Fancy, expensive weapons being used to kill civilians? Not terrorism. Relatively less advanced technology? Terrorism. Zane Alcorn comments on ruling class hypocrisy.聽
Terrorism
We will not forget any individual killed by racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Roma, queerphobic, misogynistic, inhuman ideologies, nor the聽intellectual apologists sitting in parliaments stirring the fire, says聽Ferat Ali Kocak.
One of two unnamed individuals who have been arrested in Germany for possession of weapons and a 鈥渒ill list鈥 of prominent left-wingers was a police officer, the Morning Star reported on August 29.
The pair had been discussing 鈥渞efugee and migration policy鈥, which they claimed would lead to the 鈥渃ollapse of public order,鈥 via聽online chat groups, the article said.
Thousands of Muslims voiced their rejection of jihadi extremism on August 21, marching through central Barcelona with banners reading 鈥淭errorism has no religion鈥, Morning Star Online .
It came in the wake of the聽, which killed 13 and was claimed by Islamic State.
Just days after US President Donald Trump Qatar for being a "high level" exporter of regional terrorism in the Middle East, the Qatari government announced on June 14 it had signed a deal to buy $12 billion worth of F-15 fighter jets from US weapons makers.
After the recent spate of murders in Manchester, London and Melbourne people are increasingly asking what the past 20 years of the 鈥渨ar on terror鈥 has done besides making the world a more dangerous, divided and fearful place.
We condemn the terror attacks in London and Manchester, but we also need to call out the cynical and dangerous response from those in charge who have one solution 鈥 more of the same.
British Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May and US President Donald Trump are using these tragedies to ramp up Islamophobia, expand police powers, weaken civil liberties and strengthen the 鈥渨ar on terror鈥 鈥 the same policies that have failed to stop individuals from carrying out terror attacks.
, the largest anti-war group in Britain, release the statement below after the attacks by a lone man in London killed four people on March 22, before being shot dead.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev said in an interview with German newspaper Handelsblatt on February 11 that a threatened ground invasion of Syria by Western allies Turkey and possibly Saudi Arabia would lead to a 鈥渘ew world war鈥. On February 18, Hawar News Agency reported that 鈥渄ozens鈥 of Turkish armoured vehicles had advanced 200 metres across the Syrian border.
More than 800 police carried out simultaneous raids on houses in Sydney and Brisbane on September 18. Fifteen people were detained as a result, but only two were charged.
The high profile police raid 鈥 coordinated with the media 鈥 has been described as the 鈥渘ation鈥檚 biggest counter terrorism operation in history鈥. It comes one week before the government plans to bring anti-democratic 鈥渢error laws鈥 to a vote in parliament and as troops are deployed for a new Iraq war.
In response to an unprovoked and grotesque attack on the NSW Greens鈥 offices, discovered as staff arrived to work on November 8, the Socialist Alliance released the following statement.
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The NSW Socialist Alliance condemns the cowardly attack, involving faeces, on the offices of the NSW Greens sometime over the night of November 7-8.
Such actions have no place within a democratic society and should be rejected by all supporters of democracy.
鈥淲e won. It鈥檚 over, America. We brought democracy to Iraq.鈥 Those were the words of a soldier from the 4th Stryker Brigade, supposedly among the last US combat soldiers to leave Iraq, quoted in the August 20 www.DailyMail.co.uk two weeks ahead of President Barack Obama鈥檚 August 31 deadline for withdrawal.
The Obama administration is claiming the withdrawal of combat soldiers represents a new day for the country. 鈥淧olitics, not war, has broken out in Iraq鈥, US Vice-President Joe Biden told an August 23 convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, www.CSMonitor.com said that day.
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