London Anti-militarism Newswire Archive

13-10-2004 20:28

New Peace Not War CD and Free Concert at ESF

The NEW PEACE NOT WAR CD will be released at the European Social Forum in London this weekend, at a FREE CONCERT in Tufnell Park. All the music can be heard for free on the online Peace Jukebox. Read more >>

13-10-2004 19:28

Abdullah Muhsin and the Iraqi Working Class.

While protesting that they oppose the occupation, the IFTU have gone out of their way to drum up support for Iyad Allawi, subvert British trade union policies against the occupation, and urge trade union delegates to the Labour conference to vote for the prolongation of the occupation (which, comically enough, the person responsible manages to deny despite documentary proof being available to all)... who are the IFTU and what is motivating them?
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13-10-2004 17:46

14 October - Fairford Coaches case at the Court of Appeal

Does the High Court uphold the right to protest in the UK? No, in February the courts ruled that Police can prevent a group from attending a demonstration when no one within the group has committed an offence or is actively threatening to do so. Read more >>

12-10-2004 21:26

FBI's Anti-Terror "October Plan"

The FBI set out last month to conduct special "extraordinary measures" operations during October. Was this week's Indymedia server seizure part of these "measures"? And what's next?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/17/eveningnews/main644096.shtml
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11-10-2004 20:07

Official Press release and photos from action at Downing St today

Today, over twenty activists from Trident Ploughshares and Theatre of War locked themselves inside a 45 foot long replica of a Trident sub and blocked the gates of downing street for over five hours. Read more >>

11-10-2004 13:41

Submarine lock-on still in situ!

After 4 hours, activists are still locked on to model Trident submarine outide Downing Street. "Negotiations" are rumoured to be talking place with the Met over dismantling it (rather than destroying it ... hmmmm... we will see). Read more >>

11-10-2004 13:37

The Real Reasons Why Iran is the Next Target

The Iranians are about to commit an offense far greater than Saddam Hussein's conversion to the euro for his oil exports back in the fall of 2000. In March 2005 Iran is going to start competing with New York's NYMEX and London's IPE with respect to international oil trades - using a euro-based international oil-trading mechanism. What does that mean? It means that without some sort of US intervention (likely covert, but possibly overt), the euro is going to establish a firm foothold in the international oil trade in 2005 - which given U.S. debt levels and the neoconservative desire for U.S. global domination - provides a rather problematic situation. Indeed, numerous articles have revealed Pentagon planning for operations against Iran in 2005. The publicly stated reasons will be over Iran's nuclear ambitions, but the unspoken macroeconomic issues explain the Real Reasons regarding the 2nd stage of petrodollar warfare - Iran's upcoming oil Bourse. Read more >>

10-10-2004 20:16

Declaration of Independence Calton Hill 9th October 2004.

This is a 1,600 word report with photos of the Declaration of Independence on Edinburgh's Calton Hill on Saturday October 9th 2004. This was the alternative to the bowing and scraping on the Royal Mile that same day. Read more >>

10-10-2004 14:23

Video: The brutal murder and decapitation of British hostage Kenneth Bigley

Bigley makes a final statement to the camera. Read more >>

08-10-2004 21:55

Fairford Coach case in Court of Appeal next week!

The Fairford coach case is at the Court of Appeal next week. The coach detainees will be taking the police to court once again over the basic human right to protest and the right not to be detained. The following press release recently appeared on the Fairford Coach Action website.

(For fun, also see -

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/10/298742.html) Read more >>

06-10-2004 22:30

Samarra then (2001) and now.

This is a short account with photos of Samarra during my visit in 2001 and how it appears to be now under US bombardment. Read more >>

06-10-2004 21:07

HALLIBURTON DOWN UNDER Broadcast Transcript (Australian Dateline)

Halliburton's Australian no-bid defence contracts,local infrastructure involvement televised in Oz for the first time Read more >>

05-10-2004 18:31

Stupidity: Another outrageous movie starring Bush

For your entertainment! Read more >>

04-10-2004 16:38

"Stupidity" coming to UK

Stupidity, the hit Bush-bashing film is playing one night at Raindance Film Festival in London this week.

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04-10-2004 14:34

Water denied to 500,000 Iraqis

The US army has cut off water supplies to 500,000 Iraqi civilians in Samarrah and Tall Afar. Read more >>

02-10-2004 17:29

Blair Has Lost His Grip, In the end we’ll give in to terrorists, so why not now

Two salient facts define the national political predicament this autumn. The first is a growing sense of disquiet about Tony Blair. Experts often speak of the lack of ‘trust’ which shows up in opinion polls. But there is more to it than that. People are beginning to sense that there is something rum about this Prime Minister, and that he is no longer quite 16 annas to the rupee.

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Paul Robinson says the Tories are so frightened of challenging Blair on the war that their favourite think-tank will not tolerate dissent.

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At the time of writing, the hostage Ken Bigley, so far as we know, lives. While he endures his ordeal, the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary said that they could not negotiate with his tormentors. That would be to ‘give in to terrorism’. Those — who must include Mr Blair and Mr Straw, as well as the rest of us — who want so much for Mr Bigley to live must rely on intermediaries such as the two eloquent Muslims from Britain who have gone to Iraq to do what they can. Read more >>

02-10-2004 09:31

America and Israel: the embedding of fear, the conquest of hope

As Israeli and American fortunes become ever more entwined it gives hope to the Armageddonists who seek the Rapture and the destruction of the unsaved. Will that mean that America isn't going to leave Iraq? Doesn't look like it, does it? Read more >>

01-10-2004 20:45

Fairford Coaches go to the Court of Appeal

The British Court of Appeal is hearing the case of 120 coach passengers who had their human rights violated on 22 March 2003 when they tried to attend an anti-war demonstration. The passengers were prevented from attending the demonstration by police who searched the coaches, then turned the passengers away from the legal demonstration, and illegally detained the passengers for more than 2 hours. This is first time the Human Rights Act has been used in Britain to challenge a police detentions of activists. Read more >>

01-10-2004 17:49

Antimilitarists demonstrate at Army event

Protest against "London’s largest Army recruitment event" Read more >>

01-10-2004 16:04

Moazzam Begg Tortured in Guantanamo

Read the full letter from Moazzam Begg and the press release from his lawyers... Read more >>