Once it was very clear that weapons of mass destruction did not exist in the country we had bombed, invaded and allowed to be systematically looted, and whose infrastructure we wrecked and whose social fabric we had drastically weakened over the p
In what has been suggested was a unanimous verdict from the jury at Dublin's Four Courts, five ploughshares activists walked free on 25 July - more than three years after they had visited Shannon airport and damaged a US navy supply plane.
Greenpeace reported in mid August that they had delivered more than 75 tons of essential medical supplies to Lebanon by sea, following a joint operation between the international environmental campaign group and Medecins Sans Frontieres.
The events in the Middle East during July and August resulted in a flurry of activity back here in Britain, with people from Brighton to Glasgow taking action to “bring the war home”.
In last month's issue we published a piece which stated the case for, and aimed to motivate readers to get involved with, Faslane365. As promised, this month we publish a dissenting view on this anti-nuclear campaign.
As PN went to press, activists from climate change group Reclaim Power had blocked the main entrance to the Hartlepool nuclear power plant in Teesside.
In July, Jenny Gaiawyn returned to Palestine after a three-year gap. During her visit the lens of the world's media was focused on Lebanon and the atrocities being committed there, leaving the Israeli forces to act with continued impunity in the West Bank and Gaza.
Writing from southern Lebanon, former Voices in the Wilderness activist Ramzi Kysia reflects on the work of ordinary people for peace and reconstruction.
At the end of August, 19-year-old Private Jason Chelsea killed himself. It was widely reported that he took his own life because he could not cope with the possibility of killing children during his, then imminent, deployment to Iraq.
Working on the solid nonviolent principle that we should transform our enemies, PN brings you a slightly tongue-in-cheek column dedicated to getting to know our "enemies" better.
