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Seven Years of Captivity

07-08-2011 22:21 | Policing | Repression | Terror War | World

A heartrending poem from Babar Ahmad, the longest serving British prisoner held in the UK without charge.

"The Globalization Of Anarcho-Terrorism"

07-08-2011 20:57 | Globalisation | Repression | Terror War | World

"The anarchists of 2011 are more sophisticated and better equipped than those of previous generations. They have tactical communications... modern anarchists have taken advantage of youtube, twitter, and facebook. A city or nations security against anarchist disorder can no longer passively rely on the simple skirmish, wedge, and echelon riot line."

Government privatised to prop up banks? Ex US Army college boss: Who did 9/11?

07-08-2011 20:56 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

Markets meltdown, Weekly news review with Frome Vale Cllr Lesley Alexander (Con).

The Human Costs of Washington’s Ongoing Collusion With Terrorists

Twice in the last two decades, significant cuts in U.S. and western military spending were foreseen: first after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and then in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. But both times military spending soon increased, and among the factors contributing to the increase were America’s interventions in new areas: the Balkans in the 1990s, and Libya today.1 Hidden from public view in both cases was the extent to which al-Qaeda was a covert U.S. ally in both interventions, rather than its foe.

End of the American Empire

07-08-2011 20:40 | Analysis | Sheffield | World

China’s call today for a new global reserve currency to replace the dollar spells the beginning of the end of the American Empire. China holds most of the dollar credit in the world, and that of course gave China a powerful incentive to maintain dollar hegemony. That China now views the risks to world trade from the US’ indebtedness, to outweigh the potential loss in value of its own dollar reserves, is the tipping point that spells the inevitable beginning of the end of the US empire.

Israel: “How Goodly Are Thy Tents”

07-08-2011 20:25 | Palestine | Social Struggles | World

FIRST OF all, a warning.

Tent cities are springing up all over Israel. A social protest movement is gathering momentum. At some point in the near future, it may endanger the right-wing government.

Urges For Fair War Crimes Trials in Bangladesh

I am very much concern about the accused the right to the presumption of innocence, a fair and public hearing with counsel of their choice and the possibility of bail.

Recently the British barrister Toby Cadman has been refused by the Bangladesh government to enter into Bangladesh that raises a question about the impartiality of the government towards the free and fair trial.

I highly condemn regarding autocratic attitude of the government towards the human rights lawyer Toby Cadman.

UG#562 - Our Biggest Enemy is Ourselves (Deschooling Society 1)

This week we look at the need to deschool ourselves both as individuals and collectively, by relying more on our own wits and those of our personal contacts and less on the dying impersonal centralised institutions which dominated 20th century developed life. The title is a quote from an extended interview with John Taylor Gatto, which we follow by reading the first chapter of Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society.

EDF gets green light to trash 400 acres of greenfield land in Somerset

07-08-2011 07:04 | Anti-Nuclear | Ecology | Energy Crisis | World

EDF Energy (the UK subsidiary of Electricite de France) has been granted permission by West Somerset District Council to trash over 400 of acres of beautiful greenfield coastal land at Hinkley Point, which sits within the Bridgwater Bay National Nature Reserve, overlooking the Severn Estuary RAMSAR site.

EDF plans to uproot all the trees and vegetation, which provide important habitats for birds, bats, mammals and other precious flora and fauna. It also plans to dig up more soil and rock than was done for the preparation of the London 2012 Olympic site. And all of this before EDF has even submitted an application to the Infrastructure Planning Commission for its planned new nu-killer power station. But worry ye not, because EDF says that if it doesn't get permission to build its new nu-killer reactor (or if it changes its mind for economic or other reasons), then it will restore the land to its former glory.

More photos of the beautiful land EDF wants to trash here:

http://tinyurl.com/44e8vow

The bomb: 76 years later

Seventy-six years ago today the city of Hiroshima was ravaged by a US nuclear bomb. Within days Nagasaki too had been torn apart by this terrifying new weapon of mass destruction.

Social Tensions Near Boiling Point In Chile

05-08-2011 17:29 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

It is a year to the day since thirty-three miners became trapped down a notoriously dangerous privatised mine in Copiapo, Chile, when a gas explosion produced a massive collapse. They were finally freed after seventy days underground, provoking joyous celebration around the globe. Twelve months on, they remain mired in poverty, while their brother miners in Chile's biggest mine fight for livable levels of pay, and thousands of students fight for cheaper and better state education.

SchNEWS: From Cradle To Graves: As The West Causes More Problems Than Droughts

05-08-2011 08:51 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | World

East Africa is currently experiencing one of the worst famines in recent history, with most of Somalia and large parts of Ethiopia experiencing severe food shortages. The west has been quick to offer the solution – more aid, more trade and flying in David Cameron (although he left early to try and save his job back home). This approach of aid, trade and sending rich white men to point at the locals has been the standard response to African disasters for the past 25 years and yet little progress seems to have been made.

It is true that the region is in the midst of an extreme drought and as a result pasture is parched and water sources for livestock have dried up. Unfortunately this means that if you bought an Ethiopian farmer a goat for Christmas, it’s probably already dead. However, this famine was far from unavoidable. Whether or not the drought itself can be blamed on human activity is debatable, yet the impact of western “foreign policy objectives” is far clearer and, conversely, much less reported.

US' Cargill 36 MILLION Lbs. of Diseased Turkey Flesh...Criminal Neglect by USG

Why did the CDC, FDA, USDA wait several weeks before taking action as people
in 27 US states died or were sickened?
the trillions of dollars of Cargill clout

66 Recent International Animal Rights News Stories And Campaigns

French pate, African ivory burned, KFC continues scalding live chickens in defeathering, McDonald's expands cowkilling further in China, Japan trains police to deal with protests of dolphin killers, Korean activists shut down dog meat festival, Latvians protest UK bear skins,
etc.

International Call For Resistance Support in the Susa Valley, Italy

04-08-2011 18:57 | Ecology | South Coast | World

This is a call for a forest occupation to aid the popular resistance in Val di Susa against the construction of a high-speed train line in the Italian Alps.

ARUK

03-08-2011 19:42 | Animal Liberation | World

ARUK Gathering

UK Detention estate: 3 dead in one month, the tip of the iceberg

03-08-2011 13:14 | Migration | Repression | Oxford | World

The three deaths in detention bring to the fore the continued suffering of migrants in Europe

Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens

02-08-2011 20:49 | Analysis | Other Press | Sheffield | World

On June 13, George Monbiot devoted his Guardian column to naming and shaming a 'malign intellectual subculture that seeks to excuse savagery by denying the facts'. 'The facts', Monbiot noted, 'are the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda.'

Palestine Today 08 02 2011

02-08-2011 17:00 | Anti-racism | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org for Tuesday August 2nd, 2011

Jonnie Marbles Sent to Jail: Stop the Punitive Sentencing of Protesters Now

02-08-2011 16:59 | Other Press | Policing | World

Jonnie Marbles (aka Jonnie May-Bowles), 26, who attempted to throw a foam pie at Rupert Murdoch at the House of Commons culture committee on July 19th, had pleaded guilty to common assault and was today sentenced to six weeks imprisonment of which he will serve three, and ordered to pay a fine of £250 plus £15 ‘victim surcharge’. Murdoch had not wanted to press charges, but the court proceeded anyway.

SIGN THE PETITION TO FREE JONNIE NOW.

District Judge Daphne Wickham, who sentenced Jonnie, is the same person who let Sgt Delroy Smellie off the hook for assaulting Nicola Fisher at the G20 protest in 2009, despite YouTube footage of the officer striking at Fisher with his hand and a baton.

World Newswire Archive

Seven Years of Captivity

"The Globalization Of Anarcho-Terrorism"

Government privatised to prop up banks? Ex US Army college boss: Who did 9/11?

The Human Costs of Washington’s Ongoing Collusion With Terrorists

End of the American Empire

Israel: “How Goodly Are Thy Tents”

Urges For Fair War Crimes Trials in Bangladesh

UG#562 - Our Biggest Enemy is Ourselves (Deschooling Society 1)

EDF gets green light to trash 400 acres of greenfield land in Somerset

The bomb: 76 years later

Social Tensions Near Boiling Point In Chile

SchNEWS: From Cradle To Graves: As The West Causes More Problems Than Droughts

US' Cargill 36 MILLION Lbs. of Diseased Turkey Flesh...Criminal Neglect by USG

66 Recent International Animal Rights News Stories And Campaigns

International Call For Resistance Support in the Susa Valley, Italy

ARUK

UK Detention estate: 3 dead in one month, the tip of the iceberg

Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens

Palestine Today 08 02 2011

Jonnie Marbles Sent to Jail: Stop the Punitive Sentencing of Protesters Now

SIGN THE PETITION TO FREE JONNIE NOW.

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