Against War

Updated daily: Articles from external newswires filtered for the following keywords: Gaza, flotilla, Mavi, Marmara... more

from email, 25 March 2010: "Assemble 12 Noon, Wednesday 14 April, Olympia Way W14, near Kensington Olympia, West Kensington, High Street Kensington, and Barons Court stations. Sponsored by arms company Thales, and organised by Clarion Events - responsible for Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEi), the world's largest arms fair, the Counter Terror Expo takes place between 14-15 April 2010 at Olympia, London..." more

from greenleft, 25 March 2010: "It was common during the opening of the Iraq war to see slogans proclaiming “No blood for oil!” The cover story for the war — Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s links with Al Qaeda and his weapons of mass destruction — were obvious mass deceptions, hiding a far less palatable imperial agenda. The truth was that Iraq was a major producer of oil and, in our age, oil is the most strategic resource of all... Why then, are there no slogans saying “No blood for opium”?" more

from decommisioners, 24 March 2010: "The EDO Decommissioners always intended to go to trial – now set for May 17th – Not as the accused but as the accusers making the case that their action was lawful because they were disarming an arms factory which is complicit in war crimes. Postponed from last autumn, the trial of the six people charged with conspiracy to commit criminal damage at the ITT/EDO MBM offices in Brighton in January 2009 now begins on May 17th..." more

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from bristolabc, 3 March 2010: "Some good news today on the legal front for the EDO Decommissioners. The 6 EDO Decommissioners from Bristol, along with the 3 campaigners from Brighton allegedly implicated in the case, were in court in Brighton today, 1 March, to hear the judge rule on whether or not they could proceed with their defence..." more

from guardian, 5 February 2010: "The British arms firm BAE Systems has accepted guilt and agreed to pay penalties in the US and the UK totalling several hundred million pounds to settle all the long-running corruption allegations against it. Under the deal, announced simultaneously in London and Washington, BAE will pay $400m (£255m) in the US and £30m in the UK..." more

from rawa, 27 January 2010: "One thing that remains consistent over the last 30 years in observing America's participation in Afghanistan is that mistakes and errors of judgment, no matter how egregious or self-defeating, never seem to get corrected. In fact, in its effort to rationalize a growing culture of war-making from Vietnam to Afghanistan, America has come around to embracing the insanity of the fictional Colonel Kurtz..." more

from harpers, 21 January 2010: "New evidence now emerging may entangle Obama’s young administration with crimes that occurred during the George W. Bush presidency, evidence that suggests the current administration failed to investigate seriously—and may even have continued—a cover-up of the possible homicides of three prisoners at Guantánamo in 2006..." more

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from greenleft, 17 December 2009: "By waging a brutal war against its own population on behalf of transnational interests, the Colombian state has earned the endorsement of successive Washington administrations. They have lavishly rewarded Colombia’s ruling elite with high praise and billions of dollars of military aid. The corporate media have also responded favourably, depicting Colombia as a democracy under threat from “dictatorial” Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in need of US support... more

from aljazeera, 11 December 2009: "Britain's Shell and Malaysian firm Petronas have been awarded a joint contract to exploit Iraq's giant Majnoon oil field, potentially worth $12bn. The announcement came shortly after international oil companies, including major Western firms, gathered on Friday amid tight security in Baghdad to compete for deals to exploit the country's natural resources..." more

from counterpunch, 1 December 2009: "A core feature of the Obama administration's plans for victories in Iraq and Afghanistan has been an increased reliance on counterinsurgency, as Americans try to win the hearts and minds of peoples whose countries they've invaded. Some critics highlight similarities between Kennedy's and Obama's interest in counterinsurgency as a tool to conquer peoples who have historically been difficult, if not impossible, for outside colonial powers to dominate. President Obama's reliance on old Harvard hands to socially engineer conquest justifies many of these comparisons..." more

from irr, updated 3 December 2009: "This report is an indispensable reference manual on the threats posed to citizens by the convergence of neo-con ideology, power and technology in the name of national security.

'A new kind of arms race, one in which all the weapons are pointing inwards', the product of a marriage between the imperatives of profit and the irrational politics of paranoia, is the theme of this alarming new report, 'NeoConOpticon: The EU security-industrial complex'. Its title marries Jeremy Bentham's late eighteenth-century surveillance prison with late twentieth and early twenty-first century ideologies and economics of Western 'full spectrum dominance', implying intensive surveillance and militarised policing for 'a long, sustained and proactive defence of their societies and way of life ... keep[ing] risks at a distance while ... protecting their homelands'..." more