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NATO. Obituary to a Nukepool

27-01-2014 18:46

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was a military confederacy during the 60 Years Armistice. Historically, it is part of the fallout of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attack, which among other things caused the unprepared separation of occupied Korea and the ensuing war on the peninsula. During the armistice period this brought about a new form of international diplomacy that expressed itself in military confederacies. Their formation followed the administrative structure of American imperialism, but of three regional branches positioned around Asia only the European one survived its first years. It turned out to be a mirror of the imperialist hierarchy involving its collaborators at a high profile. In the special case of Germany, it also became a pretext to resurrect an army that had been dissolved with the ultimatum against Japan. With the revocation of the 60 Years Armistice this informal anachronism now has become a formal anachronism. Although in an administrative sense the entity does still exist, it is already displaying its first significant fissures.

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What Kind of Doomer Are You?

27-01-2014 17:08

From The Farm in Tennessee, alternative guru Albert Bates rates responses to predictions of doom. Film-maker Anne Macksoud on new movie "The Wisdom to Survive" Plus musical activist Rachelle Van Zanten

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UKRAINE: Autonomous Workers Union Update on Euromaidan

25-01-2014 20:11

The laws which were passed on January 16th showed that the faction of the ruling class which now controls the government is ready to install a reactionary bourgeois dictatorship on the model of the Latin American regimes of the 1970s. The “dictatorship laws” criminalize any protest and limit the freedom of speech; also, they establish responsibility for “extremism”. Parliamentary mouthpieces of the class dictatorship of corrupted bureaucracy and monopolist bourgeoisie are the Party of Regions and the so called “Communist” Party of Ukraine which has long ago become a political force serving interests of capital.

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UG#675 - What We're Not Being Told (BIS, CFR, TLC, Scientific Truth)

25-01-2014 15:01

Audio
We continue our focus on the vast machine, looking this time not at the lies it tells but truths it leaves unspoken. First we hear Ellen Brown suggesting a BIS-Syria connection. Next for the first time on the show we hear professor and historian Anthony Sutton, who has a lot to say about the murky links between US big business and the development both of USSR and of Nazi Germany. We conclude with Chris Busby on scientific dishonesty in the area of radiation risk.

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The Greek state murders, Europe consents

25-01-2014 14:47

The mass murder of infants and women by the Greek state outside the island Farmakonisi is not an individual incident and absolutely not a tragedy, since ignorance is required for a tragedy to happen

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Stop G4S campaign convergence

24-01-2014 17:34

A campaigning convergence to Stop G4S.

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Sentencing of Transform Now Plowshares resisters set for January 28, USA

24-01-2014 13:19


Megan Rice, Greg Boertje-Obed and Michael Walli will appear before
Judge Amul Thapar in federal court in Knoxville, Tennessee on January
28, 2014, to be sentenced for the Transform Now Plowshares action on
July 28, 2012.
 http://transformnowplowshares.wordpress.com/

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10 Days till Slough!

22-01-2014 23:46

It’s now only 10 days till the AFN demo against the EDL in Slough on Saturday 1st Feb. Tell your friends and relatives. Organise yourself to get there and make sure that the EDL’s first demo of 2014 is also their last!

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Frack Free February

22-01-2014 20:48

Frack Free February is a Month of Action in Somerset with public meetings, talks, stalls, workshops, actions and more all raising awareness about the threats to our communities and the bigger picture of extreme energy.

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Metropolitan Police lies "blown out of the water" + tips for #copsoffcampus

22-01-2014 00:46

After video footage emerged of a Metropolitan Police officer punching a student protestor on the 4th of Dec 2013, the "Our University Our Streets” demonstration takes place on Weds 22nd Jan 2014, at 1pm, outside the University of London Union, Malet Street, London... against the backdrop of malicious Metropolitan Police prosecutions being "blown out of the water" by photographic evidence, and of massive compensation pay-outs by the Met to victims of police violence.

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Free Margaretta

21-01-2014 22:28

79 year old artist, peace activist, & feminist jailed by Irish State

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save the meadsothe meads

21-01-2014 20:16

Bridgwater residents launch campaign to save otter and water vole habitat.

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Datganiad Stop NATO Cymru (Statment in Welsh)

21-01-2014 12:11

Ddoe de cafodd sawl banner ei ollwng mewn mannau gawhanol yn Casnewydd, de Cymru mewn gweithred o unoliaeth gyda'r NATO 3 ag i lawnsio y datganiad isod a cofodd ei ddosbarthu i pobl yn canol y dref.

Am ragor o wyboadaeth am y NATO 3 dilynnwch y ddolen yma:  http://freethenato3.wordpress.com/nato-3-trial-solidarity/

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Winter Warmers People's Kitchens 26th and 28th Jan BRISTOL

21-01-2014 09:09

Peoples Kitchen Poster
In Bristol, on Sun 26th Jan at Kebele Community Cafe and Tues 28th Jan at The Runcible Spoon Restaurant we will be cooking food and bringing prepared concoctions to help fight off the winter blues. Please come!

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2 national badger cull protests in Birmingham as NFU come to town!

20-01-2014 22:54

As the National Farmers Union (NFU) prepare for their annual conference in Birmingham, campaigners against the badger cull are getting ready for 2 national protests in the city centre.

Animal lovers, wildlife enthusiasts, hunt sabs and animal rights campaigners from all corners of the UK are expected in Birmingham for a march and rally on Saturday 22nd February and a static protest outside the conference on Tuesday 25th February.

Read on for further details of both events and please attend if you possibly can.

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Stop NATO Cymru Statment

20-01-2014 17:40

STOP NATO (A)
Today several banners were dropped at various locations around Newport, south Wales as an act of solidarity with the NATO 3 and to launch the statement below which was handed out in the city centre.

For more information about the NATO 3 follow this link:  http://freethenato3.wordpress.com/nato-3-trial-solidarity/

To get involved in resisting the 2014 summit in Newport:
 https://network23.org/stopnatocymru

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#132: No Borders Tangier, ISP website-blocking, observations on creativity...

20-01-2014 14:19

Dissident Island Radio is back in 2014...check out the latest show.

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No NATO Newport planning meeting

20-01-2014 11:34

Monday 3rd February at 6pm

Da Vinci's Coffee Shop, 10 High Street, Newport, NP20 1FQ

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UK Winter Floods & Australian Heat

19-01-2014 21:00

Why UK winter floods explained by scientist David Lavers. Extreme heat in Australia: vision of coming world, Cam Walker FOE. Plus author Alan Weisman.

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Phone Blockade about to start - help stop deportation of Emily Mei Yeh

17-01-2014 09:39

Emily Mei Yeh, former Taiwan spy
Emily Yeh worked as an intelligence officer for the Taiwanese government, but became morally uncomfortable with the work she was asked to carry out and fled to the UK. She has been living in Newport, South Wales, where she became a volunteer. Right now, her many friends and supporters are appealing to Malaysia Airways to help keep Emily safe, and not to remove her against her will to an uncertain and dangerous future. If returned she faces an unduly long prison sentence, if not torture or worse.