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heathrow is go, kingsnorth no?

as aviation minister, I learned two lessons about the aviation industry. First, its demands are insatiable; secondly, successive Governments have always given way to them.

- Chris Mullin MP, House of Commons, 28 November 2002

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Third runway to cure cancer and end world poverty

Is there anything a third runway at Heathrow wouldn't do? Not according to its promoters in the aviation industry. The recent snowfall that crippled most of our airports shut Heathrow after a plane skidded onto the icy grass. Some 18-30s club rep from the Association of British Travel Agents thought they'd whack out a press release claiming that it could all have been avoided with a third runway.

stop emissions but keep flying

It was an extraordinary thing. Greenpeace activists had occupied a coal-fired power station yet the jury acquitted them.

Public Action Against Judicial Corruption & Institutional Failures in the UK

07-02-2009 08:36 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Demonstration Against Judicial Corruption, Unlawful Imprisonments, Convention Rights Abuses and Institutional Failures in the UK; Every Saturday outside HMP Wormwood Scubs, Du Cane Road, London W12 0AE.

Tax Payers Alliance - helping the rich on your behalf

06-02-2009 09:58 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

When the Tax Payers Alliance refuse to condemn tax dodging by rich people and corporations, they're acting in the interests of the super-rich. This is strange since, it is because the wealthy dodge tax that ordinary taxpayers have to pay more taxes than they otherwise would do.

The Imperial Obama is Frustrated on Zimbabwe

05-02-2009 23:44 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | World

In the face of African Union support for the new arrangement in Zimbabwe, the Obama administration has very reluctantly retreated from its hyper-aggressive posture. President Obama will soon begin to justify U.S. military intervention on broad "humanitarian" grounds - a cynical game of words to mask the same crimes as George Bush's so-called "democratic" interventions.

If the Pope Changes His Mind…

Does that mean he's imperfect? Or that God is imperfect? We've all probably addressed the issue of whether an omnipotent being can change its mind about something, but let's get down to Earth for a moment and address the issue of whether Catholics or anyone should give any respect or deference to a religious idol in the flesh who claims to be the spokesperson for God, but who, from generation to generation, and even within the same tenure, changes his mind on issues due to political and public pressure. In other words, the Pope is and should be treated only as the equivalent of a Prime Minister of a tiny little, but very influential, country tucked away in Rome. So, why do people give him so much credit where it's clearly not due?

The Way of Izvestia: BBC as a Metaphor for State Propaganda

By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad'The BBC cannot be neutral in the struggle between truth and untruth, justice and injustice, freedom and slavery, compassion and cruelty, tolerance and intolerance.' Thus read a 1972 internal document called Principles and Practice in News and Current Affairs laying out the guidelines for the BBC's coverage of conflicts. It appears to affirm that in cases of oppression and injustice to be neutral is to be complicit, because neutrality reinforces the status quo. This partiality to truth, justice, freedom, compassion and tolerance it deems 'within the consensus about basic moral values'.

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Support for taxes on flights keeps growing

It finally seems like we might just be getting through to people - maybe even the hard-working British families the aviation industry likes to blame for their plans to turn Britain into Airstrip One.

Is economic growth sustainable?

The debate surrounding the extent to which the burning of fossil fuels leads to climate change misses a more fundamental point. That is, fossil fuels are an inherently finite resource. This resource is dwindling at an accelerating rate as economies such as those of China and India expand rapidly. Fossil fuels will run out. Maybe not in the next 10, 20 or 30 years but they will run out.

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A new mobilisation could revitalise politics in the UK - but only if you get inv

For the first time in my life I resent paying my taxes. Until now I have seen this annual amputation as a civic duty - like giving blood - necessary to sustain the life of a fair society. Suddenly I see it as an imposition. Its purpose has reverted to that of the middle ages: subsidising the excesses of a parasitic class. A high proportion of the taxes I pay will be used to bail out companies which have used every imaginable ruse to avoid paying any themselves.

Did Thatcher offer ‘the Obama effect’ for women?

04-02-2009 22:00 | Analysis | Gender | Social Struggles | World

A recent post about Obama being a role model for black people made me think about Lady Thatcher - the woman outside of her politics - seeking a path to power in context of Barack Obama and his journey to power.

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War on Bankers - Snowball fights theory and practice

As someone who has never really been entranced by the internal combustion engine fad that has swept through the world in recent decades, I tend to walk most places. However, given the snow on the ground today, I, along with many others, was presented with a number of ethical and practical issues; namely, how to deal with snowballs.

Obama’s $825 Billion Stimulus Plan Offers Too Little, Too Late

Within the past two years, Democrats in Washington DC have spent more than $1.5 trillion to help rescue the struggling U.S. economy out of the worst recession since the Great Depression; now, both Houses of Congress are fast-tracking a stimulus package for President Barack Obama that will likely cost the nation more than $1 trillion. Socialists nationwide are rejecting this new call for deficit spending and are calling for programs that will meet the short and long term needs of the nation and create immediate employment for the millions of working people that are unemployed or under-employed.

Gaza New Siege Mechanism

02-02-2009 17:49 | Analysis | Palestine | World

Israel, the occupying power, is determined to keep a tight grip on the reconstruction process, which is why it sustained its closure of the border crossing following its "unilateral" ceasefire. Indeed, this is why it declared the ceasefire unilaterally: it did not want to be bound by any agreement -- the Egyptian initiative or any other framework -- that would oblige it to lift the embargo, if only partially, in order to facilitate reconstruction.

Israel Asserting Middle East Supremacy: From Gaza to Tehran

02-02-2009 14:53 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Palestine | World

Just as Nazi Germany interpreted the passivity, sympathy and impotence of the West when confronted by ‘facts on the ground’ as license for aggression, the Israeli military machine receives a powerful impetus for bigger and bloodier wars to establish Israel’s supremacy and dominance of the Middle East, from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf.

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Ceasefires, Israeli-Style

02-02-2009 01:04 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Palestine | World

Waging war while talking peace is customary Israeli practice. Israel's unilateral declaration of cease-fire notwithstanding, nothing changed.

Gaza remains occupied, under siege, and totally isolated and attacks merely downshifted to a lower gear. Gaza continues to be terrorized.

President Obama, Don't Become Complicit in Their Crimes!

01-02-2009 21:01 | Analysis | Repression | Terror War | World

On Thursday, January 29th, I sent President Obama this message:

"Mr. President: The Bush Administration lied to the people in pursuit of war. As a result, at least one million Iraqis and thousands of U.S. soldiers are dead. Thousands more are maimed. The stature of the U.S. is severely damaged. The U.S. Constitution is in shreds after signing statements, wiretaps, and torture. Your obligation is to investigate and bring to justice those who violated U.S. and international law, such as the torture treaty. Failure to do so makes you complicit in their crimes."

War on Gaza: Israeli Action, Not Reaction

01-02-2009 07:52 | Analysis | Palestine | Repression | World

Israeli 22 – day military operation, dubbed “Cast Lead,” against the Palestinian Gaza Strip was “not simply a reaction,” but “a calculation," Daniel Klaidman wrote in Newsweek on January 10.

A better translation of the recent Icelandic anarchist communique!

31-01-2009 21:26 | Analysis | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

The Icelandic Government has collapsed and some people talk about a revolution. In a way it is true. Ordinary people overthrew this neoliberal government by writing articles, holding speeches, noise demonstrations, bonfires, car horns, direct action, civil disobedience and minor sabotage.

World Analysis Newswire Archive

heathrow is go, kingsnorth no?

Third runway to cure cancer and end world poverty

stop emissions but keep flying

Public Action Against Judicial Corruption & Institutional Failures in the UK

Tax Payers Alliance - helping the rich on your behalf

The Imperial Obama is Frustrated on Zimbabwe

If the Pope Changes His Mind…

The Way of Izvestia: BBC as a Metaphor for State Propaganda

Support for taxes on flights keeps growing

Is economic growth sustainable?

A new mobilisation could revitalise politics in the UK - but only if you get inv

Did Thatcher offer ‘the Obama effect’ for women?

War on Bankers - Snowball fights theory and practice

Obama’s $825 Billion Stimulus Plan Offers Too Little, Too Late

Gaza New Siege Mechanism

Israel Asserting Middle East Supremacy: From Gaza to Tehran

Ceasefires, Israeli-Style

President Obama, Don't Become Complicit in Their Crimes!

War on Gaza: Israeli Action, Not Reaction

A better translation of the recent Icelandic anarchist communique!

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