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  • Libya: a deafening silence
    11 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    So now we are sending Apache jets to bomb Libyan civilians. An escalation in yet another bloody NATO war. Or, in the words of Colonel Jason Etherington, “it just brings something else to the party.”
    The entire media have fallen into line. This is a war to protect civilians. This is a war to force Gaddafi to leave. As if Western governments, with their proud histories of human rights abuses across the world, have any moral right to make judgements on the government of Libya. (…)

  • ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS AGAINST WAR (VIDEO)
    11 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    We are particularly pleased that prominent artists and musicians
    who have been long-time supporters of Stop the War Coalition will
    be at Saturday’s Afghanistan and the War on Terror conference.
    They will be leading a much anticipated session on the role of
    art in the anti-war movement.
    The artists include David Gentleman, whose "blood-spot" posters
    and placards for our demonstrations and events have gained
    worldwide renown; Peter Kennard and Cat (…)

  • NATO official: Gadhafi a legitimate target
    10 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A U.N. resolution justifies the targeting of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, a senior NATO military official with operational knowledge of the Libya mission told CNN Thursday.
    Asked by CNN whether Gadhafi was being targeted, the NATO official declined to give a direct answer. The resolution applies to Gadhafi because, as head of the military, he is part of the control and command structure and therefore a legitimate target, the official said.
    NATO has been ramping up pressure on the (…)

  • NDP MP Retracts Support of Flotilla
    9 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    "Quebec NDP MP Alexandre Boulerice has yanked his support of a humanitarian flotilla bound for Gaza this month following media coverage about the endorsement and a’conversation’ with party leader Jack Layton.."
    http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/06/08...
    Urgent: Contact MPs NOW to Support the Canadian Boat to Gaza
    http://www.tahrir.ca/en/content/urg...
    "...members of the coalition and the opposition are loyal friends to us, both with regard to their worldview and their estimation of the (…)

  • Holocaust denial, commission & ignoring & Genocide denial, commission & ignoring by Apartheid Australia
    9 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mainstream politicians and media in look-the-other-way Apartheid Australia have an entrenched culture of self-censorship and censorship. Indeed this Mainstream lying by omission and commission obtains in all the other Western Murdochracies and Lobbyocracies, pseudo democracies in which :money buys truth”, “money buys perception” and “money buys votes”.
    The Age newspaper, Melbourne, Australia, of the Fairfax media empire, is arguably the most progressive of Australia’s Mainstream media but (…)

  • BRICS: Push for Fair World Order
    8 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    BRICS: Push for Fair World Order
    BY INDER MALHOTRA
    DURING its short existence, BRICS, an association of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, has made an impressive showing. Initially consisting of the first four countries and known as BRIC, the association had held its first summit at Yekaterinburg in Russia in the summer of 2009.
    The next year the second summit took place at Brasilia, and the latest and the third at Sanya in the Chinese island of Hainan. It was here that (…)

  • (videos) The cluster bombing of Misrata: The case against the USA
    7 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    The ongoing HRI investigation of the use of cluster munitions in Misrata in April 2011 has found convincing evidence the bombing was committed by US naval forces.
    The bombing of Misrata
    On the 15th April 2011, during the day, sub-munitions of a MAT-120 cluster munition were shown to Human Rights Watch (HRW) and C.J. Chivers, a journalist for the New York Times, in Misrata. On that evening, during ongoing clashes between rebel and loyalist forces, Human Rights Watch workers witnessed 3 or (…)

  • Letter to Australian MPs & Media re pro-Zionist Australia, Apartheid Israel & latest Israeli atrocity
    7 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    A noisy debate erupted in Australia recently because Greens Senator-elect Lee Rhiannon supported Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Apartheid Israel. Lee Rhiannon was attacked by the Australian Liberal Party-National Party Coalition Opposition and the Australian Labor Party Government (aka the Lib-Labs) who support anti-democratic, race-based, genocidal, war criminal, racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel.
    On the Australian taxpayer-funded ABC TV Q&A program (6 June 2011: (…)

  • WAS MY SON’S DEATH IN AFGHANISTAN A PRICE WORTH PAYING?
    6 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Six British soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan in the last ten days. The father of one of them asked in an article in the Independent if his son’s death had been "a price worth paying", to which a serving soldier on leave from Afghanistan wrote in reply an emphatic "no". (SEE http://bit.ly/kL3f9b )
    During that time, nineteen US soldiers were also killed, along with other casualties among the Nato invading armies.
    As always, we do not have accurate (…)

  • Our Tahrir Square: DC’s Freedom Plaza on October 6th
    6 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    When other nations’ governments go off track, their people do something about it. In Tunisia and Egypt people have nonviolently claimed power in a way that has inspired Americans in Wisconsin and other states, as well as the people of Spain and the rest of the world.
    Washington, D.C., is the weakest point in our democracy, without which state-level reform cannot succeed. Most Americans want our wars ended, our corporations and billionaires taxed, and our rights expanded rather than (…)