Gaza's 1.5 million people are not suffering hardship from the blockade, says Israel. Nonsense, says the International Committee of the Red Cross: the crisis is so deep it cannot be solved by humanitarian aid, only by lifting the siege. |
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Following a disastrous week for Nato, including five British killed, David Cameron says Afghanistan is his "first priority". What planet is he on? |
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"We don't know who the enemy is," says a US army captain. "I don't feel I'm fighting Taliban. I wish he'd wear a uniform and a name plate that said 'enemy'. Until then I'm kind of fumbling around." |
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Israel's policy of neither admitting nor denying whether it has nuclear weapons was shattered this week by reports that it offered to sell nuclear arms to apartheid South Africa. |
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There are still almost as many US troops in Iraq as deployed by George Bush, eighteen months after Obama's election promise to have them out within 16 months. |
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Candidates for the labour party leadership have changed their minds about Iraq. Why now? asks Mark Steel. |
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 While the Queen opened the "mother of parliaments" on 26 May, peaceful dissent was shut down in Parliament Square with the arrest of Brian Haw and others. |
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Iran faces sanctions for lawful development of nuclear power stations. Meanwhile no sanctions against Israel and its nuclear weapons 1000 times more powerful than Hiroshima bomb. |
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Video and article: Elvis Costello explains why "instinct and conscience" made him cancel concerts as a protest against Israeli treatment of Palestinians. |
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If extradicted, Gary McKinnon, a victim of the "war on terror", faces up to 60 years in a US jail for an offence which in a British court would get a suspended sentence. |
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"We're beginning to reverse the momentum of the insurgency" in Afghanistan, says Obama. The US-led occupation is getting nowhere, says his army chief. |
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New UK foreign secretary William Hague took no time in telling an Israeli newspaper he's Israel's "natural friend" and he doesn't rule out military action against Iran.
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Barack Obama's promise to withdraw all US combat troops from Iraq by August 2010 is in tatters. David Swanson says how he thinks the US anti-war movement should respond. |
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Barack Obama wants $205 million more funding for Israel's military machine, on top of the £3 billion it gets annually. |
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All three party leaders are warmongers, writes John Pilger. For Brown, Cameron and Clegg, the horrific weapons used by British forces, do not exist. |
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Under the latest peace plan for Afghanistan, in return for being taught trades such as carpet weaving the Taliban would lay down their arms and stop resisting occupation. |
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Eight years after they were overthrown by US air power, talking to the Taliban -- an idea that used to seem absurd, if not defeatist -- is coming to be seen as the only credible way to end an ever-widening war. |
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Will Israel be able to maintain itself as an apartheid state, or, like racist South Africa, will it eventually evolve into a democratic bi-national state whose politics will be dominated by the more numerous Palestinians? |
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The latest Pentagon report war paints a grim picture, with a sharp increase in attacks on occupation troops and scarce support for US-backed puppet President Karzai, as endless killing of civilians unleashes popular anger. |
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The timeline of atrocities committed by the US-led occupation forces in Afghanistan during 2009 shows a consistent pattern of denial and lying each time another "mistake" kills Afghan civilians. |
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It's front page news if the suspect is a Muslim, but barely reported when it's a white supremicist convicted of plotting terrorist attacks. Muslims have become the scapegoat of choice, as the politics of fear is used to justify foreign wars. |
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Defendant Martin Askew explains to the court why he felt compelled to join the protest against Israel's barbaric attack on Gaza, December 2008-January 2009, which lead to his arrest.javascript:submitbutton('save'); |
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Barack Obama is reviving George W. Bush's "prompt global strike" project which could strike virtually anywhere on the planet within 60 minutes, with the drawback of risking nuclear armageddon. |
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The latest attempt in Malaysia to serve Tony Blair with an indictment failed, but he knows he cannot travel anywhere in the world without the fear that one day his war crimes will catch up with him. |
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Why is Tony Blair still at large to roam the world earning tens of millions on the back of war crimes punishable under numerous international laws and conventions? |
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As civilian deaths keep rising, Afghan women's leader Malalai Joya writes that Hamid Karzai and the US are losing credibility in Afghanistan day by day. |
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US commissioned poll in Kandahar shows 94% oppose US military offensive and say make peace with our Taliban "brothers". |
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First shown in March 2003, the BBC film Israel's Secret Weapon, confirmed Mordechai Vanunu's revelations of a secret Israeli nuclear arsenal. The film is as important today as it was then. |
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Rather the Taliban than the government of Karzai or the US army say the people of Khandahar, about to face yet another NATO onslaught touted as a "turning point" after nine years of war in Afghanistan. |
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Johann Hari says we are sending young people to kill and die in order to prop up a president who (like his people) opposes almost all our actions and is threatening to defect to The Enemy. |
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 It doesn't mention war but this short film tells you the real reasons why the US is in Iraq and Afghanistan and why we live in the age of endless wars. |
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Hundreds of protestors take to the streets in Khandahar shouting "Death to America", after latest US slaughter of civilians in the "winning hearts and minds" campaign. |
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 Soldier Joe Glenton, who was court martialled and jailed for refusing to fight in Afghanistan and for speaking out against the war has had his appeal turned down by the courts. |
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Everybody knows. Israel knows everybody knows. It ranks sixth in the world's nuclear armed states. |
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US airmen chortling as they slaughter civilians. Another day, another atrocity. But this time it's there for the world to see. |
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Stop the War Coalition is saddened to learn of the death of Corin Redgrave. Corin was a stalwart supporter of the work of the Coalition from its founding in November 2001. |
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 The majority of the electorate oppose it, so the politicians hardly mention it. |
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In Lebanon, the West Bank, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and, most recently, Chechnya, suicide terrorist campaigns are almost always a last resort against foreign military occupation. |
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Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the UN nuclear watchdog says, "I keep asking the same question. Where do you find this regime change in international law? |
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Christian he may be, but Tony Blair must have missed this in his Bible: It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
How Blair pocketed £20 million... |
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. |
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BBC Newsnight report reveals a co-ordinated attempt to criminalise Gaza protestors and to scare people from demonstrating. |
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Through the eyes and words of four children in Gaza, this film gives us a unique insight into the impact of Israel's barbaric war on vulnerable young minds. |
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The Pentagon Papers showed the US government was lying about Vietnam. It's the same today, except now it's Obama and the wars are in Afghanistan and Iraq. |
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BBC performance by the Jerusalem Quartet disrupted by boycott Israel protestors as it was broadcast live. |
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"It's the substance within, not the colour of your skin," says rapper Lowkey to Barack Obama. "Are you the puppeteer or the puppet on the string?"
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Deaths for the invading armies have doubled in 2010 compared to 2009. Number wounded have more than tripple. And the solution? Send tens of thousands more troops to pointless death in an unwinnable war. |
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In the coming election campaign in Britain, the candidates are almost identical political mummies, referring to the war only to laud "our boys," writes John Pilger. |
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The introduction of "democracy" to Iraq is considered an American gift so precious that it somehow makes up for anything that’s happened in the last seven years. Was turning the country into a charnel house the price Iraqis had to pay for the gift? |
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Four Palestinian teenagers might have something to say about the morality of the Israeli army, if they hadn't been shot dead last weekend. |
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A defence campaign has been set up against the lengthy sentences handed to young Muslims who protested a year ago about Israel's brutal invasion of Gaza. |
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Lewis Carroll's ironically opium-inspired tale of a rational person caught up inside
a mad world has now
surpassed Vietnam as the best paradigm to understand the war in Afghanistan. |
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The "rapid increase in numbers ... quality and effectiveness" of the Afghan army and police to take responsibility for the country's security, would be laughable, but it's no joke for the Afghans and NATO soldiers dying for this hopeless strategy. |
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To influence public opinion, to counter criticism, the United States came up with a second reason to invade Iraq —- to advance democracy and human rights. But you do not throw down human rights like bombs on the Iraqis. |
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The Israeli government has produced spoof videos to counter myths and misconceptions it says the Western media is spreading that are damaging Israel's legitimacy as a country. |
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 Survivors of a NATO night raid which killed seven family members have rejected US "compensation" payments of $2,000 per person killed and vowed to take revenge. |
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The US/UK invasion and occupation of Iraq has been catastrophic for the Iraqi people. But has it at least brought Iraqi women the liberation that George Bush and Tony Blair promised? |
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Last year, during protests against the attack on Gaza, a mixed group of demonstrators clashed with police. But when the alleged culprits were arrested in dawn raids, nearly all those taken were young Muslims. |
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Stop the War Coalition is supporting the call by MPs, trade union leaders, Unite Against Fascism and many organisations for a demonstration in Bolton on Saturday 20 March against a march by the racist English Defence League, which aims to spread fear and terror within Muslim communities. |
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