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Agustín goes by you

28-11-2008 15:05 | World

Never hubié branches dear to write this note, this jodida note, that fills to us of pain

Mumbai carnage: world unity urged to punish culprits

28-11-2008 13:45 | Anti-militarism | History | Terror War | World

Pakistanis are openly acknowledging their country's rogue I.S.I. was responsible for the ayhem in Mumbia that left 120 people dead. The maverick Baluch ethnic group calls for world unity to defeat "the monster."

Greenhouse Development Rights

28-11-2008 13:25 | Climate Chaos | World

We continue our lead in to this year’s UN Climate Change Talks in Poznan Poland with a look at a proposal that seeks to break the current deadlock and lead to a fair deal that delivers both climate safety and protects the poor. We speak to Tom Athanasiou, director of EcoEquity and co-author of the Greenhouse Development Rights framework.

How free UK journalists are when working in UAE?

28-11-2008 12:46 | Other Press | World

An article published in the Guardian by Frank Kane, Sunday 23 November 2008 titled A bridge over the journalistic gulf in the Emirates triggered my pain, and opened my old wound wide open. I worked in a media establishment in UAE for 8 years, and it is is a well known fact that Journalism in the United Arab Emirates is water proof strictly controlled by the government. Why would a British journalist defend this state agenda and its preaches of human rights? what about his ethics?

Salem Marchen (Nazi march in Sweden) by Latuff

28-11-2008 09:57 | Anti-racism | World

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

The Problem With...Civilization

Civilization or civilisation n. an advanced stage or system of human social development
(Concise Oxford English Dictionary)

Something BETTER than civilization is awaiting us.
(Daniel Quinn, Beyond Civilization)

Journal of a Voyage

28-11-2008 04:18 | Anti-racism | World

Gideon Spiro was on the second voyage. Here is his long and detailed report about what he saw and what he experienced. Of interest besides his report on Gaza is the report at the end on what happened to him when he passed through the Israeli checkpoint. Thank you Gideon.

Greta Berlin
Free Gaza team

Fronting for Paramilitaries: Holder, Chaquita and Colombia

27-11-2008 23:16 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | History | World

Chiquita Brands was among the U.S. corporations that funded Colombia's rightwing death squads, organized under the umbrella of the United Self-Defense Groups. Eric Holder, the soon-to-be U.S. Attorney General, defended Chiquita's relationship with the death squads, as a corporate attorney.

China and the Congo Wars: AFRICOM. America's New Military Command

27-11-2008 22:56 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World

Just weeks after President George W. Bush signed the Order creating a new US military command dedicated to Africa, AFRICOM, events on the mineral-rich continent have erupted which suggest a major agenda of the incoming Obama Presidency will be for the son of a black Kenyan to focus US resources, military and other, on dealing with the Republic of Congo, the oil-rich Gulf of Guinea, the oil-rich Darfur region of southern Sudan and increasingly the Somali ‘pirate threat’ to sea lanes in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. The legitimate question is whether it is mere coincidence that Africa appears just at this time to become a new geopolitical ‘hot spot’ or whether it has a direct link to the formal creation of AFRICOM.

Palestine Today 112708

27-11-2008 15:21 | Other Press | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for Thursday November 27 2008

Air Mauritius Primate Ban Stands!

27-11-2008 13:09 | Animal Liberation | Bio-technology | Ecology | World

Suspicions were recently raised whether Air Mauritius had resumed transporting monkeys when their response was still outstanding to the BUAV expose of airline companies and their policy on the transport of non-human primates.

Read the survey here:

http://www.buav.org/e_cargo_cruelty.php

Top of the Food Chain

Today comes the startling news of a British government report showing a drop in oceanic zooplankton of 73 percent since 1960.

http://www.earthportal.org/news/?p=1385

Civil Rights Event | 10th Dec LSE

26-11-2008 21:54 | SOCPA | Social Struggles | World

Background Info
10th December 2008 at the LSE

Burma Democratic Concern Hunger Strike, Parliament Square, London 26-27 Nov 2008

26-11-2008 21:50 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Burma Democratic Concern

http://bdcburma.org organised a 24hr hunger strike in solidarity with Burmese political prisoners starting at 9am on Wednesday 26 November in Parliament Square, London. Pictures copyright (C) 2008, Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

Nafeez Ahmed: Food Crisis & Peak Oil (Audio)

In this wide ranging talk about the global food crisis and peak oil Nafeez Ahmed sketches out a path to the post-industrial society.

Chania Migrants on Hunger Strike - Summary of events 20 - 25 November

26-11-2008 19:28 | Anti-racism | Migration | Social Struggles | World

16 DAYS (and counting…) OF HUNGER STRIKE…A LIFE OF STRUGGLE…

Direct Action; Sweden, USA, Mexico, UK, Spain, Netherlands & Finland

17th-26th November

TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SALMON RELEASED (Sweden)
INCENDIARY DEVICE PLACED UNDER VIVISECTORS CAR (USA)
CIRCUS VEHICLES COVERED IN PAINT, WINDOWS BROKEN (Mexico)
LSR ATTACKED IN TOWN CENTRE (UK)
RETURN VISIT TO COCKFIGHTER (Mexico)
TROUBLE AT FUR SHOP (UK)
CHICKENS RESCUED FROM TRUCK AT SLAUGHTERHOUSE (Spain)
"STOP THE SHOOT" (UK)
WINDOWS SMASHED AT BREEDER OF FIGHTING BIRDS (Mexico)
ALF EXPOSE, RAID AND TRASH RABBIT FARM (UK)
10 TURKEYS RESCUED (Netherlands)
NEW LIVES FOR RABBITS REMOVED FROM PET SHOP (Mexico)
600 FOXES DYED WITH HENNA (Finland)
BARCLAYS BANK SPRAYPAINTED (UK)
EGG DISTRIBUTORS PAINT-BOMBED (Mexico)
MEAT COMPANY AD CUT DOWN (Mexico)
BANNER DROP FOR ROD CORONADO (USA)
MEAT TRUCK PUT OUT OF SERVICE (Mexico)