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by Bruce Gagnon
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Dandelion Salad
Organizing Notes
November 29, 2009
Protests have begun across the country to take a stand against Obama’s coming announcement to surge in Afghanistan.
Here in the midcoast of Maine ten of us signed a letter to the editor of our local paper outlining our opposition and informing the community about our planned protest in Brunswick next Wednesday right after Obama’s announcement. Continue reading
By Simon Walters, Mail on Sunday Political Editor
http://www.dailymail.co.uk
Last updated at 1:48 AM on 29th November 2009
An explosive secret letter that exposes how Tony Blair lied over the legality of the Iraq War can be revealed.
The Chilcot Inquiry into the war will interrogate the former Prime Minister over the devastating ‘smoking gun’ memo, which warned him in the starkest terms the war was illegal.
[…]
via Secret letter to reveal new Blair war lies | Mail Online
h/t: CLG
see also
Lord Goldsmith ‘warned Tony Blair Iraq war could be illegal’ in 2002 – Telegraph
h/t: CLG
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The Iraq War ‘Inquiry’: ‘Revelations’? What revelations? By William Bowles
Iraq Inquiry: Sir Christopher Meyer Confirms That Iraq War Was Illegal by Andy Worthington
by Eva Golinger
Postcards from the Revolution
Nov. 29, 2009 Continue reading
talkingsticktv
November 28, 2009
Video of the Seattle 1999 WTO Ministerial mass arrest at Westlake Park, December 1, 1999, Seattle, WA.
nocommenttv
November 29, 2009
euronews.net A demonstration against WTO in Geneva, Switzerland, ends violently.
Vodpod videos no longer available.
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Seattle 1999 WTO Ministerial – Westlake Park Mass Arrest
by Greg Palast
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
www.gregpalast.com
November 29, 2009
AlJazeeraEnglish
November 29, 2009
Iran has dramatically upped the stakes in the international standoff over its controversial nuclear programme.
The government approved plans to build 10 more uranium enrichment plants.
The move is a response to a demand made by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN nuclear watchdog, for Iran to suspend all enrichment-related activities, and is in direct contravention of UN security council resolutions.
Al Jazeera’s Alireza Ronaghi reports.
by Cindy Sheehan
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox
Nov. 29, 2009
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Yesterday, Bay Area CODEPINK and I, started our caravan to Creech AFB in Nevada with a morning peace rally at Travis AFB in Fairfield, CA.
After we got there we were informed that we had to move off the base and were shown by MPs where we could protest. As good warriors for free speech and peace, we groused about it and we were moving forward to where we were supposed to go, when a very angry older man pulled up and started yelling at us to: “Don’t go, I want to counter protest you.” I told him, first of all, he shouldn’t be drinking so early in the morning, and secondly not to worry, that we were going anywhere, we were just moving about 100 yards away.
Updated: added video
Note: here’s Cindy’s post: “Killing is right and proper” (What happened at Travis AFB, yesterday) by Cindy Sheehan
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Tempers Flare At Anti-War Rally At Travis AFB
cbs13.com
Nov. 28, 2009 Continue reading
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