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Gates Foundation Millions to divert popular protest movement, South Africa

28-11-2007 14:22

Gates Foundation Injects $10 Million into Embedded NGO that Claims to Represent Shack Dwellers. Abahlali, the Durban Shack Dwelllers Movement, an amazing community response to the failure of ANC party politics on the ground, responds with a brilliant critique and a resolution to keep on fighting.

"Today is just another ordinary day in our struggle. The march is not ours. The money is not for us. Our struggle is ours. Our struggle continues. Our struggle is for land and housing in democratic cities" Abahlali

Check
 http://www.abahlali.org/
for why this movement is one of the most important struggles we could support today!!

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US signs deal for long-term occupation of Iraq

28-11-2007 13:30

President Bush and the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki signed an agreement Monday paving the way for the long-term occupation of the Middle Eastern country and its transformation into a semi-colonial protectorate of the US.

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What next in the Blaired Party donations business?

28-11-2007 05:35

What is going to happen next?
After another day of frantic, new, revelations about the latest North East of England ‘donor’ to the Blaired Party that the UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is lumbered with, is it possible to imagine that anything different will happen to stop this phenomenally predominant feature surrounding what used to be called the Labour Party?

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Why Have Enrichment Plants When there are no Reactors?

27-11-2007 23:30

At a conference in Paris on Thursday, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Mr. Javier Solana, said Iran’s stated ambitions concerning its enriched uranium output were inconsistent with its acquisition of the civilian nuclear technology that would justify it. He said: “It is a bit like if you were trying to make your own fuel before having purchased a car and learned how to drive,”

Unfortunately, Mr. Solana’s comment is misguided.

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The Hidden Holocaust--Our Civilizational Crisis Part 1: The Holocaust in History

27-11-2007 20:34

Part one of an article by Nafeez Ahmed on the history of imperial genocide follows, the subject of this article was the subject of recent public meeting, The Hidden Holocaust - Our Civilizational Crisis.

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The sell-off of Britain Plc: Revenue and Customs loses personal details of 25mil

27-11-2007 09:56



WSWS : News & Analysis : Europe : Britain
The sell-off of Britain Plc: Revenue and Customs loses personal details of 25 million
By Julie Hyland
27 November 2007

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A number of extraordinary revelations over the last week are indicative of a deep malaise surrounding the Brown government, leading some to suggest that its days are numbered less than six months since the “seamless transition” from Tony Blair to Gordon Brown.

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2007 Benn Lecture - Andrew Gilligan

27-11-2007 01:31

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Annual journalism lecture - uncut - Recorded tonight at the Arnolfini in Bristol

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Police State

26-11-2007 18:04

A look at how increased security might effect day to day life in London

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Race, racism and ethnic surrogacy are highly lucrative trade brands for the UK

26-11-2007 11:09

Did the ‘Muslim Lib Dem MEP’, who has just defected to the David Ca-moron tent, exist as anything political withiest using the Lib Dems as a platform? The 'news' is 'neatly' timed to coincide with the very-hyped 'debate' being staged by the business promoters for the brand name of Oxford today !

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Ex-Defence Chiefs paid by arms industry

25-11-2007 20:18

Corporate news media ignore fraud and corruption on UK arms contracts, and back call for even higher military spending.

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Imperial wars and genocide, Petrodollar Recycling System and meltdown

25-11-2007 04:59

Imperial wars, crimes and genocide, Petrodollar Recycling System and meltdown of financial world order.
Articles, analysis and video documentary

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Manufacturing Consent for World War III

24-11-2007 23:18

“When President Bush used an October 17 [2007] White House press conference to threaten that the escalating US confrontation with Iran posed a danger of ‘World War III’ his remark was passed over in silence by most of the media. Those that did report it seemed, for the most part, to accept the White House claim that the president was engaging in hyperbole and merely making a ‘rhetorical point.’” Bill Van Auken (2007).

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Iran: The Neocon Agenda to Sacrifice the Fifth Fleet – The New Pearl Harbor

24-11-2007 21:23

The U.S. plans for an attack on Iran envision to sacrifice the Fifth Fleet in order to justify a nuclear retaliation. This is not a hypothetical scenario, but a real option being discussed within the U.S. Joint Chief of Staff cabinet. According to our sources, admiral William Fallon made clear that if such an order was given, he would refuse to follow it and would hand in his resignation along with the entire Centcom headquarter’s. So far only the Navy and Army’s superior officers’ resistance has prevented the neoconservatives and the Air Force to launch the operations.

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Dialect - Today's Stop The War Rally in Bristol and Northern Rock

24-11-2007 21:00

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Today's show is ten minutes longer than usual to accommodate live interviews with Stop the War rally speakers at the rally.

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Buy Nothing? Steal Something Day...

24-11-2007 09:44

Planning on doing something today for Buy Nothing Day?

Read the critique that calls out instead for Steal Something Day...

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How eco are Ecotown built by opencast mining companies?

23-11-2007 13:19

So The ministry of Truth want a ecotowns built by opencastminers like H J Banks ltd & councils like nottingham city are spending tax payers money to susidise incinerators owned by billionaire Guy hands of WRG because of contracts made decades ago before toxic emissions were known.

what next? will they employ the bnp as equal ops consultants?,

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UK press launch of Loose Change Final Cut

23-11-2007 00:47

The film is the third and final version of the most downloaded and watched movie in Internet history.

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The Shortwave Report 11/23/07 ¡Listen Globally!

23-11-2007 00:38

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.

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PHILIPPINES: Estrada's pardon honor among thieves

22-11-2007 21:13

AKBAYAN (Citizens' Action Party) condemned the granting of executive clemency for former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA), saying that it reflects not national unity but honor among thieves.

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Leave the Oil in the Soil

22-11-2007 20:05

Leave the Oil in the Soil: Yasuni, ITT, the Huaorani people and the Amazon.

There is a potentially radical process unfolding - keep the oil in the soil: