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Fabricating Terrorism II - British complicity in renditions and torture

10-04-2009 09:44

Attached is a new report from Cageprisoners, "Fabricating Terrorism II - British complicity in renditions and torture", following is the forword to it from Gareth Peirce, read the attached PDF for the full report.

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The Secret, Ignored Value of Labor

09-04-2009 23:25

For centuries the means of production and most of the world's wealth has been owned by only a few individuals. This has led to spectacular robberies such as are apparent at the present time to a quiet, ignored theft of the real value of labor

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Battle of Threadneedle Street

09-04-2009 14:32

The article refers to the G20 demonstartions that took place outside the RBS. In light of criticism that Police have had I believe this piece will give a correct account of how they behaved and how the tactic of cordoning the crowd in aggravated the situation.

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Alaskan gold mine fight heads to London

08-04-2009 14:36

A delegation of native Alaskans and commercial fishermen will head to London next week to confront mining industry giant Anglo American PLC about the controversial Pebble mine project.

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Cuba: The hurt of no longer being

07-04-2009 21:57

* Fragment from a work by Daniel Barret about the evolution of Cuba’s political regime since November 17 2005 till today. This piece attempts to place the role of Fidel Castro these past months.

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France: "The Nine of Tarnac": Confronted by an absurd state power, we shall spea

07-04-2009 09:56



For four month now, the legal & media spectacle titled "The Tarnac affair" won't come to an end. Was Julien Coupat to come out of prison for Christmas? For New Year's Eve then? Or would Friday the 13th be his lucky day? No. In the end 'we' will keep him a bit longer in jail, locked into his new role as 'leader of an invisible cell'.

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Stop kettling sign this petition every little helps.

06-04-2009 21:08

The "Kettle" is best known for having been used in the May Day protests at Oxford Circus in 2001, after which it became the subject of a civil action, brought by one of those contained and only finally resolved by the law lords (in the police's favour) in January this year.

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Against the crisis of the above, organization and action from below

06-04-2009 10:19

All the fairly rigorous analysts agree in the high vulnerability of the Venezuelan economy to face the consequences of the global economic crisis.

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Andy Worthington: A Comprehensive Exposé of Britain's Guantánamo

05-04-2009 22:28

In a series of articles following, Andy Worthington, journalist and author of The Guantánamo Files, follows up on a Parliamentary meeting in the House of Commons on Monday, March 30th 2009 - "Britain's Guantánamo? The use of secret evidence and evidence based on torture in the UK courts," chaired by Diane Abbott MP - with four articles examining how and why the British government has turned its back on the principles of open justice, and five statements made by prisoners held on the basis of secret evidence.

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NATO's Sixty Year Legacy: Threat Of Nuclear War In Europe

05-04-2009 20:13

Self-styled global, 21st Century NATO will meet for its sixtieth anniversary summit in France and Germany in three days and is expected to craft a new Strategic Concept, one that will leave few spots on Earth unaffected.

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Police Aggravate Peaceful G20 Climate Camp in the City of London

04-04-2009 14:17

The relationship between Police and public demonstrators continues to be strained, as events surrounding London's G20 Summit boiled over. With little or no real dialogue over public safety between law enforcement and the public, one can only ask- is this the shape of things to come?

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Dialect - Moves to stop arms sales to Israel - Palestinian journo. Iqbal Tamimi

04-04-2009 01:22

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ITV embedded camera & TASERS

03-04-2009 18:44

MEDIA, POLICE and FIT working together for repression and liars ////

MARCH ON SATURDAY

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/04/426265.html

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Bush, Obama differences (by Latuff)

03-04-2009 17:19

Bush, Obama differences
Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

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U.S.Protestant/Christian economics behind neo-liberal globalization

03-04-2009 15:42

Protestant Calvinism(especially the U.S. variety), is at the root of neo-liberal globalization.

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G20 summit: US and Europe paper over divisions

03-04-2009 15:17

The G20 summit concluded Thursday having failed to adopt the principal demands of either the US and Britain, which came to the London gathering advocating coordinated global fiscal stimulus, or a European bloc led by Germany and France, which called for international regulation of major financial institutions.

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Shock and Awe tactics along with Bribery used by Nuclear Industry in Cumbria

03-04-2009 13:59

The nuclear industry appear to be using the same tactics as George Bush’s
‘shock and awe.'
Three possible sites have been put forward for nuclear new build in
Cumbria. One is Sellafield, which is described by the industry as ‘least
preferred’ because of the decommissioning work. The other two sites of
Kirksanton and Braystones are greenfield and include areas of European
wildlife importance.

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Divide and Rule: Lib Dems Love Affair with Climate Camp

03-04-2009 11:55

The very recent apparent sympathy of Lib Dems towards Climate Campers smacks of electoral opportunism and it is not really doing any favours to the movement.

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G20 post mortem on Left Luggage

03-04-2009 11:49

Socialist strategy site publishes reflections on this week's protests.

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G20 post-mortem

03-04-2009 11:39

Reflections on the protests from socialist strategy site.