World Iraq Newswire Archive

This is Fuck the War Coalition, and we want to bring the war home to those who profit from imperialism.

This morning we attacked 4 targets around Edinburgh on the 5th anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq.

It is estimated that over 5 million Iraqis will be denied assistance!

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"This weeks Indy Global Report was edited in a 600 year old Turkish bath in the West bank city of Nablus. Amidst shisha pipes and steam,and men watching football, awaiting massage, concentration proved tough but not as tough as the guests on this week's Indy Global Reports.

Camera man Carlos Handal describes about covering Thursday's house demolition In Bethlehem, from under the green lazer sights of Israeli Snipers, he still managed to come away with the footage.

Reuters camera man, Nablus-ite, Hassan Teeti, talks about his work as a war camera man in Palestine and Baghdad.

This week in Palestine from IMEMC.org, brings you a general round up of news from across the West Bank and Gaza.

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10th March 2008

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Anti-Arms Trade Campaigners on trial for singing 'We are the Champions'

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06/03/2008

Smash EDO protesters prevent delivery companies supporting war crimes in Iraq.

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Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

Week 2 of Boomchucka Circus 2 Iraq's antics....

In a major step for the U.S. labor movement, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) has announced that it will shut down West Coast ports on May 1, to demand an immediate end to the war and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Middle East. This is the first time in decades that an American union has decided to undertake industrial action against a U.S. war. The action announced by the powerful West Coast dock workers union, to stop work to stop the war, should be taken up by unions and labor organizations throughout the United States and internationally. And the purpose of such actions should be not to beg the bourgeois politicians whose hands are covered with blood, having voted for every war budget for six and a half years, but a show of strength of the working people who make this country run, and who can shut it down!

Ben Griffin, former SAS soldier's banned speech to Stop the War conference in London on Thursday 28 February on Britain's involvement in extraordinary rendition. A gagging order was put on him immediately afterwards.

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

Pics from the corporate pirates' tour of the capital on the 'Hands Off Iraqi Oil' International Day of Action, Saturday 23 February 2008. They were protesting against the multinational oil companies' ongoing attempts to profit from the occupation and death of an estimated million people in Iraq by plundering the country's oil resources; a move strongly opposed by the Iraqi oil workers' unions and general populace.

In the Inquisition-scale horrors, inflicted upon Iraq, since a month short of five years ago, the ghosts of the Western-imposed human cull over the previous thirteen years - from life's dawn, to those in its twilight - sometimes, very temporarily, briefly flicker and fade slightly, in the light of another immediate atrocity of enormity. They always return, as they must, in a sight, a scent, a phrase, a 'phone call. Reminders of sins of overwhelming enormity in high places, as Washington and Whitehall bleat about their infantile 'war on terror' and 'rogue states'.

Western public opinion has been misled. Unfolding events and realities on the ground in the former Yugoslavia have been carefully manipulated.

Germany and the U.S. have deep-seated geo-strategic interests in dividing Yugoslavia. Washington, D.C. and Berlin have also been the first governments to recognize the secessionist states, which resulted from the breakup of the Yugoslav federation.

The incursions on civil liberties in the United States in the past 25 years, and particularly since 9-11, are mind-boggling. It matters not whether you are a Democrat or Republican, rich or poor, conservative or liberal, you have been deprived of substantial freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, unnecessarily, in the War on Terrorism. Fear the loss, perceive the danger, and do something about it!

The calendar may say 2008, but, increasingly, we’re living in 1984. America may not have concentration camps yet, but we’re sure enough working on ‘em.

Protestors demonstrate against B.A.E tank factory.

This article gives some of the background of the current US imperial quagmire from an autonomous class war perspective.

Members of We Are Change UK attended the QPR vs Burnley football game on 12 February 2008 to protest against Alastair Campbell, who is a lifelong Burnley fan and was in the crowd.

In America even if the Democrats win, the progressive peace movement needs to continue to “bear witness” to the crimes that our government, the CIA, and the Pentagonians are committing in foreign lands against people that have never harmed or attacked America.

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.