USA. 44 Arrested at S.F. War Protest [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Capitalist Imperialism or Socialist Communism? ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 2:18 AM Subject: [kominform2] USA. 44 Arrested at S.F. War Protest From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R-G] 44 Arrested at S.F. War Protest 44 Arrested at S.F. War Protest Demonstration at Federal Building Over Congressional Votes By Patrick Hog and Harriet Chiang October 12, 2002; San Francisco Chronicle Scores of anti-war protesters waved signs and chanted slogans as they surrounded San Francisco's federal building Friday to denounce Congress' vote authorizing President Bush to wage war against Iraq. Federal police and security guards hold down a protester outside the federal building. Chronicle photo by Carlos Avila Gonzalez Federal officers arrested 44 people for blocking entrances to the building shortly before 8 a.m., preventing thousands of federal workers from getting to their jobs. Forty-two were cited for civil disobedience and released. Two protesters were arrested on felony charges of attacking an assistant U.S. attorney and a court security officer. Nonetheless, it was a relatively peaceful protest and some people there to do business didn't mind the disruption. Erik Babcock, a defense attorney who was trying to get into the building, said he sided with the demonstrators. I'm with their sentiments, he said. The protest began Thursday afternoon after both houses of Congress voted overwhelming to give Bush the go-ahead to use military force against Saddam Hussein's regime. About 225 people marched from Montgomery and Market streets up to the federal building where about 200 protesters, armed with blankets, tents and sleeping bags, camped out overnight on the plaza in front of the building. After Friday morning's protests, a band of about 50 demonstrators marched to Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office to protest her voting for the resolution giving Bush war powers. San Francisco police detained one demonstrator. The number of protesters was far less than the 8,000 who attended Sunday's anti-war rally at San Francisco's Union Square. But Medea Benjamin, founding director of Global Exchange, a national anti-war group based in San Francisco that helped sponsor both protests, called the turn-out for the latest one amazing considering it was hastily organized to coincide with the votes in Congress. This is starting to feel like Vietnam in terms of the level of protests, she said. The one difference is that we're trying to stop a war before it happens. ©2002 San Francisco Chronicle _ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Katsauksia suomeksi: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Home Selling? Try Us! http://us.click.yahoo.com/QrPZMC/iTmEAA/MVfIAA/VL0olB/TM -~- Peruuta ryhmän tilaus lähettämällä sähköpostia osoitteeseen: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^^=== This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^^===
China-India-Russia Cooperation Can Play Key Role In InternationalArena. [WWW.STO
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Capitalist Imperialism or Socialist Communism? ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 12:48 PM Subject: [kominform2] China-India-Russia Cooperation Can Play Key Role In InternationalArena. Subject: China-India-Russia Cooperation Can Play Key Role In International Arena HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- http://www.irna.com/en/world/021004190727.ewo.shtml India-China-Russia cooperation can play key role: envoy New Delhi, Oct 4, IRNA (Iran) -- Chinese ambassador to India has said that cooperation and friendly ties between China, India and Russia could play a significant role in international arena. Hua Junduo told reporters in Chandigarh in north India on Thursday that the significance of the India-Russia- China tie lies in the fact that we have made our voice louder in the international arena, reported Press Trust of India (PTI). We (India, Russia and China) can make our voice louder and louder in the interest of the whole world, he said, adding cooperation among the three countries can strengthen the people of the sub-continent, he added. The cooperation between the three countries can bring them closer and it is possible through joint efforts, he said. Cultural interactions can bridge the traditional and friendly ties between the three countries, he added. China's relationship has increased with India, he said, adding there was a bright future for further enhancement of relations between the two neighbors. Trade between China and India has increased to four billion dollars in the past year, he said. China is looking forward to Indian Premier Atal Behari Vajpayees's visit to that country laterthis year or early next year, Hua said. A piquant situation arose ahead of the Chinese ambassador's visit to a function in Chandigarh when about 50 Tibetans entered the venue and shouted anti-China slogans. Raising slogans We want freedom, Long live Dalai Lama, the protesting students turned violent and were chased away by local police. Before fleeing from the venue the students broke window panes of the auditorium where the function was to be held. However, no one was injured in the incident. The ambassador was in Chandigarh to inaugurate a photo exhibition World Heritage in China to celebrate the 53rd anniversary of founding of people's Republic of China. Referring to the incident, the ambassador said, We have ears for their demand. If it is just we would listen and respond. We expect such activity everywhere. I found it in US, Fiji and Canada.., he added. _ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Katsauksia suomeksi: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Sell a Home with Ease! http://us.click.yahoo.com/SrPZMC/kTmEAA/MVfIAA/VL0olB/TM -~- Peruuta ryhmän tilaus lähettämällä sähköpostia osoitteeseen: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^^=== This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^^===
Colombia. MORE US SPECIAL FORCES ARRIVING. [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Capitalist Imperialism or Socialist Communism? ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 11:59 PM Subject: [kominform2] Colombia. MORE US SPECIAL FORCES ARRIVING. From: ANNCOL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MORE US SPECIAL FORCES ARRIVING IN COLOMBIA MORE US SPECIAL FORCES ARRIVING IN COLOMBIA By Alfredo Castro, ANNCOL Bogotá US Special Forces are due to arrive in Colombia during this month to run training courses for two brigades of the Colombian army that are implicated in human rights violations. Their mission is to fight against left-wing rebels and protect an oil pipeline According to General Galen Jackson, Director of Operations for US Army Southern Command, units of US Special Forces personnel have started to arrive in Colombia this week to give training to two Colombian army units. The US Congress is also due to hand over around $95 million to train and equip the two Colombian units and, after heavy lobbying by the manufacturers of the aircraft, helicopter gun-ships appear to be first on the shopping list. The new training and equipment is aimed at increasing security for the Caño Limon oil pipeline that is owned and operated by Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum - another company that lobbied hard for the aid package. The pipeline, which runs through north-eastern Colombia, is a regular target of leftwing rebels who object to Colombia's oil wealth being expropriated by multinational corporations. On Monday of this week the rebels attacked the pipeline in three different places and forced it to be shut down for the day whilst last year it was out of action for more than 170 days due to attacks. The newly trained units are expected to attempt and find the guerrilla units responsible as well as guard the pipe. The two units due to receive the training and equipment, the 5th and 18th Brigades of the Colombian army, both have a long history of violating human rights and setting up and working with paramilitary death squads. Human rights organisations fear that the fresh aid will lead to further violations especially as Washington enforces none of the human rights conditions attached to legislation on aid to the Colombian military. According to Isabel Acevedo Muñoz, a human rights worker in the region, the new aid is very worrying to her and her colleagues. Why is the US working with these military units when it is so well-known that they are always targeting the civilian population? Both the 5th and the 18th Brigades work with the death squads and we fear that this training could easily increase the problems especially if the US trainers teach them the sort of scorched earth tactics used in Central America and other places, she said. [Read more at http://www.anncol.com] _ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Katsauksia suomeksi: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Home Selling? Try Us! http://us.click.yahoo.com/QrPZMC/iTmEAA/MVfIAA/VL0olB/TM -~- Peruuta ryhmän tilaus lähettämällä sähköpostia osoitteeseen: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^^=== This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^^===
Estimated 1.5 million protest U.S. war on Iraq in dozens of Italian cities [WWW.
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Capitalist Imperialism or Socialist Communism? ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: Fred Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 2:51 AM Subject: [CubaNews] Estimated 1.5 million protest U.S. war on Iraq in dozens of Italian cities United Press International October 6, 2002 1.5 Million March Against Attack on Iraq Anti-War Rallies Change Italy on Iraq? by Eric J. Lyman ROME -- More than 1.5 million Italians took to the streets of dozens of cities Saturday afternoon and evening to protest possible U.S. military action against Iraq -- a surprise show of discord that could be fervent enough for the Italian government to re-think its support of Washington. The larger-than-expected protests took place without violence, despite speculation from some fronts that the gatherings could become dangerous, especially to U.S. citizens. On Friday, the U.S. Embassy in Rome circulated a warning to citizens residing in or visiting Italy to stay away from the demonstrations because of fears that they could become targets for violence. But even though the protests were peaceful, demonstrators made it clear that they opposed U.S. action against Baghdad. The stance is significant because up to this point, Rome and London have been President George W. Bush's strongest allies in Europe. Most European leaders -- most vocally France's Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder of Germany -- have called on diplomatic means to diffuse tensions between the United States and Iraq. For several weeks, Italians have been saying that they are opposed to action against Iraq, but this is the first time they have put those words into action, Maria Rossi, co-director of the polling firm Opinioni, told United Press International. The site of thousands of Italians on the streets protesting against the potential war in Iraq has to be a sobering sight for government officials who will need public support for other issues. Government officials were not available for comment on their stance on U.S.-Iraq relations on Saturday, but local television drew the same conclusion as Rossi. If the government can ignore this ... it can ignore anything, said one on-the-scene journalist for the network La 7 in Milan. On this day, the Italian people have spoken ... and they say they are against support for the American position. Opinion polls support that view, with a week-old survey from Opinioni showing that more than two out of every three Italians opposed any armed conflict over Iraq, and nearly four out of five Italians opposed to Italian participation in such action unless it was as part of a United Nations-sponsored force. Most of the anti-war demonstrations took place on Saturday morning, with the biggest of those in Milan, drawing a crowd that police estimated at between 60,000 to 100,000 people. Signs in the crowd showed Bush's head on the body of a hawk -- a reference to the president's hawkish stance toward Iraq's Saddam Hussein -- and others that showed Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and British leader Tony Blair as Bush's pets, referring to their support of U.S. policies. Other large morning rallies took place in Bologna, Florence, Naples and Palermo. But the day's biggest march was held in the evening in Rome, where police said as many as 200,000 people gathered in protest. Our point is that we cannot support the United States's plan to kill innocent Iraqis in order to win the upcoming (Congressional) elections, Marco Filiberti, 38, a protester who came to Rome with six friends from the nearby city of Latina, told UPI. Claudia Bacigalupo, 24, a teacher from Rome, said she hoped the day's unexpectedly large rallies would convince the government to backtrack on its support of Washington. We cannot control what the United States does, but we can tell them that if they want to march into Iraq they will have to do so without the support of the Italian military, Bacigalupo said. Whether that will be the case or not is unclear. In the past, Berlusconi has paid only limited attention to public opinion -- which, combined his eagerness to support Washington on a variety of issues -- might make a change of plans unlikely. But pollsters say that because of the support the government will need to address an array of domestic issues, the public's view on Iraq could create a degree of doubt about the course the prime minister has chosen. Over the coming months, the government will try to pass a so-far unpopular budget, revisit controversial labor reform legislation and start to tackle painful pension reforms, Rossi, the pollster, said. With the economy weakening, the government may have to pick its most important battles ... (and) what we don't know is whether Iraq is one of them. The United States has taken an
Re: What gives with Barbara Streisand? [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- - Original Message - From: Nancy Hey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 1:21 AM Subject: What gives with Barbara Streisand? [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Yo, did any of you folks happen to see on the news last night Barbara Streisand doing a fundraiser for the Democratic Party? They said she opposes Bush's war plans against Iraq. But how can she support the Democratic Party, when the Democrats have done essentially nothing to try to stop the war? How come I didn't hear her speaking out when Clinton was bombing Yugoslavia, and most of the Democrats in Congress were supporting him? It seems to me that complaining about war while supporting the Democratic Party is a bit like supporting the Nazi Party while complaining about anti-Semitism. Funny girl. Seriously, Bill. --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Vietnamese, DPRK leaders hold talks [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- President Tran Duc Luong affirmed the country's consistent policy to support the Korean people's aspiration for peace and national unification. He was speaking at the talks with President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK Kim Yong Nam. He welcomed the results of the historic summit between the two Koreas in June 2000 as well as recent moves toward pushing up dialogue and consolidating peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and in the region. During the talks, President Luong and President Kim informed each other of the situation in their respective countries and discussed orientations and measures to bolster the friendship and multi-form co-operation between Vietnam and the DPRK in the first years of the 21st century. They also compared notes on regional and international issues of common concern. President Luong expressed profound sympathy over current economic difficulties faced by the Korean people and informed the host that the Vietnamese government has decided to donate 5,000 tonnes of rice to the DPRK's people to help them overcome severe aftermaths caused by recent consecutive natural calamities. To reach that goal, the two presidents emphasised the importance of exchanging visits by delegations at all levels. They agreed to major orientations aiming at expanding bilateral co-operation in politics, economy, science-technology, investment, commerce, education, health care, sports and tourism to a level commensurate with the potential and conditions of the two nations. The two presidents said they highly appreciated the signing of agreements during the visit. They agreed to find out proper co-operation forms to tap available potentials in industry, agriculture, farm produce processing, mechanical engineering, ship building and repair, construction and transport. The two sides will actively accelerate the exchange of new items, focusing on goods barter to expand trade ties between the two countries. President Luong and President Kim were unanimous in boosting operations of the Inter-governmental Committee for economic, scientific and technological co-operation, thus ensuring effective co-operation between the two nations. Discussing regional and international issues, the two presidents expressed their wish to strengthen bilateral co-ordination in international forums, making contributions to international efforts for peace, stability and co-operation for development in the Asia-Pacific region and the world as a whole. President Kim Yong Nam said he highly appreciated Vietnam's role toward peace, stability and co-operation in the region and the world. The same day, President Tran Duc Luong of Vietnam met Chairman of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Supreme People's Assembly Choi Thae Boc. Both host and guest expressed their joy at the fruitful development of bilateral relations between Vietnam and the DPRK, including those between the two legislative bodies, in the recent past. Chairman Choi expressed his admiration for the Vietnamese people's past struggle for national independence and their present national industrialisation and modernisation. He also noted that with its recent socio-economic achievements, Vietnam's prestige in the international and regional arena had been improved. President Luong's visit to the DPRK was described by the DPRK leader as an opportunity for the two countries to take bilateral traditional ties between the two States, National Assemblies and peoples to a new height of development. The Vietnamese leader took this occasion to express sincere thanks to the DPRK for its support and precious assistance to Vietnam in its past struggle for national independence and liberation as well as its present socialism building. After briefing his host of Vietnam's preparations for the coming election of the 11th National Assembly, President Luong said he hoped that the two countries' top legislative bodies would further exchange experiences and find out measures to step up bilateral co-operation, including the establishment of Parliamentary Friendship Associations in their respective National Assemblies. President Tran Duc Luong began his official four-day visit to the DPRK on May 2 as guest of President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK Kim Yong Nam. The same day, Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Dy Nien, who accompanies President Luong on the current DPRK visit, met his DPRK counterpart Paek Nam Sun to discuss measures to boost co-operation between the two foreign ministries in order to implement high-level accords signed between the two countries with a view to further promoting their friendship and co-operation. The two ministers were pleased at the close co-operation between their ministries, not only helping to develop bilateral ties but also supporting each other during multilateral international and regional forums in
Global trade goes into reverse [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Charlotte Denny Friday May 3, 2002 The Guardian International trade went into reverse last year for the first time in nearly 20 years as recession in the world's three largest economies took its toll on exports, the World Trade Organisation said yesterday. After rising 12% to a record level in 2000, export volumes fell by 1% last year and in value terms dropped 4% to $6 trillion (£4 trillion) from $6.2 trillion - another record - in 2000. In a preliminary assessment last October the WTO said that, despite the global downturn, trade would be up about 2% on the previous year. Blaming the decline on the bursting of the dotcom bubble, terrorist attacks on the US and Europe's descent into recession following the American slump, the WTO said trade was unlikely to stage more than a sluggish pickup this year. Of the three factors, the IT industry's woeful state was the most serious, the WTO said. Global sales of semiconductors fell 30% last year and worldwide shipments of personal computers fell 4.6%, the first time since 1985 that PC sales have declined. East Asian countries such as Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Malaysia, and the United States - all heavy traders in IT and related products - saw the sharpest export falls. Taiwan reported a drop of 17%, and Japan, Singapore and the Philippines were down 16%. Malaysia fell 10%. Of the leading economies, recession hit Japan hardest, with a 17% decline in exports, while the US recorded a 7% fall and Britain 4%. The European Union as whole escaped relatively lightly, with exports flat. China was the only large trader to increase its exports, by a healthy 7%. Others that stood out were some former European communist economies: the Czech Republic boosted exports by 15% and Poland was up 12%. Special reports Global recession Attack on America Recession roll call Company job losses around the world Explained 04.01.2001: Recession Useful links US Federal Reserve . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Arab countries agreed toreactivate a economic blockade of Israel. [WWW.STOPNATO
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 4:59 AM Subject: [kominform2] Libyan News and Views May 3. Arab countries agreed toreactivate a economic blockade of Israel. Libya News and Views Friday, 3 May, 2002: Nineteen Arab countries agreed to reactivate a decades-old economic blockade of Israel. Economic boycott of Israel was agreed to in 1951 but has remained largely inactive and ineffective. It has slackened particularly since the launch of the Middle East peace process in the early 1990s. The Arab nations decided at a three-day meeting in Damascus last week to revive the boycott. Representatives of Syria, Iraq, the Sudan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Algeria, Tunisia, Yemen, the UAE Emirates, Kuwait, Libya, Somalia, Comoros, Morocco, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain and Djibouti attended the meeting. [IPS] _ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Katsauksia suomeksi: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/orkH0C/n97DAA/Ey.GAA/VL0olB/TM -~- Peruuta ryhmän tilaus lähettämällä sähköpostia osoitteeseen: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Korea and the Axis of Evil [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cpa_blacktown_mailing_list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 9:08 AM Subject: [cpa_blacktown] Korea and the Axis of Evil Korea and the Axis of Evil S. Brian Willson Centre for Research on Globalisation (Ca), April 22, 2002 http://globalresearch.ca/articles/WIL204B.html The demonization of North Korea by the United States government continues unrelentlessly. The wealthy oil and baseball man who claims to be president of the United States, used his first State of the Union address on January 29, 2002 to brand perennial enemy North Korea, along with former allies Iran and Iraq, as the world's most dangerous regimes who now now form a threatening axis of evil. Unbeknown to the public, because it was intended to have remained a secret (whoops!), was the fact that this claimed president presented a Nuclear Posture Review report to Congress only three weeks earlier, on January 8, which ordered the Pentagon to prepare contingency plans for use of nuclear weapons. The first designated targets for nuclear attack were his newly identified members of the axis of evil, along with four other lucky nations as well -- Syria, Libya, Russia, and China. That this is nothing short of a policy of ultimate terror remains unaddressed in the U.S. media. That Koreans are deeply concerned is an understatement. However, they understand the context in which their evil is being portrayed, not an altogether new threat levelled at them. However, the dangerous escalation of policy rhetoric following the 9-11 tragedy now boldly warns the world of virtual total war. Vice-president Richard Cheney, another oil man from Texas, declares that the U.S. is now considering military actions against forty to fifty nations, and that the war may never end and become a permanent part of the way we live.1 The Pentagon has declared that the widening gap between the Haves and Have-nots poses a serious challenge to the U.S., requiring a doctrine of full spectrum dominance. Thus, the U.S. demands total capacity to conquer every place and its inhabitants in and around the Earth, from deep underground bunkers, including those in North Korea and Iraq, through land, sea, and air, to outer space. All options for achieving global and spatial hegemony are now on the table. Already, the U.S. military is deployed in 100 different countries.2 Total war, permanent war. Terror! Addiction to use of terror by the United States is nothing new. The civilization was founded and has been sustained by use of terror as a primary policy. For example, in 1779, General George Washington ordered destruction of the merciless Indian savages of upstate New York, instructing his generals to chastize them with terror. The generals dutifully carried out these orders. In 1866, General William Tecumseh Sherman ordered extermination with vindictive earnestness of the Sioux. They were virtually exterminated. Secretary of War Elihu Root (1899-1904) under President's McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, justified the ruthless U.S. military conduct in the Philippines that savagely killed a half-million citizens by citing precedents of the highest authority: Washington's and Sherman's earlier orders.3 War against nations around the world is not new either. The U.S., over its history, has militarily intervened over 400 times, covertly thousands of times, in over one hundred nations.4 Virtually all these interventions have been lawless. It has bombed at least eighteen nations since it dropped Atomic bombs on Japan in 1945. It has used chemical warfare against Southeast Asia, and has provided chemical warfare agents for use by other nations such as Iraq. It has used biological warfare against China, North Korea, and Cuba. The Koreans are quite aware of most of this history. Most U.S. Americans are not. But now the U.S. has declared a unilateral terrorist war on the whole world.5 Two of the interventions in the Nineteenth Century were inflicted against Korea, the first in 1866. The second, larger one, in 1871, witnessed the landing of over 700 marines and sailors on Kanghwa beach on the west side of Korea seeking to establish the first phases of colonization. Destroying several forts while inflicting over 600 casualties on the defending Korean natives, the U.S. withdrew realizing that in order to assure hegemonic success, a much larger, permanent military presence would be necessary. The North Korean people regularly remark about this U.S. invasion, even though most in South Korea do not know of it due to historic censorship. Most in the U.S. don't know about it either, for similar reasons, even though in all of the Nineteenth Century, this was the largest U.S. military force to land on foreign
Speech by Fidel - May Day, 2002 [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: Jose G. Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cuba News [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 4:55 PM Subject: [CubaNews] Fw: Speech by Fidel - May Day, 2002 Speech by Fidel - May Day, 2002 Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit PERMANENT MISSION OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA TO THE UNITED NATIONS 315 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Tel: 212-689-7215 * Fax: 212-689-9073 SPEECH BY DR. FIDEL CASTRO RUZ, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA, AT THE INTERNATIONAL WORKERS' DAY CELEBRATION IN REVOLUTION SQUARE, HAVANA, MAY 1st 2002 Official Translation - May 3, 2002 Distinguished guests; Dear countrymen: We were condemned in Geneva by those who believe that this sea of people gathered here, which can be seen from every corner of the globe, has been deprived of its human rights. I am certain that not one of those Latin American countries that promoted, co-sponsored or supported this project could gather even 5% of the number here in their respective capitals. Are these fanatic, ignorant and uncultured individuals who lack any historical or political knowledge? If we were to ask this mass of people if there were any amongst them who could not read or write; or if there were any functional illiterate people who had never studied beyond grammar school, not one person could raise their hand. But if we were to ask how many of this same mass have the education of a ninth grader or above, more than 90%, would raise their hands. The only ones who wouldn't raise their hands would be the students who haven't yet reached their 15th birthdays. Our people's glorious tradition of rebellion and patriotic struggle, to which we must today add a full and profound understanding of freedom, equality and human dignity; their solidarity and internationalist spirit; their self-confidence and heroic conduct; 43 years of tenacious and unrelenting struggle against the powerful empire; a broad and solid political culture and an extraordinary humanism --all of these qualities cultivated by the Revolution-- have made Cuba a unique country. Wretched indeed is the destiny of hundreds of millions of people in this part of the world who, from a truly human perspective, have been as yet unable to emerge from humanity's prehistory. And it will not be possible for them to escape such condition while the pillage that slaughtered tens of millions of their native ancestors, successively turning their countries into colonies, neo-colonies and economically dependant and underdeveloped countries, continues to govern their destiny. Events prior to, during and after Geneva are barely distinguishable from the shameful history with which our people have been more than familiar since the very first days after the triumph of the Revolution on January 1st, 1959. Cuba was the last Latin American country to free itself from Spanish colonialism after a heroic and lone struggle. Yet, it was unable to enjoy that victory, as it immediately fell in the hands of the fledgling North American empire, from which it once again liberated itself with the same determination and heroism 61 years later although it would be disgracefully abandoned and betrayed by every other Latin American government. No book by Marx or Lenin could illustrate the anti-national, submissive and treacherous nature of the Latin American oligarchies and the true significance of imperialism for the destiny of our people as clearly as the last 43 years of our Revolution's history. Every oligarchic and bourgeois government joined in the imperialist policy of isolation, blockade and aggression against Cuba, the sole exception being a country that had experienced its own great social revolution some decades before, the same that brought justice and real progress to the people of a nation mutilated by the insatiable expansionism of its northern neighbor and made the martyr on numerous occasions throughout its hazardous and painful history of foreign intervention and conquest. Tragically, this time the exception has become rule. Cuba is no longer the illiterate, uncultured and inexperienced country of those early days. Today, the Latin American population, that numbered 208 millions at that time including the English-speaking Caribbean nations, have swelled to 526 millions. They have also had the opportunity to learn firsthand the meaning of imperialist domination, exploitation, injustice and pillage. Despite the deluge of slander and lies against our exemplary people and their admirable struggle, and in the face of countless capitulations across the globe, there are ever more people who realize that Cuba is a powerful moral force, that defends the
Arafat compares Jenin battle to Stalingrad [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: Barry Stoller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 4:19 AM Subject: [kominform2] Arafat compares Jenin battle to Stalingrad AFP. 1 May 2002. Arafat compares Jenin battle to Stalingrad. JERUSALEM -- Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Thursday compared fighting in the Jenin refugee camp to the devastating World War II battle of Stalingrad that destroyed the former Soviet city and killed more than 600,000 people. Jenin has turned into Jeningrad, instead of Stalingrad. Remember something like that, Stalingrad? Now, Jeningrad, Arafat told CNN shortly after Israeli troops lifted their month-long siege of his Ramallah office. Speaking in a firm voice but looking pale, Arafat said he intended to visit areas of the West Bank to see for himself the impact of Sharon's armed incursions, which he described as a crime. If the opportunity was open again, and the tanks were not around me in the morning again, I will go and see what happened in our cities and towns, the disasters and crimes, said Arafat. But Arafat noted that travel to other countries is not the first item for me. I want to go and see, and shake hands with my people who have suffered (from) crimes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/orkH0C/n97DAA/ySSFAA/VL0olB/TM -~- Peruuta ryhmän tilaus lähettämällä sähköpostia osoitteeseen: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
WWIII is coming, 'I'm sure,' high-level Sharon aide says. [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 9:19 AM Subject: [kominform2] WWIII is coming, 'I'm sure,' high-level Sharon aide says. From: Steve Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: WWIII is coming, 'I'm sure,' high-level Sharon aide says HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- http://www.azstarnet.com/star/sat/20427SHARON.AIDE.html Saturday, 27 April 2002 WWIII is coming, 'I'm sure,' high-level Sharon aide says By Stephanie Innes ARIZONA DAILY STAR The terror attacks on Sept. 11 and extreme turmoil in the Middle East point to one thing - World War III, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Friday during a visit to Tucson. We've been fighting a war for the past 18 months, which is the harbinger of World War III. The world is going to fight, whether they like it or not. I'm sure,'' Ra'anan Gissin, a senior adviser to Sharon, said in an interview Friday. Sept. 11 was a watershed event, and things will never be the same. The battle lines have been drawn.'' Gissin, 53, is in Tucson this weekend as part of a 12-day tour of the United States to promote the purchase of Israel Bonds. The bonds are part of a program that began in 1951 in which securities are sold to individuals and corporations to finance economic growth in Israel. The Israeli government pays them back. . . . The collateral is the eternity of the Jewish people,'' Gissin said, dismissing an April 1 Newsweek story that questioned the future of his country. We believe the state of Israel will continue to exist forever. Therefore, it's a sure investment. On Friday night he spoke to an audience of about 300 people at the Reform Temple Emanu-El, 225 N. Country Club Road, as police stood on guard at the doorways of the synagogue. Today at 5 p.m. he is scheduled to speak at the conservative Congregation Anshei Israel, 5550 E. Fifth St. Gissin called the war a clash between the civilized and uncivilized worlds. It's a clash between the forces of evil, as (President Bush) so neatly described it, and forces of life. Mohyeddin Abdulaziz, 54, a Tucson resident and Palestinian who grew up near Ramallah, did not attend Gissin's talk. But in an interview Friday night he said the Israeli point of view does not take into account the suffering of Palestinians who live in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza. This is a war that is being fought against a largely civilian population. It is a one-sided war,'' said Abdulaziz, who still has family living in the West Bank. The Palestinians do not have one tank, one airplane, one helicopter. These are people who have been under a brutal occupation for 35 years and every nation on this Earth has recognized it as an illegal occupation. We have generations of Palestinians who know nothing but brutal occupation,'' he said. The West Bank and Gaza are only 22 percent of the geographic area of Palestine, and it's all the Palestinians are asking for. They want a place to call home. Gissin said he did not believe that the Israeli incursion at the West Bank refugee camp in Jenin earlier this month was a massacre as some Palestinians have said. The chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, has accused Israel of trying to hide terrible things at the camp. Palestinians say hundreds died. The United Nations is sending a fact-finding team there. Real peace can only exist or come about when there is an understanding and a commitment among our Arab and Palestinian neighbors to a process of reconciliation - to accept the fact that Jews also have a right to their own land, to their ancestral homeland, Gissin said. _ * Contact Stephanie Innes at 573-4134 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace. Weekly peace walks around Lake Merritt in Oakland. Starts ends at the colonnade between Grand Lakeshore Avenues, 3 P.M., every Sunday. Info: (510)763-8712, [EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://www.webwm.com/LMNOP _ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Katsauksia suomeksi: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Kwick Pick opens locked car doors, front doors, drawers, briefcases, padlocks, and more. On sale now! http://us.click.yahoo.com/ehaLqB/Fg5DAA/Ey.GAA/VL0olB/TM -~- Peruuta ryhmän tilaus lähettämällä sähköpostia
US and British Warplanes Bombed Iraq. [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- One Iraqi was killed and three others injured when US and British warplanes bombed northern Iraq on Wednesday, an Iraqi military spokesman said. One Iraqi was killed and three others injured when U.S. and British warplanes bombed northern Iraq on Wednesday, an Iraqi military spokesman said. The unidentified spokesman told the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) that the hostile planes bombed civil and service installations in the northern Iraqi province of Neineva and led to the casualties. Iraqi air defense artillery opened fire at the US and British planes and forced them to flee away from the Iraqi airspace, the spokesman added. It is not immediately known whether the air raids were related to Iraqis' unprecedented celebrations of President Saddam Hussein's birthday, which fell on April 28. US President George W. Bush has branded Saddam as an evil person and Iraq as part of an axis of evil and strongly warned that Iraq may become the next target of the US-led war on terror. Neineva Province, along with other two provinces in northern Iraq, have been located inside the northern no-fly zone, set up by the US-led Western allies after the 1991 Gulf War with the claimed aim of protecting the Kurds from the persecution of the Iraqi government. A similar air exclusion zone was also established in southern Iraq to allegedly protect the Shiite Muslims there. Iraq has never recognized the two no-fly zones and has regularly opened fire at the Western planes enforcing them. . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Egypt Assails the Lumping of U.S. War With Israel's [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 4:57 AM Subject: [kominform2] Egypt Assails the Lumping of U.S. War With Israel's From: Miroslav Antic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Egypt Assails the Lumping of U.S. War With Israel's HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Published on Wednesday, May 1, 2002 in the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/ Egypt Assails the Lumping of U.S. War With Israel's by Neil MacFarquhar CAIRO - President Hosni Mubarak criticized Washington today for allowing Israel to lump the Palestinian struggle to end occupation into the same category as the war on terrorism, and he echoed the impatience of other Arab officials with the lack of peace initiatives from the United States. This Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and its provocative, illegitimate acts are the main reason behind the escalation of the Palestinian resistance, President Mubarak said in a nationally televised speech marking May Day. This fierce campaign that Israel is launching on the Palestinian people and leadership must end, this campaign that is unjustly based on a comparison between the U.S. war against terrorism in Afghanistan and Israel's war against unarmed Palestinians who are resisting occupation. In the absence of any concrete plan to help the Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims are likely to doubt the entire American effort, said Mr. Mubarak, traditionally a staunch ally of the United States but increasingly critical in recent weeks. What happened is a sudden change in the direction of the war against terrorism which, I am afraid, will shake the people's faith in it and in its credibility in the Arab and Muslim worlds, he said. Since September, the entire American effort to fight terrorism has encountered a certain skepticism in the Middle East, where the idea that the attacks on the United States were the work of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden's network, was not fully accepted. The American failure to get Israel to halt its offensive in the West Bank has deepened regional suspicion that the United States cannot be trusted to help pursue Arab interests. This has been especially true in Egypt and Jordan, whose leaders have been forced to defend maintaining peace treaties with Israel and have resorted to lowering their public profiles. The fact that the Bush administration managed to broker a deal that appears likely to free Yasir Arafat from Israeli siege in Ramallah shows that its engagement works, Mr. Mubarak said, lamenting a lack of further effort. The strong intervention of the U.S. through definite suggestions can bring a real political breakthrough that leads to security and stability in the region, he said. Washington has indicated that it wants moderate Arab states to convince Mr. Arafat that he needs to take a more high-profile role in stopping suicide bombings. There is some indication of that happening already, according to American officials in the region, who said that Mr. Mubarak, King Abdullah of Jordan and others had called Mr. Arafat in recent days. But Arab officials noted that the United States should not expect a broad effort from the Arab side without Washington showing more spine in pressuring the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon. Where is the pressure from the U.S. on Sharon? said Amr Moussa, the secretary general of the Arab League. Why should the Arabs put pressure on Arafat without equal pressure being put on Sharon? There is no solution except this one. He said the main pressure should be to get Israeli forces to withdraw to where they were before Sept. 28, 2000, when the current Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation started, and for both sides to observe a cease-fire. It is not a question of some tanks being withdrawn or Mr. Arafat being able to go from Ramallah to Gaza, this is not a commodity to be sold for a high price, Mr. Moussa said. Without this withdrawal I don't think there will be any progress, our side will not be convinced that the other side is serious. Arab officials are hoping for some sign from Washington that it realizes that the Palestinian question is not another branch of the war on terrorism and that American credibility on other issues - not to mention its stated wish to take on Iraq - is at stake. You cannot, particularly if you are a big country, see everything through one prism, said Ahmed Maher, the Egyptian foreign minister. In the minds of the Americans, Israel is fighting in Palestine the American war against terrorism, which is total nonsense. What you have in Palestine is people who are under occupation who are resisting, sometimes with methods that we do not approve, but all in all it's a situation of resistance against
Russia. May Day in Moscow. [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 4:55 AM Subject: [kominform2] Russia. May Day in Moscow. From: daniel mckelvey peyser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Peoples War] May Day in Moscow (report by Alan Woods) http://www.marxist.com/Russia/mayday2002moscow.html May Day in Moscow By Alan Woods In bright summery sunshine, thousands of workers and young people demostrated on the streets of Moscow today. The demonstration, organised by the CPRF and other Communist and Left organisations included a column of over two thousand young communists that united different youth organisations, including supporters of the Russian Marxist paper Rabochaya Demokratiya (http://www.1917.com/), who played an active role in the preparations, distributing 12,000 stickers all over Moscow. The mood of the young communists was extremely radical, as reflected in the slogans. The most common ones were: Putin out! Revolution! Capitalism is rubbish! As long as we are united we cannot be defeated! Our fatherland is the USSR! Long live the worldwide proletarian revolution! and Death to the bourgeois! The general mood was cheerful and comradely. When the demonstrators approached the city centre, a large number of onlookers applauded them and expressed their agreement with the slogans - even the most radical of them! This is not surprising. The mood of anger among the population is increasing by the day. The attempts by the bourgeois government of Putin to attack living standards and workers' rights have reached the point where people are simply not prepared to take it lying down. Having introduced a reactionary anti-trade union law (the notorious Kzot), and a law of land privatisation, he is now trying to force people to pay economic rents and to pay for things like electricity, gas and central heating that were always free since Soviet times. This is the most serious attack on the conditions of or ordinary Russians yet. Many people will not be able to pay the increases out of their meagre earnings. And the effects of having your heating cut off in a land where in winter temperatures normally drop to twenty or thirty degrees below zero can be easily imagined. This is one attack too many! On April 11 a mass protest demonstration organised by the official trade unions (FNPR) and the CPRF in the city of Voronezh ended in something like an uprising, when the angry people, instead of listening to the speeches of the organisers at the end, broke away to attack government buildings, leading to violent clashes with the police. This was a serious warning of what is being prepared! The increasingly radical mood is finding its expression in the ranks of the CPRF. The speaker of the Duma, Seleznyov, was recently expelled from the party. There is growing pressure from the CP rank and file demanding that the party begin to present a serious opposition to Putin and the bourgeoisie. The final meeting was held in Revolution square in front of the statue of Karl Marx, with the Bolshoi Theatre at the opposite end of the square. It is difficult to calculate the exact numbers but the square was practically full, so there could have been anything up to 100,000 present. The speech of the leader of the Moscow District Committee, Alexander Kuvaev, at the end of today's demonstration was consequently very radical: On this day of the world working class, we must form a united revolutionary front of workers against the common enemy - international Capital and US imperialism, he began. After denouncing the so-called reforms that were an attack on the living standards of the masses, he added: We cannot accept the policies of any capitalist government. We must not waste time seeking agreement with this government. We must get rid of those elements of the party justify a policy of agreement with Putin on the grounds of so-called higher reasons of state. Do not pay any attention to Putin's 'patriotic' speeches! Down with the anti-popular President - the agent of imperialism! We must be the left opposition! Kuvaev's speech was well received, but this was not the case when Zyuganov spoke. Some sections displayed open discontent, and there was no enthusiasm in general for what he had to say. Unfortunately, some of the young people present began to chant and interrupt him - which only caused irritation amongst the CPRF members. Later on there was a disagreeable incident when the platform refused to allow the leader of Trudavaya Rossiya, Viktor Anpilov, to speak from the platform. This kind of incident is not useful for the cause of the Communist movement in Russia, which must be united on a common platform of struggle against the common class enemy. But in the course of the day it was a secondary
Rotterdam, The Netherlands, May Day against Bush and racism [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: info [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 10:55 PM Subject: [mobilize-globally] Rotterdam, The Netherlands, May Day against Bush and racism -- Forwarded Message From: uhuru_now [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 23:28:14 - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [leftwing] Rotterdam, The Netherlands, May Day against Bush and racism May Day 2002 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands: for peace and socialism; against Bush and racist Fortuijn May Day 2002 saw millions in action all over the world, for peace, workers' rights, and international solidarity. Also in many places in The Netherlands: from the small village of Finsterwolde to Amsterdam to the government city of The Hague: there, a demonstration focused against George W. Bush putting the Kurdish workers'party PKK on a terrorist list. In Rotterdam, the second city of The Netherlands, at 6 p.m. people began to gather in front of the city hall, Coolsingel 40. The big crowd varied from supporters of the left liberal D66 party (comparable to the Liberal Democrats in England or Americans for Democratic Action in the US) to communists and everyone in between. The main slogan was Against war and racism, together for socialism. Among the other slogans on banners and signs were: Stop the Dutch Haider [the extreme right Dutch politician Pim Fortuijn, participating in the Dutch general election of 15 May; whose policies are somewhat similar to Austrian extreme Rightist Haider. Fortuijn insults Muslims, people from the Caribbean, and others]. Pim Le Pen [comparing Fortuijn to French extreme Rightist Le Pen], stop with politics, and start cooking! This alludes to an infamous remark by Fortuijn when a female journalist, live on national television, asked him a question. Fortuijn, not just a racist, but also a misogynist, snapped: Bitch, you'd better take up cooking instead of journalism. This may have cost Fortuijn female floating voters; unfortunately, it may also have won him some stupid male floating voters. Other slogans: Long live the workers'day (in Dutch and Arabic). Stop war for oil and money. Rotterdam against the new war. Socialist Party. Stop the corporate media campaign against immigrants. Down with racism.. Legalize the Kurdish language in Turkey. Long live international solidarity. Free Mumia Abu-Jamal. There were pictures of Che Guevara and Kurdish Workers Party president Öcalan, a political prisoner in Turkey. Red flags and Kurdish flags floated. On a truck, a Brazilian percussion band played. After an introductory speech, Savas, player of the sas (string instrument) from Turkish Kurdistan, played. A song by him is on the Internet, at http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Eafa/comite/muziek/beirut.mp3 Among the organizations taking part in the march were: Aksi Setiakawan (Indonesian), Rotterdam against the new war committee; the Rotterdam branch of the trades union congress FNV; one million and a half people in The Netherlands are FNV members. Iranian refugees. Turkish Workers' League, and the Social Alliance (an anti poverty network, including the two biggest trade union congresses FNV and CNV, and others). When far over a thousand people had gathered, they started to march through the shopping streets of the city center. In the middle of the demonstration the truck, with the Brazilian band still playing, and speeches from various participating organizations. People shouted: George Bush, terrorist! [Israel prime minister] Sharon, terrorist! Pim Fortuijn, racist! A lot of the slogans rhymed in Dutch, though not in English. Like: First of May, free Palestine. Fortuijn's party is the new NSB [Dutch Nazi party, founded in 1931, banned in 1945]; down with it! Pim Fortuijn, his shirt is brown [bruin in Dutch; like Hitler's SA]. The slogan: Pim, start cooking! drew spontaneous applause by a sixteenish blonde girl passing by, and a thumbs up sign by an African tramway passenger. Motorists honked along with the May Day slogans. Marchers cheered a construction worker, as construction trade unions are stepping up strike action on May Day. As the marchers arrived back at the city hall, a swift flew overhead, screaming. This migratory bird always comes back to The Netherlands around May Day. From the truck, Peter Sas of the International Socialists mentioned the nuclear weapons threat, ending his speech with: long live socialism, down with capitalism! After Sas, Wim van Wijk of the refugees' organization PRIME spoke. He criticized the Dutch government, which wants to send refugees back to unsafe Iraq; and expels refugees from their houses. Next, Jane of Rode Morgen (Red Dawn) monthly, mentioned the big anti Le Pen demonstrations in France on this May Day. Then, the Red Rotterdam
CP of Britain, Imperialism - the Real Axis of Evil [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: SolidNet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 11:51 AM Subject: CP of Britain, Imperialism - the Real Axis of Evil http://www.solidnet.org News, documents and calls for action from communist and workers' parties. The items are the responsibility of the authors. Join the mailing list: info/subscribe/unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . = CP of Britain, Imperialism - the Real Axis of Evil --- From: Communist Party of Britain, Wed, 01 May 2002 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.communist-party.org.uk = Dear Comrades, We are sending you a recent article published in the Morning Star by our party's general secretary Robert Griffiths. We hope you find it of interest. Yours in Comradeship, Kenny Coyle International Department -- This article first appeared in the Morning Star, Britain's only socialist daily newspaper http://www.poptel.org.uk/morning-star/ Axis drowned in blood Communist Party general secretary ROBERT GRIFFITHS explores the history of Western intervention in the nations labelled by the US as an Axis of Evil. THOMAS Evan Nicholas was a bard, dentist Welsh nonconformist preacher and founder member of Britain's Communist Party. He once remarked that he didn't have to go to America to discover that it's a land of gangsters. Some of them are in prison, but most of them are in the government! That is as true today as it was in the 1930s and it has been throughout the intervening period. Current gangster-in-chief George W Bush has used his State of the Union address to declare war on the Axis of Evil. Iraq, Iran and People's Korea are supposedly developing and accumulating weapons of mass destruction and so must be stopped. Who says so? The world's biggest stockpiler of mass-destruction weapons - the US regime which wages wars for peace, fights terrorism with terror and bombs civilians to defend civilisation. What the peoples of Iraq, Iran and Korea have in common is that oceans of their blood were shed in the 20th century as the direct result of US foreign policy. The US invaded Korea in 1950 wrapped in the flag of the United Nations, having gerrymandered a resolution through the UN security council after excluding People's China and producing a walkout by the Soviet Union in solidarity. Ostensibly, the US intervention was in order to rebuff a military offensive allegedly launched by North Korea against the South. In reality, it was to prop up the corrupt regime of US puppet Syngman Rhee, who had just arrested his victorious opponents in the southern elections. As the war swung back and forth over the 38th parallel between the two Korean states, US forces combined a scorched earth policy of retreat with an enormous aerial bombing campaign in the north. As General Emmet O'Donnell, who was head of US Bomber Command, commented, I would say that the entire, almost the entire, Korean peninsula is just a terrible mess. Everything is destroyed. There is nothing standing worthy of the name. Just before the Chinese came in, we were grounded. There were no more targets in Korea! US and British forces slaughtered more than two million Koreans whose crime had been to fight for a united, socialist homeland. Napalm and other chemical weapons were used. There is also substantial evidence that US aircraft dropped germ warfare canisters in two regions of North Korea and over the border in Chinese Manchuria. Outbreaks of cholera, bubonic plague, smallpox and encephalitis were reported from 1951 onwards. When Labour MP SO Davies raised the issue in the House of Commons, government ministers denounced the charges as outrageous and a communist fraud! The whole controversy was recounted in my biography of SO Davies, drawing upon contemporaneous US establishment sources and an unpublished report by Saap van Ginneken given to me by former CIA agent Philip Agee. Since then, state documents released in the US have confirmed almost all the circumstantial evidence, including the US rescue and re-employment of Japanese scientists who had developed the bacteriological weapons used against Chinese civilians in World War II. While wading up to their knees in Korean blood, the gangsters governing the US fought by proxy to drown the anti-imperialist revolution in Iran led by Mohammed Mossadeq. Elected prime minister on May Day 1951, his government had nationalised the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. Although an oil-rich country, nine-tenths of Iran's population were illiterate and half of all children died before
Re: Posts [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- - Original Message - From: Stasi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Anti-NATO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 3:34 AM Subject: Posts [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Sorry for the excess of posts today. Busy over the weekend which meant a backlog of stories, many of them too interesting to let pass by. No need to apologise, theyve all been read and forwarded on. Postally, Bill. --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Palestine: Israel Army Rolls Into Hebron, 8 Dead. [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 3:31 AM Subject: [kominform2] Palestine: Israel Army Rolls Into Hebron, 8 Dead. From: Stasi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Peoples War] Palestine: Israel Army Rolls Into Hebron, 8 Dead - Xinhua Israel Army Rolls Into Hebron, 8 Dead == Xinhuanet 2002-04-29 14:36:57 GAZA, April 28 (Xinhuanet) -- At least eight Palestinians were killed when Israeli army tanks and infantry troops entered the Palestinian-controlled West Bank town of Hebron, previously surviving the massive Israeli Defence Shield operations launched late last month, Palestinian medical sources and eyewitnesses said. Large numbers of Israeli army tanks and infantry entered Hebron from four different directions on Monday morning and occupied more than half of the Palestinian part of the divided city. Israeli army has declared a curfew, confining Palestinians to their homes. Palestinian doctors and security sources said that Israeli soldiers opened fire with heavy machine guns, killing seven Palestinians, including a member of the security forces and at least three gunmen. A local leader of the Hamas militant group was also arrested, they said. Fifteen people were reportedly injured, most of them hurt by fire from helicopter gunships. Israeli forces are carrying out door-to-door searches for weapons and wanted militants, said the residents, adding that the hunt was being carried out in area H1, around 80 percent of the city, which is under Palestinian control. The rest of the town has been occupied by Israel since 1967 to protect several dozens of Jewish settlers living in three enclaves. About 240,000 Palestinians live in their controlled part of the town. The operation in Hebron came in response to the armed attack in the nearby Adura Jewish settlement Saturday, in which four Israelis were killed. Hebron and Jericho are the only two West Bank cities which have not been included in Operation Defensive Shield. Israel usually controls about 20 percent of Hebron, guarding three enclaves where settlers live. Enditem _ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Katsauksia suomeksi: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/k6cvND/n97DAA/ySSFAA/VL0olB/TM -~- Peruuta ryhmän tilaus lähettämällä sähköpostia osoitteeseen: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Phillipines: Joint Military Exercises An Embarrassment: AbuSayyaf. [WWW.STOPNATO
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 3:32 AM Subject: [kominform2] Phillipines: Joint Military Exercises An Embarrassment: AbuSayyaf. From: Stasi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Peoples War] Phillipines: Joint Military Exercises An Embarrassment: Abu Sayyaf - Xinhua Joint Military Exercises An Embarrassment: Abu Sayyaf == Xinhuanet 2002-04-29 13:50:50 MANILA, April 29 (Xinhuanet) -- The Abu Sayyaf Group on Monday said that the ongoing Philippine-U.S. joint military exercises on the southern island of Basilan has already failed since it failed to crush the group halfway through its six-month schedule. The superpower and the Philippines gained nothing but embarrassment since an American couple and a Filipina nurse have remained in captivity for 11 months now, the ABS-CBN on-line news quoted Abu Sayyaf spokesman Abu Sabaya as saying. U.S. Joints Chief of Staff Chairman, Richard Myers, who is visiting Basilan, said earlier that the exercises have so far been a success, and that the U.S. government would help crush terrorist cells in Southeast Asia which are linked to the al-Qaeda network of international terrorist Osama bin Laden. The Abu Sayyaf said the Philippine government should seek freedom for American missionary couple Martin and Gracia Burnham and Filipina nurse Ediborah Yap through negotiation instead of military pressure. The group said Monday that it is giving the government a final chance to negotiate. The Abu Sayyaf has warned of strikes on U.S. forces in Basilan and intensified attacks against civilian and government targets if the military went on with it offensives. The group also reportedly claimed responsibility for deadly bombings in General Santos city in the south that killed 15 people early this month. The military, however, taunted the threat, saying that the bandits have been isolated, cornered, and cut off of its supply lines. It is now a question of time for the uprooting of the group. There are over 1,000 U.S. troops deployed in the southern Philippines, some of which, including 160 special forces, are joining thousands of Filipino troops hunting in Basilan where the Abu Sayyaf bandits are hiding with their hostages in thick forests and mountains. Enditem _ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Katsauksia suomeksi: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/k6cvND/n97DAA/ySSFAA/VL0olB/TM -~- Peruuta ryhmän tilaus lähettämällä sähköpostia osoitteeseen: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Argentina crisis could yet affect U.S. [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 5:13 AM Subject: [kominform2] Argentina crisis could yet affect U.S. From: sf_adam.rm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Arg_Solid] AP: Argentina crisis could yet affect U.S. Argentina crisis could yet affect U.S. Martin Crutsinger, AP - 4/29/2002 WASHINGTON - The United States largely has avoided the fallout from Argentina's financial collapse. That could change if the crisis in South America's second biggest economy worsens. The worry is that a serious recession and Argentina's plunging currency could spill over to neighbors still trying to emerge from last year's global slowdown - and eventually reach the United States. The global economy remains very fragile with troubles in Argentina, Japan mired in a decade-long recession and Germany struggling, said Mark Zandi of Economy.com. If something goes badly wrong, it could quickly spread to our economy. Even so, America's relative insulation from the crisis so far has been striking. The U.S. economy also survived the last serious currency turmoil, the Asian crisis in 1997-98, even though American investors had a number of nerve-racking moments, especially after Russia defaulted on 40 billion dollars in government debt in August 1998. That default caused the near-collapse of a giant American investment fund, Long Term Capital Management, and sent stock prices skidding until the Federal Reserve interceded with interest rate cuts. Argentina's decision in December to halt payment on much of its 141 billion dollars in foreign debt - the biggest government default in history - has caused modest ripples so far in the U.S. economy. American banks with large exposures to Argentina, led by FleetBoston Financial Corp., have written off bad loans. General Motors, Verizon, McDonald's, Coca-Cola and other companies have taken some hits. Their losses, however, are small compared with the profit squeeze all U.S. companies endured in last year's U.S. recession. Unlike the Asian crisis, Argentina's troubles took a long time to develop, giving foreign investors warning and leading analysts to play down the chance of a sudden jolt to Wall Street even if the crisis drags on. Any real contagion effect like what happened in the Asian crisis would have already occurred, said David Wyss, chief economist at Standard Poor's in New York. But that doesn't mean there can't still be economic impacts felt in the United States. Wyss and other analysts said the bigger threat was to trade rather than the flow of investment. Argentina's 3.9 billion dollars in purchases accounted for less than one-half of 1 percent of total U.S. exports last year. But U.S. sales to the rest of Latin America could suffer if Argentina's slowdown depresses growth in the region. Brazil, South America's biggest economy, does nearly one-third of its trade with Argentina. The Latin American economies, like the rest of the world, are trying to recover from the global recession and Argentina's troubles will be a significant limitation on growth, said Sung Won Sohn, chief economist at Wells Fargo in Minneapolis. Many analysts also are worried about the political impact from the financial turmoil in a region that the past decade has moved to embrace democracy and free-market capitalism. The Argentine people are suffering and they are blaming foreign banks, the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and the U.S. government, said Zandi. The whole process of political reform could be undermined. President Bush took office with a pledge to pay more attention to Latin America. So far, his administration, led by Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, has insisted on a tough-love approach, denying billions of dollars in new IMF loans to Argentina until the country goes further with economic reforms. All of us ache when we look at the television and see people getting killed on the streets of Argentina, O'Neill told a congressional committee last week, referring to the rioting that began in December. But O'Neill said the administration was adamant that new IMF loans should only go ahead when Argentina takes the right steps. They include controlling deficit spending by the central government and provinces, and stabilizing the country's currency, which has lost nearly 70 percent of its value this year. Despite the troubles, many analysts believe Argentina will put in place enough reforms to qualify for at least 9 billion dollars in new IMF loans. But they warned that those reforms will mean economic pain. The reality is that there will be a lot of suffering because of past policy mistakes, said Morris Goldstein, a former top IMF economist now at the Institute for International Economics, a Washington think tank. The banking
Meeting marks liberation of the south, Labour Day [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- A grand meeting was held in Hanoi on April 29 to mark the 27th Liberation Day of southern Vietnam (April 30) and the International Labour Day (May 1). Nguyen The Phuc, president of Hanoi Labour Federation, delivered a speech recalling the nation's historical stages, the glorious revolutionary tradition of the Party and the people, who had fought and sacrificed their lives for national reunification. The speech affirmed that the great victory in 1975 would forever be a splendid landmark in Vietnam's history, which encouraged the Party, the people and the army to make greater efforts for national industrialisation and modernisation for a prosperous people, a strong country and an equitable, democratic and civilised society. In the undaunted spirit of May 1, the day of unity among the working class worldwide, together with the pride of the national building and defence tradition with the pinnacle of April 30 victory, the working class and people of different classes in localities nationwide in general and in Hanoi in particular, have always been the core force in the revolutionary movements under the leadership of the Party, the speech stressed. Implementing the renovation policy of the Party, Hanoi has been one of the country's leading localities achieving high economic growth rates in many years. A representative of the capital's working class, Pham Huu Binh said that industrialisation and modernisation are the cause of the whole nation, thus the working should strive to be the leading force in the national development. The workers of the capital also took this opportunity to express their pride and trust in the leadership of the glorious Party and wished to do their best to contribute to the building of the capital as well as the nation as a whole. The participants joined the singing of the song 'As if we had Uncle Ho in this great victory day.' Present were Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh; former general secretaries, Do Muoi and Le Kha Phieu; former advisor to the Party, Le Duc Anh; National Assembly chairman, Nguyen Van An; Politburo members Nguyen Phu Trong and Truong Quang Duoc; generals Vo Nguyen Giap, Chu Huy Man, Nguyen Quyet; Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Manh Cam, President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Pham The Duyet, Chairwoman of the Vietnam Labour Confederation Cu Thi Hau, revolutionary veterans, Heroic Mothers and representatives from sectors, branches and organisations. Many activities are also being held in localities nationwide to mark the events. Quang Tri has been granted the title 'Hero of the People's Armed Forces' for its significant contributions in the struggle against the US aggressors. A decision to this effect was signed by President Tran Duc Luong on April 29. The province held a number of cultural activities to celebrate its 30th anniversary of liberation (May 1, 1972 - May 1, 2002), paid tribute to war martyrs and visited revolutionary families. Other localities such as Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong, Ca Mau, Thai Nguyen, Dong Nai, military zones and others have launched emulation movements in celebration of the liberation of the south and Labour Day. On this occasion, the Vietnam Association of Photographers opened a photo exhibition entitled 'Life and Labourers' in Hanoi. The exhibition features nearly 80 photos describing the life and work of the working people as well as beautiful scenes of the country. . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
South African CP, SACP Statement for May Day [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: SolidNet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 12:59 PM Subject: South African CP, SACP Statement for May Day http://www.solidnet.org News, documents and calls for action from communist and workers' parties. The items are the responsibility of the authors. Join the mailing list: info/subscribe/unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . = South African CP, SACP Statement for May Day --- From: RedNet, Mon, 29 Apr 2002 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , www.sacp.org.za == 29 April 2002 SACP STATEMENT FOR MAY DAY The South African Communist Party (SACP) salutes all poor and working people of South Africa and the world. Our slogan Workers of the World Unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains has never been this relevant in the light of deepening global imperialism, and unceasing intense attacks on the working class globally through neo-liberal restructuring: retrenchments, casualisation, outsourcing, labour market flexibility and privatisation of basic services. Our own democratic breakthrough in 1994 coincided with the high-point of imperialist, neo-liberal triumphalism. But in the space of eight years, the international situation has seen a massive failure of this idea to deliver on its promises. The almost total financial collapse of Argentina, as well as the growing gap between rich and poor nations, as well as within nations marks a singular failure of neo-liberal prescriptions and a blow to this arrogant triumphalism. There is a growing global movement of developing countries, the working people and progressive elements in all parts of the globe whose voice is starting to make an impact. We need to contribute in strengthening these forces. For the SACP the time is ripe now to take forward this struggle by developing a common international platform of action with other progressive forces in the world, including common days of action around specific issues: demonstrations against financial speculation, privatisation of basic services and unemployment, as we have seen Italian workers doing recently. In the wake of September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States we have seen the growing belligerence and arrogance of the United States. Whilst as the SACP we continue to condemn in the strongest possible terms the actions of 11 September, but we are also strongly opposed to unilateral aggression by the United States outside of a common global struggles against terrorism and a global struggle to fight poverty, under the auspices of the United Nations. Palestine We are also celebrating this May Day against the background of some of the worst attacks on the Palestinian people by the military machine of the Israeli apartheid state. What Ariel Sharon is doing against the Palestinian people is almost tantamount to genocide and is an expression of the fact that the Israeli aggression is by all accounts state terrorism. The recent attacks, including the massacres in Jenin calls for the world to condemn Sharon as a war criminal and treat him accordingly. The United States must also be firmly held accountable for this state terrorism as it is unconditionally support Sharon, whilst claiming to be a mediator at the same time. The actions of the US in this regard, including the attack on Afghanistan, support for the failed Venezuelan coup, shows the extent to which we have an American administration that is a threat to world peace. As the South African Communist Party we call upon all South African workers to join in their numbers in the current mass demonstrations organised and led by the Alliance in solidarity with the Palestinian people. We also call upon all South African trade unions to use all their international platform, relations and gatherings they attend, to firmly raise the issue of the Palestinian people and call for pressure on the Israeli apartheid state and the United States. The people of Palestine must be free, and our own freedom will be incomplete for as long as the Palestinian people are not free. Cuba, the DRC and Swaziland It is also important to use this May Day to express our continuing solidarity with the Cuban people and call for the lifting of the US blockade against Cuba. As the SACP we also welcome progress being made towards peace on our continent, particularly the signing of a peace agreement in Angola, as well as progress being made in the DRC. With regards to the DRC we call upon President Kabila to
American navy 'helped Venezuelan coup' [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles Monday April 29, 2002 The Guardian The United States had been considering a coup to overthrow the elected Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, since last June, a former US intelligence officer claimed yesterday. It is also alleged that the US navy aided the abortive coup which took place in Venezuela on April 11 with intelligence from its vessels in the Caribbean. Evidence is also emerging of US financial backing for key participants in the coup. Both sides in Venezuela have blamed the other for the violence surrounding the coup. Wayne Madsen, a former intelligence officer with the US navy, told the Guardian yesterday that American military attaches had been in touch with members of the Venezuelan military to examine the possibility of a coup. I first heard of Lieutenant Colonel James Rogers [the assistant military attache now based at the US embassy in Caracas] going down there last June to set the ground, Mr Madsen, an intelligence analyst, said yesterday. Some of our counter-narcotics agents were also involved. He said that the navy was in the area for operations unconnected to the coup, but that he understood they had assisted with signals intelligence as the coup was played out. Mr Madsen also said that the navy helped with communications jamming support to the Venezuelan military, focusing on communications to and from the diplomatic missions in Caracas belonging to Cuba, Libya, Iran and Iraq - the four countries which had expressed support for Mr Chavez. Navy vessels on a training exercise in the area were supposedly put on stand-by in case evacuation of US citizens in Venezuela was required. In Caracas, a congressman has accused the US ambassador to Venezuela, Charles Shapiro, and two US embassy military attaches of involvement in the coup. Roger Rondon claimed that the military officers, whom he named as (James) Rogers and (Ronald) MacCammon, had been at the Fuerte Tiuna military headquarters with the coup leaders during the night of April 11-12. And referring to Mr Shapiro, Mr Rondon said: We saw him leaving Miraflores palace, all smiles and embraces, with the dictator Pedro Carmona Estanga [who was installed by the military for a day] ... [His] satisfaction was obvious. Shapiro's participation in the coup d'état in Venezuela is evident. The US embassy dismissed the allegations as ridiculous. Mr Shapiro admitted meeting Mr Carmona the day after the coup, but said he urged him to restore the national assembly, which had been dissolved. Mr Carmona told the Guardian that no such advice was given, although he agreed that a meeting took place. A US embassy spokesman said there were no US military personnel from the embassy at Fuerte Tiuna during the crucial periods from April 11 to 13, al though two members of the embassy's defence attache's office, one of them Lt Col Rogers, drove around the base on the afternoon of April 11 to check reports that it was closed. Mr Rondon has also claimed that two foreign gunmen, one American and the other Salvadorean, were detained by security police during the anti-Chavez protest on April 11 in which around 19 people were killed, many by unidentified snipers firing from rooftops. They haven't appeared anywhere. We presume these two gentlemen were given some kind of safe-conduct and could have left the country, he said. The members of the military who coordinated the coup have claimed that they did so because they feared that Mr Chavez was intending to attack the civilian protesters who opposed him. Mr Chavez's opponents claim pro-Chavez gunmen shot protesters while his supporters say the shots were fired by agents provocateurs . In the past year, the United States has channeled hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to US and Venezuelan groups opposed to Mr Chavez, including the labour group whose protests sparked off the coup. The funds were provided by the National Endowment for Democracy, a nonprofit agency created and financed by the US Congress. The state department's human rights bureau is now examining whether one or more recipients of the money may have actively plotted against Mr Chavez. . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
China Supports Palestinian, Arab Cause: President Jiang. [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- The Chinese government and people firmly support the just cause of the Palestinian and Arab people, said Chinese President Jiang Zemin at a meeting Monday morning with visiting Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The Chinese government and people firmly support the just cause of the Palestinian and Arab people, said Chinese President Jiang Zemin at a meeting Monday morning with visiting Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Jiang condemned Israel for its refusal to implement United Nations resolutions, its invasion of Palestinian-controled areas and restriction of the freedom of President Yasser Arafat, who is an old friend of the Chinese people. As a permanent member of the UN Security Council, China would continue to make efforts to realize a just and lasting peace in the Mideast, said Jiang. During the meeting, Hariri, who is on a three-day official visit to China as a guest of Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, briefed Jiang on the Middle East situation. Sino-Lebanese Friendship to Further Sino-Lebanese friendship will be further developed in the new century with efforts from both sides, said Jiang. Jiang pointed to the fact that Lebanon is a country with a long history dating back to the ancient Phoenician civilization 4,000 years ago. Lebanon enjoyed fame in modern history as the trade, finance and tourism center of the Middle East, noted Jiang. In recent years, Jiang continued, the Lebanese people had scored great achievements in safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity, promoting national reconciliation and rebuilding its economy. He said he was convinced that the Lebanese government was bound to lead the Lebanese people to make greater achievements. Jiang said that Sino-Lebanese friendship dated back to ancient times with the ancient Silk Road as a link between the two peoples, although the two countries are far apart. He also mentioned Doctor Ma Haide (George Hatem), who came from Lebanon and contributed his life to promoting the Chinese people's health. The two countries celebrated the 30th anniversary of diplomatic ties last year, and China was pleased with bilateral relations which have withstood the test of international changes and continuously developed in the past 30 years, pointed out Jiang. He referred to the constant high-level visits, increasing exchanges in various fields and sound cooperation in international affairs between the two sides in recent years. Hariri, who is here on a three-day official visit to China as a guest of Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, talked about China's admirable economic progress since his last visit in 1996. He said the Lebanese people were grateful for China's consistent and firm support for the Lebanese and Arab people's just cause in the fight against invasion. He noted that Lebanon was satisfied with the smooth development of bilateral relations, pointing out that there was still vast potential for the rapid development of bilateral economic and trade exchanges and cooperation. The Lebanese side encouraged enterprises from both sides to strengthen cooperation so as to boost bilateral economic and trade cooperation of mutual benefit and push forward the overall development of bilateral relations. Premier Zhu Urges Israel to Withdraw Troops Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji expressed the Chinese government's deep anxiety about the Middle East situation, and made a strong request for Israel to unconditionally implement resolutions adopted by the United Nations Security Council and to withdraw its troops from Palestine-controled areas at the earliest possible date. . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
'US a Seedy Imperialist State' - Gore Vidal [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: John Clancy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Africa: ; Cc: news: ;; overflow: ;; blindmice: ;; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Asia: ; Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 5:43 AM Subject: US a Seedy Imperialist State-Gore Vidal from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subject: US a Seedy Imperialist State-Gore Vidal Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 21:34:12 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Authentication-Warning: tania.blythe-systems.com: mail set sender to NY-Transfer-News using -f Subject: US a Seedy Imperialist State-Gore Vidal To: undisclosed-recipients:; US a Seedy Imperialist State-Gore Vidal Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit source - Sanjoy Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Guardian - April 27, 2002 http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4402268,00.html Since September 11 the US is in danger of turning into a 'seedy imperial state,' argues Gore Vidal Taking liberties by Gore Vidal According to the Koran, it was on a Tuesday that Allah created darkness. Last September 11, when suicide pilots were crashing commercial airliners into crowded American buildings, I did not have to look at the calendar to see what day it was: Dark Tuesday was casting its long shadow across Manhattan and along the Potomac river. I was also not surprised that despite the seven or so trillion dollars the US has spent since 1950 on what is euphemistically called defence, there would have been no advance warning from the FBI or CIA or Defence Intelligence Agency. While the Bushites have been eagerly preparing for the last war but two - missiles from North Korea, clearly marked with flags, would rain down on Portland, Oregon, only to be intercepted by our missile-shield balloons - the foxy Osama bin Laden knew that all he needed for his holy war on the infidel was a few flyers willing to kill themselves along with those passengers who happened to be aboard the hijacked airliners. Also, like so many of those born to wealth, Bin Laden is not one to throw money about. Apparently, the airline tickets of the 19 known dead hijackers were paid for by credit card. I suspect that United and American Airlines will never be reimbursed by American Express, whose New York offices Bin Laden - inadvertently? - hit. The telephone keeps ringing. In summer I live south of Naples, in Italy. Italian newspapers, television and radio want comment. So do I. I have written lately about Pearl Harbor. I get the same question over and over: isn't Dark Tuesday exactly like Sunday morning, December 7 1941? No, it's not, I say. As far as we know, we had no warning of the September 11 attack. Of course, our government has many, many secrets which our enemies always seem to know about in advance but our people are not told of until years later, if at all. President Roosevelt provoked the Japanese to attack us at Pearl Harbor. I describe the various steps he took in a book, The Golden Age. We now know what was on his mind: coming to England's aid against Japan's ally, Hitler, a virtuous plot that ended triumphantly for the human race. But what was - is? - on Bin Laden's mind? For several decades there has been an unrelenting demonisation of the Muslim world in the American media. Since I am a loyal American, I am not supposed to tell you why this has taken place, but then it is not usual for us to examine why anything happens other than to accuse others of motiveless malignity. We are good, announced a deep thinker on American television, they are evil, which wraps that one up in a neat package. But it was Bush himself who put, as it were, the bow on the package in an address to a joint session of Congress where he shared with them - as well as all of us somewhere over the Beltway - his profound knowledge of Islam's wiles and ways: They hate what they see right here in this chamber. A million Americans nodded in front of their TV sets. Their leaders are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other. At this plangent moment what American's gorge did not rise like a Florida chad to the bait? So why do Bin Laden and millions of other Muslims hate us? Bin Laden persuaded 4,000 Saudis to go to Afghanistan for military training by his group. In 1991, Bin Laden moved on to Sudan. In 1994, when the Saudis withdrew his citizenship, Bin Laden was already a legendary figure in the Islamic world and so, like Shakespeare's Coriolanus, he could tell the royal Saudis, I banish you. There is a world elsewhere. Unfortunately, that world is us. In a 12-page declaration of war, Bin Laden presented himself as a potential liberator of the Muslim world from the great Satan of modern corruption, the US. When Clinton lobbed a missile at a Sudanese
Turkey, The police takes 248 TKP members into custody in ten days! [WWW.STOPNATO
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: SolidNet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 12:42 PM Subject: CP of Turkey, The police takes 248 TKP members into custody in ten days! http://www.solidnet.org News, documents and calls for action from communist and workers' parties. The items are the responsibility of the authors. Join the mailing list: info/subscribe/unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . = CP of Turkey, The police takes 248 TKP members into custody in ten days! - From: Communist Party of Turkey, Sat, 27 Apr 2002 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.tkp.org.tr = Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) The police takes 248 TKP members into custody in ten days! Preparations are going on in Turkey for the May Day demonstrations. Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) called the working people to gather in Istanbul on the 1st of May inorder to give an ultimatum to the ruling classes that are waging an open war against the poor and the oppressed. More than 100,000 posters were on the walls all around the country and even more leaflets were distributed. It was not a surprise that the police forces were alarmed and tried to prevent the propaganda work. In ten days time 248 TKP members were taken into custody by the police only in Istanbul. They usually are released in 24 hours time, however are threatened to be prisoned between 8 and 14 months by the court. This threat did not stop the TKP members and even the Head of the General Staff Kivrikoglu could not escape from the posters! TKP Press Bureau *End* --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Britain, New Labour and new imperialism [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: SolidNet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 12:42 PM Subject: CP of Britain, New Labour and new imperialism http://www.solidnet.org News, documents and calls for action from communist and workers' parties. The items are the responsibility of the authors. Join the mailing list: info/subscribe/unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . = CP of Britain, New Labour and new imperialism From: Communist Party of Britain, Sun, 28 Apr 2002 http://www.communist-party.org.uk , mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] == = Dear Comrades, Please find attached an article on recent statements by British diplomats on the need for a new imperialism. We hope you find it of interest. Yours in comradeship Kenny Coyle International Department -- This article first appeared in the Morning Star, Britain's only socialist daily newspaper http://www.poptel.org.uk/morning-star/ New Labour and new imperialism By Brian Denny Just before the bombing of Afghanistan last year, senior Foreign Office diplomat and chief Blair advisor Robert Cooper published a piece in Prospect magazine promoting 'imperialism' as a serious concept to enable western powers to rule the world. This explicitly put forward the intellectual case for a new European empire to rule the resource-rich and, equally, poverty-stricken third world. All the conditions seem to be there for a new imperialism. There are countries which need an outside force to create stability (recently in Sierra Leone a rally called for the return of British rule). He freely admits that this rather maniacal view of the world will involve tearing up the United Nations charter respecting the rights of nation states to self-determination and sovereignty. He also proposes the basis of this co-operative empire or Commonwealth lay within the European Union where the strong will rule the weak states. This is extreme realpolitik in action and our Mr Cooper is inspired by that paragon of democracy and freedom - The Roman Empire. Like Rome, this Europe would provide its citizens with some laws, some coins and the occasional road. None of this will be easy but perhaps it is possible to imagine a future Europe, with 30 or so members as a modernised, democratic, co-operative empire. Cooper's noble dream, as he put it, was updated recently with the publication of his pamphlet 'Reordering the World' by the spooky Foreign Policy Centre, complete with foreword by Blair himself. It cold-bloodedly explains the need for the west to engage in brutal military action against weaker states in the political and economic interests of the western powers. The post modern world has to start to get used to double standards. Among ourselves, we operate on the basis of laws and open co-operative security. But, when dealing with old-fashioned states outside the postmodern continent of Europe we need to revert to the rougher methods of an earlier era - force, pre-emptive attack, deception whatever is necessary to deal with those who still live in the nineteenth century. The need for colonisation is as great as it ever was in the 19th century, he says. So that's clear then. This exposes the real thinking behind the attacks on Afghanistan (Mr Cooper represented Britain at the Bonn conference which carved up the country in December) as well as the British occupation of Sierra Leone, the bombing of Yugoslavia and the whole 'postmodern' eurofederalist project itself. It also produced headlines in stunned sections of the press who are not quite up to speed on the new 'moral' world order. Therefore, The Guardian stepped in to smooth down the edges of Cooper¹s bellicose vision of empire by reassuring liberal readers that it was being done in their interests. First of all, leading eurofanatic Hugo Young admonished Labour MP's like Tam Dayell and Alan Simpson who had the temerity to question Cooper's vision and claimed that the diplomat was simply misunderstood. Then the editoral made things clear for mere mortals. One of the frustrating aspects of this story is that Mr Cooper is someone with things to say that deserve to be heard and not caricatured. His subtext - and sometimes his text itself - is that of a committed European who wants to extend the EU model, and its values, to the rest of Europe and who believes that global stability and liberty provide the best context for it. If the new imperialism is indeed about extending the EU model it
Re: Observer: How To Save The Imperialist Alliance [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- - Original Message - From: Rick Rozoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 6:28 AM Subject: Observer: How To Save The Imperialist Alliance [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- [From the ostensibly 'leftist' Guardian/Observer. The Euro-elites have their tongues stuck deeply up the arse of Washington and Brussels yet complain because their voices aren't heard. Small wonder. Their major complaint? They aren't cut in for a big enough share of the new global colonial carve-up. These comic opera imperialists deserve each other. Good riddance to the whole lot.] If only life were so simple. The fact is we are not in the position of overseeing or commanding events and the fact remains that if we are to make progress we may have to pick one of these comics over the other one and only later can we say: 'good riddance' to them all. Choosily, Bill. --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Henry Kissinger: Hero or villain? [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Friday, 26 April, 2002, 15:04 GMT 16:04 UK Henry Kissinger: Haunted by his past He was arguably the most influential architect of US foreign policy since the war, but, as Bob Chaundy of the BBC's News Profiles Unit reports, attempts to question Henry Kissinger about terrorist crimes have put the darker side of his career under the spotlight. Henry Kissinger once said that "90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad reputation". Throughout his career, this German Jewish emigré who began his working life in a shaving brush factory in New York, rose to become a Harvard professor and then assumed control of America's foreign policy under Presidents Nixon and Ford, has bitterly divided opinion over which of these two percentage categories he belongs to. He had a hold over President NixonKissinger became Richard Nixon's national security adviser in 1969. It was testament to his mastery of political in-fighting and his increasing hold over the president that, in all but the final year of the Nixon presidency, he ran foreign policy over the head of the Secretary of State, William Rogers. By this policy, say his supporters, he made the world a safer place. He was the man who effected détente with the Soviet Union. He opened up the way to Nixon's visit to China. He negated the Communist threat in America's back yard, most notably in Chile. With his famous "shuttle diplomacy" after the 1973 Yom Kippur war in the Middle-East, he brokered the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. He was the secret negotiator at the Paris peace talks which ended the Vietnam War for which he was awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize. And he was the man who kept American foreign policy on the rails after the Watergate scandal and maintained its momentum under President Ford. He assumed almost complete control of foreign affairs during the Nixon yearsHis wisdom is still sought after. His punditry on the current state of American foreign policy is aired by TV networks everywhere, and he is a regular on the highly lucrative lecture circuit. Of course, say his defenders, there were times when American policy under Kissinger was more motivated by global balance of power and national interest at the expense of human rights, but, as the Times put it in a recent editorial, "the world was polarised, and fighting communism involved hard choices and messy compromises". This messy business, though, is what has made him a highly controversial figure. His critics refer to Kissinger's complicity in the illegal carpet-bombing of neutral Cambodia, designed to deprive North Vietnam of troops and supplies, but which sowed the seeds for the murderous Pol Pot regime. Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Seymour Hersh, in a 1983 biography, Kissinger, the Price of Power, argued that this bombing, moreover, jeopardised America's atomic security. Kissinger sanctioned the illegal bombing of CambodiaBritish writer, Christopher Hitchens, in his recent book The Trial of Henry Kissinger, argues that Kissinger is a war criminal. He claims he connived with brutal regimes, allied to the US, most notably Pakistan, Greece and Indonesia, to embark on savage acts of repression. Most notably, charges relating to Latin America have returned to haunt Henry Kissinger. The CIA's involvement in the coup which toppled the elected Chilean leader Salvador Allende and brought General Pinochet to power, has been long well-documented. "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go Communist due to the irresponsibility of its people," Kissinger once famously uttered. But a number of factors have brought these old chestnuts back into public prominence. Chileans demonstrating against the brutality of the Pinochet regimeDocuments recently released by the CIA, strengthen previously-held suspicions that Kissinger was actively involved in the establishment of Operation Condor, a covert plan involving six Latin American countries including Chile, to assassinate thousands of political opponents. At the same time, the success of international tribunals in bringing suspected war criminals such as Yugoslavia's former leader
Re: Good Morning Nuremberg [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Nuremberg, is that where a certain country was punished for war crimes and yet no mention was made of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, the fire bombing of Dresden... Courtly, Bill. --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Shocks and Stares! [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Dow Slides Below 10,000, Nasdaq Plunges 2.9%. Stocks plunged Friday, shoving major market gauges toward the biggest weekly losses since the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, as dreary forecasts from companies intensified fears of a tepid recovery in corporate profits. Stocks plunged Friday, shoving major market gauges toward the biggest weekly losses since the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, as dreary forecasts from companies intensified fears of a tepid recovery in corporate profits. Investors ignored news that the economy snapped back in the first quarter, sending the Dow Jones industrials below 10,000 for the first time in more than two months. Tech stocks had the biggest losses in volatile trading, with the Nasdaq composite index closing at levels not seen since October. The Dow closed down 124.34, or 1.2%, at 9910.72. The index last closed lower on Feb. 21, when it stood at 9834.68. The technology-centered Nasdaq plunged 49.81, or 2.9%, to 1,663.89 ¡ª the lowest finish since Oct. 18 when the index 1,652.72. The Standard Poor's 500 index dropped 15.16, or 1.4%, to 1,076.32. The decline capped a dismal week for stocks, and extended a losing streak that has seen the Dow fall six out of the last eight sessions, and the Nasdaq, seven out of eight. For the week, the Dow fell 3.4%; the blue chips have now closed down five of the last six weeks amid investors' ongoing disillusionment with company earnings and outlooks. The Nasdaq lost 7.4% for the week. It last closed lower on Oct. 31, at 1,059.78. The SP lost 4.3% over the week. . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Swedes boycott Israeli products [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 6:08 AM Subject: [kominform2] Swedes boycott Israeli products From: Mashood Yunus [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 16:17:39 -0500 Subject: [AM] Swedes boycott Israeli products Swedish Foreign Minister Boycotts Israeli Products Lindh: Boycotting Israeli products is the least I could do. By Yahya Abu Zakarya, IOL correspondent in Stockholm STOCKHOLM, April 20 (IslamOnline) - Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh announced that she will boycott Israeli products available in the Swedish market, especially citrus fruits and avocadoes. Speaking to Swedish television on Friday, April 19, Lindh said, If I'm unable to influence my government's policy to boycott Israel, I can at least personally boycott their products. She called on Swedish nationals to boycott Israeli products in the light of the recent massacres committed by the Israeli army in the Palestinian territories. Lindh is a member of the ruling Social Democratic Party and has been sympathetic with Arab issues along with other members of the Swedish government, such as former Foreign Minister Stein Anderson, a personal friend of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. She had in the past asked the European Union to suspend its relations with Israel as a way of denouncing the occupation forces practices against the Palestinian civilian population. Meanwhile, the Palestinian minister for international cooperation Nabil Shaath was visiting Stockholm on Friday and met with Swedish Prime Minister Goeran Persson who promised to donate 350 Swedish Corona (nearly $ 35 million) to rebuild Jenin and nearby areas destroyed by Israeli aggression. Persson promised to increase the sum soon. Shaath also met with Lindh who expressed her shock at recent events in the Palestinian territories and promised to do her best to help the Palestinian people. Besides government officials, Swedish nationals have also been sympathizing with the Palestinian cause, many of them wearing badges that said boycott Israel. The streets of Stockholm on Thursday witnessed demonstrations were banners were raised calling hawkish Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon a mass murder, and other saying Bush is a killer and Zionism is Faschism. Jews in Sweden have also held counter demonstrations and a few conflicts rose between both sides that was stopped through police intervention. In the Swedish city of Obsala on Friday, a silent demonstration was held with demonstrators wearing black and carrying candles. The increasing number of Swedes participating in anti-Israeli demonstrations has been noticeable and has forced the Palestinian Issue to be featured on the agenda of the Swedish Legislative elections which will be held on September 2002. _ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Katsauksia suomeksi: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/k6cvND/n97DAA/ySSFAA/VL0olB/TM -~- Peruuta ryhmän tilaus lähettämällä sähköpostia osoitteeseen: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
KCNA slams Japan's call for right to collective self-defense [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.U
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Pyongyang, April 25 (KCNA) -- The economic and fiscal policy minister said monday the right to collective self-defense is inherent to a country and Japan's war-renouncing constitution should be revised. In this regard, Kyodo said, it is rare for a serving cabinet member to comment on revising the constitution. Such happening in Japan is arousing deep apprehension among the world public as it means that the Japanese militarist and ultra-nationalist forces' moves for overseas military aggression have entered the phase of being legalized and adopted as a policy through a constitutional revision. In 1946 when a discussion was made on a new constitution at the Japanese diet, the then prime minister Yoshida expressed opposition to war and the right of belligerency based on the right to self-defense, confessing that many recent wars including the Sino-Japan War and the Pacific War were carried out under the cloak of the right to self-defense. As Yoshida admitted, the right to collective self-defense was intended to launch an overseas aggression. That was why Japan's peace constitution after the Pacific War codified the renunciation of the right of belligerency based on the right to self-defense. However, Japan, which remains listed as an enemy state by the UN charter, is now letting its cabinet members call for the legalization of the war doctrine, claiming the face and right of normal state which is recognized by nobody. If Japan truly wants to be recognized by the world community as a normal state, it should make an honest repentance and apology for the crimes committed in the last century, far from calling for the aggressive right to collective self-defense. . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
China. People´s Daily Apr 27 [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 3:11 PM Subject: [kominform2] China. People´s Daily Apr 27 Extracts. Saudi Arabia Warns US on Mideast Policy. Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz warned US President George W. Bush on Thursday about the risks the United States faces if it continues with a Middle East policy widely perceived in the Arab world as favoring Israel, a senior Saudi official said. Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz warned US President George W. Bush on Thursday about the risks the United States faces if it continues with a Middle East policy widely perceived in the Arab world as favoring Israel, a senior Saudi official said. Abdullah and Bush met for about five hours at Bush's ranch in Crowford, Texas, two hours longer than the original plan. Adel Al-Jubeir, a foreign policy adviser to the Saudi government, told reporters Abdullah had warned Bush about the direction of U.S. policy in the Middle East. The crown prince speaks directly, he is sincere and he doesn'tmince words, Al-Jubeir said. The message is, if the violence doenot diminish, there will be grave consequences for the U.S. and its interests in the region. Al-Jubeir said Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon must withdraw Israeli troops from Palestinian cities and towns, end thesieges of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at Ramallah and around the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, and submit to a swift U.N.fact-finding mission in Jenin. Bush on Thursday urged Israel to finish its troop withdrawal from Palestinian lands and seek a non-violent solution to armed standoffs in Ramallah and Bethlehem. Israel must finish its withdrawal, Bush said after the long meeting with the Saudi leader. I made it clear to him I expected Israel to withdraw. ... I expect them to be finished. Bush said that he and Crown Prince Abdullah had forged a strong personal bond through the talks, which was dominated by the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. One of the really positive things out of this meeting is the fact the crown prince and I established a strong personal bond, Bush said. The two sides discussed next steps in implementing a Saudi peace plan which was endorsed by the Arab league, Bush said, describing the plan as a breakthrough in defusing the Mideast crisis. The crown prince left the ranch in Crowford without speaking to reporters. Saudi Arabia recently complained that the Bush administration'ssupport of Israel had damaged prospects for the Middle East peace process and soured relations with the Arab world. According to Bush, Crown Prince Abdullah promised during the meeting that the country will not support any broadening of Iraq 'soil embargo to include other angry Arab states. Saudi Arabia made it clear and made it clear publicly that they will not use oil as a weapon and I appreciate that, respect that and expect that to be the case, Bush said. Bush Urges Israel to Complete Troop Withdrawal US President George W. Bush on Thursday urged Israel to finish its troop withdrawal from the Palestinian territories and seek a non-violent solution to armedstandoffs in Ramallah and Bethlehem. Israel must finish its withdrawal, Bush said after a long meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz at his Texas ranch. I made it clear to him I expected Israel to withdraw. ... I expect them to be finished,'' Bush said. The talks began in the morning and lasted about five hours, twohours longer than original plans, according to the White House. Bush said that he and Crown Prince Abdullah had forged a strong personal bond through the talks, which was dominated by the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. One of the really positive things out of this meeting is the fact the crown prince and I established a strong personal bond, Bush said. The two sides discussed next steps in implementing a Saudi peace plan which was endorsed by the Arab League, Bush said, describing the plan as a breakthrough in solving the Middle Eastcrisis. The crown prince left the ranch in Crowford without speaking toreporters. Saudi Arabia recently complained that the Bush administration'ssupport of Israel had damaged prospects for the Middle East peace process and soured relations with the Arab world. According to Bush, Crown Prince Abdullah promised during the meeting that the country will not support any broadening of Iraq'soil embargo to include other angry Arab states. Saudi Arabia made it clear and made it clear publicly that they will not use oil as a weapon and I appreciate that, respect that and expect that to be the case, Bush said. Russian President Putin to Visit China, Boosting Links. Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit China
Argentina: Reporter's Notebook (1 of 2) [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: John Clancy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Africa: ; Cc: news: ;; overflow: ;; blindmice: ;; Asia: ; Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 5:53 AM Subject: [CubaNews] Argentina: Reporter's Notebook (1 of 2) from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subject: [CubaNews] Argentina: Reporter's Notebook (1 of 2) Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Walter Lippmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 05:21:19 -0700 Subject: [CubaNews] Argentina: Reporter's Notebook (1 of 2) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Argentina: Reporter's Notebook (1 of 2) Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK FROM ARGENTINA (Part 1 of 2) By Jon Hillson BUENOS AIRES, April 24 (NY Transfer)--Don't cry for me, Argentina, the truth is I never left you, implores the romanticized persona of Eva Duarte in the musical Evita. But the powerful fact today is that millions do not long for her, or her husband, deceased dictator Juan Domingo Pern. The cry instead is for justice, and struggles breaks out everywhere as the velocity of the crisis impelling them continues to accelerate at a breathtaking pace. In April, a top delegation of representatives of the International Monetary Fund, headed by Anoop Singh, arrives in Buenos Aires to impose draconian conditions for loans, billions of dollars that will only increase the country's impossible $142 billion foreign debt-funds destined for the coffers of so-called lenders and the country's rich. The marching orders, which include demands for provincial budget cuts of up to 60 percent -- meaning bone-deep -- public service sector layoffs and further slashes of already eviscerated social programs-are leaked to the media, some of whose representatives confront Singh. They are written in English. The daily newspaper Pgina 12 captures the scene in a front page photo. The headline: Si, bwana, Yes boss -- the caricatured, servile expression popularized by Hollywood of the African colonial to his metropolitan master, many years ago. *** The statistics of the financial collapse of the Argentine economy here -- the third largest in Latin America, after Mexico with three times, and Brazil, double the population of Argentina-provide a context to understand explains the breadth of popular anger. The currency adjustment, which shattered the one-to-one convertibility of the peso to the dollar last December, has devalued money here by 70 percent. This sparked an immense, decentralized, virtually anarchic mass uprising which, coupled with a general strike and the events of December 19-20, led to a sequence of five presidents in a matter of weeks. Since then, prices have risen 42 percent. This has gutted wages and evaporated pensions. During the week of April 1, the costs of goods and services rises 3.5 percent, indicating an annual rate of 180 percent. More than three million Argentine workers are unemployed, a percentage of over 23 percent of the workforce. This is the official figure. More than 170,000 workers have been laid of since January 1, 2002, including 65,000 March alone -- an increase of 1,800 percent since the same month last year. Building and home construction and repair has ground to a halt, with some 300,000 construction workers unemployed. We want to work, says a new poster, pasted to walls in downtown Buenos Aires, put up by union members. Since January, 30,000 shops in the province of Buenos Aires, with about a third of the country's population, have closed -- 13 an hour, everyday, since the beginning of 2002. A survey by the government indicates that 49 percent of the people -- and 56 percent of its children -- of Argentina now live below the poverty level, with nearly a quarter of the population indigent -- unable to purchase the weekly minimum of food. Of every ten people newly impoverished, six are from the middle class -- an indication of the level of destitution that affects the vast majority of working people. Homelessness, which did not exist in the capital a decade ago, has leaped, from 1,200 last year to 3,500 today. Aguas Argentinas, the privatized national water system, declares bankruptcy in mid-April, as protests in barrios against it mount. Some residents are paying hundreds of pesos every two months for drinking water. According to Clarn, a prestigious bourgeois daily, and the Los Angeles Times, the Argentina ruling elite has spirited $106 billion out of the country to foreign safe havens and an additional $30 billion in untouchable securities -- legally, both newspaper note -- while for the middle class, personal savings, drastically devalued to $8 billion, are frozen in banks, locked corallitos [playpens]. Transfers can only be made for spending on big-ticket
Argentina: Reporter's Notebook (2 of 2) [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: John Clancy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Africa: ; Cc: news: ;; overflow: ;; blindmice: ;; Asia: ; Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 6:06 AM Subject: [CubaNews] Argentina: Reporter's Notebook (2 of 2) from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subject: [CubaNews] Argentina: Reporter's Notebook (2 of 2) Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Walter Lippmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 05:23:01 -0700 Subject: [CubaNews] Argentina: Reporter's Notebook (2 of 2) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK FROM ARGENTINA (2 of 2) By Jon Hillson The cab I am in turns right off avenida 9 de Julio -- one of a series of parallel avenues that form a broad, spacious central artery, abutted by rows of handsome buildings and divided by islands of grass. It heads down Suipacha, towards the small hotel on Suipacha where I'm staying. At that exact moment, 20 feet away, two pistol shots split the night air. That's a gun, I say to the taxista. Someone's robbing a bank, he says matter-of-factly. Just then, a figure hurtles out of a doorway, slips, falls, gets up, and scampers away. Nothing unusual, he says, shrugging off the incident. Sensational media coverage about a wave of street crime -- including numerous assaults on supermarkets, is widespread, but it has no real resonance, since millions believe the real looters and thieves run the country and government. This is a refreshing way to address the question of who are the real criminals in Argentina, and elsewhere. *** The Casa Argentina-Chile, a community center in the working class section of barrio San Telmo is jam-packed with people. Every Wednesday, for the last year there's been a trueque [place of barter] set up there. People -- parents, grandparents, some with small children or accompanied by teenagers -- bring a variety of goods to swap. The list of items is endless, from socks and underwear to cakes and pies, used flatware and plates, jeans, typewriters, lighting fixtures. For each time the goods are brought, the bearer gets a ticket indicating a credit. It is used to for exchange. There's no money here at all, says Teresa, a volunteer. Over a loudspeaker crackling with static, a plumber offers his services. Vendorsr can trade their items for a visit and work, or someone can offer their credits, which the plumber can use to get any merchandise, or a sausage sizzling on the grill. We have other food too, says Teresa, but no meat. There's not much meat in this neighborhood. Or money. Despite the cramped quarters -- hundreds of people shoulder to shoulder, with small children underneath -- there's no friction, no bickering, no shoving or shouting, just the din of conversation, the squeal of babies, music from some place, the amplified announcements. Some trueques are stationary, have their own established center. Others take place in community center like this. They crop up in working class neighborhoods across the city as a popular, emergency defense against the rash of indigence sweeping the country. Who organized this one? We did, the people of the barrio, says Teresa, as she greets people at the door, signs them in, and gives out the credits. *** In the upscale Buenos Aires Recolecta neighborhood -- a more classical, tree-shaded version of the toney upper East Side of Manhattan, or the homes and apartments of Beacon Hill in Boston -- the elegant cafes and excellent restaurants that dot quaint streets, are cheap now, as are the taxis to get you there, If you have lots of pesos, or better, dollars. You should see this place at night, says Franklin, a waiter and an immigrant from the Dominican Republic. The restaurant he works at is right across from the famed Recolecta Cementary where, the rich and famous of Argentina are buried, their coffins in rows of mausoleums. The Duarte family tomb is there, too, and behind its barred windows is the coffin of Eva Peron, the main attraction for tourists. My favorite tomb is that of the great Argentine boxer, Lus Angel Firpo -- the Wild Bull of the Pampa -- who fought, and lost to Jack Dempsey for the heavyweight championship of the world. He is cast, larger than life in bronze, in trunks and robe. The are private cars everywhere, no buses, private cars, nice cars, Franklin says, pointing to a nearby avenue that passes the cemetary, and lots of people are selling their cars to live, so you know there's money. Tourists come mostly from Mexico and the United States, and Britain, he says. The level of social tension is not like Mexico, where units of machine-gun toting soldiers patrol the airport in the
San Francisco: Thousands march against war, racism and poverty [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: SolidNet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 12:52 PM Subject: PWW, San Francisco: Thousands march against war, racism and poverty http://www.solidnet.org News, documents and calls for action from communist and workers' parties. The items are the responsibility of the authors. Join the mailing list: info/subscribe/unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . = PWW, San Francisco: Thousands march against war, racism and poverty - From: People's Weekly World Newspaper, Fri, 26 Apr 2002 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = San Francisco: Thousands march against war, racism and poverty by Herb Kaye and Gail Ryall People's Weekly World Newspaper, Apr 27, 2002 SAN FRANCISCO In the largest peace demonstration the Bay Area has seen in many years, more than 35,000 people from all nationalities and political persuasions rallied and marched April 20 for an end to the real axis of evil war, racism and poverty. The demand for an end to the slaughter and destruction in the Palestinian homeland, and to the occupation by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, with complicity by the Bush administration, was a dominant demand. Thousands rallied at Dolores Park in the traditionally Latino Mission District and then marched through several neighborhoods to a second rally at Civic Center Plaza. Signs, banners and graphic puppets of Bush and Sharon proclaimed the need to End the Occupation and Stop the Killings, and for the Bush administration to stop military aid to Israel as well as ending the war at home and abroad. Representatives of Peace Action, the country's largest peace organization, carried a huge balloon in the shape of a missile, showing that the bloated military budget is shortchanging monies to meet human needs. Marie Harrison, columnist and managing editor of The S.F. Bay View in Hunters Point and a community organizer with Greenaction, reminded the audience that April 20 is also Earth Day, and that the people in her predominantly African-American neighborhood are being killed by pollution from two power plants. The war is not just abroad, Harrison said, but it is being played out here as well. A large delegation marched behind the banner of Jewish Voice For Peace, a Bay Area group that has grown rapidly and initiated militant protests at the Israeli Consulate. One marcher with the group, Osha Neumann, said, Twenty years ago I was with a group of Jews protesting at the Jewish Consulate and it was lonely. I am happy that Jews, especially, and other progressives are no longer blind to oppression by the Israeli government. Riad Morrar, a U.S. citizen born and raised in Palestine, who marched with his family, said, There is nothing else I can do but tell President Bush: 'You're wrong. Stop killing my people.' Kate Raphael, who recently returned from a visit to a refugee camp near Bethlehem, told of seeing holes ripped in the walls of houses and children not being able to go to school for two months and having to do without food, water, electricity, and yet maintaining their spirits and pride as Palestinians. The rally protesters, who included longtime activists from many progressive causes and newly mobilized people, including whole families, came from around California and other Western states. Palestinians and Arab Americans were a large part of the crowd. Demonstrators denounced corporations like Enron, the World Bank and capitalist globalization. Environmentalists had a prominent presence. Signs called for an end to the embargo on Cuba, and for an end to U.S. military involvement in the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Colombia. A large union contingent participated as well. Richard Mead, president of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 in the Bay Area, sharply criticized initiatives by the Bush administration to promote open-ended war abroad and squelch dissent at home in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 tragedy. He warned that, in the wake of Sept. 11, the shipping companies and the Bush administration may be trying to take away the union hiring hall, in the name of national security, in current contract negotiations that expire July 1. In case of a possible lockout by the employers or being forced to strike, Mead said, I hope you will all come down to the docks in that event and help us win our fight. Jeff Patterson, of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, told the crowd that Gulf War veterans are now dealing with the effects
Nepal rebels blow up PM's house [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 4:28 AM Subject: [kominform2] Nepal rebels blow up PM's house From: Magnus Bernhardsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Peoples War] Nepal rebels blow up PM's house http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1948000/1948035.stm Wednesday, 24 April, 2002, 12:47 GMT 13:47 UK Nepal rebels blow up PM's house The government has been trying to guarantee safety Rebels in Nepal have destroyed the family home of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba. Reports say the Maoists blew up the house on Tuesday evening, on the first day of a five-day nationwide strike they have called in protest at the government's state of emergency. The strike was said to be waning on Wednesday, with many businesses in the capital, Kathmandu, and elsewhere reopening. President Bush's administration says it will seek approval from the US Congress for $20m of military aid for the government to combat the rebels. The Nepalese Government has now offered rewards of $64,000 for the capture of three of the leading Maoists. Ministers targeted Prime Minister Deuba was in Kathmandu when the rebels attacked his family home in the town of Assigram, some 490 kilometres west of the capital. A group of Maoist terrorists ordered the housekeeper to go out and then blew up Mr. Deuba's house, local administrator Narendra Raj Sharma told the AFP news agency. The rebels have carried out several attacks recently The Maoists have targeted the houses of other ministers in recent weeks. Mr Deuba has ruled out any resumption in peace talks until the rebels lay down their arms. They broke off peace talks last November, resuming their attacks. That prompted King Gyanendra to declare a state of emergency, freeing the army to join in the fight against the rebels. Some 3,000 people have been killed since the rebels began their campaign to abolish the constitutional monarchy six years ago. Much of Nepal was paralysed on Tuesday, the first day of the rebels' strike, with many ordinary Nepalis afraid of defying the call for a total shutdown of the country. However there were clear signs of life returning to normal on Wednesday. Traffic in Kathmandu was estimated to have returned to about 50% of normal levels. Domestic flights were running again. Much of the east of the country was still said to be shut down though, and long-haul public transport was still affected. In one eastern district, Mahottari, a group of rebels attacked a broadcasting station of the state-owned Radio Nepal, destroying costly equipment including transmitters. Built in 1990 with Japanese assistance, this was the first radio station to be destroyed by the rebels. Military financing US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher told journalists on Tuesday that his government was reviewing several options for military assistance with Nepal. We've asked Congress for a supplemental appropriation of $20m in foreign military financing for Nepal, so that we can support more assistance, he said, AFP reports. US military advisers have been touring parts of Nepal recently held by the rebels. The Nepalese Government is waiting to see if its offers of $64,000 rewards for the capture or killing of three senior Maoist rebels will have any effect. The bounty has been offered on the heads of Maoist supremo Pushp Kamal Dahal, alias Prachanda, Mohan Vaidya, alias Kiran, and Baburam Bhattarai. This is the first time Nepal has fixed prices on the heads of Maoist rebels. The home ministry has offered rewards for other rebels as well. _ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Katsauksia suomeksi: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/k6cvND/n97DAA/ySSFAA/VL0olB/TM -~- Peruuta ryhmän tilaus lähettämällä sähköpostia osoitteeseen: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail!
Where Stalin has admirers and Maoists still fight on [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: John Clancy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Africa: ; Cc: news: ;; overflow: ;; blindmice: ;; Asia: ;; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 12:47 AM Subject: Where Stalin has admirers and Maoists still fight on from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subject: Where Stalin has admirers and Maoists still fight on Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Washington Post / Where Stalin has admirers and Maoists still fight on Micha Odenheimer Where Stalin has admirers and Maoists still fight on The failure of democracy in Nepal has led to a rise in popular support for rebels who have taken over much of the country Micha Odenheimer More than a decade after the collapse of Soviet and East European communism, and a quarter-century after China ended Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, the mere existence of a Maoist communist movement should be a strange anachronism. Yet in Nepal Maoists not only exist, but have been gradually seizing control over more and more of the mountainous nation of roughly 25 million people, while killing hundreds of government troops. Late last August I traveled to southeast Nepal and walked hours through the jungle into a revolutionary stronghold in the Sindhuli district. Sindhuli was then the 15th of Nepal's 75 districts to fall to the Maoists. The Maoists were set to celebrate their victory in Sindhuli and, as I walked deeper into the area, families were streaming in from all over the region to attend the festivities. Along the way local peasants fed us for free. We passed through victory gates made of bent saplings adorned with flowers, and waded waist-deep to cross a river before emerging onto a grassy plain, which quickly filled up with almost 10,000 people. I spotted a platoon of the Nepali Maoists' People's Army: about 60 young people in fatigues carrying ancient rifles. Children trailed after the soldiers as if they were rock stars. At the far end of the plain was a schoolhouse with a porch that would serve as a dais, and a dilapidated megaphone for a sound system. The dais was decorated with paper stream ers, confetti and watercolor portraits of the movement's heroes: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Mao. Stalin? I asked my guide, shocked to see the former Soviet dictator included in the pantheon. Don't your friends know that he murdered 20 million people? Our leaders say Stalin was 75 percent good and 25 percent bad, came the answer. They know he wasn't completely good. In the Western world, which claims to care about both democracy and terrorism, Nepal's fight is one worth noticing. Six months since my visit to the Maoists, Nepal is mired even deeper in a bloody civil war that has taken 2,600 lives since 1996, and threatens to destroy a decade-long experiment with democracy. On February 17 thousands of members of the People's Army crept down from the mountains at midnight and surrounded an army garrison in western Nepal. By morning, 137 soldiers had been slaughtered. A few days later in eastern Nepal the Maoists struck again, killing 30 policemen. The army has fought back hard, regaining control of some district headquarters, slaughtering hundreds of Maoists, and driving the rebels into the rough interior of the country. The Maoists have targeted civilians, too. In January - according to Amnesty International - they abducted an acting school headmaster, tied him to a tree and shot him to death apparently because of his affiliation with a ruling party association and his refusal to give donations to the Maoists. He was one of 28 teachers killed by the insurgents. People aren't the only casualties of the battle. Democratic institutions have also suffered. Since the government declared a state of emergency in November, police in the capital, Katmandu, have arrested an estimated 4,000 journalists, students, teachers and political activists. Subodh Pyakarel, general secretary of a respected Nepali human rights organization, says that many of those arrested have been tortured. Nonetheless, the rebels continue to exert an impressive degree of control over the population - even in Katmandu. During February and March, the Maoists called a series of strikes, including a general strike that paralyzed the city for three days. What's astonishing about the Maoist revolution in Nepal is that it exists at all. Like seeing a movie monster rise after his apparent death, watching Maoist rebels gain ground anywhere in the 21st century defies belief. Twelve years ago, Nepal became a multi-party democracy, ending years of monarchic dictatorship. Why have the Maoists become a major threat just as democracy has begun to flourish? From the outside the crisis in the Nepalese royal family would
US Military Aid to Israel To Rise $200M Annually Beyond $2.4B Ceiling in 2007 [W
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Matter in Motion through Space and Time ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: Cor Groenendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IKV Oosterzee, J.J.v. - Den Haag [EMAIL PROTECTED]; AI London [EMAIL PROTECTED]; mobilize-globally; USA [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Paul Lansu; Pax Christi International [EMAIL PROTECTED]; mw Marjolein Wijninckx; Pax Christi Nederland; Utrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ICCO Ackerman, E. - Zeist [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lankamp, H. - Delft [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Cordaid - Den Haag [EMAIL PROTECTED]; CODIP Vandecan, M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 8:46 AM Subject: [mobilize-globally] Fw: [armstrade] (Israel) US Military Aid to Israel To Rise $200M Annually Beyond $2.4B Ceiling in 2007 - Original Message - From: sento To: ArmsTradeList ; Home Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 5:10 AM Subject: [armstrade] (Israel) US Military Aid to Israel To Rise $200M Annually Beyond $2.4B Ceiling in 2007 My Groups | armstrade Main Page Ivri: US Military Aid to Israel To Rise $200M Annually Beyond $2.4B Ceiling in 2007 GMP2002042449 Tel Aviv Ha'aretz (Internet Version-WWW) in English 24 Apr 02 [Report by defense correspondent Amnon Barzilay: Ivry: U.S. Military Aid To Rise By $200M A Year] U.S. military aid to Israel is likely to grow by some $200 million a year beyond the $2.4 billion ceiling it is slated to hit in 2007, former ambassador to Washington David Ivri said yesterday. Ivri completed his Washington posting last week. According to an agreement with Washington, U.S. civilian aid to Israel is being gradually phased out over a 10-year period, while military aid is being increased by half the amount of the civilian aid cut each year. When the process ends in 2007, annual military aid will be $2.4 billion. But in practice, said Ivri, two joint ventures between the Pentagon and Israel's Defense Ministry will result in higher aid levels. One of these ventures is the joint production of the Arrow anti-missile missile, which the United States is funding. The second is a project to develop an anti-aircraft laser gun. The United States has so far invested $33 million in the Arrow production line, which was set up at a Boeing plant. The line is slated to become operational in 2004, and Israel has asked for a grant of $600 million over five years ($120 million a year) to finance actual production. The laser gun project (originally called the Nautilus) is expected to cost $250 million over three years. Due to budgetary constraints, the Pentagon will start funding the project in 2005, but Israel expects that once it begins, it will cover 75 percent of the costs. Until then, the United States has allocated smaller sums ($13 million in 2002, for instance), primarily to keep the scientists involved on payroll. Thus by mid-decade, Ivri noted, the Americans are slated to be giving Israel an extra $200 million a year in military aid. [Description of Source: Tel Aviv Ha'aretz (Internet Version-WWW) in English -- Left-of-center, independent daily of record; root URL on filing date: http://www.haaretzdaily.com] Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL to this page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/armstrade Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Premier Zhu Pledges to Boost Sino-Arab Ties. [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Visiting Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji stressed on Sunday that China is willing to further promote Sino- Arab cooperation in years ahead. Visiting Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji stressed on Sunday that China is willing to further promote Sino- Arab cooperation in the years ahead. While meeting with Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa at the headquarters of the Arab League in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, Zhu said that one of the purposes of his ongoing visit to Egypt is to boost Sino-Arab relations. China attaches great importance to its ties with the Arab League, the Chinese premier said, pointing to an important role by the pan-Arab forum in strengthening unity and cooperation among Arab countries and safeguarding world peace and stability. Developing friendship and cooperation between China and the Arab League and Arab countries is China's set foreign policy, he said, adding that China has maintained contact and conducted sound cooperation with the Arab League and its member states on bilateral and international issues over the past years. Recalling a proposal raised by the Arab League foreign ministers council on establishing the Arab-Chinese cooperation forum in 2000, Zhu said, China supports the idea and is ready to set up such a forum between the two sides in a step-by-step manner. He expressed hope that Sino-Arab cooperation in the areas of economy, trade, culture, science and technology will be further promoted in the future. Arab places great importance on ties with China For his part, Moussa hailed efforts made by Chinese leaders to boost Sino-Arab ties, saying that the Arab League places great importance on developing its ties with China, and is pleased to see that bilateral cooperation has been even closer against the backdrop of the current tension in the Mideast region. In addition, the two sides have been implementing agreements and consensus, said Moussa, who expressed hope that Arab-Chinese cooperation in a variety of areas will develop further in coming years. Middle East issue ? common concern On the Mideast issue, Zhu said that under the prerequisite of Israel's withdrawal from the Palestinian-controlled areas, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be solved eventually based on relevant U.N. resolutions and under the land-for-peace principle. China appreciates an Arab peace plan adopted at the Beirut Arab summit, the Chinese premier stressed. In return, Moussa said that peace serves as a precondition for development in the region, and will benefit all countries in the region, noting the Arab League hopes that the U.N. Security Council will play an even greater role on the Mideast issue. . . Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
70 Mexicans Dead Crossing into U.S. [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: Walter Lippmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Change Links [EMAIL PROTECTED]; CubaNews [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 4:02 AM Subject: [CubaNews] 70 Mexicans Dead Crossing into U.S. Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit source - Luis A. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 70 MEXICANS HAVE DIED IN 4 MONTHS ATTEMPTING TO ENTER US Rights of undocumented violated; Mexican government looks the other way Han muerto 70 mexicanos en cuatro meses en su intento por cruzar hacia EE.UU. (Sigue versión en Español) De la Torre: Number of Mexicans crossing the border does not decrease by ANDRES T. MORALES JORGE A. CORNEJO Y CRISTOBAL CARCIA La Jornada CBIACS Press Review 4/20/02 So far this year, 70 Mexicans have died attempting to cross the border into the United States without documentation. It is estimated that one Mexican will die every day while attempting to cross the border, said the general director of Migrant Services of the Presidential Office for Mexicans Abroad, Omar de la Torre de la Mora. Interviewed at Boca del Río, Veracruz, he remembered that 380 Mexicans died last year, most of them from either drowning in the river or dehydrating in the desert. At the same time, he admitted that, following the attacks of September 11, violence and harassment towards the Mexican community in the U.S. increased to such an extent that 50 consulates had to be placed on alert. Speaking at the inauguration of the Eleventh National Meeting of State Offices for Migrant Services, the federal official pointed out that recent statistics show that the flow of migrants attempting to cross the northern border has not decreased. Also at this meeting, the participants unanimously rebuked a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against Mexican workers, describing it as a legal blunder that increases the vulnerability of migrants. Despite the hardening of U.S. immigration policy following the attacks, 70 Mexicans died during the first 14 weeks of the year. He explained that most drowned in the river or died of dehydration in the desert. He added that the highest death rate occurs in the desert stretches between Sonora and Arizona and Laredo and Nuevo Laredo, the most dangerous point on the border. Officials Fired Felipe de Jesús Preciado Coronado, commissioner for the National Institute of Migration (INM) said that 900 officials were removed from their positions due to various errors and crimes. 180 of these were fired mainly for assaulting Central American undocumented migrants and 12 were brought before the Public Ministry on charges of belonging to bands dedicated to illegal human trafficking. On the other hand, the California Foundation for Rural Assistance, an international organization known for its defense of the rights of the undocumented, condemned the Mexican government for not taking a position at the U. N. Human Rights Commission against the U.S. immigrant control operatives at the southern California border. The organization's director, Claudia Smith, said that the Mexican diplomats at the work sessions of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland set forth their positions regarding human rights situations around the world, such as Cuba and Iraq, but said nothing about the problems confronting the prospective undocumented migrants at the border band between the U.S. and Mexico. Meanwhile, a truck bearing the logo of the international delivery company, Fedex was used to transport 15 Mexicans wishing to travel to Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Translated by Luis Martin -- No baja el número de connacionales que buscan atravesar la frontera: De la Torre Han muerto 70 mexicanos en cuatro meses en su intento por cruzar hacia Estados Unidos ANDRES T. MORALES JORGE A. CORNEJO Y CRISTOBAL CARCIA CORRESPONSALES En lo que va del año, 70 connacionales han fallecido en la frontera norte, en su intento por ingresar de manera indocumentada a Estados Unidos. Se estima que durante 2002 morirá un mexicano diariamente al buscar cruzar la zona, sostuvo el director general de Atención a Migrantes de la Oficina Presidencial para Mexicanos en el Exterior, Omar de la Torre de la Mora. Entrevistado en Boca del Río, Veracruz, recordó que el año anterior fallecieron 380 mexicanos, en su mayoría ahogados en el río Bravo y deshidratados en el desierto. Pese a que desde septiembre se endureció la política migratoria estadunidense, el flujo de migrantes se mantiene, señaló. Asimismo, admitió que tras los atentados del 11 de septiembre se incrementó la violencia y el hostigamiento hacia la comunidad mexicana radicada en Estados Unidos, por lo que se pusieron en alerta los 50 consulados. Presente en la inauguración de la Decimoprimera reunión nacional de oficinas estatales para la atención de los
Palestine Update Apr 21 [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 2:42 PM Subject: [kominform2] Palestine Update Apr 21 UPDATE: Ramallah April 21, 2002: Urgent alert: We have been informed by people inside the Presidential Compound that they have received information from a reliable IDF source that a special commander force is planning to enter the building today. April 20, 2002: 17.55:The power station supplying the area of Ramallah has been bombed and both Ramallah and Al-Bireh are now without electricity. _ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/orkH0C/n97DAA/ySSFAA/VL0olB/TM -~- Peruuta ryhmän tilaus lähettämällä sähköpostia osoitteeseen: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Thousands Protest in London [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Tens of thousands of people marched in London on Saturday 13th April in a pro-Palestine demonstration to protest against Israeli military action in the West Bank. Called by the Muslim Association of Britain, the protest was supported by many organisations including CND and the Stop The War Coalition. Disagreement on the numbers participating was greater than any of the recent anti-war protests, with the BBC and others initially reporting 50-100,000, then dramatically scaling the figures down after police revised their figures down to 10-15,000 - meanwhile some news organisation reported just hundreds! At the same time in Exeter 300 people held a march for Palestinian rights, while 3000 tried to march to the now infamous town of Jenin; the day before on Friday, a group of activists occupied the head offices of Caterpillar in Desford, Leicestershire in protest at the bulldozer-building company profiteering from the situation in Palestine. Reports: 1 : 2 : 3 Pictures 1 : 2 : 3 : 4 For updates, reports and timeline of events from the War on Palestine see:IMC Palestine | IMC Israel | IMC UK updates ..Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ].. --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ dsc00859-thumb.jpg
Chinese President Arrives in Tehran to Continue State Visit. [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.U
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Chinese President Jiang Zemin Friday evening flew in Tehran from Shiraz to continue his state visit to Iran that will last until April 22. Jiang Arrives in Tehran to Continue State Visit. Chinese President Jiang Zemin Friday (April 19( evening flew in Tehran from Shiraz to continue his state visit to Iran that will last until April 22. Earlier Friday, Jiang paid a visit to the Mausoleum of Hafiz, the famous ancient Persian poet, and attended a luncheon hosted in his honor by Mohammad Ebrahim Ansari Lari, governor-general of the Fars Province. During his Tehran tour, Jiang will exchange views with Iranian President Seyyed Mohammad Khatami and other Iranian leaders on further strengthening bilateral friendly ties of cooperation, and on international and regional issues of common concern. Iran is the last leg of Jiang's two-week five-nation trip, whichwill finally take him home on April 22. Jiang had ended his state visit to Germany , Libya, Nigeria and Tunisia. . . Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
U.S. has completed 'basics' of plan to attack Iraq [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 5:43 PM Subject: [kominform2] U.S. has completed 'basics' of plan to attack Iraq From: ogden_flake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Peoples War] U.S. has completed 'basics' of plan to attack Iraq It shouldn't come as a surprise to learn that the world's biggest bully is getting ready to kick the sh*t out of another weak country. Report: U.S. has completed 'basics' of plan to attack Iraq SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Friday, April 19, 2002 WASHINGTON - The U.S. military has completed the framework for a military campaign against Iraq, defense sources say. U.S. Central Command already has the basics of a major campaign put together, a report by the Washington-based Center for Defense Information said. Component commanders of each service are now at their forward headquarters in the region with more than 1,000 war planners, logistics experts and support specialists. This operations plan is being refined regularly and the target list is being validated and updated daily. Defense sources said that amid an intense debate within the Bush administration the U.S. Central Command has established a framework to conduct major military operations against Iraq from neighboring Kuwait and other areas of the Persian Gulf, according to Middle East Newsline. The center said in its report that the United States will probably launch an offensive against Iraq in the spring of 2003. The earliest the U.S. military would be ready for an attack would be the mid-fall of 2002. The sources said the opposition by Arab countries to a U.S. military campaign would require more time for any operation. They said the Arab and Islamic opposition appears to have delayed plans to begin operations by the end of the summer. The report - authored by [Ret.] Rear Adm. Stephen Baker, former chief of staff for naval forces in U.S. Central Command in Bahrain, and research analyst Michael Donovan - said some of the requirements of a military operation would include the deployment of up to 100,000 U.S. troops and 25,000 support personnel in Turkey and Gulf Cooperation Council countries. Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Turkey would be the most likely staging grounds for an offensive, the chief aim of which would be to locate and destroy Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. The general expectation among U.S. military planners - but not a given - is that Iraqi air defenses, command and control facilities, the Iraqi army and Republican Guard would be rapidly overwhelmed and defeated swiftly, the report said. The threat of biological or chemical weapons targeting Israel, neighboring countries, or U.S. troops will be a major concern. Handling this threat will be one of the hardest, most challenging missions in Iraq. http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_9.html _ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/k6cvND/n97DAA/ySSFAA/VL0olB/TM -~- Peruuta ryhmän tilaus lähettämällä sähköpostia osoitteeseen: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Zyuganov blames officials for extremism [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: Miroslav Antic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'NATO' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'News' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'SNN' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 2:26 PM Subject: Zyuganov blames officials for extremism [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- 2002-04-20 02:16 MSK - Zyuganov blames officials for extremism MOSCOW - Russia's Communist Party chief blamed President Vladimir Putin's administration on Thursday for policies that he said had spurred the growth of violent extremism. Speaking in an interview just hours after Putin delivered a state of the nation speech, Gennady Zyuganov said the Kremlin leader had failed to come up with anything positive for Russians and had ignored the poverty and lawlessness afflicting society. It is the authorities' extremism which pushes people towards extremism. People have nothing to eat. Young people graduate from fine institutes and cannot find work. Entire generations are growing up knowing nothing other than drugs, vodka and life on the street, Zyuganov told Reuters. It is extremism which begets extremism and this is inevitable. Our people are calm and reasonable. But if they are pushed, it will be hard to stop. Nationalist groups periodically stage organised attacks on ethnic groups, particularly traders, from southern Russia and adjacent ex-Soviet republics. Putin has called for a crackdown on nationalist gangs ahead of Saturday's anniversary of Adolf Hitler's birth. Zyuganov, 57, who has been beaten in two presidential elections, said Putin had ignored his party's suggestions for improving the economy. Communists, he said, wanted reforms and had drawn on the experience of other countries, particularly China, in forming plans to develop Russia's economy that took into account Russia's very specific nature. He said it was the oligarchs - industrialists who made money in the post-Soviet period - who had put Russia in its current state, with nearly 70 million people either going hungry or reduced to begging. OLIGARCHS TO BLAME The Communist Party chief singled out for criticism Anatoly Chubais, long a hate figure among Russian communists for his role in mass privatisations in the mid-1990s, which created vast fortunes for some industrialists. Zyuganov accused Chubais of causing widespread misery in his current job as head of the country's electricity utility, RAO.UES. He cuts off power to maternity hospitals, to rocket basesin any other country he would be pushed to the wall, Zyuganov said of Chubais. This is extremism. Whole districts without power, patients lying on the operating table and power cut off. Fascist Germany did not even cut off power to its people. Zyuganov is credited with rebuilding the Communist Party after a ban on its activity was lifted. He was defeated by Boris Yeltsin in the 1996 presidential election and lost to Putin four years later. Latest polls give the party a 34 percent rating - far ahead of pro-Putin centrists who control the State Duma lower house. The Communists are the Duma's largest single group, but lost much of their power base when deputies removed them from top positions on key committees, prompting Zyuganov to declare the party in all-out opposition. In his interview, the barrel-chested Zyuganov said the party remained united despite its recent setback in parliament. He was confident recent good results in local elections would lead to mass support in next year's parliamentary polls. What is sad is that the party in power has no ideology. Its base is made up of officials looking after their own interests. Once Putin is gone, everyone will simply run off, he said. We, on the other hand, have an idea, an organisation, in even the most remote village. He said enduring hardship for millions of Russians would mean a big turnout for street rallies he has called for May 1, international workers' day, and May 9, when ex-Soviet states mark the anniversary of the capitulation of Nazi Germany. I think there will be many more people turning out this year, he said. In the past year, because of Putin's policies, no one has seen improved living standards except the oligarchs. -Reuters --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
US: 100 bicycle riders detained by Police [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- by Jen O 6:48pm Fri Apr 19 '02 phone: 202 483-3700 According to an eyewitness report, Critical Mass bikers detained during peaceful bike ride in Washington DC. According to an eyewitness report, Critical Mass bikers detained during peaceful bike ride in Washington DC. THe bikers in the group of 200 had been close to the end of their march and were at the corner of 21st st. and L st. NW. They had ridden around downtown DC with no problems up until that point. Approximately 100 bikers were detained at that point by DC police. Their bikes were being piled up and confiscated. The source witnessing the police using violence against the bikers, kicking and hitting the bikers. The detained bikers were then led away in handcuffs. Critical Mass is a loose collective of activist who bike around urban areas en masse to draw visibility to issues ranging from specific environmental policies to sweatshop labor. Their use of bicycles represents a choice to live in a cleaner environment free of pollution caused by copious car usage. . . Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
China opposes hegemonism and won't seek hegemony itself, he declared. [WWW.STO
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- China Puts Forward Proposals on Peace, Development in Asia. Zhou Guangzhao, head of the China's Parliamentary Delegation to the ongoing annual meeting of the Association of Asian Parliaments for Peace (AAPP), Wednesday put forward a four-point proposal on peace and development in Asia. Introduction of Association of Asian Parliaments for Peace (AAPP) Created in September of 1999, the AAPP is the largest inter-parliamentarian organization in Asia with 36 member states and 15 non-member states. In line with the theme of peace and development, lawmakers every year will discuss a wide spectrum of issues including multi-polarization in the world politics, world peace, economic globalization and its ensuing impact upon developing nations and how to strengthen international cooperation for a new international political and economic order. Zhou Guangzhao, head of the China's Parliamentary Delegation to the ongoing annual meeting of the Association of Asian Parliaments for Peace (AAPP), Wednesday (April 17) put forward a four-point proposal on peace and development in Asia. Zhou, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, announced the proposal at the first Plenary Session of the Third annual meeting of the association. The proposals are as follows: -- We must cherish and safeguard the hard-won peace and stability in Asia. History and reality both demonstrate that a peaceful and stable regional surrounding environment is vital to the development, prosperity and security of countries in the region. Therefore, the countries should all proceed from long-term and strategic interests and make further efforts to preserve the current situation. -- All countries in the region should respect each other and treat each other as equals on the basis of Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. We should respect the fact that Asia is diversified and give full play to the advantage of diversity and seek diversified development so as to create a new Asia in which various kinds of culture and civilization coexist and make common development. -- To further deepen the multi-facet economic cooperation of various forms in Asia. In the spirit of mutual benefit and common development, countries should learn from each other while competing with each other, draw upon each other's advantages and make up for deficiencies. Thus, the economic power of countries and Asia as a whole will be increased and the ability to deal with the challenge of economic globalization enhanced. -- We should actively advocate the new security concept with mutual trust, mutual benefit and equitable cooperation as the core. All bilateral disputes and disagreements should be resolved through consultation and negotiation. We should strengthen security by increasing cooperation and expanding common interests. We should enhance the cooperation in non-traditional security fields and fight collectively against terrorism, smuggling, drug-trafficking, piracy and illegal immigration and other transnational crimes. China's efforts on peace, development in Asia Zhou said China has a long-time good neighborly friendship and cooperation with other Asian countries, citing efforts China have been making to develop friendly relations and cooperation of good neighborliness and good partnership with surrounding Asian countries. Mutual understanding and trust has been deepened as a result, he said. At present, China has established a framework for cross-century good-neighborly and friendly relations and cooperation with most Asian countries, he said. The cooperation in economic, trade, scientific and technological and cultural fields continued to deepen. China has, along with Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, established the 'Shanghai Cooperation', Zhou said. China also took an active part in the ASEAN Regional Forum, promoted the dialogue in the Korean peninsula, supported relevant countries in the Middle East and south Asia in their efforts to peacefully resolve disputes and supported the rebuilding of Afghanistan, said Zhou. All these fully demonstrate our good wishes to safeguard regional and world peace and development, he said. China to make greater contribution on peace, development in Asia He also talked about the country's three major tasks for the new century, including the goal of doubling the country's gross domestic product (GDP) of 2000 in the 2010, gradually accomplishing common prosperity in the country, striving for the peaceful reunification of the country, and safeguarding world peace and promoting common development. Zhou stressed that the development in China cannot be separated from the support of people in Asian countries, and a stable, developed and prosperous China will not pose any threat to any country at any times. On the contrary, China will make greater contribution to peace and development in
Li Peng Meets Iraqi, Saudi Arabian, Kuwaiti, Iranian Parliamentary Leaders. [WWW
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- China's top legislator Li Peng met with Chairman of the National Assembly of Iraq Saadoun Hamadi,President of the Saudi Arabian Consultative Council Sheikh Mohammed Ibrahim Bin Jubair, Speaker of the Kuwaiti National Assembly Jasim Mohmmad Al-Kharafi and Vice-Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mohsen Armin, on separate occasions Thursday in Chongqing. China's top legislator Li Peng met with Chairman of the National Assembly of Iraq Saadoun Hamadi, President of the Saudi Arabian Consultative Council Sheikh Mohammed Ibrahim Bin Jubair, Speaker of the Kuwaiti National Assembly Jasim Mohmmad Al-Kharafi and Vice-Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mohsen Armin, on separate occasions Thursday in Chongqing, a municipal city in southwest China. Li, chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), extended a warm welcome to the guests attending the third annual meeting of the Association of Asian Parliaments for Peace (AAPP). Li expressed hope that the AAPP meeting would further promote cooperation and exchanges between China and the four countries within the framework of the AAPP. Li said he agreed with the positive comments by the parliamentary leaders on their countries' relations with China and the relations between Islamic and Arab countries and China. He thanked the guests for their briefing on the Middle East situation. Islamic and Arabic countries are important forces in the international arena, Li said, adding that China attaches great importance to friendly relations with these countries. China welcomes and supports the achievements made in the recent Arabic summit meeting, he said. This is a reflection of further solidarity in the Arab and Islamic world, according to the chairman. China consistently opposes unilateralism, hegemonism and power politics, and stands for multipolarization, Li said. China hopes the Arab countries would play an even more important role in regional and international affairs, he said. China is deeply concerned about the impasse in the Middle East peace process, Li said. The international community has the responsibility to help realize peace and stability in this region, he said. China appreciates and supports the efforts made by Islamic and Arab countries in pushing forward the Middle East peace process and the Arabic peace initiative passed at the Arab League summit meeting, Li said. The initiative accords with the United Nations resolutions and the land-for-peace principle in raveling Palestine-Israel issue, he said. China strongly hopes that relevant UN resolutions be strictly implemented and is willing to make efforts for an early solution of the Middle East issue together with the international community, he said. On China-Iran relations, Li said as an important country in the region, Iran plays an important role in safeguarding the peace and security of the Middle East and the Gulf Region. China has kept good relations with Iran in many fields, which not only serves the interests of the two peoples, but is also conducive to the peace and stability of the region and the world at large. Hamadi said that relations between Iraq and China have kept developing since the two countries forged diplomatic ties, and Iraq hopes to further cooperation on economy and trade with China. He voiced hope that China, a permanent member of the Security Council of the United Nations, would play a more important role in advocating justice and safeguarding world peace and stability. He also expressed hope that the parliaments of the two countries would strengthen cooperation and exchanges. Jubair said that the relations between Saudi Arabia and China have developed smoothly. On the regional situation, he said that the current situation in the Middle East continues to deteriorate, and Saudi Arabia is concerned about it. He spoke highly of the just stance China has taken on the Middle East issue, and said that Saudi Arabia appreciates China's support for peace in the Middle East region. Al-Kharafi said that the Kuwaiti people would never forget China's support to Kuwait in safeguarding its independence and sovereignty. He praised China's consistent just stance in international affairs. He said he hoped that China would play an even more important role in resolving the conflict between Palestine and Israel. Kuwait hopes for further cooperation with China in all fields, he said. Armin said that the world has changed greatly after the September 11 incident, and unilateralism and hegemony have intensified, which is detrimental to world peace and stability. He said that Iran attaches importance to its relations with China, and is willing to further cooperation with China in all fields. . . Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST
Argentina. Occupation of hospitals. [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 4:46 AM Subject: [kominform2] Argentina. Occupation of hospitals. From: Vicente Balvanera [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Arg_Solid] Occupation of Legislature, hospitals in Province of San Juan, Argentina La Naci?n reported this morning that public sector workers demanding back pay have occupied the Casa de Gobierno (Government House) in the Province of San Juan, since this morning. The occupation continues! http://www.lanacion.com.ar/02/04/17/dp_389450.asp (includes photos). More photos at Argentina Indymedia: http://www.argentina.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/22100.php TN internet TV: http://www.clarin.com/ultimo_momento/notas/2002/04/17/2002-04-17sanjuan2.asx Hospitals have also been occupied by the workers. The governor Avel?n is in Buenos Aires begging for the funds that the IMF's policy, which the Duhalde government is implementing, has frozen. Since the Governor has also met with the Minister of the Interior, repression is no doubt being planned. For the satisfaction of all the workers demands! No repression! Freedom of all political prisoners and dropping of charges against all the fighters! No payment of the foreign debt! For a solution of the working class and popular forces! Vicente Balvanera _ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Kwick Pick opens locked car doors, front doors, drawers, briefcases, padlocks, and more. On sale now! http://us.click.yahoo.com/ehaLqB/Fg5DAA/ySSFAA/VL0olB/TM -~- Peruuta ryhmän tilaus lähettämällä sähköpostia osoitteeseen: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Chinese President on Middle East Issue [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- China is deeply worried about the deterioration of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East, visiting Chinese President Jiang Zemin said here Tuesday evening at a banquet hosted by Tunisian President Zine Al-Abidine Ben Ali. China is deeply worried about the deterioration of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East, visiting Chinese President Jiang Zemin aid here Tuesday evening at a banquet hosted by Tunisian President Zine Al-Abidine Ben Ali. He noted that China condemned Israel's military strike and economic blockage against Palestine, as well as the siege of President Yasser Arafat. Israel should immediately implement relevant resolutions of the U.N. Security Council, withdraw from the Palestinian areas, lift the siege of President Arafat and solve its conflicts with Palestine through negotiations, Jiang said. He stated that China, as a permanent member of the Security Council, will, as always, support the Middle East peace process andjoin hands with Arab nations, including Tunisia, to continue to work to help ease the regional tension and promote an early settlement of the issue. Jiang flew in Tunis earlier Tuesday from Abuja of Nigeria for his state visit as guest of Ben Ali. Tunisia is the fourth leg of Jiang's two-week five-nation trip, which will finally take him to Iran on April 18. Jiang had just ended his state visit to Germany, Libya and Nigeria. . . Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Worldwide Protests Condemn U.S. and Israel - List of World WideActions! [WWW.STO
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 9:34 PM Subject: [kominform2] Worldwide Protests Condemn U.S. and Israel - List of World WideActions! From: poblachtach dearg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Revolutionary_Diary] Worldwide Protests Condemn U.S. and Israel - List of World Wide Actions! Worldwide Protests Condemn U.S. and Israel Revolutionary Worker #1147, April 21, 2002, posted at rwor.org Outrage at the brutal Israeli/U.S. attacks and massacres of Palestinian people has ignited mass protests on every continent. The Moroccan capital of Rabat had the biggest protest in its history. At least a million people marched Sunday, April 7, the day before U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell came to town. In Jordan, there have been literally hundreds of demonstrations, including an attack on the Israeli embassy on April 5. In Cairo, the capital of Egypt , 80,000 people marched to support the Palestinian people on March 31. The next day, students took to the streets, charging the Israeli embassy and fighting running battles with the police. University, high school and middle school students were joined by many others in the fiercest demonstration since the 1991 Gulf War. There have also been protests by the Lawyers' Syndicate and other professional organizations in Egypt. In Lebanon , where thousands of Palestinian refugees live, protesters burned tires in the streets. The government was forced to allow protests in the refugee camps for the first time in years. Many protests have targeted the U.S. as well as Israel. McDonald's and KFC restaurants were destroyed in Cairo and protesters have burned U.S. flags throughout the Middle East. Bahrain , a series of islands in the Persian Gulf with a population of 700,000, is the home of the U.S. 5th Fleet. On March 30, 7,000 protesters marched on Palestinian Land Day. Taking part in such a demonstration is the least anyone can do, one 43-year-old man told reporters. We are ready to give up our lives. The next week, demonstrators attacked the U.S. embassy with rocks and Molotov cocktails. One protester died after being hit in the head by a projectile fired from the embassy. Big marches occurred in Sohag and Alexandria, Egypt ; in many cities in Saudi Arabia ; in the Arab countries of Yemen, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Sudan and Tunisia . In Kuwait , 4,000 people gathered in the capital and chanted Death to Israel and Death to the U.S. In dozens of U.S. towns, large and small, diverse groups have protested Israeli atrocities. As George Bush and Tony Blair met in Crawford, Texas , to plan more crimes against humanity, several hundred gathered at a community center to protest. Militant demonstrations have rocked the campus of UC Berkeley . On April 2, hundreds took the streets and marched to a major intersection and blocked traffic for hours. A Palestinian youth whose family lives in Ramallah later wrote, When I saw that a lot of the protesters last night were Americans and Jews, something inside filled me with spirit and happiness to the sight of diverse races and religions helping the Palestinian cause. On April 9, in remembrance of the 1948 Deir Yassin massacre in which over 250 Palestinians were murdered by Zionist gangs, 1,500 people gathered in Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley. After a rally and march, 250 people occupied Wheeler Hall. An RCYB member who was arrested with 78 others in the hall reported: The Students for Justice in Palestine, the group that organized the day, issued a list of demands and insisted on negotiating with the Chancellor. They called out the University of California for supporting Israel and demanded it begin divesting immediately. When the Vice Chancellor came to threaten us with suspension or possibly expulsion if we continued to occupy the building, we countered his threats with determined resistance and 80 of us stayed inside, sat down, and linked arms. The next day a coalition of labor unions and Jewish Voice for Peace had a picket and sit-in at the Israeli consulate in San Francisco , where at least 20 were arrested. Thousands have marched in Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, Boston, Chicago, Houston and Atlanta . There have been almost daily protests at Times Square in New York , including actions of over 2,000 people. Protest actions have happened in Atlanta, Kansas City, Missouri; Austin, Texas; Lansing, Michigan; Santa Clara, California; Dearborn, Michigan; and Dayton, Ohio . Cornel West, Harvard professor and prominent Black author and Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun , a liberal Jewish journal, were part of a group of 26 activists who were arrested on April 11 while blocking the street in front of the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. The protesters were demanding that the
Argentina: Unpaid Clothing Workers Seize Control of Factory [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 4:53 AM Subject: [kominform2] Argentina. Brukman story From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Arg_Solid] brukman story (fwd) [Editor's Note: I deleted stray html code from message for easier Subject: brukman story As Argentine crisis deepens, workers seize failing firms By Leslie Moore, Globe Correspondent, 4/7/2002 BUENOS AIRES - It's a takeover toasted by Argentina's activists and media: A heroic story of seamstresses' trumping the bosses by seizing the factory floor after their demands went unmet. In the fading garment district of Barrio Once, about 35 workers have staged a sit-in, refusing to budge until they get back wages they say they deserve. Amid Argentina's recent economic and political upheavals, the seamstresses have become poster women for worker defiance and a sign of the extremes taken to earn a livelihood at a time when the nation's unemployment rate exceeds 20 percent. Photos and footage of the seamstresses hugging and mugging for cameras and stooping over sewing machines have played from Buenos Aires to Patagonia, and the group has attracted attention from media outlets in Europe and North America. Activists around the country and world are latching onto the seamstresses' cause as proof that worker resistance can blossom even in ravaged Argentina. `'If they win, all workers of Argentina win,'' said Ana Dossantos, a member of the communist-influenced Workers' Party. `'It's an answer to the crisis in Argentina.'' A six-member team of garment workers called the Commission of Internal Struggle makes management decisions. Seamstress leaders say they set - and live by - budgets, buy goods from suppliers, and deal directly with customers. Profits from the stock of men's suits, leaders say, are shared equally between all workers. To ward off police who may try again to kick them out, as they did last month, the women sleep in shifts on factory floors. Jacobo Brukman and his two brothers, Enrique and Mario, who own and operate the 51-year-old factory, once enjoyed licensing agreements with Christian Dior and Pierre Cardin. But in the 1990s, Argentina's strong peso shrank the wholesaler's export demand. And the country's grinding four-year recession has cut domestic sales. By 2001 the company notified creditors that the company was on the edge of bankruptcy, said Jaime Muszkat, the brothers' attorney. Creditors now partly manage the company. But Muszkat insisted that the factory is hostage to Argentina's politics and a victim of media that prefer a story of heroics to truth-telling. He said the brothers have been banished from entering their property and have no idea how much merchandise remains. `'We have a business that has been hijacked,'' said Jaime Muszkat. ''The workers are staging a big show of tears, and it's all a lie.'' On this the two sides agree: For two weeks straight last fall, the cash-poor company paid employees about $5 for a week's work, adding to the poor labor relations at the factory. By Dec. 18 a faction of outraged workers had had enough. When they went to confront the brothers in their first-floor offices, they and other office workers had vanished, protesting workers say. They believe the bosses disappeared to avoid a tussle over wages. Muszkat insists that workers locked out the three owner-brothers and names other employees who have boycotted the sit-in. Government limits on bank withdrawals, known as the corralito, forced the brothers to pay workers less than they were owed because they had no access to cash, he said, not disputing the roughly $5 wages for five days of 9-hour shifts. The corralito, which began Dec. 5, capped weekly bank cash withdrawals at $250 per week. ''No one had cash in the first two weeks of December,'' he added. ''This is exploitation of the owners. We're talking about a political doctrine [from] groups of the extreme left. It's absolutely crazy.'' Workers want the government to take over the company so long as it gives them a promise of lifelong job security. `'There are 33 hospitals in Buenos Aires that need sheets. We can provide them,'' said Celia Martinez Otozo, a catalyst behind the squatters' movement. `'Before they said they had no money to pay, but now we see that the clothes were being sold and that there is money.'' Martinez said workers have paid thousands of dollars in overdue utility and gas bills that management left unpaid. Workers' say their lives are better since they became their own bosses. They say they pocket about 10 times more money weekly. Lunch before was a cheese sandwich, eaten in 15 minutes at their sewing machines. Now they take an hour break and cook meals of lentil stew or polenta in the factory's kitchen.
Pakistan. Communist Workers and Peasants Party. [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 4:48 AM Subject: [kominform2] Pakistan. Communist Workers and Peasants Party. From: Taimur Rahman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Communist Workers and Peasants Party Pakistan Comrades, please help to distribute news of our struggle in Pakistan. In solidarity Taimur Charsada (Hashtnagar) PEASANT WOMEN FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE FEUDALS BACKED BY THE STATE An Anti-Terrorist Act Case Has Been Registered Against CMKP General Secretary, Afzal Khamosh Detailed report by Syed Azeem, Punjab President, Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party During the 1970s a number of peasant struggles started in Pakistan, which were mainly organized by the Communists. The most successful and militant land-grab by the peasants took place in Hashtnangar, an area close to the Pak-Afghan border in the province of NWFP. Organized by the then Mazdoor Kissan Party (MKP), the peasants were able to liberate this area from feudal lords, who brutally oppressed the poor peasants and had the backing of the state. Since those days, Hashtnagar remains to be a liberated area despite several attempts by the feudal lords and state to eject the peasants. Under the sincere leadership of the Communist Workers Peasants Party (CMKP), the peasants remain united and steadfast. Almost 300 people have lost their lives in thirty years of conflict but the peasants are not ready to give up the lands that provide food and shelter for their families. Recently, another attempt by the feudals, in connivance with the state machinery, is in progress to forcefully evict the poor peasants from the lands of Charasada (Hashtnangar). Eager to use the so-called War-Against-Terrorism hysteria, the military and feudals are eyeing to not only takeover the lands of Hashtnagar (in NWFP), Okkara, Khanewal, Sargodha and Pak-pattan (in Punjab), but also to reverse many gains made by the peasant movement in Pakistan. After putting up a show of cracking down on terrorists to please his masters in United States, the current President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, wants to use the anti-terrorism slogan to clean-up all opposition against him. The state - a nexus between the capitalists, feudals, civil and military bureaucracy - has taken action against religious extremist outfits only for the time being to appease world opinion. In actuality, it is afraid of the working-class movement in Pakistan, which has a glorious past of struggle. The Communist Workers-Peasants Party (CMKP), in the immediate aftermath of September 11, had declared its apprehensions that President Musharraf will use the pent-up war-on-terror propaganda, created and supplied by US imperialism all over the world, as a weapon against true anti-imperialist and working-class forces in Pakistan. Now that the extremist religious parties, created and organized by a joint venture of US imperialism and Pakistani establishment, are rapidly dissolving into political nonentities, the ground for the forces of left in Pakistan are wide open. Now the next enemy of US imperialism in the region are the forces that have refused to accept the new Afghan setup and also know how to fight US imperialism on scientific footings. In Afghanistan, the two Maoist organizations, that have refused to accept the puppet setup led by Hamid Karzai and threatened to fight against it, are Afghan Liberation Organization (ALO) and Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). Their closest ally in Pakistan is the Communist Workers Peasants Party (CMKP), which has also made it clear several times that it would not let US imperialism stand in the way of obstructing the right of peoples of Pakistan and Afghanistan in choosing their own destiny. Soon enough, a new poison will be injected into Pakistan's economy in the form of financial assistance and aid, not only to reward the Pakistani establishment for assisting the US-led world coalition but primarily to preserve the decaying, corrupt, exploitative, yet compliant status quo. CMKP has set the precedent, once again, to rise to the occasion against this status quo. The state and its allies have registered cases against the leaders and cadres of CMKP. Here starts a new phase of struggle at hand. As mentioned earlier, in 1970s the peasants of Hashtnagar, organized under the leadership of the then MKP, defeated the feudal lords. Now the Pakistani establishment, which is just another tool of US imperialism, is raising much hue and cry on the forced takeover of land by the peasants. CMKP was quick to realize that the anti-terrorist laws will be used against the party and the peasants. Therefore, they mobilized the peasantry in the area and instructed them not to use weapons except as a last resort. This
Palestine. More victims of the War on Terror in the West Bank [WWW.STOPNATO.OR
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 9:56 AM Subject: [kominform2] Palestine. More victims of the War on Terror in the West Bank From: Macdonald Stainsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R-G] More victims of the War on Terror in the West Bank Reuters. 16 April 2002. Children's Corpses Legacy of West Bank City Fight. NABLUS -- The dusty corpses of the al-Shabi children are frozen in time, testimony to their last moments of life in the battle-scarred ancient quarter of this Palestinian city in the West Bank. Seven-year old Azam's arms cover his head as if he was trying to shield himself from the rubble of his home as it came crashing down, killing him and seven other members of his family more than a week ago during an Israeli military offensive. His four-year-old sister Anis has her little fists clenched to her stomach. She is curled up, still dressed in her green sport shirt and pants. They were all together in a bombed building in the old city, said Anan Qadri, the head of the emergency medical committee in Nablus. The Israelis destroyed their house in a missile attack and then destroyed it with bulldozers. The eight members of the al-Shabi family were among 71 Palestinians killed in Nablus during the Israeli sweep since April 3, according to Nablus's Rafidia Hospital records obtained by Reuters. Israeli armored personnel carriers and tanks churned up the hilly streets of the West Bank's largest Palestinian city on Tuesday, enforcing reoccupation. Qadri had no breakdown for the number of gunmen and civilians killed in Nablus. We are still working on this but many of them are civilians, she said. The military curfew imposed on the more than 100,000 residents of Nablus has grisly implications in a city where tradition calls for mass public burials and three-day condolence visits. We have to prepare the tombs, and the families have to come but we are under curfew, said Qadri. The Israeli liaison officer said we will allow you to only bury them one by one, so we refused. This means that the bodies of the Shabi family and 25 other Palestinians are kept in a refrigerated dairy truck in a parking lot behind the hospital because the mortuary is overflowing with even more corpses. Good health and strength! the advertisement on the side of the truck says above a collage of colored milk cartons in vivid colors. A generator hums softly next to the vehicle, keeping its contents cold. The dead are being lowered into shallow temporary graves, covered in palm leaves in the Islamic tradition. Three corpses have been buried in the hospital garden. And in the old quarter of Nablus, stone steps lead up a narrow alley toward a wooden door between houses with arched windows their residents say are centuries old. The door swings open onto a lilac-scented garden. Under the shade of lush almond and peach trees, two indentations in the ground mark the spot where 13 Palestinians have been buried in a temporary mass grave. Palm fronds fan across the soil. Two military-style olive green overcoats are splayed in the dirt, riddled with what look like shrapnel perforations. We buried them here, said Nafez Eissa, whose home opens up onto the garden. We will dig them up when the Israeli army withdraws and give them a decent burial in the cemetery. And in the Askar refugee camp near Nablus, the Abu Aisha family buried their 11-year old son Qusay near their home. He was shot dead with two bullets in his chest during the Israeli army incursion into the camp on Tuesday. Inside the Old City, known locally as the Casbah, or bazaar, hundreds of fighters mingled with Palestinian police and security forces of Arafat's Palestinian Authority in preparation before the Israeli incursion. Graffiti on the walls urging more militant attacks is scrawled next to signs which urge residents not to park in driveways. Blood stains spatter the rubble in front of scorched groceries and shops. The facades of houses are busted through with gaping holes residents say were made by helicopter rocket attacks. Bomb-blasted buildings have been reduced to mounds of yellow stone and dust. The door of the 300-year old Al-Beik mosque in the old quarter is spattered with blood from the dead and injured who were brought into the prayer room, which was transformed into a temporary operating theater and first aid station. Blood-caked surgical instruments soak in dirty water, and plastic sheeting covers the floors under the mosque's sparkling chandeliers. Israeli tanks had sealed off the narrow alleyways into the old quarter during days of fierce fighting. After the incursion we turned the mosque into a hospital, said Doctor Tawfik Ghazal. We could not evacuate injured Palestinians from the old city.
Mass organisations condemn Israel's military raids on Palestine [WWW.STOPNATO.OR
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- The Vietnam Committee for Solidarity with the Palestinian people and the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations held a special meeting on Palestine in Hanoi on April 16, vehemently condemning Israel's military attacks on Palestine. The statement says: We, representatives of the Vietnamese people, strongly condemn Israel's brutal military aggression against the Palestinian people. The Israeli army has killed many civilians including women and children, destroyed public infrastructure works, and laid siege to and intimidated Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. Israel's continuation of its all-out war is an attempt to put an end to the Palestinian State. It threatens the security of the entire Middle East. We demand that Israel put an immediate end to its military strikes and withdraw at once its troops and weapon from the territories it has occupied in Palestine. We demand that Israel strictly observe principles of International law, the United Nations and the UN Security Council Resolutions on the Middle East, and other international documents on human rights. We take this opportunity to express the consistent solidarity of the Vietnamese people with the Palestinian people and to assert our firm support for the just struggle of the Palestinian people under the leadership of President Arafat for the right to self-determination for an independent, sovereign state and for the sacred right to live in their motherland. Also today, more than 500 people representing Ho Chi Minh City's people of all walks of life gathered at a meeting at the City's Friendship House to condemn Israel's military attacks on Palestine and to celebrate the 53rd anniversary of the World Peace Movement. The meeting was organised by the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations and the Ho Chi Minh City Peace Committee. The participants also expressed their solidarity with and support for the Palestinian people's just cause led by President Arafat for peace in the Middle East and the world at large. (VNA) . . Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
The Ruins of Jenin [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: info [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 10:06 AM Subject: [mobilize-globally] The Ruins of Jenin -- Forwarded Message From: Louis Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 23:43:45 -0700 To: Earth First! alert [EMAIL PROTECTED], Berkeley Stop the War Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED], Coalition to End the Sanctions against Iraq [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eastbay Coalition [EMAIL PROTECTED], iac discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [EF!] The Ruins of Jenin From the FreePalestine e-list: Amid the ruins of Jenin, the grisly evidence of a war crime Phil Reeves in Jenin 16 April 2002 http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=285413 A monstrous war crime that Israel has tried to cover up for a fortnight hasfinally been exposed. Its troops have caused devastation in the centre of the Jenin refugee camp, reached yesterday by The Independent, where thousands of people are still living amid the ruins. A residential area roughly 160,000 square yards about a third of a mile wide has been reduced to dust. Rubble has been shovelled by bulldozers into 30ft piles. The sweet and ghastly reek of rotting human bodies is everywhere, evidence that it is a human tomb. The people, who spent days hiding in basements crowded into single rooms as the rockets pounded in, say there are hundreds of corpses, entombed beneath the dust, under a field of debris, criss-crossed with tank and bulldozer treadmarks. In one nearby half-wrecked building, gutted by fire, lies the fly-blown corpse of a man covered by a tartan rug. In another we found the remains of 23-year-old Ashraf Abu Hejar beneath the ruins of a fire-blackened room that collapsed on him after being hit by a rocket. His head is shrunken and blackened. In a third, five long-dead men lay under blankets. A quiet. sad-looking young man called Kamal Anis led us across the wasteland, littered now with detritus of what were once households, foam rubber, torn clothes, shoes, tin cans, children's toys. He suddenly stopped. This was a mass grave, he said, pointing. We stared at a mound of debris. Here, he said, he saw the Israeli soldiers pile 30 bodies beneath a half-wrecked house. When the pile was complete, they bulldozed the building, bringing its ruins down on the corpses. Then they flattened the area with a tank. We could not see the bodies. But we could smell them. A few days ago, we might not have believed Kamal Anis. But the descriptions given by the many other refugees who escaped from Jenin camp were understated, not, as many feared and Israel encouraged us to believe, exaggerations. Their s tories had not prepared me for what I saw yesterday. I believe them now. Until two weeks ago, there were several hundred tightly-packed homes in this neighbourhood called Hanat al-Hawashim. They no longer exist. Around the central ruins, there are many hundreds of half-wrecked homes. Much of the camp - once home to 15,000 Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war - is falling down. Every wall is speckled and torn with bullet holes and shrapnel, testimony of the awesome, random firepower of Cobra and Apache helicopters that hovered over the camp. Building after building has been torn apart, their contents of cheap fake furnishings, mattresses, white plastic chairs spewed out into the road. Every other building bears the giant, charred, impact mark of a helicopter missile. Last night there were still many families and weeping children still living amid the ruins, cut off from the humanitarian aid. Ominously, we found no wounded, although there was a report of a man being rescued from beneath ruins only an hour before we arrived. Those who did not flee the camp, or not detained by the army, have spent the bombardment in basements, enduring day after day of terror. Some were forced into rooms by the soldiers, who smashed their way into houses through the walls. The UN says half of the camp's 15,000 residents were under 18. As the evening hush fell over these killing fields, we could suddenly hear the children chattering. The mosques, once so noisy at prayer time, were silent. Israel was still trying to conceal these scenes yesterday. It had refused entry to Red Cross ambulances for nearly a week, in violation of the Geneva Convention. Yesterday it continued to try to keep us out. Jenin, in the northern end of the occupied West Bank, remained a closed military zone, was ringed Merkava tanks, army Jeep patrols, and armoured personnel carriers. Reporters caught trying to get in were escorted out. A day earlier the Israeli armed forces took in a few selected journalists to see sanitised parts of the camp. We simply walked across the fields, flitted
US workers support struggle in Italy [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- . . Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: info [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 10:06 AM Subject: [mobilize-globally] WARNING FROM AMERICAN WORKERS -- Forwarded Message From: Michelle Gross [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:57:16 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WTOactivists] WARNING FROM AMERICAN WORKERS WARNING FROM AMERICAN WORKERS As Italian workers contemplate whether or not to participate in the upcoming General Strike called by CGIL, CISL, UIL and other labor unions throughout Italy, we, the undersigned workers from the United States, support and encourage Italian workers to fight the Americanization of Italian labor law! In the United States today, it is estimated that roughly 90 percent of all workers live under some form of the constricting legal doctrine called at-will employment. It is clear from the Italian government's plan that this American-style at-will employment is the ultimate aim of Berlusconi's desire to re-write Article 18 of the Italian Constitution, etc. Being an at-will employee in the United States means that you are employed as, and thus live as, a slave. As an at-will employee you function at the arbitrary desire of your supervisor. If your boss doesn't like the color of your shirt, you can be fired with no legal recourse. Living as an at-will employee means living with the constant fear that at any minute the livelihood and survival of your family is at risk. During the winter of 2000, after 143 steelworkers in Duluth, Minnesota, in the USA, declared a strike against a local steel foundry owned by a company also operating in Italy, we appealed for solidarity from the Italian workers employed by the company, known at the time as GST-Europa SpA. To the amazement of hundreds of at-will employees in Minnesota, workers at the GST-Europa foundry in Mezzomerico (Novara) Italy declared a sympathy strike in solidarity with the 143 striking Duluth steelworkers. If Berlusconi succeeds, the grueling ten-month long strike endured by our neighbors - our brothers and sisters and their families - in Minnesota is an example of what workers in Italy can expect as their own future. The multi-national corporation locked-out the steelworkers from the Duluth factory without pay and without a guarantee of returning to work for the entire duration of the ten-month long strike! At last report, only 30 steelworkers are now employed at the Duluth foundry and the union is in disarray. We, labor-activists in the U.S., feel obligated to stand-up and offer our solidarity to the workers of Italy in this fight for workers' rights. Berlusconi's attack on labor is an attack upon our families and children, in America as well as in Italy. We must fight against these attacks. At-will employment is horrible. You must not allow it to become the legal standard in Italy! Please, strike and take to the streets on April 16th! Juan Arroyo [Los Angeles, California] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sally Bebo-Anderson [Duluth, Minnesota] Phone: 218.525.2866 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mary Cain [Cloquet, Minnesota] Phone: 218.726.8297 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Séamas Cain [Cloquet, Minnesota] Phone: 218.879.8628 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Laverne Capan [Duluth, Minnesota] Phone: 218.724.2647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Carr [Oakland, California] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Cornell [Marlboro, New York] Phone: 845.236.2542 Rodger Cragun [Duluth, Minnesota] Phone: 218.727.2972 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linda Das-Gupta [Superior, Wisconsin] Phone: 715.398.5494 Kevin Davis [Carlton, Minnesota] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sara Dunlap [Brainerd, Minnesota] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dylan Ellefson [Los Angeles, California] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter L. Freeman [West Liberty, West Virginia] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Gilliam [Duluth, Minnesota] Phone: 218.727.4088 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Patrick Halpin [Warrensburg, Missouri] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Heinonen [Duluth, Minnesota] Phone: 218.393.4672 Jeffrey Hilgert [Duluth, Minnesota] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lee Siu Hin [Los Angeles, California} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grace Hoff [Lincoln, Nebraska] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Virginia Hyvarinen [Cambridge, Massachusetts] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Helmut Jensen [Cloquet, Minnesota] Phone: 218.879.6058 Kathleen Johnson [Stillwater, Minnesota] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gary Kohls [Duluth, Minnesota] Phone: 218.728.9756 Nick Levashov [Devil's Lake, North Dakota] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Staughton Lynd [Niles, Ohio] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scott Mathern-Jacobson [Duluth, Minnesota] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catherine McDonald [Duluth, Minnesota] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rick Milanov [Boston, Massachusetts] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeff Miller [St. Paul, Minnesota] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
soliderity message for Washington protest [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: cpb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 11:46 AM Subject: soliderity message COMMUNIST PARTY OF BANGLADESH EXPRESSING SOLIDARITY MESSAGE WITH THE 20 th. APRIL CAMPAIGN AND MARCH IN WASHINGTON D.C Dear Comrades, We wholeheartedly support your campaign for the six point demands, which you are going to raise by launching a street demonstration on the 20th April 2002. We are with you in all your fights against the ruling imperialist clique of USA and the Military-Industry complex for whom it works. Your demand for a US foreign policy based upon social justice and not on military and corporate oppression is a common demand for all peace loving democratic people of the world. We also know that after the September 11 incidence, by using it as a pretext, US ruling lobby has launched a very dangerous worldwide onslaught of state terrorism and is pushing the world towards an extremely dangerous possibility of a new world war in this highly volatile atomic age. Our party supports the just demands of The Palestinian people, the people of Afghanistan and all anti-imperialist democratic forces who are now engaged in a very unequal war and had to undergo immense suffering. At the same time we also think private terrorism is neither an effective nor a justified path of resistance against imperialism. We doubly condemn the heinous attempts of state terrorism by US imperialism, a super power of the world against the world's weakest states. We also stand by the brave humanist tradition and democratic values of the general American people on behalf of whom you have launched this campaign in support of the innocent immigrants now facing cruel racial discrimination at the hands of the state machinery of USA. We fully support the demands for transparency of all military spending and researches by your Government in co-operation with higher educational bodies. Your fight is very crucial and we would like you to know that together we all are actually fighting the same global battle. Victory in this common battle will not only decide the future of global peace but also determine whether the American people will live in a different America fighting for peace and social justice or will continue to suffer at the hands of a narrow ruling lobby representing a few warmongers and a handful of multinational corporations, lusting for super profit! Let People Raise Their Heads and Demand ·Peace ·Democracy. ·Social Justice · LONG LIVE THE UNITY OF ALL ANTI IMPERIALIST FORCES AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE OF THE WORLD Our Contact Address: COMMUNIST PARTY OF BANGLADESH (CPB) 21/1 Purana Palton, Dhaka: 1000, Phone : 880-2-9558612, FAX: 880-2-9552333, E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: www.cpbdhaka.org --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
World Bank, IMF threw Colombia into tailspin [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: info [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 1:59 PM Subject: [mobilize-globally] World Bank, IMF threw Colombia into tailspin -- Forwarded Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:56:32 +0300 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [kominform2] World Bank, IMF threw Colombia into tailspin From: Red Palante! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: World Bank, IMF threw Colombia into tailspin World Bank, IMF threw Colombia into tailspin By Tony Avirgan Originally published April 4, 2002 WASHINGTON -- As the United States drifts deeper into the Colombian quagmire of drugs and war, policy-makers need to take a new look at the problems of poverty, joblessness and hopelessness that have made that country such a trouble spot. And if they explore how unemployment in Colombia nearly doubled from 10.5 percent in 1990 to 19.7 percent in 2000, they will find a surprising pair of culprits -- not drug kingpins and leftist guerrillas, but the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. They sponsored draconian economic reforms that damaged the nation's industries and agriculture. The policies promoted by these international lenders, including privatizing many industries and public services, eliminating subsidies of all kinds, raising interest rates and cutting public services, thrust the economy into a tailspin and wiped out tens of thousands of jobs. A new report by the Medellin-based Global Policy Network (whose initials in Spanish are ENS) paints a grim picture of where Colombia stands and how it got there. The devastating rise in unemployment has its roots in a series of economic reforms initiated in 1990, with World Bank and IMF guidance, to meet the demands of globalization. In exchange for an IMF structural adjustment loan, Colombia agreed to privatize many industries and public services, eliminate subsidies, increase tariffs for public services, raise interest rates, downsize the public sector and open the nation's economy to world competition. Some Colombian officials feared the effects of a rising tide of imports. But World Bank and IMF economists assured them that job gains in export industries would more than make up for the inevitable job losses in domestic industries. As in other countries throughout the world, however, these assurances proved empty. Colombia now imports far more than it exports, and unemployment has soared. Colombia's once-vital agricultural sector, which previously met the nation's needs and exported the surplus, has been devastated. The country has ceased to be self-sustaining, choosing to import what it once exported, the ENS report says. Colombia now imports more than 6 million tons of food annually while 2 million acres of arable land lie idle. The industrial sector has suffered a similar fate as a massive influx of imports has swamped medium-size and small businesses. This decline has, in turn, triggered a sharp reduction in the number of salaried workers -- from 37.1 percent of the population in 1992 to 30.7 percent in 2000. Virtually the only part of the Colombian economy that has expanded is the least stable and productive for the economy as a whole. This is the vast informal sector, which includes, at one end of the spectrum, legitimate but low-paying self-employment such as street vending and, at the other end, drug trafficking. As a result of World Bank- and IMF-sponsored policies, per-capita income in Colombia has plunged from $2,716 in 1997 to $1,890 currently. Between 1997 and 2000, the percentage of Colombians living in poverty rose from 50.3 percent to 60 percent. When people have a choice of seeing their family starve or breaking the law, laws against drug cultivation mean nothing and some people will take up arms, argues Jose Luciano Sanin of the ENS. The United States should not be surprised by the increase in drug cultivation and trafficking. It is not a stretch to hold the World Bank, despite its programs to promote alternative crop production, and the IMF at least partially responsible. Tony Avirgan is global policy coordinator for the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington-based economic think tank. Copyright © 2002, The Baltimore Sun http://www.sunspot.net Red Palante! Comunicacion Alternativa y Resistencia Cultural [EMAIL PROTECTED] inquilino.net/palante _ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CP of Greece, Address to the International Conference of Solidarity to the Pales
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: SolidNet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 12:37 PM Subject: CP of Greece, Address to the International Conference of Solidarity to the Palestinian People, Cyprus,Nicosia 5-6 April 2002 http://www.solidnet.org News, documents and calls for action from communist and workers' parties. The items are the responsibility of the authors. Join the mailing list: info/subscribe/unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . = CP of Greece, Address to the International Conference of Solidarity to the Palestinian People, Cyprus, Nicosia 5-6 April 2002 - From: Communist Party of Greece, Tue, 16 Apr 2002 http://www.kke.gr , mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Address of Costas Alissandrakis Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece and of the European Parliament to the International Conference of Solidarity to the Palestinian People Nicosia, 5-6 April 2002 Dear friends and comrades, On behalf of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece, I would like to thank AKEL for its initiative to organize this international conference of solidarity to the Palestinian people and for inviting our party. It is worth noting not only the time, but also the place where this conference is being held. The heroic island of Cyprus is also, in part, under foreign occupation. Of course, the Turkish troops are not inside the presidential building of the Republic of Cyprus, still they are only a few kilometers away, at the other side of the green line that cuts in two the historic city of Nicosia and the entire island. Our party has always been for a solution of the Cyprus question and the termination of foreign occupation according to the resolutions of the United Nations. Dear friends and comrades, Until ten days ago one could speak of the barbarity of the state of Israel. Until ten days ago one could speak about genocide against the Palestinian people, about war crimes, about state terrorism. One could also speak about the heroic struggle of the people of Palestine who, at the face of a fully armed opponent, stand with their bare hands and their soul. Today, one weak after the new invasion of the Israeli army in Ramallah, words such as the above are incapable of describing the reality, which by far surpasses what we have witnessed so far. The attacking, as well as the attacked side, have both exceeded themselves, the former in barbarity and the latter in heroism, endurance, selflessness, and belief in the right of their cause. The besieged free people of Ramallah, first of all President Arafat, show to the entire world what a small people who, using the words of our poet Yannis Ritsos «fights for the bread of the entire world, for light and for song», can do. At this point, I wish to express our unlimited solidarity to the struggle of the Palestinian people for their own motherland, for peace and for life, as well as to president Arafat. The events in Palestine, as well as the boundless imperialist aggression that we are facing during the last years, cannot but induce us to remark how different the world is today, without the Soviet Union and the international socialist community. The so-called «new world order» is particularly inventive in continuous transfigurations, one more dreadful that the other. The massacre of Palestine is taking place, once more, under the cold and indifferent eyes of the so-called «international community». We heard the president of the U.S. yesterday to accept all the arguments that Israel employs to justify its horrendous acts and, at the end, to ask Israel to gradually withdraw its armed forces from the Palestinian towns! No further proof is necessary for one to realize who is behind the Israeli agression, where from do the criminal Sharon and his government draw their power to murder civilians and to destroy the vital infrastructure of the Palestinian land. The outcome of the suicide attacks that cause civilian deaths is certainly appalling, but this can in no way be put on an equal footing with the murder of civilians by an organized state, nor can it be placed at the same level as the executions of leaders of Palestinian organizations. Concerning the friendly advice of the head of the biggest terrorist organization of the world towards his collaborators, it is probably in the framework of seeking Arab support for his adventurist plans against Iraq, Iran and
Communist Party of Turkey speech to Balkan AntiNATO Coordination Centre [WWW.STO
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: SolidNet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 12:58 PM Subject: CP of Turkey, ,Speech to the BAN-c Meeting March 2002 http://www.solidnet.org News, documents and calls for action from communist and workers' parties. The items are the responsibility of the authors. Join the mailing list: info/subscribe/unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . = CP of Turkey, ,Speech to the BAN-c Meeting March 2002 From: Communist Party of Turkey, Mon, 15 Apr 2002 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.tkp.org.tr = Balkan AntiNATO Coordination Center BAN-c Views and actions of Balkan movements Tel: [+3]0310 286580,[+3]010 2592298 - Fax: [+3]0310 286581,[+3]010 2592298 e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- TKP COMMUNIST PARTY of TURKEY Osman Aða Mahallesi Nüshet Efendi caddesi no:38 Kadýköy/Ýstanbul Tel: +90 216 414 65 04 fax: +90 216 346 11 37 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.tkp.org.tr The Ban-C Meeting-March 2002 Dear comrades, It is a pleasure for me and my comrades to be in this lovely city again, although we would all prefer to be here under the circumstances where there existed no NATO, no imperialism, no destructive weapons and no exploitation. Well, let's continue to work for this, for cleaning up this beautiful region, the Balkans. I will try to deal on both issues namely the role of Turkey in NATO's enlargement process and the recent development on the Cyprus problem. Dear friends and comrades, You already know that the U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney came to Turkey after visiting several countries in the Middle East. Communist Party of Turkey and some other anti-imperialist forces organized demonstrations in very hard conditions when thousands of special police units and their fellow CIA personnel invaded Ankara and other cities. Our task was and still is to prevent a new war against Iraq. The first results of Cheney's visit might easily make us relieved, as all the leaders of different countries that he met openly criticized a possible military operation to Iraq. However one must take into account that, it is not easy to know what happened behind the closed doors. There is no official joint statement on the issue, there is only rumor and speculation. Thus, we have to be clever enough to work on details which are in total a clear evidence that there is a very dirty bargaining going on between the United States and it allies in the region. As the Communist Party of Turkey, we have been trying to focus on this bargain since last December when Turkish government announced that «U.S. should take into account the losses of Turkey during the Gulf War». Then the government added that they cannot accept an independent Kurdish state in Northern Iraq. I don't think that there is a need to say something about my countries relation with U.S imperialism. This relation became even more close after the 11th of September events. Objectively speaking, there is a limit for the capitalist Turkey to resist a specific U.S. plan. It should be clear that, the Turkish government's concern about a military operation to Iraq is real. However their strong inclination to play the major role in U.S initiatives in the region is something more actual. So the bargaining points here are the following: · To increase the price for participating a war against Iraq. · To overcome the effective obstacle of a lobby in U.S. Senate which does not permit some hi-tech weapons to be sold to Turkey. · To get the support of U.S. to organize a security belt or even an occupied region inside Iraq. Every day we have to read several articles in the daily press about the developments on these three issues. Although the public opinion is against a new war, we already know that this might easily change over a night. Plus the monopolies don't care the public opinion when they realize that, there is no organized action against their projects. A few words should be said here about the NATO influence in the Caucasian republics and the Central Asia. If we realize what Turkey is doing in that area clearly, than we will be aware of the real possibility of an aggression against Iraq. Turkish military is playing a very important role in the enlargement process of NATO in the region. Just one year ago in the Ban-C meeting I did have a chance to give examples of Turkish Army's engagement in the Balkans and in Azerbaijan. It is pity that now I have to speak about a broader area. Please
South Africa. COSATU at protest at Israeli and US embassies [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 3:30 PM Subject: [kominform2] South Africa. COSATU at protest at Israeli and US embassies From: Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [L-I] COSATU at protest at Israeli and US embassies Speech by Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) President Willie Madisha on the Occasion of the Protest March to the Israeli and US Embassies - Pretoria 12 April 2002 Leaders of the South African Communist Party, ANC and SANCO Comrades and friends! Dear comrades, Never has silenced being so deafening! Never has state terrorism been condoned in the face of many wars that are being fought under the banner of anti- terrorism. In the history of humankind, never have we seen so many people being maimed and the rest of the international community digging their heads in the sand. When the UN, through a resolution, called for the founding of the Palestinian state, never did the world suspect that it would amount to savage attacks, maiming of women and children, bombing of infrastructure and anarchy. Since 1948, the Palestinian people have been in struggle to ensure that they stay like all of humanity in a country that they will call their home. In the same period, the Israeli regimes have fought to deny the Palestinian people this important birthright. Notwithstanding the aggression the Israeli has pursued against the innocent, they have intensified their action and seized more land in 1967 following the war that took place. For the last 18 months the Palestinian people have been intensifying the offensive against the apartheid Israeli to ensure that their dreams for a free Palestine are realized. The Arial Sharon regime responded with army tanks, missiles and other forms of heavy military artillery, which has seen young children and innocent civilian killed. The UN for its part is guilty of failing to stop the genocide against the Palestinians. It possesses both the moral and political responsibility to ensure that the people of Palestine are given what is due to them. The UN Security Council resolutions, as well as the general assembly, have been violated for decades and have not done anything to punish Israel. In spite of the UN resolution that calls on Israel to stop its occupation of Gaza strip and West Bank, the UN has not taken action as it did in Iraqi dispute. Millions of Palestinians have been forced into exile. Whereas people of Jewish origin are allowed into Israel from wherever they are under the Law of Return, the people of Palestine who are in exile are being denied the right of return to their motherland through the same Law of return. The US has been pumping 5 billion US dollars annually and arming the apartheid Israel against the Palestinians. It is these billions of dollars that have killed more than 2000 young people mostly under the age of 15. Arial Sharon has the full support of the US. In March, the military forces attacked the headquarters of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU). This is a clear case of state terrorism and has treated everybody in the world with contempt. In South Africa we have a direct experience of a similar situation to that of the Middle East. We expect the same solidarity that was expressed with us from the world. On our part, while we call for a cessation of hostilities, we want to make it clear that in this case, Sharon and his surrogates are aggressors. We call on the Israel to withdraw its forces from all occupied Palestine land. We demand that Sharon open negotiations with the leaders of the PLO, President Arafat and stop the siege in his headquarters of Ramallah which he has been secluded for the last 4 months. If they dare kill Arafat, there would not be peace in the Middle East because of the vacuum that will emerge! COSATU side by side with its alliance partners will be mobilizing the co-ordinating other action with the international trade union movement as a whole to ensure that all the demands for a free Palestine are realized. Amandla! Viva PLO! Viva Yasser Arafat! Patrick Craven and Moloto Mothapo Acting COSATU Spokespersons [EMAIL PROTECTED] 082-821-7456 339-4911 _ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/k6cvND/n97DAA/ySSFAA/VL0olB/TM
Argentina. Workers Controlled Factories Declaration [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 9:18 PM Subject: [kominform2] Argentina. Workers Controlled Factories Declaration From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Arg_Solid] Argentina: Workers Controlled Factories Declaration ARGENTINA: DECLARATION of the WORKERS CONTROLLED FACTORIES BRUKMAN, ZANON AND THE CERAMIC UNION Faced with any attempt of ouster and repression, we call for the defense of the occupations of factories and businesses. Our struggle is fraternal with all workers and people against unemployment, the high cost of living and the robbery by the bankers and government of our small savings. Business closings are multiplying. Employers and government cannot assure production and work. On the contrary, in January there were a thousand layoffs every day. In February it rose to two thousand a day. In March the figure is growing as already 65 thousand are in the street. Since the year began they have laid off one worker every minute! The International Monetary Fund in addition demands layoffs of state workers in the provinces. In Brukman Clothing in Buenos Aires, in Zanon Ceramics in Neuquen, in the metal facotry La Baskonia in La Matanza, in other facotries and businesses a new road is being tried: occupy the instalations so that there is not one more layoff. In Zanon and Brukman we call for the State to take over under workers control. But we are not waiting with our arms crossed for the State to take charge. The plants are functioning under workers control and our administration directly. In many other enterprises, companeros are trying to form workers cooperatives, when the employers walk away and empty out the factory. We exercise and defend the right of workers to take in their own hands the resolution of the social disaster of increasing unemployment. We should follow the example of the Neighborhood Assemblies that mobilized when the police attempted to oust the workers of Brukman: We formed a great solidarity network with the neighborhood assemblies and with the university and high school students. Everyone who participates in the event of April 13th is commited to going out in support of all the occupied factories: An attack at one is an attack at all. In our own defense and to extend our example to all those who want to rsist clsures and layoffs, we are calling a Plenary or National Council to coordinate the different enterprises where the workers have taken over their workplace and are under workers control. We do not only want to maintain existing jobs, we want work for everyone. There are more than three million companeros unemployed. The 150 pesos and the social plans of Duhalde and his advisers are no solution because it does not cover basic necessities and less than half the unemployed will be covered. We fight for the unity of employed and unemployed. That is why we participated in the Piquetero Assemblies of Matanza and the National Assembly in Plaza de Mayo sharing our struggle with the Bloque Piquetero Nacional. In Neuquen, the ceramic workers of Zanon and its union SOECN work side by side with the Movement of Unemployed Workers (MTD). Together we demand genuine work with a plan of public works controlled by workers, for schools to be built which students and teachers need. for public hosptials and homes which the workers and people demand. The workers of Brukman who put to work their plant believe believe that our production would have more social meaning is we were sewing hospital sheets of which there is shortage and school clothing for the children of our people. We call for the movements of unemployed to fight for a program of genuine work and to not participate in the Consultative Councils of the government and the political henchmen. We fight to put into practice regional coordinating meetings between employed, unemployed, neighborhood asemblies, and a new Natioal Assembly of Workers and Piqueteros, with delegates elected in rank and file meetings at the workplace and neighborhoods, with a mandate to plan for a national struggle for bread and work for everyone. With the brutal rise in prices the wages of 8 million workers has been reduced. The leaders of the trade union federations do not support our struggle against layoffs and closings. They leave the workers in the hands of the social plans of Duahlde. Besides, they are allowing a scandelous robbery to our wages and pensions without calling for a minimal struggle. How much time do these leaders need to break the truce and their support to this government of hunger? How can we as workers get the great trade unions on our side? We address all those who work in industry and public services that can paralyze the country just as in the stoppogas against Dela
Report: Nepal: 50 Police, 12 Rebels.killed in Clash [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 9:09 PM Subject: [kominform2] Nepal. Over 50 policemen killed. From: poblachtach dearg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Revolutionary_Diary] Nepal Peoples War News AFP. 11 April 2002. Over 50 police killed in clashes with Maoist rebels in Nepal. KATHMANDU -- More than 50 policemen and 12 Maoist rebels were killed in clashes in southwestern Nepal early Friday, officials said. Nearly 3,000 Maoist rebels suddenly attacked two police posts at Satbaria and Lamahi areas in Dang district late Thursday night which continued until the early hours of Friday morning, a senior home ministry official told AFP. Dang is some 450 kilometres (281 miles) southwest of the capital, Kathmandu. There were 80 to 90 policemen stationed at the Lamahi police post where heavy Maoist casualties were reported and the bodies of at least 12 rebels were recovered, the source said. In this clash, more than 50 policemen are feared killed but we are awaiting detailed reports, he said. The source said the Satbaria police post, which was manned by around 100 armed policemen, was attacked by over a thousand rebels who looted nearly 100 self-loading rifles (SLRs). _ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/k6cvND/n97DAA/ySSFAA/VL0olB/TM -~- Peruuta ryhmän tilaus lähettämällä sähköpostia osoitteeseen: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Venezuela's Chavez Conciliatory as Coup Fails [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . .Venezuela's Chavez Conciliatory as Coup Fails Sun Apr 14, 6:41 AM ET By Jason Webb CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Fiery Venezuelan populist Hugo Chavez returned to the presidency in a conciliatory mood on Sunday after a government set up following Friday's military coup collapsed in the face of a rebellion by loyalist troops and massive protests. The former paratrooper turned politician flew back from the Venezuelan island of La Orchila where he had been held under arrest by military top brass who briefly ousted him as leader of the world's fourth-largest oil-exporting nation in favor of mild-mannered businessman Pedro Carmona. Raising his fist in jubilation, a grinning Chavez, who first came to prominence as leader of a failed coup attempt in 1992, advanced slowly through a tightly packed crowd of chanting supporters toward the entrance of the Miraflores presidential palace as a military band played. In a largely conciliatory speech, Chavez later told a news conference he had not been mistreated and recognized that both his government and his opponents had made mistakes. There isn't going to be any retaliation, no witch hunt. I haven't any thirst for revenge, Chavez said, calling for his supporters who rioted on the streets in support of his return on Saturday to go quietly back to their homes. State prosecutors were interviewing Carmona and several senior military officers at the Fuerte Tiuna military base,even though they were not formally under arrest, Chavez's defense minister, Jose Vicente Rangel, said. Carmona resigned on Saturday night after protests broke out in favor of Chavez, and loyalist troops seized control of Miraflores. Instantly returning to his old talkative form, Chavez gave a rambling hourlong monologue that ended shortly before dawn broke over the troubled capital. He illustrated his promises of respect for the law by waving a small blue copy of the country's constitution and held up a crucifix he had taken with him into captivity. He recalled how he had washed his own socks and underwear and said the popular protests and army mutinies in his favor marked a historic triumph for the Venezuelan people. I never for a moment doubted that we would return. But I never thought we would return so quickly, he said. Statements by military generals that he had resigned and asked to be sent abroad were lies, he said. They put a piece of paper on the table saying Resign, but I said, I am a president being held prisoner, but I am not resigning. Rejoicing in their hero's return, thousands of ecstatic Chavez supporters, mainly from Caracas' sprawling slums, waved Venezuelan flags, chanted and pressed against the iron fence around the presidential palace. Sporadic violence continued in several parts of Venezuela's chaotic tropical capital, where tens of thousands of angry Chavez supporters took to the streets on Saturday to demand the return of a leader they said had stood up for the poor. In a day of chaos in which it was seldom clear who was running the country, the Chavez supporters clashed with police -- there were reports of several deaths -- and stormed television stations that had been fiercely critical of the populist leader. CHAVEZ'S CAREER SEEMED OVER Loyalist troops took control of the Miraflores palace and waved their berets and weapons in salute as huge crowds cheered them on. Chavez's career had seemed to be finished early on Friday, when the heads of the armed forces announced that he had agreed to resign at their request following the deaths of at least 11 unarmed anti-government protesters.[Cuban media indicates snipers hoping to provoke the coup had fired on the demonstrators, and that pictures showing Chavez' troops pointing guns were actually aiming at the snipers.] The demonstrators -- among hundreds of thousands who marched to call for Chavez's resignation on Thursday -- were killed by gunmen in civilian dress. The protest had been sparked by a strike called by employees of the powerful state oil company, who objected to Chavez's decision to fire their board of directors. Carmona's interim government blamed Chavez for the deaths, said it was dismissing Congress and the Supreme Court and would hold elections within a year. The United States, which disliked Chavez for his friendship with Cuban President Fidel Castro and fretted about his populist leadership of a country that is one of its biggest oil suppliers, was clearly pleased to see the back of him. U.S. officials said they considered there had been no coup. The military officers behind Chavez's overthrow said they merely had done their duty by protecting unarmed civilians. Chavez, the 47-year old son of poor teachers, led troops in a failed coup attempt in 1992. After his release from prison, he launched a legal political
UK: Angry scenes at anti-Israel demo . [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 5:24 AM Subject: [kominform2] UK: Angry scenes at anti-Israel demo . From: Stasi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Peoples War] UK: Angry scenes at anti-Israel demo - BBC Saturday, 13 April, 2002, 21:13 GMT 22:13 UK - The BBC's Fiona Werge: 2,000 peace activists, carrying food and medical supplies, attempted to break the ring of israeli steel surrounding Jenin Angry scenes at anti-Israel demo == http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1928000/1928071.stm Between 10-15,000 people joined the rally Protesters have burned Israeli and American flags during angry scenes at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in London. Thousands of people peacefully attended the rally in Hyde Park to protest against Israeli military action in the West Bank. But some of the demonstrators tore and burnt Israeli and American flags as they clambered up Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square. You must raise your voice, but in a peaceful way Protester Mumtaz Ahmed A petition is due to be handed into Downing Street later calling for sanctions against Israel. Police said about 10-15,000 people took part in the demonstration, which began in Hyde Park and moved to Trafalgar Square. But the organisers claim the figure was more than double that. The rally comes after the Israel's ambassador in London was summoned to the Foreign Office to explain his country's actions in the West Bank. Scotland Yard said no arrests had been made during the peaceful protest. The BBC's Martha Doyle said: Feelings are running high. Intense emotions People are very angry and upset about what is happening in the Middle East. Protesters called for Israeli sanctions Many people have relatives there. I have spoken to men who have been in tears concerned for their relatives and people suffering there, she said. The protest's organiser, the Muslim Association of Britain, appealed for order. But scores of people crammed into the centre of Trafalgar Square shouting: Down with Israel. Banners carried by protesters, some of whom were masked, read Free Palestine - Victory to the Intifada and Stop Bush and Blair's War Drive. Strong sentiments Former MP Tony Benn said they were demonstrating for the right of the Palestinians to be given their own state. We are demonstrating against what President Bush called `a crusade' against the Muslim world. The only reason that Bush wants peace in Palestine is so that he can start a war in Iraq. Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn said: The message to Tony Blair is now clear, he must stop speaking on behalf of George Bush and instead on behalf of peace and justice in the Middle East. Representatives of the Stop the War Coalition and CND were also expected to be among the speakers. Michel Massih, chairman of the Palestinian community in the UK, said Christians, Muslims and a small number of Jews were among the protesters. This demonstration reflects that right across the religious divide there is widespread support for the Palestinian cause, he said. A spokesman for the Muslim Association of Britain, condemned the few flag-burning incidents. When you have thousands of people at such an event, there is always going to be a minority who you cannot control, he said. The most important thing at the end of the day is that we showed support to the Palestinian people. It is not an issue of Muslims versus Jews, it is an issue of human rights. Mumtaz Ahmed, 45, a chartered accountant from Glasgow, put the flag-burning down to a few frustrated youngsters. You must raise your voice, but in a peaceful way. Suicide bombing Tensions escalated on Friday when a suicide bomber killed six Israelis in Jerusalem. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat made a statement condemning all terrorist acts which target civilians. Britain has called for the Israelis to withdraw, Downing Street has not yet committed to a UN suggestion to send an international force into the territories. Foreign Secretary Jack Straw met the Israeli ambassador Zvi Shtauber on Friday to express these concerns. On Saturday Israeli forces reportedly made new incursions into Palestinian territory on the West Bank. _ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/k6cvND/n97DAA/ySSFAA/VL0olB/TM
Russia, Belarus Move to Step Up Economic Integration [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . .Russia, Belarus Move to Step Up Economic Integration. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarussian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko agreed here Friday to take more steps to integrate the two countries' economicsystems toward creating a final Union State. They made the decision in a joint statement, which was releasedfollowing a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State of Russia and Belarus on Friday. The two presidents, in their joint statement, stressed the needfor additional measures for creating uniform economic expanse. Thetwo countries are taking practical steps towards adopting unified economic policies and creating equal conditions for the two economies. Before introducing the single currency of the Union State, the Central Bank of Russia and the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus will pursue a coordinated policy in order to stabilize theexchange rates of the Russian and Belarussian rubles, said the statement. In addition, the presidents signed a number of resolutions, specifically, on the drafting of the Constitutional Act of the Union State, the procedure of forming and fulfilling the budget ofthe Union State, the creation of equal conditions in pricing, as well as on broadening cooperation in the gas industry. Upon the conclusion of the meeting, Putin announced that the Decree of the Belarussian president lifting customs and tax benefits for Belarussian economic subjects will go into effect from May 1. The presidents reached an arrangement to spread domestic Russian tariffs for energy to Belarus from May 1, 2002, and railway tariffs from July 1, 2002. The Russian ruble will become the two nations' single currency in 2005. The Belarussian president wound up his working visit to Russia and left Moscow on Friday evening. --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
US EU at odds over 'Permanent War Crimes Tribunal' [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 9:06 PM Subject: [kominform2] ICC Creation Pits US Against World. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R-G] ICC Creation Pits US Against World - London Times The London Times April 11, 2002 ICC Creation Pits US Against World War crimes court pits United States against the world From James Bone in New York THE United States will be put on a collision course with the rest of the world today when at least seven countries gather for a ceremony at the United Nations that will trigger the creation of the world's first permanent international criminal court. After the statute of the new International Criminal Court was adopted in Rome in 1998, diplomats believed that it could take up to two decades to get the 60 ratifications needed for the new court to come into being. However, with Washington isolated in its opposition to the proposed new permanent war crimes tribunal in The Hague, other countries have been stampeding to show their support. Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ireland, Mongolia, Romania, and Slovakia have all signalled their intention to deposit articles of ratification today, which would push the Rome treaty over the threshold for the court to come into existence. Niger, Jordan and the Democratic Republic of Congo have also promised to ratify soon. Britain has ratified the treaty. From today Greece will be the only European Union nation not to have ratified. That is exceeding our expectations, Philippe Kirsch, the Canadian chairman of preparatory negotiations, said. When we finished the conference in Rome, the pessimists were saying 20 years and the optimists were saying ten years. We will be under four years. The result is that the Rome treaty will come into effect on July 1. After that date, war criminals will be subject to the jurisdiction of the court. The court itself is expected to be up and running in offices already set aside in The Hague in the first three months of next year. The court has the potential to be the most important human rights instrument created in the last 50 years, Richard Dicker, of Human Rights Watch, said. Building on Nuremberg, building and carrying further the work of the Yugoslav and Rwanda tribunals, the court will limit the gross impunity of the Pinochets, Saddam Husseins and Pol Pots of the future. In a significant rift with its European allies, the Bush Administration rejects the jurisdiction of the court and is actively considering withdrawing former President Clinton's signature from the Rome treaty. Republican politicians have floated a variety of possible retaliatory measures in Congress, including one proposal that the United States be willing to use force to free any American held by the court. Washington fears that the new court does not have adequate safeguards to prevent political prosecutions of American soldiers captured abroad. But US servicemen will still be subject to the court's jurisdiction if their alleged offences take place on the territory of a nation that has ratified the treaty. Iraq has not yet signed the treaty, but if it were to ratify it, US soldiers participating in any alleged war crimes on Iraqi soil could be liable to prosecution by the new court. Israel, which followed the American lead in signing but not ratifying the treaty, could face similar risk in military actions against any Arab neighbours that ratify the treaty. Jordan is the only Arab country whose ratification is considered imminent and there is legal controversy about whether Palestinians could accede to it. The court's proponents insist that it will act as a judicial, and not a political, body. Under the principle of complementarity, the court will act only when national legal systems are unwilling or unable to do so. Prosecutions can be initiated only by the UN Security Council, by a state-party or by an elected prosecutor, who must vet all decisions with a pre-trial chamber. _ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/orkH0C/n97DAA/ySSFAA/VL0olB/TM -~- Peruuta ryhmän tilaus lähettämällä sähköpostia osoitteeseen: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- ANTI-NATO
NASA JOINS SPACE COMMAND ON SPACE SUPREMACY [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: Global Network Against Weapons Nuclear Power in Space [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bruce K. Gagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 11:58 PM Subject: NASA JOINS SPACE COMMAND ON SPACE SUPREMACY NRO, Space Command, NASA Tout Common Language Of Space Supremacy at Conference By Loring Wirbel (Colorado Springs, CO) The gloves are off in the wake of the war on terror, and the U.S. Space Command, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), and even NASA are singing from a unified songbook that boasts of space supremacy. At the 18th annual National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs in April, the extent to which a new Cold War defines space priorities became abundantly clear. While NRO, the nation's largest intelligence agency by budget, always held a central role at the annual conference, its presence defined the direction for military and civilian space communities alike at this year's symposium. Peter Teets, the former chief operating officer of Lockheed-Martin, has been appointed to the dual roles of new NRO director and Under Secretary of the Air Force. In addition, Teets has been designated as the primary procurement agent for the government responsible for national-security space, the first time an NRO director has held this post. Teets and U.S. Space Command Commander in Chief Gen. Ed Eberhart were not shy in reiterating the message that the U.S. controls the planet through control of planetary space. Teets updated an earlier saying of former NRO Director Keith Hall by proclaiming that Afghanistan has reinforced something about space dominance: We have it, we like it, and we're going to keep it. Civilian interests under NASA are bowing to the new realities of the military setting the agenda. NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe revealed that the agency's top budget priority for fiscal 2003 will be to spend close to $1 billion in nuclear propulsion, exploring both radioisotope thermal generators such as those used for Cassini, as well as possible mini-reactors for deep-space missions. O'Keefe, a former Navy secretary and Pentagon comptroller, also reiterated how well NASA had served the Pentagon in providing imagery for the Afghan war, such as SeaWiFS and Terra spacecraft images provided to the Navy. O'Keefe said that NASA was looking forward to providing agency resources for the war on terror. The blurring of lines between military and civilian resources was omnipresent at the conference. Since the commercial space industry imploded during the 2001 recession, civilian companies and agencies have looked to their old friends in the military for dual-use functions. Many talked at the conference of using space-based technology for the Office of Homeland Defense, though speakers from Boeing and Raytheon warned that there are plenty of civil liberties hurdles they must overcome to use imaging and database technologies to snoop on events in the U.S. In fact, the corporate speakers said that often, their own insurance companies provide bigger blockades to using questionable technologies domestically, than do either the Department of Justice or the Congress. Space Grabs its Spoils After Winning the War Teets, Eberhart, and several uniformed officers of the Space Command boasted of the role space played in Afghanistan. The Global Positioning System, particularly an augmented targeting program called GETS (GPS Enhanced Theatre Support), allowed for extremely precise bombing by fighters and unmanned aerial vehicles in Afghanistan. The Global Broadcast System, a special classified broadband communication system that rides on Navy UHF Follow-On satellites, was used heavily in the war. A GBS satellite parked above the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia relayed everything from video feeds of Predator UAVs, to video downlinks for special operations soldiers on horseback in remote regions of western Afghanistan. In fact, communications advances were as important as the NRO's vast array of intelligence satellites. Eberhart said that while intelligence usually gains the most attention, the provision of broadband services to soldiers from space assets was just as important. He said that we in Space Command provided Tommy Franks seven times the bandwidth that was provided to Norman Schwarzkopf, and an individual soldier had 322 times the bandwidth that was available in Desert Storm. Teets added that in no time in our history has the capability of space been so pivotal. The Defense Department is now considering an expansion of the UAV program to include autonomous vehicles that span the realm from the upper atmosphere to space. Ron Sega, director of defense research and engineering, said that a new DoD program called the
Taiwan Caucus a US Provocation: Commentary [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . .Taiwan Caucus a US Provocation: Commentary. On April 9, the 23rd anniversary of the United States' troublemaking Taiwan Relations Act, the US Congress is due to unveil a 70-member Taiwan caucus. On April 9, the 23rd anniversary of the United States' troublemaking Taiwan Relations Act, the US Congress is due to unveil a 70-member Taiwan caucus. Most congressional caucuses are issue-based or for particular racial groups but this one will be devoted solely to Taiwan, an inalienable part of China. It is claimed that the caucus will serve as an official channel for legislators from both the United States and the island to exchange ideas. Such a provocative move will obviously overshadow the renewed Sino-US relations. On a more dangerous level, it may provide fodder to Taiwan's military forces and play into the hands of Taiwan separatist extremists. One of the group's goals is to promote US military ties with Taiwan. This comes at a time when there have been conspicuous signs of ever-increasing US-Taiwan military ties. In mid-March, the US side granted Taiwan Defence Minister Tang Yiau-ming a visa so he could attend a conference sponsored by US military contractors in Florida. On the sidelines of the conference, he met senior Bush administration officials including Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly. On March 22, Admiral Dennis Blair, commander-in-chief of the US Pacific Command, told the House Armed Services Committee that the United States and Taiwan can maintain a military balance across the Taiwan Straits if both sides continue modernizing their armed forces. It seems that this so-called military balance is what Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian wants. Last Wednesday when receiving a special delegation from the US House of Representatives, Chen said that the strong support of the US Congress - which led to US arms sales to Taiwan in April last year - ensured a balanced cross-Straits military situation and peace in the Taiwan Straits. President Bush reaffirmed the US promises to all Taiwanese and repeatedly declared he would abide by the Taiwan Relations Act - to provide Taiwan with the necessary protection against Beijing, Chen was quoted by the Taipei Times as saying. In most cases, those who sow the wind will reap a whirlwind. The robust military build-up may not bring the so-called balance but menace instead cross-Straits peace and stability. Helping Taiwan build its military muscle will only foment pro-independence forces. Since the latest remarks and events may give these forces the impression that the United States is on their side and ready to provide military protection, they may become provocative enough to push the island to the edge. --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Backed By US And NATO, Georgia Threatens Russia With Ultimatum [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: Rick Rozoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 2:40 PM Subject: Backed By US And NATO, Georgia Threatens Russia With Ultimatum [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- [With U.S. troops now training and commanding Georgian forces, the possibility exists for American and Russian troops to come into armed conflict for the first time since the Russian Civil War eighty years ago. No need to point how how grave a situation this is.] Agence France-Presse Friday April 12, 8:33 PM Georgia demands Russia withdraw troops from disputed zone Georgia's Defence Minister David Tevzadze called for the immediate withdrawal of Russian troops deployed by helicopter in a disputed territory in the breakaway zone of Abkhazia. We have given the Russians an ultimatum: pull out of the Kodori gorge by this evening, Tevzadze was quoted by state television as saying Friday. Eight Russian helicopters landed in the Georgian-held village of Azhara, deploying around 100 troops and escalating tension between Tbilisi and Moscow, which backed the Abkhaz side in a separatist war a decade ago. The arrival of the helicopters, four military and four civilian, spread panic in Azhara in the Kodori gorge region, Georgian lawmaker Iveri Chelidze said in remarks broadcast on television. But the Russian defence ministry officially denied the Georgian reports of an armed landing in Azhara, saying that its peacekeeping troops were merely setting up an agreed observer post two kilometres (one mile) west of the village. The Georgian defence ministry immediately placed its forces on a state of military alert, while parliament prepared to issue a statement denouncing Russia for its aggressive action, state television reported. Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze had decided to fly to the restive region after first dispatching Tevzadze to take charge of the situation, a presidential spokesman said. If the Russians do not give us an explanation, they will be able to say goodbye to their peacekeeping operation (in Abkhazia) for good, Shevardnadze told journalists before leaving Tbilisi. Shevardnadze's envoy to Kodori, Emzar Kvitsiani, said around 80 Russian paratroopers had landed in Azhara, adding: The situation could deteriorate unless peacekeeping forces take the necessary steps. Kvitsiani, who cited unconfirmed reports that 40 armed Georgians had seized one of the helicopters, said Tbilisi had never agreed to the deployment of Russian troops in Azhar. The Kodori region straddling government-held territory and the breakaway republic of Abkhazia has been occupied by Georgian troops following a flare-up of tension there. However, Tbilisi was meant to withdraw its forces by April 10 under the terms of a deal signed earlier this month between the Georgian and Abkhaz authorities. Chelidze responded Friday to Abkhaz complaints that not all the Georgian units had withdrawn from the disputed area by saying that some troops had been delayed by poor weather. Abkhazia has claimed de facto independence from Georgia, fighting a short but bitter war in the early 1990s in which it was supported by Moscow. A ceasefire was brokered in 1994, but little progress has been made since in resolving the dispute. Moscow deploys a peacekeeping force in Abkhazia but has repeatedly been accused by Tbilisi of interfering in the dispute. The latest tension between the two former Soviet states comes as 200 US troops are expected in Georgia to help track down al-Qaeda terrorists allegedly hiding out in the remote Pankisi gorge, which borders Chechnya. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
''Pentagon confirms surrounding Iraq with military bases'' [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . .''Pentagon confirms surrounding Iraq with military bases'' by YellowTimes.org 8:04am Thu Apr 11 '02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (YellowTimes.org) - New information, recently released by the Pentagon, provides some confirming evidence that the Bush administration has been building military bases in the countries surrounding Iraq. As reported in the YellowTimes.org news report, U.S. armed... Pentagon confirms surrounding Iraq with military bases Posted on Thursday, April 11, 2002 @ 05:35:19 EDT By Christopher Reilly YellowTimes.org Journalist (YellowTimes.org) - New information, recently released by the Pentagon, provides some confirming evidence that the Bush administration has been building military bases in the countries surrounding Iraq. As reported in the YellowTimes.org news report, U.S. armed forces surrounding Iraq under veil of secrecy, published Thursday, March 28, 2002, undisclosed U.S. military sources reported that new airbases for use against Iraq were being constructed in Jordan, the Arab Emirates, and Kuwait. These reports were partially confirmed in an International Herald Tribune article published on April 8, 2002. According to that article, the Pentagon has been moving equipment, planes and other military materials out of its Saudi Arabian air base. The materials have been going to bases located in Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman to help with future U.S. air operations against Iraq. The U.S. military base in Saudi Arabia is coming under increasing pressure from Saudi officials who are becoming stricter and less accommodating in defining acceptable uses for U.S. military bases on Saudi soil. For example, the Saudi monarch has demanded that no U.S. aircraft can attack Iraq after taking off from Saudi Arabia. According to the Herald Tribune article, the U.S. military presence [in Saudi Arabia] is frequently portrayed as an affront to Islam in its place of birth and is said to undercut Saudi efforts to appear self-reliant and independent of U.S. military support. The bulk of operations may be moved from the Saudi base to the Al Udeid facility in Qatar if the current impasse between U.S. and Saudi officials continues. It still cannot be confirmed that the Bush administration is building an airbase in Jordan. Nonetheless, General Tommy Franks, head of the U.S. Central Command, recently told Pentagon reporters that, over the past 18 months, munitions have been covertly moved from Saudi Arabia to undisclosed areas in the region. Frank's statement lends credibility to those of the undisclosed military sources. Due to security concerns, General Franks would not elaborate on where these munitions have been placed, saying only that he was changing the location of some of the assets that we have. The general did say that an additional battalion of troops was ordered to Kuwait last November to add to the battalion there, bringing the total number to about 4,000, according to the Herald Tribune. The type of troops provided, as cited in the YellowTimes.org news report, may possibly contain American special forces units along with a mix of National Guard and active duty components. President Bush has continued to verbally assault the Iraqi president, informing British Prime Minister Tony Blair that the policy of my government is to remove Saddam and that all options are on the table. Bush also reiterated once more that Saddam Hussein is willing to kill his own people. However, Bush's plans have been placed on temporary hold by the fighting and devastation that has erupted in Israel and the occupied territories. The U.S. president will now have to deal with recent announcements by leaders in the Middle East who have declared that an attack on Iraq would be considered as an attack on the national security of all Arab states. Christopher Reilly encourages your comments: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YellowTimes.org encourages its material to be reproduced, reprinted, or broadcast provided that any such reproduction must identify the original source, http://www.YellowTimes.org. Internet web links to http://www.YellowTimes.org are appreciated. www.YellowTimes.org --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
US: Earth Orbiting Bomber Plane [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: Global Network Against Weapons Nuclear Power in Space [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bruce K. Gagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 3:40 PM Subject: SPACE COMMAND GENERAL SPEAKS ABOUT MILITARY SPACE PLANE April 10, 2002 http://www.gazette.com/stories/0410loc1-2.php?section=1 Military explores space planes: Vehicle could drop bombs, fix satellites, general says By John Diedrich The Gazette (Colorado Springs, CO) The military is looking into building a spacecraft that could drop bombs from space, fix orbiting satellites and give better pictures of the battlefield, the top space officer said Tuesday. If a military space plane becomes a reality, it would be the first time the United States has put weapons in space. The Pentagon has military satellites that provide navigation, communication, weather, reconnaissance and missile warning information, all considered key to how the United States fights war. But none of them has weapons. Gen. Ed Eberhart, head of U.S. Space Command, Air Force Space Command and NORAD - all based in Colorado Springs - says the military needs a space plane. A reusable launch vehicle will be the key to operating and conquering the space frontier, Eberhart said at the 18th annual National Space Symposium at The Broadmoor hotel, an annual exposition of commercial, military and civilian space issues. About 3,800 people attended. NASA scrapped plans to build a spacecraft called the X-33 a year ago, in part, because of cost overruns. Eberhart said the military is interested in that spacecraft, but its version would be different. It might be designed to run without humans on board and to land in the oceans, he said. A military space plane quickly could provide surveillance in areas of the world that become important to the Pentagon, he said. Moving satellites for better surveillance now can take days. It could fix or refuel satellites in orbit, which isn't a current option for the military. The plane also could bomb a target in a matter of hours, instead of the 17 hours it takes for a conventional bomber to travel halfway around the world. (A space plane) has a lot of possibilities, a lot of applications in every one of our missions, Eberhart said. The space plane is only an idea and studying it doesn't mean the United States has decided to put weapons in space, said Army Maj. Barry Venable, spokesman for U.S. Space Command. We aren't doing our job if we don't look at things like this and think about it, he said. Some critics of Space Command have said a space plane that drops bombs would be in violation of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which says space will be used for peaceful purposes. But Venable said peaceful purposes has been interpreted to mean nonaggressive acts. In other words, weapons can be put in space to defend a nation and its assets, he said. Also Tuesday, Eberhart said information from military satellites may be useful for local police and other first responders in the war on terrorism. Over time we can leverage our space assets to support homeland security and law enforcement, Eberhart said, noting there is no such proposal yet. A lot of it hinges on cooperation. The general didn't give examples, but Venable said later satellite information could help fire departments track the spread of chemical or biological agents released by terrorists, provide police with more accurate city maps or give emergency workers better communications. We need to look for ways to make this information available for the local guys as well, Venable said. Global Network Against Weapons Nuclear Power in Space PO Box 90083 Gainesville, FL. 32607 (352) 337-9274 http://www.space4peace.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
9 Shot Dead at Venezuelan Rally [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ].. Thursday, 11 April, 2002, 22:54 GMT 23:54 UK Venezuela strike rally turns violent The crowds fled from the bullets and tear gas Shooting has broken out between police and unidentified gunmen at an anti-government protest in the Venezuelan capital Caracas. At least nine people have died and more than 80 been injured, according to officials, but there are fears that this figure could rise. Chavez has shown his true face - this dictator's apprentice brutally ordered the repression of a peaceful demonstration Greater Caracas Mayor Alfredo Pena Pitched battles between police and protesters have been taking place as over 150,000 people marched on the Miraflores presidential palace in downtown Caracas to demand that President Hugo Chavez resign. Mr Chavez has ordered troops to surround the presidential palace for protection and suspended the broadcasts of at least four private television on the grounds that they were inciting people to violence. Dead journalist "These people think they are going to be able to come here and get Chavez out and they think the armed forces are going to support a rebellion," Mr Chavez in a broadcast on national television. Troops have surrounded the presidential palace "The march can't get here, with thousands of people outside, we can't permit that," he said. Among those reported dead was local journalist Jorge Tortoza, a photographer with the daily 2001 who was shot dead during fighting. "There are snipers firing from the rooftops, we don't know who they are," said a cameraman from the Reuters news agency. Police have been firing tear gas at the marchers, who were armed with sticks and throwing rocks, to keep them about 100 metres (yards) away from the palace. Indefinite strike "Chavez has shown his true face. This dictator's apprentice brutally ordered the repression of a peaceful demonstration," Greater Caracas Mayor Alfredo Pena said. The unrest came a day after Venezuela's largest labour and business confederations announced that they will continue a 48-hour general strike indefinitely. Chavez remains defiant The strike was called last week, in support of the state oil company's workers and managers, who are protesting against the appointment of a new board by President Chavez. Venezuela is the world's fourth largest oil exporter and on Wednesday a senior PDVSA official acknowledged for the first time that its exports had been affected. The extended strike action could also cause more nervousness in the global oil market following Iraq's decision to suspend oil exports for 30 days. Iraq and Venezuela jointly export about 4.5 million barrels of oil per day. Venezuela alone exports nearly one million barrels of crude oil daily to the United States. Key stories: Opec's crisis warning Iraq cuts off exports Iran embargo threat Shell gets acquisitive BP loses its shine Analysis Another oil embargo? Shell trails BP's lead Opec's fading power Profiteering oil firms? 2001- the tide turns Background The oil cartel Oil markets explained Our thirst for oil Alternatives to oil See also: 07 Apr 02|BusinessVenezuela president sacks oil executives 07 Apr 02|AmericasVenezuela's escalating oil dispute 05 Apr 02|BusinessVenezuelans hit by oil crisis 05 Apr 02|BusinessVenezuela oil dispute escalates Internet links: Venezuelan Government PDVSA Fedecamaras (in Spanish) Globovision TV (in Spanish)The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites Top Americas stories
Special Report Intifada Update [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: alissar gazal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 6:06 AM Subject: [solidarity_palestine] MIFTAH--Special Report Intifada Update MIFTAH--Special Report: Intifada Update Special Report: Intifada Update Palestinian Human and Material Losses Inflicted by Israel during the Intifada (Uprising) September 28th, 2000 - April 07, 2002 Number of Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces and settlers: Palestinians in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and east Jerusalem: 1,354 Palestinians in Israel: 15 Palestinians in southern Lebanon (killed in clashes on Israeli northern borders): 2 Total (including 234 deaths inflicted among children aged 18 and below): 1,371 Gender Distribution of Deaths: Total number of Palestinian men killed: 1,303 Total Number of Palestinian women killed: 50 Number of Palestinians injured by Israeli security forces and settlers: Live ammunition: 4,286 Rubber Bullets: 5,446 Tear Gas: 4,995 Miscellaneous: 3,863 Total: 18,790 Number of olive trees uprooted form Palestinian land: 112,900 Area of Palestinian cultivated land destroyed (in m2): 3,669,000 Since 1967, Israel has confiscated almost 750,000 acres of land from the 1.5 million acres comprising the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Since 1967, almost 200,000 tress have been uprooted by Israeli forces from Palestinian land. Since 1967 only, more than 7,000 homes have been demolished on the basis that they were not supported by the required construction permits (permits for Palestinians are almost impossible to obtain from the Israeli authorities). Please refer to MIFTAH's fact sheet on Home Demolition and Land Confiscation. Israeli attacks against doctors and ambulance drivers: Number of ambulance drivers killed: 4 Number of doctors killed: 3 Number of doctors and ambulance drivers injured: 122 Number of ambulances hit: 165 Number of cases in which ambulances were denied access to rescue: 350 Number of Palestinian schools previously shut down due to Israeli siege: 174 Number of Palestinian students previously deprived from attending school: 90,000 Number of Palestinian school children killed, injured, or attacked to date: 435 Impact of Israeli closures on Palestinian economic life: Number of Palestinians unemployed due to the closures: 257,000 Avg. unemployment rate in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip: 53% Total income losses for Palestinian workers previously employed inside Israel: $3.6 Million/Day Actual losses: Shortfall in GNP between Sept.-Mar.: $1.5 Billion Decrease in per capita income: 47% Percentage of Palestinians living below poverty line: 64% Estimated loss if closures continue in 2002: $1.7 Billion Daily overall economic losses (according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics): $11 Million Sources: *Palestine Red Crescent Society *The World Bank (West Bank and Gaza Strip) *Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator (UNSCO)-Gaza *Ramallah Hospital *Al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza *PECDAR *UNICEF *B'Tselem The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH) Jerusalem office Tel: +972-2-585 1842 Ramallah office Tel: +972-2-298 9490 http://www.miftah.org --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Interview with Ariel Sharon [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: Taimor Hazou [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: OzPales [EMAIL PROTECTED]; solidarity_palestine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 7:03 AM Subject: [solidarity_palestine] Great to read - know your enemy! Who is Ariel Sharon? Interview by Amos Oz in 1982 [URL can be found at the end of the text.] -- The interview of Ariel Sharon by Amos Oz (interview with Ariel Sharon published in the Israeli daily Davar Dec. 17, 1982) You can call me anything you like. Call me a monster or a murderer. Just note that I don't hate Arabs. On the contrary. Personally, I am much more at ease with them, and especially with the Bedouin, than with Jews. Those Arabs we haven't yet spoilt are proud people, they are irrational, cruel and generous. It's the Yids that are all twisted. In order to straighten them out you have to first bend them sharply the other way. That, in brief, is my whole ideology. Call Israel by any name you like, call it a Judeo-Nazi state as does Leibowitz. Why not? Better a live Judeo-Nazi than a dead saint. I don't care whether I am like Ghadafi. I am not after the admiration of the gentiles. I don't need their love. I don't need to be loved by Jews like you either. I have to live, and I intend to ensure that my children will live as well. With or without the blessing of the Pope and the other religious leaders from the New York Times. I will destroy anyone who will raise a hand against my children, I will destroy him and his children, with or without our famous purity of arms. I don't care if he is Christian, Muslim, Jewish or pagan. History teaches us that he who won't kill will be killed by others. That is an iron law. Even if you'll prove to me by mathematical means that the present war in Lebanon is a dirty immoral war, I don't care. Moreover, even if you will prove to me that we have not achieved and will not achieve any of our aims in Lebanon, that we will neither create a friendly regime in Lebanon nor destroy the Syrians or even the PLO, even then I don't care. It was still worth it. Even if Galilee is shelled again by Katyushas in a year's time, I don't really care. We shall start another war, kill and destroy more and more, until they will have had enough. And do you know why it is all worth it? Because it seems that this war has made us more unpopular among the so-called civilised world. We'll hear no more of that nonsense about the unique Jewish morality, the moral lessons of the holocaust or about the Jews who were supposed to have emerged from the gas chambers pure and virtuous. No more of that. The destruction of Eyn Hilwe (and it's a pity we did not wipe out that hornet's nest completely!), the healthy bombardment of Beirut and that tiny massacre (can you call 500 Arabs a massacre?) in their camps which we should have committed with our own delicate hands rather than let the Phalangists do it, all these good deeds finally killed the bullshit talk about a unique people and of being a light upon the nations. No more uniqueness and no more sweetness and light. Good riddance. I personally don't want to be any better than Khomeini or Brezhnev or Ghadafi or Assad or Mrs. Thatcher, or even Harry Truman who killed half a million Japanese with two fine bombs. I only want to be smarter than they are, quicker and more efficient, not better or more beautiful than they are. Tell me, do the baddies of this world have a bad time? If anyone tries to touch them, the evil men cut his hands and legs off. They hunt and catch whatever they feel like eating. They don't suffer from indigestion and are not punished by Heaven. I want Israel to join that club. Maybe the world will then at last begin to fear me instead of feeling sorry for me. Maybe they will start to tremble, to fear my madness instead of admiring my nobility. Thank god for that. Let them tremble, let them call us a madstate. Let them understand that we are a wild country, dangerous to our surroundings, not normal, that we might go crazy if one of our children is murdered - just one! That we might go wild and burn all the oil fields in the Middle East! If anything would happen to your child, god forbid, you would talk like I do. Let them be aware in Washington, Moscow, Damascus and China that if one of our ambassadors is shot, or even a consul or the most junior embassy official, we might start World War Three just like that ! .. We are talking while sitting on the balcony of the pretty country house belonging to C. which is situated in a prosperous Moshav. To the west we
Huge concert in solidarity with the Palestinian People in Athens [WWW.STOPNATO.O
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ].. - Original Message - From: SolidNet To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 11:44 AM Subject: CP of Greece, Huge concert in solidarity with the Palestinian People in Athens http://www.solidnet.org News, documents and calls for action from communist and workers parties. The items are the responsibility of the authors. Join the mailing list: info/subscribe/unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . = CP of Greece, Huge concert in solidarity with the Palestinian People in Athens From: Communist Party of Greece, Thu, 11 Apr 2002 http://www.kke.gr , mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Huge concert in solidarity with the Palestinian People in Athens (10/04/2002) Tens of thousands of people workers, parents, immigrants youth and students- gathered in the centre of Athens, at the Constitution Square, yesterday (10/04/2002), to participate in the solidarity concert in support of the Palestinian people and against imperialism. The concert was organized by numerous mass organizations, the peace movement, trade unions, and supported by all political youth organizations of Greece «Solidarity to the Palestinian People the new order will not pass», «Terrorists are NATO and US and not the people», «Bush Sharon, Murderers», «A front against monopolies and imperialism, freedom for Palestine», «Americans Brussels, murderers of the people», were only some of the banners the protesters held. photo from "Rizospastis" More than 20 of the most famous Greek singers sang songs of truth, peace and resistance, while actors read poems between the songs. Mikis Theodorakis was also present, and he read a solidarity message which was a sharp accusation to the warmonger imperialists and an appeal «to stop them now, before it is too late». Solidarity messages were also made by the president of the General Confederation of Greek Workers, of the mayor of Kesariani, G. Katimertzis, the rector of the National Polytechnic Institute, Th. Ksanthopoulos and others. The ambassador of Palestine in Greece, Abdala Abdala, also took the stand and addressed the manifestation. At the solidarity rally were present a large representation of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) with Aleka Papariga, general secretary of the party, and Harilaos Florakis the honourary president. Also, representatives of PASOK and SYN, numerous representation of PAME, the Greek Peace Committe, candidates for the forthcoming municipal election in Athens, and large number of massive and social movements. In her statement to the journalists, the general secretary of the CC of KKE stressed: "At this moment, the just cause of the Palestinian people is exclusively at the hands of the people. Only the people can impose a just solution of the Palestinian issue. May "arbiters" and "mediators" appear lately, from N York up to Brussels. I am afraid that all these coming from "above" are not interested in a real Palestinian State, but for an agreement even worse than that one of Oslo. Thus, the optimism and the vindication of this martyr-like struggle will occur only through the intervention of the peoples. The people are the only that can extend real and substantial pressure. In this sense, this concert sends such a message and I believe that the joining of the movement with the artists, that constitute part of the movement, is the best gesture at this very moment". Info by International Section Communist Party of Greece - Central Committee Tel:(+3) 010 2592111 Fax:(+3) 010 2592298 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kke.gr *End* --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Vietnam reaffirms support for Palestine [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . .Vietnam reaffirms support for Palestine Vietnam persistently supports the just struggle of the Palestinian people under the leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) headed by President Yasser Arafat. This stance was reaffirmed by Foreign Minister Nguyen Dy Nien of Vietnam during his meeting with Palestinian Ambassador Sayed Al-Masri in Hanoi on April 10. Minister Nien noted that the Palestinian people's struggle aims to win back their legitimate national rights, including their right to self-determination and their right to establish an independent State of Palestine. The Palestinian Ambassador briefed his host on the recent heightening of tensions in Palestinian territories as a result of Israel's military attacks to occupy cities under the control of the Palestinian Administration, its confinement of President Yasser Arafat in his headquarters, and its killing of many innocent people. The Vietnamese foreign minister held that ceasing military activities and resuming peaceful talks to find a rational solution to the conflict is the only way to establish long-lasting peace and ensure security for all nations in the Middle East. He noted that Vietnam's viewpoint was made clear in President Tran Duc Luong's letter to UN General Secretary Kofi Annan dated March 31 and the March 30 statement by the Foreign Ministry spokesperson, in which Vietnam strongly condemns Israel's military activities and demands Israel immediately withdraw its forces from Palestinian territories. (VNA) --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
RUMSFELD CONSIDERS NUCLEAR-TIPPED STAR WARS INTERCEPTORS [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: Global Network Against Weapons Nuclear Power in Space [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bruce K. Gagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 3:27 PM Subject: RUMSFELD CONSIDERS NUCLEAR-TIPPED STAR WARS INTERCEPTORS Published on Thursday, April 11, 2002 in the Washington Post http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0411-01.htm Going Backwards Nuclear-Tipped Interceptors Studied Rumsfeld Revives Rejected Missile Defense Concept by Bradley Graham Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has opened the door to the possible use of nuclear-tipped interceptors in a national missile defense system, reviving an idea that U.S. authorities rejected nearly three decades ago as technically problematic and politically unacceptable. William Schneider Jr., chairman of the Defense Science Board, said yesterday that he had received encouragement from Rumsfeld to begin exploring the idea as part of an upcoming study of alternative approaches to intercepting enemy missiles. We've talked about it as something that he's interested in looking at, Schneider said in an interview. The Pentagon experimented with nuclear-armed interceptors in the 1950s and 1960s and, for a short time in the mid-1970s, deployed an anti-missile system that relied on them. But the notion of nuclear explosions going off high overhead to block incoming missiles proved unsettling for many people. And the prospect that ionized clouds and electromagnetic shock waves associated with the explosions could end up blinding radar on the ground and scrambling electronic equipment eventually helped kill the plan. Since then, defense officials have focused on developing interceptors to destroy targets without the need for explosives, relying instead on the force of direct impact, a concept known as hit to kill. Driving the new interest in arming interceptors with nuclear devices is the problem of dealing with decoys and other measures that an enemy might use to confuse an interceptor, Schneider said. The hit-to-kill approach depends on interceptors picking out the real enemy targets and homing in on them. By contrast, nuclear-armed interceptors need not distinguish actual targets from clusters of decoys but could rely on explosive power or radiation to wipe out everything in the vicinity. One other arguable advantage of nuclear interceptors, Schneider suggested, is their potential for ensuring destruction of missile-borne biological warfare agents such as anthrax. President Bush has made clear his interest in pursuing technological solutions to missile defense, removing long-standing constraints by deciding last December to withdraw the United States from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Moscow. The Pentagon has embarked on experimental anti-missile programs, including land- and sea-based interceptors as well as airborne lasers and space-based weapons, with the hope of having at least a rudimentary capability in place by fall 2004. But until now, defense officials had shied away from the nuclear option. An extensive Pentagon review of missile defense alternatives undertaken in the first months of the Bush administration raised the possibility of nuclear-tipped interceptors, according to two officials familiar with the review. But the idea failed to make the list of programs worth funding. Its return comes in the context of other recent signs of the administration's general readiness to consider broader uses of nuclear weapons. A Pentagon review of U.S. nuclear policy, concluded late last year, put new emphasis on possible nuclear strikes against Third World adversaries and backed development of low-yield nuclear bombs to hit hardened or deeply buried targets. Russia, which built a missile defense system around Moscow in the 1960s that survives to this day, relied from the start on nuclear-armed interceptors. Although U.S. defense experts regard the Russian system as anachronistic, Russian military officials worry that the United States will eventually adopt the nuclear approach, according to Pavel Podvig, editor of an authoritative book about Russian strategic nuclear forces published last year by the Center for Arms Control Studies in Moscow. They believe strongly that you cannot get an effective missile defense system using hit-to-kill, Podvig said. The Defense Science Board, set up in the 1950s, is a senior advisory body that reports to the secretary of defense on technological, operational and managerial matters. One of its task forces already is looking at some aspects of missile defense, including command and control systems, international cooperation and countermeasures such as decoys. Schneider said he plans to initiate the review of nuclear interceptors and other alternatives to hit-to-kill after the task force
Don't Regard Politician's Clamor as Ravings, How Far Japan Is Away From Nuke [WW
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . .Don't Regard Politician's Clamor as Ravings, How Far Japan Is Away From Nuke. Japanese Liberal Party chief Ichiro Ozawa openly threatened on April 6 that Japan could make thousands of nuclear weapons overnight to curb China's excessive expansion. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue sternly pointed out on April 8: Ozawa's remarks were provocative, typically reflecting an outdated Cold War mentality. However, this wildly arrogant Japanese might have spoken out Japan's real nuclear potential-Japan is fully capable of making nuclear weapons overnight enough to destroy the entire world. Politician's Frequent Clamor to Wave Nuclear Big Stick The Japan Times gives thorough disclosure of the background against which Ozawa made the remarks. Ozawa brazenly attacked China at a seminar held in Fukuoka on April 6: In the event of China's excessive expansion, Japan would make nuclear weapons to 'curb' China; the plutonium of Japan's nuclear power plant can fully turn out more than 4,000 nuclear warheads, we'll not lose to China in terms of military strength! Ozawa is not the first Japanese politician who clamors to wave the nuclear big stick: On June 17, 1994, the then Japanese Prime Minister Hata Tsutomu openly told reporters: Japan does have the ability to possess nuclear weapons. In March 1995, well-known Japanese magazine, Hoseki Gem, revealed that while accepting the interview by the magazine's correspondent, a senior Japanese government official said: Japan can produce atom bomb within 183 days! In July 2001, Japan set up a special nuclear detachment in the National Self-defense Corps on the pretext of protecting nuclear safety. This means Japanese politician is telling the truth. Japan's Promise to Abide by Nuclear-related Three-No Principles After War World II, Japan's Constitution forbids Japan to possess nuclear weapons, beginning in 1956 the Japanese government declared that it would abide by the nuclear-related three-no principles, i.e., forbidding Japan to possess nuclear weapons, to produce nuclear weapons and to introduce any nuclear weapons. On November 24, 1971, Japanese Diet formally included the nuclear-related three-no principles into the law; in 1976 the Japanese government signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and made further promise: it will not develop, not use, and not allow the transfer of nuclear weapons in its territory. How Far Japan Is Away From Nuke To know how far Japan is away from nuclear weapon, it is necessary first to make an examination of its nuclear capability: First of all, Japan possesses advanced, comprehensive nuclear technology. Although Japan currently still lacks nuclear weapons, it has the world's first-rate nuclear energy technology and 49 nuclear power stations with an annual power output of about 40,000 megawatt, ranking in the frontline of the world. Japan also possesses multiplication reactor technology that has all along been the key and difficult points in nuclear technology research. Secondly, Japan possesses super-strong computer simulation nuclear blasting capability. Thirdly, Japan is actively exploring new technology for obtaining nuclear raw materials. Fourthly, Japan possesses extremely high-level nuclear warhead-carrying technology. Fifthly, Japan stores astonishing nuclear raw materials. By the year 2010, Japan's gross plutonium reserves will reach 100 tons, thus making it the world's number 1 country with the largest plutonium storage. After deducting normal nuclear reactor consumption, it still has a surplus of over 60 tons. One ton plutonium can make 120 nuclear warheads, it is self-evident how many nuclear warheads these plutonium can make. Japan's Nuclear Policy Becomes Increasingly Disturbing Although Japan has signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, its attitude, however, arouses suspicion. As early as 1967 period when discussion began on nuclear non-proliferation, Japan was astonishingly passive. It strongly opposed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty for it maintain that the treaty did not stipulate the obligation of nuclear countries to cut down nuclear weapons, and only prohibited non-nuclear countries from developing nuclear weapons. After the conclusion of the Cold War, the world pattern clearly tended to become multi-polarized, Japan's role in Asia, particularly East Asia, further improved. From the long-term point of view, the possibility of Japan's pursuit of independent defense capability is on the rise. Japan will not count on permanent US mild nuclear protection policy, even if the United States was willing to provide such protection, Japan's national interest could not invariably be identical with that of the United States, Japan will ultimately be independently responsible for its own security. This has enormously
Iraq Announces 10-Million-Euro Aid to Palestine [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . .Iraq Announces 10-Million-Euro Aid to Palestine. An Iraqi cabinet meeting chaired by President Saddam Hussein on Wednesday decided to donate 10 million euros (about 9.3 million U.S. dollars) to support the Palestinian intifada (uprising) against Israel, the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported. An Iraqi cabinet meeting chaired by President Saddam Hussein on Wednesday decided to donate 10 million euros (about 9.3 million U.S. dollars) to support the Palestinian intifada (uprising) against Israel, the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported. President Saddam ordered to donate 10 million euros and transfer the money quickly to support the Palestinian intifada and the struggle of the Palestinian people, INA said. This means that the aid to Palestine will come directly from Iraq rather than the United Nations, which controls Iraq's oil revenues. Iraq, under sweeping U.N. sanctions since its 1990 invasion of Kuwait, has been allowed by the U.N. oil-for-food program since 1996 to sell oil and use part of the proceeds to buy food, medicineand other essentials. Iraq in 2000 requested the U.N. to allocate 1 billion euros (about 930 million U.S. dollars) from its oil revenues to support Palestine, but has hit snags due to the opposition of the United States and Britain. Wednesday's decision followed Saddam's announcement on Monday that Iraq started from Monday afternoon to completely stop its oil exports for a period of 30 days, or until Israeli armed forces unconditionally withdraw from the Palestinian territories they have occupied. Iraq has shown vehement support for the 18-month-old Palestinianintifada against Israeli occupation. In addition to shipments of relief aid to Palestine, it has organized a 6.5-million-strong Jerusalem Liberation Army which vowed to fight along with the Palestinians against Israel. The latest Israeli incursions, which have taken a number of Palestinian towns, including a siege of Arafat's headquarters, havetriggered strong reactions from the Arab world, especially in Iraq. --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
India. Army to set up bases along Nepal border [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 4:33 AM Subject: [kominform2] India. Army to set up bases along Nepal border From: Magnus Bernhardsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Peoples War] Indian Army to set up bases along Nepal border http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=6305305 Army to set up bases along Nepal border ABHAY MOHAN JHA TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ TUESDAY, APRIL 09, 2002 3:12:47 AM ] BETTIAH: In their separate wars against terror, South Asia neighbours India and Nepal find their long porous border a constant handicap. While India has had to grapple with ISI infiltration for well over a decade, the Himalayan kingdom faces a Maoist seige despite proclamation of national emergency. Reports of Maoist rebels using the porous border to forge links with ultra groups and even to find sanctuary in India have resulted in Nepali prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba seeking further Indian support in Nepal's war on terror. Well-placed sources told Times News Network that the Indian army is in the process of identifying places along the border to set up bases for an effective presence in the area. Deuba, during his recent visit to New Delhi, is believed to have impressed upon the Indian government the urgency of the extremist problem vis a vis the porous border. Already, a Saarc resolution on concerted drive against terrorism has been there from before. While Nepal grapples with Maoist menance and India has been at the receiving end due to the ISI campaign to push in armed terrorists, counterfeit Indian currency and arms, intelligence sources do not rule out the likelihood of an ISI-Maoist link up. This terror scenario has already resulted in the deployment of Special Services Bureau (SSB), a para-military force under the home ministry, along the Nepal border. That the Indian government has taken serious congnizance of the threat posed by the porous Nepal border is now evident by steps being taken by the defence ministry to set up army stations near the border. Sources stated that the skeletal army presence at Muzaffarpur is likely to be beefed up. Further, the commanding officer of a unit of the 9th Jat Regiment based at Muzaffarpur, Col A K Gupta, recently held consultations with civil and intelligence officers in Champaran. The army is scouting for land here, stated an intelligence officer. The army is looking for space to locate one battalion each at Bettiah and Motihari, sources said while adding, The Signals corps too is likely to set up base at Sitamarhi. A dozen Afghan nationals were apprehended at Sitamarhi last year, it may be recalled. Further, a couple allegedly owing allegiance to Al-ummah, a south India based extremist organisation, who were wanted in the Coimbatore blast case, were nabbed at Bettiah last year. Moreover, the conspiracy to assassinate Tehelka.com chief Tarun Tejpal is also believed to have been hatched in these parts where the ISI is said to support local mafia groups. The visible presence of the army, it is believed, will not only result in improved vigil of the border areas but will also go a long way in combating ISI's covert war on India. Nepal too is expected to gain with the deployment of Indian army in the border region. _ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/k6cvND/n97DAA/ySSFAA/VL0olB/TM -~- Peruuta ryhmän tilaus lähettämällä sähköpostia osoitteeseen: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
USA. Students Rally for Palestinians [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 3:57 PM Subject: [kominform2] USA. Students Rally for Palestinians From: Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R-G] Students Rally for Palestinians As usual, reporters underestimate the number of protesters in the article below, but here's news about rallies for Palestinians, including one at OSU. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Mideast-Campus-Protests.html April 10, 2002 Students Rally for Palestinians By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 6:34 a.m. ET Marching and handing out fliers, students who sympathize with Palestinians under siege from Israel rallied on some of the nation's campuses. Most events during Tuesday's loosely organized protests were modest and peaceful, though some demonstrators were heckled. A rally for the Palestinian cause drew about 1,000 supporters and spectators at the University of California, Berkeley, including pro-Israel demonstrators who shouted their disapproval while police kept watch. After the rally, campus police arrested 79 pro-Palestinian protesters who stormed into a classroom building. Some students hung a Palestinian flag from a third-story window, while others marched in the hallways of the building, which houses classrooms for Middle Eastern studies. Students for Justice in Palestine likened the current Mideast violence to the Holocaust -- only with the Palestinians as the victims. They also called for the university to divest any Israel-related investments. ``This really should be Holocaust prevention day,'' said Sarah Weir, a 23-year-old cognitive science major. As speakers made their case during the rally, counter-demonstrators tried to drown them out crying ``Stop the suicide bombings!'' They also booed, cursed and chanted ``Shame!'' At the same time, a small knot of people in a tent nearby read aloud the names of people killed by the Nazis, part of a 24-hour vigil for Yom Hashoah, the Jewish Holocaust remembrance day. ``They are trying to subvert language used in the Holocaust,'' said Eddan Katz, 26, a third-year law student and Israeli-American. ``I hear no one in Israel politics today talking about the eradication of all Palestinians.'' At the University of Michigan, about 50 protesters, some with arms tied and mouths gagged, paraded mutely through the Ann Arbor campus. A group called Students Allied for Freedom and Equality said in a statement their demonstration was ``to draw attention to the brutal tactics used by the state of Israel in its illegal occupation of Palestinian lands.'' One young man, clad only in underwear, bore a sign saying he was representing the ``Palestinians who were asked to strip naked by the Israeli Army, lie on their stomachs and then taken on to an unknown location.'' At Ohio State University, about 60 protesters lined a campus sidewalk that faces a busy Columbus thoroughfare and chanted: ``Stop the hate. Stop the crime. Help save Palestine.'' Some also wore yellow armbands in memory of those who perished in the Holocaust. Ora Wise, 21, a junior and rally organizer, was born in Jerusalem and raised to support Israel by her American parents but decries Israel's current policies, she said. ``I've always been taught my Jewish heritage is one of fighting for social justice,'' Wise said. ``It's abhorrent to me, my people would be enacting such brutality, such atrocities, on the Palestinian people.'' At one point, a van passed and a young man leaned out a window to shout: ``Go, Israel! Go!'' At Columbia University in New York, several members of Students for Justice in Palestine manned a card table handing out informational fliers. ``The issue is enormously complex. It's not an issue you can categorically oppose or support,'' said Nadim El Gabanni, a 21-year-old junior who holds dual citizenship in Egypt and Canada. At the University of Minnesota, about 75 people turned out to demonstrate. One was Hussan Mahmoud, a 28-year-old graduate engineering student from Egypt. ``I just hope this makes a difference,'' Mahmoud said, ``but I don't see how it will. You can have all your Bill of Rights and freedom of speech and freedom of the press, but it doesn't make a difference if the leaders don't want to make it happen.'' -- Yoshie * Calendar of Events in Columbus: http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html * Anti-War Activist Resources: http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/activist.html * Student International Forum: http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/ * Committee for Justice in Palestine: http://www.osu.edu/students/CJP/ _ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL
Germany, in Protest, Suspends Arms Sales to Israel [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: Cor Groenendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 12:54 PM Subject: [mobilize-globally] Fw: [AL-AWDA-News] Germany, in Protest, Suspends Arms Sales to Israel - Original Message - From: Jess Ghannam [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 5:53 AM Subject: [AL-AWDA-News] Germany, in Protest, Suspends Arms Sales to Israel http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22313-2002Apr9.html Germany, in Protest, Suspends Arms Sales to Israel Decision May Foreshadow European Trade Sanctions as Criticism of West Bank Incursions Mounts By Peter Finn Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, April 10, 2002; Page A15 BERLIN, April 9 - Germany, long Israel's most steadfast supporter in Europe, has suspended arms sales to the Jewish state to protest its military action in the West Bank, officials here said today. At the same time, some senior German politicians have used harsh language to publicly criticize a country that the Holocaust legacy has often put almost beyond reproach. In interviews today, officials in the government of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder declined to use the word embargo to describe its action. But the government has refused to act on planned weapons sales to Israel, effectively suspending them, and other European countries have taken similar actions, officials here said. The move signals a growing impatience with Israel in Europe. In recent days, the 15-country European Union has issued call after call for Israel to end its military offensive, to no discernible effect. Senior EU officials who flew to Israel last week to seek a settlement were denied access to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and stayed less than a day. Holding up weapons sales is the first known sanction that Europe has applied to try to bring muscle to its words; officials are also talking about some other kind of trade restriction. Israeli officials today played down the action, but did not deny that weapons sales were not going forward. I can categorically say this is not an embargo, said Shimon Stein, Israel's ambassador to Germany, in a telephone interview. There are some problems that need to be resolved and that is subject to ongoing discussion. We hope that we can overcome the difficulty. The German press agency DPA reported, however, that the Israeli Defense Ministry filed a letter of protest with the German government over its refusal to allow sales. In 2000, the last year for which figures are available, Germany sold about $170 million in military equipment to Israel, including torpedoes and parts for tanks and armored cars. The revelation that Germany is blocking weapons sales followed meetings in Berlin last week between German officials and Dore Gold, foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel. The Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper described the meeting as cool and said that German officials labeled Gold intransigent. The government's frustration has begun to spill out of Schroeder's cabinet, whose members are normally circumspect in their statements on Israel. The occupation against the resolution of the U.N. Security Council, the adherence to the occupation, and the reports about the Israeli troops' conduct are shocking, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Schroeder's minister of development aid, told German media. German officials today called for the early creation of a Palestinian state, followed by negotiations on key issues such as Palestinian refugees, the status of Jerusalem and the final borders of Palestine. The Germans also called for an immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from positions they seized in the current offensive. In a significant change of mood in Germany, leading parliamentarians from the center-right opposition have cast Israel as the aggressor and, in one case, employed language associated with the Nazis to describe the incursions into Palestinian territory. In a widely publicized letter to the Israeli ambassador, Norbert Bluem, a labor minister under former chancellor Helmut Kohl, described the Israeli offensive as a war of annihilation - the very term employed by Adolf Hitler to describe his 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union. And Juergen Moellemann, deputy chairman of the right-of-center Free Democrats, a likely coalition partner in the next German government, said of Palestinian violence, I would resist too, and use force to do so . . . not just in my country but in the aggressor's country as well. Such language was once heard only in far-right and far-left circles here. Some analysts view the political mainstreaming of anti-Israeli sentiment as more than an immediate response to the
Solana wants EU arms embargo on Israel; Israel Has Built Itself Into A Military
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: Cor Groenendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 4:00 PM Subject: [mobilize-globally] [armstrade] (Israel) Solana wants EU arms embargo on Israel; Israel Has Built Itself Into A Military Powerhouse 9-4-02 Original Message - From: sento To: ArmsTradeList ; Home Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 2:50 PM Subject: [armstrade] (Israel) Solana wants EU arms embargo on Israel http://www.defense-aerospace.com/ Solana wants EU arms embargo on Israel STRASBOURG, April 9 (AFP) - 15:20 GMT - EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana proposed Tuesday coordinated Europe-wide action to halt or suspend the shipment of weapons to Israel that might be used against Palestinian civilians. On possible sanctions against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government, Solana said appropriate measures would be considered by foreign ministers of the 15 EU member states when they meet in Luxembourg next Monday. But he said he personally favored EU-wide coordination to halt the shipment to Israel of military equipment that could be used against Palestinian civilians. Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL to this page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/armstrade April 9, 2002 Israel Has Built Itself Into A Military Powerhouse By David Wood, Newhouse News Service WASHINGTON -- There was a time, in the tortured history of Israel and the Arab world, when the United States was the unquestioned military superpower in the Middle East and drew obedient if grudging respect from all sides. No more. Now Israel is the region's superpower, and where it once looked to the United States not just for diplomatic support but for military rescue, now Israel can thumb its nose at Washington and go its own way. Israel can field 19 divisions of ground troops, by some counts; the United States boasts 13 divisions worldwide and would need weeks to move any significant military force into the region. Israel's air force, which flies souped-up U.S. F-15 and F-16 fighters, can generate nearly 3,000 sorties, or combat missions, per day. The United States can sustain about 1,600 sorties a day. That kind of combat punch has given Israel unprecedented freedom of action, not just against lightly armed Palestinian street fighters, but against its traditional enemies of Syria and Egypt as well. We have created an 800-pound gorilla, said Kenneth Brower, an independent military consultant in Washington, assessing decades of U.S. military aid to Israel. On Monday, the 11th day of its invasion of Palestinian territories, Israel again shrugged off U.S. demands that it begin withdrawing without delay, as President Bush put it. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in a speech to the Knesset in Jerusalem that the army will continue operating as quickly as possible until the mission has been completed. The United States has given Israel about $3 billion a year for weapons purchases since the late 1970s, and has transferred new or used weapons and military technology for free or at deeply discounted prices under other government programs and commercial arrangements. In addition, the United States has stored millions of dollars worth of ammunition, fuel, spare parts and even a field hospital in Israel, ostensibly for use by American forces. The agreements under which the equipment was stored in Israel are secret. But most analysts assume Israel has access to the storage sites. It's always been said there are `tripwires' that would permit Israel to use that stuff, said Shoshana Bryen, an analyst for the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, a think tank in Washington. My guess is if Israel needed the stuff, they'd get it. The increase in Israel's combat clout comes less from size than from other, intangible factors. For instance, Israeli technicians have added digital and other improvements to their F-16 fighters, making them even more capable than versions used by the U.S. Air Force, Brower said. And Israel can fly so many combat sorties per day because it has a huge pool of seasoned combat pilots. That enables its air force to use one aircraft again and again during a 24-hour period while exchanging fatigued pilots for fresh ones. The United States does not maintain as many combat pilots per airplane as Israel. Israel relies heavily on its reserve forces. There are almost 1 million Israelis under the age of 48 liable to be recalled to duty. All have done three years' active duty as well as reserve training. Reserve troops are organized into units already matched up with vehicles and weapons. It's one of the most efficient military forces around, said Anthony Cordesman, a senior analyst at the Center
Iran Says Ready for Oil Embargo to Israeli Allies [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . .Iran Says Ready for Oil Embargo to Israeli Allies. Iran's Parliament Speaker Mahdi Karrubi on Tuesday noted that the country is ready for oil embargo to Israeli allies, the official IRNA news agency reported. Iran's Parliament Speaker Mahdi Karrubi on Tuesday noted that the country is ready for oil embargo to Israeli allies, the official IRNA news agency reported. Iran is prepared to stop oil exports to the countries which back Israel, although this will prove effective only if other countries follow suit, Karrubi was quoted as saying. He stressed that global support for Palestinians was key to force Ariel Sharon, the prime minister of the Zionist Israeli regime, to tone down some of its hardline policies and pull out from Palestinian territories and return normal life to the occupiedlands. Fortunately, we are not the only (people) who support Palestinians. Rather, the whole world, even Jews in the occupied lands and Tel Aviv, back Palestinians and express their hatred toward the Zionist policies of the (Israeli) occupying, the Iranian speaker said. On Friday, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on Islamic oil-producing countries to suspend supplies to Israel and the countries which have relations with Israel at least for a month as a symbolic gesture. Israel has recently declared Arafat its enemy and sent troops and tanks into the West Bank city of Ramallah to smash into Arafat's headquarters. As the situation is getting worse on the occupied areas, the Israeli army has intensified its widespread military offensive against Palestinian towns, refugee camps and villages in the past days, leaving dozens of people dead and more wounded. The Israeli aggressive action has drawn world-wide condemnation.Iran, which does not recognize Israel, has rendered its firm support to Palestinian resistance groups in their movement against Israeli occupation. --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Libyan News Apr 10 [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 6:49 PM Subject: [kominform2] Libyan News Apr 10 Great Socialist Peoples Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Jamahiriya News Agency English News Bulletin Wednesday March 10th, 2002 Foreign Affairs Secretary Meeting Tripoli/Altayr 10/Jana The foreign affairs secretary at the General Peoples Congress held a meeting last night with Alfredo Mantiqua,the assistant Italian foreign minister and his accompanying delegation. During the meeting the secretary confirmed that the massses of the basic peoples congresses are the masters of decision making in Great Jamahiryia and that these masse are following closely the implementation of the joint Libyan Italian delcaration signed in Rome in Nasser 1999 in which Italy apologised to the Libyan people and confirmed the opening of a new page of co-operation with the Great Jamahiriya. The meeting which was also attended by the Italian ambasador studied the suffering of the Palestinian people at the hands of the zionist terrorist army. /Jamahiriya News Agency / Foreign Liaison Secretary Meets Tripoli/Altayr 10/Jana The Secretary of General Peoples Committee for Foreign Liaison and Interna- tional co-operation held a meeting this morning with the French ambassador in Great Jamahiriya who delivered to him a message from the French foreign minister Vedrin which confirmed France's support for Great Jamahiriya membership in the world trade organisation,in view of the significant status it enjoys in the international area and the importance of its political and economic role in the area and throughout the world. The meeting discussed the arrangements for the meeting of the group of five plus five of the West Mediterranean which will hold a meeting on the ministerial level in the Great Jamahiriya next May. It also tackled the convening of the joint Libyan-French committee in the Great Jamahiriya next month. The meeting also handled the zionist aggression against the Palestinians. The ambassador expressed France's concern towards the violence perpetrated by the zionists against Palestinian civilians. He said that France will do what it can through the EU in order to stop those bloody acts. /Jamahiriya News Agency / International Islamic Peoples Command's Statement Tripoli/Altayr 10/Jana The International Islamic Peoples Command ha issued a statement regarding the continued war of cleansing launched by the Zionist terrorist army against the Palestinians. The statement is as follows: The war of cleansing,harassement and destruction of sacred shrines conducted by the zionist enemy in occupied Palestine, supported by the permanent enemies of the islamic nation is met by silence from all international quarters which claim to be democratic states that sponsor human rights. They bless such criminal acts considering them within the pattern of self defence whereas they describe those who defend their homes, honour and famillies as terrorists. However,the wrath and the revival of the revolutionary spirit among the masses as a result of the zionist practices, through the continent of the world which call for severing relations with the zionist enemy. All that created a new call for solidarity and sympathy with the zionists which is considered solidarity with the nazis and the new fascists in the world. The Muslim masses should not wait. Any condemnation of the terrorist acts by its enemies because they are conducting the same acts against a number of Muslim nations. The death train of the zionists which demolished home nowadays on the heads of their residents and destroying the holy shrines will eventually reach all countries which believe that that establishing relations in various forms with the enemy would protect them. They will witness one day that if Muslims remain as such it will become impossible for them to perform Haj or Umrah except by special permission and by predetermined numbers as the enemy controls the holy shrines,particulary holy Mecca. The Islamic institutions within the international Islamic people command as they declare their condemnation of the criminal zionist practices against our people in Occupied Palestine are to call on the masses of the nation to express their anger and denounce these atrocious acts and support the Mujahideen in Palestine to counter the criminal aggression. They are to express that through addressing international and regional organisations and from the forums of mosques and media and fusion with those angry protestors in the streets to declare their rejection for the official silence and the disgraceful submission. The international Islamic peoples command as it calls on you to act
US: Berkeley solidarity demo - 79 arrested [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: info [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 11:53 PM Subject: [mobilize-globally] US: Berkeley solidarity demo - 79 arrested -- Forwarded Message From: Barry Stoller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 22:30:31 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [leftwing] US: Berkeley solidarity demo - 79 arrested Reuters. 9 April 2002. Arrests as U.S. protesters demand Israel divestment. BERKELEY, Calif. -- Some 79 people were arrested on Tuesday after pro-Palestinian protesters tried to take over a building on the University of California, Berkeley campus to demand the nation's largest public university system divest from companies doing business with Israel. University spokesman Bob Sanders said the arrests occurred in Wheeler Hall after a raucous day that saw pro-Palestinian protesters face off with Jewish students holding a public vigil to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. Sanders said most of those arrested were cited for trespass and released, while six faced additional charges of resisting arrest. One protester, who bit a policeman, was charged with a felony count of assaulting an officer and transferred to the Berkeley city jail. The protesters left the campus and some are now protesting outside the jail, Sanders said. Rising violence in the Middle East has led to a number of protests at Berkeley, known as a hotbed of activism during both the Vietnam War and the student-led drive to force universities to divest from apartheid-era South Africa. Pro-Palestinian students who participated in Tuesday's sit-in said they hoped to launch a similar divestment drive against Israel. They've got significant holdings in companies that do business in Israel, one protester told a television reporter. We're saying that's in our name, and it's wrong. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller ?If we do not change direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.? Fight the good fight, join Leftwing: http://www.peoplerule.org * You can lead a man to knowledge but you can't make him think. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ -- End of Forwarded Message Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/k6cvND/n97DAA/ySSFAA/XgSolB/TM -~- To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Lebanon. One Israeli Tank Hit by Hezbollah Rocket. [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 4:24 AM Subject: [kominform2] Lebanon. One Israeli Tank Hit by Hezbollah Rocket. From: Stasi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Peoples War] Lebanon: One Israeli Tank Hit by Hezbollah Rocket - Xinhua One Israeli Tank Hit by Hezbollah Rocket Xinhuanet 2002-04-09 01:48:28 BEIRUT, April 8 (Xinhuanet) -- One Israeli tank was hit by the barrage of Lebanese resistance guerrilla Hezbollah (Party of God) on Sunday, Lebanese official NNA news agency reported on Monday. Israeli artillery in the disputed Shebaa Farms fired shells to towns in south Lebanon Monday afternoon at 3:15 p.m. of local time (1215 GMT). Israeli warplanes hovered over southern Lebanese part along the Blue Line drawn by the U.N. after Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon in May 2000, and launched several air-to-ground missiles. Meanwhile, Israel fighters infringed Lebanese air space and broke sound barriers over the capital of Beirut Monday afternoon. Hezbollah launched mortars and rockets to Israeli positions in the Shebaa Farms at 4:00 p.m. of local time (1300 GMT) and hit an Israeli powder magazine and an Israeli tank. There was no report ofcausalities. Israel began to build up army along the Lebanese-Israeli border to deal with the incessant attacks from Hezbollah since March 29. It was reported that Hezbollah Sunday unleashed for the first time in last 22 months volleys of shoulder-fired Soviet-designed SAM-7 missiles to Israeli warplanes in south Lebanon. Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah has claimed that they will spare no efforts to support Palestinian people and hintedthe possibility of opening a second front with Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon earlier claimed that his country will not stand idle in the face of Hezbollah's defiance. Enditem _ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: anti- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Kwick Pick opens locked car doors, front doors, drawers, briefcases, padlocks, and more. On sale now! http://us.click.yahoo.com/ehaLqB/Fg5DAA/ySSFAA/VL0olB/TM -~- Peruuta ryhmän tilaus lähettämällä sähköpostia osoitteeseen: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Libya. News Apr 8 [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 4:44 AM Subject: [kominform2] Libya. News Apr 8 Libya Jamahiriya News Agency April 8th, 2002 Jana/ 2 The Leader Mammar al Qathafi :There is a Huge International Shift in Support in Favour of the Struggle of Palestinian People Tripoli / Al Tayr 8 / Jana The Leader Muammar Al Qathafi has announced that there is a huge international shift in support in favour of the struggle of the Palestinian People and their heroic resistence in defence of their home against Zionist occupation forces. The Leader who was addressing the huge students ceremony, yesterday, on the occasion of the Seventh of April Students Revolution's Anniversary, said the cause of the Palestinian People has enjoyed increasing international sympathy and anti-Israelism is spreading at al arenas. He said the belgiam parliament in Brussels has decided to sever relations with the Zionists and most european states which are witnessing the terror of Zionist Nazi are now supporting the legitimate struggle of the Palestinians. They are condemning the Zionist atrocities which are committed on unarmed Palestinians. He said: we expect the Israelis to take the position of Hitler or Nazism. The position of all nations generally towards the Zionsist atrocities would be same as that against Nazism. From now on all nations would view the support for Zionism as support for Nazism. The Leader expressed his deep sorrow for America's incrimination for those who defend their land, honour and for inciting Israelis to commit more blood- letting within the Palestinians. The Leader revealed that it the the duty of America, as a super power, to defend the weak around the world. To defend them gain their freedom, not to contribute towrads killing them. He indicated that we should not look forward to America to prevent incriminate or even denounce the terror practiced by the Zionist terrorist organisation, which uses American weapons and American banks. He said we do not expect America to condemn the events in occupied Palestine because, as such, America incriminates itself. / Jamahiriya News Agency / Jana/3 The Great Jamahiria Supports Iran's Call Tripoli / Al Tayr 8 / Jana An authorized source at the General Peoples Committee for Unity has announced that the Great Jamahiria supports Iran's call to cut oil supplies from those countries that support the Zionist entity. The source made a statement to Jana and confirmed that the Great Jamahiria's endorsement is conditioned by the acceptance of all Arab and Islamic oil producing countries and that such action leads to a stop in the Zionist killing saga in Paletine. / Jamahiriya News Agency / 12 : 51 Jana/ 4 AL Qathafi : No One Gurantees Peaceful life for the Israelis Tripoli / Al Tayr 8 / Jana Colonel Muammar Al Qathafi the Leader of the Great Al Fateh Revolution has confirmed that there is no one who could gurantee peaceful life for the Israelis who occupy the Arab Palestine. He said that the peaceful iniatives proposed by the Arabs and endorsed in Beirut Summit , which suggest the withdrawal of the Israelis from the territories occupied in 1967, would not put an end for the Palestinian claim in their right to regain their full territories and no one could pledge that the Paletinian People or their various factions would stop fighting the occupiers. He said : we want to reveal the facts to the whole world. We do not want to deceive any one. All Arab Rulers must not implicate themselves in matters they could not manage or control. He explained that the initiative that was ratified in Beirut Summit is deficient and was rejected by the Palestinian Factions and by all lively forces in the Arab Homeland. He confirmed that no Arab Ruler should pledge to ensure peace and security for the Israelis while occupation is still on. He revealed that Yasser Arafat could not control the forces of the Palestinian People or those who defend their right in life and liberation of the soil from the Zionist occupation. He said that what is going on presently in the Palestinian teritory is in fact battles of life and death. The Zionists have settled to cleanse the palestinians and extreminate their youth. The people are therefor obliged to defend themselves and fight death which attacks them at any moment. / Jamahiriya News Agency / 12 : 59 Jana/ 5 The Train of Zionist Death is Attacking the Whole Arab Homelands Tripoli / Altayr 8 / Jana Colonel Muammar Al Qathafi the Leader of the Great Al Fateh Revolution has announced that the Israeli train of death has started attacking the whole Arab Homeland. He said the Israelis are coming to Egypt, North Africa and the Arab Peninsula, within the pattern of establishing their
Palestinian Medics: fear that at least 150 residents have been killed... [WWW.
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ].. UPDATE: Jenin April 09, 2002: The IDF has deployed a large number of troops and intense firepower in an effort to break the Palestinian resistance. Officers in the area have described the battle as a "Palestinian Masada," saying that there is a huge amount of destruction in the camp, and that the bodies of dozens of dead Palestinians are strewn in the streets. Leaning over drips nearly empty of fluid, Zahra al-Wawe worked without electricity, blood banks or ambulances, pleading for help over her mobile telephone until the battery ran dry, shouting: We are losing them, we are losing them. details Medical sources fear that at least 150 residents have been killed and the bodies are still lying in streets, alleyways and inside shelters and homes. Sources told LAW that the refugees are suffering from lack of food, medicines, water. The camp has ran out of all basic supplies. Medical sources fear a health epidemic in the camp. Contrary to Israeli claims that ambulances have been allowed access, medical personnel told LAW that two ambulances, trying to evacuate the wounded in Jenin, were ran over and destroyed today by Israeli tanks. LAW report Jenin. Remember this word, for every time your lose faith in humanity, all you need to do is to recall it. Repeat inside of you, slowly, when you are down and frail. It should give you vigor and lift your spirit. It's a symbol of courage, courage beyond these times of despair and degradation, courage that's legendary, almost mythological. How else can we explain that a small refugee camp, less than a kilometer sq. length and width stands for days in the face of hundreds of tanks, Apache helicopters and thousands of trained killers, they call soldiers? story by Ramzy Baroud --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ bodies1.jpg
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HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: SolidNet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 11:36 AM Subject: CP of Macedonia, Address to the 3rd Meeting of the Balkan AntiNATO Center, Thessaloniki 23-24 March 2002 http://www.solidnet.org News, documents and calls for action from communist and workers' parties. The items are the responsibility of the authors. Join the mailing list: info/subscribe/unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . = CP of Macedonia, Address to the 3rd Meeting of the Balkan AntiNATO Center, Thessaloniki 23-24 March 2002 - From: Communist Party of Macedonia, Mon, 8 Apr, 2002 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Balkan Anti-NATO Center Thessaloniki 23-24 March NATO out of Balkan For Balkans a zone of Peace and Cooperation Communist Party of Macedonia Meeting of the Balkan Anti-NATO Center Dear friends present at this meeting, respectable organizer of this gathering, we would like to thank for your invitation but we regret for not being in a position to take presence at the meeting. We agree with the agenda and the items for the meeting because they are in compliance with the essence of the problem and the recent developments. What is our opinion about the following items; 1. NATO out of BALKANS NATO out of Balkans YES. Why? Because NATO is military organization that in the past was protecting its members from danger that could coe fro the other side east (Warshow) block. Now this danger does not exist. Now we are facing another danger, the danger of NATO becoming *world policeman*. Who needs such policemen? The oligarchy that would like to rule the capital of the world communisty by the power of the weapon. The NATO enlargement NATO is present every where, where the government structures call NATO for there presence in order to stay longer in position to rule with support of NATO and USA. Nobody ask the citizens of that country for their opinion. We the citizens of the Republic of Macedonia, and we believe the majority of the citizens of other countries vote for peace, democracy and respecting of human rights. We vote NATO out of the Balkans because it is and organization that instead of peace, every where produces war and breaking human rights. There is no democracy. NATO dictates the program of TV stations - bombing of Yugoslav national television. NATO dictates changes of the constitution (Republic of Macedonia constitution) NATO with its bombs pollutes the environment. That is why we say - NATO out of Balkans. The Cyprus question The future of Cyprus should be in the hands of the people in that country. Thirty years ago they were living in peace, together and witout problems. They should be left to chose their future, alone, without any pressure. We respect and we support the people of Cyprus. With respect, Communist Party of Macedonia Andon Andonovski Member of the Republic Committee *End* --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Asia-Pacific wide day of solidarity with Palestine [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: info [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 8:34 AM Subject: [mobilize-globally] Asia-Pacific wide day of solidarity with Palestine -- Forwarded Message From: Sydney Green Left [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 16:38:22 +1000 Subject: [NBL] Asia-Pacific wide day of solidarity with Palestine ADVERTISEMENT My Groups http://groups.yahoo.com/mygroups | national_broadleft Main Page http://groups.yahoo.com/group/national_broadleft Following the tremendously successful Free Palestine! rally yesterday (8-10,000 people marched from Town Hall Square to the US Israeli consulates) an Asia-Pacific wide day of solidarity with Palestine will be held on April 19. This initiative, coming out of the recent Asia Pacific International Solidarity conference will be taken up by anti-war activists in numerous countries including the Philippines (where there is presently a movement growing against the return to the Philippines of US troops), Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and many more countries (as well as in every capital city in Australia). An organising meeting for the Sydney protest will be held this Wednesday (April 10) at 6.30pm at Lvl 3 (Concourse) UTS Broadway. Everyone is welcome. (Ph 9690 1977 for more info). A copy of the flyer for April 19 can be found at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nowar_sydney/files/Apr19A4.pdf To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ . -- End of Forwarded Message Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/k6cvND/n97DAA/ySSFAA/XgSolB/TM -~- To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Iran on Monday voiced its opposition to a possible U.S. attack [WWW.STOPNATO.OR
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . .Iran on Monday voiced its opposition to a possible U.S. attack on Iraq and stressed that resorting to war and violence is never the solution to global problems, the official IRNA news agency reported. Iran on Monday voiced its oppositionto a possible U.S. attack on Iraq and stressed that resorting to war and violence is never the solution to global problems, the official IRNA news agency reported. Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said he hopesthe possibility of U.S.attacks on Iraq will never materialize. On Saturday, U.S. President George W. Bush and the visiting British Prime Minister Tony Blair told a joint press conference that they had agreed to consider all options for dealing with Baghdad and we must be prepared to act where terrorism or weapons of mass destruction threaten us. The United States has repeatedly voiced its readiness to launch military attacks against Iraq and to topple the Saddam Hussein regime while demanding Baghdad let U.N. weapons inspectors back to determine whether it has chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, which Washington worried Saddam could hand to terrorists like thosewho carried out the September 11 attacks on the U.S. Asefi noted that the Middle East cannot put up with a third war and any attempt to change governments by military means is against international norms, democratic tenets and moral ethics. It is only people and nations who can decide on the future of their country and choose their own government, he stressed. The spokesman, meanwhile, urged Baghdad to cooperate with the United Nations and avoid giving any pretext to those seeking hostile policy against it. Iran and Iraq fought an eight-year bloody war from 1980 to 1988,costing some one million lives from both sides. Although there has been improvement in dealing with issues such as the exchange of prisoners of war (POWs), the rival governments' support for opposition groups remain the main stumbling blocks to the normalization of relations between the two neighbors. --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Roundup: Palestinians Claim Peace With Sharon 'Impossible' [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Global and Local Analysis Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . .Roundup: Palestinians Claim Peace With Sharon 'Impossible'. After over 18-month-old Palestinian Intifada, or Uprising against Israel in the Palestinian territories, and after an endless bloodshed between the Palestinians and Israel, Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza come to realize that peace with the current Israeli government headed by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is impossible. Palestinians realize peace impossible After over 18-month-old Palestinian Intifada, or Uprising against Israel in the Palestinian territories, and after an endless bloodshed between the Palestinians and Israel, Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza come to realize that peace with the current Israeli government headed by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is impossible. The Palestinians stressed that they are determined to continue their struggle against the occupation of their territories using all means until they enjoy independence and freedom, despite the tough and widespread military operations by Sharon's government against them into their towns, villages and refugee camps. What does Sharon want from us? He is a murderer, he killed thousands of Palestinians since he was in the Israeli army and government a long time ago, especially in Lebanon in 1982 and in the Palestinian territories these days. He and his army should leave our territories, said Mansoor Ghannam, a 54-year-old resident from Gaza who owns vegetable store in Gaza downtown. Ghannam said that the Palestinians would never give up or surrender, adding that if he is not going to witness the liberation of Palestine, his sons and grandsons will do. This is the land of our fathers and ancestors. If someone comes and occupies your house and kicks your children and your family outside, what should you do? Are you going to thank him, are you going to surrender? Of course not, you would resist the occupier, fight him to the end until he leaves your house, vowed Ghannam. The Palestinians believe that as long as Israel is all the time planning to take parts of the Palestinians' lands, expand settlements and demolish their homes, kill their children, the war and conflict with the Israelis would last forever, he added. If any Israeli prime minister or any Israeli leader, but not Sharon, comes and says to the Palestinians he decided to withdraw his army from the occupied Palestinian territories, all the people would welcome him and make peace with him, said Anwar Abu Hamdan, a 23-year-old student from Gaza. Hamdan said that he was 14 years old when Israel and the Palestinians signed a peace agreement, adding that he started to feel that peace with Israelis is real and can be possible. Nothing can break Palestinians' determination for independence The Palestinian authority officials, who used to meet and negotiate the Israelis, said that violence, aggression and offensives would never break the Palestinians' determination to seek for their freedom and independence. The officials said that military actions against the Palestinians by the Israeli government would never solve the problem, noting that the conflict should only be ended by the withdrawal from all the occupied territories, and by peace negotiations not by violence. This government of Sharon has approved that it doesn't want peace with us, said Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo. Abed Rabbo said that the Sharon-led government, which elected and formed after the beginning of the Intifada, wanted to break the Palestinian people and imposed on them by force the solution that they want and not the solution that the Palestinians want. He stressed that Sharon sworn in and became a Prime Minister without having any political agenda to end up the conflict and reach a permanent solution in the area of the Middle East, adding that he (Sharon) came only with a series of military plans, and he is implementing them one after the other. But until now and further more, all the military plans of Sharon would never succeed to achieve his dream and his aims to break the Palestinian people, said Abed Rabbo. Peace with this man is impossible after all what he did. Tension between Israel and Palestinians Since last Friday, tension between Israel and the Palestinians has grown up after the Israeli army carried out the widest military operation against the Palestinians in the West Bank since Israel pulled out from its towns and villages in 1995. In less than a week, the Israeli army reoccupied the West Bank towns of Ramallah, Jenin, Qalqilia, Tulkarem, Nablus, Bethlehem andparts of Hebron, killing and wounding dozens, and arresting hundreds. Israel said that the reason it decided to carry out such widespread operations against the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is to fight the
US: Accountancy Company Fire 7 000 [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- [Hour by hour news analysis... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . .Monday, 8 April, 2002, 17:26 GMT 18:26 UK Andersen to lay off 7,000 The accountancy firm Andersen has said it will lay off 7,000 workers at its US arm Arthur Andersen. Of all the issues we have confronted recently, none compare to actions we are now forced to take with our employees Larry Gorrell Andersen Andersen blamed the Enron scandal for the layoffs, which will be executed over the next few months. About a quarter of Andersen's US workforce will lose their jobs. Of all the issues we have confronted recently, none compare to actions we are now forced to take with our employees, said Larry Gorrell, managing partner of the firm's US operations. Cuts inevitable Staff working in Andersen's audit and administrative units will be hit the hardest by the cuts. Heavy cuts are expected at the firm's Chicago headquarters where 5,300 people work. Andersen warned last month that the job cuts in the US were inevitable. Breaking up Andersen's problems have been mounting in recent years, along with a criminal indictment and substantial lawsuits brought by shareholders for its role in the demise of Enron. Many of Andersen's clients, scared off by the scandal, have walked into the open arms of the accountant's competitors. The competitors have been actively snapping up bits of Andersen's business too. Most of Andersen's US tax practice will be sold to its rival Deloitte Touche. While internationally, Andersen's network is being carved up by its rivals. --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Enron suit implicates 9 US banks [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- [Hour by hour news analysis... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . Monday, 8 April, 2002, 21:49 GMT 22:49 UK Enron suit implicates 9 US banks University of California regents are the lead plaintiffs The University of California has filed an amended complaint in its lawsuit against Enron, alleging nearly a dozen investment banks and law firms colluded to defraud investors. The university filed the revised class-action lawsuit on Monday in US District Court in Houston on behalf of thousands of other stockholders, who lost at least $25bn (£17.4bn) by investing in failed energy-trader Enron. The wrongful conduct which underlies this case was not limited to Houston, but also took place on Wall Street William Lerach plaintiff attorney The revised lawsuit, 500 pages in length, accuses the firms not only of participating in deception but of profiting from it, too. This fraud was worldwide in its scope, years long in its duration, unprecedented in its size, said William Lerach, the lead attorney representing the plaintiffs. Looking beyond Enron The scheme's sheer immensity meant it could not have been accomplished by Enron executives alone, no matter how dishonest or energetic they may have been, Mr Lerach told reporters during a press conference on Monday in San Francisco. University of California officials said the educational system lost $145m attributable to the collapse of Enron's stock price. The original class-action lawsuit filed last October named 29 top Enron officials and its embattled auditor Arthur Andersen and has been frozen ever since Enron filed for bankruptcy last December. Among those named in that lawsuit were former chairman and chief executive Kenneth Lay and another former chief executive Jeffrey Skilling. 'Pyramid' scheme The amended shareholder suit was accompanied by a similar complaint filed by former Enron employees who lost their pension funds as a result of the bankrupt firms' now worthless stock. Defendants Arthur Andersen 29 Enron ex-officials Barclays Deutsche Bank JP Morgan Citigroup Merrill Lynch CSFB Lehman Brothers Bank of America Canadian Imperial Bank Vinson Elkins Kirkland Ellis Both complaints named the same nine Wall Street investment banks, accusing them of acting to defraud investors. In mounting their latest legal manoeuvre, the plaintiffs have implicated some of Wall Street's most prestigious investment banks with the hopes of recouping some of the billions of dollars they have lost. The named banks include Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, CSFB, Lehman Brothers, Bank of America, JP Morgan and Canadian Imperial Bank. The wrongful conduct which underlies this case was not limited to Houston, but also took place on Wall Street, where Enron's investment banks and lawyers helped create, structure and sell securities which propped up the Enron pyramid, the employee complaint read. 'No alternative' Analysts on Monday said the plaintiffs face an uphill battle in getting a court to agree the banks and law firms are liable for shareholder losses. They clearly have a large challenge before them, said Christopher Bebel, a Houston lawyer. However, they have no alternative. They have to pursue this course of action to have a chance of locating sufficient funds. Part of the reason for the inclusion of new defendants is that Andersen may prove unable to come anywhere near meeting the plaintiffs' demands for compensation. When the lawsuit was first prepared last autumn, it seemed feasible to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation from Andersen - the world's fifth largest accounting firm - and former top Enron officials. But the scale of the class-action suit has ballooned to $25bn, and Arthur Andersen's further existence has been called into question, as company after company has fired or failed to renew contracts with the firm. Defending against charges Two of the newly named banks denied the latest charges. We believe there is no basis for this claim, and we intend to vigorously defend against it, a spokesman for Merrill Lynch said. London-based Barclays Capital told Dow Jones news agency the bank does not believe there is a basis for a successful claim to be brought against it. Citigroup and JP Morgan declined to comment, while Bank of America, CIBC, Deutsche Bank and Lehman were not reachable. For its part, CSFB has previously defended its role in advising Enron, saying its work was reviewed by the ratings agencies, outside counsels, and the accounting firms. Also implicated in the partnerships are the law firms Vinson Elkins and Kirkland Ellis, who helped shepherd the deals through. Both firms have said they would challenge the charges The suit accuses Enron executives and advisors of a long list of offences, centring on the off-balance-sheet partnerships that were used to conceal the firm's finances
