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  • Video: Former SAS soldier Ben Griffin speech to World Against War rally
    14 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Stop the War Admin
    "As of 1940hrs 29/02/08 I have been placed under an injunction preventing me from speaking publicly and publishing material gained as a result of my service in UKSF (SAS).
    I will be continuing to collect evidence and opinion on British Involvement in extraordinary rendition, torture, secret detentions, extra judicial detention, use of evidence gained through torture, breaches of the Geneva Conventions, breaches of International Law and failure to abide by our (…)

  • John Pilger: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror (video, 52’, HQ Copy)
    14 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bullfrog Films
    John Pilger dissects the truth and lies in the ’war on terror’. Award-winning journalist John Pilger investigates the discrepancies between American and British claims for the ’war on terror’ and the facts on the ground as he finds them in Afghanistan and Washington, DC. In 2001, as the bombs began to drop, George W. Bush promised Afghanistan "the generosity of America and its allies".
    Now, the familiar old warlords are regaining power, religious fundamentalism is renewing (…)

  • Iraq Invasion 5th Anniversary - UK writer Tariq Ali PROTESTS Iraqi Genocide
    14 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Outstanding South Asian UK writer, historian, journalist and film-maker Tariq Ali (author of “Clash of Fundamentalisms” and many other books: ) has written a powerful statement on the ongoing Iraqi genocide on the occasion of the approaching 5th anniversary of the war criminal UK, US and Australian invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003: .
    This is the statement to the World by outstanding South Asian-British writer Tariq Ali:
    QUOTE: “Now we know the exact costs of war and occupation. It (…)

  • IRAQ : Join the global protests - demonstrate 15 March (Invasion 5th Anniversary
    13 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Join the global protests - demonstrate 15 March
    Assemble 12 noon, Trafalgar Square, London
    Troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan Don’t attack Iran End the siege of Gaza
    "I really hope that on 15 March people will join the demonstration in Trafalgar Square at 12. To march against the war and march against the continued occupation which has come from this war. It had a rotten basis and nothing good will come of it." Nick Broomfield, Documentary film maker
    On his recent trip to the (…)

  • IRAQ INVASION 5th ANNIVERSARY /ONE MINUTES SILENCE ON MARCH 20TH
    13 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ONE MINUTES SILENCE ON MARCH 20TH (from STOPWAR.UK)
    Stop the War is asking people to organise and observe one minutes silence on the exact anniversary of the invasion of Iraq Thursday March 20 at Midday. There will also be a protest at Downing Street on that day starting at 11.30am.
    FOR UPDATES : http://www.stopwar.org.uk/

  • Pentagon Cancels Release Of Controversial Iraq Report
    13 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.mcclatchydc.com/244/story/30172.html
    George W. Bush is responsible for the deaths of over 1 million innocent men, women and children! Saddam Hussein had his neck strecthed and Sheikh Usama Bin Laden is still safe, sound and "Determined to Strike in US."
    http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=salem_bin_laden
    http://tinyurl.com/3bt7lg
    "Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh." Jorge Arbusto

  • IRAQ : Childhood Is Dying - Dahr Jamail and Ahmed Ali*
    10 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    iInter-Press Service (IPS)
    BAQUBA, Mar 10 (IPS) - Iraq’s children have been more gravely affected by the U.S. occupation than any other segment of the population.
    The United Nations estimated that half a million Iraqi children died during more than 12 years of economic sanctions that preceded the U.S. invasion of March 2003, primarily as a result of malnutrition and disease.
    But childhood malnutrition in Iraq has increased 9 percent since then, according to an Oxfam International (…)

  • Join the global protests - demonstrate 15 March (stopwar.org.uk)
    8 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Wednesday, 30 January 2008 Assemble 12 noon, Trafalgar Square, London
    Troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan Don’t attack Iran End the siege of Gaza
    On his recent trip to the Middle East, George Bush said: "Iraq is now a different place. Levels of violence are significantly reduced. Hope is returning to Baghdad."
    Try telling that to residents of the southern outskirts of Baghdad, whose homes were flattened on January 10, when US bombers unleashed 40,000 pounds of explosives in the (…)

  • Iraqi Women More Oppressed Than Ever, by Dahr JAMAIL
    8 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    ANTIWAR/INTER PRESS SERVICE March 7, 2008
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-17474083.html
    Iraq, where women once had more rights and freedom than most others in the Arab world, has turned deadly for women who dream of education and a professional career.
    Former dictator Saddam Hussein maintained a relatively secular society, where it was common for women to take up jobs as professors, doctors and government officials. In today’s Iraq, women are being killed by militia (…)

  • Afghanistan : Women’s Lives Are Worse Than Ever
    7 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Bush claims that Afghani Women are "learning the Blessings of Freedom" But all we’ve given them is Poverty, Death and Abuse
    Women’s lives worse than ever. That’s the actual headline to an article in The Independent about the state of women’s (and girls’) lives in Afghanistan, six years after our war to "liberate" them.
    At a White House Celebration of International Women’s Day, March 12, 2004, President Bush said: "In the last two-and-a-half years, we have seen remarkable and (…)