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The Dialogues Against Militarism delegation, currently in Jerusalem, have posted three new blog entries. Check it out, and also forward/repost far and wide!

http://againstmilitarism.wordpress.com/

includes poetry, analysis, and gratitude. check it out!

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The Dialogues against Militarism delegation has arrived in Be'er Sheva; here is their very first blog post.

please post the link to their blog anywhere where folks are doing anti-militarism work and Palestine solidarity work!http://againstmilitarism.wordpress.com

I wonder if this soldier who killed the 12 people had been to combat before? If he was a Major, my guess is that he may have been to Iraq or Afganistan before? This is sad. I have read about people who during combat (or afterwards) snap and just go crazy. I remember a story about a sniper in Vietnam who just started to shoot his own troops. . . ( Read more... )

This afternoon, around 70 people gathered in Chadderton, Greater Manchester at the launch demonstration of the Target Brimar campaign ( Read more... )

Is it time to take back America? Is it time to take back America?

Over a million people have died in the US/UK invasion of Iraq. 1400 Palestinian civilians were killed during the Israeli attacks on Gaza in January 2009. The exhibitors at DSEi are making huge profits from these conflicts - for example the devastation in Gaza was aided by UK arms sales of over £27 million in 2008 ( Read more... )

DOWN UNDER FIREDesert war games involving 30,000 US and Australian troops rehearsing Afghanistan manoeuvres in the Australian bush was interrupted last week after seven activists occupied the land - with two lasting for the full eleven days - stopping the live fire phase of the exercise. It was similar to the action by Ofog in June in Sweden (See ( Read more... )

from russian media-activist-community music_action  (Music for Social and Civil Action)
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US gas prices went down, and iran's economy took a hit ( Read more... )

What is legitimate interest ( Read more... )