UK Indymedia - UK Analysis Newswire Archive

U.S. Officials Part of Cigarette Racketeering Plot

19-08-2006 00:24

Government officials are the Dr. Frankensteins who created the homicidal monster of the industry that makes and sells the most industrially-contaminated products in history.
Dr. Frankenstein pretends to prosecute and condemn its own creation. Mainsteam news plays along.

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Tesco - Every little hurts

18-08-2006 16:33

Is Tesco above the law? It would appear so on planning matters.

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Judge quashes Thomas conviction

18-08-2006 07:34

This is fantastic news. Congratulations to Jack and the Thomas family! It is a vindication of everyone prepared to fight for basic rights -- and makes the bus trip all the more important. We're in the process of putting a press release out. Good news for a change!

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AIDS Brain Drain: Countries Hit Hardest by AIDS Lacking Millions of Medical Work

18-08-2006 04:01

The World Health Organization warned earlier this week that the countries hit hardest by AIDS desperately need 4 million more health workers to cope with the crisis. Many of the locally-trained doctors and nurses in these countries have been lured away to the United States and Europe by higher salaries. We speak with Smita Baruah of Physicians for Human Rights.

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Warmongers Want Medals? Prime Sinister wants to give out Medals?

18-08-2006 00:15

It appears that Labor is promoting it but sinister hoWARd is behind the illusion and this is so Lib/Lab can sustain the promotion of war, WAR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, tyranny and terrorism as a good thing.

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Court hears fishing expedition letter 'referred to sacrifices to a cause'

17-08-2006 22:26

The letter reads: "My love, How I miss you already? What would I ever do if we were separated for more than a day? Inshallah I will never find out. May the only cause for our separation be the cause of Allah. And may he grant me paradise alongside you as queen of your Hoor." [kiss, kiss, kiss, hug]

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What we know and don’t know about 9/11

17-08-2006 20:23

Despite the dark days in which we live, some readers find optimism in recent polls that show more than one-third of the US public now disbelieve the official account of 9/11 despite the Bush regime’s propaganda faithfully trumpeted by the US media.

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Rules of the Western Media in dealing with the Middle East

17-08-2006 13:16

This is a piece by Michel Collon on the media reporting of the Middle East.

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VENEZUELA LEADING THE RACE FOR THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL SEAT

17-08-2006 11:16

VENEZUELA AHEAD IN RACE FOR THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL SEAT

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Contradictions, anomalies, questions mount in UK terror scare

17-08-2006 08:58

A British court on Wednesday extended the warrants for 23 people held since August 10 in connection with the alleged plot to blow up commercial airliners flying from Britain to the US. An additional person was arrested Tuesday. The judge issued his ruling late in the evening following a closed-door hearing that lasted most of the day.

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Australian government to deploy 150 extra troops to Afghanistan

17-08-2006 03:45

In a TV interview on the Nine Network, Defence Minister Brendan Nelson recently revealed: “The prime minister, in his long term vision for Australia and the Australian Defence Force, has indicated to me that he thinks it important that we consider the possibility and the options for increasing the size of our defence force, and in particularly the army. Over the next few months I’ll be working through those ideas.”

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Tragedy for Aboriginal Land Rights - Senate approves paternal bill

16-08-2006 06:46

August 16, 2006: "This will be marked as a tragic day for land rights in Australia," said Senator Rachel Siewert today. Despite strong criticism the laws are "paternalistic and strip Aboriginal Australians of their property rights." Amendments to Northern Territory Land Rights Act passed through the Senate today. The changes scrap the NT's 30-year-old scheme of communal land ownership under land council administration...

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Christians United for Israel: New Christian Zionism Lobby Hopes to Rival AIPAC

15-08-2006 21:56

We take a look at a new recently established group called Christians United for Israel - an evangelical organization that believes supporting expansionist policies of the Israeli government is: "a biblical imperative." We speak with investigative journalist Max Blumenthal who reports they lobbied the Bush administration to adopt a confrontational posture toward Iran, refuse aid to the Palestinians and give Israel a free hand in its attack on Lebanon.

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MEXICAN ELECTORAL FRAUD WINS ROUND ONE - ROUND TWO NOW BEGINS

15-08-2006 11:12

MEXICAN PEOPLE WILL KEEP FIGHTING FOR ELECTION THEY WON

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The politics of the latest terror scare

15-08-2006 04:58

There undeniably is a conspiracy. It is a plot to use terrorist threats, real or imagined, to terrorize the American people, intimidate them, disorient them, and accustom them to accept the militarization of every aspect of their lives and the destruction of their democratic rights. The center of this conspiracy is the American government itself.

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Counter-terrorism/liberty propaganda measures 'need strengthening'?

15-08-2006 00:42

It makes you wonder whether they just have a list of propaganda material lined up that they don't tell the community about until the 'right time'. I mean don't tell me they couldn't have said it last week?

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The Foiled UK Terror Plot and the "Pakistani Connection"

14-08-2006 23:44

The announcement by the British Home Office of a foiled terror plot to simultaneously blow up as many as ten airplanes on transatlantic flights, conveys the impression that it is the Western World rather than the Middle East which is under attack.

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UK/ Victims want more community & restorative sentencing

14-08-2006 23:01

It found overwhelming support for schemes that focus on crime prevention with more than half (54%) saying they were in favour of making offenders work in the community on projects in schools, old people's homes or parks to stop them re-offending.

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CBS 60" interview: Iranian Leader Opens Up

14-08-2006 16:29

CBS TV is a very important part of the US war machine. Les Moonves is the 'Project for a New American Century' (PNAC) as President and CEO of CBS News, and CBS is owned by the infamous US/Israeli propaganda giant VIACOM. The double nationality and multinational VIACOM is owned by Sumner Rothstein.

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Anti-War Film Screening - Tonight

14-08-2006 09:06

An evening of films on Monday 14th August as part of this years Portobello Film Festival in West London curated by Filmmakers Against War, includes, from the Independent Film School in Baghdad, 'Baghdad Days'