Issue: 2523 - 2524

Iran nuclear crisis no nearer resolution

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 (which Hills denied).

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.

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 operating in Afghanistan.

Scotland’s refugee families will lose out following recent changes to the process of removal from the UK

Reflecting on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference

David Cameron is retreading old ground in his attempts to justify the war in Afghanistan

The US group Voices for Creative Non-Violence report on civil unrest and a militarised society in Pakistan

Two letters

This month Peace News is publishing David Gribble’s book on moral development and decline. Here is an extract.

“… parenting is more like nourishing a seed than chiselling stone into a statue” Hugh and Gayle Prather

A visit to Tate Liverpool reveals Picasso as a politically and socially engaged artist, actively involved in politics and the peace movement during the Cold War

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 emotions I feel are shared by most PN readers.

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

I’ve never been to a festival. I don’t like big crowds.
Woman activist, Oxford