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Palestinians Trapped at Crossroads

01-06-2008 11:22 | Palestine | World

The Palestinian national movement finds itself in a deteriorating state of paralysis. “There's almost no Palestinian leadership,” Kadoura Fares, a former Palestinian Cabinet minister and a leading member of President Abbas' Fatah party, told the Washington Times on May 15.

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Israeli Housing Minister to permit 1460 new housing units in E. Jerusalem

31-05-2008 20:47 | Anti-racism | World

Starting to get it?

These Extremists reject any 'peace' which would require them to accept their legal and moral obligations, and will continue their war to wipe Palestine off the map (which will perpetuate the threat and misery experienced by all Israelis) until they succeed, or until someone stands up to stop them.

Iran: Former German official says War Imminent

31-05-2008 20:45 | Anti-militarism | World

The real choice is clear.

It's devastation through an illegal and unnecessary war, or confronting the Extremists in the Knesset, and avoiding this Madness ...

The fact that this man repeats many of the lies peddled by the 'neo-cons', I'm suspicious of his conclusion.

Note that the one choice he doesn't mention is removing these War Criminals from power and tossing them in jail before they get the chance to compound their crimes.

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Israelis open fire on Gazan protesters

31-05-2008 20:42 | Anti-racism | World

Desert Peace just did a great spoof on this, demonstrating what the coverage would look like if Hamas had fired on thousands of Israelis ...

George Monbiot Attempts Citizen’s Arrest on John Bolton

31-05-2008 20:35 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Terror War | World

John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, escaped a citizen’s arrest Wednesday night as he addressed an audience in Britain. We speak to George Monbiot, the British activist and columnist who tried to arrest Bolton. Monbiot says Bolton is a war criminal for his role in helping to initiate the US invasion of Iraq.

http://media.switchpod.com/users/democracynow/ftp/dn2008-0530-1.mp3

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Newsletter Number Two from East Oxford Community Centre Action Group

East Oxford Community Centre Action Group
21st May 2008
Newsletter Number Two
Threats Documented…
Property development on the site of East Oxford Community Centre,
Property development on the site of East Oxford Games Hall,
Demolition of most of East East Oxford Community Centre site including the Social Club bar

Mask up for the carnival against the arms trade

National demo against the arms trade and EDO MBM
mask up and come in RED or your preferd dress

Action Days for Autonomous Spaces; Berlin

31-05-2008 11:39 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

A short report on Action Days for Autonomous Spaces in Berlin

Provocations as Pretexts for Imperial War: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11

31-05-2008 07:06 | Anti-militarism | History | Terror War | World

The long, unending, costly and losing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan undermined international and national support for the Zionist-promoted New American Century project. US militarists and their advisers and ideologues needed to create a new pretext for the US plans to subdue the Middle East and especially to attack Iran . They turned their propaganda campaign on Iran ’s legal non-military nuclear energy program and fabricated evidence of Iran ’s direct military involvement in supporting the Iraqi resistance to US occupation. But is Iran ’s existence a sufficient pretext or will a ‘catastrophic’ incident be necessary?

Global day of solidarity for imprisoned anti-fur activists

31-05-2008 00:27 | Animal Liberation | Repression | World

See previous actions:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/05/399502.html
Press release (29th):

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/05/399775.html

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The Hike in Oil Prices: Speculation-But Not Manipulation

30-05-2008 22:02 | Analysis | World

When oil jumps as much as it has, doubling since May 2007, it's natural to assume that something striking must have happened. In the past five years, investment in index funds tied to commodities has grown from $13 billion to $260 billion.

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Sarkozy's migrant proposals,Shengen biometrics: French EU presidency & camps

30-05-2008 21:54 | Analysis | Anti-racism | Migration | World

Yesterday the minister for EU affairs of the Spanish state revealed that they were sent last January, a 5 page proposal document by Sarkozy's presidency of France outlining his objectives for new anti-migrant laws to be implemented during the forthcoming French presidency of the EU. The substance of this confidential document has pretty much been explained by me in the last weeks in an article of the quirky humorous "Q&A" series. We may now put the recent anti-migrant laws and Romani purge of Berlusconi in its proper context that which I indicated in the "Q&A". Sarkozy wants biometric Shengen Information System 2, a "integration contract" for migrants and obligatory language lessons.

Support Eric McDavid

30-05-2008 18:49 | Animal Liberation | Ecology | Repression | World

45 second clip about Eric's case:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8kgXvx94YjY

Support Freedom of Speech - Support Sean!

On May 30, 2008, Sean Kirtley was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for conspiring to "interfere with contractual relationships so as to harm an animal research organisation" after the longest animal rights trial in history.

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Series of arson attacks in Greece + communiqué

30-05-2008 15:47 | Social Struggles | World

From the mass media coverage (30/05/2008): A slew of blasts shocked Friday's dawn six different spots of Athens, causing damages to banks, car dealerships and New Democracy (ruling party) local offices. The police estimates it was an organized plan, since all attacks were realized within 11 minutes, from 2:03 to 2:14. Incendiary devices were set against a Geniki Bank subsidiary, an Agrotiki Bank, a post office vehicle, 6 cars of a Ford car dealership, and a local office of New democracy. On 3:28 another arson was realized against a PPC (public power company), that damaged also a nearby car. Incendiary attacks happened also in Thessaloniki, against a Millennium bank subsidiary and a Eurobank, causing damages to their facades.

A translation of the claim sent to

directactiongr@yahoo.gr:

Fallout from McClellan book: The Iraq war’s “complicit enablers,” then and now

30-05-2008 13:19 | Anti-militarism | History | Terror War | World

Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s new book indicting the Bush administration for employing a “political propaganda campaign” and deception to drag the US into an “unnecessary war” in Iraq has unleashed a wave of bitter recriminations from the Republican right, while prompting opportunist attempts by Democrats to exploit the tell-all memoir for their own political purposes.

Binyam Mohamed’s letter from Guantánamo to Gordon Brown

30-05-2008 13:17 | Guantánamo | Repression | Terror War | World

As the US administration prepares to charge British resident Binyam Mohamed in a Military Commission at Guantánamo, Andy Worthington reports on his last-minute appeal to Prime Minster Gordon Brown to intervene on his behalf.