Issue: 2483

As US troops begin their “surge” into Baghdad, the Bush administration is preparing a scapegoat for the failure of this latest escalation: Iran.

It's taken some time to come to this conclusion, but The Mole is now totally convinced that there's a conspiracy to be uncovered about the story of the collapse of the two World Trade Centre towers in New York in September 2001.

Cassandra was working with Peace News on a spring semester internship via Ithaca College's London Center. She had just returned from a weekend trip with fellow students when, on 12 February, she died suddenly of natural causes.

The white poppy and red poppy debate continues here in Stroud but it's pointed me in an unexpected direction.

Aims and objectives:

DEMONSTRATE Along with the national “Stop Trident” demonstration on 24 February, various opportunities for demonstrating present themselves over the coming weeks.

In March, the government is set to hold a parliamentary vote on the replacement of Britain's Trident nuclear fleet. Peace News caught up with Kate Hudson, chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, for a chat about demonstrations, bedfellows, and responding to the challenges ahead.

No Trident Replacement

Campaigners have been in Antarctic waters in recent weeks, monitoring - and attempting to disrupt - the activities of the Japanese whaling fleet.

Protests were held in Seville, Spain, to coincide with an informal summit held by NATO defence ministers.

Against war, against the arms trade.

For the third time, a trial stemming from direct action at “RAF” Fairford, Gloucestershire, in 2003 - when activists tried to impede US bombing of Iraqis at the start of the attacks in March that year - has ended with a hung jury.

"We are witnessing the birth of a new social movement to force action on climate change." Johann Hari, The Independent, on the Camp for Climate Action 2006