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Tens of thousands to protest on eve of G-8 summit

01-06-2007 20:54 | G8 Germany 2007 | Analysis | World

Millions of people are deeply disturbed by the current state of society. They are vehemently opposed to the policies of the ruling elites all over the world and are seeking ways to resist them. They face, however, a contradiction. Experience shows that protest, even if it embraces masses of people, is not sufficient to resolve the great problems of war, repression and social reaction.

G8 Fence Decorating

01-06-2007 20:25 | G8 Germany 2007 | Free Spaces | Globalisation | World

Pics of anti-G8 banners being hung on the security fence near Vorder Bollhagen on Friday.

This Week In Palestine – Week 22 2007

01-06-2007 17:39 | Palestine | World

This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org, for May 26 through June 1st, 2007.

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Solidarity needed; Rigaer Strasse 84- Berlin

01-06-2007 15:46 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

Rigaer strasse 84, a housing project in Berlin-living place for 48 people,a
space for international guests, public cooking space, cinema, free space
for politcal groups, concert space, and a bar.

G8 Protest Ban Exclusion Zone Re-imposed

01-06-2007 14:42 | G8 Germany 2007 | Free Spaces | Globalisation | World

The highest court in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has overruled the previous court decision and decided that a general demonstration ban on June 7th did not violate the constitutional rights of protesters.

A general injunction over a 40 square kilometre area had been designated by police as a demonstration-free zone due to a "state of emergency". It went well beyond the original 200m exclusion zone around the fence stretching to 6km in places.

As a result of this the so-called Star March on June 7th , which was intending to go all the way to the Kempinski hotel, will now be confined to the B105 road.

UK Foreign Office: Israeli agents helped Entebbe hijackers and more

01-06-2007 13:37 | World

THE COMPLETE ARTICLE AND MORE

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At what cost: the loss of integrity?

01-06-2007 11:58 | Analysis | Other Press | Workers' Movements | World

A view from the outside is far more revealing than the myopia offered from within. We are all apt to overlook the elephant for its trunk or ears when we are drawn too near a subject/object. In such a distorted world teacup ‘storms’ appear as hurricanes; the loss of perspective is the precursor to the loss of FREEDOM as the scope narrows, so our consciousness. Few in Oz seem to be aware that the opposition Labor party no longer has an ideological platform, the values of the traditional Australian Labor Party have been jettisoned for short-term gain, opportunism and expediency!

Spanish police arrested turkish communist!

01-06-2007 09:24 | Repression | World

Comrades,

on the 29 of may the spanish police arrested by order of „Interpol“ the turkish communist Binali Yilidirm at the „Kontiki Playa“-Hotel on Mallorca. Binali Yildirim was on holidays with his football team. Reason for the arrest was a request for extradition from Turkey.

The Shortwave Report 6/1/07 ¡Listen Globally!

01-06-2007 00:24 | Analysis | World

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.

Germany in the run up to G8: A Police State. Here Some Videos.

31-05-2007 23:34 | G8 Germany 2007 | Globalisation | Repression | World

Germany in the run up to G8: A Police State. Here Some Videos.

BAE Systems - Coming To A Hotel Near You?!

BAE Systems, the infamous arms dealers, are holding a number of recruitment events in the UK. This company is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people bombed, shot and murdered across the globe

Israeli High Court Allows Shin Bet to Torture Palestinians

31-05-2007 19:31 | Repression | World

When you've become worse than what you claim to oppose, there is no moral argument for the perpetuation of your actions.

Israeli Rabbi Advocates Carpet-Bombing of Gaza

31-05-2007 19:29 | Anti-racism | World

It's this type of thinking that created this mess in the first place, and why the Extremists holding Israel hostage in the Knesset won't negotiate or compromise for peace.

It's time for Israelis to stand up to these Ideologues, end their di*k-waving contest, and make peace once and for all.

Get the G8 off Africa’s back

Article by the education charity WORLDwrite examining prevailing attitudes on the ability of Africans to self govern and develop their economic and social potential. Explores poverty eradication & poverty reduction along with what debt relief really means in Ghana.

Includes comments by Ghanian Academics Professor Akilagpa Sawyerr and Dr. Yao Graham of Third World Network Africa.

US holds talks with Iran in Baghdad

31-05-2007 17:19 | Iraq | World

US-Iranian talks—the first in nearly three decades—took place in Baghdad on Monday. American ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, met with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Kazemi Qumi in the offices of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad for four hours.

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Empire as a Way of Life, Part 8

The current imperial slaughter in the Middle East, justified by the "Global War on Terror", that has resulted in at least 600,000 deaths in Iraq, is nothing new — the U.S. Empire has a long and sordid history of genocidal mass murder.

The history of the US imperialism and Empire is the subject of a series of ten monthly seminars from Dr John Marciano, "Empire as a Way of Life". Attached is a recording of the eighth of these seminars and the text upon which it was based. The first 9 of these seminars have taken place and the intention is to have the whole series published on this site; the last one will take place on 19th June.

This seminar, recorded on 17th April 2007 by the L.A. Sound Posse, runs for 39 minutes and includes the discussion following. It has been made available under a Creative Commons license. If this recording is broadcast please let the L.A. Sound Posse know. This recording was originally made available on the A-Infos Radio Project site.

The following text has been reproduced here with the kind permission of Dr John Marciano and he can be contacted at johnmarciano@mac.com. He introduced this series of seminars in the following way:

A fundamental purpose of our meetings is to understand the systemic nature of the U.S. Empire and the economic and military imperialism that is its lifeblood. The historian William Appleman Williams argues that empire became "a way of life" in the U.S., a "combination of patterns of thought and action that, as it becomes habitual and institutionalized, defines the thrust and character of a culture and society." This "way of life" has convinced many U.S. "Americans" they have a right or "manifest destiny" to impose their political and economic policies upon others.

Dr John Marciano is Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Cortland, where he taught courses on social and historical foundations of education and class, gender and race.

Previous parts of this series:

Empire as a Way of Life, Part 1 | mp3 | doc
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 2 | mp3 | doc
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 3 | mp3 | doc
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 4 | mp3 | doc
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 5 | mp3 | doc
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 6 | mp3 | doc
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 7 | mp3 | doc

G8; Call for Global Infopoint Network

31-05-2007 14:49 | G8 Germany 2007 | Indymedia | Social Struggles | World

In conjunction to the alternative media material that has already started coming out of Germany about whats going on, we want to encourage the setting up of a network of nodal infopoints outside of the protest area for people in their local area to be able to go to and find out first hand whats going on...Spaces already forming in Berlin, Mataro(Cat), Sao Paulo

Audio: Barcelona and the ongoing attack against the squatted social centres.

31-05-2007 14:43 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

Here there is a 24 minute interview with Emily from Miles de Viviendas squatted social centre, about the local situation in the barrio of Barceloneta, the Barcelona wide situation, the Pirate University project from Miles de Viviendas, and other means of positive creative action for change.
Recorded on May 3- 07

"Capitalism is not the solution"

31-05-2007 14:28 | Globalisation | World

Attac turns against the unjust sides of globalization and develops econmic concepts.. We need the contagious power of the ideas of freedom, justice and equality. The last European revolution in 1989 succeeded despite dictatorial conditions.. With the Iraq war and Guantanamo, the common values of the West are discredited.

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Another WTC7 whitewash has been published in NYTimes

31-05-2007 12:35 | Globalisation | Repression | Terror War | World

A response to yesterday's WTC7 hit piece in the NY Times (see 'A Notion From 9/11 Is Kept Alive' by Jim Dwyer). Why do we bother? Because someone has to keep the concepts of truth and global justice alive as we descend into Rockefeller's 'dream' of a one-world feudal state, that's why!

World Newswire Archive

Tens of thousands to protest on eve of G-8 summit

G8 Fence Decorating

This Week In Palestine – Week 22 2007

Solidarity needed; Rigaer Strasse 84- Berlin

G8 Protest Ban Exclusion Zone Re-imposed

UK Foreign Office: Israeli agents helped Entebbe hijackers and more

At what cost: the loss of integrity?

Spanish police arrested turkish communist!

The Shortwave Report 6/1/07 ¡Listen Globally!

Germany in the run up to G8: A Police State. Here Some Videos.

BAE Systems - Coming To A Hotel Near You?!

Israeli High Court Allows Shin Bet to Torture Palestinians

Israeli Rabbi Advocates Carpet-Bombing of Gaza

Get the G8 off Africa’s back

US holds talks with Iran in Baghdad

Empire as a Way of Life, Part 8

G8; Call for Global Infopoint Network

Audio: Barcelona and the ongoing attack against the squatted social centres.

"Capitalism is not the solution"

Another WTC7 whitewash has been published in NYTimes

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