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Indian, Iran, Cuba have banned cow slaughter,and 8 other animal rights stories

Netherlands... expected to ban slaughter without anesthesia or stunning
Korean activists protest fur show
S Africa village stones monkey to death
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Babar Ahmad Police Trial: A Verdict Based on Fear, not Fact?

14-06-2011 18:35 | Guantánamo | Repression | Terror War | World

They say a week is a long time in politics. How about almost eight years, and counting, in the criminal “justice” system, with no end in sight. For Babar Ahmad, last Friday (3 June) saw the end of the trial of four police officers accused of assaulting him.

FBI to Expand Domestic Surveillance Powers as Details Emerge of Its Spy Campaign Targeting Activists

14-06-2011 18:15 | History | Repression | Sheffield | World

Civil liberties advocates are raising alarm over news the FBI is giving agents more leeway to conduct domestic surveillance. According to the New York Times, new guidelines will allow FBI agents to investigate people and organizations "proactively" without firm evidence for suspecting criminal activity. We speak to former FBI agent Mike German, who now works at the American Civil Liberties Union, and Texas activist Scott Crow, who has been the focus of intense FBI surveillance from 2001 until at least 2008. Using the Freedom of Information Act, Crow received 440 pages of heavily redacted documents revealing the FBI had set up a video camera outside his house, traced the license plates of cars parked in front of his home, recorded the arrival and departure of his guests, and observed gatherings that Crow attended at bookstores and cafes. The agency also tracked Crow’s emails and phone conversations and picked through his trash to identify his bank and mortgage companies. “It’s been definitely traumatizing at different points,” says Crow. “But if we don’t come out and be open about this, then they’ve already won, and the surveillance and the ‘war on terror’ wins against us.”

Palestine Today 06 14 2011

14-06-2011 14:52 | Other Press | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org, for Tuesday June 14th, 2011

Will the Gaza flotilla be safe from Israel's murderous threats?

14-06-2011 09:04 | Flotilla to Gaza | Palestine | World

It was a simple question.

On 27 March I wrote to my Member of Parliament asking: "What is the British government planning to do, please, to safeguard British subjects (and indeed the other humanitarians) sailing with the flotilla on its peaceful mission to Gaza?"

The government had been only too happy, I said, to dispatch the warships Cumberland and York to help civilians of all nationalities caught up in the Libyan trouble and deliver aid to the Benghazi medical centre.

What's the Difference Between a Comb-Over and Shaved Balls?

14-06-2011 02:19 | Analysis | World

This is a before-and-after story endemic to politics everywhere. Self-aggrandizing, rich assholes hide their true motives to get elected. Once they're elected they fiddle while Rome burns.

No Justice in Kafka’s America

13-06-2011 23:39 | Anti-racism | Repression | Terror War | World

In Franz Kafka’s short story “Before the Law”

http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/kafka/beforethelaw.htm a tireless supplicant spends his life praying for admittance into the courts of justice. He sits outside the law court for days, months and years. He makes many attempts to be admitted. He sacrifices everything he owns to sway or bribe the stern doorkeeper. He ages, grows feeble and finally childish. He is told as he nears death that the entrance was constructed solely for him and it will now be closed.

Government Orders You Tube To Censor Protest Videos

13-06-2011 23:31 | Repression | Technology | Sheffield | World

In a frightening example of how the state is tightening its grip around the
free Internet, it has emerged that You Tube is complying with thousands of
requests from governments to censor and remove videos that show protests and
other examples of citizens simply asserting their rights, while also
deleting search terms by government mandate.

Why the NATO powers are trying to assassinate Moammar Gaddafi

Protecting civilians or western oil companies?

Wikileaks-released State Department cables from November 2007 and afterwards show the real reason for the mounting U.S. hostility to the Libyan government prior to the current civil war.

Palestine Today 06 13 2011

13-06-2011 15:50 | Other Press | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org, for Monday June 13th, 2011

Take the square!!! Take the streets!!! #Globalrevolution 19th June 2011

We are the outraged, the anonymous, the voiceless. We were there, silent but alert, watching. Not gazing upward at the powers that be, but looking from side to side for the right time to unite with each other.

Beautiful South Korea

13-06-2011 11:58 | Repression | Workers' Movements | World

Int'l Petition urging that the 10 Vietnamese Migrant Workers be found Not Guilty and Released (effective 2011.6.07)

P.s.... this is highlighting the situation in South Korea, not North Korea, as there is lots on North Korea , most people think they know..via amnesty etc. Lots of people think the south is paradise...but its not....

Greece: Democracy is born in the squares

12-06-2011 11:53 | Free Spaces | Repression | Social Struggles | World

There may be no better proof of the rupture that is brought about by the “movement of the squares” other than its open, participatory, directly democratic way of organising and functioning. Within a single week it has given birth to a political culture of a different type, one that literally overcomes all known models of organising and struggle to date.

Even if the issue of its procedures is incomplete, it comes up again and again and comprises the most important legacy already left to the political and social life of the country. This does not mean there are no issues with disorganisation, inefficiency, delays. Taking into account however the explosive rhythm of its development, the lack of previous experience on the side of those who created it, along with the need to compile, step by step, heterogeneous and different opinions of all participants through open procedures, all this is to be expected. Even if time-consuming, its procedures are flexible and are altered by the day; they are self-criticised, adjusted according to mistakes, comments and suggestions deriving from them being tested in practice.

Fire Extinguishers and Fire Starters: Anarchist interventions in the #Spanish Revolution

12-06-2011 09:48 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

Barcelona, Spring 2011: Chronology of An Unexpected Event

British government: We wasted millions chasing wrong terrorist threats

British government's outrageous new "counter-terrorism" measures are receiving a public relations backlash because of their extreme, fascist overtones.

John Pilger writes on 'the extraordinary banning of my film on war and media'

Dear Noam

I am writing to you and a number of other friends mostly in the US to alert you to the extraordinary banning of my film on war and media, 'The War You Don't See', and the abrupt cancellation of a major event at the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe in which David Barsamian and I were to discuss free speech, US foreign policy and censorship in the media.

Guardian's Charlie Skelton live from NATO Bilderberg conference

11-06-2011 01:52 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | World

Guardian’s Charlie Skelton spots George Osborne at NATO’s secret Bilderberg conference in St Moritz, Switzerland,

10 June 1924 - Italy

10-06-2011 17:19 | World

Rome: Giacomo Matteotti is walking along the Tiber when he is attacked by a group of men and kidnapped. His body reappears a couple of months later, in August, outside Rome. Who was he, and what happened to him?

This Week in Palestine week 23 2011

10-06-2011 17:01 | Other Press | Palestine | World

Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for June 4th to the 10th, 2011.

Independent trade unionists in Iran's islamic regime are imprisoned and turtured

10-06-2011 11:47 | Globalisation | Workers' Movements | Birmingham | World

Independent trade unionists in Iran's islamic regime are imprisoned for speaking out about labour rights.

Islamic law means hell for Workers and heaven for Bourgeois and Ruling class .
Worker activist under islamic regime are imprisoned, tortured and even executed just to defend basic workers right.

http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=19508

World Newswire Archive

Indian, Iran, Cuba have banned cow slaughter,and 8 other animal rights stories

Babar Ahmad Police Trial: A Verdict Based on Fear, not Fact?

FBI to Expand Domestic Surveillance Powers as Details Emerge of Its Spy Campaign Targeting Activists

Palestine Today 06 14 2011

Will the Gaza flotilla be safe from Israel's murderous threats?

What's the Difference Between a Comb-Over and Shaved Balls?

No Justice in Kafka’s America

Government Orders You Tube To Censor Protest Videos

Why the NATO powers are trying to assassinate Moammar Gaddafi

Palestine Today 06 13 2011

Take the square!!! Take the streets!!! #Globalrevolution 19th June 2011

Beautiful South Korea

Greece: Democracy is born in the squares

Fire Extinguishers and Fire Starters: Anarchist interventions in the #Spanish Revolution

British government: We wasted millions chasing wrong terrorist threats

John Pilger writes on 'the extraordinary banning of my film on war and media'

Guardian's Charlie Skelton live from NATO Bilderberg conference

10 June 1924 - Italy

This Week in Palestine week 23 2011

Independent trade unionists in Iran's islamic regime are imprisoned and turtured

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