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Dumping on Traditional Owners: the ugly face of Australian racism | Jim Green, 29 March 2012, The Drum Opinion
from the page: "The British government conducted 12 nuclear bomb tests in Australia in the 1950s... Permission was not sought from affected Aboriginal groups... So-called 'Native Patrol Officers' patrolled thousands of square kilometres to try to ensure that Aboriginal people were removed before nuclear tests took place. Signs were erected in some places - written in English, which few in the affected Indigenous communities could understand. The 1985 Royal Commission found that regard for Aboriginal safety was characterised by "ignorance, incompetence and cynicism". Many Aboriginal people were forcibly removed from their homelands and taken to places such as the Yalata mission in South Australia, which was effectively a prison camp. In the late-1990s, the Australian government carried out a clean-up... "What was done at Maralinga was a cheap and nasty solution that wouldn't be adopted on white-fellas land."
landgrab  dumping  bribes  divide-and-rule  ignorance  propaganda  racism  mining  uranium  nulear-waste  nuclear-test  UK  history  nuclear  oceanisa  australia  indigenous-people  from delicious
7 weeks ago by willowtrees
Russia May Consider Establishing Private Military Companies | Konstantin Bogdanov, 13/04/2012, RIA Novosti
from the page: ".."I believe that such companies [PMCs] are a way of implementing national interests without the direct involvement of the state," Putin replied... Western governments find it difficult to conduct operations in the combat zones without "a contract workforce," which is another word for mercenaries whose losses are of no concern to anyone apart from their direct employers and who can be assigned the most delicate missions. If they are caught red-handed, they are on their own.. Russian PMCs could be also used in Afghanistan, whose pseudo-stability has closely tied the interests of NATO with those of Moscow. The deployment of additional troops there may be difficult due to local problems and political losses, but the use of the contract workforce could smooth off some rough edges. At the same time, PMCs could be a good way to offer retired servicemen new employment opportunities at a time when Russia's Defense and Interior Ministries are planning to reduce their workforces.
military  nato  libya  iraq  secret  special-forces  afghanistan  africa  history  veterans  uk  usa  russia  war-industries  pmc  from delicious
7 weeks ago by willowtrees
Japan set to jointly develop weapons with Britain | mainichi Japan, April 04, 2012
from the page: "Japan is set to jointly develop weapons with Britain following Tokyo's easing late last year of its weapons export ban, government sources said. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda will agree to officially launch bilateral talks on the issue with his British counterpart David Cameron during an April 10 summit meeting in Japan. It will be the first such joint development since Japan eased its principles on its weapons export ban in December last year to open the way for the joint development and production of weapons and technology with countries with which Tokyo has security arrangements. Until then, Japan had jointly developed a missile defense (MD) system with the United States as an exception to the ban... Japan decided to cooperate with Britain in weapons development as compensation for selecting the F35 fighter developed mainly by the U.S. as its next-generation fighter rather than the Eurofighter that was strongly recommended by Britain, according to the sources.
compensation  usa  missile-defense  deregulation  military  europe  uk  asia  japan  arms-trade  from delicious
8 weeks ago by willowtrees
Britain set for sweeping Internet, phone monitoring | By Stephen Mangan Apr 1, 2012, Reuters
monitoring  security  spy  intelligence  europe  internet  uk  privacy  from delicious
8 weeks ago by willowtrees
The Contradictions of Modern Feminism: The Triumph of Machine Politics Over Feminism | by John Pilger, Global Research, March 8, 2012
from the page: "..The devotion of this new "feminist icon" to imperial war is impressive, if strange... the point is that celebration of this kind of politician, regardless of gender, has nothing to do with feminism... In the west, "glass ceilings" remain the issue-of-choice of bourgeois feminism. How many women who "make it" in politics speak out against the machine, reaching down to women left behind? How many resist the addiction of vanity to power and the media? How many use their platforms, to analyse and expose the psychopathic militarism and its industries of death and lies that contaminate our political, cultural and media life and are the source of so much violence against women in stricken, faraway countries, if not against women at home? Who spoke out against Julia Gillard's junket to Israel in the wake of the massacre of 1400 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, and her unctuous support for their killers?
politics  racism  anniversary  imperialism  uk  women  accomplices  iraq  israel  afghanistan  usa  australia  war  feminism  from delicious
11 weeks ago by willowtrees
Sharp rise in people sleeping rough in UK | By Dennis Moore 7 March 2012, WSWS
from the page: ...In autumn 2011 when the last count took place, there were 2,181 recorded as sleeping rough at any one night in England. The previous year was 1,768, making an increase of 23 percent... Anyone sheltering in a hostel or space “used for recreational purposes” is excluded from the count... The number of young people registered as homeless has risen sharply... A study by the Sunday Mirror found that 13,000 young people presented themselves at local authorities as homeless and were seeking advice in October 2011... Ongoing deep cuts to the welfare benefits system and the rising costs of living are tearing families apart... “Homelessness: A silent killer”, found that homeless men are dying at an average age of 47 years old and women at 43 years. The average age of death in the general UK population stands at 77 years. The incidence of death because of infections and falls is increased and suicide is nine times more likely in someone who is homeless."
housing  health  poverty  suicide  data  age  youths  social-services  homeless  europe  uk  from delicious
12 weeks ago by willowtrees
Dumping the Dollar? Towards a Regional Currency in Latin America? ALBA Bloc Advances towards “Alternative Economic Model” | by Rachael Boothroyd. Global Research, February 13, 2012, Socialist Project and Venezuela Analysis
from the page: "..At the end of the summit's first day, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced that member countries had agreed to contribute 1% of their international reserves toward the bloc's main bank in order to create a reserve fund. The Bank of the Alba was established in 2008 with the intention of providing economic support to people-centred regional projects and to contribute to sustainable social and economic development across the region. The Bank is also cited as acting as a continental alternative to the International Monetary Fund... The heads of state also discussed the possibility of increasing the commercial use of the sucre, the bloc's virtual currency. The sucre is currently used for direct trading between the ALBA countries, allowing them to circumvent the U.S dollar and minimise the foreign-exchange risk.
falklands  tppa  fta  social-services  uk  usa  argentina  haiti  venezuela  bank  imf  currency  localization  latin-america  from delicious
february 2012 by willowtrees
Silence Of The Lambs: Seumas Milne, George Monbiot & ‘Media Analysis’ In The Guardian Wonderland | January 25, 2012, 2 Media Lens
from the page: "..'However grateful we should be to these dissident writers, their relegation to the margins of the commentary pages of Britain's "leftwing" media serves a useful purpose for corporate interests. It helps define the "character" of the British media as provocative, pluralistic and free-thinking... It is a vital component in maintaining the fiction that a professional media is a diverse media.'.. How many critical pieces in the Guardian portrayed the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq accurately as wars of aggression, as judged by the standards of the post-WW2 Nuremberg trials? .. In fact, 'traffic on the Guardian's website doubled in the months after 9/11, driven from the US.' This is highly attractive to advertisers wishing to target relatively affluent and educated consumers. Indeed, ironically, the Guardian appears far more comfortable publishing the views of US dissidents writing on US issues, rather than their UK counterparts writing on UK issues. .."
journalism  media-literacy  BBC  censorship  marketing  bias  omission  pseudo  Left  uk  Guardian  corporation  dissent  journalist  from delicious
february 2012 by willowtrees
The world war on democracy | John Pilger , 19 January 2012,
from the page: "Lisette Talate died the other day. I remember a wiry, fiercely intelligent woman who masked her grief with a determination that was a presence. She was the embodiment of people's resistance to the war on democracy... In the early 1960s, the Labour government of Harold Wilson secretly agreed to a demand from Washington that the Chagos archipelago [her homeland], a British colony, be "swept" and "sanitised" of its 2,500 inhabitants so that a military base could be built on the principal island, Diego Garcia... "Only when you take direct action, face to face, even break laws, are you ever noticed," said Lisette. "And the smaller you are, the greater your example to others."... I last saw Lisette's tiny figure standing in driving rain alongside her comrades outside the Houses of Parliament. What struck me was the enduring courage of their resistance. It is this refusal to give up that rotten power fears, above all, knowing it is the seed beneath the snow."
cia  europe  asia  middle-east  africa  paranoia  quote  Terry-Eagleton  war  terrorism  assassination  intervention  coup  afghanistan  iraq  violence  deportation  democracy  resistance  uk  usa  women  Diego-Garcia  military-bases  from delicious
january 2012 by willowtrees
Two British soldiers arrested over allegations of sex abuse with 10-year-old children while they served in Afghanistan | By Ian Drury,19th January 2012, Mail Online
from the page: "Two British soldiers are being investigated over claims they sexually abused two Afghan children. A sergeant and a private are alleged to have encouraged a boy and a girl aged about ten to touch them inappropriately."
helmand  abuse  asia  nato  europe  uk  afghanistan  children  from delicious
january 2012 by willowtrees
Antidepressant use in England soars | Society | David Batty, 30 December 2011 The Guardian
from the page: "The use of antidepressants has risen by more than a quarter in England in just three years, amid fears that more people are suffering from depression due to the economic crisis. The number of prescriptions for antidepressants increased by 28% from 34m in 2007-08 to 43.4m in 2010-11.. Research by the House of Commons found the cost to the NHS of treating the illness is more than £520m a year. People who are unable to work due to depression lose £8.97bn of potential earnings a year, while the loss of earnings from suicide is put at £1.47bn... Paul Farmer, chief executive of the mental health charity Mind, said the tough economic times may have contributed to more people experiencing depression, but improved public awareness may also mean more people are seeking help... Emer O'Neill, chief executive of Depression Alliance, said: "These uncertain economic times are linked to an increase in the number of people with the illness.""
drug  health  poverty  cost  mental  economy  europe  uk  depression  from delicious
january 2012 by willowtrees
Troop levels to drop by 40,000 in Afghanistan | 02 Dec 2011, Al Jazeera English
from the page: "..Other Afghans fear an economic collapse if foreign aid dries up as a result of an international withdrawal. Earlier this month, the World Bank issued a warning that an abrupt cut of foreign aid could severely destabilise the country, compromising its ability to provide basic services and pay for its security forces... 14,000 foreign troops will leave Afghanistan by the end of December. With only two months left in the year, the US is still pushing forward with a plan to withdraw 10,000 service members before 2012. Canada, whose combat mission in Afghanistan is set to end this year, pulled out 2,850 combat forces in the summer. France and Britain are set to send 400 soldiers a piece home."-- why no one suggests ISAF and World Bank appropriating budgets of destruction, killing, abduction, torture, military bases, military occupation, arms proliferation, and incitement to civil war in the name of training and security for humanitarian aids?
money  aid  training  canada  world-bank  uk  france  NATO  usa  occupation  asia  afghanistan 
december 2011 by willowtrees
British soldier fired for stabbing Afghan boy | UK news | Nooruddin Bakhshi, Rob Evans, Richard Norton-Taylor and Jon Boone guardian.co.uk, Friday 2 December 2011 , The Guardian
from the page: "A British soldier has been dismissed from the army after stabbing a 10-year-old Afghan boy in his kidneys with a bayonet for no reason... He could not explain why he carried out the attack. After being traced by the Guardian, the boy's father said the attack had left his impoverished family bitter and financially burdened. More than 18 months after the attack, his son is still unable to go to school... he cannot understand why his son was attacked and has received no apology from the British forces. Although he credits Nato troops for expelling the Taliban from his village, the attack has soured his opinion of western forces. "Of course foreigners are the enemies of Afghans – otherwise he wouldn't do that to innocent child who was just going by on his bike... We asked for $40,000 but they only gave us $800." Six members of the British armed forces have been, or are being, prosecuted over allegations of abusing or wounding Afghan civilians since March last year.
apology  poverty  compensation  court-martial  civilians  children  uk  NATO  asia  afghanistan 
december 2011 by willowtrees
The Corbett Report | Perfect Storm of Internet Censorship | by James Corbett GRTV.ca November 10, 2011
from the page: "In recent weeks the governments of Britain, Israel, the US, Japan, India and China have reported alleged cyber attacks by foreign militaries, hackers, and malicious software like Duqu, a virus similar to the Stuxnet cyber weapon constructed by Israel and the US for use against Iran’s nuclear program. Although the nature and origin of the attacks or even whether they took place at all cannot be independently confirmed, the supposed threats are being used to propose punishing new legislation aimed at stifling internet freedoms and are igniting new rivalries in what many see as the battlefield of the 21st century: cyberspace.... "
sensors  cybersecurity  security  internet  usa  japan  uk  china  india  israel  social-media  civil-liberties  from delicious
november 2011 by willowtrees
US universities in Africa 'land grab' | John Vidal and Claire Provost, guardian.co.uk, 8 June 2011
from the page: "..The new report on land acquisitions in seven African countries suggests that Harvard, Vanderbilt and many other US colleges with large endowment funds have invested heavily in African land... Much of the money is said to be channelled through London-based Emergent asset management, which runs one of Africa's largest land acquisition funds, run by former JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs currency dealers... "We have seen cases of speculators taking over agricultural land while small farmers, viewed as squatters, are forcibly removed with no compensation," said Frederic Mousseau, policy director at Oakland, said: "This is creating insecurity in the global food system that could be a much bigger threat to global security than terrorism. More than one billion people around the world are living with hunger. The majority of the world's poor still depend on small farms for their livelihoods, and speculators are taking these away while promising progress that never happens."
landgrab  africa  usa  universities  Harvard  uk  speculation  agriculture  food-security  from delicious
october 2011 by willowtrees
Pambazuka - ‘Free Tripoli’, just don't mention the corpses | Lizzie Phelan 2011-09-07, Issue 546
from the page: "..it has also been a war that has reasserted the Western mainstream media’s power to not just fabricate events but to create. The first media victory was when it got away with claiming that Gaddafi’s government was attacking its own citizens in Tripoli from the air... No one was held to account when later Russian intelligence satellites and visits from independent observers to the areas alleged to have been targeted revealed no evidence... British Foreign Secretary William Hague, who claimed in the first days of the crisis that Gaddafi had fled to Venezuela... the BBC has yet to apologise for using blatantly fake footage from a demonstration in India claiming it was in Tripoli’s Green Square... The last concrete figures on the second day of fighting put the death toll in 12 hours of fighting in Tripoli alone at 1,300 with 900 injured. Far from Tripoli falling without resistance these figures suggest that Tripoli fell with the masses resisting being massacred.
journalism  lies  propaganda  libya  africa  europe  UK  BBC  fabrication  accountability  murders  civilians  death  resistance  nato  military  massacre  from delicious
september 2011 by willowtrees
Special report: The secret plan to take Tripoli | By Samia Nakhoul TRIPOLI | Tue Sep 6, 2011 ,Reuters
from the page: "..British operatives infiltrated Tripoli and planted radio equipment to help target air strikes... The French supplied training and transport for new weapons. Washington helped at a critical late point by adding two extra Predator drones... Also vital, say western and rebel officials, was the covert support of Arab states such as the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. Doha gave weapons, military training and money to the rebels... That meeting was one of five in Paris in April and May.. Most were attended by the chiefs of staff of NATO countries involved in the bombing campaign, which had begun in March, as well as military officials from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.... Sarkozy expressed enthusiasm for the plan... He [rebel colonel Buhagiar] joined the opposition National Front for the Salvation of Libya in 1981 and has lived in the United States and trained as a special forces operative in both Sudan and Iraq.
military  invasion  destruction  libya  africa  accomplices  nato  france  usa  uk  drones  europe  uae  qatar  middle-east  from delicious
september 2011 by willowtrees
Libya: the minister, the Tory donor and a contract to supply oil | By Robert Winnett, and Rowena Mason 01 Sep 2011, Telegraph
from the page: "An oil firm whose chief executive has bankrolled the Conservatives won exclusive rights to trade with Libyan rebels during the conflict, following secret talks involving the British Government. The deal with Vitol was said to have been masterminded by Alan Duncan, the former oil trader turned junior minister, who has close business links to the oil firm and was previously a director of one of its subsidiaries. Mr Duncans private office received funding from the head of Vitol before the general election. Ian Taylor, the companys chief executive and a friend of Mr Duncan, has given more than £200,000 to the Conservatives.
uk  europe  libya  africa  oil  corruption  energy  corporations  from delicious
september 2011 by willowtrees
How MI6 deal sent family to Gaddafi's jail | Ian Cobain, Mustafa Khalili and Mona Mahmood guardian.co.uk, Friday 9 September 2011
from the page: "...Sami al-Saadi, his wife and four children, the youngest a girl aged six, were flown from Hong Kong to Tripoli, where they were taken straight to prison. Saadi was interrogated under torture while his family were held in a nearby cell... The evidence that the family were victims of a British-led rendition operation is contained in a secret CIA document found in the abandoned office of Moussa Koussa, Gaddafi's former intelligence chief, in Tripoli last week... It is the first time evidence has emerged that the British intelligence agencies ran their own rendition operation, as opposed to co-operating with those that were mounted by the CIA... Associates of Saadi cannot understand why his capture and interrogation would hold any great intelligence value for the British authorities, and are speculating that he may have been a "gift" from the British to the Gaddafi regime.
rendition  libya  uk  intelligence  torture  europe  hong-kong  africa  cia  usa  from delicious
september 2011 by willowtrees
Once Upon a Time...: Your Approval of History Is Irrelevant and Meaningless | August 10, 2011, Arthur Silber
from the page: "..The violence unleashed in the civil rights upheaval of the 1950s and 1960s was inevitable.. Equality was not granted, to the extent it was, primarily in recognition of an unspeakable, deadly injustice that whites had committed... I myself think that violence is always deeply tragic. It is uncontrollable and, among other lamentable consequences, it will always lead to the death and severe injury of innocent people. It very frequently leads to results which are worse than the conditions which gave rise to it (watch for that to happen in both England and the United States). Violence as a response means that hope has been destroyed, that the victims of the system no longer believe (or can even pretend to believe) that "change from within" is worth a damn, or even possible in any meaningful way... Violence is a completely understandable response, particularly when every other means of amelioration and recourse has been systematically closed off.
uk  europe  system  violence  history  usa  human-rights  discrimination  inequality  poverty  morality  protest  racism  inevitable  police  generations  narrative  youths  from delicious
august 2011 by willowtrees
British Apache helicopter injures children in Afghanistan | Richard Norton-Taylor guardian.co.uk, Monday 25 July 2011
from the page: "Five Afghan children have been injured, some seriously, by cannon fire from a British Apache helicopter, according to UK defence officials. It is believed they were hit by stray bullets during an intended attack on an insurgent as they worked in a field in the Nahr-e-Saraj district of Helmand province, on Saturday. The children were taken to Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, for treatment, the Ministry of Defence said. Officials are investigating the incident which is likely to focus on the accuracy of the Apache's cannon and the speed with which they fire. The MoD is expected to offer compensation in the form of ex gratia payments to the families of the children.
afghanistan  asia  children  uk  nato  military  from delicious
august 2011 by willowtrees
Sellafield Mox nuclear fuel plant to close | Fiona Harvey, guardian.co.uk, 3 August 2011
from the page: "The Mox nuclear fuel plant at Sellafield was closed on Wednesday , with the loss of around 600 jobs. The closure is a consequence of the Fukushima incident in Japan in March, which has closed down much of the nuclear industry there and led to a rethink of nuclear power around the world. But the government said the move had "no implications" for the UK's plans for new nuclear reactors. Workers at the plant were told on Wednesday morning that there was "considerable scope" for them to be re-employed in other parts of the Sellafield complex. It will take several months for the plant to close fully. The west Cumbrian mixed-oxide fuel plant has cost the taxpayer £1.4bn since it was commissioned in the early 1990s.
japan  uk  asia  europe  nuclear-power  nuclear-waste  Sellafield  layoff  fukushima  nuclear-industry  tax  environment  from delicious
august 2011 by willowtrees
Caribbean objecting to nuclear waste shipment | The Associated Press July 21, 2011, BusinessWeek
from the page: "Caribbean officials are calling for an immediate halt to a European shipment of reprocessed nuclear waste that will pass near the islands on its way to Japan. They contend the practice poses a major risk. Caribbean Community spokesman Leonard Robertson says regional officials have been told by British authorities that the shipment of radioactive waste will be soon. He says they gave no specifics about the vessel for security reasons. Waste from Japanese nuclear reactors has for years been sent on specially equipped ships to Britain and France for reprocessing, then returned for storage in Japan.
japan  europe  france  uk  nuclear-power  latin-america  nuclear-waste  asia  environment  from delicious
august 2011 by willowtrees
PressTV - 'NATO drops uranium bombs on Libya' | Jun 28, 2011
from the page: "The Center for Research on Globalization says the bombs and missiles that the US-led military alliance has dropped on several Libyan cities contain depleted uranium (DU). Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, a research associate at the CRG center, told Press TV that there are several international missions in Libya to gather evidence on NATO war crimes, including the use of DU. His remarks come weeks after the Stop the War Coalition said in its late March report that dozens of bombs and cruise missiles were launched by the US, British, and French forces -- all with DU warheads -- in the first 24 hours of the war on Libya. DU munitions are controversial as their use is associated with long-term health concerns such as kidney damage, cancer, skin disorders and genetic defects. Nazemroaya, who is currently in Tripoli, said that NATO was also violating international laws by "bombing civilian structures, hospitals, civilian homes and hotels" in various parts of Libya.
nato  france  uk  usa  depleted-uranium  illegal  libya  civilians  death  africa  military  oil  from delicious
july 2011 by willowtrees
Remote control murder: Afghan drones operated from Nevada and Virginia | By Julie Hyland 15 July 2011. WSWS
from the page: "..The article noted grimly, "The families of the civilian victims will be entitled to compensation if they report to a British base and can prove their identity". Given that drone attacks are known to incinerate their victims, destroying them beyond recognition, this statement is particularly cynical. The usual description of drones as "unmanned" is a misnomer. A separate article in the same newspaper explained that the March 25 attack was the responsibility of 39 Squadron, based at the Creech air force base... Aviation Week July 6 noted, "There is an unofficial but lethal drone war taking place over Pakistan, Yemen and Libya that has expanded the area of operation for US forces beyond Iraq and Afghanistan, with no real acknowledgement from the government that anything extraordinary is happening. The undeclared conflict on these three fronts might be the first Drone War.." In Pakistan, an estimated 2,500 people have been killed in US drone attacks since 2004..."
military  drones  uk  europe  afghanistan  civilians  death  asia  pakistan  usa  compensation  israel  war-industries  money  china  france  from delicious
july 2011 by willowtrees
Afghan civilians killed by British drone | 06 Jul 2011 , Al Jazeera English
from the page: "A British Royal Air Force (RAF) drone has killed four Afghan civilians and injured two more during an attack on a Taliban commander, the British ministry of defence has confirmed.<br />
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The UK defence department verified a report in Britain's Guardian newspaper on Wednesday, which revealed that four civilians died when a Reaper drone being controlled from a US Air force base in Nevada attacked a truck carrying a known commander.<br />
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"On 25 March, a UK Reaper was tasked to engage and destroy two pick up trucks," the defence ministry said on Wednesday."
afghanistan  asia  civilians  death  uk  europe  military  drones  usa  helmand  from delicious
july 2011 by willowtrees
UN: Special Committee on Decolonization Adopts Draft on Falkland Islands, Amid Petitioners’ Concern that Text Ignores Islanders’ Self-Determination Wish / Hears Petitioners from Guam
from the page: "...'Committee of 24' Also Forwards Three Traditional Texts in Support Of Decolonization Declaration to General Assembly; Hears Petitioners from Guam... Today, the militarization of Guam was tied to the building of new military bases and the transfer of more than 8,000 United States Marines from Okinawa to Guam. With that movement, the Chamorro people would face many of the same problems that the Okinawan people had faced, including field fires and bomb accidents caused by live ammunition, plane and helicopter crashes, as well as noise pollution, traffic accidents, the destruction of environmental and historical sites and the loss of indigenous cultural heritage. The Okinawan people were against the movement of United States Marines to Guam, as well as the construction of new military bases, as they feared that the island’s colonial situation would become “deeply fixed”. They insisted that Guam be demilitarized in accordance with United Nations decolonization..."
argentina  uk  japan  guam  okinawa  oceania  latin-america  history  indigenous-people  colonies  military-bases  usa  military  sovereignty  UN  falklands  non-self-governing-territories  from delicious
june 2011 by willowtrees
WORLD SPENDING ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS SURPASSES $1 TRILLION PER DECADE | Global Zero
country: 2010 total military spending; 2010 nuclear weapons -> 2011 est. nuclear weapons <br />
(billions of US dollars)<br />
US: 687; 55.6 -> 61.3<br />
Russia: 53-86; 9.7 -> 14.8<br />
China: 129; 6.8 -> 7.6<br />
France: 61; 5.9 -> 6.0<br />
UK: 57; 4.5 -> 5.5<br />
India: 35; 4.1 -> 4.9<br />
Israel: 13; 1.9 -> 1.9<br />
Pakistan: 7.9; 1.8 -> 2.2<br />
North Korea: 0.5 -> 0.7<br />
<total> 1052-1085; 91.0 -> 104.9
data  nuclear-weapons  military  usa  uk  france  india  china  russia  israel  pakistan  north-korea  military-spending  europe  asia  from delicious
june 2011 by willowtrees
Diana Johnstone: The Imperialist Crime Cover-Up. What Does the ICC Stand For? | June 2, 2011, Counterpunch
from the page: "..In Libya as in the Kosovo war, the accusations are those made by armed rebels supported by NATO, with no discernable trace of independent neutral investigation... Thus the International Criminal Court turns out to be a continuation of the ICTY, that is, an instrument not of international justice but the judicial arm of Western intervention in weaker countries. The ICC could well stand for Imperialist Crimes Cover-up... In the spring of 1999, David Scheffer, who was..Madeleine Albrights Ambassador at large for War Crimes, visited Louise Arbour and provided her with NATO reports on which to base her indictments... The May 1999 accusations served their main immediate purpose: to block negotiations and to justify NATOs continued bombing. As Madeleine Albright put it, "We are not negotiating with Milosevic The indictments, I think, clarify the situation because they really show that we are doing the right thing in terms of responding to the kinds of crimes against..
usa  nato  history  icc  cover-up  libya  africa  Yugoslavia  war-crimes  massacre  double-standard  france  uk  military  civilians  death  from delicious
june 2011 by willowtrees
After latest massacre, NATO to continue attacks on Afghan civilians | By Bill Van Auken 1 June 2011, WSWS
from the page: "..It [Karzai's statement] also represented a tacit legitimization of the actions being carried out by armed Afghan opposition groups opposed to the current US-led occupation... "In order to achieve our goals, we should continue with nighttime raids," ISAF spokesman Brig. Gen. Josef Blotz said... The incident only underscores that Washington regards the Karzai government as its puppet.. A poll produced last month by the International Council on Security and Development found that 87 percent of Afghans in the south of the country..believe that US-NATO military operations are bad for the country. In the north of the country..the majority holding the same opinion still reaches 76 percent. The same poll found that 69 percent of the people in the south of the country believe that US-NATO forces are responsible for the bulk of civilian casualties, while only 10 percent believe that the Taliban are responsible for killing more civilians than the foreign occupation troops...
afghanistan  asia  usa  nato  karzai  taliban  puppet  raid  legitimization  resistance  occupation  poll  UN  UK  from delicious
june 2011 by willowtrees
Nuclear Industry’s Cover-Up, Lies And Denial: Beware of the French Nuclear Model |by Harsh Kapoor, April 23, 2011, Mainstream Weekly
from the page: "..Secrecy is built into the nuclear establishment's mindset everywhere, and it prevails across the nuclear industry internationally. ...the nuclear technocrats' lobby is no less powerful in France than it is in Japan.. Just this year, Areva spent 15 million euros on TV spots... Tepco, the Japanese and French authorities and Areva..are doing their best to protect the nuclear energy sector... as most nuclear plants in France are now old and subsequently present a higher risk of radioactive contamination for the 30,000 workers of the nuclear sector, the nuclear plant operators have massively turned towards sub-contracting the highly dangerous tasks involving repair, .., thereby escaping the strict health and safety norms... Today, France imports uranium from its former African colonies, mostly Niger, and the ecological and social costs are hidden, as Areva which runs mines in Niger does not maintain epidemio-logical health records of communities in the mining regions...
japan  nuclear  asia  india  france  lobby  iaea  ctbt  who  cover-up  MOX  Areva  subcontractors  water  mining  niger  propaganda  history  uk  dumping  nuclear-waste  from delicious
june 2011 by willowtrees
Al-Jazeera footage captures 'western troops on the ground' in Libya. Report claims soldiers may be British, possibly SAS – which would break UN resolution over any 'occupation force' | Julian Borger guardian.co.uk, 30 May 2011
from the page: "An al-Jazeera report appears to show western special forces on the frontline in Libya, in what the TV channel said was "evidence for the first time of allied boots on the ground"... There have been numerous reports in the British press that SAS soldiers are acting as spotters in Libya... In April William Hague, the foreign secretary, announced that an expanded military liaison team would be dispatched... Hague said the team would help the rebels improve "organisational structures, communications and logistics" but stressed that: "Our officers will not be involved in training or arming the opposition's fighting forces, nor will they be involved in the planning or execution of the NTC's military operations or in the provision of... There were unconfirmed reports at the time that Britain was planning to send former SAS soldiers and other experienced soldiers to Libya under the cover of private security companies, paid for by Arab states, to train the rebel forces...
africa  libya  uk  sas  military  war-industries  un-security-council  training  intelligence  europe  al-jazeera  video  disgust  from delicious
may 2011 by willowtrees
Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq | By Paul Bignell Tuesday, 19 April 2011. The Independent
from the page: "..Five months before the March 2003 invasion, Baroness Symons, then the Trade Minister, told BP that the Government believed British energy firms should be given a share of Iraq's enormous oil and gas reserves as a reward for Tony Blair's military commitment to US plans for regime change.. Over 1,000 documents were obtained under Freedom of Information over five years by the oil campaigner Greg Muttitt... The 20-year contracts signed in the wake of the invasion were the largest in the history of the oil industry. They covered half of Iraq's reserves – 60 billion barrels of oil, bought up by companies such as BP and CNPC (China National Petroleum Company), whose joint consortium alone stands to make £403m ($658m) profit per year from the Rumaila field in southern Iraq. Last week, Iraq raised its oil output to the highest level for almost decade, 2.7 million barrels a day – seen as especially important at the moment given the regional volatility and loss of Libyan output.
usa  iraq  uk  invasion  middle-east  europe  BP  lobby  disclosure  exploitation  energy  from delicious
may 2011 by willowtrees
Private security firms paid £29m last year for contracts in Afghanistan | Mark Townsend The Observer, Sunday 6 March 2011
from the page: "...A record £29m worth of contracts were awarded last year to British private security firms in Afghanistan, fuelling fears over the increasing privatisation of the UK's military capability. New figures, released under the Freedom of Information Act, confirm that a growing reliance on private firms is underpinning Britain's war effort. They come as the private security industry regulator reveals it is being encouraged by the government to take a "more extended" role in supporting military operations... The £29m spent last year in Afghanistan represents a significant increase compared to the £62.8m spent on security contractors between 2007 and 2009. Most contracts were awarded to G4S, with £23.3m designated to provide "mobile and static security" in Afghanistan. The company is the parent firm of ArmorGroup, the focus of a US Senate inquiry alleging it "relied on a series of warlords to provide armed men" engaged in murder and bribery.
privatisation  uk  war-industries  pmc  europe  afghanistan  asia  money 
march 2011 by willowtrees
Intervention in Libya would poison the Arab revolution | Seumas Milne guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 2 March 2011
from the page :"It's as if the bloodbaths of Iraq and Afghanistan had been a bad dream... When more than 300 people were killed by Hosni Mubarak's security forces in a couple of weeks, Washington initially called for "restraint on both sides". In Iraq, 50,000 US occupation troops protect a government which last Friday killed 29 peaceful demonstrators demanding reform. In Bahrain, home of the US fifth fleet, the regime has been shooting and gassing protesters with British-supplied equipment... The "responsibility to protect" invoked by those demanding intervention in Libya is applied so selectively that the word hypocrisy doesn't do it justice. And the idea that states which are themselves responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands in illegal wars, occupations and interventions in the last decade, along with mass imprisonment without trial, torture and kidnapping, should be authorised by international institutions to prevent killings in other countries is simply preposterous..
libya  africa  r2p  military  intervention  middle-east  iraq  egypt  afghanistan  hypocrisy  usa  uk  un-security-council  oil 
march 2011 by willowtrees
Paying The Price: Feeding The Children Of Iraq | By Katherine Hughes, February 22, 2011, ZNet Article
from the page :"February 26th, 2011 marks the eighth anniversary of the imprisonment of Dr. Rafil Dhafir as he continues to pay the price for feeding the children of Iraq during the U.S.- and U.K.-sponsored UN sanctions ... Dr. Dhafir was convicted on 59 counts of white-collar crime..and is currently serving 22 years – for a crime he was never convicted of in a court of law, money laundering... According to the United Nations’ own statistics every month throughout the 1990s 6,000 children under the age of five in Iraq were dying from lack of food and access to simple medicines... Using unfair tactics and innuendo, and aided by a compliant media, the government transformed Dr. Dhafir’s community image from a compassionate humanitarian into that of a crook and supporter of terrorism... conspiracy laws and money-laundering laws used "creatively" with the PATRIOT Act and International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) can be used to construct a vastly distorted picture.
aid  children  sanction  iraq  middle-east  uk  usa  UN  depleted-uranium  infrastructure  destruction  social-services  charity  food  media  manipulation  guilt  education  anniversary 
march 2011 by willowtrees
MoD seeks toy-size spy drones for Afghanistan | UK news | The Guardian
drones  uk  afghanistan  asia  nanotechnology  spy  war-industries 
march 2011 by willowtrees
EU arms exports to Libya: who armed Gaddafi? | Simon Rogers,1 March 2011. guardian.co.uk
from the page: "
• The EU granted export licenses for €834.5m worth of arms exports in the first five years after the arms embargo was lifted in October 2004
• 2009 is the highest amount ever: €343.7m
• Italy is the top exporter, with €276.7m over the five years
• The UK got off to a big start in 2005, with €58.9m of the €72.2m total. UK licenses over the five years are worth €119.35m
• Malta saw some €79.7m of guns go through the Island en route to Libya in 2009 - apparently sold via an Italian company
eu  europe  arms-trade  war-exporting-state  libya  data  italy  uk  germany  france  malta  belgium  portugal 
march 2011 by willowtrees
Libya is united in popular revolution – please don't intervene | Muhammad min Libya, 1 March 2011 | guardian.co.uk
from the page: "...one thing seems to have united Libyans of all stripes; any military intervention on the ground by any foreign force would be met – as Mustafa Abud Al Jeleil, the former justice minister and head of the opposition-formed interim government, said – with fighting much harsher than what the mercenaries themselves have unleashed. Nor do I favour the possibility of a limited air strike for specific targets. This is a wholly popular revolution, the fuel to which has been the blood of the Libyan people. Libyans fought alone when western countries were busy ignoring their revolution at the beginning, fearful of their interests in Libya. This is why I'd like the revolution to be ended by those who first started it: the people of Libya. So as the calls for foreign intervention grow, I'd like to send a message to western leaders: Obama, Cameron, Sarkozy... Don't start something you cannot finish, don't turn a people's pure revolution into some curse that will befall everyone..
libya  africa  revolution  military  intervention  europe  france  uk  usa  unity 
march 2011 by willowtrees
Let's Talk About Sect | by Tahiyya Lulu, Feb 24 2011, jadaliyya
from the page: ".. But if the current uprising is just a matter of the underclass, how come the hundreds of thousands of migrant workers who make up the socially invisible strata of Bahrain’s working class, along with Sunni have-nots, have not joined the pro-reformers at Rearl Roundabout? ...The big pearl elephant in the living room would tell you if it could that while Bahraini Shia make up around two-thirds of the population, their rulers, the majority of the government, military, and business leaders are Sunni. Bahrain's political, social and economic system operates by offering privileges and “wasta” to some, at the expense of the rights of others. In this way, the government maintains separation between Bahrain’s communal groups (Baharna, Arab, Howala, Ajam, Asians) and discourages citizens from associating with each other on a national basis – which has posed a real challenge to the regime in the past...
bahrain  middle-east  sectarianism  discrimination  history  colonialism  divide-and-rule  uk  military  class  migrant-workers  unity  pseudo 
march 2011 by willowtrees
CONFIRMED: Beyoncé Sings For Gaddafi’s Son on New Year’s | Mediaite
libya  africa  usa  uk  celebrity  money 
march 2011 by willowtrees
US and Europe step up preparations for intervention in Libya | By Patrick O’Connor 26 February 2011, wsws
from the page: "..Any military intervention would be centrally directed toward securing the economically and strategically crucial Libyan oilfields. American, British, Italian, French and German oil conglomerates all have lucrative stakes in Libya's high-quality oil reserves. The operation would be colonialist in character, marking the further extension of Washington's efforts to use military force to maintain control over energy resources in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia... Only now that Gaddafi has lost control of the majority of Libyan territory and proven unable to crush the opposition have the US and European governments moved against him. They fear the consequences for their economic and strategic interests of a power vacuum or protracted civil war in Libya... The systematic US bombardment of Iraqi targets in the 1990s demonstrated the aggressive character of "no fly" zones. The establishment of one over Libya would almost certainly result in deadly air strikes..
africa  libya  dictatorship  democracy  usa  europe  oil  civil-war  corporations  iraq  history  r2p  colonialism  uk  italy  france  germany  intervention  military 
february 2011 by willowtrees
US retreats from strategic Afghanistan valley | By Bill Van Auken 26 February 2011, WSWS
from the page: "The Pentagon is withdrawing its forces from the northeastern Pech Valley in Afghanistan that it had previously insisted was strategically vital to the US war... The valley is one of the main arteries through the area, which borders on Pakistan and has been a key transit point for Pashtun resistance fighters crossing freely over the Durand Line... A more revealing rationale was provided by someone the Times described as an “American military official familiar” with the withdrawal decision. “What we figured out is that people in the Pech really aren’t anti-US or anti-anything; they just want to be left alone.. Our presence is what’s destabilizing the area.”The same could be said for all of Afghanistan... “..it’s absolutely impractical for the Afghan National Army to protect the area without the Americans,” said Major Turab, the former second in command of the Afghan battalion stationed in the valley. “It will be a suicidal mission.”...
asia  afghanistan  usa  withdrawal  military  soviet  history  pashtuns  anti-americanism  occupation  borders  uk  imperialism 
february 2011 by willowtrees
David Cameron's Cairo visit overshadowed by defence tour | Politics | Nicholas Watt in Kuwait and Robert Booth in Abu Dhabi guardian.co.uk, Monday 21 February 2011
from the page: "David Cameron's efforts to promote democracy in the Middle East by becoming the first foreign leader to visit Cairo were overshadowed as it emerged that he will spend the next three days touring undemocratic Gulf states with eight of Britain's leading defence manufacturers... Britain faced embarrassment over the weekend when it was forced to revoke arms export licences to Bahrain and Libya amid fears that British arms may have been used in the violent crackdown on protesters. Cameron, who is seeking assurances that no British arms were used against protesters, insisted that Britain has some of the toughest rules on arms exports in the world. But he admitted that the system had failed in Libya and Bahrain.
egypt  uk  war-industries  arms-trade  sales-promotion  europe  shameless  disgust  democracy  middle-east  kuwait  bahrain  libya  dictatorship  accomplices 
february 2011 by willowtrees
France24 - Western arms makers eye lucrative Mideast market | 22 February 2011, AFP
from the page: " Western arms makers, squeezed by budget cuts at home, jostled to ink deals at the biggest arms fair in the Middle East as crackdowns on anti-regime protestors claimed hundreds of lives in the region. Shiny fighter jets and armoured vehicles were showcased at the Sunday opening of the 10th International Defence Exhibition and Conference in Abu Dhabi amid reports of a bloodbath in Libya, the latest country in the region gripped by a sweeping pro-democracy uprising and ensuing violence. "The post-financial crisis reality is that today it is clearly the Middle East that is seeing the biggest growth," said Herve Guillou, president of Cassidian Systems, a subsidiary of European aviation defence group EADS... IDEX, which will run until Thursday, hosts more than 1,000 exhibitors with over 30 pavilions mostly belonging to the UAE, the United States, Britain, France and Germany. Nearly 50,000 visitors are expected from around the world.
war-industries  uae  middle-east  europe  usa  france  uk  germany  arms-trade  sales-promotion  accomplices  dictatorship 
february 2011 by willowtrees
The SIPRI Top 100 arms-producing companies, 2009 — www.sipri.org
military  arms-trade  war-industries  data  sipri  ranking  Lockheed-Martin  BAE  boing  usa  uk  france  italy 
february 2011 by willowtrees
Revealed: how energy firms spy on environmental activists | Rob Evans and Paul Lewis guardian.co.uk, 14 February 2011
from the page: "Three large energy companies have been carrying out covert intelligence-gathering operations on environmental activists, the Guardian can reveal. The energy giant E.ON, Britain's second-biggest coal producer Scottish Resources Group and Scottish Power, one of the UK's largest electricity-generators, have been paying for the services of a private security firm that has been secretly monitoring activists. Leaked documents show how the security firm's owner, Rebecca Todd, tipped off company executives about environmentalists' plans after snooping on their emails. She is also shown instructing an agent to attend campaign meetings and coaching him on how to ingratiate himself with activists.
uk  energy  activism  environment  pmc  war-industries  spy  demonstration  corporations 
february 2011 by willowtrees
Jihadi who helped train 7/7 bomber freed by US after just five years | Shiv Malik guardian.co.uk, Sunday 13 February 2011
from the page: "An American jihadist who set up the terrorist training camp where the leader of the 2005 London suicide bombers learned how to manufacture explosives, has been quietly released after serving only four and a half years of a possible 70-year sentence, a Guardian investigation has learned. The unreported sentencing of Mohammed Junaid Babar to "time served" because of what a New York judge described as "exceptional co-operation" that began even before his arrest has raised questions over whether Babar was a US informer at the time he was helping to train the ringleader of the 7 July tube and bus bombings...
justice  usa  uk  al-qaeda  terrorist  supergrass  cout  europe 
february 2011 by willowtrees
Always someone's mother or father, always someone's child. The missing persons of Iraq. "Iraq has the most disappeared persons in the world" | Dirk Adriaensens, 28 November 2010, BRussells Tribunal Committee
from the page: "..It should be pointed out that numbers represent people and that the refusal to reveal the real figure of disappeared and missing persons is a crime against humanity... Occupation is the most extreme form of dictatorship. Occupation is plunder: stealing resources instead of paying for them. Occupation is assassinating people instead of saving human lives. Occupation is giving psychopaths the occasion and the means to kill with impunity... Only the total withdrawal of all foreign troops from Iraqi soil can guarantee the start of a genuine democratic process. Only total withdrawal can be the start of a fair and thorough investigation into the forced disappearances and missing persons of Iraq. Only total withdrawal can put an end to the chaos that the US invasion has created... Will the UN finally set up a Commission working on reparations that should be paid by the invading and occupying forces for losses caused during the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq?
iraq  UN  human-rights  middle-east  occupation  usa  uk  abduction  war-crimes  international-law  dictatorship  refugees  data  war  cover-up  death  torture  detention  withdrawal  trauma 
january 2011 by willowtrees
Sudan: A tale of blood and oil in Africa | Ann Talbot, 11 January 2011, WSWS
from the page: "..the referendum has nothing to do with self-determination, peace or democracy. It is dictated by the efforts of the United States to gain strategic advantage in relation to China, which dominates the Sudanese oil industry, some 80 percent of which is located in the south.. The separation of the south and creation of a new capitalist state will only perpetuate religious and ethnic conflict... Washington has been arming and training the southern Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in preparation for a possible future assault on Khartoum in the north... The 50-plus states that now exist in Africa and their borders are all stamped by the historic intrigues of the former colonial powers. Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, etc., marked the present-day borders to designate their spheres of influence against their rivals, and often drew them up precisely to encourage and exploit ethnic conflicts as part of a strategy of divide, conquer and rule...
africa  colonialism  sudan  history  civil-war  borders  natural-resources  propaganda  usa  self-determination  china  oil  religion  ethnic  training  uk  nigeria  shell  arms-race 
january 2011 by willowtrees
Cables reveal how US and UK sought to plunder Zimbabwe’s resources | By Ann Talbot 6 January 2011, WSWS
from the page: "..The cables track this human tragedy through the indifferent eyes of American diplomats, whose main concern was always for the potential profits to be made from Zimbabwe’s natural resources. They chart the efforts of US, British and European diplomats, often working through the UN, to establish a regime that will open up the country to international investment... The cables demonstrate how a form of neo-colonial domination continued to exist in this nominally independent country. Events did not always go according to Washington’s plans, but the power-sharing agreement that is now in place is essentially in line with the ideas mapped out by successive US ambassadors over the last decade. Tsvangirai emerges from the cables as a creature of Washington, who is useful to US interests because his background as a trade union leader provided the means of averting an independent political movement among urban workers that might provide leadership to the rural poor...
africa  zimbabwe  exploitation  dictatorship  usa  uk  europe  neoliberalism  colonialism  natural-resources  labor-union  human-rights  wikileaks  UN  pseudo  democratization  imf 
january 2011 by willowtrees
A Year in, Amnesty Deal Lures Only 3 Percent of Taliban | By Spencer Ackerman January 3, 2011 , Danger Room | Wired.com
from the page: "The White House says the best chance to end the Afghanistan war is to compel low-ranking insurgents to lay down their guns, one at a time... Fewer than 800 insurgents have signed up in the year since Afghan president Hamid Karzai announced the plan. That's less than 3 percent of an estimated 30,000 or so militants.. Previous reintegration efforts in Afghanistan over the past decade have failed... insurgents are just looking to see if the government can offer them "honor and dignity," with protection from the Taliban being a minimal requirement. If that doesn't happen, the government's promises of jobs, education and rebuilding for areas that make peace with Karzai won't mean anything..."-- they never mention Afghans' desire for independence of their nation. the illegal military occupation is the principal cause of the failure of "Peace and Reintegration Program", which was developed by foreign forces, aiming to make a permanent satellite state with corrupt politicians.
afghanistan  reconciliation  taliban  honor  asia  uk  usa  occupation  ddr  nato  dignity 
january 2011 by willowtrees
Paul Kagame: “Our Kind of Guy” | by Edward S. Herman, David Peterson, 3 January 2011, [Voltaire]
from the page: "..For many years Kagame has been portrayed in the Western mainstream media as the savior of Rwanda.. The UN Panel estimated that by September 2002, some 3.5 million excess deaths had occurred in the five eastern provinces as "a direct result of the occupation of the DRC by Rwanda and Uganda"... the "real long-term purpose is…to 'secure property'", the UN countered... But though this 2002 report was not ordered suppressed the way the 1994 Gersony report was, it was nevertheless ignored in the Western media... This suppression was surely a result of the fact that Kagame is a U.S. client, whose deadly efforts in the DRC were actually in line with the U.S. policy of opening up the country to U.S. and other Western mining and business interests.. The truth, which Howard French and his associates cannot admit, is that the real 1994 genocide was also mainly the work of Paul Kagame, with the assistance of Bill Clinton, the British and Belgians, the UN, and the mainstream media
africa  usa  rwanda  dr-congo  natural-resources  mining  UN  europe  belgium  uk  genocide  propaganda  cover-up  dependency  imperialism  rewriting  history  leak  clinton 
january 2011 by willowtrees
John Pilger - The War You Don't See : Information Clearing House: ICH
war  journalism  propaganda  video  iraq  afghanistan  palestine  usa  uk  manipulation  embedded  history  civilians  death 
january 2011 by willowtrees
UK Navy medic has Afghan conscientious objector status refused | By Harvey Thompson 29 December 2010, WSWS
from the page: "A Royal Navy medical officer, who objected to serving in the US-led occupation of Afghanistan in the wake of the WikiLeaks’ revelations, had his appeal to stand down on moral grounds dismissed December 17... Lyons’ request to leave the service was refused by his commanding officer... “I came to the conclusion I couldn’t serve on a moral ground and I couldn’t see any political reason for being there.” After carrying out research, Lyons said, his objections to the war hardened: “I feel the great loss of human life, the only thing it’s doing is radicalising civilians out there. People losing family and friends are now taking up arms and trying to fight back.” Lyons explained that he was further repulsed at the thought of serving in Afghanistan when he learned he may not be able to treat civilians in need... Visibly upset, Lyons concluded, “If more people in my position stood up, there would be a lot less innocent lives lost around the world.”..."
afghanistan  asia  nato  uk  conscientious-objection  medics  wikileaks  dilemma  pressure 
december 2010 by willowtrees
Afghanistan: can aid make a difference? | Jonathan Steele The Guardian, Friday 19 November 2010
from the page: "...The number of girls in school has become one of the regularly repeated measures of change. ... Where are the jobs..? ..Washington and London seem happy to try to alter Afghan culture when it comes to the economy, but when that culture undermines women's rights, there is less energy... Amnesty is also a difficult issue. Should a Taliban member who has killed Afghans or foreign troops escape retribution? If not, what of the anomaly that the Afghan government and parliament are full of men with blood on their hands from earlier phases in the country's three decades of war? And why would Taliban commanders give up if they know they're going straight to jail? ... The majority wanted a lifting of UN sanctions on senior Taliban so the government could get them back into Afghan political life and negotiate a withdrawal of foreign forces. Older respondents said this should be gradual to avoid another collapse into civil war as happened when Soviet forces left.
afghanistan  journalism  censorship  women  aid  helmand  uk  taliban  prt  ddr  school  girls  unemployment  children  stones  progress  peace-process  civil-war  reconciliation 
december 2010 by willowtrees
Britain's high street chains are named by sweatshop probe | Gethin Chamberlain The Observer, Sunday 12 December 2010
from the page: "Some of the biggest names on the British high street use Indian sweatshops which pay poverty wages and break labour laws to keep costs to a bare minimum, according to a new report. Marks & Spencer, Next, Monsoon, Debenhams, Dorothy Perkins and Miss Selfridge are all named as having used factories which exploit their workers... Some workers reported they were paid less than £60 a month while, in one factory, being regularly forced to work until 2am to produce clothes for British shoppers. Workers in another factory in Gurgaon, on the outskirts of the Indian capital Delhi, say it is not unusual for them to have to work an extra 140 hours a month for half the overtime rate they should receive...
uk  M&S  apparel  india  europe  fashion  illegal  human-rights  labor  asia  capitalism 
december 2010 by willowtrees
The government isn’t telling us the true cost of nuclear waste disposal | Dr Paul Dorfman 13th December, 2010, The Ecologist
uk  nuclear  nuclear-waste  nuclear-power  disposal  europe 
december 2010 by willowtrees
Who is Behind Wikileaks? 2 | by Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, December 13, 2010
from the page: "..While the leaked cables are heralded as "evidence" that Iran constitutes a threat, the lies and fabrications of the corporate media concerning Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program are not mentioned... The use of the Wikleaks documents by the media tend to sustain the illusion that the CIA has nothing to do with the terror network... It [Wikileaks] seeks to expose government lies. It has released important information on US war crimes. But once the project becomes embedded in the mould of mainstream journalism, it is used as an instrument of media disinformation... They [New World Order politicians] can be replaced. What must be protected and sustained are the interests of the economic elites... What this means is that truth in media can only be reached by dismantling the propaganda apparatus, --i.e. breaking the legitimacy of the corporate media which sustains the broad interests of the economic elites as well America's global military design.
propaganda  journalism  media  wikileaks  usa  uk  nyt  iran  saudi-arabia  interpretaions  bias  The-Economist  corporations  cia  myths  terrorism  seletion  collaboration 
december 2010 by willowtrees
Who is Behind Wikileaks? | by Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, December 13, 2010
from the page: "...The composition of the Wikileaks team, not to mention the methodology of "exposing secrets" of foreign governments, were in line with the practices of US covert operations geared towards triggering "regime change"... This collaboration between Wikileaks and selected mainstream media is not fortuitous; it was part of an agreement between several major US and European newspapers and Wikileaks' editor Julian Assange. The important question is who controls and oversees the selection, distribution and editing of released documents to the broader public? What US foreign policy objectives are being served through this redacting process? ...It should come as no surprise that David E. Sanger and his colleagues at the NYT centered their attention on a highly "selective" dissemination of the Wikileaks cables, focussing on areas which would support US foreign policy interests.. From a selected list of cables, the leaks are being used to justify a foreign policy agenda..."
propaganda  journalism  media  wikileaks  usa  uk  nyt  iran  saudi-arabia  interpretaions  bias  The-Economist  corporations  cia  myths  terrorism  seletion  collaboration  media-literacy 
december 2010 by willowtrees
UK Drones Firing Thermobaric Weapons in Afghanistan? « 11/12/2010, Drone Wars UK
from the page: "The UK MOD has this week refused to answer a parliamentary question on whether UK drones in Afghanistan are firing thermobaric weapons... Thermobaric weapons..have been condemned human rights group and, as the Times reported in 2008 , "the weapons are so controversial that MoD weapons and legal experts spent 18 months debating whether British troops could use them without breaking international law." ... a 'Yes Minister' solution was offered – they "redefined" the weapon as an 'enhanced blast missile'. The Guardian reported in May 2009 that he MoD had admitted that British Apache helicopters had fired 40 Hellfire 114N 'enhanced blast weapons' in Afghanistan... The BBC described thermobaric weapons in 2002, "..it works on a combination of heat and pressure applying lessons that have been widely learnt from coal mine explosions... These are often created by clouds of gas or fine particles erupting into flame. The thermobaric weapon reproduces this situation to order...
uk  europe  afghanistan  asia  military  drones  international-law  mining  thermobaric-weapon 
december 2010 by willowtrees
WikiLeaks documents show Shell Oil domination of Nigeria | By Patrick Martin 10 December 2010, WSWS
from the page: "Secret diplomatic cables from the US Embassy in Nigeria demonstrate the death-grip that Shell Oil maintains on the most populous African country, and the role of the US State Department as the servant of the giant oil monopoly. One cable recounts the visit to the embassy by Shell's executive vice-president for Africa, Ann Pickard, on October 13, 2009, for a meeting with US ambassador Robin Sanders, to discuss the status of the Petroleum Industry Bill then being considered by the Nigerian national assembly. The bill would legalize international joint ventures, further opening the nominally state-owned oil industry to foreign capital. Pickard discussed the company’s strategy for manipulating the legislature, warning that the Nigerian Senate "will pass a bad bill," but adding, "we aren't worried," although “we need to move quickly.” The company expected to have its way in the lower house, she explained: "We are working with the House and the House appears to want to...
africa  nigeria  wikileaks  oil  shell  corruption  uk  netherlands  usa 
december 2010 by willowtrees
148 states call for transparency over depleted uranium use in UN vote | 8 December 2010 - ICBUW
from the page: "The resolution was passed by a huge majority, with just four countries opposing the text. As with previous UN resolutions in 2007 and 2008, the UK, US, Israel and France voted against. The number of abstentions was down on previous years after Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Greece, Luxembourg and Slovenia voted in favour. Nevertheless, abstentions were still registered by Australia, Canada, Denmark and Sweden amongst others. The Russian Federation also abstained, while China declined to vote. The resolution was triggered by growing concern over the US’s failure to release information on the whereabouts of at least 400,000kgs depleted uranium munitions used in Iraq. Question marks also remain over whether the weapons have been used in Afghanistan, Somalia and Chechnya. Research by ICBUW has shown that the rapid release of targeting data after conflicts is crucial in reducing avoidable civilian exposures; recommendations that national authorities monitor soil and water..."
depleted-uranium  UN  resolution  iraq  afghanistan  somalia  chechya  usa  uk  israel  france  contamination  transparency 
december 2010 by willowtrees
Refugees from Afghanistan's Helmand province disheartened at U.S. presence 2 | By Joshua Partlow Washington Post, November 22, 2010
from the page: ".."If we grew our beards, the Americans arrested us and put us in jail saying we were Taliban. If we shaved, the Taliban gave us a hard time," he [Barigul] said... "Who are the Taliban? They are our brothers, our cousins, our relatives. The problem is the Americans," said Lala Jan, 25, also from Musa Qala. "If somebody attacks from one house, the Americans bomb the whole place. If the Taliban come inside, during the night the Americans come and raid the house. That's the problem."... As the number of foreign troops has risen - there are now about 140,000 U.S. and allied NATO soldiers on the ground - the population of those who have been displaced from their homes and have moved elsewhere in Afghanistan has also grown... "I keep thinking I should go back to my village, either to cultivate opium or to stand alongside the Taliban. Then at least I will have money. I could send it to my wife and son," he [Mohammad] said. "I think about this every night."
refugees  kabul  helmand  afghanistan  asia  usa  uk  military  civilians  death  children  poverty  taliban  unemployment  security  poppy  collateral-damage  detention  raid 
december 2010 by willowtrees
Refugees from Afghanistan's Helmand province disheartened at U.S. presence | By Joshua Partlow Washington Post, November 22, 2010
from the page: "..the camp has since [2007] grown to more than 1,000 families, making it the largest of some 30 informal settlements around Kabul. They consist of two main groups, about 800 families who claim to come from the Helmand... The residents say they are mostly farmers who brought their bundles by bus and taxi to live in these mud hovels or under scraps of tarp. It is a place of wailing children and dirt-caked faces, where husbands search for menial labor and wives burn heaps of trash to cook their daily gruel... "We are not happy from either side, but I believe the British and American troops are more cruel than the Taliban... The Taliban come on motorbikes, they open fire, then they leave. Then the Americans just come and kill us, they bomb us, they open fire on us, they kill the children and innocent people."... Ahunzada's wife has carpeted the walls and floors of their hut with blankets, but the cold last winter claimed the life of their 1-year-old son...
refugees  kabul  helmand  afghanistan  asia  usa  uk  military  civilians  death  children  poverty  taliban  unemployment  security  poppy  collateral-damage  detention  raid 
december 2010 by willowtrees
ei: No safe haven for displaced Iraqis 2 | Serene Assir, The Electronic Intifada, 7 December 2010
from the page: "... The sectarian nightmare that has come to dominate Iraq, following the occupation's institutionalization of a sectarian political system, is the core driver behind the continuing Iraqi mass exodus... Up until the invasion and the installation of a puppet regime, political power, sect and ethnic origin had never been linked in modern Iraqi history... Iraqis argue that the only valid identity at the political level is the national identity; replacing the national identity with a sectarian or ethnic identity is viewed as the occupation's strategy to promote partition and therefore the destruction of the Iraqi state. Effects on the ground of the sectarian regime imposed by the occupation include the increase of divorce and separation rates among mixed marriages as the crime of ethnic cleansing is permitted. Prior to the war, mixed marriages were by no means an anomaly in Iraq, whereas today, they are targeted."
occupation  iraq  middle-east  refugees  solution  usa  uk  unemployment  poverty  security  sectarian  history  identity  destruction  society  trauma  endless-war 
december 2010 by willowtrees
ei: No safe haven for displaced Iraqis | Serene Assir, The Electronic Intifada, 7 December 2010
from the page: "More than seven years after the United States and United Kingdom-led invasion of Iraq, millions of displaced Iraqis have nowhere to go. For the overwhelming majority of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), displacement is not a one-off trauma. Rather, it is a continuous state of flight for most uprooted Iraqis, who the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates to number 1,785,212 refugees and 1,552,003 IDPs... Were they able to work legally in Jordan, they would probably be better off. But Jordan and Syria, which combined host the vast majority of Iraqi refugees, suffer from severe unemployment and other socioeconomic problems of their own... According to Iraqi International Initiative on Refugees coordinator Hana Al-Bayaty, "There will be no permanent solution to the refugee crisis as long as Iraq is under occupation." ..the Iraqi refugee crisis has become one of the world's largest, second in number only to that of Palestinian...
endless-war  occupation  iraq  middle-east  refugees  solution  usa  uk  unemployment  poverty  security  sectarian  history  identity  destruction  society  trauma 
december 2010 by willowtrees
Naomi Wolf: Julian Assange Captured by World's Dating Police | December 7, 2010, huffingtonpost
wikileaks  feminism  usa  rape  police  letter  naomi-wolf  uk  sweden  europe 
december 2010 by willowtrees
France24 - UK agrees to compensate ex-Guantanamo detainees | 17/11/2010, AFP
from the page: "Britain said Tuesday it had agreed a settlement with 16 former Guantanamo Bay detainees who claim British agents colluded in their torture abroad, but insisted it was not an admission of guilt. ustice Secretary Kenneth Clarke did not reveal the amount of compensation nor the identity of those involved, but media reports suggest it stretches to millions of pounds (dollars, euros) and recipients include former Guantanamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed. Although the details are subject to a confidentiality agreement, he said: "No admissions of culpability have been made in settling these cases and nor have any of the claimants withdrawn their allegations."
guantanamo  detention  compensation  uk  europe  rendition  torture  guilty  money 
november 2010 by willowtrees
Apology over organs taken from nuclear workers' bodies | Nov 16, 2010 , Reuters
from the page: " Britain apologised on Tuesday for the unauthorised removal for laboratory analysis of organs and tissue from the bodies of dozens of people who worked in the nuclear industry over three decades from the 1960s. An inquiry by leading lawyer Michael Redfern found that pathologists removed organs from 64 workers at the Sellafield nuclear plant in northwest England and 12 workers at other nuclear sites. The organs were examined at Sellafield as part of research into the health effects of work in the industry, but the authorities failed to get consent from the workers' relatives."
apology  uk  europe  Sellafield  nuclear-power  labor  informed-consent 
november 2010 by willowtrees
Security firms sign code of conduct | 09 Nov 2010 , Al Jazeera English
from the page: "More than 50 of the world's largest private security companies have agreed to a first-of-its-kind voluntary code of conduct aimed at reining in the firms' worst behaviour... The signing ceremony was hailed by Maurer and others in the advocacy and private security communities on Tuesday, but it has received criticism from a high level in the UN. Jose Luis Gomez del Prado, the head of the UN Working Group of the Use of Mercenaries, has acknowledged that the code of conduct is a "good document" but has also called it "window dressing". "We need a legally binding instrument. Because what is happening is very serious - it's the privatisation of war," he told the Wall Street Journal newspaper in October. The code of conduct provides no immediate mechanism by which a firm can be punished for violating any of the agreed-upon rules...
war-industries  pmc  code-of-conduct  blackwater  DynCorp  switzerland  europe  usa  uk  afghanistan  iraq  asia  middle-east  voluntary 
november 2010 by willowtrees
The significance of Israel’s “loyalty oath” | By Jean Shaoul 4 November 2010. WSWS
from the page: "The Israeli cabinet is to bring in legislation requiring those applying for Israeli citizenship to pledge their loyalty to "the state of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state". Presently they must pledge loyalty only to "the state of Israel". The move is clearly discriminatory and would not apply to Jewish immigrants, but only to Palestinian immigrants from the West Bank or other foreigners who marry Arab citizens of Israel. Non-Jewish immigrants would have to sign up to an ideology that excludes the one fifth of Israel's existing population that is Arab. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also demanded that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas recognise the Jewish character of the state of Israel as a precondition for talks. For him to do so would mean acknowledging that Palestinians who fled or were driven out of their homes in 1948 and 1967 and their descendants have no right of return to Israel and would also jeopardise the status of Israel's Palesti..
apartheid  israel  middle-east  palestine  loyalty  democracy  discrimination  immigrants  right-to-return  nakba  police-state  demonstration  history  usa  soviet  uk  france  occupation 
november 2010 by willowtrees
UK’s top CEOs see 55 percent earnings rise | By Robert Stevens 8 November 2010, WSWS
from the page: "..Findings published by the pay monitoring group, Incomes Data Services, revealed that directors of the FTSE 100 companies saw their total earnings climb by an average of 55 percent during the past year. The FTSE is an index of the 100 most highly capitalised UK firms listed on the London Stock Exchange. In a year in which recession has mounted, with millions facing the loss of their livelihoods or being forced to take deep wage cuts, the financial elite have vastly increased their wealth... The average take-home pay of a FTSE chief executive is now 88 times the average pay of a full-time worker... Ten years ago, the average pay of a FTSE chief executive was 47 times the amount of pay compared to that of the average worker. But this is a massive underestimation of the real income gap. The payments to CEOs also consist of vast sums paid out in bonuses, share option gains and long-term incentive plans..."
uk  europe  money  inequality  data  austerity  executives 
november 2010 by willowtrees
France24 - British watchdog says Google 'Street View' broke law | 03 November 2010, AFP
from the page: "Google committed a "signficant breach" of British law when its Street View cars grabbed personal data but the Internet giant will not be fined, the country's information commissoner said on Wednesday. Britain is the latest in a series of countries to condemn Google after the cars, which take photos for the search engine's free online mapping service, mistakenly picked up private emails and passwords from wireless networks... Big Brother Watch...said it was "disgraceful" that the watchdog had not fined Google. "If Google can harvest the personal information of thousands of people and get off scot-free, then the (information commissioner) plainly has a contempt for privacy," the group's director Alex Deane said in a statement... Italian prosecutors said last week they had launched an investigation against Google. Spain filed suit against the firm earlier in October while in September Czech authorities banned Google from collecting Street View data.
google  privacy  uk  europe  czech-republic  spain  italy  court 
november 2010 by willowtrees
Iraqi prisoners were abused at 'UK's Abu Ghraib', court hears | Ian Cobain The Guardian, Saturday 6 November 2010
from the page: "Evidence of the alleged systematic and brutal mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at a secret British military interrogation centre that is being described as "the UK's Abu Ghraib" emerged yesterday during high court proceedings brought by more than 200 former inmates. The court was told there was evidence that detainees were starved, deprived of sleep, subjected to sensory deprivation and threatened with execution at the shadowy facilities near Basra operated by the Joint Forces Interrogation Team, or JFIT. It also received allegations that JFIT's prisoners were beaten, forced to kneel in stressful positions for up to 30 hours at a time, and that some were subjected to electric shocks. Some of the prisoners say that they were subject to sexual humiliation by women soldiers, while others allege that they were held for days in cells as small as one metre square... "
barbarism  uk  iraq  prisons  torture  middle-east  europe  court  murders  international-law  humiliation  trauma 
november 2010 by willowtrees
Anglo-French deal rewrites military history | By Kim Sengupta, Defence Correspondent Tuesday, 2 November 2010, The Independent
from the page: "Britain and France will today announce a landmark defence alliance ranging from military operations in land, sea and air to nuclear weapons. David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy will sign two declarations during a summit in London paving the way for the sharing of an aircraft carrier, sending a joint military force into battle, working together on cyber warfare and developing warheads for nuclear missiles... The two countries account for almost half of defence spending and 70 per cent of the research and development by the European Union, as well as providing more than 55 per cent of operational armed forces. This has, however, led to a degree of duplication in procurement and manpower.
europe  france  uk  military-alliance  eu  military  military-spending 
november 2010 by willowtrees
What Happens When You Protest a Weapons Factory | October 18, 2010, by Tom Wills, Public Intelligence
war-industries  protest  photos  uk  europe  arrest  police-state 
november 2010 by willowtrees
UN First Committee sends clear message to depleted uranium users over transparency | 29 October 2010 - ICBUW
from the page: "136 states last night voted in favour of a resolution calling on state users of depleted uranium weapons to release quantitative and geographical data to the governments of affected states. The resolution will now go forward to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) for a second vote at the end of November... The resolution was opposed by only four states - the US, UK, France and Israel... The number of abstentions was down from previous years, with Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Greece, Luxembourg and Slovenia shifting position to vote in favour... Albania, Bulgaria, Canada. Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and Ukraine abstained... ICBUW welcomed the ongoing support of Japan and New Zealand but was disappointed to see repeated abstentions from Australia and the Republic of Korea... the abstentions from Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova and Russia, continued...
depleted-uranium  UN  usa  uk  france  transparency  vote  israel  nato  europe  asia  sweden  spain  south-korea  australia  military 
october 2010 by willowtrees
US: no stranger to genocidal war crimes | Qamar Yousafzai, October 26, 2010, States Times
from the page: "..The following is one army lieutenant's testimony about the Sand Creek Massacre.., I did not see a body of a man, women, or child but was scalped, and in many instances their bodies were mutilated in the most horrible manner… I heard one man say that he had cut out a woman's private parts and had them for exhibition on a stick; I heard another say that he had cut the fingers off an Indian to get the rings on his hand... President Theodore Roosevelt lauded the Sand Creek Massacre "as righteous and beneficial a deed as ever took place on the frontier.".. The Indians, Africans, Chinese, and Japanese of the past are today's Muslims... No human rights do they deserve because they are not considered to be human beings... A combined 2.7 million dead in Iraq and Afghanistan does not even come close to pricking any sort of moral conscience.. the histories written by the occupiers and oppressors will record all resistance efforts as terrorism, extremism, savagery...
usa  history  history-education  indigenous-people  genocide  war-crimes  war-industries  pmc  israel  colonialism  barbarism  dehumanization  uk  spain  muslims  racism  afghanistan  resistance 
october 2010 by willowtrees
The Geopolitical Agenda behind the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize | by F. William Engdahl, 23 October 2010, [Voltaire]
from the page: "...Liu Xiaobo was President of the Independent Chinese PEN Center until 2007 and currently holds a seat on its board according to his official biography at the PEN International website [1]. PEN is not just any random collection of writers... It is supported by a network of private US and European foundations and corporations including Bloomberg, as well as the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and "other donors who wish to remain anonymous."... PEN is part of a larger web called the International Freedom of Expression Exchange or IFEX, an international network, based in Canada, of some ninety NGOs with the noble-sounding aim of defending "the right to freedom of expression," whatever that might mean. IFEX members include the Washington-based Freedom House... The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo..ought better to be seen for what it is: a US-guided, NGO-fostered part of a declaration of irregular warfare against the sovereign existence of China...
freedom  china  asia  nobel-prize  usa  ngo  soros  uk  norway  europe  cia  propaganda  human-rights  Tiananmen  tibet  history 
october 2010 by willowtrees
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