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Global warfare: After NATO summit, U.S. to intensify military drive into Asia

Barack Obama, the latest rotating imperator of the first global empire, will arrive in Lisbon on November 19 to receive the plaudits of 27 North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies and secure their continued fealty on issues ranging from the war in Afghanistan to a continental interceptor missile system, the continued deployment of American tactical nuclear weapons in Europe, participation in the Pentagon’s cyber warfare plans and expanded military missions in the planet’s south and east.

G20 summit dominated by specter of currency, trade wars

The G20 summit of leading economies opens today in Seoul, South Korea under conditions of mounting international currency and trade conflicts exacerbated by Washington’s drive to gain a competitive trade advantage over its rivals by devaluing the dollar.

Iran’s "green wave" opposition and its ties to global geopolitics

Politics makes for strange bedfellows. Within the framework of the events leading to the Green Wave was a face-off within the Iranian elite between one side which wanted to preserve current policies and another that was formed by an alliance between Iranian business interests and civil liberties organizations. In the second camp of Iranian capital and civil liberties, the former group hid behind the latter group. This alliance between Iranian capital and groups demanding greater civil liberties may come as a surprise to some, but it is neither a historical nor political anomaly. Many movements and revolutions have been configured through such alliances.

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Toxic Brew: The Tea Parties

The Tea Parties didn’t arise spontaneously: they were boiled up by big business.

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Ongoing Iran War Preparations? Arabian Sea: Center Of West's 21st Century War

The monumental expansion of arms sales and the buildup of naval and air power in the Arabian Sea region are unprecedented. They are also alarming to the highest degree.
The West, America and its NATO allies, are escalating military operations across the area, from Asia to Africa to the Middle East.

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President Ahmadinejad's New York meeting with U.S. activists

The opening week of the United Nations' 65th session was a busy one for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In addition to giving his annual address before the U.N. General Assembly and granting interviews with everyone from ABC's Charlie Rose to Fox News' Eric Shaw, he also found time to meet with groups of Iranian-Americans, Muslim leaders, academics and members of think tanks.

On Sept. 21 – the annual U.N.-declared International Day of Peace, he held a particularly interesting meeting at a midtown hotel with some 130 members of the U.S. peace and social justice movements, including major figures in the Black activist community.

BP: The Unfinished Crimes and Plunder of Anglo-American Imperialism

In the light of British Petroleum’s grotesque crime, as yet unfinished, against humanity in the Gulf of Mexico, it is well to recall briefly BP’s no less hideous crime perpetrated in its earlier incarnation as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) and, later, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC).

Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq’s discourse at the UN Security Council session in October 1951 was one of the most tragic utterances of a country that was being raped and pillaged and striving to retain its dignity:

"It went without saying that as long as the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company had a monopoly over this source of national wealth, the government and people of Iran could not enjoy political independence. Despite its business façade, this company is to be considered as the modern counterpart of the old British East India Company, which in a short span of time extended its control over India. The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company had an annual income exceeding that of the Iranian government; its foreign trade was larger than ours; it intervened actively in the internal affairs of the country, and grossly interfered in our elections to the Majlis and the formation of cabinets, and thus conducting themselves in a manner calculated to wring the greatest profits from resources which it owned and controlled. By a complex conspiratorial network within the country, by widespread corruption of government ministries, and the illegal support to native journalists and politicians, it had in fact created a State within a State. Little by little it sapped the independence of the Iranian nation."

Even as the Iran of today and its democratically elected government face the threat of physical liquidation by the combined forces of Zionism and imperialism, the struggles and aspirations of this great humanist and architect of freedom will remain, to all who strive for justice and decency, forever green.

US led militarization of the European Union

The NATO summit in Lisbon, Portugal on November 19-20 will inaugurate a new NATO military doctrine for the next ten years. It will confirm the bloc as a 21st century expeditionary force without geographical or thematic limits, one which will seek any opportunity to intrude itself anywhere in the world under a multitude of subterfuges.

The summit will voice unanimous support for a U.S.-led interceptor missile system to cover all of Europe. It will maintain the position that American nuclear weapons must be kept on the continent for "deterrence" purposes. And it will authorize the subordination of nations from Britain to Poland and Bulgaria under a common American-dominated cyber defense structure for war in the "fifth battlespace," for "full-spectrum operations in a new domain."

"Manufacturing Dissent": Anti-globalization Movement Funded by Corporate Elite

We need to challenge the right of the "Globalizers" to rule. This requires that we rethink the strategy of protest. Can we move to a higher plane, by launching mass movements in our respective countries, movements that bring the message of what globalization is doing, to ordinary people? For they are the force that must be mobilized to challenge those who plunder the Globe.

Afghanistan: NATO's ten-year war in South Asia

In slightly over a month, on October 7, the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan will enter its tenth year.

The conflict represents the longest continuous combat operations in the history of the United States and Afghanistan alike. With the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for the only time in its existence activating its Article 5 mutual military assistance clause in September 2001 and thus entering the Afghan fray, European nations that had not been at war since the Second World War are now engaged in an endless combat mission.

There are 150,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan, 120,000 of them under the command of NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Military personnel from over a quarter of the 192 members of the United Nations. They include soldiers from almost every European country, several Asia-Pacific states, and nations in the Americas and the Middle East.

Animal Cruelty In 28 Countries

animal cruelty in 28 countries

(every country has animal cruelty)

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Towards a World War III scenario? Role of Israel in triggering an attack on Iran

In a very real sense, the war plans against Iran, which has been on the Pentagon's drawing board for more than five years, threatens the future of humanity.

This war can be prevented if people forcefully confront their governments, pressure their elected representatives, organize at the local level in towns, villages and municipalities, spread the word, inform their fellow citizens as to the implications of a nuclear war, initiate debate and discussion within the armed forces.

The holding of mass demonstrations and antiwar protests is not enough. What is required is the development of a broad and well organized grassroots antiwar network which forcefully challenges the legitimacy of war, a global people's movement which criminalizes war.

Oil Exec Promises over Notts Oil Find

A notts based, canadian oil company, Newton Energy, has said it wants to rip up some ground and start drilling and testing and various other crap in the nottingham countryside...He has actually published his number and title, so maybe a few phone calls from concerned residents telling him to shove it where it dont shine?

J B Spray Squat, Court Hearing Mon. Aug 2nd, CALL FOR RESISTANCE TO EVICTION!

The J B Spray squat, in Radford, Nottingham, is facing another court hearing tomorrow in front of Nottingham Magistrates, and so is calling for support, in terms of people joining the squats efforst to resist any attemots at eviction by the bailiffs or the state...PLEASE COME AND JOIN THE RESISTANCE!
CANT GO, WONT GO!

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July 4th 2010 at Menwith Hill

An account of the Independence FROM Amercia demonstration

Government to tell unemployed to ‘get migrating!’

A spoof of recent announcements by UK government which fail to address the reality for those in oppressed communities.

Anti-G20 protests erupt in Toronto

TORONTO in Canada has today erupted with massive and angry protests against the G20 meeting of the global neoliberal elite.

Brothers-in-Arms: Capitalism and Corporate Journalism

CRUSHING ECONOMICS, CHEERLEADING MEDIA AND A LOFTY DISMISSAL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES

An essential role of corporate journalism is to shore up public confidence in an unjust, crisis-riven financial and economic system. Although plenty of gloom and doom is permitted, especially in the face of obvious crisis, the legitimacy of the system is rarely questioned.

Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair: Anarchism 101

Chris | 22-05-2010 23:22 | Analysis | Globalisation | Sheffield

Attached is a recording of a panel discussion held at the Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair, titled Anarchism 101, everything you wanted to know about anarchism, which was held on 22 May 2010.

Beyond Capitalism: Common Wealth for a sustainable society

Chris | 21-05-2010 23:33 | Globalisation | Sheffield

Attached is a recording of Martin Large discussing his new book, Common Wealth -- For a Free, Equal, Mutual and Sustainable Society

http://www.hawthornpress.com/book.php?isbn=9781903458983, which was held in Freeman College, Sheffield on Friday 21st May 2010.

Sheffield Globalisation Newswire Archive

Global warfare: After NATO summit, U.S. to intensify military drive into Asia

G20 summit dominated by specter of currency, trade wars

Iran’s "green wave" opposition and its ties to global geopolitics

Toxic Brew: The Tea Parties

Ongoing Iran War Preparations? Arabian Sea: Center Of West's 21st Century War

President Ahmadinejad's New York meeting with U.S. activists

BP: The Unfinished Crimes and Plunder of Anglo-American Imperialism

US led militarization of the European Union

"Manufacturing Dissent": Anti-globalization Movement Funded by Corporate Elite

Afghanistan: NATO's ten-year war in South Asia

Animal Cruelty In 28 Countries

Towards a World War III scenario? Role of Israel in triggering an attack on Iran

Oil Exec Promises over Notts Oil Find

J B Spray Squat, Court Hearing Mon. Aug 2nd, CALL FOR RESISTANCE TO EVICTION!

July 4th 2010 at Menwith Hill

Government to tell unemployed to ‘get migrating!’

Anti-G20 protests erupt in Toronto

Brothers-in-Arms: Capitalism and Corporate Journalism

Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair: Anarchism 101

Beyond Capitalism: Common Wealth for a sustainable society

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