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Greg Palast faces Homeland Security charges & PAUL KRUGMAN ' S latest

08-09-2006 13:06 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

- Krugman: More On Inequality

- PLUS: Reporter Greg Palast faces Homeland Security charges and more

THE BALI NINE - 6 YOUNG AUSTRALIANS SENTENCED TO DEATH

08-09-2006 05:29 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

A look at the reasoning behind the unexpected upgraded death sentences for Matthew Norman (19yrs) the death sentence Scott Rush (20yrs),Tach Duc Thanh Nguyen (27yrs) and Si Yi Chen (20yrs)

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As CIA Detainees Transferred to Guantanamo, President Bush Acknowledges Secret P

07-09-2006 21:31 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

President Bush has acknowledged for the first time the CIA has been operating a secret network of overseas prisons. Bush made the admission as he ordered 14 prisoners previously held by the CIA to be transferred to Guantanamo Bay where they could be tried by a military tribunal. Bush said the CIA is no longer holding any detainees but that the secret prisons may be re-opened. We get analysis from Center for Constitutional Rights attorney Barbara Olshansky.

Quinta MegaMarcha photos and SlideShow: Por un Oaxaca Mejor

07-09-2006 17:48 | Education | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

SlideShow of photos taken on September 1st, 2006, during Oaxaca's 5th MegaMarcha which started in the community of San Felipe and ended at the zócalo in the center of Oaxaca City. Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets and marched to demand the immediate departure of Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (URO), liberation for political prisoners, the cancellation of 70 government arrest warrants for people involved in the leaderless Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO, by its Spanish initials) movement and the desire for popular governance. (4:22 minutes / 6.5 MB)

45 gays outed in Uganda witch-hunt

07-09-2006 16:46 | Gender | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The Ugandan tabloid newspaper, Red Pepper, has outed 45 gay and bisexual men, including army officers, priests, university lecturers, entertainers, bankers, students and lawyers. It also published details of five venues popular with gays and lesbians.

UK-based coal company in Bangladesh might have been kicked out

Further to an earlier newswire story about 30000 people demonstrating in Bangladesh's Phulbari district against Lonodn-based Asia Energy's plans to extract 15 million tonnes/year of coal for export (police killed 6 an injured 300) it appears the company has suspended its shares

Australian government sets course for militarism and war

07-09-2006 05:47 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

The drive to war and the militarisation of society that accompanies it are not passing phenomena, but the surest signs of a deep-going crisis of the entire social order. They signify that the private profit system has become completely incompatible with the interests and aspirations of the vast majority of the world’s population.

Triumph of Blairism! Not in the Crassrail holed East End of London !

The Blaired news media led all day yesterday with the alleged prescription for a 'Blairing departure' by the man whom today’s [Wednesday 6 September 2006] Guardian has raised to the highest level of praise possible. Triumph of Blairism. What is the commodity? Where is it to be found? Certainly not in the East End of London whence Blair has now recruited THREE tokens and tools of propaganda, as if to compensate for the ouster of Oona King from her over-Blaired seat in Bethnal Green and Bow. The Crossrail hole plot has been endorsed by Alan Meale who obstructed evidence being given to the Crossrail Select committee [June 2006] that would have exposed crucial defects and the fundamental flaws in the sham CRASSRAIL project. So how is Blairism seen to those fighting the oppressive Blair schemes down in the East End?

GAGGED! #13 Autumn 2006 - South Wales Anarchist Newsletter

GAGGED! #13 Autumn 2006 - South Wales Anarchist Newsletter • Against Power & Profit • Anti-Copyright
it's alot prettier on .pdf - theres pics too

Festival Promotes Disabled Peoples' Rights....

Hundreds of people were in Trafalgar Square for the fourth annual Liberty festival for disabled people's rights.....

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9/11 INSIDE JOB, where are our academics on 7/7?

06-09-2006 09:59 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

75 leading professors and scientists in the US say there is now evidence that 9/11 was perpetrated by the Whitehouse to justify invasions in the Middle East according to a Daily Mail report, yes I know shocking, the Hate Mail publishing anything but it is on the net so not sure if it is in their disgusing hate filled, neo-nazi sympathetic rag.. Fury as academics claim 9/11 was 'inside job' ... could be news as the only Hate Mail story worth repeating ever!!! i am getting ideas from moron press ... i don't even get paid to think like this ...
Where are British academics on the real events of july 7th
Where is the public inquiry
Where are the academics looking at the evidence against so called Al Qaeda operatives in the UK?

DO SOLDIERS DESERVE SYMPATHY DANNY AND OTHERS

05-09-2006 19:42 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

I recognise what Danny is saying, the innocents as he calls them, this may be true - I remain open to these forms of discussions of even the inklings of our humanity and our true nature. I know of an RAF doctor and a UK soldier and quite a few ex-US soldiers who left the army because they did not want to kill, torture and participate in something they knew was wrong. But I think I am asking a separate question, do I want to cry over the death of a solider, no, as that is one less soldier killing innocent people, waging an illegal war, participating in an illegal invasion.

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Haiti: Declaration by the Commission of Women Victims for Victims

05-09-2006 07:42 | Gender | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Port-au-Prince, Haiti, September 1, 2006: Despite the threat of violence amidst continuing arson attacks and gun battles in Port-au-Prince’s poorest neighborhoods, hundreds of women victims of rape will march through the capital today with faces veiled to raise their voices against ongoing violence and discrimination against women. On the occasion of this historic march, the Commission of Women Victims for Victims (KOFAVIV) has released the following declaration:

Australia: Thousands hear US military lawyer for David Hicks

05-09-2006 07:35 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

No doubt the Howard government will respond to the growing demands for Hicks’s immediate release in the only way it knows—with more slander and innuendo. But as the popular response to Mori’s public meetings and lectures makes clear, a definite shift has taken place in public sentiment that will only deepen in the coming period.

Australian government insists on independent military presence in East Timor

05-09-2006 07:11 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

In the midst of this growing instability, Australian Foreign Minister Downer’s visit is aimed at safeguarding Canberra’s interests and pressuring East Timor’s parliament into giving an immediate go-ahead for the exploitation of Timor Sea oil and gas.

OutRage!: The Talibanisation of Iraq...

04-09-2006 14:10 | Gender | Repression | Social Struggles | World

OutRage! highlights the greatly increasing threat to lgbt people in Iraq from extremist muslim group(s).

(Cue..rant from 'Twiglet'..?)

Haiti: Lavalas Family propaganda and The Lancet

04-09-2006 14:01 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Results of a new survey have just been published in the prestigous magazine, The Lancet. The 'survey' claims that huge numbers of people were killed and sexually assaulted in Port-au-Prince in the 20 months following the collapse of the Aristide/Lavalas Family (FL) government. It further contends that the perpetrators of the abuses were the criminals, police, former soldiers and anti-FL gangsters, and that hardly any abuses were committed by pro-FL gangsters. Has pro-Lavalas Family propaganda struck again?

House Builder Crest Nicholson 'Move House' - Family Invite Change of Position

Supported by UBS Bank, HBOS, Legal & General Group and Heron International, Weybridge-based house builder – Crest Nicholson, have recently ‘moved house’. The shifty move to relocate their UK head office from Weybridge to Chertsey in Surrey, comes at a time when the company still appears to be considering an immoral legacy left by John Callcutt CBE, a former Chief Executive Officer.

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Pathological Fixation on Work

03-09-2006 13:47 | Social Struggles | World

Work mania - voluntarily - has become social normality. We have largely internalized the norms of the work society. In other words, we are susceptible to work mania. Technical and economic progress is always passed off as progress of individuals or humanity.

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If not Now, when?

02-09-2006 16:15 | Anti-militarism | Culture | Social Struggles | World

Surely it is time to restore intelligent, sane, Democratic secular government throughout the world! Over the past eight years we have all had a taste of the simplistic binary ‘us or them’ logic of religionists; the reality is that the majority of people on the planet reject religious divisionism and the associated violent ‘solutions’ of criminals, liars, demented murderers and delusional fools.

World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Greg Palast faces Homeland Security charges & PAUL KRUGMAN ' S latest

THE BALI NINE - 6 YOUNG AUSTRALIANS SENTENCED TO DEATH

As CIA Detainees Transferred to Guantanamo, President Bush Acknowledges Secret P

Quinta MegaMarcha photos and SlideShow: Por un Oaxaca Mejor

45 gays outed in Uganda witch-hunt

UK-based coal company in Bangladesh might have been kicked out

Australian government sets course for militarism and war

Triumph of Blairism! Not in the Crassrail holed East End of London !

GAGGED! #13 Autumn 2006 - South Wales Anarchist Newsletter

Festival Promotes Disabled Peoples' Rights....

9/11 INSIDE JOB, where are our academics on 7/7?

DO SOLDIERS DESERVE SYMPATHY DANNY AND OTHERS

Haiti: Declaration by the Commission of Women Victims for Victims

Australia: Thousands hear US military lawyer for David Hicks

Australian government insists on independent military presence in East Timor

OutRage!: The Talibanisation of Iraq...

Haiti: Lavalas Family propaganda and The Lancet

House Builder Crest Nicholson 'Move House' - Family Invite Change of Position

Pathological Fixation on Work

If not Now, when?

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