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  • Al-Qaeda gives European states month to quit Iraq
    22 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Al-Qaeda gives European states month to quit Iraq
    Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades warn European nations to face London-style attacks if they do not quit Iraq.
    By Habib Trabelsi - DUBAI
    The Al-Qaeda terror network warned European nations to pull their troops out of Iraq within a month or face more attacks like the deadly London bombings, according to an Internet statement.
    "This message is the final warning to European states. We want to give you a one-month deadline to bring your soldiers (…)

  • Why does America need foreign support ?
    20 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    An international one-day conference on rebuilding Iraq sponsored by the United States and the European Union, which has to drawn foreign ministers from the 25-nation European Union, the United States, Iraq and many others took place in Brussels on June 22. This raises several questions : why does the US want an international conference with the participation of European countries two years after its "victory" in Iraq ? What can be expected from this conference ? And how should the antiwar (…)

  • From Dictatorship to Democracy - A Primer for Freedom
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Pro democracy? Learn the strategy and techniques for non violent toppling of goverments that act more like dictatorships than so-called democracies. Velvet Revolution: An interview with Gene Sharp
    Laura Secor has an interview in the Boston Globe Ideas section with Gene Sharp, the author of a pamphlet, From Dictatorship to Democracy, that has been used by pro democracy groups from Serbia to Ukraine, to learn the strategy and techniques for non violent toppling of dictatorships. Sharp’s (…)

  • 60 Years Ago Dietrich Bonhoeffer was Murdered
    11 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    "We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds. We have been washed with many waters. We have learned the arts of dissimulation and ambiguous speech. Through experience we have become distrustful toward people and often owe them truth and the free word. We are worn-out or perhaps even cynical through the unbearable conflicts. Are we still needed? We will need plain, simple, direct people, not geniuses, cynics, misanthropes or clever tacticians. Will our inner power of resistance against what (…)

  • "Pre-emptive" Terrorism
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    July 5, 2005 - On March 16, 2003, Bush, Blair and Aznar of Spain met on the Portuguese island of Terceira in the Azores and declared war on Iraq at a time of their "choosing" unless President Saddam Hussein and his two sons leave Iraq. On March 20, 2003, without explicit authorisation of the UN Security Council and in violation of international law, and against the majority of the world public opinion, the US and Britain attacked Iraq "pre-emptively".
    The violent attack was one of the most (…)

  • Enemy is at the G8
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Fears were growing overnight that today’s G8 summit in Scotland was set to be derailed by violence and political bickering.
    Sir Bob Geldof, the organiser of the weekend’s Live8 concerts to fight poverty, was downbeat last night.
    "We have the potential to make this an historic G8," Geldof said.
    "But I don’t think they (G8 leaders) are anywhere near there."
    More than 60 people were arrested in Edinburgh as violent protesters infiltrated mass demonstrations for G8.
    Police fears that (…)

  • End to occupation pre-condition for reconstruction of Iraq
    22 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BRussells Tribunal critical of joint US-EU conference on Iraq, in Brussels on June 22
    On June 22 2005, the United States and the European Union are co-hosting an international conference on Iraq in Brussels, which aims to bolster international support for political and economic reforms and back efforts to draft a constitution for the new Baghdad government.
    The legitimacy and autonomy of this government, installed and completely controlled by the US occupation forces after an illegal and (…)

  • The human cost of "Fortress Europe" : asylum-seekers unfairly detained and unfairly expelled
    20 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Amnesty international releases reports on UK, Spain, Italy
    (Brussels 20 June 2005) European Union countries are increasingly violating their international obligations on asylum according to three reports released simultaneously today by Amnesty International to mark World Refugee Day.
    The reports, covering a range of issues relating to the detention and expulsion of people seeking asylum in the UK, Spain and Italy, show up the terrible human cost of "Fortress Europe".
    Amnesty (…)

  • Chavez adviser to be key speaker at G8 Alternatives Summit in Edinburgh
    17 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    One of the most senior advisers to the radical President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, will be a keynote speaker at the G8 Alternatives Summit in Edinburgh on Sunday, July 3rd.
    Maximilien Arvelaiz, Director of International Relations, is one of President Chavez’s principal advisers in the area of foreign relations and is the main coordinator of his international agenda. He played a key role in coordinating President Chavez’s recent state visit to India and his trips to the last two Porto (…)

  • Enabling Evil
    15 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In 1996, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen published Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. His thesis is that the mass murder of Jews was not done on the quiet by a few Nazi fanatics. Instead, Goldhagen writes, by their complicity, ordinary Germans were willing participants in the slaughter.
    In other words, the German people as a people were guilty as well, because they accepted and permitted the slaughter of an ethnic group.
    Goldhagen’s thesis has had rough sledding. (…)