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  • Group to file war crimes suit against U.S. over Abu Ghraib abuse in German courts
    30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By John Byrne
    Group that won Guantánamo ruling targets U.S. over Abu Ghraib
    Lawyers acting for a U.S. advocacy group will file war crimes charges in Germany against senior U.S. administration officials for their alleged role in torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
    The charges, which will be filed Tuesday, name Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, former Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet, the former leading U.S. general in Iraq Ricardo Sanchez and seven other (…)

  • Nuclear train death: "Strategy to scare us"
    30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Göttingen (Germany) anti-nuclear activists have reflected on the dangers of railway actions after a train killed one in France. The following was stated at a demonstration by the AntiAtomPlenum Göttingen on 8 November, a day after Sébastien Briat died:
    “Perhaps for many of us it became clear for the first time yesterday that it is not just a cat-and-mouse game we play, we have to play, every year.
    ”But the fatal accident in Avricourt did not come from nowhere. In earlier years it was a (…)

  • Territory and Deterritory: Inside and Outside the ESF 2004, New Movement Subjectivities
    28 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Rodrigo Nunes
    1 - From Paris to London
    The path that led from the ESF in 2003 to the following edition in London was a lot less straightforward than a mere crossing of the channel; it went through a lot more detours and accidents, and raises important questions as to the present situation of European movements in their processes of deterritorialisaton and reterritorialisation.
    The London bid for the ESF was presented in Paris during the second edition as the result of an agreement (…)

  • Scottish Socialist Party in deep crisis
    28 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Rob Sewell in Glasgow
    The Scottish Socialist Party, once heralded by many on the left as the most successful socialist experiment in recent times, is in the process of tearing itself apart after sacking its founder and leader Tommy Sheridan as the party’s convener. Officially he is now simply a “backbencher”.
    Sheridan was recently dumped as leader by a 19 - 0 vote by the party’s executive committee apparently over his mishandling of allegations about sexual infidelity with a party (…)

  • Bush assassination plot foiled in 2001
    26 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the summer of 2001, just months before 9/11, George W. Bush flew to Genoa, Italy to attend the economic summit of 8 leading industrialized nations. What did 50,000-80,000 protesters have to do with a terrorist assassination plot? Nothing.
    July 21, 2004 (revised Nov 26, 2004) 2nd-Op
    The G8, as it’s called, includes the leaders of Germany, France, Russia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Britian and the United States. They met in Genoa in late July 2001, 7 weeks before 9/11. 7 weeks before the (…)

  • Germany and American hypocrisy
    17 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The German people have been justly criticized for their failing to do anything to stop the Holocaust, with Jews disappearing off the streets of Nazi Germany to be killed while the Germans pretended not to notice. It has been one of the mysteries of history how the most civilized people on earth could have allowed the Holocaust to happen with nary a voice of opposition or complaint.
    How does this differ from the remarkable lack of opposition in the United States to the war crimes being (…)

  • Berlin Wall
    15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a long barrier separating West Berlin from East Berlin and the surrounding territory of East Germany. Its intent was to restrict access between West Berlin and the German Democratic Republic. It existed from 1961 until 1989.
    Background
    After World War II, Berlin, like the rest of Germany, was divided into four sectors, although it was surrounded on all sides by the Soviet sector of Germany. The Soviet Union, the United States, the United (…)

  • Calls for end to violence at funeral of murdered film-maker
    12 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Isabel Conway in Amsterdam and Stephen Castle in Brussels
    The Dutch film-maker whose brutal murder sparked a spiral of racial violence in the Netherlands was cremated yesterday amid appeals for an end to a spate of attacks on mosques, schools and churches.
    On a bitterly cold Amsterdam night, the public heeded calls from municipal leaders not to turn up en masse but to follow the ceremony at home on TV.
    Theo van Gogh, a descendant of the 19th-century artist, was shot, stabbed and had (…)

  • World Wide Petition against the Escalation in Iraq: An initiative of the BRussells tribunal endorsed
    5 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Prof. Jean Bricmont, a Belgian scientist, specialist in theoretical physics, and author on politics, who was member of the prosecution at the BRussells Tribunal, has written a short but strong statement "Stop the escalation" (see the text after this message, in English, French and Dutch). It has been signed already by several distinguished people (see underneath).
    We feel that we can’t wait any longer to do something. We hope that you and/or your organisation will sign this letter, giving (…)

  • Election Reactions from Germany : "Our Values Systems are Separating"
    4 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George Bush has been re-elected. Leading German foreign policy experts tell SPIEGEL INTERNATIONAL what the outcome means for transatlantic relations.
    Even before Kerry’s Wednesday concession, politicians and thinkers in Germany were at work strategizing the future of foreign relations with the world’s only superpower.
    A number of serious issues divide Germany and the United States — from the go-it-alone attitude of incumbent President George W. Bush to the Iraq war to Washington’s (…)