16-10-2008 19:39
Remember the attack on the U.S. embassy in Yemen last month that took
the lives of eighteen people? A group calling themselves "Islamic Jihad"
claimed responsibility for the blast. It has a nice, scary ring to it hasn't
it? "Islamic Jihad" also happens to be the name of a group that operates
out of Gaza.
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14-10-2008 17:59
On October 1 the US launched AFRICOM, the Pentagon's outpost in Africa.
Commanded by a Black American general and incorporating State Department and
other civilian personnel from top to bottom it is billed as a "new kind" of
US military command.
Incorporating nearly all US civilian programs in Africa under its umbrella,
from trade to aid to public information, AFRICOM marks the militarization of
US policy toward what is already the most war-torn region in the world.
AFRICOM's planners offer their twelve year intervention in Somalia, where a
million out of ten million have died due to US intervention, as a "model"
for the continent.
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14-10-2008 15:32
It's hard to keep track of two mega-thieves at the same time. "The defense
bill is every bit as wasteful and just as much a harbinger of doom as the
much discussed Wall Street bailout, but has elicited hardly any debate, even
from progressives." And, just as with the bailout bill, Democrats in
Congress are ever ready to run up the white flag. "The collective popular
revulsion at the very presence of Bush in the White House has never stopped
Democratic party capitulation." War begets war. "Not only is military
spending completely unproductive, but it increases the likelihood of further
American acts of aggression.
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12-10-2008 19:58
US/NATO bombs kill about ten times more Afghan civilians with a ton of our
"precision" bombs than we killed Serbs in 1999. More than 80% of Afghan
civilian deaths today caused by the US/NATO are due to close air support
attacks. They (Afghans) are only worth one-tenth of an Alaskan sea otter
rather than forty camels. We spend ten dollars on the military in
Afghanistan to pursue our geo-strategic aims and less than $1 on
reconstructing the everyday lives of Afghans devastated by thirty years of
war.
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08-10-2008 23:45
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sections 132-138 of the 'serious organised crime and police act' sought to control demonstrations near parliament, and specifically brian haw's seven year vigil opposite the carriage gates. the law is in tatters, but police, unable to use these powers, are resorting more and more to unlawful violence, intimidation, and harassment
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05-10-2008 12:34
The Menezes family is shocked by the news of Sir Ian Blair's resignation, as it comes in the middle of the inquest into Jean's death.
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03-10-2008 15:01
We've had our fingers in a lot of pies and have come up with a neat little show this Friday (October 3rd) - Broadcasting for the first time from the London Activist Resource Centre (LARC) tonight's show promises to be a goodun so listen in from 9-11(ish)
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01-10-2008 11:55
Sunday 5th October sees the first monthly Peace Procession (next one on 2nd Nov). It will be a gathering of peaceful people of all faiths and none. It is also the first launch of a worldwide Peace Petition. All are welcome.
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WERE YOU ON THE GEORGE BUSH DEMO 15 JUNE 2008?
POST-ACTION ARRESTS ARE TAKING PLACE - THE LONDON PAPER HAS PRINTED A POLICE APPEAL - KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!
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John Pilger introduces, updates and answers questions on his film "Breaking the Silence - Truth and Lies in the War on Terror"
Friday Sept 26 Logan Hall Central London
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At about 3.30am this morning political activists with tipper trucks blocked the entrances to Israeli company Carmel Agrexco.
The tipper trucks dumped builders rubble across both gates of the company headquarters in Hayes; similar barriers are common in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Carmel Agrexco is a 50 percent Israeli state owned fresh produce importer, and much of this produce comes from illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Jordan Valley. In fact, 70 percent of all illegal settlement exports are made by Carmel Agrexco.
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26-09-2008 19:37
Film showing: 'Fool Me Twice' – a documentary film about the Bali bombings of 12 October 2002.
The film will be followed by a general discussion on the 'war on terror' and
progress of the 9/11 Truth movement on the 7th anniversary of the atrocities.
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The next Peace Action is taking place ot this thursday.
Come and join in! We'll be meeting outside Holborn Tube Station @ 1PM, before heading to an army careers office.
For more info, please contact:
peaceactionlondon@riseup.net
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23-09-2008 12:22
The Global Economy - Past, Present and Future (24 Sep at 9:30 pm)
A Debate - Should We Re-open the 9/11 Enquiry? (25 Sep at 9 pm)
The Rise of 21st Century Fascism & 'Corporatism' (26 Sep at 9 pm)
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20-09-2008 19:41
The next Peace Action is taking place on Thursday 25th September.
Come and join in! We'll be meeting outside Holborn Tube Station @ 1PM, before heading to an army careers office.
For more info, please contact:
peaceactionlondon@riseup.net
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18-09-2008 11:50
More than 50 activists turned up for an emergency picket of the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square London on Wednesday 17 Sept called at short notice by the Bolivia Solidarity Campaign and Hands off Venezuela, with the support of Equadorians in the UK, Colombia Solidarity Campaign and Global Women's Strike.
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18-09-2008 10:22
The next Peace Action is taking place on Thursday 25th September.
Come and join in! We'll be meeting outside Holborn Tube Station @ 1PM, before heading to an army careers office.
For more info, please contact:
peaceactionlondon@riseup.net
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18-09-2008 09:02
Yesterday, Father Martin Newell of The London Catholic Worker was sentenced to prison for wilfully refusing to pay a fine at Highbury and Islington Magistrates Court.
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16-09-2008 04:21
SOLIDARITY activists will join diplomats, MPs and trade union leaders for a rally tomorrow night after demonstrating against US plans to overthrow the progressive governments in Bolivia and Venezuela.
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15-09-2008 17:22
London CAAT (Campaign Against the Arms Trade) led around 25 people on a free walking tour of the offices of major arms dealers and corporate mercenaries in Westminster on Saturday 13 September.
Pictures (C) Peter Marshall, 2008, all rights reserved.
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