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Peer-reviewed paper on the structural failure of the 3 skyscrapers on 9/11

One rebuff that has been used by many people who oppose the theory that the twin towers and the 47 story World Trade Centre 7 might not have collapsed due to the impact of the two jets and the subsequent fires is that nothing challenging the official story has been published in a peer reviewed journal, for example Noam Chomsky has said:

I am not persuaded by the assumption that much documentation and other evidence has been uncovered. To determine that, we'd have to investigate the alleged evidence. Take, say, the physical evidence. There are ways to assess that: submit it to specialists -- of whom there are thousands -- who have the requisite background in civil-mechanical engineering, materials science, building construction, etc., for review and analysis; and one cannot gain the required knowledge by surfing the internet. In fact, that's been done, by the professional association of civil engineers. Or, take the course pursued by anyone who thinks they have made a genuine discovery: submit it to a serious journal for peer review and publication. To my knowledge, there isn't a single submission.

And of course this point has has also been raised on Indymedia before and now there has finally has been a paper published in a peer-reviewed journal, The Open Civil Engineering Journal, 2008, 2, 35-40, a PDF of the article is attached and a text version follows.

See also the World Trade Centre Building 7 section of the 2006 Sheffield Indymedia feature on 11th September 2001 and the interview with Architect Richard Gage and Professor Steven Jones conducted by Chris Burnett, one of the founders of Indymedia in February 2008.

Petreaus & Crocker, Obama & Clinton: No Matter Who Wins, the War Goes On

19-04-2008 11:09 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Terror War | World

Both Clinton and Obama get big aplause from Democratic audiences pledging to withdraw combat troops from Iraq. But do either of them intend to end the unjust, illegal and genocidal war in which more than a million have perished? The questions Obama and Clinton asked, and failed to ask of Crocker and Petreaus, America's civilian and military satraps in Iraq, as well as the published statements of their advisors illuminate their actual intention --- to continue the war and occupation under a Democratic administration in 2009.

Free Mumia now! All out today at 1pm, US Embassy, London!

19-04-2008 08:22 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Free Mumia now!

Mumia Abu-Jamal
is innocent!

Abolish the racist
death penalty!

Saturday 19 April
1pm, US Embassy,
Grosvenor Square, London W1A
(Nearest Tube: Bond Street)

Contact the Partisan Defence Committee on 020 7281 5504 or at

partisandefence@yahoo.co.uk. Visit www.partisandefense.org for details of international protests taking place today and in the coming week and for a list of the organisations and individuals, representing thousands upon thousands of trade unionists and anti-racists, who have endorsed the international mobilisations.

Netanyahu Says Any Abbas-Olmert Agreement Will be Voided

19-04-2008 07:06 | Anti-racism | World

What Netanyahu has done has been to literally sabotage any possibility of an agreement by saying that Israel won't honor any agreement between Abbas and Olmert.

If "Bebe" Netanyahu unilaterally voids a peace deal made by the previous Prime Minister, the diplomatic future of any agreements made with any other nations is also in peril. .

Because if one Israeli PM can void out an agreement a previous Prime Minister has signed off on, then absolutely no foreign policy accords with any country with Israel can ever be seen to be binding, including those done with the US.

This means that Israel's word, as a nation, to another sovereign nation, can be scuttled at the whim of any future prime minister who doesn't like what his predecessor did.

That said, I do not think that Likud Chairman Netanyahu really has to worry.

Olmert appears to be just "running out the clock" on the current administration, waiting for what he believes may be a "better deal" on any Palestinian statehood from whoever winds up in office after the November elections.

What needs to happen is for the world to get involved in ending Zionism's program of wiping Palestine off the map, and taking the faux 'peace process' Israeli Extremists use to perpetuate the conflict out out of the hands of the war's biggest sponsor.

Brighton Council Release On The Verge Censorship Papers

Under the Freedom of Information Act Brighton and Hove Council have released a handful of documents related pulling of Smash EDO anti-arms trade campaign film On the Verge on March 17 2008

This Week In Palestine – Week 16 2008

18-04-2008 18:42 | Palestine | World

This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org, for April 12th through to April 18th, 2008.

San Isidro. In their own words.

Below is a translation of a document produced by the people of San Isidro Aloapam which explains in detail the history of the forest dispute. Also the corruption they have faced at every level. The picture below shows the injuries sustained by six of the villagers at the hands of the paramilitaries.

For details on how to show practical solidarity to those who have been beaten, tortured and imprisoned click here:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/04/396331.html

Direct Action; Germany, UK, Mexico & Sweden

18-04-2008 14:00 | SHAC | Animal Liberation | Ecology | World

15th-18th March

HUNTING TOWERS DESTROYED (Germany)
"UNTIL THE END OF HUNTING" (Germany)
OXFORD UNI SUPPLIER VISITED (UK)
CIRCUS SIGNS DESTROYED (Germany)
KFC WINDOWS PAY THE PRICE (Mexico)
WINDOWS SMASHED AT ASTRAZENECA (Sweden)

carnival aginast the arms trade 4th june

Smash EDO MBM
4th June
Carnival against the arms trade

Extraordinary Rendition - ER, what does it mean to you?

18-04-2008 10:54 | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

The folllowing is the new information leaflet produced by the London Guantánamo Campaign about Extraordinary Rendition, as part of our new campaign on extraordinary rendition - please distribute widely.

Privatising War: NATO contractor rearms Taleban

18-04-2008 10:17 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Terror War | World

AFP reports a "private helicopter company" hired by NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has dropped ammunition , food and water into a Taleban held area in southern Afghanistan.

Mass Graves of Canadian Children Revealed; Catholic Pope Issued Letter of Demand

18-04-2008 09:41 | Anti-racism | Repression | World

At a public ceremony and press conference held yesterday in downtown Vancouver, the Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared (FRD) released a list of twenty eight mass graves across Canada holding the remains of untold numbers of aboriginal children who died in Indian Residential Schools, most of them run by the Catholic Church.

Facsist Home Attacked

18-04-2008 08:54 | Anti-racism | Repression | Workers' Movements | World

Bedfordshire Fagin Facsist Home Attacked

Project 2012 Meeting Report

18-04-2008 07:36 | Social Struggles | World

Humanity in the UK 1012 – 2012
New Project: Inaugural Meeting Report

Solidarity with Iraq’s orphans

18-04-2008 00:10 | Iraq | Other Press | Terror War | World

Only silence has echoed through the corridors of power in Great Britain, in relation to the news that 4.5 million child orphans now exist in Iraq, according to the Iraqi Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs

Western Media Fabrications regarding the Tibet Riots

17-04-2008 23:00 | Analysis | Anti-racism | Globalisation | World

The images of the violent riots in Lhasa, in which a criminal mob set fire to shops, homes and schools, burning several people alive, and stabbing innocent civilians with knives were not shown on network TV in the US and Western Europe. Small segments of the riots in Lhasa were shown out of context and with a view to accusing the Chinese authorities of repressing a "peaceful protest".

Anarchism in Venezuela, past and present

17-04-2008 22:55 | Analysis | History | Social Struggles | World

* This is a brief outline of the libertarian footprint in the history of Venezuela, prepared by members of the Collective Editorship of El Libertario www.nodo50.org/ellibertario. We hope that this serves as a useful point of reference for those who are interested in the subject.

Success for DAN at the DWP‏

17-04-2008 22:34 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

D.A.N Action Report - 17th April 2008.

Today more than twenty disabled activists occupied the foyer of Adelphi
House, where the Department of Work and Pensions is based. At 1.30 p.m.
campaigners breezed in, taking over the foyer, leafleting and asking to hand
deliver a letter to James Purnell, Secretary of State for the Department of
Work and Pensions. Members of D.A.N. the Disabled people's Direct Action
Network refused to leave until a meeting was arranged with James Purnell to
discuss Incapacity Benefit and the changes which are forcing one million
disabled people into poverty and unpaid work placements. James Purnell was
out of the country, so D.A.N. activists met with representatives from the
DWP and Sally Witcher from the Office for Disability Issues and held long
discussions.

The result of these discussions is, D.A.N. have been promised a meeting
with James Purnell, the date of which is to be confirmed. We are very
confident that the meeting will happen as we have promised to come back for
another visit if it doesn't.

Best Wishes.

Mike Higgins
(On behalf of the DAN Press Team)

E-mail:

danpress@blueyonder.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0)114 225 8676
Mob: +44 (0)7956 856060

World Food Crisis Threatens Rich Nations (That's Us), Too

17-04-2008 21:53 | Social Struggles | World

Unless we act fast for a global consensus on the price spiral, the social unrest induced by food prices in several countries will conflagrate into a price contagion, leavingno country-developed or otherwise-unscathed, India's foreign minister warned.

Fighting dirty wars: spying for the arms trade

17-04-2008 21:14 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | South Coast | World

Fighting dirty wars: spying for the arms trade

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

By Eveline Lubbers

World Newswire Archive

Peer-reviewed paper on the structural failure of the 3 skyscrapers on 9/11

Petreaus & Crocker, Obama & Clinton: No Matter Who Wins, the War Goes On

Free Mumia now! All out today at 1pm, US Embassy, London!

Netanyahu Says Any Abbas-Olmert Agreement Will be Voided

Brighton Council Release On The Verge Censorship Papers

This Week In Palestine – Week 16 2008

San Isidro. In their own words.

Direct Action; Germany, UK, Mexico & Sweden

carnival aginast the arms trade 4th june

Extraordinary Rendition - ER, what does it mean to you?

Privatising War: NATO contractor rearms Taleban

Mass Graves of Canadian Children Revealed; Catholic Pope Issued Letter of Demand

Facsist Home Attacked

Project 2012 Meeting Report

Solidarity with Iraq’s orphans

Western Media Fabrications regarding the Tibet Riots

Anarchism in Venezuela, past and present

Success for DAN at the DWP‏

World Food Crisis Threatens Rich Nations (That's Us), Too

Fighting dirty wars: spying for the arms trade

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