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Peace News #2475-76

July - August 2006

Citizens of the 51st State, resist! Albert Beale, Critical Mass win legal victory

Nadje Al-Ali, Acting together for Iraqi widows Make Ant's day - visit Camp Bling Worldwide naked protest against oil dependency Martha Ransdell, First military SOCPA trial due to go ahead Ippy, After the party, farewell to the Square The Good News Three damage Minuteman silo in Plowshares action Anna, The child molesters Panda Rainbow, Citizen Inspectors scrutinise Yeovilton EF!ers, Earth First! heads for West Wales this summer

Genny Bowe, Better than the death penalty Jess Orlik, The Other Campaign - "from below and to the left" Andreas Speck, EU intervention in Congo: a milestone on the way to a military Europe? Martha Ransdell and Ippy No-one is illegal - not even in Essex! Rebecca Johnson, Faslane 365 - sustained pressure at the nuclear chains weakest link Mike Brady, Taking a stand Jeff Cloves, Radical common sense From the Molehill, Secret civil servants, judicial modesty, and pacifist respectability

Editorial, Walking fine lines The economic argument Farook Tariq, Democracy under dictatorship

Noam Chomsky, Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy Ann Hansen, Direct Action. Memoirs of an Urban Guerilla Anthony Arnove, Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal Ian Henshall and Rowland Morgan9/11 Revealed Elisabetta Andreoli, Gabriele Muzio, Sara Muzio and Max Pugh, Our oil and other tales (Nuestro petroleo y otros cuentos)

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