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Yet another Show Trial in the UK?

13-10-2006 00:05

This sounds like a Show Trial to me, full of strange inconsistencies: is this man mentally fit to be tried? He has been accused of all manner of extravagant plots but they're all on paper, there are no known fellow 'conspirators', he has no funds to carry-out any of the alleged projects and there is no evidence that any atrocities were being prepared! Yet the man pleads guilty in a high-security court and judgement is to be made in circumstances of even higher security. Is this nothing more than another in a long line of political trials where a mentally vulnerable man is being victimised by the British state and its thought police?

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Blunkett Advised Blair to Bomb Al-Jazeera

12-10-2006 23:28

In an interview with Channel 4's Dispatches, to be aired on Monday, former home secretary David Blunkett admitted that he suggested to the war cabinet during the 2003 invasion of Iraq that Britain's military should bomb Aljazeera's television transmitter in Baghdad. Two weeks after Blunkett urged the prime minister to attack al-Jazeera, the American military bombed the station's Baghdad offices, killing journalist Tareq Ayoub.

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The Blair Holocaust

12-10-2006 21:09

I killed
Nearly a million by now.

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BBC guilty of venality in its misreporting on Venezuela

12-10-2006 20:34

"The Beeb", once better than the rest, is now an openly Government-controlled Propaganda vehicle.

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Trident Debate grows rapidly

12-10-2006 19:35

The website campaigning to secure a full public and parliamentary debate on the replacement of Britain's nuclear weapons system, Trident has been growing rapidly, today passing the 500 signatories mark.

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Rossport Solidarity Action in Manchester

12-10-2006 19:31

A call for solidarity with the people of Rossport and Erris in County Mayo, Ireland in their fight against Shell Oil's attempts to destroy their community and environment.

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Palestine Today

12-10-2006 19:03

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Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org for Thursday October 12th, 2006.

The death toll in Gaza reaches to seven, five from the same family, while in the West Bank army invades cities and takes prisoners, these stories and more coming up stay tuned.

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New study says US war has killed 655,000 Iraqis

12-10-2006 18:37

Those responsible for the war be tried as war criminals
The SEP demands that those responsible for the war be tried as war criminals. The election program also calls for the US government to compensate the Iraqi people for the destruction and suffering it has caused, as well as the families of American soldiers killed in the war and the men and women who have been wounded, both mentally and physically.

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Welfare Reform: The Truth

12-10-2006 17:20

Britain: Labor government proposes punitive welfare reforms
Fri, 2006-08-25 02:41

By Jean Shaoul – World Socialist Web Site

The Labor government’s Welfare Reform Bill published before the parliamentary recess seeks to force the most vulnerable members of society—the sick, single parents and older workers—off benefits and into work.

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a few more sack parliament photos

12-10-2006 16:25

a few photos, taken on a broken fisheye lomo so please forgive their quality

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OutRage!- Iran's secret war against it's own people

12-10-2006 15:22

gay rights group Outrage! highlights the report in The Times concerning Iran's attacks on its own minorities....

(Twiglet-Now try saying we don't campaign against anyone else other than lgbt.. We always have highlighted general attacks on everyone's human rights etc. anyway..)

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THOM HARTMANN'S NEW BOOK - SCREWED: THE UNDECLARED WAR AGAINST THE MIDDLE CLASS

12-10-2006 15:03

HOW DEMOCRACY AND THE MIDDLE CLASS ARE BEING DESTROYED

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B52 two face retrial after jury fails to reach verdict

12-10-2006 15:00

Jury fails to reach verdict in trial of peace activists charged with conspiricy to cause criminal damage to Iraq bound B52 bombers

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NORTH KOREA'S BOMB

12-10-2006 14:35

AMERICA'S UNWILLINGNESS TO TALK

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The fascist bomb factory you won't hear about

12-10-2006 14:30


This story was never reported by the mainstream UK national media, why?

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The terror plot that didn't fit

12-10-2006 14:30

We're only interested in the sort of terrorism that suits our paranoia

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1984

12-10-2006 14:07

All and each one of the threats related by brilliant George Orwell is receiving realism to huge steps. We attended a formidable spectacle in which we are imprisoned of the systematic use of social engineering destined to conserve them privileges of few in damage of the most essential rights of the set of the Humanity.

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Jo Wilding film screening in London this Sunday (15th Oct)

12-10-2006 14:02

Special screening of "A letter to the Prime Minister: Jo Wilding's Diary from Iraq." Part of the "No More Fallujahs" month of action against war and occupation: www.rememberfallujah.org.

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Meeting tomorrow (13th Oct) night with Maya Evans and Emily Johns

12-10-2006 14:00

Public meeting with two UK activists on the theme of the "war on terror" at home and abroad. Part of the the "No More Fallujahs" month of action against war and occupation: www.rememberfallujah.org.

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US of A

12-10-2006 13:49

This one
America