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Iraqi Cardinal calls for release of Tariq Azziz

24-12-2007 16:30

Aziz is a Chaldean Christian, Iraq's biggest Christian group, and his presence in Saddam's government was often held up as evidence of the former Iraqi leader's religious tolerance

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Barcelona bus strike shuts down the city

24-12-2007 16:18

Bus drivers march
BUS drivers in Barcelona have called a second strike for 2-4 January, demanding a five day working week, after a walk-out from 21-24 December drew widespread support, wrong-footing both company chiefs and the police.

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CIA Won't Be Made Scapegoat in Torture-Gate

24-12-2007 16:04

This scandal seems designed to give the impression that 'al Qaeda' is real. But nonetheless, it probes the brutality of the Extremists behind the 'War Of terror'.

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SHAC bail applications dismissed

24-12-2007 10:53

Three SHAC leaders have their Xmas bail applications rejected.

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Season's Greeting...

24-12-2007 09:59

Merry Christmas!

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Happy New Year! (by Latuff)

24-12-2007 04:23

Happy New Year!
Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

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Acteal, Chiapas, marks 10 years since massacre

23-12-2007 22:24

From 20-22 December the indigenous organisation 'las Abejas' held a gathering at the place where ,10 years ago, 49 of their members were massacred by paramilitaries armed and backed by the Mexican state (21 women, 15 children, 9 men, 4 unborn babies).

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George William and family - a cruel twist

23-12-2007 21:49

Urgent action needed this morning Monday 24th December

George William's eldest sons, Christopher George and Calvin George - are due to be deported on Qatar Airways Flight QR0012 From London Heathrow at 14:15hrs today Monday 24th December for Doha and onward to Karachi.

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Were US & Israel Behind the 9/11?

23-12-2007 21:46

"From areas around the Palazzo Chigi, nerve centre of direction of Italian intelligence, it is noted that the non-authenticity of the video is testified from the fact that Osama bin Laden in it 'confessed' that Al Qaeda would have been the author of the attack of the 11 September to the Twin Towers in New York, while all of the democratic areas of, America and of Europe, with in the forefront those of the Italian, centre-left, now know well that the disastrous attack was planned and realized by the American CIA and Mossad with the help of the Zionist world to put under accusation the Arabic Countries and to persuade the Western Powers to intervene in Iraq and Afghanistan For this, no word of solidarity arrived to Silvio Berlusconi, who has been the author of the brilliant falsification, neither from the Quironale nor from Palazzo Chigi, nor from representatives of the centre-left!"

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The Butcher's Apron

23-12-2007 20:32

The real difference between the parties is minuscule but significant. The Democrats have become the party of traditional imperialism spearheaded by Brzezinski, Holbrooke, Albright and the other guardians of Empire. These are the master-puppeteers who operate behind the scenes for their well-heeled benefactors. Their focus is mainly on Central Asia; controlling resources from the Caspian Basin, “pacifying” Afghanistan, rallying the EU to a greater role in NATO, and continuing the apocryphal “war on terror” into infinity. It's the Great Game redux.

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The Post-Oil Economy: After The Techno-Fix

23-12-2007 20:12

"Even when grappling with the idea of economic disintegration, Americans attempt to cast it in terms of technological or economic progress: eco-villages, sustainable development, energy efficiency and so on. Under the circumstances, such compulsive techno-optimism seems maladaptive." — Dmitry Orlov, "Our Village"

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Holiday Season Hypocrisy

23-12-2007 19:47

Christmas is also the time when the national obsession to shop and consume reaches its zenith. It traditionally begins the day after Thanksgiving, runs through Christmas eve, and after the holiday continues into January with plenty of extra buying power from holiday gift cards, year-end bonuses and other resources gotten or borrowed. It's for everything people never knew they wanted until creative advertising wizardry made their lives incomplete without them.

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Olmert: Seige of Gaza Will Continue

23-12-2007 19:28

Physicians for Human Rights Gaza Update - Another Seasonal Shame
 https://israel.indymedia.org/newswire/display/8172/index.php

Israel's Ongoing Human Rights Violations
 https://israel.indymedia.org/newswire/display/8177/index.php

Red Cross Condemns Gaza Collective Punishment, World Inaction
 https://israel.indymedia.org/newswire/rate/8181/index.php#Article-8181

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Open Letter to the Directors of ITT over the proposed merger wth EDO Corp

23-12-2007 15:54

This has been sent to the home addresses of the directors of ITT Defence and ITT Ltd.

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Severe food shortages, price spikes threaten world population

23-12-2007 15:11

Worldwide food prices have risen sharply and supplies have dropped this year, according to the latest food outlook of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. The agency warned December 17 that the changes represent an “unforeseen and unprecedented” shift in the global food system, threatening billions with hunger and decreased access to food.

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Demonstration Defends Freedom Of Protest

23-12-2007 15:03

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On Monday this week, Merseyside Police arrested and assaulted an animal rights activist outside Cricket on Mathew Street, a shop that sells fur products. This followed an incident where a Bolton activist was found guilty on a 'section five' for photographing cops on a demo. So yesterday afternoon, around twenty of us showed solidarity and supported the regular Saturday picket of the Cricket store, and scored a bizarre victory over an aggressive and incompetant police presence.

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Government consultation on data sharing : please respond

23-12-2007 13:25

Important: Data sharing review from the Ministry of Justice

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Refusing to accept apartheid in Beit Jala

23-12-2007 12:56

View on Abu Salim's land
Last night the rains finally arrived in Beit Jala, a small town in the West Bank, one kilometer west of Bethlehem and about eight kilometers south of Jerusalem. Its alluring hills are covered with olive trees, vineyards and apricots. In 1967 Israel confiscated 22 percent of Beit Jala's land. Now, the construction of Israel's separation wall is in full swing and will cut off another 45 per cent of Beit Jala's land.

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'Father Christmas' beaten in West Bank

23-12-2007 12:51

An Israeli army spokesman said there had been disorder at the protest and that several demonstrators who were briefly detained were subsequently released.

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Iraq: 'It's Madness'

23-12-2007 12:05

If the scale of the unimaginable tragedy the British have wrought in Basra was not of the historical enormity which it is and for which the UK will never be forgotten and likely, never forgiven, world wide (only second to the Americans, of whose accountability for unspeakable atrocities, words temporarily fail) with Prime Minister Gordon Brown again trying to dress up defeat as victory, as the British 'left' the city last week, it would be laughable. The British actually slunk off from their illegally inhabited palace in central Basra in September, to cower in a base well outside the town, spent, redundant and now with the loss of one hundred and seventy four tragically wasted lives, for UK government lies. Ironically, Iraqi women were photographed throwing sweets at the Iraq forces on December 16th's Sunday 'handover' of the Iraqi city to Iraqis. The sweets and flowers promised by the CIA backed, convicted embezzler, Ahmed Chalabi and the Iraq National Accord's Iyad Allawi to the invaders, transpired, absolutely predictably, to be rocket propelled and hand grenades, improvised explosive devices and ambush by varied imaginative booby traps and weaponry.
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