WOMBLES - Against War

Legal progress for the EDO Decommissioners but one remains on remand

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:42:53 +0000

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

BAE pays fines of £285m over arms deal corruption claims

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:09:50 +0000

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

Afghanistan: Embracing Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is no method at all

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:26:39 +0000

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

The Guantánamo 'Suicides': A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:58:54 +0000

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

Newswires: Blackwater, Aegis

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:43:09 +0000

Updated daiy: Articles from external newswires filtered for the keywords: Blackwater, Aegis... more

Newswires: Yemen

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:31:07 +0000

Updated daily: Articles from external newswires filtered for the keywords: Yemen... more

Colombia: A US-backed terror state

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:07:47 +0000

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

Oil firms awarded Iraq contracts

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:11:06 +0000

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

A better way to kill? Human Terrain Systems, anthropologists and the war in Afghanistan

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:17:50 +0000

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

NeoConOpticon: The EU Security-Industrial Complex

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:08:21 +0000

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

Iraq: New "colonial" era of oil exploitation begins

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:34:46 +0000

via priceofoil, updated 6 November 2009: "The British military may be gone, but the British oilmen are back. Today is the day that the oil men from BP take control of Iraq’s biggest oilfield: Rumaila. It is the first important oil deal since the 2003 invasion, and a long time since 1961 when Iraq passed Law 80 that wrestled back 99.5 per cent of the country’s oil reserves from the international companies like BP..." more

EU defence ambitions for 2020: "Barrier operations shielding the global rich from the tensions and problems of the poor"

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:17:23 +0000

from indymedia ireland, updated 9 December 2009: "The document covers long term EU security strategy, including the problems of "hierarchical class society", with the "elite" of the world on one side, and the so-called "bottom billion" on the other. To avoid "global systemic collapse", the document suggests that the "full spectrum of high intensity combat" to be used to protect what is called "globalisers" from "localisers"... more

Newswires: DSEi 2009

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:14:56 +0000

Updated daily: Articles from external newswires filtered for the keywords: DSEi, Clarion... more

Newswires: Smash EDO / Brighton

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:04:45 +0000

Updated daily: Latest articles from external newswires filtered for the keywords: EDO, Mayday, MBM, Brighton... more

Newswires: South Asia

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:35:31 +0000

Updated daily: Articles from external newswires filtered for the keywords: Sri Lanka, Tamil, India, Pakistan, Delhi, Islamabad, Karachi, Mumbai, Bangladesh, Dhaka... more