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En film av Maj Wechselman By Sverigespremiär den 29 september i Stockholm på Grand Biografen, i Göteborg på Svea,i Malmö på Spegeln och i Lund på Kine  Denna film är resultatet av det första stora filmsamarbetet mellan Sverige och Sydafrika – 600 statister deltar. När Gandhi steg i land i Sydafrika var han en bortskämt överklassyngling, utbildad som advokat i England. Indier var inte populära i Sydafrika och snart blev Gandhi det nya landets mest skarpögda kritiker. Ändå bildar han en frivillig indisk ambulanskår och blir själv ambulanssoldat i det blodiga Boerkriget. I det isolerade indiska gettot i Johannesburg slår pesten ned. Gandhi ser till att isolera de pestsmittade indierna och improviserar ett pestsjukhus där han själv med ett fåtal andra tar hand om de döende. Ett par år senare gör zuluhövdingen Bambatha uppror i Natal. Åter marscherar Gandhi ut som ambulanssoldat. Men det finns knappast någon sårad europeisk soldat...

WIRE # 22, August 26, 2000World court – Peace in Burundi – Clinton in Africa – Truth & reconciliation – The Kursk affair – Israel: 200 nukes – China, arms seller in Africa – UN out of cash, Kosovo – NATO’s smelter takeover in Kosovo foreseen 6 months ago – Media and US elections – Pentagon hates peace in Korea – US, the worlds largest arms exporter – New report on UN peacekeeping – 20 million lives at stake in Africa, no humanitarian intervention – The world water crisis… WIRE # 21, August 16, 2000Millennium Peace Summit at the UN – Cluster bombs kill – BMD & new cold war – Vandana Shiva on poverty – UN & big business – World debt special – Globalizing NGO struggles -NATO in bed with scorpion in Kosovo – Montenegro – Where are the bodies buried? – Chomsky on Kosovo – New presidential...

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The Break Away of a Former Non-Aligned and Neutral Country in the Light of the Developing CESDP By Dr. Georg Schöfbänkerschoefbaenker@magnet.atDirector, Austrian Information-Center for Security Policy and Arms Control, Linz. Since end of Feb. 2000 a new Austrian government came to office including an extreme right-wing party, the Freedom Party (FPÖ). Since then, the new Austrian government is isolated within EU and most of the world, as no other national government of an EU-member state has ever been in history. Despite this domestic and home grown isolation caused by the fact that the FPÖ constantly has conducted a racist, exclusionary, and jingoistic policy in a style which is exceptionally repugnant, the security concept of the new Austrian government is in some way completely ad odds with ESDI and ESDP as outlined at the EU-summits from Cologne to Helsinki in 1999. The new governmental agreement between the Peoples Party and the...

PRESS RELEASE 2000-03-23 One year after the bombing of Yugoslavia started, an appeal calling for an end to the sanctions against Yugoslavia was published in Sweden, signed by 70 prominent people, among them sportsmen, ex-ministers, bishops including the archbishop of Sweden, trade union presidents, members of parliament, scholars, representatives of the business community and from the cultural sector. In their appeal they point out the fact that those who suffer the most in Yugoslavia are old people and children but because reconstruction after the devastation is hampered, everybody in the population is suffering. They request the Swedish government to work for an end to the sanctions against Yugoslavia.. The appeal and the names follow. Opinions and information: <erikgoethe@post.utfors.se> “END SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA! The sanctions against Yugoslavia have been going on for nearly ten years, inflicting tremendous supply problems and suffering upon the Yugoslav people, particularily after last year’s bombing raids....