Isn't in strange that we in the West are always the good guys, and those others are the bad guys, we always do the right an honourable thing, while they always do heinous and nasty things. What a wonderful position to be in, always righteous, fair and compassionate. Well that's the propaganda that is spewed out over us on an hourly basis, and I suppose it is the same in those other patches on the planet that we vilify. All attempting to engender that poison called patriotism, and it is never for the benefit of the general population of either side. It's all about power, wealth and privilege of the parasite class on either side of the divide, a divide that doesn't or shouldn't exist between the ordinary people from either side. We don't, or shouldn't, seek power and privilege, we seek, or should seek, justice and peace among all our people, no nation, no borders, just one world of people. Wars are never fought with the benefit of the people in mind, nor do the ordinary people ever gain from any war, we shed the blood, the powerful and privileged pick up the spoils, riches from blood and death. It doesn't have to be that way.
"Why
are we living with the threat of world war? Russia, a nuclear power, is
encircled by America and Europe; China, a nuclear power, is the brunt
of unrelenting provocation. Why do we in the West allow this? The
answer lies in one word: propaganda. In the West, our propaganda
industries - both political and cultural - rarely ask us to look in the
mirror. Stop the War performs this vital task and deserves our support.
Join me at Artists Against War on Friday."
The battle of The Somme anniversary is coming up, July 1st. 1916, no doubt the privileged parasites that hold the reins of power, will want to show this as a battle of glory and honour, but there is no glory in war. As for the Somme. it was a slaughtering field where the blood of youth was poured into the soil to gratify a bunch of psychopathic pompous idiots, who saw war as some sort of board game.The Somme, Wikipedia:
The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme, German: Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire. It took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on both sides of upper reaches of the River Somme in France. It was the largest battle of World War I on the Western Front; more than one million men were wounded or killed, making it one of the bloodiest battles in human history.
ONE MILLION DEAD OR WOUNDED, for what? For empire, wealth and power for the privileged parasites that lord it over us. This description of The Lonsdales, one of the units involved in this carnage for power, is just a glimpse of what was repeated and repeated.
Few units in the British army can have fared worse on 1
July 1916 than the Lonsdales. Formed of volunteers from north-west
England swept up in the outpouring of patriotic fervour at the start
of the First World War, the 850-strong battalion joined the
walking-pace advance on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Within hours, they had lost more than 500 men. Not only the
commanding officer – shot in the head as he leapt from a trench –
but the second-in-command, the adjutant and every one of the company
commanders had been either wounded or killed. The survivors, next put to work digging up the remains of their
friends, lived in a miasma of decomposing bodies and faced continuous
shelling without sleep. A week after the massacre, they were ordered
to go over the top again. This time they refused. Command was
apoplectic. At the troops’ request, Lieutenant George Kirkwood, the
battalion’s medical officer, was despatched to see them. He saw at
once that the men were at their nerves’ end, and testified in a
written report that most of them were suffering from the mysterious
new ailment known as “shell shock”.
DANDELIONS written and sung by STEVE O'DONOGHUE. Steve will be one
of the performers at HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN YET? THE TRUTH ABOUT THE
SOMME, Sunday 19 June, Heath Street Baptist Church, London NW3 1DN,
remembering one of Britain's most disastrous conflicts through words
and music. Co-hosted by No Glory in War and Stop the War Coalition.
BOOK HERE: http://www.noglory.org
Dandelions, The Lyrics:
Now Arthur was only a young cub
A brave lion and merely
fifteen
But with the rest of his pack
He was sent to
attack
To a war that was cruel and obscene
But those lions
fought hard and fought bravely
While the donkeys just grazed in
a field
They had no sense of shame for their barbarous game
And
the thousands of lions they killed
And when he saw them marching up Whitehall
I remember what
old Arthur said
He said the donkeys are all wearing poppies
So
I shall wear dandelions instead
Now every remembrance sunday
Well I pause at eleven
o'clock
And I remember those dandy young lions
And those
donkeys and their poppycock
Cos they've taken those beautiful
poppies
And they use them to glorify war
Well I remember
those dandy young lions
And I don't wear a poppy no more
And when he saw them marching up Whitehall
I remember what
old Arthur said
He said the donkeys are all wearing poppies
So
I shall wear dandelions instead
Now if you take an old dandelion
And just blow it quite
gently he'd say
You can see all the dreams of those soldiers
In
the seeds as they just float away
But then the wind takes hold
of those seeds
And they rise and quickly they soar
Like the
spirit of all those old soldiers
Who believed that their war
would end war
And when he saw them marching up Whitehall
I remember what
old Arthur said
He said the donkeys are all wearing poppies
So
I shall wear dandelions instead
Cos those lions were dandy young workers
Who those donkeys so
cruelly misled
And if the Donkeys are gonna wear poppies
I
shall wear dandelions instead.
And when he saw them marching up Whitehall
I remember what
old Arthur said
He said the donkeys are all wearing poppies
So
I shall wear dandelions instead
Anybody with a grain of sincerity accepts that the invasion of Iraq was raw Western imperialism in all its savagery, it was nothing more than a brutal grab for resources, spearheaded by today's leading imperialist power, America. Of course the UK and other minions of the American empire wanted a slice of the plunder, so the played their part. The architects of that vicious onslaught on the people of Iraq have now slipped into wealthy sidelines of the empire, to live out their lives in opulence, but the people of that region are still in the turmoil of war and slaughter. All this will always be dressed up as bring down a dreadful dictator and bring democracy to the people of Iraq. In that region soaked in blood, the flower of democracy has still not seen the light of day. The savagery and the viciousness unleashed by the Western imperialists has spread across the whole region. Millions live in constant terror, trauma, poverty, death and destruction, so that the West can control the resources of that region.
The Chilcot inquiry is meant to throw some light on the reasoning behind the whole Iraq disaster, but what will be revealed, and what will be concealed, for so called "security reasons". The establishment will do its utmost to make sure that the truth of this human disaster will never be revealed to the public.
The
People's Chilcot Tribunal 8th June, 3-8pm
Amnesty International Human Rights Action Centre Auditorium
17-25 New Inn Yard London EC2A 3EA
London
The date of the publication of the Chilcot report is fast
approaching. It is clear that the establishment will try to deflect
attention away from the examination of the lies and the crimes which
the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq entailed. They will also try to hide the real economic and geopolitical motives
behind the invasion. Under Western occupation, Iraq was treated as a
"blank slate". Paul Bremer, the US-imposed governor of
occupied Iraq, quickly imposed a neo-colonial constitution which
forced open Iraq's markets to Western corporations and enabled
them to
privatise/plunder the major Iraqi companies and natural resources,
including oil of course. Stop the War Coalition is hosting
a People's Chilcot Tribunal to establish who was to blame for Iraq's
ongoing tragedy, including over
a million deaths, the spread of fundamentalism and conflict
across the region, including millions of desperate refugees who are
still fleeing for their lives from a region ravaged by war. There
will be testimony from a wide range of people including former UN
envoy to Iraq Hans von Sponeck, ex-soldiers Ben Griffin and Geoff
Martin, writer Tariq Ali, Iraqi dissident and lecturer Sami Ramadani,
journalist and playwright Richard Norton-Taylor, political
commentator Peter Oborne, Stop the War convenor Lindsey German, CND
general secretary Kate Hudson and Peter Brierley from Military
Families Against the War. Tickets are selling fast so make
sure you book your
place now. Please invite
your friends as well. We will also hold a public meeting the
day after the report is released.
As the millionaire bunch of corporate buddies, that go by the name of “Her Majesty's Government” start to weave the tapestry of deceit around the “need” to have yet another war in Libya, expect an avalanche of lies, misleading figures and ambiguous statements. In spite of having lived many, many years with this river of propaganda shit, it still makes me choke on my porridge when I hear politicians spout something with a serious face, that clearly contradicts what they have already stated. Our war hungry Mr Hammond states, that, he knew that the new Libyan government would be cautious about requesting western military support but if it did, the government would consider it. Having previously said, “If only it were so simple as there being two sides,----There are about 120.” Of course our lords and masters, who Mr Hammond works for, desire to pick one and help it gain power by throwing in Western military air power and ground troops, is not based on the will of the Libyan people. It is simple economics, they want a subservient, compliant puppet government in Libya, one that will let the West exploit and plunder Libya's vast oil and gas reserves, and UK wants to be at the front of the queue when the real plunder starts. So all this talk of air strikes and ground troops to help the non-existent, illusionary Libyan government, is the usual sham of blatant hypocrisy, to cover their strong arm tactics in support Western corporate greed. Do you honestly believe that the Cameron cabal sitting in those palatial halls of power called the Westminster Houses of Hypocrisy and Corruption, are wrestling with these decisions out of a human desire to help the welfare of ordinary people of Libya? Surely you're not that daft, they don't even give a shit about the people here in this country.
We have to raise our voices loud and clear that we will not tolerate another bloody conflict, another corporate grab, another imperialist adventure. Wars are never for the benefit of the ordinary people.
The Western powers are planning a major military escalation in Libya. The UN is trying to impose a new government on the country,
despite the fact that both of the two existing and competing
authorities have rejected their plans. The reason the West backs the man
they call 'Prime Minister designate' Fayez al- Sarraj, is that they
expect him to invite the West in to support. This helps
them avoid a public debate about intervention. On Monday, Michael Fallon
made it clear the government disapproves of democratic scrutiny over
going to war when he announced a promised bill to enshrine parliamentary debate on military action would be dropped.
Their unseemly haste to intervene in Libya is driven by two things.
Firstly, a desire to control the oil and gas fields and secondly, a plan
to stop refugees crossing the Mediterranean from Libya by force. We
need to widen our campaign against the government plans. Stop the War is holding a public meeting on Libya this Tuesday 26th April at the Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church in Central London (235 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8EP). Please join us to discuss the situation and how we can oppose another disatrous intervention.
Why isn't there thousands on the streets of our country? Our psychopathic imperialist lords and masters, scheming in the corridors of power in that edifice to imperialism, The Westminster Houses of Hypocrisy and Corruption, are now deliberating whether to send 1,000 British troops into Libya. Having bulldozed the will of the people and started bombing Syria, they now want more blood. Having failed to get the compliant government they wanted in Libya after they bombed it back to the stone age, they want another crack at it. They want to implant some sort of submissive regime that will do their bidding and allow them trouble free access to Libya's rich oil fields. There will be no thought of the blood that will flow, both British young men and women, and innocents in Libya, the action will be whitewashed and delivered with smoke and mirrors, as helping the people of Libya. Their country is already a disaster area, which we helped to bring about, the last thing the people of that country want is a bunch of armed to the hilt, foreign troops blasting their way through their towns and cities, what's left of them.
Get involved with Stop the War where you are The establishment's appetite for yet more war hasn't subsided. Despite the catastrophic failure of military interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, which are ongoing, the UK elites are now also considering whether they might be able to bomb Libya again. The anti-war movement continues to be a vital democratic force and a thorn in the side of the pro-war establishment. There is going to be a series of Stop the War events on the "war on terror" and on Trident across the country. Get involved where you are.
Public meeting
Tuesday 10 March • 6.30
pm Bloomsbury
Baptist Church
235 Shaftesbury Avenue
London, WC2H
8EP
Speakers: •
Salma Yaqoob
• Lindsey German
• Moazzam Begg
•
Kevin Courteney
• Sabby Dhalu
• Mohammed Umar
Farooq We
are also supporting the Stand up to Racism demonstration against
racism on 19th March and the People's Assembly march for health,
homes, jobs and education on 16 April.
Stop Trident
demonstration - 27th February, Central London
Despite
what the pro-war media are telling us, polls
show that the majority of the population opposes Trident renewal.
An organised anti-war response can continue to seriously influence
the debate.
Replacing
and maintaining Trident may cost us £183 billion. It would be far
more useful to humanity if these gigantic resources were instead
invested in cancer research (for example). Instead of producing
weapons of mass destruction, we could use this money to save millions
of lives.
Can the voice of sanity drown out the baying for blood, can the doves of peace silence the trumpet call to war, can the will of the people return the dogs of war to their kennels? We can't expect that pampered, privileged, hypocritical cabal sitting in the marble halls of power to silence the howling hounds, they are the ones who stand ready to unleash them. It is not blood that flows through their veins, it is the venom of imperialism. Stopping the frenzied rush to war can only be done by the will of the people, only by the concerted effort of the ordinary people can the bloodshed be stopped.
The savagery of war is never to the benefit of the ordinary people on either side of the slaughter. They are the ones who see the blood of their loved ones stain the fertile earth, but never gain the the spoils of war. They are the ones who mourn, while the war mongers feast in marble halls built on the bones of the people.
Syria at the moment is being bombed into oblivion, the Syrian people are bleeding from every pore, Britain's contribution will add a few more villages, towns and cities, splattered with the blood of ordinary people. The reason for our lords and masters desire to contribute to this humanitarian disaster, is simply, the desire for the British imperialists to play on the big imperialist stage, they don't want to miss out on the spoils. This action is certainly not born out of compassion for the people of Syria.
If we the ordinary people can't stop this, we are complicit in the deaths of men, women and children who have done us no harm, we will be planting the seeds of hatred and perhaps a desire for revenge.
From Stop The War: Day X approaches, MPs prepare to
vote for war on Syria
1) Reports, images and vide on nationwide protests against bombing
Syria
Thanks to everyone who came out and demonstrated
this weekend. We had a great turnout at very short notice. The
message was very clear: Don't Bomb Syria.
As reports,
pictures and videos were posted online from around the country, the
hashtag #DontBombSyria trended at number one on Twitter for much of
the day.
Thousands turned out in London where Whitehall
was brought to a halt by the protestors, including many young people.
See
excellent video here...
Around Britain thousands more
held protests despite gales and rain in some places. Cambridge got a
message from their local MP while protesting that he opposed
airstrikes. There was a protest in North Staffs despite appalling
weather. In Manchester, Leeds, Oxford, Norwich and Birmingham there
were protests.
Among those signing the petition on
the Stop the War street stall in the tiny village of Lymm in Cheshire
was Ian Brown, lead singer of the legendary UK band The Stone
Roses. See
reports, images, video from around the UK on the national day of
action...
The powers that be in the UK talk of peace, while fighting continuous wars. Our continuous wars read like a geography lesson as country after country feels they force of the British imperial machine. Remembrance Day may have past, but this is worth remembering.
On Remembrance Day
When the army prays
And the flags go up
To remind us that they do it for us
On Remembrance Day
By the flower display
Where the church explains
How the heroes keep the villians away
There I’ll tell it to the careless wind
I’ll tell you when the good guys win
On Remembrance Day
I should stay away
From the BBC
Where they tell you how a real man should be
And the children watch
As the vicar walks around with a cross
'Cause to love is fine
If you do it at a sensible time
Yeah, I’ll tell it to the careless wind
I’ll tell you when the good guys win
Yeah, I’ll save it for the next of kin
On Remembrance Day
On Remembrance Day
On Remembrance Day
The babbling brook of bullshit, mainstream media, backs the establishment in painting WW1 in glorious pastel shades of lies, here is an extract from an excellent article stating some of the truths of WW1 From Stop The War:
Dominic Alexander debunks ten myths being used by politicians and
historians to rebrand World War I in the centenary of its outbreak.
The war was fought in defence of democracy
This is contradicted by the basic facts. Germany had universal
manhood suffrage while in Britain, including Ireland, some 40% of men
still did not qualify for the vote. In Germany also, there were attempts
to justify the war on the grounds that it was being fought to defend
civilised values against a repressive, militaristic state, in the form
of Russian autocracy.
Britain went to war due to a treaty obligation to defend the neutrality of Belgium There was no clear and accepted obligation on Britain to do
this, and, in fact, before the Belgian issue appeared, the war party in
the cabinet was already pushing for British intervention on the entirely
different ground that there were naval obligations to France. These
obligations had been developed in secret arrangements between the
military of both countries, and were never subject to any kind of
democratic accountability. The Germans even offered guarantees over
Belgian integrity, which the British government refused to consider at
all.
German aggression was the driving force for war However aggressive the German leadership may have been in 1914, the British establishment was at least as determined to
It is important to keep the pressure mounting if you want to have any effect on the governments of the world, in a bid to stop the genocide that the Israeli state is carrying out in Gaza. Tonight a hospital shelled, 5 dead and at least 11 wounded, how do you claim to be trying to avoid innocent civilians when you shell a hospital? The protests must continue and most grow in numbers.
National demonstration: Stop the Massacre in
Gaza - Free Palestine!
Gaza
End the Siege As if the people of Gaza have not suffered enough,
Israel has escalated its brutal assault on Gaza in the last 24 hours.
Last
Saturday a fantastic 100,000 marched to the Israeli embassy - this
Saturday's demonstration is even more important.
Over
the weekend more than 150 Palestinians have been killed, 67 in one
attack alone last night including 17 children and 14 women. The media
continues to accept the rhetoric of 'limiting casualty levels' and
'targeting militants' and the politicians refuse to condemn Israel
and call their action what it is, a massacre of innocents.
Why?
Because Israel remains the West's main ally in the Middle East.
That
is why we have called a national demonstration this Saturday starting
at the Israeli Embassy and marching to Parliament. Last week 100,000
of us descended on the Israeli Embassy, this Saturday we are taking
our anger to the centre of political power in Britain.
National
demonstrations are the best way to show the government that the
majority in Britain oppose their disgraceful support for the Israeli
assault.
We
are asking all our supporters around the country to organise
transport to get the maximum numbers to London next Saturday.
Check
for details as they emerge on the Stop the War web site. We will
email further details later in the week.
National
Demonstration: Saturday 26th July.
Meet
12 noon at Israeli Embassy. Nearest tube: High Street Kensington.
March to Parliament.
Organised
by Stop the War, PSC, Friends of Al-Aqsa, CND, BMI, MAB and Palestine
Forum in Britain.
Please share and invite your friends to the Facebook event. Let's
make it go viral!
E-mail your lists and share with your organizations and unions
Organise leafleting in your area. Call 020 7561 4830 to order flyers.
As the Cameron gang of lame-brain fascists attempt to turn the pointless slaughter that was the WW1 into a pompous spectacle for their power based ideology, we must keep up the flow of truth, to destroy their hypocritical distorted history. We owe it to all those ordinary people who lost their lives in that bloody empire grab for territory, power and wealth.
1) Britain's foreign wars a central issue in 2014 - the campaign goes
on
Last year we helped stop a new intervention in Syria,
please help us keep the war makers on the run in 2014.
As we approach the withdrawal date of troops, a debate is raging on
the Afghan war. Many
troops and bases are proposed to remain, further prolonging a
conflict which has lasted longer than the first and second world
wars put together, and which has not been about helping the Afghan
people but about strategic control of the region. The rivalry with
China and Russia makes the need for this western control even
greater. We must campaign to ensure all troops and bases leave now.
We will be protesting against the NATO
summit in Wales in September and joining the international day
of action against drones on 4 October. Full details about these
campaigns will announced shortly.
The 100th anniversary of the first world war will feature
prominently in 2014. The government and its allies want to use the
anniversary to highlight and promote the role of the military in
society. Various 'revisionist' historians are arguing that this was
a war for democratic freedom, despite the evidence that it is was an
imperial war between rival powers, highly industrialised, which
ended in revolution and major social change because of revulsion at
its consequences. The government's plans have already run into high
profile opposition, with 10,000
people signing the No Glory petition protesting these plans and
there will be events across the country challenging their
revisionism.
The government's attempt to rehabilitate the military is extending
to promoting
'military values' in schools. Anti-war campaigners and teachers
should oppose such moves, arguing that children should learn the
truth about war.
The Chilcot report on the Iraq war is due to make its belated
appearance in the New Year. It is our chance to demand a holding
to account of Tony Blair, Jack Straw and the rest who took us
to war in Iraq based on lies. There should be full disclosure of
all secret documents and an indictment of Blair.
These priorities are explored amongst others in War
and peace in 2014 on the Stop the War web site.
2) Battle of the Somme: the horrific epitome of the first world
war
- Lindsey German
One of my Xmas presents was The
Great War by Joe Sacco. It is a wonderful piece of art, a 24 page
panorama of July 1 1916, the first day of the Battle of the
Somme. Originally inspired by a pull out book of the Manhattan
skyline, it also draws on the Bayeux Tapestry that depicts the story
of the Battle of Hastings in 1066. It is a series of connected
tableaux which begin with General Haig walking in the grounds of his
chateau behind the lines and progress through ever darkening scenes
to the deaths and mayhem of injured and dying on the battle
field. The Somme is perhaps the epitome of the horror of the
First World War, at least from the point of view of Britain. It was a
major, planned onslaught against German trenches that was organised
with industrial precision. Railways were built, cables laid, trenches
dug in order to prepare for an offensive, which was mean to destroy
the German defences and allow the British to gain a key advantage
which would end the war. A huge week long bombardment of artillery
was planned which would knock out most of the enemy, crucially take
out their machine gun posts and allowing the British army to take
over virtually empty trenches. It was a total failure; the
bombardment was 'impressive mainly for its noise' in the words of
Adam Hochschild, who wrote the booklet accompanying the panorama.
Many of the shells were duds, and two thirds were shrapnel, which was
fairly useless in destroying barbed wire or machine gun emplacements.
The thousands of men who went over the top that morning therefore
faced barrages of machine gun fire from troops from whom they thought
they would meet little resistance. Read
the rest of the article here
The West is hell bent in turning the entire Middle East into a stone age area awash with sectarian violence, Iraq, Libya, now Syria with Iran still in their sights. All this misery heaped on the people of the area, to open up its rich resources to the dollar driven corporate greed machine. This is not about compassion for the ordinary people, it's not about democracy. The Western corporate juggernaut doesn't give a shit about the people of any area, but it does care about oil and gas and the control of these resources. When the corporate world speaks the political puppets obey, this is not Western politicians concerned about the well being of people in the Middle East, it is simply a plunder of another countries natural resources, control and profit, plain and simple.
Tomorrow:
demonstrate against US sending arms to Syria
Stop
Western Intervention in Syria
US Embassy
Grosvenor Square London W1A 2LQ Saturday 15 June 2013 1pm
Earlier today the US approved
sending arms to Syrian rebel groups, a policy that has been pushed by
Britain and France for months and one that threatens to escalate
violence in Syria.
The possibility of a no fly zone - the
prelude to the horrific bombing campaign carried about by Britain and
France in Libya - now looks more likely as the West seeks to
intensify an already difficult conflict with devastating humanitarian
consequences.
Join us tomorrow to Stop Western Intervention in Syria: US
Embassy, 1pm Saturday June 15.
War is always a brutal nightmare, but the rapid advancement of the "soldier-less war" takes us into the realms of some science fiction horror movie. The idea of states controlling vast swaths of the planet by a bunch of youngsters sitting in a comfortable office near their home, in front of their console, boringly doing their 9-to-5 job, must be the nightmare of nightmares. Brutal death and devastation administered from a swivel-chair in an air conditioned office by people who have no conception of the death and destruction that they are implementing. It separates real bloodshed and death from the reality of those administering the devastation.
Stop Britain being a launchpad for killer drones. We call on the government to abandon the use of drones as a
weapon of war.
Signed by: Chris Cole (Drone Campaign Network); Jeremy
Corbyn (MP for Islington North); Lindsey German (Convenor,
Stop the War Coalition); Kate Hudson (CND); Rafeef Ziahdah
(War On Want).
This spring, the UK will double its number of armed Reaper
drones in Afghanistan and will for the first time begin
operating drones over Afghanistan from a new facility at RAF
Waddington near Lincoln.
1) HOW YOU CAN HELP MAKE THE WORLD A SAFER PLACE
The astonishing comments by two UK army majors serving in Afghanistan, that the war is lost and politicians are "trading soldiers' lives for votes", only reflects the views of most people in this country (SEE: http://bit.ly/Ifl4L1).
The government is continuing to wage the war knowing that the overwhelming majority of people in Britain want the troops brought home now. In addition, the government is pressing for increased Western intervention in Syria -- almost certainly as a stepping stone to a military attack on Iran.
David Cameron is clearly no different from Tony Blair in his slavish support for America's wars without end. These war policies are making the world ever more insecure and unstable. It is more necessary than ever for the anti-war movement to mobilise the widest possible active opposition to the warmongering of our political leaders.
We have much work to do,
As the dogs of war start to bay louder and louder at the gates of Iran, with the leaders of the pack, the US, UK and Israel snarling the most viciously, we have to keep the pressure on our "elected" governments to keep the dogs of war on a tight leash. Or better still have them put down.
MAKE YOUR MP WORK TO STOP IRAN WAR. We are asking all our supporters to lobby MPs to help stop another war. Today talks start between UN security Council members plus Germany and Iran over Iran's nuclear programme. The US, Britain and Israel are set to take a hard line, demanding the closure of Fordo, one of Iran's main enrichment plants, and an end to uranium enrichment to 20% levels, demands likely to be unacceptable to Iran. President Obama has called these talks the 'last chance' to resolve the issue peacefully, signalling that a breakdown in the talks may be used to justify moves to war. (SEE NOAM CHOMSKY on threats to Iran: http://bit.ly/HCXp8s) We are asking you to take this chance to lobby your MP to back an early day motion in Parliament against military attack on Iran. We have a highly effective online lobbying system that allows you to email your MP at the click of a mouse. Please put the pressure on now by going to: http://bit.ly/HCX59F
The occupation of Afghanistan has passed crisis point. Afghan
soldiers are turning their guns on NATO troops, negotiations with the
Taliban have broken down and protests against occupation are
continuing. Meanwhile, further war in the Middle East is
terrifyingly close. The debate about war on Iran in Israel is more
about when rather than whether to attack. In the US there is also a
sense of inevitability about war. Officials in the International
Atomic Energy Agency say their leadership is being used by the US to
justify war on Iran. The US is opposing direct intervention in Syria
for the moment, but this can change and meanwhile Western allies
Saudi Arabia and Qatar are arming the Free Syrian Army. Stop
the War is calling a day of protest on Saturday May 19th to coincide
with big protests in Chicago against the NATO summit.
