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Remember Libya: One of history's terror bombing victims

Like Cast Lead against Gaza, Odyssey Dawn is criminal imperial war, willfully attacking non-combatants and civilian targets, including vital infrastructure, hospitals, non-military airports and buildings, ports, power generating facilities, and other sites unrelated to military necessity.

US combat operations are always lawless, in direct violation of US and international law. Terror bombing is against civilians to intimidate, break their morale, cause panic, weaken an enemy's will to fight, and inflict mass casualties and punishment.

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US/Saudi Deal: You invade Bahrain. We take out Muammar Gaddafi in Libya.

You invade Bahrain. We take out Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. This, in short, is the essence of a deal struck between the Barack Obama administration and the House of Saud. Two diplomatic sources at the United Nations independently confirmed that Washington, via Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, gave the go-ahead for Saudi Arabia to invade Bahrain and crush the pro-democracy movement in their neighbor in exchange for a "yes" vote by the Arab League for a no-fly zone over Libya - the main rationale that led to United Nations Security Council resolution 1973.

Attack of the cruise missile liberals

Americans are warlike – as long as they think they can be victorious. These nominal Democrats and Republicans “differ only on who they want to see doing the dominating.” Today, a Black Democrat is the head killer in charge, allowing the likes of Ed Schultz, Bill Maher and Juan Cole to endorse the criminal assault on Libya. When the chips are down, fraudulent anti-war liberals show their true racist, Manifest Destiny-loving colors. “The true anti-war movement must reawaken itself and hit the streets in the hundreds of thousands.”

Sick and tired of the warmakers! - A statement by War Resisters' International o

05-04-2011 15:48 | Anti-militarism | World

War Resisters' International - an international network of more than 80 antimilitarist groups in more than 40 countries - declares:

We are sick and tired of military interventions that shield behind false "humanitarian motives" - be that in Libya or elsewhere.
We are sick and tired of the logic of violence as a form of resolving social and political conflicts.
Yet once again we have to address these themes as if nothing has been learnt in the last hundred years.

We absolutely reject foreign military intervention in Libya, whatever the excuse.

We also reject the use of violence as a response to the multiple conflicts in Libya.

From the 1991GulfWar to the war on North Africa:On the true meaning of democracy

Initially, the U.S. effort against Qaddafi's Administration in Libya was termed a "humanitarian intervention" to protect the people. But, when since September 11, 1990 have U.S. troops been mobilized to innocently rescue civilians in danger? In reality, the U.S. military has been selectively called into action to cause civilian pain, suffering, destruction, and death since September 11, 1990 and to further unstated objectives.

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Egyptian Army role in revolution challenged in new Report.

05-04-2011 10:51 | Anti-militarism | World

Its author, Maikel Nabil Sanad, arrested after publicizing his findings on the net.

Below is a summary of some of the main findings of his report. For the full report go to the War Resisters International website at: www.wri-irg.org

Note: Maikel Nabil Sanad, 25, lives in Cairo, and is a political activist and blogger. In April 2009 he founded the "No to Compulsory Military Service Movement". As a pacifist, he declared his conscientious objection to military service and demanded to be exempted from it. He was arrested on 12 November 2010, by military police, but released two days later, and finally exempted from military service on medical grounds. He participated in the Tahrir demonstrations from the start.

Shell's Work Disrupted for 12 Hours in Aughoose Co. Mayo Ireland

At 7am this morning a group of people entered Shells land in Aughoose. 2 people attached themselves together using a concrete tube blocking Shells new bog mat road that runs through their compound. The blockade lasted 11 hours and was followed by a spontaneousness action that stopped work for a further hour.

Flashback: Way past time to break silence on militarism

04-04-2011 21:31 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death,” warned Martin Luther King Jr. in his famous speech at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967, 44 years ago this Easter Sunday.

The speech was titled “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.” It was delivered exactly one year to the day before his 1968 assassination in Memphis.

The people who heard that speech recognized it as one of the most powerful speeches ever given articulating the immorality of the Vietnam War and its destructive impact on social progress in the United States.

Where U.S. Chooses to Back ‘Armed Struggle’

04-04-2011 16:15 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Palestine | World

Libya is a “unique situation,” Obama says, where the U.S.-led military intervention and the backing of an armed revolt is the exception and not the rule in U.S. foreign policy.

The war on Libya and US foreign policy: Ronald Reagan, 1986 versus Barack Obama

From Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama: This careful compilation by Rick Rozoff reveals the hypocrisy of US foreign policy as well as the continuity of America's imperial design...

Libya: The destruction of a country. The bombing of civilian targets

The account provided by the team of Russian Doctors constitutes an eyewitness account of what is happening on the ground in Libya. It contradicts the stream of media disinformation. It confirms that the coalition is routinely bombing civilian targets. For those progressives who have endorsed the US-NATO "humanitarian mandate", this account provides us with evidence of extensive war crimes by those you claim to be coming to the rescue of civilians. Residential buildings, hospital are being targeted by the coalition's smart bombs. The latter are extremely precise. The bombing of civilians is deliberate. These are so-called validated targets. they are part of a list of targets.

NATO’s fascist war

You didn’t have to be clairvoyant to foresee what I wrote with great detail in three Reflection Articles I published on the CubaDebate website between February 21 and March 3: “The NATO Plan Is to Occupy Libya,” “The Cynical Danse Macabre,” and “NATO’s Inevitable War.”

Not even the fascist leaders of Germany and Italy were so blatantly shameless regarding the Spanish Civil War unleashed in 1936, an event that maybe a lot of people have been recalling over these past days.

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Media disinformation: The protest movement in Syria

Presented below are four reports of the same protest movement in the Southern Syrian city of Daraa, Associated Press, The Guardian, Israeli National News, Ya Libnan (Lebanese News).

Spot the difference.

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Planned regime change in Libya

A March 25 White House press release announced Obama's planned March 28 national TV speech: "to update the American people on the situation in Libya, including the actions we've taken with allies and partners to protect the Libyan people from the brutality of Moammar Qaddafi, the transition to NATO command and control, and our policy going forward."

Imagine the hypocrisy. US-style "humanitarian intervention" reigns death and destruction "to protect the Libyan people." Recall how "shock and awe" protected Iraqis, how war on Afghanistan helps Afghans and neighboring Pakistanis from predatory drone and ground attacks. Libyans are now tasting imperial viciousness firsthand.

In fact, all US wars are imperial, not humanitarian, a long discredited propaganda ruse major media reports don't explain. Instead they cheerlead for war no matter how lawless, mindless, destructive or counterproductive, spreading malicious misinformation to justify intervention, concealing or downplaying the fallout from all conflicts let alone why they're waged.

U.S. Plowshares Imprisoned resistingTrident-2Grandmothers, 2 JesuitPriests& aNun

29-03-2011 05:43 | Anti-militarism | World

* You can send a letter or postcard of solidarity for redirection to any of the individiual anti-war prisoners Ane Montgomery, Bill Bischel, Susan Crane, Lynne Greenwald, Steve Kelly c/- Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action
16159 Clear Creek Road NW Poulsbo, WA 98370 U.S.A.
*Folks at Ground Zero wil add the Fed prison numbers and redirect to the prison,

Updates from the Jordan Valley

27-03-2011 11:54 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | South Coast | World

www.brightonpalestine.org

Libya: The objective of "humanitarian bombing" is death and destruction

The objective is not to come to the rescue of civilians. Quite the opposite. Both military as well as civilian targets have been pre-selected.

Civilian casualties are intentional. They are not the result of "collateral damage".

Early reports confirm that hospitals, civilian airports and government buildings have been bombed.

The objective of the media disinformation campaign is to blatantly obfuscate the loss of life of civilians.

Tomahawk missiles and aerial bombings are upheld as instruments of peace and democracy. They do not result in civilian deaths.

Obama in Brazil: hearts and minds operations

26-03-2011 20:12 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | World

March 26, 2011; from the south of Brazil, Bruno Lima Rocha (

bruno.estrategiaeanalise@gmail.com), political scientist (phd and msc), and journalist (bsc)

The Failure to Stand Up to Evil Leads to Insanity

26-03-2011 12:41 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Repression | World

When people fail to stand up to the heinous acts of a bad person, they are empowering that person's cover up, the very core of their propensity to do further bad acts in the future.

Updates and tweets from the Brighton Jordan Valley Solidarity Group

25-03-2011 13:54 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | South Coast | World

www.brightonpalestine.org

World Anti-militarism Newswire Archive

Remember Libya: One of history's terror bombing victims

US/Saudi Deal: You invade Bahrain. We take out Muammar Gaddafi in Libya.

Attack of the cruise missile liberals

Sick and tired of the warmakers! - A statement by War Resisters' International o

From the 1991GulfWar to the war on North Africa:On the true meaning of democracy

Egyptian Army role in revolution challenged in new Report.

Shell's Work Disrupted for 12 Hours in Aughoose Co. Mayo Ireland

Flashback: Way past time to break silence on militarism

Where U.S. Chooses to Back ‘Armed Struggle’

The war on Libya and US foreign policy: Ronald Reagan, 1986 versus Barack Obama

Libya: The destruction of a country. The bombing of civilian targets

NATO’s fascist war

Media disinformation: The protest movement in Syria

Planned regime change in Libya

U.S. Plowshares Imprisoned resistingTrident-2Grandmothers, 2 JesuitPriests& aNun

Updates from the Jordan Valley

Libya: The objective of "humanitarian bombing" is death and destruction

Obama in Brazil: hearts and minds operations

The Failure to Stand Up to Evil Leads to Insanity

Updates and tweets from the Brighton Jordan Valley Solidarity Group

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