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Baa Baa Baa: Tony's Liberal Sheep

23-08-2006 11:38 | Culture | Education | Social Struggles | World

I am absolutely sick and tired of being treated like a mushroom... kept in the dark and fed shit by the politicians who are ruining this wonderful nation of England. It's not a conspiracy folks... it's a pattern. Simple maths taught me to recognise the patterns from learning the two times tables to advanced calculus. The bastards dumn down the education system, gag the media and then its a free for all where corruption is concerned. Who will question when the children are not taught to reason and read? Who can do the maths of how many billions of pounds these arseholes have stolen from the English public? How many children have been slaughtered at their hands, paid for and funded by our tax dollars? It's time to wake up folks and smell the coffee - CORRUPTION has a stank all of its own.

Crying Wolf: Terror Alerts based on Fabricated Intelligence

23-08-2006 10:54 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Repression | World

While the foiled UK terror plot announced by Home Secretary John Reid has served to temporarily distract public attention from the ongoing atrocities committed in the Middle East war, it has also triggered a wave of public skepticism which could potentially lead to the downfall of Prime Minister Tony Blair. This skepticism is in part based on the pattern of repeated terror warnings over several years.

Baalbek, Capital of the Bekka Valley - Sun 20th Aug - Photo Report

23-08-2006 10:49 | Lebanon War 2006 | Anti-militarism | World

I’m in a coffee house in Baalbek to meet Mr Ahmad Rayya, who is a senior figure in Hizbollah and the spokesman for the local district. Baalbek has suffered badly from Israeli air strikes, and the evidence is all around us. Our journey here has taken us passed numerous bombsites where shopkeepers and homeowners toil in the dust and rubble to salvage items in preparation for clearance and rebuilding. The backdrop of Baalbeck’s ancient Roman ruins seems strangely in keeping with the destruction below. I start by asking him to summarise the cost of the war to the area.

The Destroyed Factory - Sat 19th Aug - Photo Report

23-08-2006 10:46 | Lebanon War 2006 | Anti-militarism | World

I am being shown around what is left of the Leban Lait Dairy plant by Deeb Mounzer, a mechanical engineer and one of the union reps. It was one of the biggest diary producers in the Middle East. On the 5th day of the war it was attacked by fighter jets in a strike whose precision was matched only by its ferocity. The factory is a twisted pile of metal drenched in millions of gallons of dairy that has been fermenting in the sun for weeks. The stench is unbearable and clouds of flies swarm around the wreckage. Deeb tells me that 270 people are now unemployed and no one is insured for war. The present estimate for getting even part of the factory operational is 1-2 years. The cows in the nearby supply farm are weak and neglected and no longer able to produce milk. Israel’s excuse for this outrage was that the factory was a possible weapons storage and funded Hizbollah. This allegation was repeated by all the corporate media in the west.

Dhayiya, Lebanon - Fri 18th Aug - Photo Report

23-08-2006 10:43 | Lebanon War 2006 | Anti-militarism | World

Never let it be said that Hizbollah are not media savvy. Quickly produced banners placed around the ruins of Dhayiya make their views of Israel’s sponsors very clear. ‘The New Middle Beast’ proclaims one, taking the piss out of George Bush’s recent statement. ‘Made in USA’ says another. ‘Extremely Accurate Targeting’ attacks Israel’s claims that their bombings were somehow precise; the banner in question being sat in the middle of a completely demolished street.

The situation tonight in Oaxaca, Mexico

23-08-2006 03:40 | Repression | Social Struggles | Zapatista | World

In Oaxaca now as many possibly already know, the climate is of total ungovernability, the city has been completely taken, there are pickets and occupations of many government offices where already nobody works, whole streets are barricades with the participation of busand taxis drivers who have put their units into the blockades.

PHILIPPINES: Impeachment killers, murderers of justice!

23-08-2006 01:12 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

“Murderers of justice! This is what Congressmen who will vote for the dismissal of the impeachment complaint against Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) will be remembered as.”, said AKBAYAN (Citizens Action Party) President Ronald Llamas today on the information that the House Committee on Justice will terminate the impeachment proceedings today.

Dershowitz infuriated over Latuff/Finkelstein duo

22-08-2006 18:46 | Lebanon War 2006 | Anti-militarism | World

Copyleft cartoon by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

OutRage!- HIV : Rich 'North ' must help South to deal with it.

22-08-2006 15:45 | Education | Health | Social Struggles | World

lgbt rights group OutRage! calls for much greater co-operation between the rich 'North' to help the South defeat HIV.

The Battle of Aita Al-Shabb - Thurs 17th Aug - Photo Report

22-08-2006 14:31 | Lebanon War 2006 | Anti-militarism | World

The border town of Aita Al-Shabb saw some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The town is destroyed having been hit with shells, missiles, bombs and heavy machinegun fire. Shortly after we arrive, an elderly woman approaches and asks us to come and see her home. Haji Mariam Srour is 82 and slept for thirty days under her bed. This was a smart move when you consider that every window in her house has been shattered, showering the place with glass. After half her house (the other side from the bedroom) was hit directly by a shell she spent three days sheltering in a neighbour’s bathroom with three other elderly women and no food. Had the ceasefire not happened they could all be dead.

The Unexploded Bombs of Jbah - Wed 16th Aug - Photo Report

22-08-2006 14:19 | Lebanon War 2006 | Anti-militarism | World

I am shown around the southern village of Jbah by Abir Ghamloush, a local woman who lives and works in Beirut. This is her first opportunity to return here since the Monday ceasefire. Until now, her Beirut house, which she shares with her mother, has been home to 30 refugees from fives families, three of which were from here. Jbah is home to around 8,000 local people of middle incomes and acts as a hub for a further 7,000 people from local rural communities. The schools and nursery are based in the village along with a few workshops and small businesses. Until now the place had been deserted by all but five families who stayed during the war. Looking around the village it is not hard to see why the people fled in such numbers.

Lebanon - Driving South - Wed 16th Aug - Photo Report

22-08-2006 14:14 | Lebanon War 2006 | Anti-militarism | World

South of Beirut the mother of all traffic jams stretches for miles. Every bridge big and small has been bombed and engineers are working around the clock to clear the way around or to put in temporary ones.

Restoration of Sparkbrook Cottage Continues Despite Looming Court Case

The occupation of the Sparkbrook social centre known as the Cottage of Content is ongoing, yet while court proceedings and legalities are set in place against the occupation, the renovation and revival of the community asset is continuing unabated.

Solidarity for Marco Camenisch: Eco-Anarchist Prisoner

22-08-2006 09:48 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Marco Camenisch was born in Switzerland in 1952. In the late seventies, Marco, as a militant of the movement against nuclear power plants, was engaged in many struggles to fight the local Swiss nuclear mafia. Direct action was the base of such struggles; cutting down pylons, sabotage against power stations, attacks against the people involved in nuclear mafia.

Playing Favourites; or a Vicious Sight of Reality

There is people who still believes that Israel has a right over the rest of the people, to jill or condemnd to prevent sometihng that they are building

Tea Party at the Hague

22-08-2006 03:25 | Analysis | Culture | Social Struggles | World

Is the Hague court a joke or have we just lost our sense of perspective? The latest indiscriminate slaughter of children and innocent civilians in Lebanon by ‘God’s chosen’ seems not to warrant the attention of the Hague court. Carla Del Ponte’s latest remonstration against the Serbian leadership for not delivering war criminals to her court seems ‘slightly’ dissociative in view of recent events. Her obsession with Serbs now borders on the pathological. Would the civilian death toll in Iraq warrant her attention? Iraq now approaches one hundred thousand innocent civilian deaths – eighty percent directly attributable to the forces of occupation!

Convicted attention seeker Jack Roche called by afp as informant

21-08-2006 08:21 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The afp fraud and the abc propaganda, and spin should not persist any longer in the fear that our children with be indoctrinated with stupidity by imbeciles and morons making ridiculous claims in a court of law just like they were in the movies or something.

"Low safety standards caused near-meltdown"

20-08-2006 22:29 | Ecology | Technology | World

The former safety chief of the Swedish power plant that nearly had a nuclear meltdown on 25 July blames the liberalisation of the power market for the breakdown. In addition to Forsmark, three other Swedish nukes are now off the grid for safety checks.

Israeli Clandestine Mission Violates Cease-Fire, Again.

20-08-2006 17:29 | Anti-militarism | World

The whole point to a cease-fire is to get the two sides in a particular conflict talking, so that peace can be achieved, making war unnecessary, saving the lives of countless innocents civilians. Israel, or at least the current Israeli Government under the Olmert/Netanyahu Extremists, is interested in no such thing, and have the "next round" of attacks planned already.

Free Thomas Meyer-Falk - Anarchist prisoner in Germany

20-08-2006 16:25 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

"Here was a strange world which resembled no other, here there were special rules, special garb, particular customs and usages. It was a death-house of the buried alive, within which a life was as nowhere else, and the people, as well, were different." - Dostoyevsky

World Newswire Archive

Baa Baa Baa: Tony's Liberal Sheep

Crying Wolf: Terror Alerts based on Fabricated Intelligence

Baalbek, Capital of the Bekka Valley - Sun 20th Aug - Photo Report

The Destroyed Factory - Sat 19th Aug - Photo Report

Dhayiya, Lebanon - Fri 18th Aug - Photo Report

The situation tonight in Oaxaca, Mexico

PHILIPPINES: Impeachment killers, murderers of justice!

Dershowitz infuriated over Latuff/Finkelstein duo

OutRage!- HIV : Rich 'North ' must help South to deal with it.

The Battle of Aita Al-Shabb - Thurs 17th Aug - Photo Report

The Unexploded Bombs of Jbah - Wed 16th Aug - Photo Report

Lebanon - Driving South - Wed 16th Aug - Photo Report

Restoration of Sparkbrook Cottage Continues Despite Looming Court Case

Solidarity for Marco Camenisch: Eco-Anarchist Prisoner

Playing Favourites; or a Vicious Sight of Reality

Tea Party at the Hague

Convicted attention seeker Jack Roche called by afp as informant

"Low safety standards caused near-meltdown"

Israeli Clandestine Mission Violates Cease-Fire, Again.

Free Thomas Meyer-Falk - Anarchist prisoner in Germany

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