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Canada's Unexplained Military Presence in Afghanistan
by Shane Ruttle Martinez - May 23

Since Ottawa sent military support to the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, Canadian public opinion has generally hovered in a state of confusion, with many people unsure of exactly why troops have been sent there in the first place.

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It's War on Afghanistan's Most Outspoken Woman: Malalai Joya Kicked Out of Parliament
by Gina Whitfield; Seven Oaks; May 26, 2007

Malalai Joya, the most outspoken of the 68 women currently elected in Afghanistan, has been suspended from parliament. A relentless critic of the warlords and assorted war criminals in the Karzai government, legislators kicked her out after viewing a television interview in which she likened the parliament to a “zoo”.

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Anti-US Uproar Sweeps Italy
By David Swanson, DavidSwanson.org
Tuesday 08 May 2007

    The U.S. government has proposed to make Vicenza, Italy, the largest US military site in Europe, but the people of Vicenza, and all of Italy, have sworn it will never happen.

    As with the story of the Downing Street Minutes two years ago this week, a major news story and huge controversy in Europe right now is unknown to Americans, despite the fact that it is all about the policies of the American government. In February of this year, 200,000 people descended on the Northeastern Italian town of Vicenza (population 100,000) to march in protest. Largely as a result, the Prime Minister of Italy was (temporarily) driven out of power. Meanwhile, just outside Vicenza, large tents now hold newly minted citizen activists keeping a 24-hour-per-day vigil and training hundreds of senior citizens, children, and families every day in how to nonviolently stop bulldozers. The bulldozers they are waiting for are American.

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German Police Conduct Raids on Militant Anti-G8 Protestors
09.05.2007

    German police launched raids in six northern states Wednesday amid fears that left-wing radical groups were plotting attacks to disrupt a G8 summit in June on the country's Baltic coast.

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