will be removed at 6pm tomorrow morning (17 March). The tickets state that they will be:

‘removed no sooner than 7 days and no later than 22 days from the date of this notice’.

Case of Tristan Anderson may be reopened, adding to Israeli PR 'nightmare'

16-03-2010 12:44 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Add this development to what Mel Frykberg at Inter Press Service calls Israel’s growing “public relations nightmare”: renewed attention to the near-fatal shooting of American activist Tristan Anderson. Just as the media spotlight is glaring down on Israel because of a civil trial in the killing of American peace activist Rachel Corrie comes a decision by Israel’s Justice Ministry to reinvestigate the shooting of Anderson.

US-NATO "strategic concept": Global warfare

15-03-2010 19:17 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | World

On March 12, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen arrived in Warsaw to participate in the NATO’s New Strategic Concept – Global, Transatlantic and Regional Challenges and Tasks Ahead conference.

His address reiterated the now standard demand that NATO combine Article 5 so-called collective defense for its members – in Poland’s case that can only be a reference to Russia – with expeditionary deployments outside NATO’s self-defined area of responsibility as exemplified by recent wars and other armed missions in the Balkans, Afghanistan, the Gulf of Aden and the Horn of Africa, the Mediterranean Sea and the Darfur region of Sudan.

Lebanon: Checkpoints and more (Film)

15-03-2010 13:52 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Repression | World

Nahr al-Bared refugee camp has still not recovered from the devastating war in 2007 during which it was destroyed.

VIDEO: Indigenous activist 'Splitting the Sky' versus war criminal Bush

15-03-2010 12:19 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The Splitting the Sky story highlights the media cover up of the lies and crimes of 9/11. But that is only the beginning. STS's story starts with the big cover up of the reality that the New World Order of America began in 1492 with a massive genocide that continues to this day.

The founding of America on the theft of natural resources from Indigenous peoples around the world extends these days to the creation of new forms of appropriation, domination, murder and enslavement.

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NATO Chief: Weapons of Mass Destruction threat is real and growing

Media Disinformation regarding America’s Afghan War

UN Human Rights Council adopts 5 resolutions against Israel

Our right to protest: Support the London-Gaza Protesters at court, Fri. 26 March

Support Gaza protesters at Court - 9:30, 26th March, Isleworth

Depleted Uranium: A War Crime Within a War Crime

Seventh Anniversary: The Objective of the War on Iraq was to Destroy the State

The US-NATO Conquest of Africa: Militarization of the African Continent

Iraqi holocaust, Iraqi genocide and 7th anniversary of invasion of Iraq

Israeli army chief visits Turkey to hold talks on Iran’s nuclear program

Iran’s natural gas riches: US knife to the heart of world future energy

Néjàd vu, all over again: The media, 'pretext', context & 9/11

Waihopai Ploughshares activists acquitted by New Zealand jury

NATO'S Fire Sale - One Dead Afghan Child, $2,000

50 face imminent deportation to Iraq

Case of Tristan Anderson may be reopened, adding to Israeli PR 'nightmare'

US-NATO "strategic concept": Global warfare

Lebanon: Checkpoints and more (Film)

VIDEO: Indigenous activist 'Splitting the Sky' versus war criminal Bush

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