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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. (…)

With due respect to the United States Department of State and Secretary Clinton, in regards to economic sanctions leveled under CISADA on Venezuela and six other foreign entities. Among the affected countries, only Venezuela is a nation in abject poverty. Oil is its primary export and the exceptionally devastating impact upon its people should be of specific consideration. There has been a systemic barrage of misreporting and context-shifting within the U.S. media and espoused by many U.S. (…)

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 (…)

Spanish Revolution Sol
(live stream)

An analysis of every country in the world reveals that in order to avoid a catastrophic 2 degree C temperature rise (EU policy), at current rates of greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution the World must achieve zero emissions in less than 20 years, Australia must cease GHG pollution within 5 years, and Bangladesh must get to zero emissions within 139 years.
The authoritative Australian Climate Commission, advised by an expert Scientific Advisory panel composed of 9 leading Australian climate (…)

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 (…)

"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 (…)

Next Monday, Jimmy Wales is going to "talk cyber-civility on campus" at Georgetown, according to a blog of The Georgetown Voice. Now that universities have less money, and Wikipedia is getting important gifts from private societies, students are encouraged to become Wikipedia editors. But what is exactly Wikipedia’s "cyber-civility" ? Wikipedia has developed a full arsenal of internet police vocabulary and tools such as the "sockpuppets", "meatpuppets", "duck test", "check user" and so on... (…)

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
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 (…)