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Issue 2523 - 2524 | July - August 2010

Editorial: State Terror

by Milan Rai and Emily Johns | Comment | July - August 2010

Peace News pays tribute to the Gaza flotilla martyrs: Cengiz Akyüz (42), Ali Heyder Bengi (39), Ibrahim Bilgen (60), Furkan Dogan (19), Cevdet Kiliçlar (38), Cengiz Songür (47), Çetin Topç ...

News in Brief

Climate Camp victory· G20 victory· DSEi victory· Nepal crisis· Western Sahara· Guantanamo activists· Wikileaks arrest· Bulldozer sentence· Vanunu jailed· Swedish power· Serbian victory· More good news· Bad news· Dugong vs Pentagong· Cross roads· Green kill· Home ed· Diversity rules· Kingcam· Zimbabwe torture· May Day Maldives· One, two, many Kews ...read

Reviews

PW Singer, 'Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century'

Wade Allison, 'Radiation and Reason: The Impact of Science on a Culture of Fear'

Howard Zinn, 'War and Civil Disobedience'

Brazil condemns US diplomatic sabotage

by Milan Rai | News | July - August 2010

The US is doing its best, once again, to prevent a negotiated solution to the Iran crisis. ...

EDO on trial

by Milan Rai | News | July - August 2010

The EDO Decommissioners (see PN 2506) spent the first week of their trial grilling the head of EDO/MBM, Paul Hills, on the firm’s supply of vital components to Israeli F-16 fighter jets (w ...

Merthyr to Mayo: Shell to Hell!

by Kelvin Mason | News | July - August 2010

This report is written as a letter to Pat O’Donnell and Niall Harnett who are in jail in Ireland for opposing Shell’s Corrib gas pipeline. ...

Australian Ploughshares Four acquitted

by Milan Rai | News | July - August 2010

On 16 June, acquittals were handed out to four Australians who broke into a top secret spy base on Swan Island, Victoria, and disrupted satellite communications with Australian troops oper ...

Stop child detention

by Sarah Young | News | July - August 2010

On 18 May, UK immigration minister Damian Green announced there would be no more child detainees at Dungavel, Scotland’s immigration removal centre. ...

Time to kick the nuclear addiction

by Tim Street | Feature | July - August 2010

The urgent need for nuclear weapon states to end their decades-long addiction was a recurring demand from disarmament activists at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference (N ...

Afghanistan redux

by Gabriel Carlyle | Feature | July - August 2010

During a much-bally-hooed two-day June visit to British troops in Afghanistan, new British prime minister David Cameron claimed that he could “sum up this mission in two words”: “It is abou ...

Moving beyond US national interest

by Kathy Kelly and Josh Brollier | Feature | July - August 2010

June 18, 2010 ...

Free Gaza

Feature | July - August 2010

Two letters ...

Children don't start wars

by David Gribble | Feature | July - August 2010

It is obvious that our physical skills decline with age, and although it is an unpopular idea, there is incontrovertible evidence that our intellects also begin to become less alert, flexi ...

Non-coercive parenting

by Rachel Sanger | Feature | July - August 2010

Let me describe the satisfying joyful way of life which is non-coercive parenting. ...

Picasso: peace and freedom

by Roger Stephenson | Feature | July - August 2010

I stand for life against death. I stand for peace against war! – Pablo Picasso ...

Whom to mourn?

by Jeff Cloves | Comment | July - August 2010

As deaths – and casualties – mount in Afghanistan and crowds turn out to greet the returning coffins and TV stations show bereaved families united in grief, I imagine the conflicting emoti ...

Obituary: Jeffrey J Segall, 6 February 1924 - 22 May 2010

by Alison Williams | Comment | July - August 2010

Jeffrey Segall was a champion of world peace through a democratically reformed United Nations. ...

Activism and... Festivals

Comment | July - August 2010

I’ve never been to a festival. I don’t like big crowds.
Woman activist, Oxford
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Campaign Profile: Fig Tree

Comment | July - August 2010

Fig Tree is a new initiative to engage the Christian community in Britain on peace and security issues. ...

Bangor Ynys Mon take action for Gaza

by Phil Steele | News | July - August 2010

In response to the murderous Israeli Defence Force attack on a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to the besieged Palestinian territory of Gaza, Bangor and Ynys Môn (Anglesey) Peace & ...

54 peace activists acquitted!

by Milan Rai and Emily Johns | Feature | July - August 2010

In this bumper summer issue of Peace News, we bring you good news from all around the world – from Australia where Ploughshares activists (pictured above) who pleaded guilty to breaking in ...

Coming down hard on democracy

by Dan Viesnik | News | July - August 2010

London mayor Boris Johnson displayed his dedication to free speech on 3 June, by asking the high court to order the immediate eviction of Democracy Village, established on Parliament Squar ...

Second Raytheon Nine acquitted

by Cedric Knight | News | July - August 2010

On 4 June, a jury at Belfast crown court found nine women not guilty of charges including breaking and entering into the Derry offices of arms manufacturer Raytheon during the 2009 Israeli assault ...

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