UK Newswire Archive
No Borders Gathering Feb 21st-22nd Bristol
08-01-2009 17:21
The Bristol No Borders group are hosting the next network-wide No BordersGathering, on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd February at St. Werburgh's
Community Centre here in Bristol.
Bombing to make the Gaza prison even more secure for Israel
08-01-2009 16:55
There are two persistent myths about the aim of Israel's onslaught on Gaza: the first that it is an entirely defensive move, a way to end the rocket fire of Hamas; and the second that it is designed to restore the army's credibility after its failure to cow Hizballah in 2006.Camden "Super Virus and Animal Testing Lab" sign Government Petition to No. 10
08-01-2009 15:55
There are plans to build a vast high level virus containment facility and animal testing lab on a Camden council house estate alongside St Pancras International behind the British Library. This opposed by MI5, MPs , councillors, local businesses and residents. There is an online government petition against this. Please sign online by going to
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/BLISS-Lab/
EDO MBM/ITT Supporting Israeli Airstrikes In Gaza
08-01-2009 15:39
Gaza's Offshore Gas Fields
08-01-2009 15:24
Not only is Israel the US cop for US oil profits in the Middle East, but Gaza has lots of offshore gas fields, the explanation for this takeover by US/Israel of Gaza. The name of the game is always money.The End of Capitalism? Not quite, but nearly....
08-01-2009 14:34
The following article was originally published in Fourth World Review - A Transition Journal., see also this talk by Nafeez Ahmed, Food Crisis & Peak Oil (Audio).
Gaza Catastrophe: Resource Conflict? Natural Gas, Palestinian Elections, and Israel's Subversion of the 'Peace Process'
08-01-2009 14:27
Israel claims it is fighting in Gaza to stop Hamas rocket-fire against Israel, the continuation of which constituted a flagrant breach of the six-months ceasefire. Hence, the objective of the military operation is limited by the aim of putting an end to the rocket-fire. In fact, the current outbreak of violence cannot be understood without analysing the asymmetries in military violence between the two parties; the structural dynamic of the conflict in the context of the character of the Israeli occupation; the central role of recent discoveries of substantial natural gas reserves in Gaza; and joint Anglo-American and Israeli attempts to monopolise the lucrative (and strategic) energy resources through a political process tied to a corrupt Palestinian Authority run by Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party. Hamas' unprecedented victory in democratic elections in 2006 fundamentally threatened these plans. Operation Cast Lead, the concurrent Israeli military venture, was operationalised as a war plan in early 2008, and already finalised in detail as far back as 2001 by Israeli military intelligence. Its execution in late December 2008 into January 2009 is designed to head-off not only domestic Israeli elections, but more significantly, the outcome of further incoming Palestinian democratic elections likely to consolidate Hamas' power, to permanently shift the balance of geopolitical and economic power in its favour. The long-term goal is the "cantonization" of the Occupied Territories making way for increased Israeli encroachment, and ultimately the escalation of Palestinian emigration.
Palestina: Amid Indifference and Inefectiveness
08-01-2009 14:20
The Long March of the Cuban Revolution
08-01-2009 14:09
Holocaust Denied: The lying silence of those who know
08-01-2009 13:57
"When the truth is replaced by silence," the Soviet dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko said, "the silence is a lie." It may appear the silence is broken on Gaza. The cocoons of murdered children, wrapped in green, together with boxes containing their dismembered parents and the cries of grief and rage of everyone in that death camp by the sea, can be viewed on al-Jazeera and YouTube, even glimpsed on the BBC. But Russia's incorrigible poet was not referring to the ephemeral we call news; he was asking why those who knew the why never spoke it and so denied it. Among the Anglo-American intelligentsia, this is especially striking. It is they who hold the keys to the great storehouses of knowledge: the historiographies and archives that lead us to the why.International Gathering
08-01-2009 13:54
The Romanian ‘orphans’, for whom ARK (Absolute Return for Kids) are now fundrais
08-01-2009 13:44
Roelie Post’s book "For Export Only; the untold story of the Romanian ‘orphans’" isessential reading for anyone who has an interest in this issue. 'The reader is taken along on an eight year travel, and will be shown the story of the Romanian ‘orphans’ from a different light, where global politics and private interests compete with the rights of the child.'
http://www.romania-forexportonly.blogspot.com Extracts below. Palestine discusssion at Friends Meeting house (06-01-2009).
08-01-2009 13:25
Systemic aspects of academic repression in the New World Order
08-01-2009 13:24
It is generally acknowledged today that every single individual freedom, including of course academic freedom, has been effectively undermined, both on account of the systemic limitations imposed by the form of the system of market economy developed in neoliberal globalisation, and on account of the corresponding limitations imposed by the semi-totalitarian transformation of representative “democracy” in the aftermath of the 9/11 events. (…) unless universities are directly controlled by society itself (which, alone, could express the general interest) and the academic community, i.e., teachers and students, no real academic freedom is possible. (…) A democratic paideia, therefore, presupposes a struggle for radical change not just in the educational structures but also in the socio-economic structures, (…) there is little (if any) relation between market needs and human needs in the market economy system, in which what determines “market needs” is crucially conditioned by privileged social groups, through the concentration of income, wealth and economic power at their hands. It is therefore only within the context of an inclusive democracy, which institutionalises an equal distribution of political and economic power among all citizens that one could meaningfully talk about academic freedom.Urgent Update on Ronnie Easterbrook – Action Needed!!
08-01-2009 13:04
Ronnie is now entering his 3rd week on hunger strike. At 78 years old and already in failing health due to previous protests, this may be his final act against a judicial and penal system that he believes has unjustly imprisoned him for 20 years.Full article | 2 additions | 4 comments
size of gaza
08-01-2009 12:52
Gaza protest at Israeli Embassy, London, Wed 7 Jan
08-01-2009 12:19
Sheffield: Local Gaza Rally and London Demo Coach Demo Details
08-01-2009 11:47
Literary Soirée with Thomas Glave and Rommi Smith
08-01-2009 11:45
THOMAS GLAVE AND ROMMI SMITH
@ The Viaduct, Lower Briggate, Leeds, Thursday 15 January 2009, 6.30 to 8.30 pm