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Revelations of “systemic” torture by British military

The Guardian newspaper has obtained access to training manuals that detail the interrogation techniques used by British military personnel in Iraq. In an exclusive report published Monday, the newspaper quotes from the documents, which are described as an “Introduction to Interrogation and Tactical Questioning”.

Trident is Cancer - Cut It Out

Latest Press Release from Trident Ploughshares about blockade of Devonport Dockyard.

Terror plot - No plane from Yemen

30-10-2010 10:25 | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

No cargo planes flew from Yemen to Chicago - Yemeni air authorities

Devonport Blockade - Press Release

Press Release for the forthcoming blockade of Devonport Dockyard by anti-nuclear campaigners.

WikiLeaks reveals private security contractors killed Iraqis with impunity

WikiLeaks’ release of nearly 400,000 US military documents from operations in Iraq between 2003 and 2009 brings to light new evidence that private security contractors killed civilians with impunity.

British mercenaries not welcome in Switzerland

25-10-2010 14:47 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Terror War | World

The British private military company AEGIS Defence Services has silently relocated its headquarters to the Swiss border city of Basel. In theoretically 'neutral' Switzerland, however, the company's arrival has sparked controversy and opposition.

The Afghan peace talks and the “war on terror”

US and NATO officials revealed earlier this month that they are facilitating talks between senior Taliban leaders and the Afghan government of Hamid Karzai—a regime that Washington and its allies have sustained in power through a nine-year-long counter-insurgency war.

WikiLeaks: the largest classified military leak in history

At 5pm EST Friday 22nd October 2010 WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. The 391,832 reports ('The Iraq War Logs'), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March 2009) as told by soldiers in the United States Army. Each is a 'SIGACT' or Significant Action in the war. They detail events as seen and heard by the US military troops on the ground in Iraq and are the first real glimpse into the secret history of the war that the United States government has been privy to throughout.

Where the Hell is the Progressive Rebel Party?

22-10-2010 18:30 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

Teabaggers are being “bagged” back into the same old two party system—that is not just corrupted but corroded—so the joke will ultimately be on them—exactly in the same way that the joke was on progressives, who equally thought a corporate owned “top-down” Democratic Party was going to deliver a new deal of any kind—even as the bottom up got many of them elected into office.

Hollywood - Weaponised Dream Factory: an Interview with Matthew Alford

Where They Have Holes In Their Souls

We bask in a certain reflected glory from the newspapers we read. To “take” The Times is to be far more intellectual, far more highbrow, than someone who takes the Mail. To read the Mail is to be far more responsible than someone who gawks in the Mirror. A Guardian reader is highbrow with a human face: intellectual, aware, like other “broadsheet” readers, but with a much greater commitment to making the world a better, fairer place. Independent readers share the same commitment, perhaps a little less earnestly.

Coalition Against Austerity Cuts, Downing Street, London - Pictures

21-10-2010 02:00 | Globalisation | Public sector cuts | Terror War | World

On the day the coalition Government announce major and severe cuts in public sector spending in the domestic British economy, and a day after the announcement of an 8% cut in military spending, campaigners against the cuts assemble in London to march on Downing Street to object to the scale of the cuts.

Free Mohammed Hamid. Paintballing is not a crime!

In 2008 Mohammed Hamid was convicted under the terrorism act having gone on a paintballing holiday which was to be filmed for TV. The police have claimed that paintballing is "terrorist training." The "evidence" provided in court included identical statements word for word given by two people and the police claiming that Mohammed was "holding a stick just like people in Iraq."

The War On Terror

19-10-2010 17:43 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

"Pakistan warned Washington against future attacks. However, US military officials, under pressure from Obama to show progress in the endless Afghan war, responded to Pakistan’s warning by calling for expanding the Afghan war into Pakistan. On October 5 the Canadian journalist Eric Margolis wrote that “the US edges closer to invading Pakistan.”

In his book, Obama’s Wars, Bob Woodward reports that America’s puppet president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, believes that terrorist bombing attacks inside Pakistan for which the Taliban are blamed are in fact CIA operations designed to destabilize Pakistan and allow Washington to seize Pakistan’s nuclear weapons. "

Linda Norgrove - another perspective

14-10-2010 08:29 | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

The official story makes no sense. Special forces chuck a grenade at the person they should rescue? Rescue of a Brit carried out by the US? There is more to this story.

English Defence League V Muslim Defence League London rally October 42th

The English Defence League are protesting in support of Israel on October 24th. The anti Semitic Muslim Defence League are also likely to show for this protest as will the Muslim Defence League United We Stand Divided We Fall [SWP].

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/10/464466.html] All anti racists should attend to oppose the fascists outside the Israeli Embassy October 24th

Anarchist prisoner Marco Camenisch has been transferred

11-10-2010 09:41 | Ecology | Repression | Terror War | World

First released by the International Red Aid

BBC reports Nato contractors 'attacking own vehicles' – What is War on Terror?

08-10-2010 03:01 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

Top Secret: There may be times when host country governments show passivity or indecision in the face of [Taliban/AlQaeeda] subversion ... US Army Intelligence must have the means of launching special operations which will convince host country governments and public opinion of the reality of the insurgent danger ... US Army Intelligence should seek to penetrate the insurgency by means of agents of special assignments, with the task of forming special action groups among the most radical elements of the insurgency.