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Wrongheaded UN vote on Syria: US-NATO "arm twisting" at the UN General Assembly

On February 4, Russia and China vetoed the Arab League's one-sided Syria resolution (SC/10536). It illegitimately called for Assad to step down.

Under international law, no nation or combination thereof, may interfere in the internal affairs of others, except in self-defense if attacked.

Western pressure often gets nations to violate international law and their own non-intervention pledges. When they don't, Washington, rogue NATO partners, and complicit allies wage aggressive war on their own.

In 1999, without Security Council authorization, nonbelligerent Yugoslavia was lawlessly attacked and ravaged. Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya followed. Perhaps Syria's next, then Iran, no matter the threat to humanity.

Italy, Occupy Pisa: Via La Pergola evicted, the occupations continue!

19-02-2012 18:49 | World

For background info and context on the Occupy Pisa past successes read this old article on

http://italycalling.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/occupy-pisa-take-back-the-neighboroughood/

Brought to Justice? Rendition, torture, indefinite detention and death by drones

Audio excerpted from a 2.5 hour Free Speech Radio fundraising special on KFPA. If you can spare a dime to help keep this invaluable resource going, please visit their site for details of how to donate.

Contributors included Andy Worthington who spoke about how courts in DC have watered down the Habeus Corpus rights which the Supreme Court said detainees were entitled to. As a result the only detainees to leave Gitmo in the last 13 months have been in coffins, despite the fact that over half the detained have been cleared for release. Special mention of Shaker Amer, the last British resident still being helf.

Ongoing solidarity with the NO TAV arrestees (Italy)

19-02-2012 15:47 | Ecology | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Update on NO TAV arrestees, solidarity initiatives and ways to support them - includes updated address list of people still in prison

If not the governments, people around the world do speak: protect Khader Adnan

19-02-2012 03:28 | Palestine | Policing | Repression | World

I have heard of Israel’s “men of peace” and “democracy” from the news since I was a child. I, however, have never felt or seen anything that could relate to such false, and indeed, useless allegations. As I write this, Gaza drowns in darkness. I write as a frenzied power generator roars upstairs causing not only an irritating noise but further damage to the environment too.

One cannot but fear death. On his sixty fourth day of going on a hunger strike, Khader Adnan insists to look death in the eye and refuses to submit to an Apartheid regime that continues to find interest in upholding laws that blatantly contradict the internationally recognized humanitarian law.

Indignation for Pinheirinho

19-02-2012 03:16 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

30 January 2012 (Brazil-Rio de Janeiro) Pedro Rios Leão´s Hunger strike

Translated from the original Portuguese by Kevin Lynch

— There is a brilliant commentary from Paulo Halm (brazilian movie maker) below. Because, if it was Yoani Sánchez handcuffed to a post in Havana and on hunger strike in front of the ´Palace of the Revolution´ asking from the world justice and democracy, Globo (and all of the mainstream press), in the face of any embargo, would send a correspondent to Cuba sending live feeds from the locale or going even further still without and loosing the realism, would make, let us see... a reality TV show! But no, my friends, Pedro is only a Brazilian asking for justice and democracy in the most democratic country in South America, the location of Rio +20, the Olympic Games as well as being the 5th largest economy in the world.

PLM Statement on increased US military presence in the Philippines

18-02-2012 14:53 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

PLM Calls for an Independent Foreign Policy and a Non-Aligned ASEAN

Greece: Steelwork strikers welcome neo-Nazis

18-02-2012 11:15 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Taken from Contra Info:

Aspropyrgos, Attica: Neo-Nazis ‘support’ the Greek Steelworks strikers, and workers’ spokesmen and several other strikers welcome the scum warmly, instead of kicking their ass

The Guardian newspaper funds Huxley’s ‘Children:Our Ultimate Investment'

The Guardian newspaper funds Huxley’s ‘Children: Our Ultimate Investment’. 'Children: Our Ultimate Investment' includes 'Project Caressing' which instructs toddlers to be tactile with elderly men. Liability issues ended this in the US, but Laura Huxley's 'Children: Our Ultimate Investment' is doing well in the UK.

What is Facebook doing to us?

16-02-2012 22:47 | Analysis | Culture | Technology | World

4 Months ago, after years of resisting, I finally joined Facebook for the first time. Half social experiment, half wanting to know what I was missing I concluded that in fact I was right and Facebook is bad news.

Democracy or Plutocracy?

16-02-2012 20:36 | Analysis | World

1. We'll have "crisis" at all times, which always end in unemployment and misery for ordinary people and in awards of thousands of thousands of millions in cash to speculators and bankers, who are invariably the meticulous builders of those "crises". Governments, led by politicians always financed by these gentlemen, dutifully will pass them the hard-earned money from the taxpayer crowd.

Palestine Today 02 16 2012

16-02-2012 17:43 | Indymedia | Other Press | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday February 16th, 2012

Hinkley Point Barnstormers - Occupiers aim to stop EDF land trash

"shannonsmy23" writes:

"This film gives an account of the first few days of the occupation of Langborough Farm on the site of one of the proposed 'new wave' of Nuclear Reactors, at Hinkley point in Somerset. The activists took occupancy in the early hours of Sunday the 12th of February and are settling in to their new home and community."

Check out this great vid of the opening days of the occupation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfW-Kv6IWEI

UN 'Travesty': Resolutions Of Mass Destruction - Part 2

16-02-2012 12:28 | Analysis | Terror War | Sheffield | World

Part one can be found here, part two follows.

Ethical human rights, development, globalization needed to replace Neoliberalism

16-02-2012 09:43 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

It is argued that top-down, bureaucratic neoliberalism threatens to seriously slow the rebuilding of Christchurch, New Zealand's second largest city, after devastating earthquakes. An ethical approach to human rights, development and globalization should replace neoliberalism

Toussaint Louverture

16-02-2012 09:26 | Analysis | World

Constat de propagation de fausses nouvelles ...

Global 24 hours of action for Tasmania's forests

16-02-2012 01:09 | Ecology | World

Yesterday people from around the world took peaceful action in support of Miranda Gibson in the Observertree and the ongoing struggle for Tasmania's forests.

NATO's "secret war" on Syria: British Special Forces supporting rebels

In January, Michel Chossudovsky reported British media confirming UK/CIA/MI6 operatives in Syria training anti-Assad Western-backed insurgents. They're also supplying them with arms, ammunition, and equipment. The Libyan model's being replicated in Syria, so far short of bombing.