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Obama: All the evidence indicates that Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons

03-04-2010 18:24 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Other Press | World

In his video message to mark the Iranian New Year (Nowruz), US President Obama accused the leaders of Iran of showing a "clenched fist" to his "extended hand". Two weeks after releasing that message, he went a step further...

Presidential Violence!

02-04-2010 11:30 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | World

Few imagined how dangerous a “Black” U.S. presidency could be for Black interests and the prospects for world peace. Barack Obama’s “success” – as it will be judged by those powers with which he has aligned – requires that “we valorize capitalist imperialism, male supremacy, militarism, and white supremacy.”

Calais solidarity Demo UKBA Brighton

Brighton CMS held demo outside the UKBA offices yesterday in Brighton, in solidarity with migrants in Calais and beyond.

CSIS report designates Turkey as the optimum route for a possible Israeli attack

31-03-2010 13:40 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | World

Three weeks before the US President Barack Obama’s visit to Ankara in April 2009, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) published a report which claimed that Turkey would be the optimum route for a possible Israeli attack on Iran.

A new CSIS report released in March 2010 makes exactly the same point.

BNP hires security to protect billboard

31-03-2010 11:30 | Anti-racism | World

Aberdeen BNP were forced to hire security firm to protect their trophy billboard in Aberdeen following persistent attacks.

Rome immigration prison set on fire by detainees

31-03-2010 00:37 | Anti-racism | Migration | Repression | World

«Total chaos!» At midnight on 30th March, this text message was sent from one of the detainees inside Ponte Galeria, the immigration prison in Rome, Italy. An hour prior to the text, a riot inside the detention centre had started: mattresses were burnt and two huge fires reached the infirmary. Some of the detainees were on the roof, while others broke three or four doors and reached the outer fence. The detention centre was soon full of riot police. Gunshots were heard around 1.20am.

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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”.

Pornography of Suffering

26-03-2010 17:46 | Anti-racism | Culture | Other Press | World

The American mentality seems hopelessly rooted in the gutter, keenly attuned to tales of rape and bestiality but supremely indifferent to the elementary facts of life and history. The current genocide in Congo is as little known as that country’s previous holocaust, at the hands of the Belgians, more than a century ago.

Immigrants in Italy - victims of murder and violence

26-03-2010 00:15 | Anti-racism | Migration | Repression | World

It is no coincidence that the anti-immigrant, anti-Roma policies are put forward as policies for legality, security and against social and urban decay. It is a media strategy which also prevents the news getting out of Italy about the climate of racism that is now present on all levels of society. And this is one of the tasks our group has taken upon itself: to stop a curtain of silence and disinformation falling on the tragedy of racial violence and abuse.

Italy- Extreme Right Party "Too many Asian shops" and makes the obituary traders

25-03-2010 20:16 | Anti-racism | World

Extreme Right Party (Roberto Fiore) Forza Nuova in Northern Italy: "Too many Asian shops" and makes the obituary traders

English Defence League MI5 & Special Branch Ploy? Olympics Emergency Measures?

There are a number of articles and blogs claiming that the English Defence League [EDL] are a state founded and state funded trap. People from the left and right wing are saying that the something about EDL doesn't add up. Many are saying [probably rightly] that they are a front for MI5 and Special Branch. If that's the case do Muslims, mosques and others have the right to prosecute MI5 for racism?

Their crime was to be black at the wrong time in the US

24-03-2010 01:35 | Anti-racism | History | Repression | World

As a new film charts the story of the Angola 3, wrongly imprisoned in America’s most notorious penitentiary for 37 years, the documentary’s producer and Big Issue co-founder Gordon Roddick tells of the campaign, started by his late wife Anita, to reverse the injustice

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Listen to an exclusive interview with Ratibor Trivunac of the Belgrade 6

20-03-2010 13:36 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | World

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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.

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.

City Manager bans shack dwellers protest in 'New South Africa'

16-03-2010 12:08 | Anti-racism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The notorious Mike Sutcliffe (manager of has banned another Abahlali baseMjondolo march. We have, as always, scrupulously followed the laws that govern protest and we have informed the City in good time that we intend to march on Jacob Zuma on 22 March 2010. Yesterday the march convenor, Troy Morrow from the Hillary AbM branch, was verbally informed that permission to march has been denied. The excuse that has been given this time is that the City does not have enough police officers to be able to ensure security at our march.

Brazilian Federal Police raids Native village and abducts Chief Babau in Bahia

15-03-2010 19:47 | Anti-racism | Ecology | Globalisation | World

At around two o’clock in the morning on March 10th a group of unidentified armed people entered the Tupinambá Native American Village Serra do Padeiro in the South of the Brazilian state of Bahia and brutalized, threatened with murder, drugged and abducted the local Chief Babau.