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This weeks Indymedia Newswire Radio show

12-10-2005 15:26 | Indymedia | World

Every wednesday there is an hour long Indymedia Newswire Show on Resonance FM. You can find this weeks show on radio.indymedia.org >>

http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/7220.php

Uploaded here are several sections extracted that fit with stories found on indymedia this week.

British government is shaping the battlefield with Iran?

12-10-2005 10:14 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Technology | World

The British government is quoting 'intelligence' on shaped charges as evidence of Iranian involvement in the Iraq insurgency. How much credibility does it deserve?

Fasting in London at a time of natural disasters

12-10-2005 08:35 | Analysis | Social Struggles | World

Nature’s tutorials
for wayward
leaders in control of human societies

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Question Everything: Worry, be alert and alarmed!

12-10-2005 06:43 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

Some of them died for democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan and others are in detention camps. Some are not very free at all. For every successive generation, some of us have been able to build on the knowledge, technology and wealth of earlier generations, and add their own, others have been exploited and down trodden. So we have also reduced poverty for some and created more wealth for others.

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"The Market Has No Heart": Interview with Paul Samuelson

11-10-2005 20:59 | Globalisation | World

A post-Katrina economics must emphasize parallel worlds, solidarity and human dignity to safeguard long-term necessities and creativity. If all countries only become more competitive, mass unemployment will result. What is public- health care, schools, housing- must remain public.

Welfare rights UK - Tory MP Edward Leigh is challenged on lies against the poor

11-10-2005 15:18 | Analysis | Social Struggles | World

WELFARE rights under illegal threat from MPs! - The Tory MP has been challenged on the false assertions made on tv and newspaper interviews which he made against the poor on 11 October 2005.
UKLAWTESTER are about to issue a legal action on Leigh (and Blunkett).

Experts Predict US Attack on Iran

11-10-2005 14:49 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

At a talk given in London last week, Scott Ritter was unequivocal. Plans for an attack on Iran are being drawn up and acted upon “right now….as we speak”.

VENEZUELA: Bolivarian Revolution takes new steps against capitalism

11-10-2005 13:38 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

In the last few weeks in Venezuela there has been a renewed offensive in the "war against the latifundia" and a number of factory expropriations. This has had the effect of polarising the country, with the private bourgeois media launching a "crusade" in defence of private property.

Spodden Valley asbestos- a ‘hot potato’ that nobody wants to hold?

There is still confusion over which government and council agencies have powers and responsibilities over the site of what was the world’s largest asbestos textile factory. A consortium headed by Countryside Properties wants to build 600 homes and a children’s nursery there.

Was the public’s chance to question the council- ‘Gone in 60 seconds’...?

GATE GOURMET WORKERS: “IT’S NOT OVER YET!”

11-10-2005 00:44 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

the continuation of the dispute and its lessons

Art Contest at Abu Ghraib!

10-10-2005 13:32 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Repression | World

No, I'm not making this up. It's from the US Army News Service.

Sometimes I don't know whether to laugh or scream.

BLUNKETT has to be stopped from further illegal attacks on lawful claimants

10-10-2005 13:31 | Analysis | Social Struggles | World

An up-to-date examination of the illegal conduct of David Blunkett MP the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions as he embarks one again on an illegal assault ion the poor people in Britain – as he did on the BBC radio 4 Today programme on Monday 10 October 2005

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WORLD DAY AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY:

10-10-2005 03:46 | Analysis | Culture | Social Struggles | World

A petition signed by people around the world will be presented to Heads of State in Africa by the World Coalition Against Death Penalty.

(audio) Mindwalk 16: Happy Halloween!

10-10-2005 02:42 | Anti-militarism | Culture | World

It's October as you know, I thought I'd get the Halloween episode out of the way early. This Mindwalk is not the typical Halloween type show. No freakin' Monster Mash etc.

http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=14429

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Ceuta border-crossing: Solidarity demos in Paris

09-10-2005 20:22 | Migration | World

On the night of the 28th about 500 subsaharian inmigrants tried to cross en masse the border between Marocco and Ceuta. 5 of them were shot by the police. See

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/09/324735.html.
Protests took place at several spanish and moroccan embassies across Europe. Here is a report from Paris:

Bush, God and Transnationals

09-10-2005 04:38 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

The tragedy (for the entire world) is not that Bush is delusional, mentally unstable and intellectually challenged – that is well known. Rather, it is that he remains as commander in chief of the USA – placed in that position by commercial and other financial interests.

The result for the world is war and innocent lives lost in favour of the accumulation of wealth for the few. That is the tragedy for the world, a tragedy of monumental proportions.

Ramadan in London - Muhammad Haque Political Poetry Sunday 9 October 2005

09-10-2005 03:45 | Analysis | World

Fasting in London in a climate of illegality by ministers and Blair!

Lets Nuke Iran!

08-10-2005 23:43 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | World

On thursday, posturing Prime Minister Tony Blair made a public show of warning Iran not to interfere in Iraq despite admitting that he couldn't be sure they actually had been.

FREE Britain from all things undemocratic, all things GWBush USA-imposed

08-10-2005 17:08 | Analysis | Globalisation | World

Time to free the BBC from 'America' the America that typifies GWBush and the America that is only asserted by the lethal weapons it has stockpiled and can deploy - and establish a 'constitutional Britain' independent from all that that 'America' represents

Genoa G8 Diaz Raid - Trial May be Cancelled by Berlusconi Law Change

Amazing as it may seem, the court trial in Italy over the brutal police raid on the Diaz school during the 2001 Genoa G8 protests, may be effectively cancelled.

The enquiry and trial of police accused of committing brutal acts is due to start this week, on Friday 14th October. Yet due to a new law currently going through the Italian parliament it may never conclude, meaning that no one will be punished.

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This weeks Indymedia Newswire Radio show

British government is shaping the battlefield with Iran?

Fasting in London at a time of natural disasters

Question Everything: Worry, be alert and alarmed!

"The Market Has No Heart": Interview with Paul Samuelson

Welfare rights UK - Tory MP Edward Leigh is challenged on lies against the poor

Experts Predict US Attack on Iran

VENEZUELA: Bolivarian Revolution takes new steps against capitalism

Spodden Valley asbestos- a ‘hot potato’ that nobody wants to hold?

GATE GOURMET WORKERS: “IT’S NOT OVER YET!”

Art Contest at Abu Ghraib!

BLUNKETT has to be stopped from further illegal attacks on lawful claimants

WORLD DAY AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY:

(audio) Mindwalk 16: Happy Halloween!

Ceuta border-crossing: Solidarity demos in Paris

Bush, God and Transnationals

Ramadan in London - Muhammad Haque Political Poetry Sunday 9 October 2005

Lets Nuke Iran!

FREE Britain from all things undemocratic, all things GWBush USA-imposed

Genoa G8 Diaz Raid - Trial May be Cancelled by Berlusconi Law Change

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