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  • Those Libyan Atrocities: Do They Really Stand Up?
    26 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    In war, accounts of atrocities need to be treated with scepticism. Surveying a battlefield where he had once fought, the great Confederate general Stonewall Jackson turned to an aide and asked: "Did you ever think, sir, what an opportunity a battlefield affords liars?"
    He meant that in war people, motivated by fear, self-interest or a simple desire to make sense of a confusing and terrifying situation, make things up. And in the midst of a fast-moving conflict it is more than usually (…)

  • Amnesty Questions Claim That Gaddafi Ordered Rape as Weapon of War
    26 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Human rights organizations have cast doubt on claims of mass rape and other abuses perpetrated by forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, which have been widely used to justify Nato’s war in Libya.
    Nato leaders, opposition groups and the media have produced a stream of stories since the start of the insurrection on February 15, claiming the Gaddafi regime has ordered mass rapes, used foreign mercenaries and employed helicopters against civilian protesters.
    An investigation by Amnesty (…)

  • CAMERON AND OBAMA: THE WAR WILL GO ON FOR YEARS
    26 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Growing public opposition to war here and in the US is starting to have an impact on the politicians. But whatever the spin this week by Obama and Cameron, the reality is the war in Afghanistan will continue for at least another four years, with ever escalating loss of Afghan civilian and military lives. Thousands are going to die in a war that has no credible purpose or viable "exit strategy", outside of an increasingly desperate search for a way to get out without the US and its allies (…)

  • 26 June UN Anti-Drugs Day: 1 million dead from US-backed Afghan opium industry, 200,000 (US), 11,900 (UK)
    26 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    26 June is the UN-decreed International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, this date commemorating Chinese hero Lin Zexu’s dismantling of the opium trade in Humen, Guangdong, an event that was a catalyst for the First Opium War of Britain versus China. Today Britain is complicit in the US Alliance restoration of the US-protected, Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry that now kills 100,000 people annually around the world.
    In 2003 the Australian National Drug Research (…)

  • Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) versus Bliderberg: Where are Real Decisions Being Made?
    23 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) versus Bliderberg: Where are Real Decisions Being Made?
    by Eric Walberg Global Research, June 22, 2011
    As the Western elite gathered in picturesque St Moritz to grapple with pressing world crises, the outsiders met in the bleak steppes of Central Asia.
    Last week’s 10th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in the Kazakh capital Astana highlighted how the major rivals to empire, led by Russia and China — themselves rivals, are trying to (…)

  • SATURDAY’S CONFERENCE POINTS THE WAY FORWARD
    15 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Last Saturday Stop the War organised a very successful conference on Afghanistan and the war on terror. Over 300 people turned up on the day to discuss the issue and to attend a number of sessions including on the aftermath of the war in Iraq, the Middle East uprisings, working round parliament, women and war, imperialism and art and war. The audience represented the diversity of the anti war movement with an especially good representation of young people. Discussions involved a wide range (…)

  • “Churchill’s Secret War" by Madhusree Mukerjee - Churchill’s WW2 Bengali Holocaust (6-7 million killed)
    13 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Below is a review of “Churchill’s Secret War. The British Empire and the ravaging of India during World War II” by Madhusree Mukerjee. This book exposes how Churchill deliberately murdered 4 million Bengalis in 1942-1945, killing 6-7 million Indians in Bengal and adjoining provinces).
    The important and very readable book “Churchill’s Secret War. The British Empire and the ravaging of India during World War II” by Madhusree Mukerjee (Basic Books, New York, 2010) is an account of the (…)

  • Why is the United States waging perpetual war against the Cuban people’s health system?
    11 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    In January the government of the United States of America saw fit to seize $4.207 million in funds allocated to Cuba by the United Nations Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for the first quarter of 2011, Cuba has charged. The UN Fund is a $22 billion a year program that works to combat the three deadly pandemics in 150 countries. 3
    "This mean-spirited policy," the Cuban government said, "aims to undermine the quality of service provided to the Cuban population and to (…)

  • War Criminal Condoleeza Rice at Stanford University (video)
    11 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Wow that was powerful, some people have the courage to speak up about the real truth & most others just act like sheep as ussual.
    That Condolizza Troll Animal said to everyone in that room to go to hell, well thats her showing her true colors hey..
    Well then hopefully she’ll burn in hell....

  • Palestine : Yes, we come ! (video)
    11 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Palestine :
    Yes, we come !