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Vigil 6-7 pm, Monday 12 March, Trafalgar Square, London SW1
Called by Afghans for Peace, supported by Stop the War.
The cold blooded killing of fifteen Afghan civilians, including young
children, by a US soldier in Kandahar Province earlier today is an outrage
that encapsulates the brutality of the occupation of Afghanistan. It comes
at a time of widespread anger against NATO forces, and growing calls for
the occupation to end.
The Stop the War Coalition is supporting a vigil (…)

A masquerade, lies and hypocrisy were once again on show last Thursday 8 March in the Court of Appeal of Paris where Olivia Zémor appeared for posting on the website www.europalestine.com a video of a boycott action by a dozen organisations which took place on July 4, 2009 in a Carrefour supermarket in Evry.
The 4 plaintiff lawyers as usual repeated their same old mantras about the "great Israeli democracy" that we seek to "delegitimize" by daring to speak of apartheid, as well as "Hamas (…)

According to a statement (4-2/2012) released by the workers’ general assembly in the General Hospital of Kilkis, the doctors, nurses and other staff declare that the long-lasting problems of the National Health System (ESY) in the country cannot be solved through limited claims of the health services sector. Thus, workers at the General Hospital respond to the regime’s acceleration of fascism by occupying this public general hospital and putting it under their direct and complete control. (…)

3/11 One Year After the Worst Nuclear Accident In History
We’ve learned some important things since a 9.0 earthquake, and subsequent tsunami, racked 14 nuclear power plants in Japan. We’ve learned some important things, that is, if you believe the spin doctors.
1) Zen Buddhists have planted planted hundreds of thousands of sunflowers to "absorb" the radiation.
Absorb it? If you wipe up a spill, with a paper towel, you still have to dispose of the paper towel. And, in this case, the (…)

At first they came for the Muslims, but they are foreign to me, my god had a different name, and those people’s names are too hard to pronounce . . . So I said nothing.
[for 8 months, after 9-11, the NYPD spied on the Muslim community only to discover that there were no terrorist among them. The atrocities against Muslims continued with the Bush administration’s illegal wars of aggression in Central Asia. A decade later Obama ordered the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki and his two (…)

by Warren Kinsella
Her Majesty and the Gay-Hating, Women-Hating, Equality-Hating Real Women of Canada
A Canadian group whose homepage curiously states that one of the biggest threats to families is the ’homosexual lobby’ and ’the media’ has been appointed to help government decide how to award Diamond Jubilee Medals to honour Queen Elizabeth’s 60 years of service to Canada.
REAL Women of Canada, a socially conservative, anti-feminist group that often acts as an intervenor in court (…)

An as-yet-unconfirmed report has emerged today claiming that 13 French soldiers have been captured in the Syrian city of Homs. If confirmed this would be the first conclusive proof of direct Western intervention in Syria’s civil war.
The report comes from the Lebanese newspaper the Daily Star. It says there are discussions between the Syrian and French governments already regarding what to do with the captured “officers.”
The French Foreign Ministry was quick to deny the reports, saying (…)

8 March is International Women’s Day, a day on which we reflect on the great gains in women’s rights around the world but also on the progress that needs to be made against sexism, misogyny and other violation of women’s rights.
A major area of concern remains the reproductive choice of women that is opposed by religious fundamentalists who declaim the Right to Life of the Unborn. However in a process of appalling and deadly hypocrisy these same US Alliance Christian fundamentalists (…)

FUKUSHIMA, Japan — Yoshiko Ota keeps her windows shut. She never hangs her laundry outdoors. Fearful of birth defects, she warns her daughters: Never have children.
This is life with radiation, nearly one year after a tsunami-hit nuclear power plant began spewing it into Ota’s neighborhood, 40 miles (60 kilometers) away. She’s so worried that she has broken out in hives.
"The government spokesman keeps saying there are no IMMEDIATE health effects," the 48-year-old nursery school worker (…)

The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation apologized today for cutting off funding from Planned Parenthood and vowed to revise the policy that led to an intense backlash against the nation’s largest breast cancer organization.
“We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives,” president and founder Nancy Brinker said in a statement today. “We have been distressed at the presumption that the changes (…)