We are coming together to discuss, debate and identify the current threats to our freedoms and liberties here in the UK; Counter-Terrorism, Financial Breakdown & The Database State, to name a few.
Chargos islands in crisis
The UK government evicted the Chaogossian islanders from one of the islands (previously known at Diego Garcia) to hand over the land to the US military in 1967. After years of legal actions the High Court ruled that the remaining people could not return.
‘We’re acting like a latter day version of the Roman Empire’
As President Obama unveils his plan to escalate the war in Afghanistan, listen to Ohio Congress member Dennis Kucinich. The United States is going deeper and deeper into debt, says Kucinich. We have money for Wall Street and money for war but we don’t have money for work for healthcare. We have to start asking ourselves, “Why is it that war is a priority but the basic needs of people in this country are not?”
An Interview with Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is one of the world’s most prominent and controversial public intellectuals. He is an internationally renowned professor of linguistics, but he is also a longstanding critic of US foreign policy and the influence of big business over the US government.
When he published his first political critique 40 years ago, he was fired up by the war in Vietnam. Today he is still raging against America’s malign influence and calls the war in Afghanistan ‘immoral’. Part 1 of 3: Watch all three parts on ‘You Tube’
Colombia turning into giant US military base
The US and Colombia have signed an agreement “that is basically converting Colombia into one giant US military base in South America,” attorney and writer Eva Golinger told RT. She said the agreement was signed on October 30 and it “authorizes the US not only to occupy seven military bases in Colombia, but also to occupy any installation throughout the entire country.”
Daniel Ellsberg is a former US military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of US government decision-making about the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers.
The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex
Wilkerson: From US debt to the geopolitics of oil, the US empire will come to an end. Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired United States Army soldier and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson is an adjunct professor at the College of William & Mary where he teaches courses on US national security. He also instructs a senior seminar in the Honors Department at the George Washington University entitled “National Security Decision Making.”
Guam Residents Organize Against US Plans for $15B Military Buildup on Pacific Island
This project would turn the thirty-mile-long island into a major hub for US military operations in the Pacific in what has been described as the largest military buildup in recent history.
With guest Julian Aguon, Chamoru civil rights attorney and author of three books, including The Fire this Time: Stories of Life Under US Occupation and What We Bury at Night: Disposable Humanity.
The historic World March for Peace and Non-violence starts in New Zealand on Friday 2 October 2009
Queen Noor – Global Zero Appeal
What an exciting week! On September 22, 2009, the United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a resolution calling for the elimination of all nuclear weapons. Her Majesty Queen Noor was at the meeting representing Global Zero and the millions around the world who believe that when it comes to nuclear weapons, one is one too many.
Her excitement is contagious. She said we had to seize this historic moment while we have the momentum and get people around the world to join the movement for global zero. www.globalzero.org
CAAB welcomes President Obama’s decision to abandon plans to develop Missile Defense in Poland and the Czech Republic. Congratulations to the many people who opposed this – persistently and creatively – to help bring about this result.
However it is important to bare in mind that Missile Defense is a long way off from being ‘abandoned’. These videos are for the pro-Missile Defense lobby. CAAB takes a very different view knowing that the truth is that Missile Defense is an offensive system for US military and economic domination in space – and the US militarisation of space – space being the ‘high ground’. There are some interesting articles on this website setting out what Missile Defense is actually about and it is developing at an alarming rate.
