STOP murderous capitalists preparing Iran War

Editor’s note: Over the past week various elements both in Washington DC and Tel Aviv have been promoting a renewed rhetoric of an Iranian threat. Back in July of this year, Professor Chomsky wrote the following commentary on the issue that resonates even louder today.

Cambridge, Ma – The dire threat of Iran is widely recognised to be the most serious foreign policy crisis facing the Obama administration. General Petraeus informed the Senate Committee on Armed Services in March 2010 that “the Iranian regime is the primary state-level threat to stability” in the US Central Command area of responsibility, the Middle East and Central Asia, the primary region of US global concerns. The term “stability” here has its usual technical meaning: firmly under US control. In June 2010 Congress strengthened the sanctions against Iran, with even more severe penalties against foreign companies. The Obama administration has been rapidly expanding US offensive capacity in the African island of Diego Garcia, claimed by Britain, which had expelled the population so that the US could build the massive base it uses for attacks in the Central Command area. The Navy reports sending a submarine tender to the island to service nuclear-powered guided-missile submarines with Tomahawk missiles, which can carry nuclear warheads. Each submarine is reported to have the striking power of a typical carrier battle group. According to a US Navy cargo manifest obtained by

read long convincing evidence HERE http://wobblygoblin.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/the-iranian-threat/

Occupy Patriarchy. Cuts violate and enslave Women

Austerity is violence on the bodies of women

In Rome, activist women responded to the #occupypatriarchy call out initiated by the Occupy Wall Street Movement. The group, composed of students, precarious workers and migrants, marched through the city centre’s high streets on November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

Recent reports and stats show how in Italy the new “welfare system” feeds on unpaid women’s work: the unpaid work of grandmothers looking after their grandchildren because nursery schools cannot be afforded, daughters supporting their elderly parents, mothers supporting their grown up children. With the cuts to social services the responsibility of that work falls on the women.

In these austere times, gender equality has become a “luxury item”. When the government seems to support policies on work/life balance, what they’re de facto supporting is the principle according to which a woman must undertake several jobs at the same time: all precarious, without the guarantees of the “official” job market, without wages and employment rights. This is violence masked up as austerity!

The crisis attacks every possibility of autonomy, self-determination and freedom of choice. This is, for example, the aim of the Tarzia Law, which wants to turn our formerly independent family planning centres into family and baby protection centres in the hands of non-qualified Catholic “advisers”. This goal has already been achieved in the region of Lazio, in what appears to be an experiment undertaken to legitimise the same savagery on a national scale. Independent family planning centres and abortion rights are an area of conflict on which women in Italy must keep fighting, especially with our new government and its Vatican friends.

Sources: articles by Collettivo Le Malefiche and Le Ribellule.

From Italy Calling with thanks https://italycalling.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/austerity-is-violence-on-the-bodies-of-women/

España: Empieza la fiesta de políticos corruptos

‘Con casi 1000 politicos ya imputados por corrupción, y muchos de ellos reeligidos, ya tienen la luz verde para la carrera de robar todo que se puede.

Antes ni siquiera de tomar posesión el nuevo Gobierno de derechas gasta miliones en armamentos ya declarados obsoletos , mientras desmatela el sistema de salud, etc

‘ Porque tiene guasa gastarse seis millones de eurazos, en pleno plan de recortes, en compras de este tipo. Además tras todo tipo de informes que dicen que se compra armamento que no se puede pagar y que para colmo ni siquiera sirve para nada mucho de lo que se adquiere a precio de oro. Ello unido al proceso de compra que ha sido una adjudicación sin publicidad. Y por último, sacándole las castañas del fuego a una empresa de armas cuyo producto había sido declarado obsoleto por el Instituto de Análisis Estratégico Internacional, criterio compartido, según se cuenta en la noticia de abajo, por expertos de la Armada española. ¿Se les ocurre alguna explicación para este curioso proceder de los políticos que nos gobiernan? Vaya, la misma que se nos ha ocurrido a nosotros/as. Nota de Tortuga.”

Pueden ver las dos noticias, la publicada hoy mismo, y la de hace tan solo una quincena.

Tierra compra más VAMTAC carrozados a UROVESA por más de 6 millones de euros 2/12/2011

El AEI se reafirma en la obsolescencia de los VAMTAC al margen de cualquier otro criterio subjetivo10/11/2011