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Key driver of US foreign policy towards Afghanistan

30-11-2001 11:50

Testimony by an oil and gas corporation executive (of Union Oil of California) to the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific of the US House of Representatives' Committee on International Relations.

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Colombian state losing war, calls for truce with FARC

30-11-2001 05:23

World News Service

25 September 2001

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Your rights at Belgium's borders

30-11-2001 01:01

Your rights at Belgium's borders

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Statement from the Simon Jones memorial campaign

29-11-2001 22:25

We would not be human if we were not disappointed by today's not guilty verdicts. We had wished that James Martell and Euromin would have been found guilty of Simonís manslaughter and they have not.

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Egypt's First Web Prisoner Of Conscience

29-11-2001 20:42

Egypt's First Web Prisoner Of Conscience

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Editorial Cartoon: "Liberal America's United Front!"

29-11-2001 19:36

Editorial Cartoon: "Liberal America's United Front!"
Time to celebrate the patriotic devotion of our cherished Liberal "institutions" (yeah, right).

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Dock owner gets away with murder

29-11-2001 18:37

In 1998 Simon Jones was killed on his first day at work as a casual worker for Euromin at Shoreham Docks. After a few minutes 'training' a grab of a crane nearly decapitated his head. After three and a half years campaigning the company and its managers were finally prosecuted for Corporate Manslaughter. Today they were found not guilty of manslaughter and fined only £50,000 for health and safety breaches.

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BBC latest project: who can WE vote for ?

29-11-2001 17:13

The BBC has begun to cast around for nominations for whom they call "Breat Britons". I didnt take any notice until I saw thay were giving rather heavy handed "hints" for the "preferred bidders".

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American Congressional Candidate Calls for Chemical Castration of Gays

29-11-2001 16:46

Radical Right-Wing Candidate Seeks To Reign In the Homosexual Population Through Fascist Tactics.

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Iraq: Ex UN'ers savage US policy

29-11-2001 16:05

Former UN relief chiefs Hans von Sponeck and Denis Halliday speak out against an attack on Iraq

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Indian opposition irate at US military use of Indian airspace

29-11-2001 14:01

Chennai chopper episode: Opposition demands revocation of all facilities to US warships. The India opposition is feeling "cheated" by the prime minister, who had declared at an all-party meeting on September 27 that the US had made no request and that India had extended no facilities, reports Venkat Parsa

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Open Thought Forum

29-11-2001 11:41

Something you'd like to discuss? A forum for discussing almost anything ; conspiracies, weird thoughts, announcements, things that just come to mind, anything at all, a place to publish ideas or truths that won't be accepted elsewhere.

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Liberty's response to the anti-terrorism bill

29-11-2001 11:10

This is the national council for civil liberties view of the bill.

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'independent' comment on genocide

29-11-2001 10:56

I found this comment on the website for The Independent. Not wishing to promote the mainstream of course, but just found it interesting, I hope you do to.

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African Liberation Support Campaign Monthly Discussion

29-11-2001 10:03

Monthly discussion with speakers, this month continuing to discuss the way forward for African liberation

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Wild maize contaminated by GMOs

29-11-2001 09:52

Halt this reckless experiment now says FOE

Friends of the Earth is calling for an immediate global moratorium on the growing of GM crops[1] after new research revealed that wild maize in Mexico has been contaminated with GMOs.The results are were revealed in the science journal Nature.

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Bush family's dirty little secret:

29-11-2001 08:55

President's oil companies funded by Bin Laden family and wealthy Saudis who financed Osama bin Laden

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ATTACKS BY PARAMILITARIES ON COCA GROWERS, THE LANDLESS MOVEMENT, TRADE UNIONS A

29-11-2001 00:57

Article denouncing attacks on trade unionists and Evo Morales Ayma MP and death squads operating against Landless Peasant Movement and coca growers.

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Talkin' bout a revolution; incessantly!

28-11-2001 23:01

Sorry if you're bored on this tack, folks, but I still think there's more to be said.

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International student strike on the 5th of december

28-11-2001 23:00

There is a call for a massive international student strike, world wide, against the war. Nobody involved in the fight against this dirty war can ignore this chance to make our protest heard. United we can never be defeated.