Collateral Murder

Overview 5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff.

Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.

The military did not reveal how the Reuters staff were killed, and stated that they did not know how the children were injured. After demands by Reuters, the incident was investigated and the U.S. military concluded that the actions of the soldiers were in accordan

US MILITARY BASE AT “DAL MOLIN” IN VICENZA 50 ACTIVISTS GO INTO THE SITE AND CHAIN THEMSELVES TO THE CRANES

Fifty women and men of Vicenza entered today in the construction site of the new US military base at Dal Molin anD chained themselves to the cranes and the working machineries used to build the foundations of the military installation, and that every day are damaging the “vicentina” groundwater. Recent surveys have produced evidence of unjustified increase of water level in some residential areas.

A new base is born: waiting for the advent of Dal Molin

Today, in the day in which president mr. Barack Obama will be awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize, a group of activists opposing to the building of the Dal Molin U.S. base in Vicenza, Italy set up a particular nativity in front of the Nobel Peace Center and the Grand Hotel in Oslo.

"Obama miracle: close all U.s. Bases"

Today a group of protesters against the U.S. Miltary installation in “Dal Molin”, in Vicenza, Italy exposed a banner on a bridge next to the bus terminal in Oslo city Centre. The message carried on the banner is: “Stop U.S. War Bases – Vicenza, Italy”. Meanwhile, other activists where in front of the Grand Hotel distributing New York Times copies carrying the president’s promise to close U.S. Military bases all over the world, starting from Vicenza’s Dal Molin building site

NoDalMolin in Oslo for the Peace Nobel Priza to Obama

A large delegation of “Vicentini” will fly to Oslo on Monday, Dec 7th 2009. The goal is to protest against Pres. Barack Obama, who will be receiving the Peace Nobel Prize for his war policy, materialized in Vicenza with the construction of a new and devastating military base.

4 steps around the base

We are thirty or forty this morning to check the sounds produced at the building site.

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OBAMA: IF YOU DON’T RESPOND WE WILL CAMP OUT BY THE WHITE HOUSE

If president Obama won’t respond to the the citizens of Vicenza during his permanence in Italy, in September we’ll organize a charter flight to USA and we will camp out to the bitter end by the White House expecting an answer.

Resisting US Bases in Italy: No a la base si a la pace!

by Desiree Fairooz

Vicenza, four hours north of Rome between Venice and Milan, is a classically Italian city with two important footnotes.

It’s a U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) world heritage site, home to numerous architectural works by the Venetian architect, Andrea Palladio, widely considered the most influential architect in the history of Western architecture. Citizens of Vicenza and its surrounding suburbs live in neighborhoods characterized by manicured lawns and gardens, clay roofs, Italian tiled walkways, coffee bars and immaculate streets and bus stops.

Noam Chomsky: "The courageous protests at Vicenza have been an inspiration to many others"

During World War II, US planners developed a strategy of global control, intended to displace the European imperial powers and go far beyond, but in new ways. They had learned the effectiveness of airpower, and intended to cover as much of the world as possible with military bases that could be quickly expanded when necessary, and used to guarantee control over resources, suppress indigenous movements that threatened US domination, and install and protect client regimes. Massive intervention in subverting Italian democracy from the late 1940s is just one of many examples, benign by comparison with others that reached as far as near-genocidal slaughter.

How to Deal with America’s Empire of Bases

A Modest Proposal for Garrisoned Lands

by Chalmers Johnson*

The U.S. Empire of Bases — at $102 billion a year already the world’s costliest military enterprise — just got a good deal more expensive. As astart, on May 27th, we learned that the State Department will build a new "embassy" in Islamabad, Pakistan, which at $736 million will be the second priciest ever constructed, only $4 million less, if cost overruns don’t occur, than the Vatican-City-sized one the Bush administration put up in Baghdad. The State Department was also reportedly planning to buy the five-star Pearl Continental Hotel (complete with pool) in Peshawar, near the border with Afghanistan, to use as a consulate and living quarters for its staff there.