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Camp Ashraf Hunger Strike press conference, London - pictures.

10-09-2009 09:21

On the 44th day of the solidarity hunger strikes outside the US embassy in London's Mayfair district, Iranian campaigners hold a press conference to draw attention to the plight of the residents at Camp Ashraf in Iraq.

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Disarm DSEi arms fair, London - pictures.

08-09-2009 20:50

Around 150 activists and anti arms-trade campaigners gather in London to bring attention to Europes largest arms fair due to take place in London between 8th and 11th September 2009.

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Groundwater Levels Plummet Around Coca-Cola Bottling Plant, India

07-09-2009 16:06

Groundwater levels in Kala Dera, the site of Coca-Cola's controversial bottling plant in India, have plummeted 5.83 meters (19 feet) in just one year between May 2007 and May 2008, according to government data obtained by the India Resource Center.

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Global Systematic Discrimination against the Poor due to be signed by States

06-09-2009 13:46

An Optional Protocol is due to be signed by States which, because of its exclusion of the core minimum obligations of the State, will allow States to systematically discriminate against the poor. In addition, it allows for the creation of a far more dependent people unable to help themselves.

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Solidarity with Camp Ashraf Hunger Strikers, London - pictures

06-09-2009 09:31

On day 40 of the international hunger strikes taking place around the world in sympathy with the hunger strikers in Camp Ashraf, Iraq, London hunger strikers hold a solidarity vigil for those still arbitrarily detained in custody by Iraqi security forces.

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Preparing the ground for military aggression against Venezuela and Latin America

06-09-2009 04:32

Preparing the ground for military aggression against Venezuela and Latin America: The Big Lie Strategy in operation.

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Fall Delegation to Bolivia: Food Sovereignty and Indigenous Resistance

05-09-2009 17:28

Fall Delegation to Bolivia: Food Sovereignty and Indigenous Resistance

Spend Thanksgiving celebrating indigenous resistance and exploring food sovereignty issues in Bolivia, the first country in the hemisphere to be governed by an indigenous president.

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Camp Ashraf Hunger Strike, US embassy, London - pictures.

04-09-2009 21:15

On the 39th day of a hunger strike outside the US embassy in London, Iranian pro-democracy campaigners lobby Downing Street to pressure the Iraqi government to release 36 prisoners it has taken prisoner from Camp Ashraf, north of Baghdad.

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Pacifism does nothing to help animals.

02-09-2009 11:04

The following is my opinion and it in no way incites people to take responsibility for their own actions and act concisely and effectively.

This article I feel could be applied to any radical movement and is in no way limited to animal liberation.

Please let me know your thoughts via comments?

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Sept 4 international mobilization: Latin America free of US bases & intervention

02-09-2009 07:28

4 September 2009 International Mobilization ON THE PATH TO PEACE, declaring Latin America as a ZONE OF PEACE, free of US military bases and intervention.

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Oil Company's Best Kept Secret

01-09-2009 19:51

Details of Offshore Europe Exhibition and general invite to attend.

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Dialect - Global Economic Crisis or Global Confidence Trick?

29-08-2009 00:11

29Aug09 - Global Economic Crisis or Global Confidence Trick?
plus Rejuvenating Easton and part 1 of John Pilger on ‘hypnotist’ Barack Obama.

http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/690894

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AFRICOM: The Pentagon's First Direct Military Intervention In Africa

28-08-2009 10:23

While conducting wars, bombings, military interventions and invasions in Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, the Middle East and recently Southeastern Europe over the past half century, the Pentagon has left the African continent comparatively unscathed. That is going to change after the establishment of the United States Africa Command on October 1 of 2007 and its activation a year later.

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Andy Thomas and Lawrence Gardner

28-08-2009 09:59

Andy Thomas and Lawrence Gardner work together, and Andy Thomas passes on curious messages at particular moments.

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Global War and Dying Democracy: The Revolution of the Elites

27-08-2009 07:48

Global trends in political economy suggest that “democracy” as we know it, is a fading concept, where even Western industrialized nations are retreating from the system. Arguably, through party politics and financial-corporate interests, democracy is something of a façade as it is. However, we are entering into an era in which even the institutions and image of democracy are in retreat, and the slide into totalitarianism seems inevitable.

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Obama: Necessity of War in Afghanistan; continuation of Democratic politics?

23-08-2009 18:23

In a previous commentary we indicated that United States President Barack Obama, like his predecessor George W. Bush, in all probability is steering his corporate ship of State, his 'Titanic', towards turbulent waters, to a programmed, protracted world "war of necessity" ...

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Pentagon Plans For Global Military Supremacy

23-08-2009 13:32

The U.S. and NATO plans for the deployment of interceptor missiles and complementary radar facilities in Europe are not and could not be designed to protect the United States and Western Europe from imaginary Iranian intercontinental ballistic missiles and equally non-existent nuclear warheads.

Even the vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff General James Cartwright was forced to concede this even the vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff General James Cartwright was forced to concede the point at the space and missile defense conference this week.

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Controlling the Global Economy: Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and the Federal Reserve

21-08-2009 19:33

The 1990s saw the emergence of what was called the New World Order. This was a term that emerged in the early 1990s to describe a more unipolar world, addressing the collapse of the Soviet Union and the newfound role of the United States as the sole and unchallenged global power.

The New World Order was meant to represent a new phase in the global political economy in which world authority rested in one place, and for the time, that place was to be the United States.

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With Amanda Villatoro, of CSA CRF must be recognized as an occupational illness

21-08-2009 06:25

http://www.rel-uita.org/agricultura/agrotoxicos/irc/2009/con_amanda_villatoro-eng.htm

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ex-political-imprisoned women speak up against rape in Iran

20-08-2009 10:06

“ By Islamic law, it’s illegal to execute virgin girls. So, the islamic regime remedies that little problem, by staging sham “weddings” between the frightened virgin girls and prison guards the night before their executions. The guards then brutally rape the girls.”