UK Anti-militarism Newswire Archive
The US-NATO Conquest of Africa: Militarization of the African Continent
21-03-2010 22:29
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.
Faslane rock painting duo fined
20-03-2010 14:30
H&K blockaders in court
20-03-2010 13:16
Iraqi holocaust, Iraqi genocide and 7th anniversary of invasion of Iraq
20-03-2010 10:40
4.30am police raid that shook a father’s faith in land of free
19-03-2010 17:42
Badi Tebani was sleeping in his bed with his wife at about 4.30am when his door was smashed in and 20 men piled into his home in Finsbury Park.
Speaking to the Tribune yesterday (Thursday), he said: “I heard lots of voices – and the voice of my son. Cries for help. Shouting. I thought it was burglars come to steal from my house. But it was the police.”
Israeli army chief visits Turkey to hold talks on Iran’s nuclear program
19-03-2010 14:24
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
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
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
WAIHOPAI PLOUGHSHARES ACTIVISTS ACQUITTED ON ALL COUNTS BY TRIAL JURY 6.30PM 17/03/10Adrian 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.
NATO'S Fire Sale - One Dead Afghan Child, $2,000
17-03-2010 13:15
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.
Micmacs: A film about direct action against the arms trade
16-03-2010 23:11
The latest film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, director of Amélie, is a wacky caper about a group of oddball characters who decide to take direct action against the arms trade. In it, the products of one Nottingham-based arms company – Heckler & Koch – make a brief appearance.50 face imminent deportation to Iraq
16-03-2010 22:24
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’.
Flashback:How the forgotten city of Halabja became the launchpad for war on Iraq
16-03-2010 18:24
But its precise timing was driven, in large part, by the March 16 anniversary of the poison gas attack on the Iraqi Kurdish town of Halabja. On the fifth and twentieth anniversaries of these two tragic events, a study of the connection between them reveals a deliberate pattern of twisting and fabricating intelligence to meet policy objectives.
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Case of Tristan Anderson may be reopened, adding to Israeli PR 'nightmare'
16-03-2010 12:44
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
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.
Soldiers back from Afghanistan march in Newark
15-03-2010 15:55
what should we do, support or protest?Lebanon: Checkpoints and more (Film)
15-03-2010 13:52
VIDEO: Indigenous activist 'Splitting the Sky' versus war criminal Bush
15-03-2010 12:19
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.
Smash EDO Iraq commemoration
15-03-2010 12:01
Cut Trident not jobs demo in Edinburgh Saturday March 13th 2010
14-03-2010 19:49
