Oxford Analysis Newswire Archive

So . . . you're a political activist and you think that it's necessary to use the mainstream media to educate people about certain issues. It seems to make sense that you should use these methods to reach people, because otherwise, who will notice you? Read more >>

Making a Killing on Wall Street:

Stock prices of Halliburton, Exxon, British Petroleum, Boeing (and other war-related companies) have doubled since the Iraq Invasion

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Good article from a person who's eyes were opened to the dark side of left/reformism social change. Read more >>

Corporate Watch update from the G8 summit - 5th July  http://corporatewatchuk.blogspot.com/ Read more >>

We are anti-capitalist because we do not believe that capitalism can be consistent with democracy, social justice, environmental sense or the fight against AIDS: an argument, via Starbucks and Bill Gates, for why the South is all of us. Read more >>

Think this artical by Marco of Eurodusnie is worth a look for thoughs wondering what the actavist respons to the G8 is all about.
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G8 and the comeback of the alter-globalists

Geschreven door Marco van Duijn

Wednesday, 29 June 2005

A great deal has changed since the alter-globalisation movement put itself in the spotlight during the WTO summit in Seattle. The global mobilisations against free trade summits reached a peak in Seattle and almost a year later in Prague, during the annual meeting of the IMF and the World Bank. The end of the alter-globalisation movement was accompanied by an orgy of violence during G8 summit in Genoa (2001) and briefly following the events in New York on September 11. This summer another G8 meeting will take place in Scotland. While the world leaders of the eight most powerful countries entrench themselves in a golfing resort behind seven kilometres of fencing, the alter-globalists are preparing a comeback. Read more >>

The new briefing from Carbon Trade Watch examines the relationship between free-market economic forces and climate change policy while scrutinising the rhetoric and reality behind promises on climate made by the most powerful politicians in the world - the G8. I
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In short, the so called "alternatives" to oil are actually "derivatives" of oil. Without an abundant and reliable supply of oil, we have no way of scaling these alternatives to the degree necessary to power the modern world.
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This is a colourful, informative, double-sided map exposing corporate agendas at the G8 summit and Scotland Plc. Read more >>

Mark Lynas, author of climate change book "High Tide" and long-time direct activist has written in this week's New Statesman magazine of his conversion to nuclear power as a solution to climate change. Read more >>

I thought that “Never again!” meant never again for all humanity — not just never again for European Jews. Read more >>

There have long been governments resting on a minority of the electorate, but so long as turnout overall remained reasonably high, politicians could dismiss those who did not vote and not have to worry about their democratic legitimacy. But when six out of 10 young people do not vote, as well as, first indications suggest nearly one-third of women over 55 - traditionally the most civic-minded - then the alarm bells ring. Read more >>

Reg Keys standing as an Independant in Sedgefield, Tony Blair's Constiuency, supporters of the campaign include Brian Eno and Fredrick Forsyth. Read more >>

On Thursday evening the most dramatic day of the UK election campaign so far culminated in Tony Blair's grilling by a live studio audience on BBC television. Read more >>

'Hardworking families', besides its direct meaning of 'families that work hard' or 'families whose constituents work hard', is used as a rhetorical device (a code word) in the politics of the United Kingdom and that in the United States: it is used pragmatically beyond its semantic value. In such uses, the phrase usually appears in the plural form. Read more >>

Two events are on in Oxford this week as part of the Global Week of Action ( http://www.april2005.org/). Read more >>

The Ties That Blind
US Foreign Policy Dangerously Slanted Toward Israel
By BILL CHRISTISON
Former CIA analyst Read more >>

A British newspaper has claimed to have found "clear evidence" that Syria assassinated ex-premier Rafik Hariri in an attack that has plunged Lebanon into political chaos.
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It is time we abolish County Councils, if we are to improve local government and local democracy in the region. Read more >>

Now Wikipedia's entry on Oxford has a section on its politics. Read more >>