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Mexican Drug Cartels “officially” declare open war on US Federal Agents and the

16-02-2011 21:59

Mexican Drug Organizations now target US Federal Agents inside of Mexico in the latest and most recent brazen attacks

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Palestine Today 02 16 2011

16-02-2011 16:14

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednsday, February 16 2011.

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Palestine Today 02 15 2011

15-02-2011 16:00

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, February 15th 2011

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Irish Political Prisoners Tortured Aagain In Occupied Ireland

15-02-2011 07:40

BRUTALITY AGAINST IRISH POLITICAL PRISONERS BY BRITAIN
Irish Prisoner Of War (POW}s are once again being tortured in ireland by the British, who have broken the Belfast Agreement on several key issues, besides torture and blanket censorship. Even Peace activists who are trying to get the word out about the torture of Irish political prisoners, who have been interned after being tried by non-jury, kangaroo, courts and imprisoned by sectarian prison wardens.

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Met pays £117000 in G20 compensation‎

15-02-2011 00:27

FOI by Daily Mirror exposes compensation payments to G20 protesters to date

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Now Then: George Monbiot Interview - Never one to shy away from a thorny issue

14-02-2011 19:19

George Monbiot is an award-winning investigative journalist with a regular column in the Guardian, has published several books and a screenplay to boot. His writing spans topics such as the environment, political corruption, corporate misdeeds and the ideologies behind current economic thinking. Perhaps his most insightful work describes the complex webs connecting these concepts. A tireless campaigner, advocate for human rights and never one to shy away from a thorny issue or controversial argument, we were happy to catch up with him ahead of his upcoming debate tour.

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Palestine Today 02 14 2011

14-02-2011 16:55

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, February 14 2011.

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Egypt Protest Plans

13-02-2011 19:19

Egyptian activists have been circulating a kind of primer to protest. We were sent the plan by two separate sources and have decided to publish excerpts here, with translations into English. Over Twitter, we connected with a translator, who translated the document with exceptional speed.

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This Week in Palestine week 6 2011

11-02-2011 17:17

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Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for February 5 to 11 2011.

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Freegan court case in Chelmsford

10-02-2011 18:20

Obviously not the most popular source of news around here, but the Daily Mail today published an article about the arrest of a woman for taking food that Tesco were throwing out: 'A woman was handcuffed and 'treated like a hardened criminal' after she helped herself to food worth £200 that had been thrown away by a Tesco store following a power cut.'

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Palestine Today 02 10 2011

10-02-2011 16:41

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, February 10 2011.

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Palestine Today 02 09 2011

09-02-2011 14:58

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, February 09 2011

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Department of Homeland Security shuts down websites, but they can “Byte my back

08-02-2011 17:41

Concern over the US Department of Homeland Security confiscating and closing down websites for copyright infringements with the real purpose of censorship

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Palestine Today 02 08 2011

08-02-2011 16:11

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, February 08 2011.

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Palestine Today 02 07 2011

07-02-2011 16:09

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday, February 07 2011

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48 Hour Strike Called at Sheffield Newspapers

07-02-2011 13:17

Sheffield Newspapers NUJ Chapel (workplace branch) has called 48 hours of strike action to take place this Wednesday and Thursday (Feb 9 and 10) to oppose the threat of compulsory redundancies as a result of the company deciding that the centralised page production hub in Sheffield should be cut almost in half, putting 9.5 full-time equivalent jobs at risk.

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When in Trouble Play the Race Card

05-02-2011 10:27

Its now the "muslim extremist" card but no coincidence with Con-Dems slash and burn approach to the economy coming under attack from across the political spectrum that this speech is made now.

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Stroud Views & Burblings Issue 3: Housing Special

04-02-2011 18:58

"Do my cuts look big in this?"
Latest Issue of the latest free newsheet to hit the streets of Stroud.
500 issues are now printed and ready to be handed out. Let us know if you can help distribute them or if you are friendly with a local pub that might take a bundle

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Misreporting Egypt

03-02-2011 17:15

Pro-Mubarak thug on camel attacks crowd
@banbarkawi: This is not a war between sects, nor religions. This is a war of the government against its people. 02/02/11

The rapidly unfolding events in Tahrir Square now stand irrefutably as the result of an act of state repression that is at once inherently insidious in nature, but blatant in its staging. The fact that the initiation of attacks and violence in Cairo came at the behest, under the control, and in the interests of a state mechanism attempting to crush its people, is not incidental to the situation, nor is it a complexity of chaos for history to reveal and make sense of at a later date. It is inherent to the reality of the situation – it is the situation itself and everything that is happening stems from that.

Yet despite the constant stream of reports from both paid journalists, and Egyptian demonstrators, on the ground, either immediately, or later, verified in photos, video or witness statements, that first exposed and consistently reaffirmed the truth of today’s events; the reporting of major news channels has, throughout the day, become more and more a passive journalism of the uncertain.

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Palestine Today 02 03 2011

03-02-2011 15:39

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, February 03 2011