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Israel's attack on Gaza aid convoy: A horrendous moment of truth for US policy

31-05-2010 20:34 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Social Struggles | South Coast | World

Of course, there is hardly anything new here – Israeli forces using disproportionate violence, killing civilians with impunity. But on this occasion, the murderous incident is not in some poor ghetto in the Gaza Strip hidden from the full view of the world. Up to now, Israeli disinformation could afford just enough wriggle room to sow doubts over such events. The cynical phrases of “terror suspects” and “self defence” parroted by the western mainstream media served to give the Israeli government and its backers in Washington a degree of political cover for otherwise heinous conduct.

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Palestine Today 05312010

31-05-2010 18:23 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Palestine | World

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the international Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, May 31, 2010.

Gaza Solidarity in Nottingham

31-05-2010 18:05 | University Occupations for Gaza | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Repression | World

Angered by Israel’s murder of unarmed civilians on board the Gaza flotilla carrying humanitarian aid, concerned residents and students from across Nottingham held a protest in the Market Square today.

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Condemnation Follows Israeli Raid On Flotilla

31-05-2010 16:52 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Social Struggles | World

"Hamas won an election for control of Gaza over the more conservative pro U.S. Fatah group favored by the U.S. and Israel. In the aftermath of a bloody struggle the more centrist faction was defeated militarily and by the ballot. Please remember this as most western press services have consigned important setails to Orwell’s “memory hole.”

"Officials in Israel said the elite naval units were attacked as they attempted to board one of the ships, and that the commandos used live fire only when they felt their lives were threatened. Dozens of passengers and at least five Israeli soldiers were wounded in the confrontation in international waters."

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Photos from the early, spontaneous Gaza protest

31-05-2010 15:10 | Flotilla to Gaza | Anti-militarism | Palestine | World

Some photos from the early, spontaneous protest against the Israeli armed forces' lethal attack on the Gaza aid flotilla, outside Downing St about noon today.

Photos (C) Pennie Quinton - no commercial use without permission -

pennieq@yahoo.com

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Statement of the Second Palestinian BDS Conference on the attack on the Flotilla

31-05-2010 12:23 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | South Coast | World

Israel cannot be allowed to act with impunity

President Obama Should Be Honest About the Iran-Turkey-Brazil Nuclear Deal

30-05-2010 19:37 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | World

Brazilian President Lula, Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan, and their foreign ministers have been too polite in their characterization of President Obama's role in the nuclear deal they mediated with Iran last week.

For we now have documentary evidence that President Obama's Secretary of State and his White House spokesman are simply not telling the truth when they say that the Brazil-Turkey deal does not meet the standards that the United States has defined for an acceptable international arrangement on refueling the Tehran Research Reactor.

Cuba-Venezuela relationship: What can be said from an anarchist perspective?

29-05-2010 21:07 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

* This text appears in the June-July 2010 issue #59 of El Libertario, describing the position this voice of the Venezuelan anarchist movement takes regarding the close links between the governments of these two countries.

Obama's letter to Lula exposes US dishonesty with Iran

28-05-2010 22:38 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | World

Washington grew visibly nervous as signs emerged that Brazil and Turkey might achieve peacefully what threats and sanctions from major powers had not accomplished in Iran. Hours before the prime minister of Turkey and president of Brazil left for Tehran, Clinton told a Washington news conference their mission was doomed.

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Obama Continues to Bully Iran

26-05-2010 15:33 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | World

No policy of the Obama administration better illustrates its fundamental mendacity than its policy of bullying Iran.

In his very first press conference following the election, President Obama was asked his response to Iranian leader Ahmadinejad’s congratulatory letter. He replied, changing the subject: “Iran’s development of a nuclear weapon, I believe, is unacceptable. And we have to mount an international effort to prevent that from happening.”

It was a clear signal to the outgoing administration and its neocon masters of the Big Lie that he would persevere in their crusade to topple the Tehran government, using the convenient ploy of nuclear fear-mongering.

Political Comeback Marcos Family Alarming – Victims of Martial law

26-05-2010 01:13 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

PHILIPPINES - On April 27, 1977, urban poor leader Trinidad Herrera-Ripuno was arrested in Katipunan, Quezon City by virtue of an arrest and search and seizure order (ASSO) of then President Ferdinand Marcos. She was made to suffer brutal torture, which was meant to break her determination and spirit.

Korean stand-off: US soft power play to maintain aggression towards Iran

25-05-2010 19:05 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | World

The tripartite Iranian declaration poses a potentially fatal blow to the US strategy of isolating Tehran, a strategy that has noting to do with Iran’s alleged nuclear ambitions and everything to do with Washington’s deep desire for “regime change” – to bring the Islamic Republic back under US geopolitical control. The independence of Iran from western geopolitical imperatives in a vital energy region is what is at stake, not alleged nuclear ambitions.

A measure of how determined the US is in its need to subjugate the Iranian government can be seen from its curious, cuddly bear diplomacy over conflict in Korean Peninsula. An apparent act of war by a nuclear armed state is being cynically downplayed by the US simply because it needs China to effect further aggression towards Iran – a state which has neither nuclear weapons nor at war with anyone.

Iran Urges West to Accept Enrichment Deal

25-05-2010 17:32 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

"The deal is materially the same one the Obama Administration endorsed just a few months ago and was demanding that Iran agree to as recently as last month, but the US has condemned the deal, demanding Iran submit the offer formally for consideration by the IAEA, which they did today.

But diplomats familiar with the situation say that the prospect of a deal is very unlikely, particularly as the Obama Administration moves forward with plans to sanction Iran which were nominally designed to punish them for not agreeing to the deal in the first place."

Supplanting the United States Constitution: War, National Emergency and "Continu

25-05-2010 16:48 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

Under the Reagan administration (1981-89), the purpose of the “Continuity of Government” (COG) national emergency planning had officially changed: Extraordinary emergency measures, originally designed for an America devastated in a nuclear attack, were now to be applied to anything the US President considered an emergency.

Clearly 9/11 met the conditions for the imposition of COG measures, and we know for certain that COG planning was instituted on that day in 2001, before the last plane had crashed in Pennsylvania.

It is also clear that the planning by Cheney, Rumsfeld and others in the last two decades was not confined to an immediate response to 9/11.

What few have recognized is that nearly a decade after 9/11, COG plans are still authorized by a proclamation of national emergency that has been extended each year by presidential authority, most recently by President Obama in September 2009.

Support the Decommissioners Public Meeting

25-05-2010 12:09 | Smash EDO | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Palestine | South Coast | World

Public Meeting

Saturday 5th June

5.30-8pm, Community Base, Queen's Road, Brighton

Support the Decommissioners Public Meeting

On 17th January 2009, as Israeli bombs rained down on Gaza, six people
broke into the EDO factory in Brighton and decommissioned the
production line damaging their capability to make weapons to be used
against Gazan civilians.

At this public meeting, just two days before the start of the
decommissioners trial, where they will argue that their actions were
justified, we will discuss EDO's complicity in war crimes worldwide.

Iran, Israel and the "threat to peace" (by Latuff)

24-05-2010 20:34 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Terror War | World

Iran is real threat to peace, not Israeli arsenal estimated at 200 nukes...

Boost to the nuclear weapons industry under Obama: The new nuclear legislation

23-05-2010 20:50 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

Clearly, the sole use of disarmament rhetoric by the US is now to disarm foreign and domestic opposition to US policies, especially "non-proliferation-themed" geopolitical ambitions. Other than dismantlement of the thousands of warheads put into the dismantlement queue by that pacifistic president George W. Bush, there is no disarmament going on in the US. Quite the reverse is true. The situation is far, far more difficult than it was even 3 or 4 years ago.

Corporate Watch: Working for Shamir Salads in Barkan industrial zone

22-05-2010 20:55 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | World

More from Corporate Watch's research in Palestine.
Visit the web-site for photos.

CW: Orange -Making the Future Bright for Israel’s Illegal Settlements

22-05-2010 20:51 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | World

Latest from Corporate Watch -Orange's complicity in the occupation of Palestine.
For photos visit the webs-site.

A New Oil Rush Endangers the Gulf of Mexico and the Planet

22-05-2010 02:46 | Anti-militarism | Energy Crisis | Social Struggles | World

"In the process, however, most of our easily accessible onshore oil and gas reservoirs have been depleted, leaving only less accessible reserves in offshore areas, Alaska, and the melting Arctic. To ensure a continued supply of hydrocarbons -- and the continued prosperity of the giant energy companies -- successive administrations have promoted the exploitation of these extreme energy options with a striking disregard for the resulting dangers. By their very nature, such efforts involve an ever increasing risk of human and environmental catastrophe -- something that has been far too little acknowledged."

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