Sheffield Anti-militarism Newswire Archive

Dr King has been reduced to the syrupy sweet of the Hallmark cards genre where he is no longer prophetic.

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The US led war in the broader Middle East Central Asian region has the purpose of gaining control over more than sixty percent of the world's supplies of oil and natural gas. The Anglo-American oil giants also seek to gain control over oil and gas pipeline routes out of the region.

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Lowered US flag at USAF Croughton in 2000, not theft, wrote to US Ambassador requesting appointment to return and discuss presence of US Visiting Forces etc each year, December - given the flag..........what to do now!

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Rashid Rauf, the proclaimed mastermind behind the "liquid terror bomb" plot from the summer of 2006 is not to be proscuted for terror offensives due to a lack of evidence:

Pakistan drops terrorism charges against key suspect in Heathrow bomb plot

On December 13, in an extraordinary turn of events, a court in Pakistan dropped terrorism charges against British-born Rashid Rauf.

Rauf is the alleged “ringleader” of the most infamous terror plot ever apparently uncovered in Britain—the plan to explode a number of transatlantic airlines en route from London’s Heathrow airport.

Details of the court hearing are extremely limited. But according to reports, a judge at an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpinidi said that the case against Rauf did not “fall into the category of terrorism.”

Rauf’s lawyer, Hashmat Habib, said no evidence had been provided to back up claims that his client was part of a conspiracy to hijack airplanes, and the judge agreed to strike out the two charges against Rauf relating to terrorism. “That practically means that Rashid Rauf has been acquitted of charges relating to terrorism,” Habib said.

 http://wsws.org/articles/2006/dec2006/plot-d16.shtml

Craig Murray, who spoke in Sheffield recently on:

Legality, Morality and the War on Terror
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2006/10/354417.html

Has written the following article about Rashid Rauf.

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Yesterday, I was fortunate to have been one of the opening plenary speakers at the 'Reclaiming Our Rights' conference at the Human Rights and Social Justice Institute at the London Metropolitan University, organized mainly by the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC). It was an excellent conference bringing together some of the leading dissident organizations involved in political activism against the anti-terror laws. Speakers included people like Craig Murray, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan; Mark Thomas, political comedian and journalist; Gareth Pierce, leading human rights lawyer; Brian Haw, the permanent Parliament Square protestor; among many others.

 http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research-units/hrsj/events/conferences/reclaiming-our-rights.cfm

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academic author and activist Anna Stavrianakis will be a giving a talk on the university as a site of militarised capitalism and site of social struggle - all welcome!

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A very interesting overview of of the US/UK imperial aims and methods from 1945 to the present and the crisis that it is currently facing. This presentation, and the questions and answer session is an hour and 40 mins long but it is well worth listening to.

This is a repost from here:

 http://www.radio4all.net/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=20582

And more audio from the londonsoundposse can be found here:

 http://www.radio4all.net/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=2704

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9/11 survivor and leading truth campaigner, William Rodriguez, to visit London and tour the UK.

PUBLIC MEETING

Date: Monday November 27th 2006
Time: 7pm
Place: Indian YMCA, 41 Fitzroy Square, London W1
Tube: Warren Street
Entry: Free

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Corporal Matthew Cornish 29 of the first battalion of the light infantry was killed by a mortar shell which landed on his base at the old state building in Basra, his memorial was held at leeds parish church at 10.30am sunday.

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Video of a talk by Craig Murray [former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan], Legality, Morality and the War on Terror, recorded at Sheffield Hallam University on 9th October 2006.

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In October of 2001, a little over a month after 9/11, I wrote an article titled The Background is Oil. The hypothesis laid out in this article was that the 2000 US presidential election resulted in a coup of neocons and oil interests who had taken control of the US in order to prepare for the coming peak and decline of world oil production. Furthermore, this coup engineered the 9/11 terrorist attacks to further their own interests.

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No nuclear country is likely to intervene when the U.S. uses nuclear weapons against Iran, so there is no military deterrent. The U.S. has now achieved vast nuclear superiority and is about to demonstrate to the world that its $5 trillion nuclear arsenal is not "unusable."

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Personal account from 1 member of the action

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Following is an article about the looming US (and Israel? and UK?) attack on Iran by Dr. Abbas Bakhtiar. This is a story being ignored by the mainstream media -- most people seem to be in denial that this war could be launched later this month.

The possibility that the Republicians might loose control of Congress on 7th November in the US and their talk of an October suprise to ensure that this doesn't happen has led to much speculation, including the possibility that a 2nd 9/11 (for example a dirty bomb or nuke being let off somewhere like NYC -- NYC is the only US city to have had a radiation mapping exercise conducted and this data is just what you need for doing a before and after study of the effects of a nuke...) might be set up and then used to justify a massive shock and awe bombing campaign against Iran that could include the use of nukes. Of course this is speculation -- there is nothing I'd like better than to be wrong.

If this were to happen before 7th November the election might not even happen and if it did it could ensure a victory for the Republicians (though things don't always go as they plan, eg the election in Spain after the Madrid bombings).

See also:

• "Cold War Shivers": War Preparations in the Middle East and Central Asia
• The Next Phase of the Middle East War
• The Pentagon's "Second 911"
• World War IV: US Plans to Use Nuclear Weapons against Iran

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As part of the International week of protest against nuclear weapons and power in space there was a protest outside the US spy base Menwith Hill

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It is essential that people across America and around the World take cognizance of the dangers of a Middle East war directed against Iran and act decisively to challenge the US military agenda and reverse the tide of war.

The World is at the crossroads of the most serious crisis in modern history. The US has embarked on a military adventure, "a long war", which threatens the future of humanity.

This article documents recent developments, focusing on military deployment and preparations in the event of a US led war on Iran. This text follows a number of earlier reports published by Global Research pertaining to the War on Iran (See Iran dossier, Nuclear War dossier, Lebanon dossier )

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Louise Amoore of Durham University and editor of The Global Resistance Reader will be speaking at CSSGJ, Nottingham University on 9th October. The title of her talk is "Vigilant Visualities: The Watchful Politics of the War on Terror".

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Only the bright survive in this super short cut of the most colourful parts of the time to go demo on the 23rd September in Manchester

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Photos from the massive anti-war demonstration held in Manchester on 23rd September 2006 prior to the start of the annual Labour Party Conference.

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Photos from the massive anti-war demonstration held in Manchester on 23rd September 2006 prior to the start of the annual Labour Party Conference.

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