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Anthony Charles Lynton Blair due on trial in the Hague

20-05-2008 06:19

Examination of this picture shows Ali Abbas was subjected to radiated heat
David Halpin looks at the litany of crimes for which former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will have to account sooner or later.

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Call for actions! Don't let Israel celebrate 60 years of occupation

19-05-2008 22:34

SUNDAY 29th JUNE -LONDON & MANCHESTER
Calling all individuals, clowns, groups, journalists, first aiders, legal support, cameras & filmmakers: come along and show your disgust at 'celebrating' a nation built on war, terror and ethnic cleansing. Let's see the thousands who supported the people of Tibet also show their solidarity with the people of Palestine. End all occupations!

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Colombia parades FARC's top female "Karina" - Regional Temperature rising.

19-05-2008 21:01

Nelly Avila Moreno alias "Karina" [a.k.a. 'Janet Mosquera Renteria', 'Rocío Arias' aged 47, 1.60 metres tall and 85kg weight], has been one of the most wanted women on this planet this century. In a different sort of most wanted woman on the planet way to Kate Moss [a.ka. as Kate, aged 34, height 5'6" - 5'7", weight 105lbs]. And the difference is not merely one of metric versus imperial measurements. Whatever you can say about Kate you're not going to suggest she led brigade 47 of the FARC operating in western Colombia credited with narcotraffic operations in Samaná and Pensilvania reliant on plantations of 3,500 hectares. Coz you know you'd get a writ for libel for that. Nor was Kate ever worth 650 million US dollars in reward bounty.

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Public Meeting: Smashing the Arms Trade: Smash EDO Carnival (London bloc)

19-05-2008 13:57

Flier for Smash EDO Carnival
Smashing the Arms Trade: Smash EDO Carnival
London Public meeting: London School of Economics Room A379 (Old
Building), Aldwych, Sunday 25th May, 4-6pm

Map:  http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/findingYourWayAroundLSE.htm

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Smash EDO Activists Denied Legal Aid will Defend themselves in Court

19-05-2008 08:13

19/05/2008

SMASH EDO PRESS RELEASE

Press Contacts - Andrew Beckett or Chloe Marsh

tel 07875708873, email  smashedopress@yahoo.co.uk

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Freedom Rider: America Brings Hell to Somalia

18-05-2008 20:31

Somali Refugees
The U.S. "war on terror" is in fact a war on international law and
civilization, a catch-all category of assaults on the weak. Under the
anti-terror banner, Washington grinds Somalia into the sand, through hi-tech
weaponry and the deployment of Ethiopian surrogates. No more rationale is
offered for murderous aggression in the Horn of Africa than the presence of
people the U.S. calls "Islamists" - a label designed to excuse any and all
American crimes against Muslims. "More than 600,000 Somalis have fled from
their homes and at least 6,000 are dead." The savaging of Somalia is
nonpartisan - Democrats are as bloody-handed as Republicans. "It takes
foolish optimism to think that the willing accomplices to crime will change
their ways when Bush is gone."

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"May we be forgiven for having participated in such a devastating conflict"

18-05-2008 16:57

The following is testimony presented to Congress by Kristofer Shawn Goldsmith on May 15, 2008. While there were several powerful testimonies by several Iraq veterans, all worth watching [1], this one in particular provides a taste of what is actually happening in Iraq, and what soldiers of conscience face upon their return home.


[1]  http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=205390-1&showVid=true

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Brighton EDO Demo

18-05-2008 15:31

Anyone from London going down to Brighton on June 4th to the Smash EDO demo...

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Church of Scotland move to urge UK and US against aggression towards Iran

18-05-2008 09:14

The delegates to the Church of Scotland's general assembly gathered on 15 May were urged to support a resolution that calls on Britain and the United States to take no further action that could lead to an invasion of Iran.

"We will strongly urge the British government to do everything in its power to discourage the American government from undertaking any form of military strike against Iran. And if the Americans ignore that advice, then Britain must make clear its strong opposition for such a move" said Morag Mylne, convenor of the Church and Society Council of the Scottish Presbyterian church.

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Public Meeting about the Carnival Against the Arms Trade this Wednesday

17-05-2008 20:25

shut down the Brighton Bomb Builders...

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American Car-bombs Are Not Terrorism

17-05-2008 17:37

The US terror war is a plan of organized deception that is focused more upon the American people and our democratic allies than it is upon any enemy nation. The cycle of attacks and retribution is part of a psy-ops campaign of fear that is meant to frighten the people into complying with government demands. Everywhere, the American message is the same: “Join us in our crimes against humanity, or perish in our glorious shock and awe.”

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Rumsfeld: Why not another 9/11?

16-05-2008 21:31

In a newly-released tape of a 2006 neocon luncheon meeting featuring former War Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, attended by ex-military "message force multiplier" propaganda shills Lt. General Michael DeLong, David L. Grange, Donald W. Sheppard, James Marks, Rick Francona, Wayne Downing, Robert H. Scales and others, Rumsfeld declared that the American people lack "the maturity to recognize the seriousness of the ‘threats’" -- and need another 9/11.

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Communique from police station attack in Athens

16-05-2008 15:27

The following claim for "Symmories Syneidisis" (Gangs of Conscience) though, was sent to  directactiongr@yahoo.gr together with other newspaper and tv-station mail accounts. Here is a translation:

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Support The Raytheon 9 - Resisting War Crimes Is Not A Crime!

16-05-2008 14:24

Last Month, Davy McAuley from the Raytheon 9 Campaign & Derry Anti-War Movement visited Cardiff to demonstrate against the huge, privatised new UK Military Academy being built by a consortium that includes Raytheon. Our taxes pay - the merchants of death profit!
Raytheon: Not in Our Backyard! Not in Anybody's Backyard! Not on Planet Earth

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US Star Wars Create Uproar In Europe

16-05-2008 10:45

As part of the campaign against the Missile Defence Shield (Son of Ronald Regan's Star Wars) that the US is developing, leading to a new arms race and a new Cold War, breaking the Non Proliferation Treaty and against the wishes of the majority of people in Europe, Humanist activists in Czech Republic and other European countries are starting hunger strikes and other actions to prevent the Czech installation of an US Radar base.

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Is Melanie Phillips a war criminal?

16-05-2008 08:34

"The prerequisite for stabilising all these hotspots — including “Israel/Palestine” — and dealing with global Islamic terror is regime change in Tehran."

So says loyal british citizen Melanie ...

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May 11th 2008 - International Day of Truth Action - Video and Photos

15-05-2008 21:28

Video San Francisco Convergence
Video from the London protest on Oxford Street and at Speakers' Corner and photos from protests around the world from the autonomous grassroots campaign for International Days of Truth Action on the Eleventh Day of Every Month until Justice.

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The Senator, His Pastor and the Israel Lobby

15-05-2008 09:29

Obama managed to inject pro-Israel, anti-"radical Islam" remarks into his speech on race relations in the U.S. He speaks of a history of "tensions" between African Americans and Jewish Americans, but fails to trace these conflicts to Israel's support for apartheid South Africa.

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US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all

14-05-2008 16:31

In a sharp reversal of its longstanding accusations against Iran arming militants in Iraq , the US military has made an unprecedented albeit quiet confession: the weapons they had recently found in Iraq were not made in Iran at all.