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Will Sudan be Re-Colonized?

15-06-2007 23:27

The United States is maneuvering to introduce a UN peacekeeping force into Darfur, as a first step to securing control of the region’s vast supply of oil. US control of Darfur’s petroleum resources would deliver highly profitable investment opportunities to US firms, and scuttle China’s investment in the region, thereby slowing the rise of a strategic competitor whose continued industrial growth depends on secure access to foreign oil. Washington is using highly exaggerated charges of genocide as a justification for a UN intervention it would dominate, while at the same time opposing a workable peacekeeping plan acceptable to the Sudanese government that would see the current African Union mission in Darfur expand.

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Hotel bans 911 hero, then lies about it

15-06-2007 22:29

William Rodriguez, a hero of 911 who saved many lives has been banned from speaking in a hotel in Peterborough. The hotel then lied about it.

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Liverpool Council Makes 150 Care Workers Redundant

15-06-2007 17:29

LIVERPOOL City Council is to make 150 care workers redundant to help pay for Capital of Culture.

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This Week in Palestine – Week 24 2007

15-06-2007 17:12

Audio
This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org, for June 9 through 15, 2007.

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No Risk - No Fun - G8 film night @ LARC Tuesday 19th June

15-06-2007 14:52

State of Emergency (with help from Reel News) will be holding a screening of Heiligendamm/Rostock G8 video footage followed by discussion this Tuesday at LARC in Whitechapel, featuring films by Oscar Beard, G8-TV and others.

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Haleys Selling Foie Gras - Take Action!

15-06-2007 14:50

HALEYS RESTAURANT & HOTEL IN LEEDS HAVE BEGUN SELLING THE CRUEL DISH, FOIE GRAS. DUCKS AND GEESE ARE FORCE-FED GRAIN UNTIL THEIR LIVERS BECOME EXTREMELY PAINFUL AND SWELL UPTO TEN TIMES THEIR NATURAL SIZE, BEFORE BECOMING INFECTED, TO MAKE THIS 'DELICACY'.

PLEASE POLITELY COMPLAIN TO HALEY'S AND ASK THEM TO TAKE CRUELTY OFF THE MENU!

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GM Victory! Hull down! One more pota't'go!

15-06-2007 14:39

Following extensive local and national resistance, BASF (the company trialing the GM potatoes), announced last month that they would not be conducting a GM potato trial in Yorkshire this year!

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London G8 debrief meeting notes

15-06-2007 13:17

Yesterday there was a G8 mobilisation debrief meeting in London. Here are some of the things that were said.

We also decided to have a broader 'What next' type discussion at 4pm, Sunday 24th June – Ramparts main hall. This can turn into a bit of a social in the evening to relax and socialise. More information to come.

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Pentagon claims Iran is arming Taliban

15-06-2007 12:11

During a press conference with Hamid Karzai, the Afghan President, Robert Gates stated weapons are being smuggled from Iran to Afghanistan. He also stated that his latest intelligence reports indicate a “fairly substantial flow of weapons”.

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EXXON PROPOSES BURNING HUMANITY FOR FUEL IF CLIMATE CALAMITY HITS

15-06-2007 11:30

This is a repost of a Press Release by the Yes Men. I didn't think they could do this stuff anymore.

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Benefit Café for the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee - Kebele - Bristol

15-06-2007 11:08

Information about the direct action taken by a matriarchical, non-hierarchical indigenous group in Canada, that can serve as an inspiration for local struggles for land reclamation.

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Laissez-faire Capitalism, Desensitisation and Moral Bankruptcy

15-06-2007 11:08

Two events in particular typify the modern age, the exploitation or rather the reduction of poor, exploited and victimised humans as body part suppliers -- kidneys in particular -- and the vacuous, worthless celebrity of a no-talent, mindless, American rich girl whose presence in the mass media is constant. While millions suffer injustices, tortures and hardships, Paris Hilton is served for mass consumption; coverage of the horrific trade in living human body parts is avoided for obvious and shameful reasons!

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The Neoliberal Offensive and the Battle over Public Property

15-06-2007 10:50

Since the removal of the socialist camp, neoliberalism has resolved to repossess important sources of raw materials. This appropriation process and its political protection can best be described as the re-colonization of the world.. Privatizations are the most important method for weakening the state.

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Police try to block anti-war demo

15-06-2007 10:24

Gordon Brown will be crowned Labour leader and our next prime minister within an exclusion zone built to keep out any dissenting voices.

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Michael Heseltine is exposed as an idiot for plugging Ken Livingstone's lies

15-06-2007 10:10

The BBC Radio 4 Today programme broadcast a solemnly pronounced news item about Margaret Thatcher’s 'deputy Prime Minister' Michael Heseltine calling for a system of local government in Britain that can only be described as the mass mayorisation of big cities. Heseltine made a particular point of calling for British cities to ape the USA and get a mayor in every excusable place

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Mule Newspaper

15-06-2007 09:24

MULE is a not-for-profit, grassroots, UK-wide project committed to using media production and mass distribution as a tool for promoting social, environmental and economic justice and peace.

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Asylum Week Event in Hackney on Thursday 21st June 2007: Asylum Life

15-06-2007 08:51

Asylum Life. Films for Refugee Week and discussion with directors and people featured in the films, and Guardian journalist Natasha Walter, founder of 'Women for Refugee Women'

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Martin Webster has another go at the BNP's Nick Griffin

15-06-2007 00:46

Allegations of theft, lies and asbestosis gags from the far-right's Martin Webster

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Blair could face Trial for War Crimes

14-06-2007 23:56

LONDON, June 12--TONY BLAIR could face prosecution for war crimes in Iraq following a legal bid launched yesterday.