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On the eve of the NATO summit, Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chair of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, said an additional 7,500 soldiers and 3,000 military trainers
needed to be sent immediately to Afghanistan....
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NATO held a three-day meeting in Bucharest, Romania, on April 2 to 4, attended by George W. Bush and other heads of state. It was a stormy affair. This alliance of imperialist military powers, long dominated by the U.S., was divided on several proposals being pushed by Washington....
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Human Rights activists from NYC want to express their
solidarity with the Asociacion Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH), Pro Human
Rights Association, and its directors Francisco Soberon and Miguel Lugo who are
being harassed by Peruvian officials....
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May Day, or International Workers' Day, was celebrated with marches, combative demonstrations and sometimes open struggles all over the world. In the non-imperialist world, these actions focused on the great increase in food
prices in recent weeks, in Europe on defending jobs and workers' wages. In both Europe and the United States, immigrant rights were up front. In the U.S. longshore workers held a rare political strike against war on the West
Coast....
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May 7, 2008 - Oppose Zionist
celebration of 60 years of Nakba 2. May 16, 2008 - Major Rally at the UN to
commemorate 60 years of Nakba...
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U.S. imperialism is ramping up its military threats in Latin America and the Caribbean. On April 24 the U.S. Navy announced the re-establishment of the U.S.
Fourth Fleet to increase and coordinate the U.S. military presence there. As a
sign of its aggressive intent, the new commander is Rear Adm. Joseph D. Kernan, who has been head of the Naval Special Warfare Command, better known as the SEALs....
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In 1948 villages and towns in Palestine were destroyed by the Israeli military and its Zionist gangs. Hundreds of Palestinian women, men and children were killed. New towns -- exclusively for Israelis -- were built atop the ruins. Seven hundred fifty thousand Palestinians fled to neighboring Arab countries living their lives in refugee camps. They continue to live in forced
exile (shatat) all over the world and as internally displaced in refugee camps
in Palestine. In the three generations of raising their children, their numbers
have grown to millions, and the their struggle to return home has never faltered....
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A national press conference to demand the immediate release of Dr. Sami Al-Arian was held at the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial, Educational and Cultural Center in Harlem on April 15. Al-Arian was in the 44th day of a hunger strike to demand that the government abide by the terms of his release. He has been imprisoned for more than five years....Al-Arian, a tenured professor at the University of South Florida, was
arrested in 2003. Then-Attorney General John Ashcroft trumpeted it as the
"arrest of the most dangerous financier of Islamic Jihad in the Western
world." This case of a Palestinian who raised funds for orphans and charities back home is viewed as one of the most extreme examples of racist and anti-Muslim persecution....
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A large crowd of protesters marched on Haiti's Presidential Palace April 8 waving green branches and shouting, "We're hungry! Feed us!" They pushed large metal trash bins to scale the walls....
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Friday, April 11, is the scheduled release date of Dr. Sami Al-Arian, a Palestinian professor on a hunger strike, who has been imprisoned for more than five years. But the Department of Justice, through its continuous abuse of the grand jury system, is threatening to keep him imprisoned for many years....
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The Brooklyn-based December 12 Movement issued the following statement titled "West launches preemptive propaganda strike to depose presidency
of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe" on March 30 from Harare, Zimbabwe....
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For the Office of the Attorney General (the "Fiscalia") it is clear that the action at San Jose de Apartado sought to impose fear and terror in the civilians of that community....
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Hundreds of military veterans of the Bush administration&'s so-called war on terror attended the Winter Soldier 2008 hearings held here March 13-16 at the National Labor College, an AFL-CIO affiliate just outside Washington.
The four-day event was organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW)....
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Can there be any doubt that the U.S. government is behind the attacks on China targeting the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing? The events that unfolded at the lighting of the Olympic flame March 24 in
Greece were most revealing. A protest briefly disrupted the ceremonies. The news reports all said that the protest was about Tibet....
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A category of semi-secret U.S. bases is vastly extending the
Pentagon's military presence around the globe. Innocuously called CSLs, for Cooperative Security Locations, these bases are a new, covert form of intervention....
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We hope that you can join us to welcome and hear Edgar Paez, from the National Board of SINALTRAINAL, the Colombian union of the food industry workers. He will be April 1-2, 2008, in Philadelphia as part of a tour through the U.S. to bring attention to the danger not only for Colombian orkers, but for workers in the U.S as well, of signing a Free Trade agreement with Colombia....
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Unable to defeat the Palestinian people's determination to assert
their rights and sovereignty after 60 years of the most brutal occupation and
expropriation of land, the entire U.S.-Israeli strategy for years has been based on exacerbating every division, every difference in the Palestinian struggle....
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As the fifth anniversary of the criminal U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan neared, tens of thousands hit the streets on Mar. 15 calling for an
end to the war. In Los Angeles marchers targeted CNN at the corner of Sunset and Cahuenga chanting, "CNN, can't you see? Put the peace march on TV!"...
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In this time of economic crisis, thousands of homes are being foreclosed, workers are being laid off in record numbers, and our education system and social programs are severely underfunded. Meanwhile, the raging wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are costing human lives on both sides as well as U.S. tax dollars. The population of the U.S. has proven that we are against these imperialist wars; and yet our tax dollars are going to these occupations, as opposed to our needs....
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Suppose a group of KKKers and other white supremacists had their own "church" that was really a center for justifying and organizing murderous attacks on African Americans. Suppose an African-American person, tired of lynchings, tortures, beatings and humiliation of his people, came into this church with guns blazing....
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Dr. Sami Al-Arian was transferred yesterday morning, on the 9th day of his hunger strike, to a federal medical facility in Butner, North Carolina run by the Bureau of Prisons. Since beginning his no- water or food hunger strike on March 3, Dr. Al-Arian has lost 23 pounds and grown weaker. He has not yet been given an IV. A doctor who examined him on Monday said he is suffering from starvation and Dr. Sami Al-Arian was transferred yesterday morning, on the 9th day of his hunger strike, to a federal medical facility in Butner, North Carolina run by
the Bureau of Prisons. Since beginning his no- water or food hunger strike on
March 3, Dr. Al-Arian has lost 23 pounds and grown weaker. He has not yet been given an IV. A doctor who examined him on Monday said he is suffering from starvation and dehydration....
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As news flashed of the formal resignation of Cuba's Fidel Castro from the office of the President, morbid celebrations broke out in "Little Havana"(Miami), Florida, the U.S. capital of the Cuban exiled, anti-Castro movement. Just as they rejoiced at his illness in 2006, they reveled at his resignation....
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A march more than five blocks long went from Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, near
the United Nations, through Times Square and past Madison Square Garden to
protest the U.S. theft of Serbia's Kosovo. Many New Yorkers and tourists
watched with interest as the marchers went on their way to the St. Sava Serbian
Orthodox Church on 25th Street near Broadway....
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A four-member jury of distinguished legal officials, after hearing and
considering two days of intense, moving and precise testimony at the
International Associations Center in Brussels, Belgium, on Feb. 24 found the Israeli state guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in its 2006 war on Lebanon....
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The International Citizens' Tribunal on Lebanon, according to conventional and usual international law, and according to the imperative standards contained in the 1948 and 1949 Geneva Conventions and Protocol A (1977) and in the Statute of the International Criminal Court of 1998; acknowledging the enormous crimes committed by Israel in the 2006 war (indiscriminate bombardments and destruction, murder of more than one thousand and one hundred persons, among them children, women and elderly persons, enormous damage to social and economic life, use of forbidden arms, etc.) declares the Israeli authorities responsible for the 2006 war against Lebanon and guilty of the following international crimes: War Crimes, Crimes against humanity, Genocide...
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March 2nd,The government of Alvaro Uribe murdered Comandante Raul Reyes of the FARC at dawn on March 1 in an operation conceived and
executed with U.S. support.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's defense minister first
announced this news in a triumphant official statement that greatly distorted the facts of the events so as to hide the criminal nature of the terrorist act....
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The International Action Center urges everyone to support the Colombian people at this critical moment. Over the past weekend, relations
between Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador became very tense when the Colombian government with the complicity of the U.S. crossed illegally into Ecuador and invaded this neighboring country. The Colombian government rained many bombs and cowardly executed a group of insurgent forces from the FARC-EP, including Raul Reyes, Chancellor in charge of International Relations....
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Some 5,000 people, about 90 percent of them originally from Serbia but now
part of the working class in the factories in and around Vicenza, marched Feb.
24 through that northern Italian town to protest the secession of Kosovo from
Serbia....
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On Feb. 24 hundreds gathered in front of the White house to
oppose the latest U.S. attack on Serbia, organized by the STOP (Stop Terrorizing Orthodox Peoples) Coalition. Major protest demonstrations
were held in Geneva and Zurich, Switzerland; Vienna, Austria; Athens, Greece; Vicenza, Italy; Montreal and Toronto; Cleveland and Chicago. This week demonstrations will continue, including a major demonstration in front of the U.N. on March 2 from 2 to 4 p.m....
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Those who know and love Cuba know that Fidel's announcement that he
would not run again for president marked a sad day. Yet we are confident that
the Revolution will prevail at every phase of its long journey....
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Growing list of cities participating in actions on
or around Feb. 29, 2008, in solidarity with the Haitian people, on the 4th
anniversary of the Feb. 29, 2004 coup d'etat in Haiti....
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The very instability and wrenching poverty that imperialism has brought to
the region will in the long run be the seeds of its undoing. The history of the
achievements made when Yugoslavia enjoyed real independence and sovereignty
through unity and socialist development will assert itself in the future....
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The demonstration of over 500,000 people in Belgrade and the attack on the U.S.
Embassy show the depth of outrage and anger over the seizure of the Serbian
province of Kosovo. Two Kosovo border posts were destroyed, one by fire the other in an explosion, along with ten McDonald's outlets and several Western banks and other hated targets. The Western media had overwhelming applauded the U.S. destruction in 1999 and
it now has a responsibility to explain the reason for the mass anger of millions of people. The outrage is because the province of Kosovo is not
actually being granted "independence." Millions of people see recognition of Kosovo's "independence" as an effort to legitimize a direct U.S. colony and to permanently secure a giant U.S. military base in the region....
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, at a NATO meeting in Munich on Feb. 10, threatened the European population with alleged terrorist threats to their security. Gates insisted that the Europeans should be ready to send their youth
to be cannon fodder in U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan and elsewhere in Asia....
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n early January, in a unilateral move, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia (FARC) released two women it had been holding. Its aim was to demonstrate it was serious about wanting to negotiate a humanitarian exchange of prisoners with the Colombian government....
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Chad, in central Africa, was brutally conquered by France over a century ago and made part of its colonial empire. Today, while nominally independent, it is
the fifth poorest country in the world, according to the U.N. However, it has become a significant, though not major, exporter of oil in the past three years....
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The Venezuelan government has promised that the recent attempts by the world's largest oil company, ExxonMobil, to steal assets that belong to the Venezuelan people will be met with stiff resistance....
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n June/July 2008 14 different routes of the Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba will be on the road visiting more than 120 US and Canadian cities. We will travel in school buses, trucks, and cars to
Cuba via Mexico with medical and educational supplies collected from groups
across the US and Canada as a collective challenge to the inhuman and immoral US blockade and travel ban. Five of our buses will be named in honor of the Five Cuban patriots who are unjustly incarcerated in US jails. ...
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The internal crisis wrenching Pakistan today cannot be separated from the impact of decades of U.S. military aid and continuing intervention to support military dictatorship there....
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Speakers include: Ramsey Clark, Najam Ud Din, Ryan Hancock, Sara Flounders, and Omer Khwaja. Special screening of "Missing in Pakistan," a 24-minute independently produced documentary about the abduction and illegal detention of Pakistani citizens by Pakistani intelligence agencies....
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wo organizations that analyze the media have counted 935 false statements made by the Bush gang between Sept. 11, 2001, and March 19, 2003, that greased the way for the invasion of Iraq. This useful information exposes almost by itself the responsibility of the entire U.S. ruling class for the conspiracy to wage war....
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A federal judge here on Jan. 28 sentenced Ricardo Palmera, a peace negotiator for the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces-People's Army (FARC-EP), to 60 years in prison without parole....
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By tearing down the wall between Gaza and Egypt, the Palestinian people and their organizations gave an impulse to the anti-imperialist movement all over the Middle East and throughout the world. Demonstrations set for Jan. 25-26,which were first called as a plea to stop Israel’s criminal siege of 1.5 million Palestinians trapped in Gaza, turned into militant displays of solidarity with a people in struggle....
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The whole world watched in wonder on Jan. 23 when the blockaded Palestinian people of Gaza blew up the walls imprisoning them and walked en masse into Egypt....
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Some 60,000 people protested in front of the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia, on Dec. 2. They were demanding the right of political prisoner Vojislav Seselj to defend himself before the anti-Yugoslav tribunal at The Hague, which the U.S. and other NATO forces set up through the United Nations in 1992. The tribunal is known as the ICTY....
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The ultra-right-wing forces now running Serbia's Kosovo province plan to announce its secession from Serbia in 2008. The U.S. and most NATO powers support this reactionary move, continuing their strategy of "divide and conquer" in the Balkans. This strategy has pulled Yugoslavia into pieces, leaving the region unstable, divided and now facing new internecine wars....
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he U.S. calls it "Operation Status." The United Nations calls it "The Ahtisaari Plan." It is the U.S./NATO
"independence" project for Kosovo, which has been a province of Serbia since the 14th century. With NATO's 17,000 troops backing it, Kosovo's government is set to secede on Feb. 6, declaring itself a separate country....
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The Iraqi sectarian Government established under the US occupation is about to agree with the occupying power to transfer all Iraqi prisoners
of war (POW) and detainees held in the Baghdad International Airport prison
from US authority to its authority. This information was confirmed by the
American airport prison authority who informed
the defense lawyers of Iraqi POW that beginning with 31 March 2008 it will relinquish the responsibility of their safety during their visits to the prison. This means that the handover is imminent, and a new carnage place, similar to that when president Saddam Hussein and his comrades were handed over to the same sectarian Government and its Militias. ...
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More than 800,000 Palestinians have been living in darkness since Israel forcibly closed the border and blocked fuel shipments into Gaza on Jan. 18, forcing Gaza's only electrical plant to shut down. The general director
of Gaza's single electricity plant, Derar Abu Sissi, explained that "the catastrophe will affect hospitals, clinics, water wells, houses, factories, all aspects of life."...
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The U.S. backed Israeli blockade of Gaza must end!
Internationally coordinated demonstrations will be happening on Friday and
Saturday. International Action Center urges everyone to attend the demonstration nearest you, and to forward this call from Al-Awda (Palestine Right to Return Coalition) to as many people and as many lists as you can!...
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The Israeli state, with the complete backing of the imperialists of the U.S.
and the European Union, as well as their clients among the corrupt feudal monarchs in the region, has deprived the entire Palestinian population in Gaza of electricity, sanitation, potable water, heat, cooking gas, medicines and adequate food. And it is winter in Palestine. Nothing has been done to end this
crime against humanity, this collective punishment of the Palestinian people, despite many appeals to international agencies and organizations....
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The Bush administration released on Feb. 1 a vile four-page summary of a longer classified report on Iraq called the National Intelligence Estimate. Prepared by 16 U.S. intelligence agencies active there, the summary described the situation in Iraq as going from bad to worse. ...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez publicly announced on Jan. 9 that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia had just sent him details of the location in their country where two women held by the FARC, Clara Rojas and Consuelo Gonzalez de Perdomo, were to be released....
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Beginning in 2001 students from the U.S. began studying in Havana for free at the Latin American School of Medicine (LASM). Originally 500 students were offered scholarships annually. This has been increased to 1,000. The only condition is that the students make a commitment to serve poor communities in the U.S. after receiving their medical licenses....
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The crimes committed by the Israeli army in Lebanon during
the summer 2006 are a violent affront to the universal human conscience. These are criminal acts, as many people feel instinctively. They are different from
the acts that take place in all armed conflict committed by the aggressor as well as by the aggressed. But feeling is not enough. The facts must be
established. They must then be assessed in light of existing international law. This should be done with the detachment and rigor of a process that excludes any a priori conclusions, the results of which will convince all people of good will....
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In the past week, the Bush Administration has been caught red-handed manufacturing the highly publicized provocation" off the Iranian coast on Jan. 6 when five small Iranian open-air speedboats allegedly
challenged three massive U. S. guided-missile warships. The U.S. Navy has now admitted that it had spliced together the audio and video tape it
presented as evidence and that the threatening voice on the video warning "you may explode" may not have belonged to any Iranian sailors....
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The deeds committed by the Israeli army and secret services in Lebanon, as in the occupied Palestinian territories, is a violent affront to the universal human conscience. These are criminal acts, as many people feel instinctively.They are different from the acts that take place in all armed conflict committed by the aggressor as well as by the
aggressed.But feeling is not enough.The facts must be
established....
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The International Jury of Conscience for Lebanon” is a project which intends to develop the struggle against
impunity regarding the crimes committed, which intends to promote international
law and in particular human rights and which places the respect of fundamental
human rights above any other consideration. The discussion will proceed in greatest serenity and the publicity that arises from it will reside exclusively within the framework of human rights. It will question only the facts that occurred during the conflict of July-August 2006 in connection with the respect
of these rights. This project does not include a political debate on the question of the relationship between Israel and its neighbors, nor about the Palestinian question....
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The Bush Administration has initiated an extremely dangerous war provocation just off Iran's coast, in the Strait of Hormuz. With Bush on his way to the Middle East to mobilize a collection of oil-rich U.S. client states against Iran, the U.S. government is working overtime to create a public-relations incident to heighten tensions in the region and threaten a new war. ...
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A report of interviews, meetings, and other first-hand accounts of the situation in the Philippines: issued March 2007...
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On Sept. 30, the television program "Desperate Housewives" had one of its main characters make a scripted racist slur against Filipino medical
professionals. The character insulted the medical education system of the Philippines....
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We know that US imperialism will always use wars of aggression as a potent weapon in order to control the much needed resources in the
world for the benefit of the big monopoly corporations. US imperialism will always display its military strength and capability to bully nations asserting their sovereignty. It is actually strengthening military
relations with Japan and Australia to ensure that its interest in South-East Asia and the Pacific is well guarded. ...
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One of the most underreported stories from the Vietnam War is the role played by the disintegration of military discipline as the war dragged on. While the situation in Iraq has not reached the same point yet, revolutionaries
understand that the fact that the bosses are forced to rely on workers in uniform to wage their wars raises the possibility that the troops will say, "No."...
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For 11 months the people's movement of Nandigram has defied the full power of the Indian state, military, police and armed death squads in a
struggle to halt a planned "chemical hub" that would destroy their district....
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The financing of U.S. president George W. Bush's wars is now just about accomplished for 2008. By a large majority, briefly before Dec. 25 the House of Representatives and Senate granted an additional $70 billion for the occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan. A large number of Democrats again voted for continuing the funding. What made it easier for this bill to pass was that in the U.S. there was a changed perception of the war in occupied Iraq....
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The Israeli siege of Gaza is an international crime of collective punishment on an entire population. It is a crime carried out with the full support and authorization of Washington. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had rejected overtures by Hamas, the militant Islamic group that is the elected government in Gaza, for discussions about
even a temporary cease-fire. ...
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Three years ago today, on May 1, 2003, U.S. President George Bush made his famous landing on the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln in a secret flight and sent his congratulations to the sailors and pilots while standing under a banner that read: "Mission Accomplished." At that same time, when Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld still believed he could "shock and awe" all of
Iraq into accepting these plans, the U.S. leaders might have believed they could set up a single weak and submissive Iraqi puppet government....
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To conclude I would like to denounce the total lack of interest in human lives by the occupying forces and the Western mainstream press. There is obviously a lot of racism involved in the way this occupation is handled
by the MNF-I and covered by the media. Some of the academics assassinated were among the finest scientists not only in the Middle East, but worldwide. Nevertheless, none of these murders have been investigated, and very few commemorations appeared in the Western press when these famous academics were killed. And that is another crime....
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As was agreed upon in the meeting of Iraq activists in Madrid during the
International Seminar about the assassination of Iraqi academics and health workers, the International Anti-Occupation Network has been established....
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Representatives from anti-war groups in eight countries met here the weekend of April 21 to 23, 2007, to discuss a grim emergency: the assassinations and disappearances of hundreds of Iraqi scientists, doctors, teachers and other intellectuals under the U.S.-UK occupation. They heard firsthand the plight of Iraqi academics and medical professionals who struggle to live amid constant threats, physical violence,
kidnappings and the operation of death squads....
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"Defender a los docentes y profesionales de la sanidad iraquies forma parte indisociable de la solidaridad global con el pueblo iraqui y su movimiento de liberacion
nacional contra la ocupacion." / "Defending Iraqi academics and health professionals is not separate from the necessity of being in solidarity with the Iraqi people and their national anti-occupation movement."...
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The United States-led occupation of Iraq is a dead end, politically, militarily, morally and economically The national popular resistance in Iraq is the sole legal and legitimate representative of the Iraqi people and the Republic of Iraq....
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The International Anti-Occupation Network
(IAON), along with the Palestinian, Arab and Spanish delegations, condemns and
rejects the interference of the Spanish Foreign Ministry and the Madrid Social Forum (FSM) and its cowardice in the face of attempts by Israel to impose Zionist forces on the civil society "Forum for a Just Peace in the Middle East". These forces cannot and do not subscribe to the Forum's Reference Document that affirms the inviolability of international law....
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We are writing this at a critical time in the struggle for justice and peace,
but one in which there is also great potential. The war in Iraq drags on towards a fifth year, despite a clear mandate from the people to bring the
troops home now. The Bush Administration is still threatening the people of
Iran with ominous sanctions and a new war....
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We must strive to promote international friendship, sharing and true respect for humankind and to oppose the
policies of domination, globalization, and war....
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With little fanfare, Colombia has become the third largest
recipient of U.S. military aid in the world—behind only Israel and Egypt.
U.S. Special Forces troops are already on the ground there, involved in combat with popular insurgencies. Yet Colombia is rarely mentioned in any of the major media in the United States. ...
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The U.S. and European imperialist powers are responsible for the genocidal
slave trade that decimated Africa, the genocide of the Indigenous population of
the Americas, the colonial wars and occupations that looted three-quarters of
the globe. It was German imperialism that was responsible for the genocide of Jewish people. To call for military intervention by these same powers as the answer to conflicts among the people of Darfur is to ignore 500 years of history....
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As part of its effort to forge new ties, Rainbow Solidarity for the Cuban Five held a meeting at the Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City June 2. Leaders from various organizations voiced their commitment to work on behalf of the Cuban heroes,...
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The U.S. prosecutor, on the other hand, decided to prolong what a United Nations Commission has termed an "arbitrary detention." The prosecution has not abided by the August 2005 decision for a new trial in an impartial location. Nor has it repatriated the Five to their homes and loved ones in Cuba. ...
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We met, as we are doing now, fifteen years ago at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro. It was a historic moment. There, we took on the commitment later on contained in the Convention on Climate Change and, subsequently, in the Kyoto Protocol. Cuba was then the first country to take the environmental issue to a constitutional platform. ...
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In a significant show of international support for the International Campaign to Hold Coca-Cola Accountable, over 500 activists from around the world packed the workshop on the campaign at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil on January 29, 2005. The workshop was one of the most popular workshops at the World Social Forum. A pattern has emerged as a result of Coca-Cola's bottling operations in India. Communities living around Coca-Cola bottling plants in India are facing severe water shortages and the groundwater and soil has been contaminated as a direct result of Coca-Cola's practices. Coca-Cola is also accused of distributing toxic waste to farmers and selling contaminated drinks in India. ...
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The anti-war movement in the United States and around the world needs a clear view of the Pentagon's "Plan Colombia" and its impact on this hemisphere. Now that information is available in a book from the International Action Center: "War in Colombia--Made in U.S.A."...
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The Venezuelan National Electoral Commission (CNE) early on Dec. 3 announced the results of the previous day's referendum on proposed major changes to 69 articles of the Venezuelan Constitution. The "No" vote opposing the reforms had won by a margin of less than 2 percent over the "Yes" option, which would have deepened progressive changes and ratified the reconstruction of society on a socialist basis....
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The Haitian Revolution is a singular event in history. Never before or since has an enslaved people risen up, broken their chains, and established a new state. Haiti was a beacon of hope and inspiration to the enslaved Africans of the United States. Haiti's history has been turbulent, but not for the reasons given by mainstream historians. ...
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The persons whose signatures appear below are people who are extremely concerned with the indiscriminate arrests, arbitrary deportations and assassinations that experienced by Haitians and/or Dominican-Haitians sisters and brothers who live in the Dominican Republic. ...
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The San Francisco-based Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), with the support of the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), has filed a lawsuit against Constant in U.S. federal court in the Southern District of New York on behalf of women who survived savage gang rapes and other forms of extreme violence, including attempted murder. The legal groups are using the Alien Tort Claims Act, adopted in 1789, which gives survivors of egregious human rights abuses, wherever committed, the right to sue persons responsible for the abuses in U.S. federal court. Since 1980, the law has been used successfully in cases involving torture (including rape), extrajudicial killing, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and arbitrary detention. ...
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Last Friday, September 23, 2005, while the pro-independence movement in Puerto Rico was commemorating the 137th anniversary of El Grito de Lares, the day the first Republic of Puerto Rico was proclaimed in 1868, Filiberto Ojeda Rios, respected and legendary leader of the liberation movement was being assassinated by FBI sharpshooters just a few miles away in the western coast of the island. ...
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The International Action Center, an organization with over 15 centers throughout the United States, denounces the Bush Administration's announcement that the FBI has issued an arrest warrant for ANTONIO CAMACHO NEGRON a Puerto Rican pro-independence leader and former political prisoner....
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Vieques is an island municipality of Puerto Rico, separated from it by 6-8 miles of sea. It measures 21 by 4 miles, with an area of 33,000 sq. acres. Population: 9,400 inhabitants who live in the narrow, middle strip of land sandwiched between two U.S. large Naval facilities. ...
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The original purpose of this meeting has been completely distorted. The imposed center of debate has been a so-called reform process that overshadows the most urgent issues, what the peoples of the world claim with urgency: the adoption of measures that deal with the real problems that block and sabotage the efforts made by our countries for real development and life. ...
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Venezuelan counter-revolutionaries, with the full support of the U.S. and other
imperialist governments, have been attempting to use the non-renewal of Radio
Caracas Television's (RCTV) broadcasting license to destabilize the
popular progressive government of President Hugo Chevez....
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Since 1998, when current President Hugo Chavez won a popular election in
Venezuela, the U.S. government has worked tirelessly with the oligarchy in that
country to overturn Chavez's presidency. Chavez was re-elected in 2000,
again by a large turnout from the people....
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For those people who know Mali's capital Bamako has only a handful of large buildings -- some government offices, the luxury hotel at 15 stories, the international bank and the great mosque -- it may have been a surprise that this city was picked for the African session of 2006's Polycentric World Social Forum (WSF)....
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From June 27 to July 1, Atlanta will host the first-ever Social Forum held in the United States. The U.S. Social Forum will gather thousands of grassroots and community activists from across the country who will engage each other in political discussion and strategy planning. The operating slogan for the five-day event is "For another world to be possible, another U.S. is
necessary."...
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The United States may have the world's largest military machine but
ultimately this government cannot control the forces it has unleashed. There is
a rising global movement against this ruthless competition and spiraling
economic chaos. Six months after NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia a new
movement against corporate globalization was born in Seattle. Hundreds of
thousands of young activists have focused on the brutal policies imposed by the
International Monetary Fund, the World Bank;and the trade agreements such
as NAFTA and the FTAA, and the World Trade Organization. This is a movement
outraged at sweatshop conditions, prisons, environmental devastation and
capitalist chaos...
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The imperialist media tries
to demonize all those who defy U.S. hegemony of the planet, from Saddam
Hussein to Robert Mugabe to Slobodan Milosevic. Rarely have they been
so successful in imposing these falsehoods on those considered on the
left as they were with Milosevic; they even managed to extend this demonization
to Serbs in general. Even this last summer, the media rehashed all the
old stories of Srebenica during the civil war in Bosnia. In the article
below, Diana Johnstone, a meticulous journalist and careful observer of
events in the Balkans, presents a different view of what happened that
summer 10 years ago. ...
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U.S. occupation
forces in Afghanistan and Iraq are creating a nightmare for the population
there as they step up military repression in the face of growing resistance. ...
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A multinational
delegation from 26 different countries visited the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea at the end of July for a commemoration of the 50th anniversary
of the signing of the armistice that ended the 1950-53 U.S.-led war on
Korea. The leaders of North Korea have renewed their efforts to replace
that armi stice with a peace treaty, and to move towards reunification
of the 70 million Korean people. ...
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A letter written fifty-six
years ago was recently unearthed by a Harvard historian and is getting a lot
of attention. U.S. Ambassador to Seoul during the Korean War, John J Muccio
wrote the letter to U.S. Undersecretary of State, Dean Rusk. It clearly spells
out the secret policy the U.S. military had of shooting Korean refugees. It
isn't the only evidence, but it is unambiguous and from the highest level,
and because of that, very important....
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Please join our campaign to demand U.S. Hands Off North Korea, by http://www.iacenter.org/koreacampaign.shtml to the Bush Administration, members of Congress, the UN Secretary General, and the media. Help us build a national grass roots movement to stop another bipartisan drive to war. ...
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The nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula is an offspring of the U.S. policy of nuclear threat based on its deep-rooted hostile policy toward the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( DPRK the formal name for North Korea) for over half a century. During the Korean War U.S. considered dropping a nuclear bomb at the border of china and North Korea. ...
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An American delegation of peace, labor and social justice activists led by Cindy Sheehan is in Seoul to join the nationwide mobilization against the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement currently being negotiated. The delegation is joining the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) who has called for a General Strike from all sectors of South Korean society to demand that the Roh government seriously address the needs of workers and peasants....
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Poison DUst tells the story of three young men from New York who could not get answers for their mysterious ailments after their National Guard unit's 2003 tour of duty in Iraq. A mother reveals her fears about the extent of her child's birth defects and the growing disability of her young husband -- a vet. ...
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Musharraf, who first seized power in a 1999 coup, has declared martial law in a desperate attempt to bolster his faltering dictatorship. Opposition leaders have been arrested. Peaceful political meetings have been raided. All international and private news channels have been shut down, with only the state-owned stations allowed to remain on the air....
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Salam Alrawi, Alwan for the Arts, Ramsey Clark, Sara Flaunders, Abdeen Jabara, DeeDee Halleck, Ahmed Issawi, Mona Khalidi, Clark Kissinger, Emily Kunstler, Dan Meyers, Ralph Poynter, Michael Ratner, Margaret Ratner Kunstler, Michael Steven Smith, and Lynne Stewart invite you to attend a book party to celebrate the release of:
Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine,
by Joel Kovel
&
We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon,
Edited by Kamal Boullata and Kathy Engel
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Join Ramsey Clark, Howard Zinn, George Galloway, Dennis Halliday, Harold Pinter, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Tony Benn, Lynne Stewart, David Swanson and thousands more in an international campaign to Stop War on Iran.
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Why is Iran increasingly a target of U.S. threats? Who in Iran will be affected if the Pentagon implements plans, already drawn up, to strike more than 10,000 targets in the first hours of a U.S. air barrage on Iran? ...
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A standing-room-only crowd of 400 people packed the meeting hall all day in Tokyo Dec. 15 for the first public hearing of a tribunal charging President George Bush with war crimes in Afghanistan. The Afghan war and the threatened war in Iraq are drawing wider interest in Japan since the country's military supported U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and is being set up for support operations against Iraq. This marks Japan's first open military intervention since World War II. ...
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Get ready for a bumper crop of poppies in Afghanistan. Once processed, it will flood the streets of this country with tons of low-priced heroin. On March 31, 7.5 tons of unrefined morphine were seized by police in Turkey, a NATO power that is playing a big role in Bush's war in Afghanistan. This biggest drug haul ever in Turkey is believed by the authorities there to have come from Afghanistan....
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U.S. newspapers have recently printed photos of smiling Afghan girls on their way to school in Kabul for the first time since the Taliban outlawed education for girls in 1996. The establishment media's message is: "Thanks to the U.S. invasion, the women of Afghanistan are finally on their way to democracy and human rights."...
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In the next few days, the Italian Parliament will discuss about re-funding the Italian military mission in Afghanistan. 8 Senators belonging to the majority coalition announced that they will vote NO. Saturday, July 15, after the call for action of the antiwar Senators, a national Assembly will take place, which already got support of intellectuals, trade-unionists and members of civil-society and catholic associations. Given the international character of the struggle against the occupation of Afghanistan, expressions of solidarity sent by movements of different countries, such the ones which are already being received by the organizers, are of utmost importance. It is important that such statements reach the organizers before the national Assembly takes place, on July 15th [2006]. ...
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Under the theme “Women of the World: a
vital force against neoliberal globalization, terrorism and imperialist wars;
for equality, social and economic justice and for peace,” more than 1,000
women representing organizations from five continents met in Caracas,
Venezuela, from April 9 through 14. They were joined by thousands of Venezuelan
women who hosted the 14th Congress of the Women’s International
Democratic Federation....
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The Women's Fightback Network is a grassroots alliance of poor and working women, immigrants, disabled activists, students, elders and youth, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and transgender women--all standing together to protest budget cuts, racism, sexism and war. As women, we have a special place in the fight for equality and human needs....
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On
Aug. 28, 2007, New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. attacked British unions
for supporting a boycott of Israel. The Chief, an influential weekly newspaper
that covers civil service unions and is widely read by New York City civil service
union members and New York City politicians, published an article in the Sept.
7th edition about Comptroller Thompson’s action. The article included a
statement of praise for Thompson’s action that was issued by Jewish Labor
Committee (JLC) President Stuart Appelbaum....
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For one week, activists from across the U.S. maintained a 24-hour encampment directly in front of the Capitol to demand "Cut the War Funding - Stop the War at Home and Abroad!"...
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If the full dimensions of the horror the U.S. occupation has created in Iraq were exposed and confronted, world outrage would reach such a pitch that the occupation could not continue. A huge number of reports that are largely ignored or given only passing mention in the corporate media confirm an unprecedented level of destruction of essential infrastructure, loss of life and massive displacement of people....
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We urge our fellow trade unionists to join us on Sept. 29th and to participate in an encampment in front of the Capitol from Sept. 22-29 to
demand no war funding....
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Aug. 26, "Women's Equality Day," marks the day, 87 years ago, that women legally got the right to vote in the U.S. There was no equality for all women back then and today there is still no "equality" to celebrate....
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41 Organizing Centers in 23 States! Over 60 Buses planned! Over 1000 endorsers...
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Hundreds of Endorsers - More than 40 Organizing Centers - It's time to Shut Down Washington! Stop the War at Home & Abroad!...
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MARCH ON WASHINGTON D.C. & WORLDWIDE PROTEST SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2007 - 4th Anniversary of the U.S. Invasion and Occupation of Iraq...
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Two demonstrations were held in Detroit today against the rising tide of United States militarism in Iraq and Somalia....
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Audio streaming of panel discussion...
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