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Protesters ------- shut down UK arms  factories over Gaza war complicity


Protesters ------- shut down UK arms 
factories over Gaza war complicity
March 20th, 6:58pm
 (PressTV)
 
In a display of solidarity with Palestinians, hundreds of 
workers and protesters have shut down arms factories 
across England and Scotland to condemn the UK's 
complicity in the Israeli regime's war of 
aggression in Gaza.
 
The factories, which produce components for F-35 fighter 
jets, are accused of shoring up the Israeli regime's 
military offensive in Gaza.
 
Under the banner "Workers for a Free Palestine," a diverse 
coalition of individuals - from various unions and sectors 
including health, education, hospitality, academia, and
 the arts, launched the protests on Wednesday.
 
Activists ---- aimed to disrupt the supply chain of arms to 
Israel and denounce the UK's complicity in the ongoing 
genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza.
 
GE Aviation Systems in Cheltenham and Leonardo UK 
in Edinburgh were among the targeted sites where 
components for the F-35 jets are manufactured.
 
The protesters vowed to continue their protest actions
 for a month, demanding an immediate cessation of 
arms sales to Israel and advocating for a 
permanent ceasefire.
 
The decision to blockade the arms factories was prompted
 by Israel's impending invasion of Rafah, which the United
 Nations and other international organizations -- have 
warned would have catastrophic consequences 
for Gaza's population.
 
Unionists have called on workers across the UK ---- to 
challenge their government's military support for 
the Israeli regime.
 
"We’re demanding --- our government immediately halt arms 
supplies to Israel before it launches this offensive in Rafah
 using British-made bombs. But we are not waiting for this 
genocide-appeasing prime minister to act," Zad, a union 
member, said in a press release.
 
This isn't the first time such protests have occurred.
 
In December, similar blockades targeted four other arms 
factories across the UK. Despite assurances from the 
UK government that it hasn't supplied lethal military 
equipment to Israel since October, evidence 
suggests otherwise.
 
Affidavits filed at the High Court revealed ongoing export 
licenses and pending applications for equipment likely
 to be used in offensive operations in Gaza.
 
Furthermore, the UK Ministry of Defence --- disclosed that 
Israeli warplanes have been permitted to take off from
 and land in the UK during the Gaza war, raising 
concerns about Britain's involvement in
 facilitating Israeli atrocities.



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EU Parliament president’s trip to Vienna 
overshadowed by pro-Palestine protest
March 20th, 5:06pm
(PressTV)
 
President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola 
has travelled to the Austrian capital, less than three 
months before the EU elections.
 
She delivered a speech at the University of Vienna. But 
students there interrupted her speech - by protesting 
against the EU support for the US-Israeli genocide
 in Gaza.




Stop the Genocide

Outcry in Italy over arms exports
 to Israel amid genocide in Gaza
March 19th, 10:33 am
 (PressTV)
 
Stop the Genocide
 
Thousands of people joined a 'Stop the Genocide' rally in 
the Italian capital on Saturday organized, among others,
 by the movement of the Palestinian students and the 
Association of the Palestinians in Italy.
 
The initiative dubbed 'Stop the Genocide' --- also saw the 
participation of high school students and their families.
 
People at the rally strongly condemned Italy's
unwavering support ---- for the Israeli regime.
 
''Italy that claims to be a democratic nation is a country 
where the government goes against the people's will.
 
''Profits always come first - even 
when genocide is taking place.
 
''I am teaching my kids to never give up the fight
 and to never accept being submitted.''
 
 Italian Protestor
 
Hundreds gathered at Piazza San Babila in Milan 
on Saturday to display their solidarity with the
 Palestinian people in Gaza and to call for a 
ceasefire in the besieged territory.
 
The Italian Minister of Defence, Guido Grosseto, has
 recently stated that Rome has continued to export 
arms to Israel despite assurances last year that 
the government was blocking such sales 
following Tel Aviv's invasion of the 
Gaza Strip.
 
''Western governments have been systematically supporting 
Zionism and Israel's criminal regime, notwithstanding the
 protest against Israeli crimes that have been taking 
place across the globe. Italy's support to Tel Aviv
 must stop ---- once and for all.''
 
Bruno Papale, Solidarity for Palestinians Committee
 
Arms transfer to Israel must stop
 immediately: UN experts 
 
UN experts say any transfer of weapons to Israel is
 likely to violate international humanitarian law.
 
Some Italian media reports recently revealed that, despite 
the Italian government's denials, the value of arms sales
 to Israel more than tripled in December 2023 compared 
with the same month in 2022, and December last year 
------ was the peak of Israeli bombardments on the 
Gaza. Strip.
 
''A solution to the onslaught in Gaza could be found if the 
international community stopped militarily supporting 
Israel. Italy -- on its side -- has been actively arming
 Israel through companies such as Leonardo 
and others.
 
 ''If we don't make sure that the Palestinians right to 
self determination is protected, then nothing
 will ever change.''
 
Luisa Morgantina, Former EU Parliament Vice-President
 
Earlier this week, more protests and initiatives
 in solidarity with the besieged Palestinians 
were held in several Italian cities,
 including Milan and Naples.
 
 
 
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Protesters block San Francisco airport,
 demand permanent ceasefire in Gaza
March 13th, 10:14pm
(PressTV)
 
 Protestors demanding a cease-fire in Gaza blocked 
the international terminal at San Francisco on
 March 13th, 2024.
 
Hundreds of anti-war protesters demanding a ceasefire
 in Gaza and calling for an end to the United States' 
military assistance for Israel --- block the
international terminal ---- at the San 
Francisco International Airport.
 
 


Major London protest near 
US Embassy calls for 
Gaza ceasefire
March 10th, 12:21am
(Saeed Pourreza
Press TV, London)
 
Thousands of demonstrators have rallied across 
the world, including London, to show support
for the Palestinians and condemn the 
Israeli genocide in Gaza. 
 
 
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''Violence Reported'' as Israeli 
Protesters Take to Streets
 in Tel Aviv
March 9th, 8:11pm
(al Manar)
 
Many Israeli anti-government protesters 
are once more taking to the streets of 
Tel Aviv --- in weekly demonstrations 
calling for the release of captives
 in Gaza --- and early elections.
 
Video online and reports show protesters blocking 
traffic in central Tel Aviv and chanting slogans 
against the government, led by PM Benjamin 
Netanyahu -- demanding that more be done 
by the occupation authorities on releasing 
Israelis still held in the besieged enclave.
 
Israeli media reported that the protests resulted 
in pushing, arrests, and even a protester 
throwing a smoke grenade.
 
The Jerusalem Post quoted Israeli occupation police as 
saying that an earlier demonstration was approved, but
 protesters arrived and moved towards the so-called 
Kaplan area without coordination with police, and 
began blocking traffic ....and moving barriers.
 
Source: Agencies


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Hundreds rally ---------- in solidarity for 
Palestinians in Malaysia's city centre
March 2nd, 1:57pm
(PressTV)
 
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian Malaysians on Saturday 
(March 2) rallied in the city centre of Kuala Lumpur 
to show solidarity with the Palestinians in the 
Gaza Strip.
 
Protesters were seen carrying Palestinian flags and 
posters written with words urging a ceasefire in 
Gaza --- as well as a picture of Israeli Prime 
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, depicted 
as the leader of Nazis...... with 
Swastika symbol.
 
Among the crowds, the daughter of Malaysian Prime
 Minister, Nurul Izzah Anwar, urged people to join 
the rally against the genocide.
 
(Source: Reuters)
 

Polish Farmers Protest ---  Against EU's Green Deal


Polish Farmers Protest --- 
Against EU's Green Deal
and Ukraine's low
priced imports 
February 27th (teleSUR)
 
On Tuesday --- about 10,000 Polish farmers took to the 
streets of Warsaw to protest against the agricultural 
and environmental policies of the EU and ----
cheap imports from Ukraine.
 
"Although the official start of the march was set for 11:00, 
groups of protesters began to block streets from early in 
the morning," local media report. ''The protest caused 
several public transport routes to be diverted or cut 
off, as well as traffic jams at the city's entrances 
and on major highways," RT reported.
 
The slogans "A wall for the farmer," "I am a farmer, not a 
slave," and "Green Deal = hunger" were displayed on a 
tractor --- pulling an imitation of a US Abrams tank 
made of hay.
 
After marching through several streets in central Warsaw, 
the protesters headed to the Lower House of Parliament
and the office of Prime Minister Donald Tusk --- to 
present their demands.
 
"The farmers lit bonfires and fireworks in Defilad Square, in 
front of the Culture and Science Palace, where the police 
arrested a man who tried to set fire to a garbage 
container and then attacked an officer,"
 RT reported.
 
While the farmers managed to be received by the 
President of the Lower House Szymon Holownia, 
they left disappointed with a meeting they 
described as "just a conversation."
 
"Nothing was agreed upon, other than the promise to 
create a roundtable with representatives of farmers
 and authorities. Just words," one of the protest
 leaders, Szczepan Wojcik, said, emphasizing
 that "we expect real and concrete actions. 
For now, there is nothing."
 
"No agreement...  Now we wait for Parliament and those in 
power to make a move. What we could do, we have done. 
Our voice has been heard," he added, as reported by RT.
 
The Polish farmers oppose the entry of Ukrainian
agricultural products and criticize the EU's 
''Green Deal'' - which is a policy package 
dressed in words about sustainability
- aimed at avoiding helping farmers
with subsidies. 
 
 
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Police ''detain'' protesters 
at Rockefeller Centre -----
as Biden visits New York
February 27th,  6:19am
(PressTV)
 
New York police officers detained protesters at Rockefeller 
Centre as US President Joe Biden attended an interview
in 
midtown Manhattan, in New York.
 
Holding banners and chanting --- "not in our name" and 
"Biden, you can't hide - we charge you with genocide,"
the protesters on Monday, asked the president.....
for 
a ceasefire in Gaza.
 
(Source: Reuters)
 


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Argentine Teachers Begin National 
Strike --------- Against Milei's Policy
February 26th, 12:22pm 
(teleSUR)
 
On Monday, the Confederation of Education Workers of the 
Argentine Republic (CTERA) initiated a 24-hour national 
strike against the far-right President Javier 
Milei's policies.
 
The education workers - demand salary increases to 
compensate for the accelerated loss of purchasing
 power and reject budget cuts - affecting public 
goods and services.
 
The strike also opposes the elimination of the National 
Teacher Incentive Fund (FONID) and the Salary 
Compensation Fund.
 
On Feb. 22, the education workers held an assembly in 
which they ratified the need to mobilize to prevent 
the destruction of public education.
 
CTERA, which is one of the largest trade unions in 
Argentina, stated that the national strike will be 
accompanied by demonstrations across
 the country.
 
From the early hours of Monday, teachers began to gather 
in front of the Pizzurno Palace, the headquarters of the 
Education Ministry, in Buenos Aires.
 
Among the resolutions adopted at the CTERA assembly are 
demanding the formation of the national bargaining table 
and convening a meeting of secretaries to continue 
the struggle plan if no responses are obtained by 
Wednesday 28th.
 
The education workers also decided to condemn political 
persecution and the repression protocol set by Security 
Minister Patricia Bullrich and to strengthen unity 
among teachers, workers, and citizens ----
to 
build a major national strike.


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Demonstrations in Italy for peace
--- in Ukraine and the Middle East
February 24th, 11:19am
 (Prensa Latina) 
 
Thousands of people participated in demonstrations called
 by the Italian Network for Peace and Disarmament, which 
spread today throughout the country..... in favour of the
end 
of the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
 
A statement published this Saturday -- on the official site of 
that organization, relates among other demands “stopping 
the criminal madness of wars” --- seeking a political 
solution, to end the war between Kiev & Moscow, 
as well as ---- “stopping the massacre - and the
 ethnic cleansing of Palestinians”... by Israel.
 
Groups such as the Coordinator for Constitutional 
Democracy, the Italian Women’s Union (UDI), the 
Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL), 
the National Association of Partisans of Italy 
(ANPI), as well as the environmental 
organizations Legambiente and 
Greenpeace, among others. 
 
Giorgio Zampetti, general director of Legambiente, 
expressed in statements to the press, that: “the 
world is experiencing a deep crisis, marked by 
conflicts and wars, that are causing innocent 
deaths, devastation.. & new forms of hatred
& violence in different parts of the planet.”
 
“That is why today, together with many other civil society 
entities, we believed that it was essential to be present 
in the squares, with our flags, to immediately ask for 
peace, added Zampetti.
 
In the streets of the city of Milan, in the northern region 
of Lombardy, some five thousand protesters called for 
a ceasefire in Palestine, while in the Tuscan city of 
Florence, a pacifist human chain, of a thousand 
people... stretched along the Arno River, from 
the Santa Trinidad bridge, to Carraia bridge.
 
Ilaria Lani, union leader of the CGIL in Florence, demanded 
during the event -- that “our country, as the Constitution 
says, be in the front line to repudiate war and build 
a policy of peace.”
 
Similar protests took place in the cities of Palermo, Naples 
and Turin, as well as in other major urban centres and in 
small towns throughout Italy, the source points out.
 
Nicola Ricci, general secretary of the CGIL in Campania,
said that ---a signal must be sent: to reaffirm Europe’s
 role ------- in building a path that leads to peace.”
 
“It is necessary to reduce military spending, in favour of 
social spending and stop the arms industry, to rebuild
 a climate of coexistence and security for all people,”
 Ricci added during the demonstration in Naples.




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Farmers dissatisfied with the EU's 
agricultural policy will hold a 
demonstration in Brussels 
on February 26
February 23rd, 1:16pm
(RT.ru)
 
A demonstration of agronomists will be held on February 26 
in Brussels. This is reported by the Belga news agency 
with reference to farmers' organizations.
 
In the message, the text of which leads RIA Novosti, it is
 noted that the demonstration in the Belgian capital will 
be a response to the meeting there of the heads of 
the Ministries of Agriculture of the EU.
 
The Belgian police expect that the demonstration
 can provoke serious traffic violations.
 
Earlier it was reported about the protest action before
 the opening of the Salon of Agriculture in Paris, 
where dozens of tractors took to the streets.
 
 
 
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Passionate ceasefire calls reach UK MPs




Thousands of Protesters Gather in
Sanaa ---- in Solidarity With Gaza
February 16th, (teleSUR)
 
On Friday, tens of thousands of Yemenis gathered
in Sanaa to denounce the genocide committed 
by the Israeli occupation forces, against 
Palestinians in Gaza.
 
The head of the Houthi Supreme Political Council, 
Mahdi Al-Mashat, addressed the gathering - and
pledged unwavering support for the 
Palestinian people.
 
"I call on the evil trio attacking our people in Gaza 
and in most Islamic countries, to immediately 
cease aggression and lift the siege on our
 people in Gaza," he said.
 
The protesters carried Palestinian flags and 
waved their weapons --- while chanting 
slogans against the United States 
and Israel.
 
A text reads, "Thousands march in Yemen's 
capital Sanaa -- in strong support of Gaza."
 
Today marks the implementation of the designation 
of the Houthis as a "terrorist" group by the US, 
one month after its announcement.
 
"There is no other solution for you but this option, no 
matter how much you escalate and engage in 
aggression here or there in any region," 
Al-Mashat said, adding that anyone 
who attacks them "must receive 
a response, regardless of the 
consequences."
 
Since November 2023, the Yemeni Houthis have targeted 
ships with links to Israel in the Red Sea and the Bab al-
Mandeb Strait as military targets.
 
This has caused major shipping companies worldwide, to 
continue adjusting their routes to avoid crossing the Red 
Sea, through which 8 percent of global cereal trade,
 12 percent of oil trade, and 8 percent of 
liquefied natural gas trade.. pass.
 


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UK activists step up action ----- 
to jam up Israeli war machine
February 15th, 12:39am
 (PressTV)
 
Across Britain, pro-Palestinian activists have 
stepped up action aimed at jamming up the
 Israeli war machine, which is pressing on 
with the regime's genocidal war against 
the Gaza Strip.
 
Activists with Palestine Action, a UK-based pro-
Palestinian protest network, barricaded the 
entrance to Israel’s largest weapons firm, 
Elbit Systems, by locking themselves 
together, UK newspaper Morning 
Star reported on Wednesday.
 
The company provides the Israeli military.. with
drones, munitions, combat vehicles, missiles,
 and other types of weaponry.
 
"The majority of their arms are marketed as
'battle-tested,' meaning they have been
 deployed in bombardments against
 the Palestinian people," the 
daily wrote.
 
A Palestine Action spokesperson said, "While Israeli 
weapons companies — which assist in occupying, 
displacing, and massacring the people in Gaza -
 operate on our doorstep, it’s up to the people 
to take direct action - to shut Elbit down."
 
"Every other method -- including marches, petitions, 
and lobbying - has failed to end British complicity 
in the occupation."
 
Activists from the group.. also drenched the Manchester
offices of Bank of New York Mellon, a US banking and 
financial services corporation, in red paint, to 
symbolize the bank’s complicity in 
Palestinian bloodshed.
 
The Bank has invested over £10 million 
($12.5 million) in Elbit Systems.
 
Nearly 28,600 Palestinians, mostly women and children, 
have been killed - since the Israeli regime launched its 
onslaught on Gaza in early October in response to an
 operation staged by the coastal sliver's resistance 
movements against the occupied territories.
 
The protest came -- while the regime is intensifying
 its strikes against the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
 
More than 1.5 million Palestinians -- above half of Gaza's
 population - have fled to the city amid incessant Israeli
 bombardments elsewhere throughout the territory. 
 
Tel Aviv is, meanwhile --- threatening to bring the city 
under an all-out ground invasion, which international 
humanitarian organizations have warned ------ would 
spell an unspeakable catastrophe.
 
 
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London protesters call PM Sunak
 war criminal over Israel support
February 13th, 1:59am
(PressTV)
 
Hundreds of people have gathered outside the British Prime 
Minister Rishi Sunak’s office, urging the government to use 
its leverage to prevent Israel from launching its planned 
invasion of the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah. 
 
They also called Sunak a war criminal over his
 staunch support for the occupying regime.
 

In the centre of Athens, police  used gas against protesters  in support of Palestine



In the centre of Athens, police
 used gas against protesters 
in support of Palestine
February 10th, 4:42pm
(RT.ru)
 
Police fired tear gas - at demonstrators who organized
 a rally in support of Palestine in the centre of Athens.
 
This is reported by the newsbreak portal.gr.
 
Demonstrators smashed the glass
doors of a McDonald's restaurant.
 
Two people were detained.
 
Earlier, pro-Palestinian activists blocked a number
 of roads in downtown Washington to protest the
 fighting in the Gaza Strip.
 


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Pakistan’s pro-Palestine protesters 
call for ICJ ruling on Gaza 
to be implemented
February 3rd, 9:43pm
by Nasir Kazmi
Press TV, Islamabad
 
People in Pakistan continue to hold pro-Palestine
 demonstrations - in solidarity with the besieged
 Gaza Strip. They called for the implementation
 of a recent ruling handed down by the 
International Court of Justice 
against Israel. 
 
The government of Pakistan has also demanded the UN
 Security Council fulfill its responsibility - and protect
the
 defenseless people of Gaza. 
 
 
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Fresh thousands-strong London 
demonstration calls for end 
to Gaza genocide
February 3rd, 9:40pm
by Saeed Pourreza
Press TV, London
 
In Britain, hundreds of thousands have once again marched 
through the centre of the capital city, London, against the 
US-Israeli genocidal war on Gaza. 
 
British protesters slammed the UK’s complicity in that 
genocide and voiced support for the Palestinian 
people’s struggle for liberation. 




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people march in Seoul for Gaza
February 3rd, 5:48pm
by Frank Smith
Press TV, Seoul
 
South Koreans have rallied in the capital, Seoul, 
to show solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza.
 
This is the 20th consecutive protest to call for 
an end to the US-Israeli genocidal campaign.


Pro Palestine Rally in Chicago

US cities pass resolutions
---- for Gaza ceasefire
February 3rd, 11:33am
(PressTV)
 
Across the United States, local governments are passing 
resolutions demanding a ceasefire in Gaza as pro- 
Zionism sentiment.... continues its historic 
crumbling, under the weight of daily 
Israeli war crimes.
 
The third largest city in the United States, Chicago, also 
has the nation's largest Palestinian community, who
 were thrilled ------- to see their city council pass a
 resolution demanding a permanent ceasefire.
 
Local city councils in various US states have passed 
ceasefire resolutions in solidarity with Palestine 
amid Washington’s unequivocal support
 for Israel.
 
''We were on edge honestly for a while and the fact that it 
was passed, is just an amazing show of solidarity with 
our brothers and sisters in Palestine.''
 
''We know that it doesn't necessarily change anything for
 them on the ground, but I think that this will definitely 
put pressure on our government to hear though the 
will of its people in one of the largest cities of 
America and, hopefully, this will influence 
some of their policy [sic] and we will 
get a permanent ceasefire soon.''
 
Deanna Othman, American 
Muslims for Palestine, 
Chicago
 
US court 'implores' Biden to 
reconsider support for 
genocide in Gaza 
 
The court in California ruled that it is "plausible"
that Israel is committing Genocide in Gaza.


Ceasefire demands have been approved from major cities 
like San Francisco, Detroit, and Atlanta to suburbs and 
small towns, which are insisting on taking a 
moral stand.
 
''Words like 'apartheid' and 'ethnic cleansing', which were
 once heavily censored in public life, are now being 
voted into the public record. And you would wish 
that people in positions of power, do things, do
 the right things -- because they are the right 
things, because it’s the moral thing to do.
That doesn't always happen. But in 
Chicago,it's a little bit different.''
 
Hatem Abudayyeh ------ of the US 
Palestinian Community Network
 
Biden makes history --- 1st sitting 
US president sued for complicity 
in genocide 
 
Biden becomes the first sitting American president 
to be sued for complicity in genocide - over the US
actions on Gaza. The United States was the only
 member on the United Nations Security Council
to vote against a ceasefire, and they have 
paralyzed the Security Council on the
issue of the genocide in Gaza.
 
As congressmen in Washington reportedly refused to even 
engage with Palestinian activists, city councils have
 become the primary place with political power, 
which will discuss the issue and reflect the 
historic shift in public sentiment 
towards Palestine.
 
 
''It really shows that when you vote for progressive
politicians -- progress does happen. We not only 
saw a vote for a ceasefire -- but we saw a vote
 for solidarity and community building as well.
The ceasefire vote is not only for the 
Palestinian people, it's for 
all communities.''
 
Nasreen Hasan - of the Arab-American 
Centre, University of Illinois-Chicago
 
The local resolutions are mainly symbolic, 
but they aren't so local. They show 
support to Palestine and their 
allies around the world and 
they prove to Washington 
that their unshakeable 
support for Israel isn't
shared across the US.
 
Poll: Americans who say Israel 
committing genocide nears
 relative majority 
 
With social and alternative media swaying people 
more than ever, the days of Zionism’s dominance
in the United States...... appear to be numbered.



Stop genocide in Gaza

 
Biden Administration Faces 
Pushback from US-Arabs
February 3rd,  8:35am (FNA)
 
US-Muslim voters balked at the latest outreach efforts by
 Joe Biden’s administration, making it clear that the US 
president’s support for the Israeli war effort in the 
Gaza Strip may imperil his reelection bid.
 
At stake are several so-called “swing states” with large
 Muslim populations that helped propel Biden to an 
electoral victory in the 2020 presidential race.
 
Even small shifts in support from Arab-Americans in such
 hotly contested states as Pennsylvania, Georgia, and
 Arizona could swing the 2024 election against the
Democrat incumbent, who already faces an 
“abandon Biden” movement in Michigan, 
RT reported.
 
Widespread voter anger was evidenced on Thursday, when 
Biden’s motorcade reportedly had to be re-routed during a 
campaign stop in Michigan - because US-Arabs held a 
demonstration to voice their anger over the heavy 
civilian casualties in Gaza. “Genocide Joe
 has got to go,” protestors chanted, 
while waving Palestinian flags.
 
Back in Washington, many of the US-Palestinians invited to a
 meeting to discuss the Israel-Hamas war with Secretary of 
State Antony Blinken declined to attend. “We do not know 
what more Secretary Blinken or President Biden need - to 
hear or see to compel them to end their complicity in this
 genocide,” some of the invited guests said in a 
statement, explaining their decision to 
snub Blinken.
 
Pro-Palestinian protestors have also camped outside 
Blinken’s home in recent days to press for a change 
in policy. Dr. Tariq Haddad, a Virginia cardiologist 
who declined to attend Thursday’s meeting at 
the US State Department, told Blinken in a 
letter that he could not face him after the
 administration’s policies ---- led to the 
deaths of 80 of his family members 
in Gaza.
 
“The more I thought about this meeting, the more I could
 not emotionally bring myself to look you in the eyes, 
Secretary Blinken, knowing you and President 
Biden - have knowingly contributed to the 
suffering and murder of so many of my 
family, the homelessness and 
dispossession of 2 million 
Gazans, and the famine 
that has befallen my 
remaining family 
members,” 
he wrote.
 
More than 27,000 Gazans have been killed since the war 
began in October, according to local health authorities, 
and the UN has reported that 570,000 people in the 
besieged Palestinian enclave are starving. 
 
The Biden administration.... has approved two emergency
arms sales to Israel, bypassing congressional authority, 
and rejected calls for a ceasefire. At the same time, 
Biden and Blinken have urged Israeli leaders to 
minimize civilian casualties and allow more 
humanitarian aid trucks to enter Gaza.
 
A Quinnipiac University poll released this week showed that
 only 34% of US voters approve of Biden’s handling of the 
Gaza crisis. An earlier poll by CBS News found that the 
president’s support for Israel is alienating at least
 one-third of Democrat voters.
 
 

US student coalition at Brown University  ---- launches 'hunger strike for Palestine'

US student coalition at Brown University 
---- launches 'hunger strike for Palestine'
February 3rd, 8:24am
 (PressTV)
 
A coalition of students at Brown University in Rhode Island 
has gone on an indefinite hunger strike in protest at 
Israel’s war on Gaza, calling on the university to
 divest from companies profiting from the 
ongoing aggression.
 
The group said in a statement on Friday afternoon that they 
would keep up their hunger strike until the university did its
 part to promote an “immediate and permanent” ceasefire.
 
It demanded the university introduce a divestment
 resolution at the next meeting of its governing 
body, which is scheduled to be held on 
February 8 and 9. 
 
"Given the escalating violence in Gaza, this hunger strike
 emphasizes the urgency of passing a divestment
 resolution in this meeting rather than delaying 
the process any further," the students said 
in the statement. 
 
The organizers of the hunger strike said they want the 
resolution to follow the recommendations of a report 
released in 2020 by the Advisory Committee on 
Corporate Responsibility in Investment 
Practices (ACCRIP) that called for 
divestment from companies 
involved ----- in the Israeli 
occupation of Palestine.
 
AB Volvo, Airbus, Boeing, DXC, General Dynamics, 
General Electric and Motorola were among the 
companies that the ACCRIP’s report had 
identified for divestment.
 
"As a Palestinian, I have witnessed colossal losses in 
Gaza, the West Bank, and around the world; the 
ongoing impact of this humanitarian crisis has 
fueled my commitment to justice,” said Nour 
Abaherah, a Palestinian participant in the 
hunger strike.
 
“My family history, intertwined with the struggles of my
 people, and occupied people everywhere, motivates 
me to stand against the investment and profiting of
 arms and weapons manufacturing and occupation 
that perpetuates violence in our world," she added.
 
Accused by students of holding investments in arms
 manufacturers, Brown University has been a hub of
 protests since Israel started its incessant 
bombardment campaign against the 
besieged Gaza Strip in 
early October.
 
The student coalition stressed that support for divestment
 "as a material way of supporting a permanent ceasefire
 and lasting peace in Gaza".. is growing on the campus.
 
"This strike is the student body’s response - to Brown’s 
continued inaction in the face of the mounting crisis 
in Gaza," the students said in their statement, 
adding that the move will be accompanied 
by a host of programs, including teach-
ins, performances, and prayers.
 
UN experts have described Israel’s war on Gaza
as the deadliest, most dangerous conflict for
 journalists - in recent history. 
 
 
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Pro-Palestinian activists block 
several roads in Washington
February 1st, 8:46pm
(RT.ru)
 
Pro-Palestinian activists have blocked a number
of roads 
in downtown Washington to protest
the fighting in the 
Gaza Strip.
 
This is reported by the Washington 
police, RIA Novosti writes.
 
At least eight people were arrested.
 
Earlier in Amsterdam, several dozen people 
demonstrated ------ in support of peace
in Ukraine and Palestine.
 
 
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Mass anti-government 
rallies held in Slovakia
January 11th, 7:28pm
(RT.ru)
 
Anti-government rallies demanding the resignation 
of the Cabinet of Ministers were held in Slovakia.
 
This is reported by TASS with reference 
to the Markiza TV channel.
 
The rallies were attended by 
"many thousands of citizens".
 
The largest of the rallies --- took place on the Slovak 
National Uprising Square in the centre of Bratislava.
 
Earlier, more than 1,000 farmers on tractors took
 part in a demonstration in Augsburg, Germany.
 
 
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Pro-Palestine protesters gather 
outside Greek parliament, 
demand immediate 
Gaza ceasefire
January 6th, 9:14pm
(PressTV)
 
Crowds of demonstrators rallied outside the Greek
 parliament building in Athens on Saturday --- in a 
show of solidarity with the people of Palestine 
amid the continued Israeli bombardment of
the Gaza Strip. 
 
Footage shows protesters waving Palestinian flags and 
carrying large banners while chanting slogans such as
"Palestine will never die," "'Freedom in Palestine, Free
 Palestine," and "Isolate Israel," as they demanded 
an immediate and lasting ceasefire in the 
besieged territory.
 
The protest in Athens came as widespread protests 
have erupted across Europe against Israel's 
genocidal war in Gaza.
 
(Source: RT)
 

Argentines March Against Milei's  Economic and Security Policies

 
Argentines March Against Milei's
 Economic and Security Policies
December 20th (teleSUR)
 
On Wednesday, human rights defenders, social activists, 
workers, students, teachers, and retirees will march in
 Buenos Aires ------ to reject President Javier Milei's 
economic adjustments and security protocol.
 
This marks the first major mobilization against the far-right
 administration and coincides with the anniversary of the 
2001 social upheaval that led to the resignation of then-
President Fernando de la Rua.
 
The mobilization aims to defend the right to protest, which
 is under threat --- with the protocol announced by the 
Security Ministry. Among the groups participating
 in the march are the Worker Pole, the Left Front, 
Great Homeland, the Communist Party, the
 Railway Union, "Memory, Truth and 
Justice," the Peace and Justice
Service, and the Teachers' 
Trade Union.
 
The march will have two columns starting at 4:30 PM local 
time from the Congress and the Obelisco. They will
 converge at Mayo Square where social activists
will read a document agreed upon by 
various groups.
 
"Milei announced a declaration of war against the people's
 labour, social, and civil rights. It includes ---- a mega-
devaluation, the freezing of funding for popular
 dining facilities, and significant increases in
 service fees," stated the activists
calling 
for the protests.
 
They also denounced a protocol that seeks to preserve
 the so-called "public order" because it undermines 
constitutional rights, including the right to protest.
 
Last week, Security Minister Patricia Bullrich announced
 an anti-protest protocol that includes prison sentences, 
charging protesters for the expenses incurred in 
deploying security forces, and deporting
 foreign demonstrators.
 
"The protocol establishes that any demonstration that
 is carried out... with blockades of streets or routes, 
constitutes the commission of a flagrant crime 
and enables the security forces to evict or 
disperse the protest," Piensa Prensa 
reported.
 
"At the same time -- it contains provisions to collect 
information, criminalize, persecute and stigmatize
 participants in public demonstrations -- and the
 political, social and union organizations 
involved," it added.
 
On the eve of the first major protest against Milei, 
Human Capital Minister, Sandra Pettovello, 
announced that citizens participating in 
or promoting street blockades - will 
cease to receive public support
 through social programs.
 
 

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Turkish doctors stage
a silent march...
 in solidarity --- with
Gaza medical staff
December 16th 8:51pm
by Rahshan Saglam
Press TV, Istanbul
 
Doctors and medical staff in Türkiye have held a silent 
march in protest against the Israeli regime's attacks
 on medical staff in the besieged Gaza Strip. 
 
The march was held in 36 cities in Türkiye as 
similar rallies were organized in 26 cities 
across the world as well. 
 

UK pro peace demos across UK for Gaza



UK pro-peace demonstrators 
hold nation-wide rallies -
in 
support for Palestine
December 16th, 7:08pm
 
Pro-peace demonstrators have taken part in fresh 
protest rallies across the UK, demanding an end 
to Israeli atrocities in the Gaza Strip. 
 
The pro-Palestine protests continue as the
Stop the 
War Coalition titled Saturday,
as the “Day of Action.”
 
The Stop the War Coalition organizers listed 57 
separate pro-Palestinian events across the 
UK on Saturday, including assemblies 
and candlelit vigils.
 
Protesters in north London gathered in Camden 
Town, calling for an end to the Israeli regime
 forces deadly attacks on Gaza.
 
The weekly demonstrations in the UK are held 
amid growing concern in the international 
community about the Israeli regime's 
brutal genocidal war on Gaza.
 
Since the occupying regime unleashed its genocidal
 war against the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7, the 
international community -- except the 
US -- has unanimously called for an
 end to hostilities against civilians.
 
Until now some 19,000 Gazans, mostly 
women and children ------ have been 
killed by the Israeli war machine.
 
Since the launch of the Israeli genocide on October 
7, the occupation forces' relentless bombings have 
leveled residential areas across the Gaza Strip, 
razing towns and villages while flattening 
much of northern Gaza.
 
Gaza’s population of 2.3 million has been mostly 
driven from their homes, fleeing to the south 
to seek refuge.
 
The ongoing bombings amid the huge population shift, 
squeezing large groups of refugees into scarce 
shelters with limited facilities and resources,
 has plunged the besieged Gaza Strip into
 a "grim" humanitarian situation.
 
At least 27 people have been killed in Israeli strikes 
on two residential buildings in southern Gaza, 
with victims still being reported to be 
under the rubble.
 
In this regard, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) 
said it is becoming increasingly difficult to 
sustain life in Gaza due to the the
territory's complete siege ---- 
amid continued bombings. 
 
“Staff on the ground say that every day that passes 
makes it more and more difficult to sustain human 
life in Gaza, that’s because of the systematic 
denial of food, water, medicine, and fuel 
to the civilian population in Gaza,”
 the CEO of MAP, Melanie 
Ward, warned.
 
She said Israeli regime forces' indiscriminate 
bombings --- will soon result in the killing of 
10,000 children, adding, “The situation 
couldn’t be more grim.”





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 General strike ---- against
Israeli genocide in Gaza
December 12th, 12:16am
(Press TV, Ramallah)
 
Life came to a standstill in the occupied West Bank
as a general strike was observed - in line with the 
international call for a global strike --- in protest 
against Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip.
 
The Israeli onslaught on the territory has so far claimed
the lives of more than 18,200 people, the majority of 
them women and children.


 
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Pro-Palestinian Demos
-----  Across the World
here are just two:

 
UK capital rocked by pro-
Palestine protest - again
Sunday, December 10th, 2:47am
by Saeed Pourreza
Press TV, London 
 
For the ninth Saturday in a row, pro-Palestine protests have
 taken place across the UK. The one held in London this
 weekend was the first major rally since the weeklong 
pause in Israel’s indiscriminate bombing of Gaza 
ended. The demonstration came after the UK 
abstained from voting for a UN Security 
Council resolution... that called for a 
ceasefire in Gaza. The resolution 
was vetoed by the US.
 
 
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Thousands of activists held a 
rally in Tel Aviv: demanding 
talks with Hamas
December 9th, 8:29pm
(RT.ru)
 
Thousands of Israelis have rallied in central Tel Aviv to
 demand negotiations for the release of all remaining 
hostages from the Gaza Strip.
 
This is reported by RIA Novosti.
 
It is noted that the action is conducted by the volunteer 
organization "Forum of Families of hostages and 
missing persons".
 


 pro-Palestinian actions in a  number of German cities

 TASS: Thousands of people took part 
in pro-Palestinian actions in a 
number of German cities
December 2nd, 8:17pm
 
Several thousand people participated in pro-
Palestinian rallies in several German cities.
 
According to a TASS correspondent, in Berlin, about 
2 thousand activists passed through several 
central districts of the city.
 
Participants carried Palestinian flags, held banners in 
support of Palestine and shouted slogans. Several 
people were detained by the police.
 
Another demonstration under the slogan "Solidarity 
with the people of Palestine" was held in Hamburg.
 
Residents of North Rhine-Westphalia also took to 
the streets to participate in several small pro
-Palestinian demonstrations.
 
About 200 residents of Dusseldorf participated in such 
an action. In addition, events were planned in
Cologne, 
Bielefeld and Dortmund.
 
Earlier it was reported that 18 demonstrators in 
support of Palestine were detained in London.



 pro-Palestinian actions in Spain

 
RIA Novosti: Madrid hosts protest 
against the war in Palestine
December 2nd, 7:34pm
(RT.ru)
 
Madrid residents hold a protest rally calling for an end
 to the war in Palestine and an end to the genocide
 in the Gaza Strip.
 
This was reported by a RIA Novosti correspondent.
 
The protest started near the Atocha train station and 
ended in the Provincial Square. It was held under the 
slogans "Israel kills, Europe sponsors", "This is not 
war, this is genocide". Participants carried flags 
of Palestine and some leftist political parties.
 
The organizers also noted " the legitimate right of 
the Palestinian resistance to defend its people 
from occupation."
 
In addition, the Spaniards called for the closure of 
the Israeli embassy and the expulsion of all 
those who represent - it from the country.
 
Earlier it was reported that about 6-7 thousand people 
took part in a pro-Palestinian demonstration in 
Rotterdam, the Netherlands.



In Berlin, thousands of people came out --- to protest against the supply of weapons to Kiev



In Berlin, thousands of people came out ---
to 
protest against the supply of weapons
to Kiev
November 25th, 5:12pm 
(Lenta.ru)
 
Thousands of people marched in Berlin for talks on Ukraine
 and the gas sector. This is reported by RIA Novosti with 
reference to a correspondent from the scene.
 
It is noted that the protest action was organized by politician
 Sarah Wagenknecht. In a speech delivered on the podium 
at the Brandenburg Gate, she accused the German
 government of applying double standards to the 
Ukrainian conflict and the situation in the Gaza
Strip. "This war must end. And this --- is very 
important — in all directions," she said.
 
Wagenknecht criticized the government's spending on arms 
supplies, while Germany has a shortage of teachers, 
hospitals are closing, and infrastructure is aging. 
 
The organizers of the protest, in leaflets, called for peace 
talks in all combat zones in the world. According to them, 
Berlin is supplying more and more weapons instead of 
de-escalation and diplomacy.
 
In early October, a protest against support for Ukraine was 
held in Berlin on the Day of German Unity. The protest 
action was initiated by activists of the Querdenker 
movement, which is close to the opposition right-
wing Alternative for Germany party. 
 
The demonstrators were against the supply of weapons
 to Kiev, for the resignation of the government and for
early elections.
 
 
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Pro-Palestine rallies held 
across world as truce 
takes hold in Gaza
November 24th, 7:10pm
(PressTV)
 
Thousands of people rallied across the world on Friday to 
voice their unfaltering support for Palestinians in the
Gaza Strip, on the first day of a truce after some 
50 days of brutal Israeli war on the 
besieged territory.
 
The Yemeni people thronged the streets in the capital 
Sana’a to express their solidarity with Gazans as 
they waved Palestinian flags and shouted 
pro-Palestine slogans.
 
“Our first and central cause is Palestine, and we will not
 give up standing for this cause,” protester Muhammad
 al-Theali said, AFP reported. 
 
“We are ready to offer financial, moral and psychological 
support - support with our funds, souls, sons, weapons 
to confront the enemy's arrogance, the American and
 Israeli arrogance against Muslim people."
 
Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after the 
Palestinian resistance movement Hamas launched the 
surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm in response to Tel
 Aviv's decades-long campaign of bloodletting and 
devastation against Palestinians.
 
Tel Aviv has also blocked water, food, and electricity
 to Gaza, plunging the coastal strip into a
 humanitarian crisis.
 
The Government Media Office in Gaza announced in a 
report on Thursday that at least 14,854 Palestinians, 
including more than 6,150 children and 4,000 
women, have been killed and over 36,000 
others injured in the Israeli strikes.
 
The Qatari-mediated truce, which came into effect early 
on Friday, would see the exchange of captives and the 
delivery of relief aid to the Gaza Strip over a span of 
four days.
 
Under the terms of the agreement, for every Israeli captive
 released, there will be 3 Palestinian prisoners released, 
namely women and children. Two hundred aid trucks 
that include medical supplies for the entire Gaza 
Strip will also be allowed in during the four-
day ceasefire.
 
Also on Friday, hundreds of demonstrators gathered in 
the Turkish city of Istanbul to slam the Israeli military 
campaign in the coastal silver.
 
The protesters held funeral prayers in absentia for two 
Turkish nationals who were reported by local media 
to have been killed in an Israeli strike on
 southern Lebanon.
 
Since the start of the war, the south of Lebanon has seen 
the scene of sporadic exchanges of fire and shelling 
between the Israeli military and the resistance 
movement Hezbollah, which has reportedly 
fired more than 1,000 rockets, mortars, 
missiles, and drones at Israel.
 
Jordanians support ceasefire in Gaza
 
Meanwhile, crowds in the Jordanian capital demonstrated 
support for Palestinians on Friday after the start of a 
temporary ceasefire in the besieged area.
 
The Jordanians carried signs and banners in support
 of Palestinians as they marched through the streets
 of Amman.
 
“Today is the day of victory, today is the beginning of the 
collapse of Israel, today is the beginning of the victory 
of the Arab and Islamic nation, today --- what the 
resistance has done --- is something that has 
never happened in the history of humanity,”
 said protester Abdel Majid Dandis.
 
 
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UJC members march in Cuba
in solidarity with Palestine
November 23rd, 2:51pm
 (Prensa Latina) 
 
Hundreds of Cubans called on Thursday, for a
 cease-fire of the Israeli aggression against 
Gaza, in a mobilization led by President 
Miguel Diaz-Canel.
 
The march in solidarity with Palestine, called by the 
Union of Young Communists (UJC) of Cuba, was 
attended by Prime Minister Manuel Marrero 
and other authorities of political and 
youth organizations in the country.
 
Palestinian medical students, youngsters, children and
workers from Havana, representing the Cuban people
 ....took part in the mobilization, which started in 
Havana’s Malecon, from the vicinity of 
Presidents Avenue to the Piragua, 
near the emblematic 
National Hotel.
 
During the political-cultural act at La Piragua site, a
 Palestinian student and the Second Secretary of 
the UJC in the capital.... Meyvis Estevez ---- 
denounced that most of the civilians 
killed in the Gaza Strip, were 
children and women.


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Report: US Military Tech Firm 
Backing War in Gaza Awarded
Britain's NHS Data Contract
November 21st, 3:20pm (FNA)
 
A US company specialising in AI-powered military and
 surveillance technology that is supporting Israel’s 
war in Gaza is set to be handed a contract by 
England's National Health Service
 to handle patient data.
 
The £480mln ($600mln) contract, which has reportedly 
been awarded to Colorado-based Palantir by NHS 
England, is likely to dismay many NHS workers 
who have called for a ceasefire in Gaza, and 
protested against Israeli attacks targeting 
hospitals and civilians, The Middle East 
Eye reported.
 
A spokesperson for Health Workers for a Free Palestine, a 
network of NHS staff, told Middle East Eye, “Many would
 be rightly concerned that a third-party company is 
managing their medical data, let alone Palantir, 
whose interests are at odds with the British 
public, Palestinian people and our 
collective humanity”.
 
At least 13,300 people, including 5,600 children, have been
 killed in Gaza since Israel launched its assault following 
attacks by Hamas fighters in Southern Israel on 
October 7 in which at least 1,200 people 
were killed.
 
Palantir, which has an office in Tel Aviv, has 
been outspoken in its support for Israel.
 
In a social media post on October 12, it said, “Certain 
kinds of evil can only be fought with force. Palantir 
stands with Israel.”
 
In a letter to shareholders issued on November 2, the
 company said, “We are one of a few companies in 
the world to stand up and announce our support 
for Israel, which remains steadfast.”
 
Announcing the company’s third-quarter profits on the 
same day, Alex Karp, Palantir’s chief executive and 
a co-founder of the company, said --- “I am proud 
that we are supporting Israel ---- in every way 
we can.”
 
Speaking to Fox Business earlier this month, Joe Lonsdale, 
another of Palantir’s co-founders, said Israel was “doing
 what it has to do and eliminating the bad guys” and 
“we are trying to keep the good guys armed 
and ahead”.
 
Lonsdale said, “When we were building Palantir we actually 
learnt a lot from the Israelis. They’re quite good at what 
they do and one of my proudest moments was when 
Israel started working with Palantir. So Palantir 
helps Israel do a lot of things too.”
 
Middle East Eye asked Palantir what technology or support
 it was providing to Israel’s armed forces --- but had not 
received a response at the time of publication.
 
The company describes its military technologies as offering 
customers “mission-tested capabilities, forged in the field” 
to deliver “a tactical edge - by land, air, sea and space”.
 
Palantir was founded in 2004 with some funding provided by
 a CIA-backed venture capital firm and provides services to 
the US military and intelligence agencies, as well as to 
armed forces in the UK and other western countries.
 
Another co-founder, and Palantir’s current chair, is Peter 
Thiel, a technology billionaire who also co-founded 
PayPal and backed Donald Trump’s winning US 
presidential campaign in 2016.
 
Earlier this month, Palantir reported quarterly earnings of
 $558mln and said it expected its annual earnings for
 2023 to exceed $2.2bln.
 
In comments to investors, Karp said -- the company was 
"building products for a world that is violent, disjointed, 
irrational, a world in which you have to show strength.
A world in which you really have to pick sides". 
 
The NHS previously used Palantir software to manage data 
during the COVID-19 pandemic, but its involvement in
the UK healthcare system has been opposed by
 privacy campaigners.
 
They have called on the UK government to end 
Palantir’s involvement in the NHS, citing the 
company’s involvement in developing 
mass surveillance for the National 
Security Agency in the US and
 GCHQ in the UK.
 
In 2017, Haaretz reported that Palantir was one of two
technology companies -- providing predictive systems
used for intelligence at Israeli security organisations
that the newspaper linked to the arrests of scores
of Palestinians - based on profiling of their social 
media activity.
 
Continuing Israeli attacks on hospitals and medical 
facilities in Gaza have been widely condemned.
 
On Monday, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head 
of the World Health Organisation, said he was 
appalled by an assault by Israeli forces on 
the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia in 
which at least 12 people, including 
patients, had been killed.
 
"Health workers and civilians should never have to be 
exposed to such horror, and especially while inside
 a hospital," Ghebreyesus said.
 
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said that an MSF 
clinic in Gaza City had also come under fire.
 
On Saturday, up to 7,000 people inside Gaza City’s Al-Shifa 
Hospital, including premature babies, critically ill patients, 
displaced families and medical staff, were given just 
one hour to leave by Israeli troops.
 
Last month, thousands of NHS doctors signed an open 
letter calling on the UK government to condemn 
Israel’s attack on Gaza.
 
Earlier this month, hundreds of health workers protested 
outside the Department of Health and Social Care
 (DHSC) to condemn the UK government’s 
support for Israel.
 
A spokesperson for Health Workers for a Free Palestine 
said, “Palantir has come out in full support for Israel's 
bombardment of Gaza, received funding from the 
CIA, helped the NSA with their worldwide 
surveillance programme, and worked 
on artificial intelligence for US 
military drones."
 
"Businesses that trade in death should have no place 
in our healthcare system," the spokesperson added.
 
Palantir did not respond to requests for comment.
 
The DHSC did not answer MEE’s questions about health 
workers' concerns regarding Palantir’s support for 
Israel. Instead, a spokesperson sent a statement 
addressing data privacy concerns.
 
“Patients’ data has and always will remain under the full 
control and protection of the NHS, and it will not be 
accessed by the company that makes the 
software,” the statement said.
 
NHS England did not respond to MEE’s requests for comment
 about Palantir’s support for Israel. It said, “NHS England is 
conducting a fair and transparent procurement process 
for a supplier of the federated data platform, in line 
with public contracts regulations, and this 
process has not yet concluded.”
 

Mexicans Ask to End Genocide  in Front of the Israeli Embassy

 
Mexicans Ask to End Genocide
 in Front of the Israeli Embassy
November 16th, (teleSUR)
 
On Thursday, the Friendship and Common Platform for
 Palestine Support organizations gathered in front of 
the Israeli Embassy in Mexico City to denounce the 
murder of thousands of children at the hands of 
the Israeli occupation army.
 
The citizens lay on the floor pretending to be dead and 
placed a tarp on top of them with the names of 
Palestinian children murdered by the Zionist 
state between October the 7th and 25th.
 
"The only thing we want and dream of --- is for 

the genocide to end," said Lince, one of the 
women present at the unprecedented 
protest.
 
A representative of the friendship organization, Manuel 
Mavroleon, denounced that Mexican citizens "do not 
receive the true information about the conflict", 
which is why they promote this type of 
actions, and warned that it will be a 
contest ----- "where the majority of 
victims are going to be children."
 
"It's very sad because there are a lot of kids who are my 
age. Friends like me who have a life like me," said Fin, a 
young American woman who lamented the situation 
between Israel and Palestine.
 
Lince and Mavroleon harshly criticized Mexican President 
Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) for the decision
 not to break relations with Israel.
 
"We understand that the president is in a difficult situation. 
The United States demands that Mexico not take action 
on the matter or, rather, to take action in favour of 
Israel," the Friendship activist stated, adding that
 he is very disappointed that a president "who 
calls himself leftist" - does not take a clear 
position on a matter of international 
and human solidarity.
 
Lince opted for the breaking of commercial and diplomatic 
relations between Mexico and Israel ------- even if it is not
"forever but only as a provisional measure to pressure 
for the Israeli occupation to end and for us to have 
peace again."
 
Both social organizations will organize other protest actions
 this month. One of these will take place on Sunday, where
 Mexicans will march from the Israeli Embassy in Mexico 
to the Angel of Independence roundabout on 
Reforma Avenue.
 

Ukraine women demand demobilization

 
"Serfdom, not military service": 
Ukrainian women demand 
rotation for their husbands 
& their return to the family
November 16th, 2023 
(source: Interia 
retold by InoTV)
 
At the same time, women's protests were held in a number 
of major cities of Ukraine, demanding changes in the rules
 of military service and the introduction of the rotation of
 personnel. They pointed out -- that their husbands are 
depressed, tired and mentally exhausted - because 
they have been fighting at the front since the very 
beginning of the conflict, Interia reports.
 
Women's protests demanding demobilization took place on 
November 12 in major Ukrainian cities. Demonstrations 
were held in Odessa, Kiev, Dnipro, Zaporizhia, Poltava 
and Ternopil, among others. Women and children who
 took part in street actions demanded detailed 
conditions of service. 
 
"We demand temporary service", "It's time for others" 
and "We forgot what the pope looks like" were just 
some of the slogans that could be seen on the
 protesters' banners.
 
Moreover, Ukrainian women accuse the army command of 
not giving permission for soldiers to go on leave, which 
is why some children have not seen their fathers for 
almost two years. Wives and girls - called for the 
introduction of solutions on the basis of which 
military personnel could return home after
1.5 years of service, as well as to 
demobilize the soldiers who had 
previously fought at the front. 
 
Women speaking on behalf of their partners also noticed 
that many of them are depressed, tired and mentally 
exhausted. In this regard, they deserve rest and 
need professional psychological help. 

Meanwhile, according to protesting 
Ukrainian women, for many men, 
the army has become "serfdom".
 
"Our men are neither younger nor healthier than others... 
Return them home, replace them with others," said 
Elena, a protester from Dnipro. According to her, 
there are still Ukrainians who are able to go to 
the front. "You just need to walk down the 
street, visit sports and night clubs," 
she added. 
 
In turn, the wife of a military man from Zaporozhye noted 
that it is necessary to ensure that the same people do
 not serve all the time during the conflict.
 
Interia says that female protesters also tripled the protest
 in Kryvyi Rih -- Vladimir Zelensky's hometown. During the 
demonstration, the slogan "Army, not slaves" was heard. 
 
The demonstrators tried to convey how impossible it is to 
spend more than 600 days without rest. Meanwhile, many
military personnel.... found themselves in just such a
situation. A general mobilization --- was announced
in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 ------ the day the 
conflict began. Martial law was also imposed in 
the country, and on November 8 of this year, 
the authorities extended the general 
mobilization until February 
14, 2024.
 
 

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South Koreans protest against 
enhancing military ties with 
US, Japan
November 13, 4:04pm
 (PressTV)
 
Protesters in Seoul demonstrated near the South Korean
 Defense Ministry against the government’s push for 
closer security ties with the US and Japan.
 
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with his South 
Korean counterpart Shin Won-sik, to discuss regional 
security issues. The defense chiefs of the US, South
 Korea and Japan agreed on Sunday to activate a 
real-time data-sharing operation on North 
Korean missile launches next month.
 
(Source: AFP)

 

Major pro-Palestinian march  held in London amid tight  police presence



Major pro-Palestinian march 
held in London amid tight 
police presence
November 11th, 4:02pm
(PressTV)
 
A major pro-Palestinian protest has been held on
 Armistice Day in London, despite opposition by
 the UK government, and amid a tight police 
presence, as the Israeli regime continues
 its genocide of the Palestinian people
 in the besieged Gaza Strip.
 
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the British
 capital city on Saturday to show their solidarity with 
the Palestinian people, calling for a humanitarian
 ceasefire... as the Israeli occupation forces 
continue to bomb and shell defenseless 
Palestinians in the coastal enclave.
 
Metropolitan Police Service announced on Friday, that the
 police presence would be “far greater and more complex 
than we’ve delivered before” amid concerns that certain 
groups may cause disruption and that some far-right 
elements may seek to ruin the march.
 
It added that throughout Saturday and Sunday, almost
2,000 officers from the Met, and other UK forces, will 
be on duty across central London as part of a major 
policing operation and officers: would draw on “an 
extensive set of powers to prevent any disruption 
whatsoever,” with tighter controls put on the 
movements of protesters.
 
The speakers at the event include Jeremy Corbyn, the 
former Labour leader; actors Juliet Stevenson and 
Maxine Peake; Husam Zomlot, the head of the 
Palestinian Mission to the UK; and others, 
who will deliver their speeches from a
 special stage.
 
The Guardian on Friday cited one of the organizers of the 
march from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) as 
saying -- that he expected people to be traveling from
all over the UK -- to march from Park Lane towards 
the US Embassy in southwest London.
 
Ben Jamal, the director of the PSC, said, “We think it is 
going to be huge. More than 500,000 people are 
expected to converge on London, making it 
one of the largest political marches
in British history,” a statement 
released by the PSC said.
 
The PSC said it “reasserts its concerns at the disgraceful 
remarks by [British} Home Secretary Suella Braverman,” 
as “she has sought to delegitimize the call for a cease-
fire, which is supported by the vast majority of the 
British public, smear those marching for peace 
and stirring up public unrest.”
 
Jamal said, “Contrary to the disgraceful rhetoric of Suella 
Braverman and other political leaders, hundreds of
 thousands of people from all walks of life, will 
come to London to march for peace, for a 
cease-fire, and for the rights of the 
Palestinian people.... to 
be respected."
 
The Apartheid Israeli regime forces --- have cut off water, 
food, medicine, and electricity to Gaza, while pounding
 the blockaded Palestinians from the air, ground, and 
sea, relentlessly targeting homes, hospitals, and 
places of worship ---- in the past 36 days.
 
According to Palestinian health officials, at least 11,078 
Gazans have been killed, including 4,506 children, and 
3,027 women in the Israeli attacks, launched after an
 operation by Hamas, in retaliation to the Apartheid
 Zionist Israeli regime forces' atrocities. 


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Hungarian Workers' Party held 
a rally against involvement
in 
the conflict in Ukraine
November 6th, 8:52pm
RT.ru)
 
Budapest hosted a rally of the Hungarian Workers' Party 
for a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Ukraine
and 
against the involvement of Hungary in it.
This is reported by RIA Novosti.
 
Activists of the party brought posters 
"We want peace" and "Get out of 
NATO" to the rally.
 
Party chairman, Gyula Thurmer, said that the 
conflict is a war of the West against Russia.
 
Earlier, it was reported that a protest rally was held 
in Berlin against the supply of weapons to Ukraine, 
for the resignation of the government and the 
holding of early elections in Germany.
 

In the US, activists blocked  the Boeing plant --- with a  demand to stop the war  in Gaza

 
In the US, activists blocked 
the Boeing plant --- with a 
demand to stop the war 
in Gaza
November 6th, 5:49pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Activists blocked the Boeing plant in the US
state of Missouri --- with a demand to stop 
supplying Israel and stop the fighting in
the Gaza Strip.
 
 On November 6, the protesters themselves announced 
this on the page of the anti-war movement in the 
social network X (formerly Twitter).
 
About 75 people participate in the campaign. They
 have blocked the approaches to the plant and are
 demanding that US President Joe and Congress 
influence the cease-fire in the Gaza Strip.
 
The Palestinians seek to restore the borders between
 the two countries along the lines that existed before 
the 1967 Six-Day War. Palestine wants to establish 
its own State in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, 
and make East Jerusalem its capital.

[Rhondda Records adds: 
Israel refuses
this --- and continues to
''cleanse'' or
kill the Palestinians.]
 

Mexicans Reject the Genocide  Perpetrated by Israel in Gaza

 
Mexicans Reject the Genocide
 Perpetrated by Israel in Gaza
November 6th (teleSUR)
 
On Sunday, thousands of Mexicans marched through the 
streets of Mexico City in rejection of the genocide that
 the Israeli occupation forces are perpetrating against
 the Palestinians.
 
Convened by over 100 social organizations, the protesters 
chanted phrases and carried signs ------ to denounce the 
terrorism of the Israeli State, which has murdered over 
9,500 Palestinians and left tens of thousands of 
people injured in the Strip.
 
As they advanced along the Reforma avenue toward the 
headquarters of the Mexican government, people
shouted phrases such as “Netanyahu, fascist, 
you are the terrorist!,” “Break relations with 
Israel!,” “Where are the sanctions against
 Israel?” and ”This is not a war, it is 
a genocide.”
 
This was the third national march organized by social
 organizations in solidarity with Palestine, which 
demand an immediate ceasefire, an end to the 
Zionist occupation of Palestinian territories, 
international sanctions on Israel, respect 
for human rights and a forceful stance 
regarding genocide --- by President 
Andres Manuel Lopez 
Obrador (AMLO).
 
A text reads, "Mexico with Palestine. In Mexico City, 
thousands of people concluded the demonstration 
in the Zocalo square demanding that President 
Lopez Obrador break diplomatic relations 
with Israel and calling for a ceasefire 
in Palestine."
 
Outside the National Palace, thousands of Mexicans paid 
tribute to the Palestinians murdered in Gaza through a 
traditional Day of the Dead offering. While this was 
happening --- people read statements and poems
 to demand that Mexico adopt a forceful stance.
 
For a whole minute, protesters threw themselves on the 
ground to simulate the thousands of Palestinians killed 
during the Israeli bombings. Then people painted 
a gigantic Palestinian flag in front of the
 National Palace.
 
So far, Mexico has condemned the indiscriminate attacks 
on the civilian population in Gaza ------ but has not cut 
diplomatic relations or taken a position against
 the Israeli state.
 
In Latin America, however --- other countries have made 
more forceful decisions. While Bolivia broke relations 
with Israel ------ Colombia and Chile summoned
 their ambassadors.


Tens of thousands turn out  for pro-Palestinian march  in Washington

Tens of thousands turn out 
for pro-Palestinian march 
in Washington
November 4th, 8:37pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Thousands of protesters gathered in downtown
Washington on Saturday, November 4, for a 
pro-Palestinian rally --- the largest protest 
in the US... since the beginning of the 
Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.
 
Participants of the march gathered on Freedom Square at
 14: 00 (21:00 Moscow Time), and after that the organizers 
planned to go past the White House. It is noted that this
 event, as well as similar actions in other cities around
 the world, held on Saturday, call for a cease-fire in 
the conflict between Israel and the Gaza Strip 
and the cessation of aid to Tel Aviv from
 the West.
 
"The time has come --- to stand up for the besieged people 
of Palestine! Gaza is being bombed every hour. Israel is 
depriving its residents of food, water and electricity. 
Tens of thousands more are likely to die. We must 
ACT!" read the website of the protest organizers.
 
Earlier, on November 3, a massive two-day march began 
in Istanbul -- in support of Palestine and against the US 
military bases. According to the report, the campaign
 of the Turkish humanitarian foundation --- "Human 
Rights and Freedoms" (IHH) -- called "Freedom 
Convoy for Palestine" will last until Sunday 
and end at the Incirlik air base -- in the 
province of Adana, in the south of
 the country.
 
In recent weeks, actions in support of the Gaza Strip in
 connection with the aggravation of the Palestinian-
Israeli conflict have been taking place all over the
 world. Earlier, on October 31, protesters broke 
into the US Congress building demanding a 
cease-fire in the Gaza Strip during a 
speech by Secretary of State 
Anthony Blinken. In this 
regard, the hearings
 were suspended 
several times.
 
The Palestinians seek to restore the borders between the
two countries, along the lines that existed before the 
1967 Six-Day War. Palestine wants to establish its
own State in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and
make East Jerusalem its capital. Israel 
.......refuses to comply.


Pro-Palestine rallies held in Rome

Pro-Palestine rallies
held in Rome
November 4th, 5:38pm
(RT.ru)
 
In the Italian capital Rome, rallies were held in
 support of Palestine, the newspaper la 
Repubblica reports.
 
According to the publication, about 1 thousand 
people took part in the action.
 
Earlier ------ thousands of people demonstrated
 in Madrid in support of the Palestinian people.
 

A rally supporting Palestine  is held in Brussels

 
A rally supporting Palestine
 is held in Brussels
November 1st, 5:27pm
(RT.ru)
 
Hundreds of demonstrators held a rally outside
 the US Embassy in Brussels, demanding an 
end to the fighting in the Gaza Strip.
 
This is reported by RIA Novosti.
 
Demonstrators with Palestinian flags chanted: 
"We demand an immediate ceasefire", 
"Freedom for Palestine".
 
Earlier, thousands of people demonstrated in
 Madrid in support of the Palestinian people.
 

RT correspondent -- showed  footage of a pro-Palestinian  rally in Istanbul


RT correspondent -- showed 
footage of a pro-Palestinian 
rally ------ in Istanbul
October 28th, 2:33pm
(RT.ru)
 
RT correspondent Allam Sbeihat showed footage of
 a rally in support of Palestine, which is taking 
place in Istanbul.
 
The rally takes place in different parts of the city.
 
Up to half a million people are taking part in it.
 
At the rally, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan 
called the situation in the Gaza Strip - a massacre -
and blamed the West for the bloodshed.
 
"(Responsibity for - RT) the massacre in Gaza lies 
entirely in the West, the conflict in the region, is
their brainchild," TASS quoted him as saying.
 
Erdogan also said ------ that Turkey
 will declare Israel a war criminal.
 
He called on Israel to immediately stop
 attacks on Gaza and "get out of the 
state of insanity."
 
Earlier, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
 called on citizens to rally ------ in support 
of Palestine.


London protest ------ Thousands call for end to Israel atrocities in Gaza


London protest
------ Thousands call
for end to Israel atrocities in Gaza
October 28th, 1:19pm
(PressTV)
 
Thousands of people have once again taken to the 
streets in the British capital London - to call for
an immediate end - to Israel’s atrocities in
the 
Gaza Strip.
 
Large crowds started to gather in central London 
on Saturday afternoon, while more rallies are 
expected in other cities across the UK,
including Manchester and Glasgow.
 
People in London were holding signs reading "Free
 Palestine, end Israeli occupation.” They were also 
chanting, "Stop arming Israel. Stop bombing Gaza.”
 
"We are all Palestinian" and "From the river to the 
sea, Palestine will be free," others were chanting.
 
UK Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, had previously
called on police chiefs -- to consider interpreting the 
"river to the sea" chant ------- as an "expression of a 
violent desire to see Israel erased from the world".
 
In a letter to chief constables in England and Wales, 
she had also warned that waving a Palestinian flag 
or singing a chant advocating freedom for Arabs 
in the region...... may be a “criminal offense”.
 
Thousands of Metropolitan Police officers are on 
duty to monitor events ---- as they expect more 
demonstrators to join the rally during the day.
 
According to the Metropolitan Police, large crowds 
are expected to gather around the Embankment,
 Whitehall, Strand, Westminster, and 
Waterloo Bridges.
 
Last weekend, an ''estimated'' 100,000 people 
marched through the capital --- demanding 
an end to Israel's bombing campaign in
 the populated Palestinian territory.
 
Similar numbers of officers were involved in policing 
demonstrations last weekend and 10 people were 
arrested on the day.
 
Demonstrations have been taking place around 
the world to call for fighting to stop and for aid
 to be allowed into Gaza.
 
The Israeli regime launched the war on Gaza on 
October 7 ---- and blocked water, food, and 
electricity to one of the most densely
 populated places in the world.
 
The airstrikes have so far killed more than 7700 people
 in the strip, the Gaza health ministry said Saturday. 
 
Virtually 19,743 people have also been wounded 
since the bombing began ------ three weeks ago.



New York: Arrests Made  as Hundreds of Mostly  Jewish Protesters -----  Call for Gaza Ceasefire

New York: Arrests Made 
as Hundreds of Mostly 
Jewish Protesters ----- 
Call for Gaza Ceasefire
October 28th, 11:26am
(FNA news agency)
 
Hundreds of people were arrested on Friday when police 
broke up a large demonstration of mostly Jewish New
 Yorkers who had taken over the main hall of Grand 
Central station in protest of Israeli war on Gaza, 
police and organizers said.
 
Wearing black T-shirts saying “Jews say cease-fire now” 
& “Not in our name,” at least 200 of the demonstrators
 were detained by New York Police Department 
officers and led out of the train station, their
 hands zip-tied behind their backs.
 
The massive sit-in was called by the group Jewish Voice
 for Peace - New York City, an anti-Zionist group, which
 said thousands of its members had attended what it
 described as an “emergency sit-in” -- blocking the 
main concourse of the city’s central rail station.
 
JVP put the number of arrests at more than 300.
 
Photos and videos showing police in the station 
alongside dozens of protesters... whose arms 
had been tied behind their backs.
 
The NYPD said the protesters were taken briefly into
 custody, issued summonses and released, and that
 a more exact number of detentions would be 
available on Saturday morning.
 
Source: Agencies


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In New York, thousands of people 
took part in a rally in support 
of Palestine
October 21st, 11:14pm
(RT.ru)
 
Several thousand people took to the streets of New York 
on October 21 to express support for Palestine and call
 for a cease-fire in the Middle East.
This is reported by TASS.
 
It is noted that the demonstration took place in the Bay
 Ridge area of New York's Brooklyn. There, according 
to the agency, one of the Islamic communities of 
the metropolis lives.
 
Earlier, a rally in support of Palestine 
was held in Madrid.
 

In London, ''about 100 thousand''  people took part in a rally in  support of Palestine

In London, ''about 100 thousand'' 
people took part in a rally in 
support of Palestine
October 21st, 4:21pm
(RT.ru)

In London, about 100 thousand people took part in 
a pro-Palestinian rally, the London police informs.
 
The police wrote about this.. on the 
social network X (formerly Twitter).
 
"According to our estimates, the number of 
demonstrators reaches 100,000 people,"
 the report says.
 
[Rhondda Records adds: London police estimates
of marches, according to most neutral observers
--- are 
usually about half the true figure.]


Thousands of protesters gather ------ outside Israel's Consulate General  in Istanbul

Thousands of protesters gather ------
outside Israel's Consulate General 
in Istanbul
October 18th, 8:40pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
A crowd of people gathered near the Israeli Consulate
 General in Istanbul, demanding a cease-fire in the 
Gaza Strip. On Wednesday, October 18, journalist 
Mirbek Bekbolsun Ahmad, told Izvestia from 
the scene of the events.
 
According to him, a large number of medical workers take 
part in the rallies — the demonstrators have banners and
 flags in their hands.
 
"Thousands of protesters gathered near the Israeli 
Consulate General in Istanbul. Doctors, nurses 
and other health workers in Turkey are 
holding large-scale rallies ------
in 
support of Palestine," 
the journalist said.


Mass protests, in support of  Palestine began at German  Foreign Ministry building



Mass protests, in support of 
Palestine began at German 
Foreign Ministry building
October 18th, 7:55pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Mass protests in support of Palestine have begun 
outside the German Foreign Ministry. This is
reported, on Wednesday, October 18, 
by Izvestia's correspondent,
 Vitaly Chashchukhin.
 
"The Palestinian protests are coming very close
------ to the state authorities in Germany," the
 journalist said.
 
The presented footage shows how people with posters 
are located under the windows of the German Foreign
Ministry. Then ''harsh detentions'' began, 
Chashchukhin said.
 
Several pro-Palestinian demonstrations were held in Berlin
 the day before. Residents of the city, gathered in the 
square in front of the Brandenburg Gate, lit candles, 
and laid out the flag of Palestine.
 
Also on the night of October 18, protests were held in a
number of other countries, including Jordan, Tunisia, 
Turkey, Syria, Iran and Lebanon. In Ankara, crowds 
of protesters blocked one of the routes, and in 
Istanbul, demonstrators marched to the 
Consulate General of Israel.


ČTK: a rally in support of Palestine  was held in the centre of Prague

ÄCTK: a rally in support of Palestine 
was held in the centre of Prague
October 18th, 7:25pm
(RT.ru)

According to law enforcement officials, up 
to a hundred people gathered for the rally.
 
"We consider it unacceptable and impossible for the 
Czech political representation to listen to Israeli 
statements that lead to collective revenge 
against the Palestinians in Gaza," said 
one of the participants of the rally.
 
It is noted that the protesters gathered 
in the city centre, and headed for the 
Czech government building.



 Haaretz: Police ''disperse'' the  anti-war rally in Israel's Haifa


 
Haaretz: Police ''disperse'' the 
anti-war rally in Israel's Haifa
October 18th, 6:13pm
(RT.ru)
 
Israeli police ---- forcibly dispersed an anti-war 
rally in Haifa, and three people were detained.
 
"Israeli police forcibly dispersed an anti-war protest 
in Haifa, and three demonstrators were detained 
for illegal assembly," Haaretz reports.
 
According to the newspaper.. before the protests, 
the police notified that they would not allow any
gatherings - "expressing support for Hamas" 
- or related to foreign policy and national 
security issues.
 
Earlier in Washington, a rally was held near the White
House, in support of the cessation of hostilities in 
the Gaza Strip.
 
Also, more than 5 thousand Australians went to the
 demonstration in solidarity with the population 
of Palestine.
 

A rally was held in Washington  in support of the cessation of  hostilities in the Gaza Strip


A rally was held in Washington
 in support of the cessation of
 hostilities in the Gaza Strip
October 16th, 7:53pm
(RT.ru)
 
In Washington, near the White House, a rally was held in 
support of the cessation of hostilities in the Gaza Strip.
This is reported by RIA Novosti.
 
According to the agency, dozens of activists demanded 
that US President Joe Biden... influence Israel to stop
 fighting in the Gaza Strip.
 
It is noted that the protesters came to the rally 
with placards "Stop the genocide in Gaza", 
"Free Palestine" and "Cease fire".
 
Earlier, more than 5 thousand Australians went 
to their demonstration --- in solidarity with the 
population of Palestine.
 

Solidarity actions with the  Palestinian people were  held in Australian cities

Solidarity actions with the 
Palestinian people were 
held in Australian cities
October 15th, 9:50am
(RT.ru)
 
More than 5,000 Australians - demonstrated 
in solidarity with the Palestinian population.
 
This is reported by TASS.
 
The rally in Sydney's Hyde Park was attended 
by representatives of a number of public 
organizations, members of the Arab 
communities of Australia, and 
socio-political organizations.
 
The crowd carried flags of Palestine and voiced 
slogans with words of support for the state.
 
Rallies in support of Palestine -- were also 
held in Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide.
 
Earlier, RT Arabic correspondent Kadisiya Dmur showed 
footage from Amman, Jordan, where people gathered 
for a rally in support of the Palestinians.
 
 

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Thousands rally in Los Angeles, 
Washington --- in solidarity 
with Palestinians
October 15th, 6:56am
(PressTV)
 
Thousands of people rallied in Los Angeles and Washington 
to protest the Israeli regime's killing of Palestinian people 
in the besieged Gaza Strip.
 
Demonstrators, including a few Jewish Americans, walked
 down the streets of LA in one of the biggest protests 
the city has seen in recent months.
 
Also... thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters took to the 
streets in the US capital, marching past the White House 
to chants of "Free Palestine" as Israeli forces kept 
pounding the Gaza Strip since last weekend --- 
when the Palestinian resistance movement 
Hamas launched multi-pronged Operation 
al-Aqsa Storm --- in response to the 
desecration of al-Aqsa Mosque 
and increased violence. 
 
(Source: AFP) 
 


________________________




Australians rally ------  in 
support of Palestinians
October 9th, 3:01pm
 (PressTV)

Over a thousand Sydney residents marched in solidarity 
with Palestinians at a 'Free Palestine: No war on Gaza'
 rally, hours before the Sydney Opera House lit up in 
blue and white for Israel.
 
(Source: Reuters)
 
 

Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators --------- Hold Rally in Stockholm

 
Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators
--------- Hold Rally in Stockholm
October 9th, 1:57pm (FNA)
 
 A group of demonstrators gathered at Sergels Torg Square
 in the Swedish capital Stockholm on Sunday to express 
their support for Palestine and condemn the 
Israeli occupation.
 
During the rally, which was organized through social media, 
the demonstrators waved Palestinian flags and carried 
banners, sending a powerful message of solidarity, 
Anadolu news agency reported.
 
They chanted slogans such as "Boycott Israel", "Free
 Palestine" and "Israel is killing our children", 
expressing their deep concern for the 
ongoing crisis in the region.
 
Banners reading "No to the Gaza prison camp" and
 "Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine" were also
 prominently displayed, reflecting the 
demonstrators' unwavering 
commitment --- to the 
Palestinian cause.
 
In a joint statement released during the protest, the
 demonstrators underlined their steadfast support 
for the Palestinian people, emphasizing that they 
will continue to stand with them in their struggle 
for justice and freedom.
 
The Palestinian group Hamas launched its biggest operation 
on Israel in decades on Saturday, firing thousands of rockets 
and capturing many Israelis. It dubbed the action Operation 
Al-Aqsa Flood, saying it was in response to the storming of
 Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem and
increased settler violence.
 
At least 700 Israelis have been killed and over 2,382 
others wounded in the attack, according to the
 Israeli Health Ministry.
 
Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip killed more than 560
 Palestinians and wounding at least 2,900 others.



 Thousands March in Support of Venezuelan Rights Over Essequibo

 
 Thousands March in Support
of Venezuelan Rights
Over Essequibo
September 26th, 6:11pm 
(teleSUR)
 
On Tuesday, thousands of citizens marched through Caracas 
to support the Venezuelan government, which defends the
 rights of the Bolivarian nation over the territory 
of Essequibo.
 
The Bolivarian Central of Workers (CBST) called on people to 
meet at the Venezuelan Telephone Company on Libertador 
Avenue and then tour the main avenues of the capital city.
 
Previously, CBST leader Wills Rangel invited the Venezuelan
 working class to come out in defense of Essequibo and 
President Nicolas Maduro.
 
On Monday, the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela 
(PSUV) declared itself on full alert for the defense of 
Essequibo, a territory of the 160,000 square 
kilometres that Venezuela disputes 
with Guyana.
 
A text reads, "The PSUV militancy marches in the streets 
of Caracas to defend the Essequibo territory, reject the 
sanctions, and support President Nicolas Maduro."
 
"The PSUV declares itself in mobilization ----- to defend our 
territory and tell the world that the Venezuelan sun rises
 through the Essequibo," the PSUV vice president 
Diosdado Cabello said, highlighting that the 
Bolivarian socialists support all the 
initiatives carried out by the
Venezuelan state, for the 
defense of this territory.
 
Cabello denounced that the power bases
of world imperialism 
are generating
coordinated actions -- to create
problems and
 confrontation
in Venezuela.
 
The PSUV vice president --- rejected the support the US
expressed for the bidding for oil blocks that Guyana
 intends to carry out - in maritime areas that are 
within the disputed area.
 
"The final objective is the installation of U.S. military bases
 next to Venezuela, under the excuse of protecting their 
investments," Cabello pointed out.
 
"The Venezuelan working class's support --- is evident in the 
massive attendance at the PSUV calls, which in turn ratifies 
support for the Bolivarian Revolution and President Nicolas 
Maduro," Labour Minister Francisco Torrealba commented.




Paris hosts protest ------  against police violence

 
Paris hosts protest ------ 
against police violence
September 23rd, 3:16pm
(RT.ru)
 
A demonstration against police violence and 
racism is taking place in Paris. This is 
reported by TASS.
 
It is noted that the column of demonstrators is 
moving from the Gare du Nord in the direction 
of Place de la Bastille in the east of the city.
 
Representatives of trade unions, student movements,
 and political parties are taking part in the protest 
action. Participants of the march chant anti-
police slogans and express solidarity with 
those who suffered from the actions of 
the police.
 
Earlier, TF1 TV channel reported, that up to 6,000
people could be taking part in the demonstration 
against police violence, to be held in Paris.


Protesters rally in Times Square  against Netanyahu


Protesters rally in Times Square 
against Netanyahu in New York
September 20th, 11:36am
(PressTV)
 
Demonstrators staged rallies in Times Square in protest 
against the Israeli cabinet’s extremist policies outside 
prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hotel, after he 
arrived in New York to meet with world leaders.
 
Early on Tuesday, hundreds of Israeli activists and members 
of the Jewish community in New York organized rallies as 
they gathered outside Netanyahu’s hotel in Manhattan’s 
Upper East Side, according to Israeli media reports.
 
Larger rallies also took place at noon in Times Square to 
protest Netanyahu’s visit to the US for the 78th session 
of the UN General Assembly and his meetings with 
President Joe Biden and other world leaders.
 
“The fight against Bibi --- is one of the biggest fights for 
democracy in the world,” said Lior Hadary, an Israeli 
protester in New York, referring to Netanyahu by
 his nickname.
 
“It’s similar to the fight against Donald Trump here…
I believe this is one frontier in the same battle, the 
battle of democracy against populism,
 against dictatorship.”
 
Protest organizers in New York --- have scheduled events 
throughout the week and the rallies will continue until
 Saturday, during Netanyahu’s meeting with Biden 
and the premier’s speech at the UN.
 
The protests have been a fixed weekly event since January
 when Netanyahu announced an overhaul scheme, which 
seeks to rob the regime’s Supreme Court of the ability 
to invalidate the decisions made by the politicians.
 
Proponents of the overhaul say it helps redistribute 
the balance of power between the politicians and
the judiciary.
 
Its opponents, however, accuse Netanyahu of trying his hand 
at a power grab. They say the premier, who is on trial in three
 corruption cases for receiving bribes, fraud, and breach of 
trust, is also attempting to use the scheme to quash 
possible judgments against him.
 
Netanyahu’s far-right cabinet has already passed one of 
the scheme’s bills through the Knesset, which stripped 
the court of its power to strike down the cabinet’s 
decisions or appointments on the basis of 
being “unreasonable.”


Czechs Rally to Protest Against  Pro-Western Government

Czechs Rally to Protest Against 
Pro-Western Government
September 18th, 1:05pm
 (teleSUR)
 
On Saturday, thousands of Czechs gathered at Prague's 
Wenceslas Square, in the Czech capital, to protest 
against the government.
 
Under the slogan "Czech Republic against the government,"
the rally was mainly against the inappropriate actions 
of the government on inflation, tax changes and 
pension adjustments.
 
There were also banners in the crowd that read "Down with 
the U.S. minions" and "Down with NATO," according to the 
Czech News Agency (CTK).
 
The rally was attended by over 100,000 people, according to 
the organizer, the non-parliamentary Law Respect Expertise 
(PRO) party. Some of the participants later marched through 
the city from the Square to the headquarters of the Czech 
Ministry of the Interior.
 
Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Vit Rakusan said
he sees the demonstration as "a legitimate expression of
discontent, by some people, in difficult times," but that 
he finds it incomprehensible and unacceptable to use 
that discontent to incite hatred and fear.
 
A recent survey by the Centre for Public Opinion Research in 
Prague showed that the majority of Czechs - are unhappy 
about the country's economic situation.
 
Out of the 929 people surveyed between May 16 to July 24,
57 percent perceive the economic situation as bad, about 
a quarter consider it "neither good nor bad," and 
16 percent take it as good.
 
According to the Czech Statistical Office (CSU), the real gross
domestic product (GDP) of the Czech Republic... declined by
 0.6 percent year-on-year in the second quarter of this year. 
For the whole year, the Czech Finance Ministry predicted 
in its August forecast that it could fall by 0.2 percent.
 
Consumer prices in the Czech Republic, meanwhile, increased 
by 8.5 percent year-on-year in August, according to the CSU. 
Although the inflation slowed for the seventh consecutive 
month, it remained well above the tolerance band of 
2 percent set by the Czech National Bank. 
 
 
 
____________________________________________

 world day opposing US blockade against Cuba

European orgs --- outline a world day
opposing US blockade against Cuba
 September 18th, 10:58am
(Prensa Latina) 
 
Solidarity and cooperation organizations from Germany, 
Spain, France, and Italy announced on Monday that 
they are coordinating to launch a World Day 
opposing the US Blockade against Cuba, 
so as to increase pressure on this 
aggressive US policy.
 
The Cuba Cooperation France Association (CubaCoop), the
 Network of Solidarity with Cuba in Germany (Netzwerk
 Cuba), the State Movement in Solidarity with Cuba 
(MESC), and the Italy-Cuba Friendship Association 
(ANAIC) outlined the proposal that will be 
discussed at the Fête de L’Humanité 
this weekend.
 
Convened by CubaCoop, they participated in the event in the
 Paris region on Saturday in a European forum to generate 
new initiatives which combine political support for Cuba 
with economic accompaniment, recognizing that the
 blockade is the main obstacle to the development
 of Cuba, which has been subjected to more than
 60 years of siege.
 
The four organizations supported holding an International
 Tribunal in Brussels on November 16 and 17 to denounce 
and condemn the economic, commercial, and financial 
blockade imposed by the United States, its tightening, 
and its extraterritorial nature.
 
They also discussed implementing a cooperation project with 
Cuba, which boosted the work on the idea that Cuba needs
 both political and economic solidarity in the face of the
 stifling situation caused by Washington’s hostility.
 
CubaCoop First Vice President Miguel Quintero, Network Cuba 
coordinator Angelika Becker, ANAIC President Marco Papacci, 
and David Rodríguez on behalf of the MESC, agreed to 
promote the joint work.
 
The European forum and other meetings held during the Fête
 de L’Humanité allowed the organizations to discuss their
 achievements and challenges - to strengthen support 
for Cuba, its people, and its Revolution.


 Tens of thousands --- demonstrate  for 36th week in protest against  Israel’s far-right cabinet



Tens of thousands --- demonstrate 
for 36th week in protest against
 Israel’s far-right cabinet
September 10th, 2:26am
(PressTV)
 
Tens of thousands of demonstrators have held huge rallies 
across the occupied territories for the 36th straight week
 in protest against Israeli far-right cabinet's extremist 
policies, including the highly controversial judicial 
overhaul scheme.
 
The protest rallies were held on Saturday ahead of a 
key decision by the regime’s Supreme Court over a
 legislation passed in the Knesset by Prime 
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right 
cabinet, which stripped the court of 
some of its oversight powers.
 
In addition to the coastal city of Tel Aviv, where tens of
 thousands took to the streets, similar rallies were 
also held in dozens of other locations across the 
occupied territories, including Haifa, Beer Sheba, 
Modiin, Herzilya, the occupied city of al-Quds 
and some other cities.
 
The Israeli police closed a number of main roads
 in Tel Aviv after the demonstration started.
 
Some Israeli media reported that a number
 of demonstrators raised Palestinian flags.
 
In addition to the weekly protests, several thousand 
people also completed a three-day march in the 
northern part of the occupied territories, in 
protest at the so-called overhaul scheme.
 
"This is the 36th weeks in a row that we are demonstrating 
against Netanyahu's attempts to make a coup…. This
 demonstration is three days before the deliberations 
in the Supreme Court to disable the law that they 
passed…. We are gonna demonstrate on Monday 
… in front [of] the Supreme Court [in al-Quds] in 
our efforts to stop this horrible legislation," 
one protester was quoted by Reuters 
as saying.
 
"I am demonstrating … to make sure that there is a 
supremacy of the Supreme Court. Right now, we 
have clowns and criminals [in the cabinet] … 
and I wanna make sure that they go away,"
 another demonstrator said.
 
Thousands-strong weekly rallies have been a fixture 
since January, when the regime's hard-right 
cabinet announced its plans to turn the 
scheme into law.
 
Proponents of the plan say it helps redistribute the 
balance of power between the politicians and the
 judiciary. Its opponents, however, accuse 
Netanyahu of trying his hand at a power 
grab. They say the premier, who is on 
trial on several counts of corruption 
charges, is also attempting to use 
the scheme to quash possible 
judgments against him.
 
The far-right cabinet.. has already passed one of the 
scheme’s bills through the Knesset, which removed
 the court's power to strike down the cabinet’s 
decisions or appointments on the basis of 
being "unreasonable."
 
The regime’s Supreme Court, for the first time in its 
history, is to convene its entire 15-judge bench on 
Tuesday, September 12, to hear an appeal 
against that bill.
 

Eyes on Elbit: Siege continues at Leicester’s Israeli arms factory

 
Eyes on Elbit: Siege continues at
Leicester’s Israeli arms factory
by Sarah Wilkinson
September 6th, 2:56pm
(PressTV)


An update from the protest camp outside Leicester’s Israeli 
arms factory, locally ‘unknown’ as U-TacS, makes for mixed 
reading. The factory is owned by Elbit Systems, the Israeli
 regime’s largest private arms industry, along with Thales,
 an equally unscrupulous French weapons firm.
 
“This company is a terrorist arm of Israel,” said Yael Khan, an 
Israeli activist protesting at the site. “Its sole existence is to 
destroy Palestinian life, to massacre Palestinians, to murder 
them, to exterminate them. That’s what Israel is doing with 
the help of this company, Elbit, producing this death and
 making its profits from Palestinian blood, and it’s doing
 it from the very heart of Leicester.”
 
I think that sums the place up perfectly. 
There’s nothing more to add.
 
One security guard, appalled by the activities of the company,
 informed the protestors that he was quitting after ‘becoming
 more enlightened’ about the site’s activities. He could see,
 and no doubt hear, that local residents and committed
 activists don’t want this hideous munitions factory 
on their doorstep.
 
Aware of the power of social media, he didn’t want to be
 associated with it, he said, and he certainly didn’t want
his face attached to it. Elbit’s wages, are blood-stained 
- no person of integrity wants that on their conscience.
 
He isn’t the first employee to have up-sticks and left. During 
an earlier court case, following direct action against 
another Elbit factory, the security guard who was 
on duty during the night of the incident was
 required to give evidence.
 
He heard our defense cases; they were difficult to listen to. 
He declared before leaving for home that he was no longer 
going to work there — so many stories of the dead, he 
said; so many killed, massacred; so many lives 
ruined: he’d heard enough.... to last him a 
lifetime of pain and guilt.
 
Recently, a local Leicester resident, ‘sick of being barked at 
by guard dogs’ (clearly distressed from being caged up in 
the back of shoddy vans owned by even shoddier ‘dog 
handlers’) said he felt threatened in his own street.
 
“I live here,” he said, “but every time I walk passed this bloody
 factory, I’m being treated like a criminal. The dogs snap at
 me. It’s like I’m under suspicion for just going to the shops
 to buy groceries. I have to walk past Elbit every day, and 
I get spoken and sworn at by low-IQ security guards like
 I’m public enemy number one. I used to think that the 
activists being here were a nuisance,” he added,
“but now I’m totally on their side, and I can see 
what they have to put up with. I hope they 
shut this place down, and sooner ---
 rather than later.”
 
Activists at the site are frequently harassed and bullied 
by less-than-friendly guards who unlawfully leave their 
‘place of work’ purely to threaten and verbally abuse 
those camping opposite the gates.
 
Keeping vigil on a weapons factory comes with various risks
 — false arrests, vehicles steering recklessly at activists, 
tents invaded, full drink cans lobbed out of moving car
 windows, and property, signs, banners and flags 
regularly going missing in the night.
 
While most of these incidents are caught on camera ---
 and often reported, the tardy and often over-zealous 
Leicester police are only interested in protecting 
Elbit. Weapons and the business of killing 
come first, it seems.
 
The dogs, of which there are several, cooped up in cages, 
are kept in vans in searing heat, starved until nightfall 
“so they’re more vicious” according to one of the so
-called handlers. They whine and bark and 
whimper much of the day, and most of 
the night.
 
Some of the night guards, of which there are many, walk them 
around the site — most of them don’t walk them at all, and
 have been observed by the activists blatantly goading
 them, and cruelly ignoring their distress. This goes 
on every day — but you’d have to be at the camp 
to know this.
 
At evening time, three, sometimes four, unenvironmental
spotlights --- are shone onto the protest site. It’s like 
being on a football pitch during a late-night match. 
 
Elbit invested in these outdoor security lights to assist their 
surveillance cameras after the sun goes down. What they 
do in reality is disrupt the predictable rhythm of day and 
night. Scientific evidence suggests that over-the-top 
artificial light at night has a negative and deadly 
effect on many creatures, including birds,
 mammals, insects, and plants.
 
Of course, warmongers, such as Elbit, or U-TacS, or whatever 
they want to call themselves, are hardly going to worry 
about Leicester’s wildlife, when their interests are 
dedicated to killing and maiming 
Palestinian people.
 
So, what can people do? Firstly, object to this monstrosity, 
by letter, by petition, by complaint to local councilors, 
community, religious and political groups. 
 
Secondly, lobby your MP to vote against the anti-Boycott, 
Divestment and Sanction UK law in the process of going 
through parliament. 
 
Thirdly, make a stand, because the 
Palestinian people’s lives depend 
on it, literally.
 
Elbit is using Britain’s leafy and prosperous Leicester 
as a base to make its murderous drones — it’s a 
stain of shame on the city.
 
Most importantly, visit the protest site in Meridian East, LE19
 1TP, and see for yourselves: a company that doesn’t 
produce weapons of mass destruction doesn’t need 
barbed fencing, razor wire, steel gates, multiple 
surveillance cameras, night vision lasers, 
barriers, padlocks, spotlights, a private 
direct line to the police, tens of dozens 
of security guards... overlapping van-
loads of dog handlers - and a steady 
supply of semi-starved vicious dogs.
 
Its crimes are hard to hide. You just
 have to go and take a look.
 
Sarah Wilkinson is a UK-based activist. She has
 been a supporter of Palestine for over 40 years, 
and a vocal campaigner for Palestinian freedom
 since the First Intifada.
 
(The views expressed in this article.... do 
not necessarily reflect those of Press TV)


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UK to outlaw boycotts 
against Israel
May 11th, 9:38am (PressTV)
 
The British government has announced plans to ban
acts of boycott, effectively suppressing dissent 
on Israel.
 
The announcement was made during the Queen’s
 Tuesday speech, which Prince Charles delivered 
at the State Opening of Parliament on her behalf.
 
He said the government will introduce “legislation
 [that] will prevent public bodies engaging in 
boycotts that undermine community 
cohesion.”
 
The bill is widely believed to be a heavy blow to
 supporters of Palestinian rights in Britain and 
an attempt to silence the Boycott, Divestment
 and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which aims 
to pressure the Israeli regime to put an end 
to its occupation of Palestine as well as its 
atrocities against Palestinians.
 
Pro-Palestinian groups in Britain denounced the
 proposed bill and said they would campaign
 against it.
 
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and 
Friends of Al Aqsa (FOA) described the bill 
as an attack on free speech.
 
“In the case of Palestine, boycotts, divestment and 
sanctions (BDS) is a peaceful movement calling on 
Israel to comply with international law and end its
 illegal occupation of Palestine,” the FOA said in 
a statement.
 
“FOA remains committed to protecting the right of 
public bodies to make ethical choices through 
BDS,” it added.
 
Since 2005, the BDS movement has sought to 
sanction all Israeli-made products produced 
on illegally occupied Palestinian land.
 
The movement’s success in causing economic
damage to Israel, has prompted pro-Israel 
groups to brand the BDS... as an
 “existential threat.”
 
 
 If you want to mobilise against this
pro-Zionist move, you can start
by pressing the links below:

boycott disinvestment sanctions movement

Friends of Al-Aqsa

Palestine Campaign --- UK based organisation helping Palestinian cause

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Pérez Esquivel asks the UK to
 block Assange´s extradition
May 20th, 9:48am (Prensa Latina) 
by Alina Ramos Martin
 
Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel 
asked the British government to block the 
extradition of WikiLeaks´ founder Julian 
Assange to the US, sources close to
 the case reported.
 
According to the Campaign against the extradition of
 Assange, the Argentine intellectual sent a letter in
 English to the United Kingdom Home Secretary, 
Priti Patel, who has in her hands the Australian
 journalist´s future since the London Supreme 
Court overturned last April a previous verdict 
against his transfer to US territory.
 
After recalling that the first instance judge opoosed
 Assange´s extradition for fear that his precarious
 mental health would induce him to commit 
suicide in a US prison, Pérez Esquivel 
warned Patel: that there could be 
potentially fatal consequences 
for the cyberactivist if the UK 
decies to hand him over to
 the US justice system.
 
The Us intends to try the journalist for publishing
 in WekiLeaks secret files exposing war crimes
 committed by its military in Iraq and 
Afghanistan --- and thousands of 
compromising documents for 
US diplomacy.
 
If tried and found guilty by a US court, Assange, who
 has been held in a British maximun security prison
 since his arrest at the Ecuadorian embassy, in 
London in April 2019, could be sentenced to 
175 years in prison on the 17 charges 
against him.
 
The Argetine intellectual, winner of te Nobel Prize 
in 1980, considered, however, that Whashington´s
 request is illegal and abusive, so he urged the 
Minister of the Interior to defend the rule
of 
law --- and reject the extradition.
 


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Mainstream Media's Go-To Syria Monitor
Revealed to Be Funded by UK Gov't --
Nobody Bats an Eyelid

The mainstream media, which has been uncritically citing
 the pro-opposition SOHR for years, has failed to report it
has come to be known - the outfit has taken money from
 the Foreign Office
(Sources - Media Lens/Russia Insider)
Wednesday June 6th, 2018

Writing in the Mail on Sunday, journalist Peter Hitchens
commented last month on the Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights (SOHR):

'Talking of war, and Syria, many of you may have noticed
 frequent references in the media to a body called the
"Syrian Observatory for Human Rights", often quoted
as if it's an impartial source of information about that
 complicated conflict, in which the British government
clearly takes sides. The "Observatory" says on its
website that it is "not associated or linked to any
political body."

'To which I reply: Is Boris Johnson's Foreign Office not a
 political body? Because the FO just confirmed to me
that "the UK funded a project worth £194,769.60 to
provide the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
with communications equipment and cameras."
 That's quite a lot, isn't it? I love the precision
of that 60p. Your taxes, impartially, at work.'

This figure was confirmed in communication with the
Foreign Office by independent political journalist Ian
Sinclair. (Email to Media Lens, May 17, 2018)

In 2011, Reuters reported that Rami Abdulrahman is 'the
fast-talking director of arguably Syria's most high-profile
human rights group', SOHR:

'When he isn't fielding calls from international media,
Abdulrahman is a few minutes down the road at his
clothes shop, which he runs with his wife.'

Given the tinpot nature of the organisation,
SOHR's influence is astonishing:

'Cited by virtually every major news outlet since an uprising
against the iron rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
began in March, the observatory has been a key source
of news on the events in Syria.'

Described by Reuters as an 'opposition group',
SOHR is openly pro-regime change:

'After three short spells in prison in Syria for pro-democracy
activism, Abdulrahman came to Britain in 2000 fearing a
longer, fourth jail term.

'"I came to Britain the day Hafez al-Assad died,
and I'll return when Bashar al-Assad goes".'

In December 2011, Stratfor, an influential research institute
formed of former US security officials, cautioned:

'Most of the [Syrian] opposition's more serious claims have
turned out to be grossly exaggerated or simply untrue ...
revealing more about the opposition's weaknesses
 than the level of instability inside the Syrian regime.'

Reports from SOHR and other opposition groups, 'like those
 from the regime, should be viewed with skepticism', Stratfor
argued: 'the opposition understands that it needs external
support, specifically financial support, if it is to be a more
 robust movement than it is now. To that end, it has every
reason to present the facts on the ground in a way that
makes the case for foreign backing.'

The Los Angeles Times described SOHR as 'a pro-opposition
watchdog'. And yet, as Reuters reported, Abdulrahman...
claims neutrality:

'"I'm between two fires. But it shows I'm being neutral if
both sides complain," he said, insisting he accepts no
funding and runs the observatory on a voluntary basis.'

Two years later, the New York Times
described
a modified funding model:

'Money from two dress shops covers his minimal needs for
 reporting on the conflict, along with small subsidies from
the European Union and one European country, that he
declines to identify.'

Thanks to Hitchens, we now know the country in question
 is Britain --- and the funding in 2012 was £194,769.60.

In 2013, we compared the reflexive respect afforded SOHR
 with the earlier casual rejection of reports on the death
 toll in Iraq published in 2004 and 2006 by the Lancet,
the world's leading medical journal:

'Figures supplied by SOHR, an organisation openly biased
in favour of the Syrian "rebels" and Western intervention,
 is presented as sober fact by... the world's leading news
agencies. No concerns here about methodology, sample
 sizes, "main street bias" and other alleged concerns
thrown at the Lancet studies by critics.'

In 2004, one of the Lancet co-authors, Gilbert Burnham of
 the prestigious Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health in Baltimore, told us:

'Our data have been back and forth between many reviewers
 at the Lancet and here in the school (chair of Biostatistics
 Dept), so we have the scientific strength to say what we
 have said with great certainty. I doubt any Lancet paper
has gotten as much close inspection in recent years as
this one has!' (Dr. Gilbert Burnham, email to Media
Lens,
October 30, 2004)

Despite this, the Lancet reports were subjected to ceaseless
attacks from the US and UK governments, and dismissal by
corporate journalists. David Aaronovitch wrote in The Times:

'And Harold Pinter invents a statistic. "At least 100,000 Iraqis
were killed by American bombs and missiles before the Iraqi
insurgency began." This is probably some mangling of a
controversial estimate of Iraqi civilian fatalities
published in The Lancet in 2004 and based, it
was claimed, on standard epidemiological
methods.' (Aaronovitch, 'The great war
of words,' The Times, March 18, 2006)

An op-ed in the Washington Times commented in December 2004:

'Or how about the constantly cited figure of 100,000 Iraqis killed
by Americans since the war began, a statistic that is thrown
about with total and irresponsible abandon by opponents
of the war.' (Helle Dale, 'Biased coverage in Iraq,'
Washington Times, December 1, 2004)

As we described at the time, the 'mainstream' hosted all
 manner of confused and baseless criticisms of this kind.

By contrast, a recent BBC article noted of the Syrian war:

'Over seven years of war, more than 400,000 people have
 been killed or reported missing, according to the Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights.'

No-one, it seems, would dream of challenging such a high
 figure supplied by a clothes shop owner supporting
regime change in Syria from Coventry. Nobody
 challenges the SOHR's methodology, or
complains
of statistics being thrown
about with
irresponsible abandon.

Why? Because
the 2004 and 2006 Lancet reports

seriously undermined the US-UK case for
conquering Iraq, whereas
a high Syria
death toll is used to
damn the Assad
government and
to make the case
for Western
'intervention'.

In a 2015 interview with RT, Abdulrahman was asked
 how he could trust the hundreds of 'activists'
supplying information from Syria. Claiming
that 'I know all of the activists working for
the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights',
 Abdulrahman said that he had last visited
 Syria in 2000. He added: 'But I know some
 of the Observatory activists through
common friends.'

Innumerable 'mainstream' reports of atrocities blamed on
Syrian government and Russian forces have used SOHR
as a key source. One of the highest profile claims
concerned an alleged massacre of 108 people,
including 49 children, in Houla, Syria on May
 27, 2012. The claim dominated the
 Independent on Sunday's front
cover, which read:

'SYRIA: THE WORLD LOOKS THE OTHER WAY. WILL YOU?'

The text beneath read:

'There is, of course, supposed to be a ceasefire, which the
brutal Assad regime simply ignores. And the international
 community? It just averts its gaze. Will you do the same?
Or will the sickening fate of these innocent children
make
you very, very angry?'

As so often, SOHR loomed large in these accusations.

 The BBC reported:

'The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said
more than 90 people had died in the 24 hours since
 midday on Friday.'

The Guardian described how SOHR was
condemning
Western 'silence':

'The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
 issued an unusually harsh statement in the wake of
 the deaths --- accusing Arab nations and the
international community of being "partners"
 in the killing --- "because of their silence
about the massacres that the Syrian
regime has committed".'

But the picture was not quite so clear cut. Two weeks later,
the BBC reported the head of the UN Supervision Mission
in Syria, Major General Robert Mood, as saying of Houla:

 'the circumstances that led to these tragic killings are
still unclear'. Mood commented significantly:
'Whatever I learned on the ground in Syria...
 is that I should not jump to conclusions.'

On June 27, a UN Commission of Inquiry said that in
apportioning blame, it 'could not rule out any of
these possibilities': a local militia, possibly
operating together with, or with the
acquiescence of, government security
forces; anti-government forces seeking
to escalate the conflict; or foreign groups
with unknown affiliation. In August of the
same year, UN investigators released a
further report, which stated that they
had 'a reasonable basis to believe
 that the perpetrators... were
aligned to the Government'.
 (Our emphasis)

SOHR is omnipresent in the great Syrian atrocity claims
that have gripped our media for years. On April 14th,
Donald Trump bombed Syria, in response to an
alleged Syrian government chemical weapons
attack on Douma one week earlier. Reuters
 reported:

'Heavy air strikes on the Syrian rebel-held town of Douma
killed 27 people including five children, the Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights said.'

On April 7, 2017, Trump launched a missile assault on Syria
 just 72 hours after an alleged chemical weapons attack on
 Khan Sheikhoun. Reuters reported:

'The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said
 the attack killed at least 58 people and was believed to
have been carried out by Syrian government jets. It
caused many people to choke and some to foam
 at the mouth.

'Director Rami Abdulrahman told Reuters, the assessment
that Syrian government warplanes were to blame, was
based on several factors such as the type of aircraft,
including Sukhoi 22 jets, that carried out the raid.'

In August 2013, Barack Obama came close to launching a
massive attack on Syria in response to an alleged Syrian
government chemical weapons attack on Ghouta. The
BBC reported:

'The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-
based group that gets its information from a network of
activists across Syria, later said it had confirmed at
least 502 deaths.'

The Los Angeles Times reported:

'The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, generally
 regarded as one of the most reliable sources of
information on casualty figures in Syria, says
it
has confirmed 502 deaths, including
80
children and 137 women.'

Last February, the BBC reported:

'The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based
monitoring group, said at least 250 people had been
 killed in [Syrian government and Russian] air strikes
 and artillery fire, since then.

'It said it was the highest 48-hour death toll since
a 2013 chemical attack on the besieged enclave.'

The power of these claims lies in the fact that Western
 journalists have been unable to report from 'rebel'-held
areas in Syria. Veteran Middle East correspondent
Patrick Cockburn, made the point:

'All wars always produce phony atrocity stories – along
 with real atrocities. But in the Syrian case, fabricated
 news and one-sided reporting have taken over the
news agenda to a degree probably not seen since
World War One... The real reason that reporting
 of the Syrian conflict has been so inadequate
is
that Western news organisations have
almost
entirely outsourced their
coverage, to the
rebel side.'

'Rebel' claims relayed by SOHR and others have been
uncontested, because they originated from 'areas
controlled by people so dangerous, no foreign
journalist dare set foot among them'.

Many atrocity claims relayed by SOHR and others have
been sourced from the White Helmets group in Syria.

Former Guardian journalist Jonathan Cook comments:

'In the western corporate media narrative, the White
Helmets are a group of dedicated and selfless rescue
 workers. They are supposedly the humanitarians on
whose behalf a western intervention in Syria would
have been justified – before, that is, Syrian leader
 Bashar Assad queered their pitch - by inviting
 in Russia.

'However, there are problems with the White Helmets.
They operate only in rebel – read: mainly al-Qaeda
and ISIS-held – areas of Syria, and plenty of
evidence shows that they are funded by
the UK & US to advance both countries'
 far-from-humanitarian policy
objectives
in Syria.'

In 2016, political analyst Max Blumenthal wrote:

'The White Helmets were founded in collaboration with
 USAID's Office of Transitional Initiatives — the wing
that has promoted regime change around the world
— and have been provided with $23 million in
funding from the department.'

Liberal corporate journalists and politicians have been
 impressed by the fact that SOHR and White Helmets
claims have been supported by ostensibly forensic
analysis supplied by the Bellingcat website, which
 publishes 'citizen journalist' investigations. As we
noted in a recent alert, Bellingcat is funded by the
 National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which
 is funded by the US government and is 'a
notorious vehicle for US soft power'.

We could link to thousands of corporate media articles
citing SOHR as a source. As in the above examples,
the vast majority of these claims are directed at
the same targets – the Syrian government and
 its Russian ally. To monitor the BBC website
in 2013, for example, was to witness what
 appeared to be a relentless propaganda
campaign promoting (yet one more)
Western 'humanitarian intervention'.

This would seem to be an extraordinary scandal, not
just for the BBC, not just for British corporate media
and democracy, but for media & democracy globally.

And yet, our media database search finds exactly one
national UK newspaper article containing the terms
'Peter Hitchens' and 'Syrian Observatory'. That, of
course, was the original May 13 piece in the Mail
on Sunday in which Hitchens reported the UK
government's £194,769.60 funding of SOHR.

His report has been ignored.

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FREE FOOD AND SUPPORT AVAILABLE
TO THE HOMELESS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR
Here's a list of where free food is available for homeless and
 vulnerable within Cardiff. Please feel free to comment on any
 incorrect information, add details or point out any omissions.
 Thank you.

EVERY DAY
8.30 till 7.30pm - The Huggard Centre - Provides free soup
(home-made) and bread to anyone who calls in 7 days a week,
365 days of the year. Huggard offers free meals on many days
of the week (including weekends) which are cooked by
volunteers and served late afternoon. Huggard also provides
 home cooked meals and hot/cold drinks at greatly subsidised
 (a typical meal is £1.50) prices and ‘give-aways’ on a (first
come first served) regular basis through food stuffs nearing
their sell-by-date. If a homeless person has no income we
may be able to provide free food vouchers. A visit to our
centre and a chat to our kitchen staff will keep you in
 touch with what’s on offer.
The morning breakfast run - provided by The Wallich,
7.30am – Central Station, car park behind Burger King,
 8am – Top (where it meets Queens Street) of St. Johns
 Street, the Hayes, 8.30am – Museum steps.
8pm till 9pm - Paradise Run behind M & S.

WEEKLY

MONDAYS
10am till 12noon - Conway Road Methodist church in Canton.
6.30pm till 8pm - Salvation Army, Purple Bus
opposite Museum.
5.30pm till 7.30 pm - The Tavs Centre, Tavistock Road, Roath.
11pm till 12 Midnight - Private run by Hamish,
who drives around.

TUESDAYS
6.30pm till 8pm - Salvation Army,
Purple Bus opposite Museum.
9pm till 10pm - Private run by Coffee4Craig,
Museum steps.

WEDNESDAYS
6.30pm till 8pm - Salvation Army,
Purple Bus opposite Museum.
11pm - Private run by Margaret Ashford,
Cyncoed Methodist Church, who drives around.

THURSDAYS
11am - Calvary Baptist Church, Cowbridge Rd East.
6.30pm till 8.30pm - Salvation Army,
Purple Bus opposite Museum.
12 Midnight - Private run by Andy Webb,
who drives around.

FRIDAY
11am - Brunch - The Tavs Centre, Tavistock Road, Roath.
12 Noon till 3.30pm - Food not Bombs,
Vegan food outside Central Market.
6.30 till 8.30pm - Salvation Army,
Purple Bus opposite Museum.

SATURDAY
12 Noon - Rainbow of Hope, Broadway, off Newport Road.
12 Noon - St Peters Youth Hall, Bedford St, off City Road.
3pm - Amerpreet Singh Khalsa, Langer Seva society, the
 Queen Street end of Newport Road, outside Greggs and
Coffee#1. Any leftovers are then taken around those who
 sleep rough on the streets, but are reluctant to give up
their spots.
6.30pm - The City Temple, Cowbridge Rd East.

SUNDAYS
3pm till 4pm - The City Tabernacle on the Hayes.
5.30pm till 7pm - The Tavs Centre, Tavistock Road, Roath.
6.30pm till 8.30pm – Salvation Army,
Purple Bus opposite Museum.

SPECIFIC DAYS
11am - 1st, 3rd and 4th Saturday of every month,
The Saturday service, ‘Christian worship with a
hot meal’, Dewi Sant, St Andrews Crescent.

12 till 2.00pm, meal served at 12:30pm – 2nd and 4th
Saturday of every month, Quaker House, Charles Street

10.00am till 3.00pm, Mon to Friday - The Real Junk
 Food Project, Embassy Cafe, Cathays Youth &
Community Centre – Pay what you can afford.





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 or anywhere in Lancashire. We need to let
 them know this!

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Faslane peace camp
always welcomes visitors...

you can come, any day.
We are located at Shandon near
Helensburgh the postcode
is 
G84 8HL

Jump on the 316 bus to Coulport
 ...hope to see you soon.





Everywhere
It's Our NHS
There's a lot of anger about the chaos in the NHS.
A great letter in the Peterborough Telegraph
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An alliance of people spied on by Britain's political
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**DID YOU WITNESS AN ARREST OR POLICE VIOLENCE
 AT THE STOP THE ARMS FAIR PROTESTS?**
WE NEED YOUR WITNESS STATEMENTS!
The sooner you can send in an account and any photos/video
 of arrests to Green and Black Cross (GBC), the better. Key
information to include for a witness statement is:
- When, where, who
- What else was happening on site? E.g. was the road closed
 bypolice, were other people/actions blocking the road?
- Any photos or videos of arrests or immediately before/after
You can find a witness statement template and some
advice on drafting statements on the GBC website here:
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Please send all materials to gbclegal@riseup.net.


 
 

gwlad !
 
Land Ownership in Britain is one of the most unequal
 in the world. 0.3% of the population owns 69% of
 the land. More than a third is still owned by the
aristocracy whose ancestors seized it during
the Norman Conquest. During the enclosures
 our ancestors were violently thrown off the land
 and much of our current common land is being
 privatised. This affects us all, making our lives
 unaffordable and limiting our choices. As a
contribution to the week of action for land
 rights called by the Land Justice Network
 we organised a peaceful stroll in the
countryside around Stroud,
Gloucestershire.

Remember that access to the land in the UK has
been won by mass trespass in the past and this
 peaceful and symbolically powerful tool can
work for us again. #RisingUp

Learn more about the issue here:
 https://youtu.be/WlIxCDK94ds

Our demands for change centre around:

1 – Distributed Ownership and Control
2– Long Term Stewardship, Not
Short Term Profit
3 –Increases in Land Value
should be Given to Society
4 – Proactive Community-centred Planning
5 – Transparency

For more details:
 https://www.landjustice.uk/our-common-ground-statement/

1932 and 1992 – Kinder Scout Trespass UK

Workers in cities and towns were not allowed access to walk
 on land around their homes and areas of natural beauty nearby.
 The land was privately held and often used as hunting grounds
for the wealthy. In 1932 over 400 people from Manchester and
Sheffield participated in a mass trespass on Kinder Scout in
the Peak District. They notified the local press and as a result
were met & had scuffles with game keepers & then the police;
five men were subsequently jailed. The movement that was kick
 started by this action led to the creation of our National Parks
 after World War II. The 60th anniversary of this event in 1992
was celebrated with another mass trespass. This started a
new movement that lead to the 'Right To Roam' Countryside
 and Rights of Way Act of 2000. This act gave a new right
of
access to most areas of open country in England
and Wales.


JOIN THE VALLEY's PEACE MOVEMENT
NOW!


The news most see is massaged by an elite which
feeds off death & destruction (the BBC's Deputy
Head, for example, is the ex head of BAE, the
UK's near monopoly arms exporting company).

We need a strong committed Peace Movement
in Wales, which is not afraid to challenge the
Guardian-reading middle-class "leaders" ---
who keep backing the elite's wars in the
name of a fake "humanitarianism".

Please contact us here (01443) 732705
and we can hold a meeting to found a
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led Peace Movement, that
walks the walk.

In the meantime, paste this link into your browser
if you'd like to see the pictures the BBC and UK's
boss media did not want you to see -- it explodes
  the lies of an "evil Syrian regime" -- by showing
Aleppo people after Syria's army liberated them.

https://janoberg.exposure.co/humans-
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 to recognize them all, as our brothers in arms
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 and not against it.

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Western "Leftwing" are Hypocrites


Unreliability, spinelessness
of the western 'left'

by: Andre Vltchek

It is tough to fight any real war. And it takes
true
guts, discipline & determination to win it.

 
For years and decades, the so-called 'left' in the West
has been moderately critical of North American (and
sometimes even of European) imperialism and neo-
colonialism. But whenever an individual or country
rose up and began openly challenging the Empire,
 most of the Western left-wing intellectuals simply
closed their eyes, and refused to offer their full,
unconditional support to those putting their
lives (and often even the existence of

their countries) on the line.

I will never forget all those derogatory punches
directed at Hugo Chavez, punches coming from
 members of the 'anti-Communist left', after he
 dared to insult George W. Bush at the United
Nations in 2006, calling him a "devil" and
choking, theatrically, from the sulfur that
was still 'hanging in the air' after the US
President's appearance at the General
Assembly.

I will not be dropping names here, but readers
would be surprised if they knew how many of
 those iconic leaders of the US left described
 Chavez and his speech as --- 'impolite',
'counter-
productive', and even 'insulting'.


Western Imperialism killed tens of millions

Tens of millions of people have died because of
Western imperialism, after WWII. Under the horrid
leadership of George W Bush, Afghanistan and
Iraq
have been reduced to ruins... But one has
to
remain 'polite', 'objective' and cool headed?


Well, that is not how real revolutions have been
 ignited. This is not how the successful anti-
colonialist wars are fought. When the real
battle begins, 'politeness' is actually mostly
 unacceptable, simply because the oppressed
 masses are endlessly pissed off, and they
want their feelings to be registered and
expressed by the leaders.

 Even the search for 'objectivity' is often out of
place, when still fragile revolutions have to face
 the entire monumental hostile propaganda of
the regime - of the Empire.

But the question is: do most of the Western leftists
 really support revolutions and anti-colonialist
struggles of the oppressed world?

I believe they don't. And this is clearly visible from
 reading most of the so-called alternative media
in both North America and Europe.

Whoever stands up, whoever leads his nation into
 battle against the Western global dictatorship, is
almost immediately defined as a demagogue. He
 or she is most likely christened 'undemocratic',
and not just by the mass and 'liberal' media, but
also on the pages of the so-called 'alternative'
 and 'progressive' Western press. Not all, but
some, and frankly: most of it!

Chavez actually received very little support from
 Western 'left-wing' intellectuals. And now when
 Venezuela is bleeding, the 'Bolivarian Republic'
can only count on a handful of revolutionary
Latin American nations, as well as on China,
Iran and Russia; definitely not on the robust,
organized and militant solidarity from
 Western countries.

Cuba received even less support than Venezuela.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, no attempt
was actually made by Western leftists to bail the
 heroic nation out. It was China, in the end, which
ran to its rescue and saved Cuban socialism.

 (When I wrote about it, I got hundreds of Western
leftists at my throat, and in the end it took Fidel
to confirm, in his 'Reflections', what I was saying,
 to get them off my back). Then, when the Obama
 administration began making dangerous advances
on Havana, almost everyone in the West began
screwing those cynical grimaces: 'you see; now
 everything will collapse! They will buy Cuba!'

They didn't. I travelled to the beloved green island,
and it was so clear from the first moment there,
that the 'revolution is not for sale'. But you will
 not read it often in the Western 'progressive'
 media.
 
*
It is of course not just Latin America that is 'disliked'
by the progressives in the West. Actually, Latin
America is still at least getting some nominal
 support there.

Western Left despises China and Russia

China and Russia, two powerful nations, which are
now standing openly against Western imperialism,
are despised by virtually all 'liberals' and by most
of the Western 'left'. In those circles, there is total
ignorance about the Chinese type of democracy,
about its ancient culture, and about it's complex
but extremely successful form of Communism
(or
'socialism with Chinese characteristics').


Like parrots, the Western leftists repeat 'liberal'
 propaganda that 'China is being capitalist', or
that it is being ruled by 'state capitalism'. The
internationalism of Chinese foreign policy
is
constantly played down, even mocked.


The hostility of the Western 'left' towards
China has disgusted many Chinese leaders
 and intellectuals. I only realized the extent
of this revulsion, when I spoke last year at
the First World Cultural Forum in Beijing,

and mingled with the thinkers at the
China
Academy of Social Sciences,
the right
(intellectual) arm of the
government
and the Party.


China can count on its allies in Russia, Latin America,
 Africa and elsewhere, but definitely not in the West.

It is pointless to even mention Russia or South Africa.

Russia, 'the victim' during the horrid Yeltsin years
was 'embraced' by the Western left. Russia the
warrior, Russia the adversary to Western
 imperialism, is, once again, loathed.

It appears that the 'progressives' in the United
States and Europe really prefer 'victims'. They can,
 somehow, feel pity and even write a few lines about
 the 'suffering of defenseless women and children' in
the countries that the West is plundering and raping.
That does not extend to all countries that are being
 brutalized, but at least to some...

What they don't like at all, are strong men and women
 that have decided to fight: to defend their rights, to
 face the Empire.

And now...Syria and DPRK

The Syrian government is hated. The N. Korean
 government is despised. The President of the
 Philippines is judged by Western liberal
media
measures: as a vulgar freak who
is killing
thousands of 'innocent' drug
pushers and
consumers (definitely
not as a possibly
new Sukarno,
who is willing to send the

entire West to hell).

Whatever the Western 'left' thinks about North
Korea and its government (and in fact, I think,
it cannot really think very much, as it is fully
ignorant about it), the main reason why the
 DPRK is hated so much by the West regime,
is because it, together with Cuba, basically
liberated Africa. It fought for the freedom
of Angola and Namibia, it flew Egyptian
MIGs at Israel, it struggled in Rhodesia
 (Zimbabwe) -- as well as in many other
 countries, and it sent aid, teachers and
 doctors to that continent: devastated
 by the Western colonialist barbarity.

Much good it received in return! At best,
indifference, at worse, total spite!
 
*
Some say that the Western 'left' doesn't want to
take power, anymore. It lost all of its important
 battles. It became toothless, impotent, and
angry about the world and itself.

When in January 2016 I spoke at the Italian
Parliament (ending up insulting the West for its
global plunder, hypocrisy), I mingled a lot with
 the 5 Star Movement, which had actually invited
 me to Rome. I spent time with its radical left wing.
There are some great people there, but overall, it
 soon became clear that this, potentially, biggest
political movement in the country, is actually
horrified of coming to power! It does not
really
want to govern.


But then, why call those weak bizarre selfish Western
 entities - the 'left wing'? Why confuse terms, and by
 that, why discredit those true revolutionaries, those
true fighters, who are risking, sacrificing their lives,
right now, all over the world?
 
*
Wars are all extremely ugly. I have covered many of
them, and I know.. But some of them, those that are
 fought for the survival of humanity, or for survival
of
particular countries, are inevitable. One either

fights, or the whole Planet ends up colonized
and oppressed, in shackles.


If one decides to fight, then there has to be discipline
 and single-mindedness; total determination. Or the
 battle is lost from the very beginning!

When the freedom and survival of one's motherland
is at stake, things get very serious, 'dead-serious'.
Battle is not a discussion club. It is not some chat.

If we, as 'leftists', have already once decided that
imperialism and colonialism (or 'neo-colonialism')
 are the greatest evils destroying our humanity,
then we have to show discipline and join ranks,
and support those who are at the frontline.

Otherwise we will become an irrelevant
laughingstock, and history will and

should, judge us harshly!
 
*
Andre Vltchek is a philosopher, novelist, filmmaker
 and investigative journalist. He covered wars and
conflicts in dozens of countries. His latest books
are: "Exposing Lies Of The Empire" and  "Fighting
 Against Western Imperialism".  Discussion with
Noam Chomsky: On Western Terrorism. Point of
No Return is his critically acclaimed political
novel. Oceania - a book on Western imperialism
in the South Pacific. His provocative book about
Indonesia: "Indonesia - The Archipelago of Fear".
Andre is making films for teleSUR and Press TV.
 After living for many years in Latin America and
Oceania, Vltchek presently resides and works in
East Asia and the Middle East. He can be
reached through his website or his Twitter.

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Israel harvesting slain Palestinians' organs:
Palestine’s UN envoy

The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations
 says the Tel Aviv regime is harvesting the organs
of Palestinians killed in clashes with Israeli
forces
in the occupied territories.


Riyad Mansour says in a letter to UN Secretary
 General Ban Ki-moon, that the bodies of those
Palestinians killed by Israeli
forces, are being
“returned with missing corneas
and other
organs --- further confirming past
reports
about organ harvesting by the

 occupying power.”

“A medical examination conducted on bodies
of Palestinians returned after they were killed
 by the occupying power, found that they were
missing organs,” Mansour wrote in the letter.

The Palestinian envoy further protests Israel’s
 “persistent aggression against the Palestinian
 people” over the past month and the regime’s
“insistence on the use of violent force and
 oppressive measures.”

The issue of organ theft by Israel was first
exposed in a report published by Sweden’s
most popular daily, Aftonbladet, in 2009.

The New York Times also said, in an August
2014 report that transplant brokers in Israel
 have pocketed enormous sums of money.

Based on the Times analysis of major organ
 trafficking cases since 2000, Israelis have
played a ‘disproportionate role’ in organ
 trafficking.

The Palestinians Mansour was referring
 to were killed in the occupied territories,
where tensions have dramatically risen
in recent weeks.

The Israeli regime’s imposition of new
restrictions
in August on the entry of
Palestinian worshipers
to the al-Aqsa
Mosque compound in East al-Quds

(Jerusalem) has become a lightning
rod for the
surge in confrontations.


According to the latest figures by the Palestinian
 Health Ministry, at least 74 Palestinians have lost
their lives at the hands of Israeli forces since the
beginning of October. At least 11 Israelis have
also been killed during that period.

The bodies of Palestinian victims, are most
often held in Israeli custody for long periods
of time, before they're returned to relatives.


William Spring, a human rights activist from
London, says that this revelation will “deal
a terrible blow” to Israel, and particularly
among
its US supporters.


Referring to the supporters of Israel in the US,
 as “Christian-Zionists,” the commentator says
 that, despite all their enthusiasm for the Israeli
 regime, they are against such measures as:
 experiments on fetuses, abortion, or
harvesting organs.

“I can see a great defection and a great
 falling away of Christian-Zionists, who've
supported Israel - up until now,” he says.


______________________________________________




Corporations Are
Running The World

by Aisha Dodwell

Of the 100 wealthiest economic entities in the world,
69 are now corporations and only 31 are countries.

 This is up from 63 to 37 a year ago. At this rate,
within a generation we will be living in a world
 entirely dominated by giant corporations.

As multinationals increasingly dominate areas
 traditionally considered the primary domain of
the state --- we should be afraid. While they
privatise everything from education & health
 to border controls and prisons, they stash
their
profits away in secret offshore accounts.


And while they have unrivalled access to decision
 makers they avoid democratic processes by setting
up secret courts enabling them to bypass all judicial
 systems applicable to people.

Meanwhile their raison d’etre of perpetual growth in a
 finite world is causing environmental destruction and
driving climate change.

From Sports Direct’s slave-like working conditions to
 BP’s oil spill devastating people’s homes, stories of
 corporations violating rights are all too often seen
in our daily papers.

Yet the power of corporations is so great within our
 society, that they have undermined the idea that
 there is any other way to run things. We're all too
 familiar with hearing about the threat of “losing
 corporate investment” or companies “taking their
business somewhere else” as if the government’s
number one task is to attract corporate investment.

It is this corporate agenda that permeates the
governing institutions of the global economy
-- like
the World Trade Organisation and the
International
Monetary Fund - whose policies
and operations have
given more importance
to the “rights” of big business
than the rights
and needs of people and the
environment.


The problem of unrestrained corporate power is
massive, and it requires a massive solution. That
is why Global Justice Now has launched a petition
 to the UK government --- demanding that it backs
the new UN initiative for a legally binding global
 treaty on transnational corporations and
 human rights.

This UN treaty is the result of campaigning by
 countries from across the Global South --- for
 international laws to regulate the activities of
 transnational corporations. In June 2014 they
 successfully got a resolution passed in the
UN Human Rights Council, establishing the
 need for such a treaty.

A working group of member states has been set up
to take the treaty forward, chaired by Ecuador, they
 have met once already in 2015, and have the next
 meeting scheduled for October 2016, to discuss
 the scope and content of the treaty.

Meanwhile, civil society groups from across the world
 have come together and formed the Treaty Alliance
 movement --- which aims to make sure the treaty
comes into being with truly meaningful content.

Although it may sound like a boring technical
process, this treaty is something we should
be
excited about because it provides a huge

opportunity in the fight to restrain corporate
 power. It has massive potential to withdraw
 the privileges that corporations have gained
over recent decades --- and force them to
comply
with international human rights
law, international labour
law, and
environmental standards.


It would oblige governments to take the power
 of corporations seriously, and hold them to
account for the power they wield.

This would standardise how different governments
 relate to multinationals --- which means that rather
 than allowing them to play countries off against
one another in a race to the bottom, it would
force
minimum standards.


But the UK government, well known for its cosy
 relationship with corporations, has so far refused
 to take part in this UN treaty. And the UK are not
 alone: most other EU countries are also opposed
to the treaty.

We need to make sure our government does not
pass up this rare opportunity: to provide genuine
protection for the victims of human rights abuses
 committed by multinational corporations & place
 binding obligations on all governments, to hold
their
corporations to account for their impact(s)
on people
and the planet.


That’s why groups across the continent are joining
 forces to make sure their leaders participate in the
Geneva talks this October.

The petition urges governments across Europe
 to participate in the Geneva talks --- and will be
delivered to national & EU leaders on October 12.

Of course, the battle against corporate power has
 many fronts and the UN treaty is only one part of it.
 At the same time, we need to continue to develop
 alternative ways to produce and distribute the
 goods and services we need.

We need to undermine the notion that only massive
 corporations can make the economy and society
 “work.”

Food sovereignty and energy democracy are just two
 examples of how it is possible to build an economy
 without corporations.

But as long as corporations do play a role in our
 economy, we need to find ways to control their
 activity and prevent abuses.

This is why we need to fight for this UN treaty.

The alternative is that we continue to rush towards
the dystopian vision of unchallenged corporate
 power. We cannot allow this to happen. We
 must fight back.

Aisha Dodwell is campaigns and policy
 officer at Global Justice Now.

You can sign the petition at:

 mstar.link/corporate-crime.


Article taken, in part, from:

http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-b870
-Corporations-running-the-world-used-to-be-
science-fiction-Now-its-reality



Jack Straw - War Criminal


New email leaks show Jack Straw was very
grateful for Brexit -- for the most vile reason.

The Canary - New email leaks reveal that Straw,
the Foreign Secretary in Blair’s government,

was very grateful for Brexit. Not because it
gave the UK public a say in the direction
of
their country, but because it created
a
distraction from the publication of
the
Chilcot Report !


Brexit’s “silver lining”, according to Blair’s
 co-architect of the 2003 invasion of Iraq,
was that it buried the Chilcot Report,
alongside the millions who died
 as a result of the war.

Straw tells Powell: ‘We’ve got to spin this right’

According to the leaks, on 4th July (2 days
 before publication of the Chilcot Report),
Straw emailed former US Secretary of State
 Powell, his accomplice in the Iraq invasion.

He wanted to discuss an ''appropriate
response''
to the upcoming release
of the inquiry.


Straw had drafted a statement which he thought
 Powell “should see”, as it referenced him. After
 welcoming Powell’s feedback on the statement,
Straw turned his attention to the current political
 climate in the UK, and the effect it might have
on the reception of the Chilcot Report:

    "Meanwhile, as you will have seen, British politics
 is in the most extraordinary phase I’ve ever known.
The only silver lining of the Brexit vote is that it
will reduce medium term attention on Chilcot –
 though it will not stop the day of publication
 being uncomfortable."

For Straw, who had campaigned for the ‘Remain’
 camp in the EU referendum, there was a bright
side to Brexit. He believed that it would take
the
heat off the report into his government’s
actions
in Iraq.


Was Straw right? Did the report
 on Blair’s invasion fall flat?

6 July, the day the Chilcot Report was published,
there was wall-to-wall coverage. The Guardian
alone published
over 40 articles that day. But
by
8th July, that number had shrunk to 11.
And
within one week, the coverage had

whittled down to almost nothing.

The BBC also published dozens of news articles on
the report the day it was released. But its top-listed
 “Editor’s choice” section on the Chilcot Report,
 points its readers to very little coverage after
 that date.

Of course, there was an avalanche of other news
to cover: the Brexit fallout; the Labour coup; the
 Conservative Party’s own leadership battle after
David Cameron resigned. But it does appear that
 -- after an initial flurry of reporting on the Chilcot
findings, interest in it quickly dispersed.

Phew, we made it!

Straw and Powell communicated again about a
month later, musing on their countries’ reaction
 to the report. On 3rd August, Powell emailed the
previous Foreign Secretary to tell him the Chilcot
Report “didn’t amount to anything over here”. He
 explained that, in the US, Blair “was mentioned
a lot for a short period of time”, but all was
 quiet on the western front now.

Straw responded:

    "Yes, the Chilcot story has faded altogether here
 too. It was unpleasant on the day but almost all
the focus was on Tony [Blair]. But even for him
 it seems to have gone."

He added:

    "There is some stuff about some relatives of
 soldiers killed in Iraq trying to get a legal
action against Tony on its feet buy [sic]
it’s hard to see how that could work."

Families of British soldiers killed in Iraq have
 launched an appeal to fund a prosecution of
Tony Blair & other state officials “who might
 have acted unlawfully, or in excess of their
powers”. If they succeed, which Straw
obviously doubts, Blair’s defence will
be
paid for by the taxpayer, despite
the
former PM being a millionaire.


Scorched on our souls

Straw’s relief that the “unpleasant” attention
surrounding the Iraq War report had “faded”
 reveals an unsettling attitude towards one
 of the UK’s most disastrous decisions.

The invasion of Iraq was an absolute catastrophe.
Countless lives were lost, an entire region was
 thrown into chaos, terrorism blossomed, and
the
UK's reputation around the world,
was ruined.


But seemingly, all Straw can focus on
 is saving his own skin.

UK citizens, and all those around the world
affected by the decisions made here in the
 UK, deserve better architects than this.

The fact that we are all now acutely aware
 of that -- is the only true ‘silver lining’ of
this
disgusting episode in UK history.


Get Involved, please:

– Donate to the crowdfunding appeal seeking
 to hold those responsible for the war to account.

https://www.crowdjustice.co.uk/case/chilcot/

(they've now raised about £170,000)


– Take action with the Stop the War Coalition
against the militarisation of our world.

http://stopwar.org.uk/


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Justice For War Criminals

Plaid Cymru's Adam Price has started a petition
 aimed at securing a House of Commons debate
on the motion that Tony Blair acted in contempt
of Parliament when taking Britain to war in Iraq.

The petition reads:

“The Chilcot Report has presented a
 range of evidence that demonstrates
 that Parliament and the country were
 misled by Tony Blair in the run up to
 the war in Iraq.

"Parliament should now agree a process
 by which it can hold the former Prime
Minister to account.”

To get this Parliamentary debate considered,
 needs 100,000 signatures by Jan. 20th, 2017.

To sign the petition, please go here:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/159996



Here's John McDonnell, in a speech
congratulating DPAC and explaining
how solidarity can defeat these cuts.


What's disability got to do with peace?
Try being disabled, or a woman, or
elderly, or of a different race, or
gay, or vulnerable, in a land
where "dog eats dog" !!!

Protestors block Westminster Bridge
 over government disability cuts

A group from Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC)
 blocked Westminster bridge for several hours last
 Wednesday, in protest against government cuts
 to disability benefits.

Protesters held large banners reading “No more
 deaths from benefit cuts.” The protest was met
 with a heavy police presence, which eventually
broke it up and at least 2 people were arrested.

DPAC said over 150 people, many in wheelchairs,
 attended the protest -- to call for better financial
support. The protest also drew attention to the
 treatment of disabled athletes at the
Paralympics’ games in Rio.

On its website, DPAC claimed, in 2015, that the
UK became the first country in the world to be
investigated by the United Nations for grave,
systematic violations of disabled people’s
 rights.

"This is a direct result of the disproportionate
 impact of austerity on disabled people, and
the ideological attacks, waged by the Tory
government, which have seen disabled
 people and the poorest members of
society hit by cut after cut after cut.”

Another DPAC official said the protest was part
of a week of action to highlight changes to the
Personal Independence Payments (PIP) to help
 people aged 16 to 64 cope with extra costs, as
 well as the significant cuts of up to £30 a week
for some, who claim the Employment Support
 Allowance (ESA).

"It's the opening of the Paralympics tonight & we're
celebrating all the athletes, but the cuts that they're
 bringing through, mean that other peoples' lives,
are
going dramatically backwards," Ellen Clifford
said, at the event.


There are almost half a million sick and disabled
 people receiving the ESA benefit; these people
are likely to be unemployed for longer than
other jobseekers - who are not struggling
with disabilities or health difficulties.

Last year, the United Nations held an inquiry
 into whether the UK government welfare cuts
led to rights abuses and the death of over
2,000 disabled Britons.

This came after the Department of Work and
 Pensions, revealed that 2,380 people have
 died within six weeks of being declared "fit
 to work" by the government between 2011
 and 2014.


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Donations:

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are extremely valuable. To donate
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Get out of NATO stop WW3


SUPPORT THE WORLD PEACE COUNCIL

(& request the dissolution of NATO.)

The secretariat of the World Peace Council,
chaired by Brazilian activist Socorro Gomes,
met in Brussels, to assess the latest events
in the world, recent challenges in the struggle
for peace, and to assess the NATO summit.

The meeting also addressed the question of US
bases around the world, and especially their
recent installation on Colombian territory.

 Socorro Gomes states, "we must examine
the
latest events in the world, the new
targets of
US policy in Afghanistan,
Pakistan and recently, in Yemen."


"Peace today is threatened more than at
the end
of the Cold War, because imperialism
is following
its plans with a new concept of
NATO, which
contends that the military pact
is essential
to the defense of Europe. It has
militarized
the European continent and now
seeks to achieve
greater unity between the
US and EU," says Socorro.


According to the Brazilian activist, NATO is
an
instrument of US imperialism, as the US
holds
the key command & several important
positions
in the hierarchy of the military pact.


NATO was created in 1949 as a military
instrument
to respond to the threat of
the Soviet Union.


With the dissolution of the Soviet Union and its
allies in Europe, NATO no longer has an excuse
to stay in existence. "NATO is a weapon of war
used to harm people and nations. Its policy is
to remain as an armed wing in favor of looting
the natural wealth of the countries attacked,
to ensure American hegemony," says Socorro.

"The organization's summit.. further discusses
its role as "world policeman," adds Socorro.
"The World Peace Council, besides discussing
broad issues for world peace, proposes the
dismantling of the North Atlantic military pact,
something that is essential for peace".

Read below the "Appeal against NATO and
the
realization of their summit in Portugal,"

made by the World Peace Council (WPC) and
its counterpart organization in Portugal:

The World Peace Council (WPC) & the Portuguese
Council for Peace and Cooperation (CPPC),
welcome peace-loving people around the world
and the peace movements that fight & continue
to denounce imperialist wars, illegal occupations
and social injustice, and urge them to continue,
& to strengthen their efforts & common struggles
against imperialism and its apparatus, especially
NATO, the greatest war machine in the world.

The WPC denounces before the people of the world
the crimes committed by NATO, and continues to
commit against humanity under the guise of
protecting "human rights" & fighting "terrorism,"
according to their own interpretation.

Since its founding in 1949, NATO has been an
offensive organization. After 1991, with its new
military doctrine, it became the "sheriff" of
imperialist interests in the world.

It was often linked to bloody & dictatorial regimes,
reactionary forces and military juntas. It actively
participated in the dismemberment of Yugoslavia
in the barbaric bombing of Serbia for 78 days, in
the overthrow of governments by "orange
revolutions"
and in the Afghan occupation.


NATO is continuing its plans for a "Greater
Middle East,"
broadening its scope of action
through the "Partnership
for Peace" and
"special co-operation" in Asia and Latin

America, the Middle East, North Africa &
the "European Army."


All governments of the member countries
share
responsibilities in NATO, regardless
of the leading
role of the US administration.

Any different approaches
on some issues
hardly reflect points of view and
rivalries of
their own, but they always lead to a
joint
aggressive confrontation set against
the people.


We condemn the policy of the European Union,
which
coincides with NATO and the Lisbon
Treaty, which goes
hand in hand in political &
military aspects. The military
spending of EU
missions abroad between 2002 and 2009,

increased from 30 million to 300 million euros.

The people and the peace loving forces
around the world
will not accept NATO
and its role of "sheriff" of the world.


They reject any attempt to incorporate
NATO into the UN
system. They demand
the dissolution of this offensive war

machine. Even the false pretext of the
Warsaw Treaty no
longer exists today.


The World Peace Council & its members
& friends will
host dozens of countries
in various national and
international
initiatives against NATO and its new

strategic concept.

We will organize, jointly with the

Portuguese Council for Peace and
Cooperation (CPPC),
initiatives and
conferences in Portugal, and mass
action
before and during the days
of the NATO summit.


Under the motto:

DISSOLVE NATO, Enemy of the People. Peace!!!

WPC calls on all organizations in member
countries of NATO and around the world,
to support this, stressing the following
aspects:
NATO has been an aggressive
and reactionary force
since its founding
in 1949. The Warsaw Treaty
was created
and then dissolved, earlier.


NATO has its hands stained with the blood
of many people from over 60 years & can't
constitute "a force for peace" in the UN
framework.


Despite US dominance, aggression is carried
out
in conjunction with other imperialist powers,

which does not change the character of NATO.

NATO is directly linked to the EU & vice versa,
since a large number of EU countries are also
NATO members, as well as through the
militaristic
tendencies and obligations
contained in the "Lisbon Treaty."


All governments of NATO member states
are
responsible for their actions; they
support
NATO's imperialistic plans.


The NATO war against Yugoslavia in 1999,
was a
milestone for a new dogma during
the summit in
Washington in 1999.
It then became clear that
the EU isn't
a "democratic counterweight" to the US.


NATO acts as a global policeman with
employees
on all continents, executing
its plan for a
"Greater Middle East" and
it actively intervened
in Eastern Europe,
the Caucasus and elsewhere.


We fully support & endorse the campaign
in Portugal
"Peace yes, NATO no" which
brings together
dozens of social
movements and organizations.


We call upon all peace-loving organizations
to join with their voices and forces.

You can find the World Peace Council at:

http://www.wpc-in.org/


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


NATO READY TO CRUSH EUROPEAN DISSENT

(Is THIS why our so-called "Peace Movement" in
the UK refuses to oppose NATO's aggression?)


 On May 16th, the leader of the political party Zmiana
 (“Change”), Mateusz Piskorski, in Poland, issued a
 prescient warning on his blog that NATO’s newly
deployed Very High Readiness Joint Task Force
is going to “pacify” protests and opposition groups
 according to the North Atlantic Treaty’s Article 4
 on the pretext of fighting a “Russian hybrid war.”

Piskorski warned that NATO’s repressive plans,
admitted by the Multinational Corps Northeast’s
 General Krol himself, would ultimately render
any forms of protest in the country, whether
on the streets or on the internet, subject to
suppression, by order of US-NATO advisors.

Two days later, on May 18th, armed agents of
 the Internal Security Agency raided Zmiana’s
office and its activists’ homes, & arrested &
 imprisoned Piskorski as a media campaign
 hurled the ridiculous charge that he was a
 “Russian, Chinese, and/or Iraqi spy.”

 In a telling and foreboding instance, officers
 even confiscated ordinary Polish flags from
 Zmiana activists, a move which in Poland's
history, has usually accompanied a war on
Polish soil.

With no official charges brought against him,
Poland’s main anti-NATO figure who in 2015
 declared that “a Poland without NATO is a
Poland without wars”, to this day, remains
in isolation in prison, from where he has
 stressed in 2 urgent letters, that Poland
 is being converted into a launch pad
 and target for WWIII.


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


French people gather signatures -
Petition to get France out of NATO

Headline:

At Warsaw they got set for war. Let's get out of NATO!

"The last NATO summit in Warsaw, was
just one more provocation against Russia.

With
this appeal, the signatories mean to
say "STOP"
to this nuclear escalation ----
before something un-
do-able gets done."


Text:

The hour is grave. A new missile crisis is brewing
 against Russia, a mirror image of the 1962 missile
 crisis when the Soviet Union deployed missiles in
 Cuba, at the very portals of the United States. The
 situation has gone upside down: then, NATO was
 struggling against the Warsaw Pact; this time,
it
met in Warsaw!


Therefore, we the undersigned, find that we are
 faced with a provocative policy of encirclement:

1. continuous expansion of NATO to Russia's
 borders, despite the guarantees given by the
West to Gorbachev, in 1989, that this would
 not happen;

2. deployment of the Aegis missile defense shield
 in Romania, Poland, Turkey, and Spain. Featuring
 MK41 launch systems, these weapons can be used
 for defense missions (anti-aircraft, anti-submarine,
 anti-ship), but also for attack missions against
 ground targets;

3. deployment in the Baltic countries, Poland,
and Romania, by rotation, of four regiments
of a thousand men each, with permanent
 military equipment;

4. constitution of a "northern" front against
Russia, bringing together NATO members
 (Denmark, Iceland and Norway) --- or its
 Partnership for Peace (Sweden & Finland).

To end this menace we demand:

That it announce its decision to leave
 the organization, which no longer has
any
raison d’être.


We call on France to create the conditions
 for a return to a peaceful order in the world
based on "win-win" cooperation proposed
 by the BRICS, which Europe and the US
 have an interest in joining.

Let us mobilize today, all those means that
 we committed in the twentieth century, for
war, to peace through mutual development!


More on the petition here:

http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160602/10
40675105/leave-nato-europeans-petition.html







Talking To the Common People
(in the end... kick out the NGOs)






Still believe we are the Free
good, loving, honest West?

Watch Australia and Canada's
leaders joining the war on Iraq.

Did one copy the other, or were
they sent the same CIA speech?

Either way, it's a scream!



THIS IS YOUR WARNING !!!

If you want to avoid all life disintegrating
and your children and grandchildren
slowly... sliding... into a World War

take action now - join a Peace movement.

Replace the ego-centric individuals now
pretending they are good people because
they pose at truly opposing the militarists
and venal political class.

Then act - now, today - or this week!

Join a peace movement near you -
and if you're looking to find a
saintly person there, with
hardly any faults...

it'll have to be you!

__________________________________________


THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY NO LONGER EXISTS

And an orchestrated war with Russia
has all of us marked for extinction

by Paul Craig Roberts

The Democratic Party that once was concerned
with workers’ rights, the elderly, civil rights, and
the constitutional protections of America liberty
 no longer exists. As the completed Democrat's
presidential primaries & Democrat presidential
convention have clearly demonstrated, the US
now has two Republican parties in service to
 the One Percent.

The organized Democrats - the Democrat National
 Committee - show themselves as even more venal
 and corrupt than the Republicans. Leaked emails
 document that the Democrat National Committee
 conspired with the Hillary campaign to steal the
 nomination from Bernie Sanders. It is clear that
 Sanders was THE choice of Democrat Party
voters for president, but the nomination was
stolen from him by vote fraud and dirty tricks.

The DNC and the media whores have tried to
 discredit the incriminating emails by alleging
that the leaked emails resulted from a plot by
 Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on behalf of
 “Putin’s American agent,” Donald Trump. “A
vote for Trump is a vote for Putin,” as the
 presstitute scum put it.

This diversionary tactic has not worked. Not
even Americans are stupid enough to fall for it.

Consequently, the corrupt “leader” of the DNC
had to resign, and was unable to deliver her
speech at the nominating convention, for
 fear of being booed off the stage.

Sanders’ supporters have abandoned Hillary
& the fake “Democrat Party.”

Organized Republicans - the Republican National
 Committee–and zionist neoconservatives wanted
 to block Donald Trump from the nomination, just
 as the DNC blocked Sanders, but could not. The
 neoconservatives are organizing for Hillary as she
 is their warmonger & Trump says he is not, but as
 the Presidential contest is really a contest between
 the two Republican parties about which gets to be
 the whore for the 1 Percent, the RNC, impressed with
 Hillary’s lack of voter support, seems to be sticking
 with Trump. Better to be a well-paid whore, than to
 be out in the cold.

Donald Trump is the American people’s choice,
 because he opposes the offshoring of American
 jobs–a corporate practice that has enriched the
 1% at the expense of the American middle class.

Donald Trump is the American people’s choice,
 because he opposes the fabricated, gratuitous
 conflict with Russia. Even Americans understand
 that taking war to a major nuclear power will not
 end well.

Donald Trump is the American people’s choice
 because he realizes that NATO–an organization
 whose purpose disappeared 25 years ago when
the Soviet Union collapsed as a result of a coup
 against Gorbachev, by extreme elements of the
 Soviet Communist Party–now serves as a vehicle
 and cover for Washington’s aggressions, which
 are war crimes under the international statutes
which Washington created. Washington’s wars
 benefit some of the One Percent at the expense
 of both the 99 Percent and millions of innocent
 people, in many countries.

What will happen now is the presstitutes will
 demonize Donald Trump ---- even more than
they have demonized Vladimir Putin. These
Scum presstitutes will do everything they
can do, to make supporting Trump into
an act of treason against America.

Now the presstitutes have learned they can
tell the most blatant lies–Saddam Hussein’s
 weapons of mass destruction, Iranian nukes,
 Assad’s use of chemical weapons, Russian
 invasions–without being held accountable,
 they know that they can lie about Trump.

And they will. To the hilt.

But the presstitutes have lost credibility. A
person has to be an imbecile to believe
 a word that they say.

“Progressives” will wander off the track. They will be
turned off by Trump’s stand on immigration, which
 is where the American people stand. “Progressives”
 will be worried about whether the ‘fascist” Trump
 will persecute transgender & homosexual people
 or revoke the right of women to abort the unborn.
 To “progressives” this will seem all important, as
 Washington and its NATO vassals hurl the world
 into nuclear war.

Neither can any intelligence be expected from the
 defunct American left-wing. The American left-wing
 supports the official story of 9/11, the excuse for the
 last 15 years of illegal wars and the American Police
 State. To find the American left-wing totally allied
 with the official explanation of what is in reality a
 false flag event, committed so neoconservatives
 would have their new Pearl Harbor -- in order to
 invade the Middle East, is demonstrable proof
that the American left-wing is irrelevant.

The American left interprets 9/11 and subsequent
false flag events as oppressed people hitting back
 at their oppressors. The emotional satisfaction of
 this takes the impotent American left-wing out not
 only of action but out of relevance in commentary.
The American left-wing has become an asset of the
 enemy–the neoconservatives who control policy
 in Washington.

So, where do we stand? The answer is that we are
 closer to nuclear annihilation than ever before. I
 know of what I speak. I held the highest security
 clearances. I was a member of a secret committee
 that enabled President Reagan to end the Cold War.

The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, is doing
 everything he can possibly do to avoid a nuclear
 war that the crazed American neoconservatives
 are bringing to humanity. For his efforts on behalf
 of planet Earth he is demonized 24 hours a day,
 seven days a week, year after year. For simply
 stating facts, I'm described by the presstitutes
 as “an apologist for Putin.”

The endless lies about Russia have convinced the
 Russian media, that Washington is mobilizing its
 NATO vassals for an attack on Russia.

If you aren’t scared, you are stupid beyond belief.
The message is clear: the West has declared
war on Russia, but is trying to keep Russia
 off guard by denying it.

Russian news shows the dismissive way the
Russian media was treated at a recent NATO
conference in Poland. Non-entity delegates
of the non-entity countries of Latvia, which
the West ruthlessly looted, plus Estonia,
Poland, Lithuania, & Ukraine delegates,
 refused to speak to the Russian media
 or used interviews to echo the US’s
false accusations against Russia.

 These imbeciles insulting Russia are represent-
atives of countries that Russia could destroy in a
few minutes. If these idiots think Washington can
 save them, they're as stupid as the Polish colonels
 who thought the British guarantee in March 1939
meant anything --- and could save Poland from
 the rash action of sticking Poland’s fingers in
 Hitler’s eye. This Polish stupidity provoked by the
 stupid British set off World War II with the British
and French declaration of war against Germany,
 thus consigning Poland to Soviet rule for a half
 century. Some guarantee! The imbecile
Chamberlain -- who wanted peace --
started WWII, with Britain’s
 worthless “guarantee.”

Does it make you feel safe that the arrogant
 warmongering imbeciles in Washington have
 convinced a nuclear power the equal of the
 United States that America is going to attack?

Moreover, Russia is a nuclear power allied with
 another nuclear power, China, which has had
enough of the US’s imbecilic provocations.

Are you willing for “your” government to lead
 your future into nuclear war, with two nuclear
 powers?

Here we Americans went into the presidential
 election and the overpowering fact of our time–
that Washington is threatening humanity with
nuclear war–wasn't a subject for discussion!

What is the matter with us Americans? Are we
stupid beyond all belief? We sit, thinking that
 issues of no importance are the most important
 issues of our time while “our” insane government
 provokes nuclear war. Have any people in history
 failed their obligation to this extent? If so, who?

My case rests. There is no countervailing evidence
 against the fact that unadulterated evil rules the
 West ----- and is driving the world to extinction.
Western democracy is a total failure. Democracy
 could not prevent the crazed warmonger Hillary
from presidential nomination, despite the
opposition of the American people.

How long can Russia, & China, wait before they
conclude that they have to pre-empt the coming
 attack from Washington? Does anyone, even
stupid Americans, think that once Russia and
 China are convinced that they are targets for
 attack, that they will just sit there and await
 the attack?

Do people as guilty of dereliction of duty as
 Western people are, have any right to survive?
 

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary
 of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate
 editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist
 for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service,
& Creators Syndicate. He has had many university
 appointments. His internet columns have attracted
a worldwide following. Roberts' latest books are The
 Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic
 Dissolution of the West, How America Was Lost,
and The Neoconservative Threat to World Order.


_____________________________________________



What was the 'Cuban missile
crisis'... really all about?


The US spun it then and spins it now as
"Russian aggression beaten by the US".


Yet Russians say the US put missiles

in Turkey, so they put theirs in Cuba.

Russia removed their missiles from Cuba
-- on the condition that the US took their
Pershing nuke missiles out from Turkey.

There are now fifty
US
nuclear warheads
 in Turkey -- but Russia is the aggressor?

Again???



FIRST IRAQ --- NOW SYRIA

If you think - like Blair -
that launching wars
in pursuit of 'Democracy and Human Rights'
is "
a good thing" - then you will believe the
latest lies and support
the current US/UK
bombing of civilians and infrastructure
in Syria...


as the liberals who dominate
Wales' peace movement do..
apparently....

Damascus denounces US-led ‘massacre’
in Syria ---- and calls on UN to intervene

Syria has called on the United Nations to take
 immediate action against the so-called US-led
 coalition: to stop it conducting more airstrikes
in the country, after the US/UK coalition’s
latest airborne assault claimed the
lives of over 40 civilians.  

In two separate letters sent to UN Secretary General
Ban Ki-moon and the UN Security Council President
Koro Bessho,, the Syrian Foreign Ministry strongly
denounced the coalitions new “atrocities
 committed against civilians” and called
to bring the perpetrators to justice.

The letters were written after US-led warplanes
 launched airstrikes on
Ghandour town, which
is over 23 kilometers (14.2 miles) away from
the violence-ridden city of Manbij, in Syria’s
strategic northern province of Aleppo.

At least “45 civilians were brutally killed and 50
others were injured” --- in the deadly airstrikes.

The development came, after at least 15 people
 were killed/injured in US-led airstrikes against
 al-Nawajah village east of Manbij, on July 23rd,
a few days after another deadly US-led raid
left 120 civilians dead, near Manbij.

On July 22nd, the military coalition also killed at
 least 20 civilians in Manbij and claimed the lives
 of at least 30 more, including 11 children, in the
 same city, on June the 9th, in aerial attacks
 purportedly conducted against the
Daesh
positions in the area.  

Syria's Foreign Ministry also censures
the endless support of France, the US,
 Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar for so-
called “moderate opposition” groups:
 - calling it overt support for terrorists
who are wreaking havoc across the
world --- and, specifically, in Syria.

The letters also say that any anti-terror
campaign in Syria is doomed to fail ---
 unless done in cooperation with Syria's
 government --- and in accordance with
 international law and the UN Charter.

The ministry cites the remarkable similarity
 between the “massacres” perpetrated by
the US-led coalition - and terrorist groups
operating in Syria, saying both sides are
 trying to exacerbate the situation over
 the country... since the Syrian army’s
 recent victories in Aleppo city.

It also calls on "the UN Security Council
to enforce its anti-terrorism resolutions
against those states backing terrorism.”

The letters state in conclusion: Syria will
not give up its fight against terrorism and
 pursuing a political solution to the crisis
 "without foreign interference."

The US-led coalition has been conducting
airstrikes.... on what are said to be Daesh
terrorists in Syria since September 2014
--- without authorization from Damascus
or a UN mandate. They have repeatedly
 been accused of targeting and killing
civilians.

 The so-called Coalition has also been largely
incapable of fulfilling its declared aim ----- of
destroying Daesh.

Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed
 militancy, since March 2011. UN special
envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, now
estimates that over 400,000 people
have been killed in the conflict.

The UN has stopped its official casualty
count in Syria --- citing its "inability" to
 verify the figures that it receives...
from various sources.

WALES PEACE MOVEMENT?

Activists urged protest rallies over

the deadly US-led airstrikes in Syria
--- for Sunday, July 24th.

NO-ONE showed up in Wales at all !
__________________________

Working-class socialists Needed!

Once I had the unfortunate experience to visit
Cardiff as the illegal Iraq war broke, and the
"peace" activists there spent an hour... just
bitching at each other - in front of a young
lady from Iraq who'd travelled all over
the UK, asking for help.

I caught her smiling, as I chewed them out
for their lack of sincerity and their childish
egos - although their only response
was...
"Well! If you're going to
be unpleasant..."

It seems that MOMENTUM is
needed within the peace
movement in Wales...

Phone NOW to complain about
so-called organisers' inactivity!


Blairites' illegal war --- in Syria!

The Syrian government has written to the United
 Nations, asking the world body to condemn the
US / UK airstrikes which are carried out without
authorization from Damascus, or a UN mandate.

The US-led coalition has been backing the Syrian
 Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish
& Arab forces, to capture Manbij since last May.

The Syrian government has criticized the
 unauthorized aerial campaign, saying it
 has damaged Syria's infrastructure
 instead of making a dent in the
 terrorists' capabilities.


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PATRIARCHS YAZIGI, LAHAM, APHREM II
APPEAL TO THE WORLD TO LIFT THE
ANTI-SYRIAN SANCTIONS

Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch & All East,
John X Yazigi, Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch
of Antioch and All the East Gregorios III Laham,
and Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch & All
 East, Mar Ignatius Aphrem II, issued an appeal
on Tuesday, calling on the world and relevant
states, to lift the siege and sanctions
 imposed on the Syrian people.

In the appeal, the Patriarchs say, if the goals
 for imposing sanctions are political ones, the
 sanctions affect the Syrian people, & mainly
 the impoverished and the working class in
a
drastic manner, particularly in their daily
lives
and ability to buy food and receive
medical
services.


The appeal notes that, although Syria's people
 remain steadfast in the face of this ordeal, the
social condition is deteriorating and poverty
and
suffering are increasing, which is what
prompted
the Damascus-based Patriarchs
to issue this
humanitarian appeal, given
that they are in
touch with the suffering
of the Syrians.


The Patriarchs call for the taking of unusual steps
 and brave, wise, and responsible decisions -- that
take into account humanitarianism, human rights,
and international accords, and lift the economic
sanctions imposed on Syria --- adding that this
would restore unity among Syrians and curb
the exploitation of the Syrians’ ordeal, by
sides that have no good intentions for
Syria --- in addition to helping clerical
establishments perform their
humanitarian work.

The Patriarchs stress the appeal is in line with
the desire of several states and humanitarian
 organizations who want to help Syria's people,
& they hope the international community will
react to this appeal & end the sanctions that
constitute another aspect of the crisis, and
which seek
to pressure individuals,
establishments, and
companies --
thereby pressuring the entire

Syrian population.

They point out that the lack of new investments,
 blocking of international flights to Syria, cutting
 exports to it, and blacklisting some of its firms,
isolate Syria from the international community,
as does closing most Western embassies in it,
and they add that stopping bank transactions
 with Syria further exasperates the economic
 conditions and threatens the Syrian people's
 livelihood and dignity.

Please start a support group --- contact
your local
and national representatives
- os gwelwch yn dda!



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Labour was
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in Europe.


With the overwhelming majority joining to say
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NEC "FIXERS" DESPERATELY
KEPT THEIR CONTROL...

Labour grew hugely under Corbyn
— 292,000 members in August 2015,
515,000 in July 2016 !

So the old rightwingers still
gerrymandered the vote, to
keep
hold of the NEC and
hold on to 
the corrupt
power they love.



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That NEC twisting:


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‘How Can I Deselect
My Labour MP?’

A Short Guide
to Reselection and
Democratic Accountability

by Eric Sim

Unlike local councillors and those who sit on internal
 party committees, Labour MPs are not expected to
 renew their party mandate through regular candidate
 reselections. However, there is one means by which
 MPs are held democratically accountable to the
 party: the trigger mechanism.

The process.

Step 1: At some point in the run up to a general
election the national executive committee (NEC)
 sets a timetable for re-selections. The NEC also
 sets the guidelines for this process, within the
very broad parameters set out in the Labour
 rule book.

Step 2: If the sitting MP wishes to re-stand for
 election the ‘trigger ballot’ process begins.
This is organised by a nominated officer of the
 constituency Labour party (CLP), normally the
 secretary, and overseen by the regional office
 (appointed staff members).

Step 3: All the constituency’s branches and its
 affiliates (trade unions, socialist societies, co-
operative organisations) are entitled to vote
 ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to re-selecting the sitting MP.

    Branches will meet in person to vote.
    Affiliates will decide their own process
 for deciding this matter.

Step 4: Each branch and affiliate is counted equally,
irrespective of the number of members. If a majority
 of branches/affiliates vote ‘No’ then a full selection
 procedure takes place. The sitting MP has the right
 to appeal this decision to the NEC.

Step 5: In the event of a ‘No’ vote a selection
 procedure takes place. The sitting MP is
 eligible to stand in this selection and is
 guaranteed a space on the final shortlist.

The obstacles (and their solutions).

The process above is not simple, and any campaign
 to open a selection procedure in a constituency will
 face a series of obstacles.

Obstacle 1: The NEC has the right to set the
 guidelines for the trigger procedure. An NEC
 that is sympathetic to the need for greater
 accountability could set guidelines that
empower party members. An NEC which
is keen to minimise the risk of challenges
 to sitting MPs, could set guidelines that
make this difficult: for instance, a short
 timeframe close to the general election.

Solution: Be sure to elect to the NEC
supporters
of member-led party democracy.


Obstacle 2: Each constituency will have the trigger
 procedure managed by a CLP officer. Like the above
 point concerning the NEC, the person overseeing
this process will have some discretion over how
 it is done. If this person is not sympathetic to
 reselections, it will be possible for them
 to make it difficult to call one.

Solution: Make sure CLP committees and officers
 are supporters of member-led party democracy.

Obstacle 3a: Branches are weighted equally,
 regardless of membership, so it is possible
 for a majority of members to support reselection
 but for a majority of branches to vote against it
 (the opposite is, of course, also possible).

Solution: Work hard to build an active membership
 across all branches. This will support the goal of
reselection but more importantly will develop our
 party into an activist force that can transform
 society.

Obstacle 3b: Trade unions and other affiliates decide
 their own processes for the trigger ballot, and this
 might be decided nationally not locally.

Solution: Be active in your affiliate and trade
union branches and submit motions for greater
 accountability for Labour MPs to their national
 decision-making bodies (conference or
executive normally).

Obstacle 4: A deselected MP can appeal to the NEC.

Solution: Appeals to the NEC should only be on the
 grounds that proper procedures weren't carried out.
 It is important to elect NEC members who comply
with this ruling, and do not use this power to their
factional advantage.

Obstacle 5: The MP defects and stands against the
 official Labour candidate. Even where they have no
 hope of winning, this could split the Labour vote
 and allow another party to win the seat.

Solution: This might be the biggest obstacle. And the
 only solution, is for the local party to be mobilised in
 support of the party’s decisions. If a defecting MP
 takes a large chunk of the local activists with them
 then that will hit the party’s organising capacity in
 a big way. But if an atmosphere of inclusivity and
 democracy is developed in the party then this will
 not be possible. This requires years of hard work in
 branches and constituencies across the country.

Should you deselect?

It is worth thinking long and hard about whether you
 want the sitting MP to be deselected (of course, you
 might argue that as a democratic principle, there
 should be a selection ballot either way). In addition
 to consideration of the MP’s politics, their attitude
 towards party democracy and their demographic
identity (are they from an underrepresented
group?),
it is also worth considering the
following:


How popular is the MP?

If the MP has a big ‘personal vote’ in the electorate
 then deselection might have a big effect on Labour’s
 vote share and hand the seat to a rival party. It might
 also encourage the deselected MP to defect and
 stand against the party.

How long have they been there?

There is lots of data to suggest that first-term MPs
find it much easier to win re-election. Some suggest
 that this is because they are keen and work harder,
 but whatever it is, it’s an argument against
deselecting a recently-elected MP.

How safe is the seat?

Deselecting a Labour MP in a Labour safe seat will
 likely end in the subsequent Labour candidate being
 elected. Deselecting a Labour MP in a marginal seat
 will likely end in the seat going to a rival party. This
 is more likely if the sitting MP has a personal vote,
and more likely still if they then stand against the
 party.

Action plan.

If you decide to open a reselection procedure in your
 local party it is not enough to begin planning the
week before. It requires years of work.

You need to:

    Work to get pro-democracy candidates elected to
the NEC. See here for more information about
such candidates: http://grassrootslabour.net/

    Win the argument for democratic accountability
 and reselection, in trade unions and affiliates.
This means winning the argument in branches
across the country, now, so that they can be
fed up to the national level.

    Develop local parties in every branch and constituency
in the party that are a) committed to party member-led
democracy and accountability, and b) able to campaign
hard against not only other parties, but also against a
defecting MP, even if some members follow said MP.

Again, this is hard work that needs to start right now:
knocking on doors in our communities and winning
arguments in our CLPs.


Where is the Peace Movement?



Where is the Peace Movement?

In prior articles I have argued that Putin has little
 choice but to launch nuclear strikes ----- should a
war between Russia and NATO occur. That is so,
 precisely because Russia cannot win a protracted,
conventional war of attrition. The anaconda would
 simply keep squeezing and squeezing with all its
 combined military and economic muscle, in the
event of a WWII-style war.

The march toward a showdown between NATO and
 Russia -- due to conflicts in Syria and the Ukraine --
is therefore a march toward nuclear holocaust.

Atomic scientists have the Doomsday Clock
 set at 3 minutes until midnight. Where is the
 international peace movement?

We are on the verge of extinction, yet seem incapable
 of responding as an intelligent, organized collective,
 to stop this insanity.

 Are we thinking that our leaders, and I mean all of
 them, are going to have an epiphany and suddenly
 put on the brakes and reverse course?

That is a fantasy. The end of the Cold War was
 supposed to produce a peace dividend & end
 any chance of future hostilities between the
 combatants. That never materialized. In fact,
 we are in a far more dangerous situation now
 than at any time in the past.

But the mass media is not reporting the truth
of it now, and the population, east and west,
is
half asleep in blissful ignorance.


We are running out of time and the clock may
 strike midnight, and then we shall all wake up
 to witness our own demise. Yet too late, then,
 to demand peace... 

The War Masters see this as an elaborate chess
game
  ---------   but it is no game for the rest of us.


[precis taken from Will Hart's article]

- See the full article at:

http://www.pravdareport.com/opinion/columnists
 /
17-06-2016/134745-peace_movement-0/



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When aggressors illegally invaded last time,
the League of Nations refused to act with
honour - leading us straight to World War 2.

I bet if we had been alive then, we'd have
done SOMETHING, even if it was simply
to write urgently to the League of Nations.

Please read the article below -- and then
contact the UN Secretary General to
demand a more principled stand....


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Yemen Echoes of 1930s Aggression
 and Descent into Barbarism

by Finian CUNNINGHAM
 

Both the Arab League and the United Nations
 have fully transformed themselves into the
ill-fated League of Nations that more than 70
 years ago disgraced itself into oblivion when
 it failed to condemn foreign aggressions that
eventually led to the cataclysm of World War 2.

As delegates gathered in Egypt’s resort city
of
Sharm el-Sheikh for the Arab League last
week-
end, nearly half of its member states
were at
the same time openly engaged in
an aerial blitz
on one of the League’s
weakest countries –
Yemen.


Far from issuing any misgiving, or appeal for
 restraint, the League fully endorsed the on-
slaught on Yemen and even went on to call
 for a new "unified military force" to repeat
the action in other countries where a
 "security risk" is deemed. This is a cart
blanche for further foreign military inter-
ventions bypassing the United Nations
 Security Council. In other words, it is
open
season for lawless aggression.


With a population of only 24 million, and half
 of them living in poverty, Yemen is one of the
poorest countries in the Arab region. It is also
 a founding member of the Arab League, which
 was formed in 1945 at the end of World War 2.

Since last week, scores of Yemeni civilians,
including children, have been killed in a
 massive bombing campaign led by Saudi
Arabia & co-ordinated by the United States.

The bombing coalition of 10 countries includes
 Egypt, North Sudan, Morocco and the Persian
 Gulf Arab states of Qatar, the United Arab
Emirates,
Kuwait and Bahrain.

Over 200 fighter jets
from those countries
have been reported
carrying out air strikes
on the Yemeni capital,
Sanaa, as well as on
the southern port city
of Aden and its
surrounding countryside.


Saudi Arabia and other Sunni Arab countries
 claim that the Houthi-led uprising in Yemen
is being orchestrated by Iran. But the claims
 are far from substantiated and most likely
trumped-up self-serving reasons -- providing
 justification for what is otherwise simply
 criminal aggression toward Yemen.

The Washington Post reported: "The Saudis
 and their allies think [sic] that the Shiite
rebels are backed by Iran and that Tehran
 is trying to exert control over a country
 [regime] that has been an an ally of Riyadh
 and Washington."

 The latter factual detail about the erstwhile
Yemeni regime being an ally of Riyadh and
 Washington, is the real key to the latest
Saudi-led offensive, not the speculative
 hearsay about Iran.

So, Yemen is being bombed and civilians are
 being massacred merely because the Saudis
 and their allies "think" that Iran is somehow
 involved. No proof, no legal case, just bombs
 away.

The Houthis are a Shia sect and reportedly
keep friendly political, diplomatic relations
 with Shia Iran. But both categorically deny
any military involvement.


 Rather, the Houthis, (Ansarullah), appear to
be the vanguard of popular rebellion against
the ousted Yemeni regime, long-supported
by
Saudi Arabia and the US.


Last week, the deposed president Abdel
Rabbo Mansour Hadi fled the country to
 take refuge in Saudi Arabia.

Even if Iran was supporting the Houthis, it
 still does not legitimise an all-out bombing
 of Yemen -- led by a consortium of Arab
 monarchies armed and guided by the US.

In Sanaa over the past week family homes,
shops and offices have been demolished
 during hundreds of sorties by warplanes as
 the Saudi-led coalition pounded the city on
 nightly raids. Yemen’s international airport
was so badly hit it is no longer functioning,
thus cutting off the country.

 A naval blockade by Saudi, Egyptian and
 US warships has also severed Yemen’s
access to the Red Sea to its west.

While in on the southern coast, in Aden,
 bodies of civilians were reportedly strewn
 on streets as hospitals filled up with the
wounded, and as US warships patrolled
 the Gulf of Aden.

Against this background of slaughter, the
 Arab League endorsed the Saudi-led military
attacks. Saudi King Salman told the summit
 that the bombing campaign would continue
until Houthi rebels are defeated.

 Meaning there is no end in sight to the
onslaught. Indeed, it is now anticipated
that the extensive aerial bombardment
and naval siege is paving the way for a
 massive ground invasion of 150,000
Saudi troops that were mobilised last
week along the north Yemeni border.

Attending the Arab League convocation,
 & royally received, was the discredited
president of Yemen, Mansour Hadi.

He called on the Saudi military coalition to
 not relent in its strikes against his own
country until the Houthi 'Iranian stooges'
are crushed. The irony is, that Mansour
 Hadi is widely excoriated within Yemen,
 and not just by the Houthis, as a stooge
 of Saudi Arabia and Washington.

His steadfast refusal to deliver on popular
demands for a democratic transition in
Yemen over the past three years, led to
the Houthis seizing the capital and
government institutions, as 2014 ended.

The latest Saudi-led military intervention
in Yemen - overseen by Washington - has
 been condemned by Iran, Russia & China.

But the United Nations has shown lamentable
 passivity in the face of this foreign aggression
 on Yemen. Speaking at the Arab League
summit, UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon
 failed to make any condemnation of the
 aerial bombardment of that country.

"It is my fervent hope that at this Arab League
 summit leaders will lay down clear guidelines
 to peacefully resolve the crisis in Yemen," said
 Ban Ki-Moon, with a complacency bordering
 on cynicism.

 He urged Arab members to engage in peace
talks supposedly brokered by his special
 envoy, Jamal Benomar. This was said as
 Saudi Arabia and others were openly
 vowing to continue their blitzkrieg.

The naked aggression on Yemen, with the
complicity of the US & European capitals,
 is perhaps the nadir for the Arab League
 and the United Nations.

 The descent of these organisations into
 disgraceful irrelevance has been decades
 in the making. Their despicable transform-
ation into tools of aggression, is now clear
 in the eyes of the world.

The UN and Arab League have remained
silent while the US & its allies launched
 war after war on countries over the past
2 decades, most notably on Iraq during
 the 1990s and 2000s, which resulted in
 over one million dead, mainly civilians.

Worse, the UN and the Arab League stand
accused of complicity by giving Washington
 a de facto green light - & on some occasions
 logistical support - to wage its wars across
 the Middle East.

In 2011, the Arab League expelled Libya &
 Syria, even though these countries were
 being subjected to US-NATO aggression,
along with the collusion of Saudi Arabia
 and other Gulf Arab states, including
Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

 Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was
 murdered by NATO-aided and Gulf-financed
 extremists in 2011, denounced the Arab
 League, before his death, as "finished".

Syria, like Yemen, was a founding member
 of the Arab League, yet the government of
President Bashar al Assad remains to this
 day, suspended from the 22-member
organisation.

The Syrian government’s seat has been given
 over to the Western-backed Syrian National
Council, which is comprised of non-entity
exiles who have no popular mandate in Syria.

The League is thus nothing more than a self-
serving talking shop, dominated by Saudi
 Arabia and the other oil-rich Gulf Arab
kingdoms. As client regimes of Washington,
that, in turn, makes the League a tool of
the
US: to give a thin cover for its imperial

predations in the Middle East & N. Africa.

Ironically, one of the founding principles
 of the Arab League is to protect the
 'sovereignty and independence' of its
 members.

Ominously, the lawlessness and outright
aggression that has gripped international
affairs – with the latest manifestation in
 the collective bombing of Yemen – is
 reminiscent of the 1930s.

That perilous period saw a series of inter-
national aggressions carried out by fascist
 powers with impunity. The League of
Nations – a forerunner of the UN –
facilitated these aggressions through
 its shameful silence and connivance.

 When Japan annexed large swathes of
China’s Manchuria in 1931, the League
of Nations, including the US, Britain
and France, largely turned a blind eye.

 As they did when fascist Italy bombed its
 way into Abyssinia (Ethiopia) in 1935-36,
Franco’s Spain subjugated Catalonia in
1938, and Hitler’s Nazi Germany annexed
Austria & Czech Sudetenland, also in 1938.

The complete breakdown in any semblance
 of international law during the 1930s & the
 rise of state-sponsored gangsterism paved
the way for the Second World War.

A similar process of degeneration is also
well underway in the present day, led
largely by the US and its coterie of allies
 among the NATO alliance -- plus oil-rich
Arab dictatorships.

 Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine and
 Yemen are but some of the evil fruit from the
 poison that is coursing through international
relations. And yet, ludicrously, Washington
 accuses Putin and Moscow of behaving like
 Hitler with a malign 20th Century atavism.

That a defenceless, impoverished country
such as Yemen can be openly bombed by
 hundreds of US-supplied F-15 fighter jets –
 & for that criminality to be widely endorsed
is a sure sign that the world is once again

 sliding into the abyss of rampant criminality
 and the possibility of a more catastrophic
 all-out war.



fracking tory councillors


Doyle Vic
25 January at 21:51

The worst form of fracking, which was
previously licensed for exploration in
 South East Wales, has been banned.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/
dec/08/underground-coal-gasification-uk-gas-coal


Underground coal gasification will not go ahead in UK


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May's Bribe For Frack Site Locals
by Peter Lazenby

The PM’s fracking free-for-all slush fund
 ‘will set neighbours against each other’
in a nightmare dash for gas.

Theresa May stands accused of offering “blatant
 bribes” to householders to accept fracking near
 their homes, using millions of pounds of public
 money.

The PM proposes offering “incentives” of £10,000
to £20,000 from the public purse to locals to allow
 shale gas fracking operations to be carried out by
 profiteering companies.

Ex-chancellor George Osborne had previously
 suggested handing 10% of taxes from fracking
 companies to communities blighted by fracking.

Ms May has gone further, by suggesting
that the bribes be offered to individuals.

But Greenpeace chief scientist Doug Parr warns
 that “public opposition has soared and support
 for shale has tanked,” and “people’s concerns
over climate change & their local environment
 cannot be silenced with a wad of cash.”

The proposals have also been condemned
 by Labour and the Green Party.

Anti-fracking campaigners in North Yorkshire
-
where one small area alone, Ryedale, is now

 threatened by 4,000 fracking wells - urges all
 communities to stay solid in their opposition
 to fracking.

The practice is banned in
Scotland,
France and Germany.


Frack Free Ryedale activist Sue Gough,
who
lives near a proposed fracking site:


“This is a cynical attempt by the Tories,
to bribe
local people to accept fracking
by offering them
hard cash.


“People need to know that by accepting this
money they are selling their communities
 down the river and condemning them to
 industrialisation and ruination by the
frackers, who have no respect for
our environment, our livelihoods
or health.”

The site will be operated by the
company 'Third Energy'.

“If Third Energy is allowed to frack in Ryedale
it will open up the floodgates to all the other
 companies who are waiting in the wings to
move into North Yorkshire and will bring
about the widespread industrialisation
of the county — we need to continue
to oppose the industry and persuade
 people to see through this blatant
bribe,” she said.

Shadow energy and climate change secretary
 Barry Gardiner said: “An incentive to do the
wrong thing is properly called a bribe and
Theresa May is using this bribe to set
neighbour against neighbour.

“It is not right for communities and it is
 not right for the country.”

Green Party MEP Molly Scott Cato said:
 “By calling the EU referendum, Cameron
 showed the Tories’ talent for dividing
 communities. Prime Minister Theresa
May is now taking this forward -- by
offering individual payments, little
more than bribes, to households
in areas affected by fracking.”

Fracking works by pumping a toxic sludge
 into the ground under high pressure to
 smash layers of shale and release
 trapped gas.

Opponents say it threatens water supplies,
 health and the environment, at a time when
 the government should be lining up behind
 Britain’s fledgling renewables industry.


Doyle Vic in Wales writes:

Apply pressure --- maintain pressure
 we have a Welsh moratorium, for now.

The 10k deal is also designed to be the
 end of the NHS, as they will never treat
 the radiation & water toxicity victims
 fairly: this fracking is long term war
on humanity.


Petition

implement a Law that would ban all
 hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for
20 years

fracking is still in the early stages of development
 compared with other mining methods, but seems
to already be implicated in various environmental
 problems... a Law that would ban all hydraulic
 fracturing for a minimum of 20 years will give
 time to show the long term implications
for the environment

Go here to sign this Petition:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/156191


‘Declaration of war’: North Yorkshire
 fracking approval sparks outrage

Anti-fracking campaigners are lambasting
North Yorkshire council for unleashing an
assault on citizens’ rights to fresh air and
clean water, after the local authority
approved the UK’s first fracking
operation since 2011.

 Doyle Vic posted in Llanwynno and Rhondda
 Cynon Taff oppose inland gas and oil drilling..
 
https://www.facebook.com/vic.doyle.9       
   
Doyle Vic
4 July at 20:18
 
"While still concerned about the development of
 fracking in Northallerton, Yorkshire, I am proud
to
announce that on top of the "moratorium"
in Wales,
(which excludes test drilling) today
3 site licenses
have been withdrawn":


Good News for Wrexham, Vale of Glamorgan
 and Rhondda Cynon Taf

The latest review of Petroleum Exploration and
 Development Licences (PEDLs) by the Oil ajnd
Gas
Authority has resulted in 3 licence areas in

 Wales being withdrawn; a further 5 have been
 given extended terms.

The withdrawn licences are:

PEDL 187 (IGas) – covering the site
 at Borras and Holt near Wrexham

PEDL 219 (Coastal Oil & Gas) – covering
the sites at Dyffryn and Llantrithyd in
 the Vale of Glamorgan

PEDL 220 (Coastal Oil and Gas) – covering
the site at Llantrisant in Rhondda Cynon Taf

Donal Whelan



repent


ACTION ON ‘Yemen war crimes’:

BAE evicts shareholders
from AGM
over human rights criticisms


BAE Systems evicts a number of shareholders
 from its AGM on Wednesday who criticised the
 firm’s sale of deadly arms to Saudi Arabia that
 may have been used to commit war crimes
against innocent Yemeni civilians.

Two shareholders-come-activists, who
 are affiliated with Campaign Against the
Arms
Trade, staged an intervention just

after the arms giant’s chair, Roger Carr,
took
to the stage.


Just 5 minutes into his address, they stealthily
 walked to the front -- carrying placards -- and
 denounced BAE’s complicity in Saudi Arabia’s
brutal military campaign against Yemen.

The posters, visible for all present to see, had
the caption: “900 children killed in Yemen.
Stop arming Saudi Arabia!”

 'Blood money'

Hannah Brock, 30, dragged out of the AGM
by security staff soon after the political act
 of protest, told RT the actions of herself &
 her fellow campaigner, were justified:

“BAE Systems is one of the biggest arms
dealers in the world. The firm doesn’t just
 profit from war, it incentivizes it,” she said.

“The only time that BAE are legally obliged
to face public scrutiny is at their AGM. It is
 our only chance to question the firm.”

Brock, who is a Right to Refuse to Kill
 program officer at global antimilitarist
network, War Resisters’ International,
went on to explain she felt compelled
to draw attention to BAE’s complicity
 in grave violations of international law.

“It’s particularly vital BAE is challenged on
 Saudi Arabia’s horrendous human rights
abuses --- as it continues to bombard
 Yemen, causing an enormous death
toll,” she said.

The peace activist accuses the UK’s
conservative government of protecting
 & supporting the arms giant. She calls
 on MPs to place an “outright embargo”
on UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia and
 to begin an inquiry into the UK’s role in
 facilitating possible Saudi war crimes
against Yemeni civilians.

BAE’s AGM kicked off at 1100 BST at a
 conference centre in Farnborough, Hants.

Roughly 30 activists linked to CAAT bought
 shares in BAE to gain access to the annual affair.

 They reportedly brought in a range of banners
 with quotes from people who'd experienced
 airstrikes in Yemen, which they displayed to
other shareholders.

As the day progressed, more activists
were reportedly removed from the venue.

'Serious breaches of international law'

The UK cross-party international development
 committee says on Wednesday that it seeks
an independent international
inquiry into the
serious human rights breaches
committed
by 'all sides' in the Yemen conflict
.


BAE's stake in Saudi arms market

Saudi Arabia is BAE's third biggest market,
 according to CAAT. Large-scale arms sales
go back decades & include BAE’s Tornado
 & Typhoon combat planes now being used
in Yemen.


BAE employees 5,300 staff in Saudi Arabia,
to support the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF)
 and the Royal Saudi Naval Force (RSNF).

A spokesperson for the arms giant initially
 declined to confirm or deny the activist
incident had even occurred.

A second spokesperson for the firm later said:
“There were a number of protesters removed
 from the meeting today. The AGM is the one
 time in the year that shareholders have the
 opportunity to hear from the board and ask
 questions about the business and we
welcome all those who want to do
 that in a way that is courteous to
 other shareholders.”

BAE Systems CEO, Ian King, stated at
the meeting, “In 2016 and beyond, we
are well placed to continue to generate
 attractive returns for shareholders.”


_________________________________

The red flag



Mick Antoniw AM underlines the
Welsh Government's strong position;

“The Welsh Assembly is overwhelmingly opposed to
 the Trade Union Bill as an uneasy and vindictive law
that will undermine decades of partnership building
 between employers and trade unions in wales.”

“It is also a direct attack on the devolution
 settlement. The Welsh Government will over-
turn any attempt to apply this ridiculous law
 to Wales”


___________________________________


If we fight together - we win together!

"I’ve been a member of Unite Community for
the
last 2 and a half years. In that time we
have had,
in conjunction with Unite, & the
unhesitating
support of other unions, like
PCS, who're huge
Community supporters 
  of organisations like the
Cardiff People’s
Assembly ------ with many successes in
campaigning against social injustice."


"We’ve had councils in South East Wales sign
 Unite’s pledge not to make use of Workfare
labour, a massive achievement! And one
readily agreed to by the councils, with one
exception, who shall remain nameless, but
 they know who they are… and we’re not
done with that particular meal yet."

"On a national scale, Victorian work practices
 Sports Direct staff have to endure, have been
laid
out by Unite Community, for all the world
to see.
It’s also shown the work force that we
care deeply
about what they have to do to
earn a living, and
we are not about to see
their dignity or right’s
stripped away.


It also sent a message in the clearest terms to
 the millionaire owner Mike Ashley. Last month
share prices for the company dropped by over
50%, following an extraordinary meeting of
share holders, who say they knew little about
 their draconian treatment of manufacturing
 and retail staff.

Ashley has been urged to make the company
private again: we’ll be watching to see what
he
does and the way the workforce is treated

 - whatever the outcome now - as a lot of the
factory staff joined Unite the Union. Score!"


"The sanctioning of social security claiments
because they don’t meet
ever changing
criteria, is of great concern to us.


 That’s an understatement; we’re outraged
 by the sanctioning of claimants under any
circumstances. It’s immoral, wicked, evil,
unprincipled, unscrupulous dishonorable,
 dishonest, unconscionable, iniquitous,
 corrupt, depraved, vile, villainous, foul,
 and just plain wrong!

 We want action to stop this, like, yesterday."

"To starve families already facing hardship is
criminal. Our Unite Community members find
themselves at the sharp end of the austerity
 measures, along with the workers trapped in
zero hour contracts and minimum wage jobs.

What a legacy this government will leave.
Ricketts - there’s one to be especially proud of.
Dysentery is another. Scurvy another. Deaths
 caused by terminal despair at being cornered
 marginalised and cut out of society, pushed
 to the edge to spectate and not participate."

"They've left no working class stone unturned.
They were cavalier with the economy first ---
what
are hundreds of thousand of jobs
between
banker friends or billion upon
billions, between
us the tax payers and
the bankers? Need to save
your business?
Shed your work staff, they are
expendable.
Be lean and mean, cut corners,
rob their
pension funds. Keep wages so low,
people
can’t keep up their mortgage
repayments.


 Then it was our council & housing association
 homes, with the bedroom tax, driving many to
a private renters market. How many Tory MP’s
 are private sector landlords? 128! That’s 39%
of Conservative MP’s currently in the commons
and includes George Osborne, & the PM David
 Cameron, who in 2009, wasn’t sure how many
houses he owned. What a wanker!

The NHS is being made to look bad, starved of
cash and managed so badly, it can’t help but
fail, ready to be scooped up at a snip by the
 Conservative party’s rich friends, or any
 company with strings of law suits out-
standing in other countries.

It will be like Royal Mail all over again…
unless we stand up and say no. There are
 other horror’s awaiting us, Universal Credit
 being another fubar in the making. Now
they
are coming for the unions, again.

The Trade Union Bill is a cancer that
needs
zapping with extreme prejudice."


"These are just some of the reasons I joined
a union. Strength in numbers. For too long we
 have been divided, weakened & manipulated
 by the opinions printed in right wing rags I
wouldn’t wipe my cat’s arse with, let alone
 mine, and a biased tv corporation WE own."

"Luckily we live in Wales and have devolution,
so up yours Dave, you can take the trade union
 bill and, um, yeah."


Sue Leader





Anti-fascist Conference in Novorossya



4th International Anti-Fascist
 Conference In Novorossia !

All progressive forces who fight against fascism,
 Nazism, capitalism and imperialism, to take part
in the 4th International Anti-Fascist Conference
 in Novorossiya.

In recent years the world has witnessed once again
 the rise of fascism and fascist groups all over the
world. Western states’ military attack on Libya, the
arming of the pseudo-Islamic clerical fascist rebels
 in Syria, and the fascist takeover in Ukraine, were
 a series of events, which unleashed fascism all
over the world.

NATO and EU imperialists use these fascist
 movements to impose their neo-liberal agenda
over the peoples of sovereign nations. Growing
 economic pressure within the European Union is
able to lead to the same events that happened
 already in Ukraine, Syria and Libya.

The attacks on these states were only the
beginning. The greater goal, is to destroy
 and split up all remaining countries, which
 are not yet completely bowing to the neo-
liberal agenda --- like Russia, Iran, North
Korea and China.

The parallels between historical & contemporary
 fascism are undeniable. While the German Nazis
 disbanded trade unions on the 2nd of May 1933,
Ukrainian nationalists burned the Trade Unions
 House of Odessa 81 years later on the same date,
 killing dozens of people in the flames.

However, there's been growing resistance
 against this global spread of fascism. The
people of Eastern Ukraine, in the Donbass
region took up arms to fight fascism in
Ukraine. They founded the People’s

Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, and
 are able to defend them;- while in Syria,
 the Syrian Arab Army was able to inflict
 heavy casualties on the fascist groups
 trying to destroy the Syrian state.

But the global struggle against fascism &
imperialism, does not end in these
states,
as fascism will also not stop there.


 We have to organize and coordinate the
 international antifascist movement, in
order to protect the world against
 these threats.

That is why we appeal to all progressive
 forces who fight against fascism, Nazism,
 capitalism & imperialism, to take part in the
4th International Anti-Fascist Conference,
 in Novorossiya.

**** The schedule for date, times & location
will be announced on their web site ~ 

Please visit the site for updates and all other
 information as well as photos of past events .

WEB SITE:

http://antifascist-conference.
antiimp.org/index.php?module=main



Occupy London's Arms Fair



 ‘Stop arming Israel!’ Campaign
--- ahead of London arms fair


Anti-arms campaigners are set to once
again
disrupt one of the world’s largest
arms fairs and
highlight the UK’s role
in arming repressive
regimes around
the globe.


One of the largest arms fairs in the world,
it's expected to
attract over 1,000 global
arms firms and
30,000 attendees.


Campaigners say the DSEI arms fair provides a
 platform for Israeli & international arms firms,
 to profit from oppression and destruction.

Sarah Waldron of Campaign Against Arms Trade
 (CAAT), condemns the UK government’s sale
of arms to Israel.


“In one week one of the world’s biggest arms
 fairs will be taking place just across the road
and the UK government has consistently
 facilitated weapon sales to the Israeli
government, who will have a massive
pavilion
at this fair --- where their
biggest arms
companies will be
displaying their battle-
tested
weapons,” she says to RT.


“The UK government has a very confused attitude
 to democracy and human rights. On the one hand,
 it talks of wanting to promote democracy in the
 Middle East and, on the other, it’s inviting the
 companies - and the governments - which are
 causing violence & conflict in these regions.”

Simon Morris of Occupy Democracy:

“The occupy method is to take a space & hold it.
We hold it to either facilitate discussions or have
 a meeting point where people can come down &
 talk about the issues,” he says.

“Part of our list of demands, part of what we wish
 to change in the world, is a shift away from the
 huge amount of military spending and war, that
 causes misery and mayhem around the world,”
 he added...

“If our country had a more democratic system,
 like direct democracy, we would see a lot less
 conflict, a lot less spending on military hard-
ware, and a lot more peace in the world.”

Hilary, a Pro-Palestine campaigner who has
 spent time in the Occupied Territories, says
 she is angry with the UK government:

“We don’t want Israeli arms companies here.
 We don’t want Britain to be selling arms to
Israel, or components for weapons, and we
don’t want to be buying arms and drones --
 to fuel more conflicts in countries around
the
world,” she says.


Stop the Arms Fair is set to feature a mixture
of creative activities and
direct action all
week ----- to raise awareness about
the
destructive impact of the global arms trade.


Activists will argue that the UK must redirect
 spending from arms to renewables, and from
 warfare, to welfare.

 They will also highlight the link between the
 global arms trade and the global refugee
 crisis, and host a 'mass day of action', of
opposition to the DSEI fair.





Freedom for Germany!

COMPACT has the “Courage to Truth” to state loud
 and clear: Germany is still an occupied country. We
 are a military protectorate and an economic colony
 of the United States. TTIP is the Versailles treaty of
 the 21st century. The new NS-dictatorship is NSA's
 dictatorship. Our mission: Freedom for Germany!

Edward Snowden proved with documents
what many have previously only suspected:
The US has built on every continent a colonial
dictatorship. We're being spied on, overheard,
 monitored. The Empire's censors dominate our
media. Google, Facebook and Apple control our
 secret thoughts. Virtual footprints that we leave
 behind are like traces of blood, which the NAS
 sleuths eagerly snoop after.

This campaign of Anglo-Saxon predator capitalists
 started a hundred years ago. With the founding of
 the Federal Reserve, by the most powerful private
 financial sharks, a paper money juggernaut arose
 that survives solely through constant destruction
of material resources. Any country that refuses to
 hand over these goods voluntarily is covered with
 war.

Germany is an irreplaceable cornerstone in
this
strategy. From Ramstein air base, heavy US

military equipment is sent off to supply the new
 eastern front & from Stuttgart, the killer drones'
 targets are programmed.

But the elite of “God's Own Country”, who want to
 rule the entire planet, also understand very clearly:
 We are the people of “Putin-understanders”. Even
 German business people, do not believe in the
 demonization of the Kremlin chief. If we get rid of
 the US occupation, Uncle Sam can 'close shop'.
 That is why they deny us our sovereignty,
democracy and constitution.

Shall we tolerate this any longer? COMPACT says
 no to the dictatorship by NSA, CIA and US-Army &
presented at the 4th Conference for Sovereignty

 strategies for peace and freedom in Germany,
 and all of Europe!

Translation by Jurij Kofner,
COMPACT correspondent.



Oleksiy Zhuravko is a former Ukraine MP.
He was ombudsman for the disabled in
 Ukraine, and started several foundations
 employing over 3,500 disabled people
all across Ukraine.

He was kicked out of Ukraine last year
 for his politics - he did not agree with
 the Maidan overthrow.

Albeit a disabled man with no legs & only
one arm, he is charged with terrorism in
Ukraine --- for speaking out against the
Ukrainian government killing & maiming
 its own citizens - and making countless
 more, disabled.


Good and horrible pictures.

First we see a young mother playing with her
baby daughter, and then we see the mother
 and the daughter walking together towards
 the sun – a metaphor for moving together
 towards a bright future.





The last photo is beyond horrible: war has taken

 the lives of both the mother and her young child.




It's 8,494 km from Donetsk to Washington, DC.

 The distance between Lugansk & Brussels, is
 2,880 km. The distance between Gorlovka &
 Berlin, is 2,059 km. It is easy to live in those
 wonderful cities so far from this war, and talk
 about how horrible the Donbass people are,
 without seeing the horror Kiev's government
 (with the support of the above capitals)
 inflicts on women & children on a daily basis.

Dear friends, I, a citizen of Ukraine, do not want
 to see horrible pictures like these ones. I do not
 want to hear the word “war”. I don’t want to see
 blood: & my biggest dream today, is for this war
 to end, as soon as possible.

I want see love and happiness. I want to hear
 children laughing. I want to see young mothers
 playing with their kids in parks - smiling parents
 and happy children. That's what I wish all of you.

I know that the vast majority of Ukrainians don’t
want this war – we are a peaceful people. People
 with a long history of creating things, and not
 destroying them. So why do we let our government
 send young Ukrainian men to kill other Ukrainians
 in this civil war?

I know that people of the world, of the US & Europe
 are peaceful people, who hate war. However, I also
 know that most in the West are misled about this
 war & don’t see the pictures of innocents suffering
 at the hands of the Ukrainian army. A Ukrainian
 army and government that have unconditional
 support from the West.

Dear friends! War is a very profitable business. Vast
 riches can be made on human suffering (President
 Poroshenko, for example, made 7 times more money
 last year, than he had made the previous year). We
 can't wait until the people profiting from the deaths
 of Ukrainians get tired of this war --- they won’t.

  They will never stop this war until people speak up
 - both Ukrainians at home, and people in the West -
 against their governments’ support of Kiev’s war.

When thousands of people have already died,
staying quiet & doing nothing is unacceptable.

Ukrainians! People of the world! We want peace! But
 only together can we stop this war!  Stop being quiet
 while thousands perish, and hundreds of thousands
 suffer! Stop quietly waiting for all of this to stop by
 itself. Speak up! Write to your politicians! Come out
 to protest! Demand an end to this war! 

Only together can we make sure that a road to the
 future for other mothers and kids, is not tragically
 cut short --- like it was in these pictures!


_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________



Another Heart-breaking Catalog of Kiev
War Crimes WESTERN Media Will Ignore

These War Crimes will be reported in the
Chinese, Latin American, Asian, African,
 and, of course, Russian Media !


Russia's government publishes their second
 white book: an account of the continuing &
unabated warcrimes being committed by the
 Ukraine army and by neo-nazi paramilitaries.

The first one -- published 10 months ago --
 was roundly ignored by the west's media.
 Eventually they are going to have to
 address these charges.

The Russians insist that they will not
let the matter drop, and will relent only
 when the guilty are brought to justice.
 
The media's ignoring of war crimes
 is a crime in itself.

The article below appeared
originally in
Russia Today



Russia’s Major Crimes agency presents a
major report on war crimes committed by
Kiev military and volunteers in the south-
eastern regions of Ukraine that seek self-
determination, after the 2014 Kiev coup.
 
The head of the Investigation Committee,
Aleksandr Bastrykin, says in the Monday
press release, that the main objective of
the project is to attract the attention of
 the world community and international
Human Rights Groups, and tell the truth
about a “terrible fratricidal war, started
 by the nationalist regime of Ukraine.”

He adds that the Investigative Committee
 is looking into 54 criminal cases connected
 with the civil war in Ukraine --- and that the
combined material fills 2,500 volumes, and
includes the testimonies of over 100,000
 witnesses.

The White Book of Crimes is based on evidence
 collected in cases where Ukrainian authorities,
 and volunteers, are suspected of using banned
 methods of warfare. The evidence includes the
 testimony of eyewitnesses and participants at
 these events, and photos and various material
 presented by international organizations.

The document also states that the agency
continues to investigate suspected crimes
 committed on Ukrainian territory, and that
 a special department has been created
for it within the Investigative Committee.

Bastrykin writes that the ultimate goal
of the project is to ensure that all those
 involved in crimes, are justly punished.

In December 2014, the Russian Foreign
Minister's plenipotentiary for Human
Rights, Konstantin Dolgov, said that
 international organizations have
 confirmed the human rights violations
by Kiev's troops in eastern Ukraine,
that are detailed in the White Book.

Dolgov also noted then, that Russia
expects
rights activists to pressure
the West
and the Kiev authorities --
to prevent
further crimes.






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t: 01239 85 11 88 e: heddwch@cndcymru.org 

 



Dear Friends,

please let me know if there are any events
 - for the next 4 or 5 months or further ahead -
you would like to see publicised in 'heddwch'.

 They can be peace, social justice / human
 rights, anti-nuclear or anti-austerity events
 (talks / protests / marches)
- if you are unsure, send it anyway.

Just to encourage you:

I need:

Date & Time
Venue
Short description or not -
any particular details or requests.

Contact details: email and /or phone / mobile no.
 and if applicable - website.

If you are uncertain if I may already know,
 err on the side of doubt and re-send it me
anyway! As an aside, John M., I do have
the Newport Chris Barber gig already!

Many thanks,
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Jill

Jill Gough
Ysgrifennyddes Genedlaethol
National Secretary
CND Cymru
heddwch@cndcymru.org
www.cndcymru.org
www.facebook.com/cndcymru



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23 June at 07:30

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Stop Hinkley Newsletter.

Download printable version here:

http://stophinkley.org/Newsletter/N-LJune2015.pdf



photos of cestyll gardens on the  proposed new wylfa site.



Jill Gough shared Jane Davies's post.

The building of 2 new reactors at Wylfa
on Ynys Mon
(Anglesey) would destroy
most of this beauty (and
maybe
irradiate the rest).


Our values - to 'need' more electricity
to create
more junk and stuff for the
population who are
'told' it is what
they must have & what they
'need'
- are up the spout.


This is a photo of cestyll gardens
on the
proposed new wylfa site.

It was started in
the 1920's by violet
vivian; & princess
victoria, daughter
of edward vii, designed
part of the
garden. Violet & her uncle's
ashes
are scattered in the gardens.


 See welsh historic garden trusts bulletin 66
 about it and read horizons glossy brochures,
 because they do tell you the whole scale of
what they are going to do.

Footpaths gone, roads gone, wildlife - like
 chough, red squirrels - gone, terns... gone.






TheyWorkForYou

www.theyworkforyou.com

TheyWorkForYou is a website
which makes it easy to keep track
of your local MP's activities.


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Bilingual Leaflets for Street Leafletting.


Available from CND Cymru:

Contact jon@thefreeflyer.com



GET INVOLVED --- ACT NOW

Keep arms companies out of the BBC

The Chair of BAE Systems, Roger Carr, has just
been appointed as Vice-Chair of the BBC Trust.
It's a position that comes with a lot of prestige,
and puts him at the heart of the organisation.

Please add your name and demand that
Roger Carr step down as Vice Chair of the BBC.

The BBC is supposed to be run in the public
interest. Arms companies don't care about
 culture or broadcasting, they just care about
gaining legitimacy as they line their pockets.

BAE Systems is Europe's biggest arms company
 and has armed dictatorships and human rights
 abusers across the world, including Saudi Arabia,
 Bahrain and Israel. Its chair should not be paid
 £70,610 a year to 'represent license fee payers
 views'.

The BBC needs to cut its ties with Carr and the
 arms trade.

GET INVOLVED --- ACT NOW

www.caat.org.uk/get-involved/
act-now/petition/bbc




Wales is Fracking Free !

NHS not TRIDENT vigil in Newport, Wales



Jill Gough posted in South Wales Anti-Nuclear Alliance
8 January 04:13

Welsh Reviews Policy on Radioactive Waste -
Say NO to Geological Disposal and New Build!


For the Attention of:
RADIOACTIVITY AND POLLUTION PREVENTION
WELSH GOVERNMENT This is a Response to ...


mariannewildart.wordpress.com


__________________________________



Jill Gough posted in South Wales Anti-Nuclear Alliance
18 December 04:47

PLANS to begin reprocessing nuclear waste at
 Hinkley point, just 14 miles across the sea from
 Barry Island, pose "a direct threat" of increasing
 levels of radioactivity in Barry a marine consultant
 has warned.

When plans were approved for Britain's first new
 nuclear reactor in 18 years to be built at Hinkley
 Point, Somerset - which can be seen from Barry
 Island on a clear day - environmental groups
reacted with concern. However, expert Tim
 Deere-Jones says that equally concerning are
plans to reprocess nuclear waste from Hinkley's
 decommissioned reactors. The liquid waste
 would be discharged into the Bristol Channel
 delivering what Mr Deere-Jones calls "significant
 quantities of radioactivity" to Barry & south Wales.

Barry and District News 18th Dec 2014

http://www.barryanddistrictnews.co.uk/news/11675320._/



Nuclear reprocessor would be a "direct threat" to Barry

PLANS to begin reprocessing nuclear waste at Hinkley
point,
just 14 miles across the sea from Barry ...


www.barryanddistrictnews.co.uk




Jill Gough
Ysgrifennyddes Genedlaethol
National Secretary
CND Cymru
heddwch@cndcymru.org
www.cndcymru.org
www.facebook.com/cndcymru





 

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World War II: The unknown war
 
By Paul Craig Roberts


In my column, “The Lies Grow More Audacious,”
 I mentioned that Obama and the British prime
 minister, who Obama has as a lap dog, just as
 George Bush had Tony Blair as lap dog, had
managed to celebrate the defeat of Nazi
Germany at the 70th anniversary of the
Normandy invasion without mentioning
 the Russians.

I pointed out the fact, well known to historians
 and educated people, that the Red Army
defeated Nazi Germany long before the US
was able to get geared up to participate
in the war.

The Normandy invasion most certainly
 did not defeat Nazi Germany. What the
Normandy invasion did was to prevent
the Red Army from overrunning all Europe.

As I have reported in a number of columns,
many, if not most, Americans have beliefs
 that are not fact-based, but instead are
emotion-based. So I knew that at least one
person would go berserk, and he did.

 JD from Texas wrote to set me straight.
 No one but “our American boys” won
 that war. JD didn’t know that the
Russians were even in the war.
JD had the option of consulting an
encyclopedia or a history book or
 going online and consulting Wikipedia
prior to making a fool of himself. But
he chose instead to unload on me. JD
 epitomizes US foreign policy: rush into
 every fight that you know nothing about
 and start new ones hand over fist that
someone else will win.

It occurred to me that World War II was so
 long ago that few are alive who remember
it, and by now even these few probably
remember the propaganda version that
they have heard at every Memorial Day
and July 4th occasion since 1945.

 Little wonder that neither Obama nor Cameron
 or their pitiful speech writers knew nothing
 about the war that they were commemorating.

Propaganda has always been with us.
 The difference is that in the 21st century
Americans have nothing but propaganda.
 Nothing else at all. Just lies. Lies are the
American experience. The actual world as
 it exists is foreign to most Americans.

In 1973 a British television documentary series
 was released that chronicled WW II. Of the 28
episodes, only 3 and part of a 4th acknowledge
Russian participation in the war. From the
 British standpoint, victory was an Anglo-
American victory.

This did not sit well with the Soviet government.
The Soviets offered their film archives to the West.
In 1978 a 20 part series of 48 minutes per episode
 was released in an American documentary
 television series narrated by Burt Lancaster.

 The documentary was titled: “The Unknown War.”
Certainly, it was a war unknown to most
Americans, raised as they are on propaganda.
The Unknown War was a revelation to Americans
 because it demonstrated beyond all doubt that
 Nazi Germany lost World War II on the Russian front.

Of the 20 episodes, “The Allies,” that is, the
Anglo-Americans and free French, feature
only in number 17. One out of twenty is about
 a correct proportion of the West’s participation
in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

If you google The Unknown War you will find
 an entry on Wikipedia. The series might still
be available on YouTube. It was taken off
the air when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan,
 a folly repeated by dumbshit Washington.

It was more important to Washington that
 Russia be demonized than any truths should
be presented, so the truth revealed in The
 Unknown War was removed from US TV.
Later the documentary reappeared on the
 History Chanel.

In my June 6 article, I said, following the
consensus of historians, that Nazi Germany
lost the war at Stalingrad. In this article:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/70-years
-ago-december-1941-turning-point-of-
world-war-ii/28059
 historian Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels says that
 Germany lost the war 14 months earlier at
 the Battle of Moscow in December 1941.

He makes a good case. Whether one agrees
or not, the facts he presents are eye openers
 for the “exceptional, indispensable Americans”
 who believe nothing happens without them.

Normandy, June 1944, is 2.5 years after
Germany lost the war in the Battle of Moscow.
As historians have made clear, by June 1944
Germany had little left with which to fight.
Whatever was left of the German military
was on the Eastern Front.


At the 70th annual Normandy landing celebration
in France, Obama informed his French vassal,
 President Hollande, that he, Obama, the ruler of
the Exceptional Country, would not sit down to
 dinner with the Russian Putin.

Americans are too good to eat dinner with Russians.
So Hollande had to have two dinners. One for Obama,
and then one for Putin. As food is still good in France
thanks to the banning of GMOs, probably Holland
didn’t mind. I myself would have enjoyed being at
 both dinners for the food alone.

Like all news that's important, the dinner for Putin,
 and its meaning, escaped the attention of the
American presstitute media, the world’s greatest
collection of whores.

 If memory serves, normally the Russians are left
out of Normandy commemoration celebrations.
 If the war was won in the West, what did the
Russians have to do with it? Nothing, of course.
“Our boys” did it all, just as JD informed me.
Russians? What Russians?

But this time France invited Putin to the
Normandy celebration, and Putin was not
too proud to come. Putin spoke with
European politicians in the off moments,
 and these politicians saw a real person,
unlike Obama, a total fake.

The superiority of Russian diplomacy over
Washington’s is clear to all. Putin’s position is:
“we are here for you, we can work things out.”
 Washington’s position is: “do as we say or
 we will bomb you into the Stone Age.”

Russia is accommodating to its client states.
 Washington is not. Putin says that he is
willing to work things out with the billionaire
corrupt Oligarch imposed on Ukraine by
Washington, but Washington has forced the
 Bulgarians to stop work on the South Stream
 Pipeline.

This natural gas pipeline bypasses Ukraine
 by going under the Black Sea to Bulgaria.
 As Washington’s new puppet state in Ukraine
 has not paid its multi-billion dollar natural gas
bill to Russia and threatens to disrupt the pipe-
line to Europe and to steal gas from it, Russia,
 despite Western sanctions, made preparations
 for a new pipeline route in order that Europeans
 do not suffer from winter cold and have their
 industries shut down and economies collapse
from lack of energy.

Washington sees Putin’s commitment to Europe
as a threat and has gone to work to prevent
any Russian energy flows to Europe.

In contrast with Putin’s position, Washington’s
position is: We don’t give a hoot what happens
 to our European puppets. Like the rest of
humanity, European puppets don’t count and
 are dispensable, mere collateral damage,
 in the Indispensable Country’s war for world
hegemony.

All that is important to Washington is that
Russia is damaged regardless of the damage
done to the puppet regimes in Western and
Eastern Europe, including the moronic Polish
government, possibly the only government on
earth more foolish than Obama’s.

Washington is trying to break off Europe’s
economic relations with Russia. Washington
is promising to supply Europe with US natural
gas obtained by fracking. This promise is a lie,
 like everything else Washington says.

On May 20 the Los Angeles Times reported
that “federal energy authorities have slashed
by 96% the recoverable oil buried in California’s
vast Monterey Shale deposits.” The Monterey
Shale formation contains about two-thirds
 of the nation’s shale oil reserves, and only
4% are recoverable.

William Engdahl has reported that at best the
US has 20 years of natural gas from fracking,
and that the price of the gas will be the
despoiling of US surface and ground waters.

Experts have pointed out that the infrastructure
 for transporting US natural gas to Europe does
 not exist and that it would take three years to
 build the infrastructure.

What will Europe do for three years while it
waits for US energy to replace the cut-off
Russian energy? Will Europe still be there?


Washington’s European vassals should take
 note: Washington is prepared to destroy
the economies of its vassals in order to
 score a one up on Russia.

How is it possible that by now Europe doesn’t
 understand how Washington thinks? Those
bags full of money must be very large.

As I have reported several times, the Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security
 affairs told me years ago, that Washington
purchases European politicians with bags full
of money.

 It remains to be seen if European “leaders”
 are willing to sacrifice their peoples and their
own reputations in order to be complicit in the
 war that Washington is planning with Russia,
 a war that could mean the end of life on earth.

It is Europe’s call. If leaders emerge who tell
Washington, “no dice,” the world is saved.
If instead European politicians want the
money, the world is doomed.

Europe would be the first to go.



YOU COULD HELP STOP A MASSACRE


Please try to help !

contact your representative now.

Russia's Lower House of Parliament (Duma)
 calls on all the world's parliaments, to stop
a humanitarian disaster in Ukraine.

Russian MPs suggest a new international contact
 group on the basis of PACE, in order to help stop
 the armed standoff in Ukraine and prevent the
 looming humanitarian disaster in the country.

The address to the parliaments of the world and
 international parliamentary organizations, has
 been prepared jointly by all four parliamentary
 parties, and signed by their leaders.

"The State Duma MPs are outraged by the fact
that the current Kiev authorities are supporting
escalation of a civil war and the cruel murders
 of civilians, by raging nationalist radicals",
the letter says.

 "Today, the precise number and names of those
 burned alive in Odessa, remain undisclosed."

"The numbers range from several dozen to
several hundred - and this is proof of the
authorities’ unwillingness to tell the truth
 and put those responsible on trial,” the
 letter reads.

The MPs also write that it is important to let
 all their colleagues around the world know,
that dozens of people have been killed in the
 towns of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, as well
as other places in Ukraine, under the pretext
 of a counter-terrorist operation, which is, in
reality, a punitive raid.

“Millions of Ukrainian citizens have become
hostages of the Kiev junta and the potential
 victims of mass Human Rights violations,”
 the MPs say.

The Russian politicians state in the address that
 it is necessary to hold consultations between
 parliaments, to develop approaches that could
 contribute to the defusing of tensions and the
restoration of security for all Ukraine's citizens.

Their document also mentions the road map
drafted by the Swiss chair of the OSCE on
 May 7th this year, as “worthy of attention.”

Russia's Foreign minister Lavrov
today,
says that it is a civil war in Ukraine...
"right now".


Please try to help !

contact your representative now.


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Break the Silence
A World War is Beckoning
by JOHN PILGER

Why do we ­tolerate the threat of ­another world war in our
 name? Why do we allow lies that justify this risk? The
scale of our ­indoctrination, wrote Harold Pinter, is a
“brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of ­hypnosis”, as
if the truth “never happened even while it was happening”.


Every year the American historian William Blum publishes
his “updated summary of the record of US foreign policy”
which shows that, since 1945, the US has tried to
­overthrow over 50 governments, many democratically
elected; grossly interfered in elections in 30 countries;
bombed the civilian populations of 30 countries; used
chemical and biological weapons; and attempted to
 assassinate foreign leaders.


In many cases Britain has been a collaborator. The
degree of human ­suffering, let alone criminality, is little
acknowledged in the west, despite the presence of the
world’s most advanced communications and nominally
freest journalism. That the most numerous victims of
 terrorism – “our” terrorism – are Muslims, is unsayable.

That extreme jihadism, which led to 9/11, was ­nurtured
as a weapon of Anglo-American policy (Operation Cyclone
in Afghanistan) is suppressed. In April the US state
department noted that, after Nato’s campaign in 2011,
“Libya has become a terrorist safe haven”.


The name of “our” enemy has changed over the years,
from communism to Islamism, but generally it is any
society independent of western power and occupying
strategically useful or resource-rich territory.

The leaders of these obstructive nations are usually
violently shoved aside, such as the democrats Muhammad
Mossedeq in Iran and Salvador Allende in Chile, or they are
murdered like Patrice Lumumba in the Congo. All are
subjected to a western media campaign of caricature
and vilification – think Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, now
Vladimir Putin.


Washington’s role in Ukraine is ­different only in its
implications for the rest of us. For the first time since the
Reagan years, the US is ­threatening to take the world to
war. With eastern Europe and the Balkans now military
outposts of Nato, the last “buffer state” bordering Russia
is being torn apart. We in the west are backing neo-Nazis
in a country where Ukrainian Nazis backed Hitler.


Having masterminded the coup in February against the
democratically elected government in Kiev, Washington’s
planned seizure of Russia’s ­historic, legitimate warm-water
naval base in Crimea failed. The Russians defended
themselves, as they have done against every threat and
invasion from the west for almost a century.


But Nato’s military encirclement has accelerated, along
with US-orchestrated attacks on ethnic Russians in
Ukraine. If Putin can be provoked into coming to their
aid, his pre-ordained “pariah” role will justify a Nato-run
guerrilla war that is likely to spill into Russia itself.


Instead, Putin has confounded the war party by seeking
an accommodation with Washington and the EU, by
withdrawing troops from the Ukrainian border and urging
ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine to abandon the
weekend’s provocative referendum.

These Russian-speaking and bilingual people – a third of
Ukraine’s population – have long sought a democratic
federation that reflects the country’s ethnic diversity and
is both autonomous and independent of Moscow. Most are
neither “separatists” nor “rebels” but citizens who want
to live securely in their homeland.


Like the ruins of Iraq and Afghanistan, Ukraine has been
turned into a CIA theme park – run by CIA director John
Brennan in Kiev, with “special units” from the CIA and FBI
setting up a “security structure” that oversees savage
attacks on those who opposed the February coup.

Watch the videos, read the eye-witness reports from the
massacre in Odessa this month. Bussed fascist thugs
burned the trade union headquarters, killing 41 people
trapped inside. Watch the police standing by.

A doctor described trying to rescue people, “but I was
stopped by pro-Ukrainian Nazi radicals. One of them
pushed me away rudely, promising that soon me and
other Jews of Odessa are going to meet the same fate
… I wonder, why the whole world is keeping silent.”


Russian-speaking Ukrainians are fighting for survival.
When Putin announced the withdrawal of Russian troops
from the border, the Kiev junta’s defence secretary – a
founding member of the fascist Svoboda party – boasted
that the attacks on “insurgents” would continue.

In Orwellian style, propaganda in the west has inverted this
to Moscow “trying to orchestrate conflict and provocation”,
according to William Hague. His cynicism is matched by
Obama’s grotesque congratulations to the coup junta on its
“remarkable restraint” following the Odessa massacre.

Illegal and fascist-dominated, the junta is described by
Obama as “duly elected”. What matters is not truth, Henry
Kissinger once said, but “but what is perceived to be true.”


In US media the Odessa atrocity has been played down
as “murky” and a “tragedy” in which “nationalists”
(neo-Nazis) attacked “separatists” (people collecting
signatures for a referendum on a federal Ukraine).
Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal damned the
victims – “Deadly Ukraine Fire Likely Sparked by
Rebels, Government Says”.

­Propaganda in Germany has been pure cold war, with
the Frankfurter Allgemeine ­Zeitung warning its readers
of Russia’s “undeclared war”. For Germans, it is an
invidious irony that Putin is the only leader to condemn
the rise of fascism in 21st-century Europe.


A popular truism is that “the world changed” after 9/11.
But what has changed? According to the great
whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, a silent coup has taken
place in Washington and rampant militarism now rules.

The Pentagon ­currently runs “special operations” –
secret wars – in 124 countries. At home, rising poverty
and hemorrhaging liberty are the historic corollary of
a perpetual war state. Add the risk of nuclear war, and
the question begs: why do we tolerate this?


John Pilger is the author of Freedom Next Time.
He can be reached through his website:
www.johnpilger.com






Whole Article appeared in 'Counterpunch'

A Russophobic, Failed State Ruled by Fascists

Obama’s New Ukraine

by MIKE WHITNEY

“While Russia has been making efforts to de-escalate
and resolve the crisis, the Kiev regime has chosen to
launch airstrikes on peaceful residential areas,
literally destroying the last hope for preserving the
Geneva accords.” Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman


“The crisis in Ukraine is not the result of ‘Russian
 aggression,’ but of a criminal strategy by the US
and its European allies to install a hostile regime
on Russia’s borders in Ukraine and, ultimately,
dismember Russia itself.” Johannes Stern, NATO
boosts military build-up against Russia as protests
spread in east Ukraine, World Socialist Web Site


Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov:


“We are calling on the European capitals, the United
States of America to give an assessment of the current
events and are of course calling on those carrying out
airstrikes on residential areas to…immediately end
the punitive operation and any violence against its
own people…”


So far, there has been no response from Washington
 although it’s clear that the Obama administration
had a hand in organizing the crackdown. Not only
were the State Department & CIA directly involved
in the putsch that removed democratically-elected
president Viktor Yanukovych from office, but
Washington has also been implicated in punitive
operations directed against ethnic Russian
protestors in east Ukraine.

Both CIA Director John Brennan and Vice President
Joe Biden visited Kiev just hours before two previous
crackdowns were ordered by former-Prime Minister
Arseniy Yatsenyuk. As Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
blandly noted, It’s clear that Washington is “calling
the shots”.


The coup-President Oleksandr Turchynov:

“It is hard to accept but it’s the truth, the
majority of law enforcers in the east are
incapable of performing their duties.”


Turchynov was referring to the fact that Ukrainian
troops refused to attack their own countrymen.
The mutiny spread from elite airborne units to
local police sympathizing with the protestors.

The only group willing to carry out Washington’s
proxy war are Right Sector neo-Nazis who helped
topple the Yanukovych government. Members of
this openly fascist party, commemorated
“the perpetrators of the massacre of Yanova Dolina,”
where “600 Poles were murdered by the Ukrainian
Insurgent Army (UPA) in what is now Bazaltovoye.

The massacre marked the beginning of ethnic
cleansing in what is now western Ukraine,
where tens of thousands of Poles were killed
in a few months.” (World Socialist Web Site)


These are Obama’s new allies in America’s war
against Russia. Now check this out from Reuters:


“The International Monetary Fund warned that if
Ukraine lost territory in the east it would have to
redesign a $17 billion bailout of the country,
probably requiring additional financing.”


Tell me, dear reader, when was the last time you
heard of the IMF threatening to withhold funds
if a political leader didn’t wage war on his
own people?

Anyone with half a brain can see that the IMF is just
acting on orders from the White House. It's Obama’s
war. His fingerprints are all over the policy. Obama is
determined to draw Russia into a bloody guerilla war
that leaves Ukraine in the same condition as Iraq,
Afghanistan, Libya, and now Syria.


Here’s a clip from the New York Times:

“Through stealth and misdirection, and in defiance
of Western sanctions, Russia managed to achieve
its immediate goal of what Western and Ukrainian
officials believe, is rendering Ukraine so chaotic
that it cannot guarantee order, mend its teetering
economy or elect new leaders to replace Turchynov.”
(Not Getting Through to Mr. Putin, New York Times)


Putin wants a “chaotic” failed state on Russia’s border?
Have you ever read such nonsense in your life?


Putin didn’t topple the Ukrainian government. The US
State Department did. (Victoria Nuland’s hacked phone
calls prove it.) And Putin didn’t violate the Geneva
agreement under 24 hours after the deal was signed
by launching a crackdown on civilian protestors in the
east. That was US-puppet Yatsenyuk. Nor did Putin
deploy the military to surround cities, cut off their
water supplies and deploy helicopter gunships
to fire missiles at civilian infrastructure and
terrorize the local population.

That was the work of Obama’s fascist junta in Kiev.
Putin had nothing to do with any of the trouble in Ukraine.
It’s all part of the US “pivot to Asia” strategy to encircle
and (eventually) dismember Russia in order to seize vital
resources and control the flow of energy to China.

Washington wants to reduce Ukraine to Mad Max-type
pandemonium to justify establishing NATO bases on
Russia’s perimeter. It’s all part of the plan to control
Central Asia and rule the world.


Putin has acted as peacemaker throughout the crisis,
but Obama is determined to provoke the Russian
president by attacking and killing ethnic Russians.
Consider the statement by Russia’s Foreign Ministry:


“As we have warned many times before, the use of
the army against its own people is a crime and is
leading Ukraine to catastrophe…

By supporting the organizers of the Kiev coup in
their strategy of violently putting down protests,
the US and EU are taking on a huge responsibility,
essentially closing the door to a peaceful solution
to the crisis.” (Putin says Geneva agreement no
longer viable after Ukrainian military action,
Guardian)


It’s clear now that Obama merely used the Geneva
agreement to buy time to move troops and military
hardware to Poland and the Balkans. It’s also clear
that Obama invited German Chancellor Angela Merkel
to Washington so that it would appear that Europe is
united behind the US in its proxy war on Russia.

But what does Obama hope to achieve by stirring up
this hornet’s nest? He knows that Putin cannot afford
to back down on Crimea, so what’s the point? And,
more importantly, what is Ukraine going to look like
when Washington is finished using it as a staging-
ground for its geopolitical landgrab?

Here’s an insightful piece by Russian academic,
Andrei Fursov, who thinks he knows what Obama
wants and explains the impact the policy is going
to have on Ukraine for years to come.


“The Americans need controlled chaos and civil war.
 Moreover, it is clear that this country (post-coup
Ukraine) is intended to be absolutely anti-Russian,
 nationalist, Banderite and neo-Nazi. So the dual
goal of establishing this anti-Russian state is to
constantly apply pressure on the Russian Federation.


As Bismarck (said) ‘We must cultivate among the
 Ukrainians, a people whose consciousness is
altered to such an extent, that they begin to
hate everything Russian.’


Thus we are talking about a historical psy-op,
an information-psychological sabotage, whose
purpose is to establish Russophobic Slavs.

They are the means to separate Ukraine from Russia
and to oppose Russia as a kind of totalitarian empire.

This was all devised under the Galician Project, on
which the intelligence services of Austro-Germany
& Kaiser German worked, followed by the intelligence
 service of the Third Reich, later – the CIA and BND.


Banderastan, if that’s what Ukraine is fated to become,
as designed by the puppet-masters across the ocean,
is to be an oligarchic, terroristic, Russophobic state.

An oligarchic Banderite oligarchy is the ideal vehicle
for external control. Clearly, this will suit both the
oligarchs and the West.” (Battleground Ukraine:
A Comprehensive Summary, Zero Hedge)


So, there it is: Divide and rule. We saw the Bush
 administration pull it off with the Shia & Sunnis
in Iraq, and now Obama wants to do the same
with the Ukrainians and Russians. Same
strategy, different continent.


This is Obama’s plan for the “New Ukraine” a
fascist-ruled failed state that follows Washington’s
directives and puts pressure on Russia through
endless provocations, belligerence, and war.

Ukraine will be Washington’s pit bull in the East,
separating Moscow from crucial sources of revenue
and thwarting efforts at greater EU-Russia economic
integration. This is how Washington hopes to insert
itself into Eurasia, to improve its prospects in the
Great Game, and to establish global hegemony
into the next century.


(Note: “Banderite” refers to Stepan Bandera, who was
a Ukrainian nationalist leader who collaborated with
the Nazis. Bandera headed the Organization of
Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) According to the World
Socialist Web Site: “The Ukrainian Insurgent Army
(UPA) carried out numerous massacres of the Polish
population in western Ukraine.

The UPA served as a military executive organ of the
OUN. It was founded in the spring of 1943 & recruited
primarily from Nazi collaborators, previously active
in the SS.”)


MIKE WHITNEY lives in Washington state. He is a
 contributor to Hopeless: Barack Obama and the
Politics of Illusion (AK Press). Hopeless is also
available in a Kindle edition. He can be reached at

fergiewhitney@msn.com.



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The basis of the legality for the Hinkley
Newbuild
is the EU Nuclear Waste Directive
signed by
ministers this August gone,
without debate
or publicity.


The Tories have sidestepped the provisions
of the Flowers report, a major setback the
 last time they tried to build a program, by
using Fascist measures from Europe.

 The lies are now told at Council of Ministers
level,
away from prying eyes, that nuclear
waste
burial is declared safe - without the
science
or experience to back it up -
technically,
we're still in the same position
we were in
1983, as far as N-Waste is
concerned, when
the Government declared
that they were
building N-Plants one at a
time, not as a
program, in order to try and
sidestep the
findings of the Royal
Commission, which,
of course, failed.


 Hinkley C was abandoned and the reason
put down to cost. That was because the
 economics didn't hold up without all ten
stations which they would never get,
 because of the Royal Commission !

The head of NIREX admitted to me on Day
 100 of the Sizewell Inquiry that, in the
case of Nuclear Waste repositories, the
movement of groundwater would be
unpredictable even in the case of
 relatively small tremors, similar to the one
 that occurred near Anglesea around that time.

 These are quite regular occurances. It led
 Hugh Richards to comment to me later that
 the Nuclear Industry were looking for stable,
dry, rock formations in the middle of continents
 for waste disposal .... no doubt Hugh would
have been hammer and tongs on this Directive
 had he still been alive, whereas I couldn't get
 anyone to listen, all my parliamentary
questions being sidestepped here in Ireland
 by Minister Hogan, who signed the Directive.

 So there you have it... it's too late to wave your
arms, they have altered the legal position...

only political will can stop the Newbuild and
 you'll seriously have to consider ridding us
 of ALL the parties in order to do that -
they are ALL cheats.

 Which of them have told on this Directive ?
 NONE of them ! I got my questions in through
 Independants who have become strong in Ireland.

 Start a real party and tell that witch on the throne
 to bugger off ....


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Dragons revolt


               Protest Against US School of The Americas               
 
 The website Anonymous reports an
online protest against the military

 academy known as the School of the
Americas,
in the US, where so many
thousands of the soldiers
involved in
Latin American dictatorships studied.


Anonymous, associated with a network of
activists,
says the protest operation aims
to destroy the academy --
now called the
'Western Hemisphere Institute
for
Security Cooperation' -- and "the entire
barbaric
US foreign policy agenda",
in which it is involved.


Military officers who graduated from that
academy
"established Augusto Pinochet's
dictatorship in Chile,
operated torture
centres and assassinated political

activists," the site says.

In Honduras, graduates of that school
are now
involved in a brutal repression
campaign against
the social movements
that fight the regime
taken to power by
graduates of that centre, who,
in 2009,
overthrew the democratically elected

 government, the group says in a video
posted
on the Internet.


The School of the Americas was established
in
Panama in 1964... and transferred to Fort
Benning,
Georgia, in 1984, with its new name.


A group of US activists, School of Americas
Watch,
is carrying out peaceful protests
every November
to mark the assassination
of six Jesuit priests,
their housekeeper,
and her daughter, in 1989,
in El Salvador.


A committee of UN experts concluded that
 some of those responsible for the crime
 were trained in that school.




 

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A protest gathering has been held in Wales at
 the entrance to Parc Aberporth, where the UK’s army
is developing its ‘remote killing machines’ or drones.

The gathering organized by ‘Drones Network Cymru’
and several other campaigns groups was held as a
wake-up call for the UK government to live up to its
 international obligations and lower its contribution
 to these war machines, which kill indiscriminately.

The impact drones have on the civilian population in
 the Occupied Palestinian Territories were highlighted
 by representatives of Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

Movingly, some read out the names of some of the
 hundreds of children already deliberately killed by
drone attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Libya
 and now in Syria.

The (then Labour!) London government established
Parc Aberporth in 2003-4, as a drone testing site,
 at a cost to the taxpayer of over £21 million.

They promised to create at least 1,000 jobs,
 but the site now employs just 50 people, with
 three quarters of the business units left empty.

Military drone manufacturers are seeking to find
 civilian uses for remote sensing drones, in a bid to
 make more profits. This includes using the drones
 for domestic surveillance.

Drones are aircraft remotely controlled by ‘pilots’ from the ground, often at great distance from war zones. They are a new mode of remote control wars in contrast to launching massive on the ground offensives at the risk of losing troops and have become the latest weapon of choice in the ‘war on terror’.

Drones are indiscriminate weapons of war that have been responsible for thousands of civilian deaths. Drones should be banned, just as landmines and cluster munitions were banned. Now is the time to stop the rise of drone warfare – before it is too late.

Sign the Ground the Drones petition

In spring 2013, the UK doubled its number of armed Reaper drones in Afghanistan, and the Ministry of Defense confirmed that it has begun operating drones over Afghanistan from a new facility at RAF Waddington near Lincoln.

Drones make it much easier for politicians to launch military intervention and assassinate people anywhere in the world. Drones are making the world a much more dangerous place - please sign the petition.

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Stop the Arms Trade in London in September 2013

STOP THE ARMS TRADE
SHOWS UP GUNRUNNERS


UK anti-war campaigners organized a high
-profile
six-day protest action in London, as the
government
welcomed “the world’s worst human
rights abusing
regimes to shop for weapons”.

Protests were organized by Stop the Arms Fair,
a campaign group opposed to all of the DSEi
biennial arms
exhibitions, which boast they're
"the largest fully
integrated defense & security
shows in the world".


http://www.caat.org.uk/press/

This year’s arms fair, on September 10-13, brought
together 28,000 international weapons traders
and
their clients from more than 50 countries, invited

 by the UK government.

In 2011, the UK invited a number of governments
which
the Foreign Office describes as having
human rights
records “of concern”, including
pre-revolution Egypt,
Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

Stop the Arms Fair campaigners say they wanted
to
make it “as difficultas possible” for the weapon
traders and their clients to do business.


The group organized many protests from
September the 7th, to September the 12th.

The climax of the demonstrations was on September
the 8th, when huge numbers gathered in London
as the
arms dealers arrived to try to set up at the fair.

The week-long action included a silent vigil
 against drone wars, in reaction to the decision to
extend the fair by a day to include a conference on
 drones. A wreath-laying ceremony was held by the
peace campaigners, for victims of the arms trade.


The action ended with a concerted effort:
 “Don’t let them dine in peace” which saw
 campaigners target arms dealers wherever
 they went “to celebrate their week of deadly
business with an expensive dinner”, that
 effectively disrupted elite districts in London.

UK PM David Cameron has described the
 arms trade as a key part of the UK economy.

Since May 2010, when Cameron took office as PM,
 he has made foreign visits to 11 different countries,
 including Egypt, India, the United Arab Emirates,
 Japan and Myanmar, to promote armament sales.

The latest arms sales trip has taken Cameron to
 India, in the UK’s "largest trade mission ever".


CND in Cardiff with Cor Gochion Caerdydd


Wales’ First Minister, Carwyn Jones, has said
that the British Nuclear Fleet (Trident)
would be more than welcome to come to
Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire.

Wales should not be home to WMDs.
We say that the Welsh Government should state
uncategorically that there is no place for Trident in Wales.

Dear Friends,

We need a good show of signatures
on this petition to the National Assembly.
It's your opportunity to do something else
for the cause of nuclear disarmament - and
to stop anyone thinking that we would allow
nuclear weapons to be based in Wales.

You can sign  - wherever you may be in Britain.

Please click the link below and sign up

- it is simple and safe!

(...and then ask your friends.)

Stop Trident from coming to Wales:

https://www.assemblywales.org/epetition-list-of-signatories.htm?pet_id=764

thanks!

jill

Jill Gough
National Secretary
CND Cymru
www.cndcymru.org


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Coalition makes U-turn on nuclear energy

subsidieswww.guardian.co.uk

Leaked document seen by Guardian reveals plans to
subsidise nuclear through electricity bills, despi...

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Nikki Clark posted in South Wales Anti-Nuclear Alliance

Nikki Clark 19 April 13:11

please read this & share, this is EXTREMELY
important update regarding the situation in
Japan, the figures in there are likely to be
underestimates (which is almost irrelevant
given that the analysis for such
conservative figures is still very very bad...)

Fukushima Daiichi Site: Cesium-137
is 85 times greater than at Chernobyl

Accidentakiomatsumura.com

Japan’s former Ambassador to Switzerland, Mr.
Mitsuhei Murata, was invited to speak at the Public He...

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Tim Richards posted in South Wales Anti-Nuclear Alliance

Tim Richards 29 March 08:12

Let's hope this is true............

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk
-wales-north-west-wales-17546703

Firms 'pull out of nuclear plant 'www.bbc.co.uk'

Two German power firms are reportedly shelving plans
to build a new nuclear power station on Anglesea.

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Southwest AgainstNuclear posted in
South Wales Anti-Nuclear Alliance

Southwest AgainstNuclear 21 February 21:41

Please come and support the occupation

Hinkley C ~ Site Occupationwww.youtube.com

This film gives an account of the first few days
of the occupation of Langborough Farm on the site o...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature
=player_embedded&v=PfW-Kv6IWEI


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Andreas Speck 14 February 18:55

Activists needed to defend
squatted farmhouse at nuclear power plant

http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net/content/activists-needed
-defend-squatted-farmhouse-nuclear-power-plant


Activists are needed urgently to help
defend a farmhouse that has been squatted
to stop EDF Energy t...

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Jill Gough posted in South Wales Anti-Nuclear Alliance
Jill Gough 7 February 19:00

Message from the band - SEIZE THE DAY

The contractors hired by EDF to clear
the old woodland at Hinkley Point are
D W Greenslade, of Lampark, Watchet, Somerset, TA23 0LB.

If you want to tell them that you are not happy
with them for taking EDF's contract to clear
this beautiful site BEFORE EDF EVEN HAVE
PLANNING PERMISSION, you should phone them
and ask them to desist:
Phone: 01984 640389

You might want to share this number with
local people who want Greenslade to know
that they will not be hiring them in future
if they continue with this work.

That number again:
Greenslades Tree Surgeons,
01984 640389


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Campaign to ban Military Recruiters from Schools

On June the 1st 2012
the UN Association Cardiff
hosted the launch of a new petition and
campaign calling on the Welsh government to ban
military recruiters from schools.

The UK is the only country
amongst the 27 EU member states
to permit military recruiters into schools.

Following last year's successful referendum of
greater legislative powers, the petition calls
upon the Assembly government to take an ethical
lead and ban such practices as unacceptable in
the Welsh education system. At present, such
decisions are left to the discretion of Headteachers.

Supporters of the campaign include:
Plaid Cymru leader, Leanne Wood AM
Member of Parliament, Jonathan Edwards
(available for interview)
Assembly Member, Rhodri Glyn Thomas
(also available for interview)
Member of the European Parliament, Jill Evans
The Poet, Patrick Jones.
Welsh screenwriter and actor, Boyd Clack.
The singer, Dafydd Iwan

Supporter Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM says:
"Far from being an extreme or outlandish position,
the prohibition of MoD recruitment in schools
would simply bring Wales up to speed with
prevailing international standards."

Jonathan Edwards MP adds:
"Many young people would like to join the armed
forces and everyone respects the right to choose
that career path. However, I'm supporting this
campaign in anticipation that the Welsh Government
will lead the way in bringing Wales and the UK
in line with our European neighbours."

The report of the UN Committee on the Rights of
the Child: Concluding Observations on the UK
(October 2008) asks that the UK "reconsider its
active policy of recruitment of children into
the armed forces and ensure that it does not
occur in a manner which specifically targets
ethnic minorities and children of low-income
families." Freedom of Information evidence shows
that MOD recruiters disproportionately target
poorer communities. Long-term poverty means
Wales sends a disproportionate number into the
military, relative to its size of the UK population.

Launch of campaign was held at 7pm, Friday
June 1st at the Temple of Peace, Cathays Park,
Cardiff, home of the United Nations Association
and Welsh Centre for International Affairs (WCIA).
 
For additional information on the campaign,
contact: Leon Russell OR Sara Hawys Roberts

cbayrday@hotmail.co.uk

07980793946


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MARCH AND STOP MASS SURVEILLANCE

In the US, people organised mass demonstrations
 in over ONE HUNDRED cities to protest over the US
 government’s surveillance programs leaked by a
 former contractor at the National Security Agency.

A group called “Restore the Fourth” demands an end to
 all spying programs that violate the Fourth Amendment.

Ben Doernberg a co-organizer of the protest action in
New York City says that their group was in action before
 the leaks by Edward Snowden, adding that there are more
 worries now over the growing trend of violating civil liberties.

In a letter to the director of national intelligence,
 James Clapper, a group of 26 senators is now
demanding more transparency on government
 surveillance programs. They accuse Obama's
 administration of using a “secret body of law”
 to justify the spying.

Snowden recently revealed that the NSA collects
 massive amounts of data on millions of US citizens
 and foreigners by accessing their 'phones and Internet.
 He is wanted in the US for espionage.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a
 federal lawsuit charging that the NSA’s bulk collection
 of American’s data violates their constitutional rights
 of free speech and privacy.

Der Spiegel says its journalists have seen a September
 2010 top secret NSA document Snowden has with him,
 showing that the US bugged European Union offices
 and gained access to EU internal computer networks.

The White House defends the NSA's surveillance,
 saying "their" data helps to avert terrorist activities.

and in the UK or Wales?

_______________________________


Please read and share!

Dear CND Cymru members, supporters,
 friends, affiliates and groups,

As you must know, nothing can happen without
 you and we hope you will be able to get involved
 in the following. If you are unable to go, perhaps
you could write to your local or national
papers
and/or your elected representatives about it
.


A printed mailing is sent to CND Cymru members.
If you or your group have any diary dates

you would like included, please get in touch.


_________________________



Regular events:



Bangor & Ynys Mon Peace and Justice
Discussion and action for justice and peace,
locally, nationally and internationally.
Meetings every Monday night (except most Bank
Holidays and school holidays) 6.30-c.8pm,
(normally upstairs),
at the Friends' Meeting House,
Dean Street, Bangor, Gwynedd
This independent group was founded in 2001
and welcomes one and all. Campaigns policy
is bilingual; meetings in English.








Every Tuesday 2pm - 4pm

CARDIFF
Cardiff Anarchist Black Cross Prisoner Support
Red and Black Umbrella social centre, Clifton Street.
Write letters to prisoners and learn
about political prisoners.

www.theredandblackumbrella.wordpress.com/








Every Tuesday 6pm - 9pm

People's Kitchen
CARDIFF
Red and Black Umbrella Social Centre,
Clifton Street
Come along to the local Anarchist social centre
for a vegan meal, free or donations which go
towards a different cause every week.

www.theredandblackumbrella.wordpress.com/






NHS    Not for Sale

DIRECT ACTION GROWS IN UK ANTI-CUTS STRUGGLE

The British campaign group NHS Direct Action
has picketed the private health firm Care UK's
offices in London over NHS reforms that could
force even more private involvement in the NHS.

NHS Direct Action activists say that many
private health care companies will benefit
from the "reforms" to the health service
and throughout social care services.

"Having been involved in the student movement
over the last five or six months, and as a
medical student, it seemed logical to funnel
some of that energy toward challenging the
health and social care bill. We're taking UK
Uncut's idea of a simple message linked with a
viable alternative,” says Toby Simmons, who's
a medical student representing the campaigners.

"UK Uncut changed the rules by showing that
spaces
- even inside shops - are legitimate

places to protest. It's harder to use the same
methods with the private health firms that are
circling the NHS - they don't have the same high-
profile public image as Topshop or Vodafone -
but we're attempting to show that the NHS is for
everyone, rather than for the elite few to make
a profit from."

NHS Direct Action say they chose Care UK as their
target, as that company is a candidate to make a
huge fortune out of the NHS shake-up.

Campaigners say the family of the former chair of
Care UK, John Nash, granted £21,000 to the Health
Secretary Andrew Lansley, to help fund his office
when he was in the shadow cabinet.

John Nash has also been advising Chancellor
Osborne, as a member of the Independent
Challenge Group set up last June, on areas of
cuts in the NHS, as well as social care cuts.

Another campaigner, who prefers to be unnamed,
says the voluntary sector organization he works
for has been “already hit hard by the cuts.":

“If we don't act, then we're going to see
everything we care about in this country
destroyed," the campaigner states.

NHS Direct Action's website:

http://www.nhsdirectaction.co.uk/

The webspace is being updated.

Follow them on twitter:

@NHSdirectaction



Devonport non-violent peace act



CND Cymru


The blockade of Devonport Dock's nuclear base
was a tremendous success. The Welsh contingent
joined hundreds of activists to stop the flow
of traffic through both the port's gates.

As an experienced Trident Ploughshares peace
activist, I was asked to join a Swiss group
who wanted help in their action.

We spent Sunday evening planning our tactics,
and then crawled into our sleeping bags for a
restless night's sleep.

Up at 4:15, we hurriedly ate muesli and made
up our packed lunches at the same time. We
boarded the minibus at 5 a.m. and dodged the
police, as we linked our heavy duty cables
to each other. As one group created a diversion
we threw ourselves to the ground and locked on
to the dockyard gates.

The police, thinking they were dealing with
soft Europeans, started to manhandle our
protesters, but I gave them a tongue lashing.
"Stop that violence this minute!" I said.
"This is a peaceful nonviolent direct action
against nuclear weapons. If anyone gets injured,
you will be reported to the Police Complaints
commission; so leave us alone!"

Hesitating, they fell back in line.
"You shouldn't be here", the Inspector said.
"Nukes are obscene" the crowd shouted back.
"It's your planet we want to save".

A carnival atmosphere prevailed, with music
from harmonicas, jaws harps, singing; and
peace songs from all over Europe - Wales,
Germany, France, Switzerland.

After four hours of solid blockade, with not
a single vehicle coming through the gates,
the police arrived with their bolt cutters.
They warned us several times to move, but we
all refused. They took our names and personal
details. The police photographer took our
photos, and we were dragged and carried away
from the roadway. The police inspector told me
and another protester that we would be charged
with aggravated trespass, which is a criminal offence.

As they pulled the last young person away from
the road, we chanted with our international friends:

"We were at the last blockade, we'll be at the
next blockade, we'll be at the last blockade
when all the world's evil nuclear weapons are
thrown into the dustbin and the planet is
given back to our children".

Ray Davies



Hello !

Remember that history lesson about the colonial scramble for Africa? Now it is happening again. Check out our new infographic to find out how.

Multinational corporations like Monsanto are rushing to carve up the continent’s resources. With the help of the UK government they are manoeuvring themselves to control seeds markets and push agricultural chemicals on small-scale farmers.

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The World Development Movement is releasing three interactive infographics to tell the story of how, over hundred years later, colonialism has reinvented itself in the 21st century.

In the first of the series, we compare the control that the European powers had in the 19th century with the market power of corporations in the present day.

Please share this with your colleagues, your friends and your family and get them talking about the campaign to stop big business taking over Africa’s food.

Best wishes,

Dan Iles
Food Campaigner, WDM
 

Connect with us:

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Our mailing address is:

World Development Movement
66 Offley Road
London SW9 0LS
Phone: 020 7820 4900
 

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Please consider going to this website

http://palsolidarity.org/donate

to donate whatever you can to the International
Solidarity Movement. This is the Palestinian
based organization for which Rachel Corrie was
working when she was deliberately crushed and
killed by an Israeli bulldozer (provided by the
U.S. Caterpillar Corporation) while standing in
solidarity with the Palestinian people in their
nonviolent resistance to Israel's colonial
aggression in Palestine.

Go to this link

http://palsolidarity.org/2009/06/7647/

to read a sobering list of the unarmed demonstrators
murdered by the Israel Occupation Forces.

This is only the tip of the iceberg of death and
destruction which is meted out to the Palestinian
people every day by the colonial forces of Israel
which are supported with huge military subsidies
provided by the U.S. using our tax dollars.

This is the direction that the entire world must
take in its opposition to Empire and Corporatism.
Governments no longer serve the people they are
supposed to represent. It is up to civil society
to join together in nonviolent resistance. ISM
provides an inspiring model for the rest of us.


Thanks!


Joe Mowrey
Palestine Truth Coalition

http://www.palestinetruthcoalition.com/

http://palsolidarity.org/2011/01/16291/


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