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Using "Humanitarian Intervention" to Justify Imperial Wars

13-08-2007 23:24

The US and other Western powers have always deployed human rights rhetoric
in a selective and self-serving manner, ignoring their own abuses and those of allies
while using the wrongdoing of unfriendly regimes as an excuse to justify intervention

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Home Office arrange another deportation 'Charter flight' to DR Congo

13-08-2007 15:59

A number of Congolese detainees have now received
"removal directions" for Thursday 30th August,
stipulating Flight number PVT616 and 'Operation
Castor'.

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CIA's Top Muslim-Getter Outs Himself: Jose Rodriguez

13-08-2007 05:11

The scourge of Muslim kidnap and prison victims: Jose A. Rodriguez of the CIA
[Aug. 10, 2007] With little fanfare, Jose A. Rodriguez Jr, who heads the National Clandestine Service -- the spies, torturers, and terrorists of the CIA -- had his cover lifted about a month ago. CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield said the driving factor was his interest in publicly participating in minority recruitment events. He's also retiring later this year after more than three decades with the agency.

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Violent deportation of 17 years old, dumped in his country with nothing

11-08-2007 22:14

Ibrahim's deportation was awful, the escorts injected him in the neck and kept
him in handcuffs all the way to Uganda!
Sorry it is no news, it is a tale of ordinary brutality.

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letter to the Greek Ministery of Merchant Marine re NECATI ZONTUL

11-08-2007 00:44

a torture cartoon, promotion
Necati Zontul, who is an Oxford resident, was tortured in 2001 in Greece. Today, he received a letter from the Greek Ombudsman who claims the Minister of Merchant Marine has agreed to apologise and to promise that there would be no further incidents of torture by the Greek Coastguard. This is despite recent videos broadcast on YOUTUBE of Greek police torturing foreigners in custody! It is 6 years after the event and 2 years after a guilty verdict was reached.

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2nd Charter Flight to DR Congo - Thursday 30th August 2007

10-08-2007 19:36

It has been confirmed that some refused asylum seekers from DR Congo, have received removal directions (RDs) for Thursday 30th August 2007.

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UPDATE: Governator comes out of Closet

10-08-2007 13:19

Seriously dodgy clothing by Austrian Governor of California or a well-calculated hint of his true political roots and leaning: July 2007 Arnold Schwarzenegger reveals Nazi-similar-beltbuckle to the world during a press shoot for TIME MAGAZINE with NYs Mayor BLOOMBERG.

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No Borders Info Day- Cardiff, 11th August

09-08-2007 21:30

No Borders South Wales presents an afternoon of talks, films and food to raise awareness of and mobilise for the upcoming No Border Camp in September

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Haifa Seven - Solidarity with Haifa (Israel) anti-racist students

09-08-2007 19:07

The Haifa university has penelised students for holding an anti-racist demo against coments made by the student union.

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Day of Action Against the England-Israel Euro 2008 Qualifier

09-08-2007 16:03

There is to be a day of action against the England-Israel Euro 2008 qualifier. This is part of a campaign calling for a sporting and cultural boycott of Apartheid Israel.

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Victims' rally support for proper 7/7 investigation

08-08-2007 12:38

for two years now relatives of victims of the 7/7 attacks have been calling for a proper enquiry into what happened that day. These calls have been repeatedly blocked by the Blair regime and with a new government in place this subject can now be revisited.

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Does an East End local copuncil ward by-election mean much to wider society?

08-08-2007 12:02

What is the message being sent out by the various ‘workers’ doing the factional ‘canvassing’ for their respective factional ‘candidate’ at the inner city, ‘deprived’ East London council ward of Shadwell [London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council] where polling is due to take place at the enforced by-election on Thursday 9 August 2007 ?

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No Borders Demonstration at Lindholme Immigration Removals Centre

08-08-2007 09:08

No Borders banner
On Tuesday 10 people demonstrated outside Lindholme Immigration Centre, in solidarity with asylum seekers incarcerated there and elsewhere, and for the closure of all such centres. The demonstration was met by a large and nervous response by the South Yorkshire police.

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Blackmetal-Concert with extreme right band in London

07-08-2007 17:31

In September the extreme right finnish black metal band "Horna" shall play in "The Fridge", London.

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Anti-Deportation March

06-08-2007 22:56

Come and join the march against deportations

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Tuesday 7th: three demonstrations against detention and deportations

05-08-2007 21:46

Campsfield house near Oxford: solidarity demonstration 12 noon to 2pm
Lindholme near Doncaster, South Yorkshire: demonstration 11.30 to 2pm
Communication House, Old Street, London: picket 1pm to 2pm

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Immigration detention: unworkable (after Campsfield's latest riots)

05-08-2007 21:26

Locking up innocent people in detention centres - or immigration removal centres (IRCs) as they are now called, is not only cruel, inhumane and degrading: it is unworkable.
Hunger strikes and uprisings have been part of life in detention centres since these monstrous institutions first opened, but have dramatically escalated in the past few years as the UK government are detaining increasing numbers of increasingly desperate people.

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Israel’s Jewish problem in Tehran

04-08-2007 08:50

There is an interesting problem with selling the “Iran as Nazi Germany” line. If Ahmadinejad really is Hitler, ready to commit genocide against Israel’s Jews as soon as he can get his hands on a nuclear weapon, why are some 25,000 Jews living peacefully in Iran and more than reluctant to leave despite repeated enticements from Israel and American Jews?

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Anti-deportation march - Saturday 11 August 2007.

03-08-2007 17:34

There will be an anti-deportation march in Manchester on Saturday 11 August 2007, in defence of all asylum seekers.

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Yet another front-group joins the BNP's fast-growing collection

02-08-2007 13:48

That makes twenty-five, no twenty-six, no twenty-seven etc etc