UK Indymedia - UK Iraq Newswire Archive

Rough Music Outlawed In Brighton

25-07-2008 12:03

On 23rd July 2008 in Hove Crown Court Judge Hayward and two lay magistrates dismissed the appeal of an anti-arms trade protestor against his conviction under a council bylaw enforced under section 235 of the Local Government Act 1972 which makes it an offence not to desist from shouting, singing, drumming,or playing loud music in a street or public place when asked to do so by a police constable or anyone else. Marcus Wise is the first political protester in Brighton to be convicted under the bylaw since it came into force in 1998.

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State terrorism in Russia, New York, Afghanistan and Iraq

19-07-2008 19:21

Iran/Contra scandal and state involvement in organised crime

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Freedom to Protest Court Case - Smash EDO Protester Appeals Conviction

18-07-2008 10:48

Smash EDO Press Release

18th July 2008

Freedom to Protest Court Case - Smash EDO Protester Appeals Conviction

For more info tel 07875708873, e mail

smashedopress@yahoo.co.uk

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Smash EDO Update

17-07-2008 18:05

Next Big Demo/ Fundraising/ Freedom to Protest Court Case/ 'On the Verge' Screenings

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Army Recruitment Centre Demonstration

15-07-2008 12:11

Peace activists show their objection to the recruitment of young men and women for the war machine outside of an army careers office.

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"Peace Action London" (Thursday 17th July)

09-07-2008 12:01

Time and Place Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008
Time: 1:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Charing Cross
City/Town: London, United Kingdom

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'Squashed Princess DI'!

05-07-2008 22:20

Has anyone seen the images on the outside of East Oxford Community Centre the one on the left looks like a squashed Princess Di and the other is obviously Saddam Hussain ??

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What's going on with the IraqWar.ru webpage??

05-07-2008 22:16

For about 4 days now i haven't access to the site iraqwar.mirror-world.ru or www.iraq-war.ru

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The attack on union rights today, US elections and Iraqi Oil..

01-07-2008 11:08

Meeting: The attack on labour rights today: Iraqi, US and UK union solidarity
against war, occupation and enforced privatisation

US trade union activist and convener of US Labor Against War, Gene Bruskin will be speaking in London this Monday. His home is currently at risk of repossession under mafia legislation being used to try and break the United Food and Commerical Services Union which he works for - see the story here

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/18/business/main3379852.shtml

Alongside him will be Iraqi oil expert Kamil Mahdi, who was in Basra last year for an anti-privatisation conference organised by the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions.

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State-Sponsored Terror: British and American Black Ops in Iraq

29-06-2008 23:10

Shining Light on the "Black World"

In January of 2002, the Washington Post ran a story detailing a CIA plan put forward to President Bush shortly after 9/11 by CIA Director George Tenet titled, "Worldwide Attack Matrix," which was "outlining a clandestine anti-terror campaign in 80 countries around the world. What he was ready to propose represented a striking and risky departure for U.S. policy and would give the CIA the broadest and most lethal authority in its history." The plan entailed CIA and Special Forces "covert operations across the globe," and at "the heart of the proposal was a recommendation that the president give the CIA what Tenet labeled "exceptional authorities" to attack and destroy al Qaeda in Afghanistan and the rest of the world." Tenet cited the need for such authority "to allow the agency to operate without restraint -- and he wanted encouragement from the president to take risks." Among the many authorities recommended was the use of "deadly force."

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Independent Media Coverage of Middle East War: From BAFTA to the Border

29-06-2008 23:06

“Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn." Robert Burns (1759-1796)

On 16th June, Mohammed Omer (24) became the youngest journalist to be presented with the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for journalism, 2008. Omer and Dahr Jamail, two independent correspondents, were co-recipients, for their extraordinary coverage of Gaza and Iraq, respectively. Alone, in dangerous and difficult regions, their writings have towered, dwarfing many household names with mega-media backing. As their colleagues (especially other independents) have been murdered and shot, often by security forces and frequently by unknowns, they ploughed a lone, courageous furrough.

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Mugabe: A legal remedy for the removal of a tyrant

25-06-2008 21:19

Why Britain might have the legal right to invade Zimbabwe and why it probably won't

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John Pilger's keynote from a recent conference on Investigative Journalism

24-06-2008 09:57

On Friday the 13th June 2008 The Chinese Media Centre at Westminster University held a conference into the current state of Investigative Journalism around the globe.

Here is the keynote speech from the event by veteran journalist John Pilger.

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Police attack Police! Thug on anti war demo exposed as police officer

24-06-2008 09:51

Police violence on demo may have been aided by agent provocateurs present in the crowd of Stop the War demonstration against Bush visit.

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film and pics of today's tent city demo in parliament square

22-06-2008 00:39

voicesuk.org organised a 24-hour unauthorised 'tent city' in parliament square which started soon after midday on midsummer's day, the 21st june. they are highlighting the increasing number of iraqi and kurdish refugees being deported from the uk to a war zone which we helped create

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Broken Laws, Broken Lives: The Consequences of Torture

20-06-2008 13:22

Physicians for Human Rights, based in Washington, D.C., has just published a report entitled Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture and its Impact. It presents a very detailed and exhaustive study of the medical evidence of torture by U.S. personnel and its impact on the victimized detainees. The group has effectively documented the systematic use of torture during interrogations at Abu Graib, Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere and they call for an immediate end to the use these illegal and immoral practices.

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Big oil cashes in on Iraq slaughter

20-06-2008 05:33

Four major US, British and French oil companies are getting their hands on the petroleum reserves of Iraq for the first time in 36 years, based on no-bid contracts, the New York Times reported Thursday.

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Anti Arms Protestors Granted Legal Aid After High Court Threat

20-06-2008 00:16

20/06/08

PRESS RELEASE EMBARGO: IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ANTI ARMS PROTESTERS GRANTED LEGAL AID AFTER HIGH COURT THREAT

Contact: Andrew Beckett or Chloe Marsh

07875 708873

smashedopress@yahoo.co.uk

www.smashedo.org.uk

Anti-War Protestors Back In Court

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How to train death squads and quash revolutions from San Salvador to Iraq

18-06-2008 22:03

How to covertly train paramilitaries, censor the press, ban unions, employ terrorists, conduct warrantless searches, suspend habeas corpus, conceal breaches of the Geneva Convention and make the population love it.

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Ex-UK Army Chief in Iraq Confirms Peak Oil Motive for War

18-06-2008 09:28

A former senior British Army official in Iraq, James Ellery, admits the link between peak oil and the Anglo-American occupation of Iraq. Currently director of British security firm and US defence contractor, AEGIS, Ellery also whitewashes the massive corruption in Iraqi reconstruction projects.