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Turbulence magazine starts to Twitter

20-02-2009 14:51 | Other Press | World

As of today, Turbulence will be using the Twitter micro-blogging tool to announce new publications, translations, the republication of articles, our involvement in various events, and other bits and pieces.

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Who's Telling the Truth About Iran's Nuclear Program?

19-02-2009 11:06 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Other Press | World

Since February 2003, Iran's nuclear program has undergone what the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) itself admits to be the most intrusive inspection in its entire history. After thousands of hours of inspections by some of the most experienced IAEA experts, the Agency has verified time and again that (1) there is no evidence of a nuclear weapons program in Iran, and (2) all the declared nuclear materials have been accounted for; there has been no diversion of such materials to non-peaceful purposes.

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Obama paints a picture of economic catastrophe

18-02-2009 19:51 | Analysis | Other Press | Terror War | Sheffield | World

Addressing a national television audience in his first White House press conference, President Barack Obama, promoting his economic stimulus plan, used unprecedented language to characterize the deepening economic crisis. He described conditions of rapidly rising unemployment, growing demand at food banks, widespread foreclosures, the collapse of consumer spending and the failure of small businesses.
He declared that his administration "inherited the most profound economic emergency since the Great Depression," and warned that the lack of a federal government intervention "could turn a crisis into a catastrophe."

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Fitwatch presents...the POLICEWATCH Competition

16-02-2009 09:26 | Other Press | Repression | World

Roll up, Roll up!

Defend civil liberties and have a laugh at the same time, with

POLICEWATCH

Filming them Filming us Filming them etc

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"The CIA has launched a vast spying operation in the UK"

11-02-2009 11:48 | Other Press | Repression | Terror War | Sheffield | World

Some extracts from a article in The Telegraph, 7 Feb 2009, follow...

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AP threatened by Pentagon over accurate reporting of Iraq

11-02-2009 00:29 | Iraq | Other Press | Repression | World

"Now is the time to resist the propaganda the Pentagon produces and live up to our obligation to question authority and thereby help protect our democracy." AP CEO Tom Curley, speaking at University of Kansas.

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You Stand For Nothing But Election

10-02-2009 22:07 | COP15 Climate Summit 2009 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Other Press | World

Dear Hazel,

Last week you used an article in the Guardian to attack my “cynical and corrosive commentary”. You asserted your political courage, maintaining that “you don’t get very far in politics without guts, and certainly not as far as the cabinet table.” By contrast, you suggested, I contribute “to the very cynicism and disengagement from politics” that I make my living writing about. You accused me of making claims without supporting evidence and of “wielding great influence without accountability”. “We need more people standing for office and serving their communities,” you wrote, “more people debating, engaging and voting; not more people waving placards on the sidelines.”(1)

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It’s Cold Out – Global Warming Must be a Scam!

09-02-2009 15:26 | COP15 Climate Summit 2009 | Analysis | Climate Chaos | Other Press | World

“Global warming my ass! It’s freezing! Al Gore sure is taking you people for a ride!” I’ve heard comments along these lines for months now, ever since normal late fall/early winter temperatures set in. Check the comments on any local news story about a snowstorm, and you’ll find at least a handful of people who believe that because it’s snowing during winter in the Northern Hemisphere, global warming can’t possibly be real.

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Pure rubbish: Christopher Booker prize

08-02-2009 16:53 | Climate Chaos | Culture | Other Press | World

Christopher Booker prize 2009 offered for producing clap-trap about climate change.

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Obama and the Empire

08-02-2009 15:03 | Analysis | History | Other Press | Sheffield | World

I've said all along that whatever good changes might occur in regard to non-foreign policy issues, such as what's already taken place concerning the environment and abortion, the Obama administration will not produce any significantly worthwhile change in US foreign policy; little done in this area will reduce the level of misery that the American Empire regularly brings down upon humanity. And to the extent that Barack Obama is willing to clearly reveal what he believes about anything controversial, he appears to believe in the empire.

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Towards a typology of discrimination?

08-02-2009 14:26 | Analysis | Anti-racism | Other Press | World

When we talk about discrimination, we tend to blend in racism, heightism, sexism, ageism, ableism, lookism and as many other ‘isms’ as one can think of. These terms describe how people differentiate unfavourably between a self-defined “normal” and a self-defined “abnormal”. Reading over a blog I’d never seen before, I was moved to ask, are all these forms of discrimination the same or are they different? What features do they share in common?

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Water in Bolivia: Defeating the Multinationals Is Just the Start of the Problem

08-02-2009 14:07 | Health | Other Press | Repression | World

Set in a landscape of dry brown hills and arroyos flooded with dust, Cochabamba, Bolivia's third-largest city, is not rich in water. Seen from the air in early September, at the tail end of the southern winter, the land is brown and barren from the ridgetops to the river valleys. A warm wind blows dust in billowing clouds. Thousands of feet below the soaring, icy peaks of the altiplano to the west, and thousands of feet above the lush coca fields of the Chapare to the east and the Amazon to the north, Cochabamba enjoys the mildest climate in the country, but suffers from what geographers call "water stress," compounded here, as everywhere, by climate change.

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Foreign Office colludes with US to cover-up torture of Binyam Mohamed

08-02-2009 11:37 | Guantánamo | Other Press | Repression | Terror War | World

A High Court ruling by two British judges regarding the torture of a Guantánamo detainee has unleashed a major political crisis.

The judges have stated that they have been pressured by the United States into concealing evidence that should be made available in any country governed by the rule of law. This took the form of threats to withdraw security cooperation, instigated under the Bush administration and continued under Barak Obama's presidency.

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The future of Azerbaijan- an eternal presidency, no foreign broadcasts, no freed

08-02-2009 04:09 | Other Press | Repression | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

In an interview with Day.az, the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Lluis Maria de Puig expressed his regret over the broadcast ban of foreign radio stations as well as concern over recent constitutional amendments. These changes seriously undermine the possibility for a democratic state in Azerbaijan especially because Azerbaijan took the responsibility to abide by the principles of democracy, respect for law and human rights when joining the Council of Europe.

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Madagascar: More than 25 killed in march to presidential palace

08-02-2009 03:59 | Other Press | Repression | Social Struggles | World

At least 25 people were shot dead today in Madagascar's capital Antananarivo during a march to the presidential palace called by the city's mayor Andry Rajoelina after he declared himself the leader of a new transitional government at a political rally. In the past weeks, a power struggle between the mayor and the president Marc Ravalomanana has led to both violence and looting.

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Israel's Subtle Propaganda Strategy

08-02-2009 03:41 | Other Press | Palestine | Repression | World

Propaganda is most effective when subtly planted and the reader remains unaware that a commentary is actually indoctrination. Sometimes the writer is not cognizant that what he has published has been moved by its propaganda effect – sources for the material are actually misleading and publication is facilitated when the commentary fits a particular agenda.

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Reporting of the Gaza Conflict

07-02-2009 17:17 | Analysis | Other Press | Palestine | World

We have spent the last month meticulously reading, watching, listening to and analysing what the UK media had to say about Israel’s operation in Gaza (within the limits of our scope of monitoring). Our objective has been to see whether the coverage was balanced, impartial and factually accurate. Had any lessons been learnt since Lebanon 2006 when, in the eyes of many, the media got it so wrong?

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Al Jazeera the hostile enemy

07-02-2009 13:36 | Other Press | Palestine | Liverpool | World

Israeli officials said they plan to make it harder for the Arabic television network al-Jazeera to operate in Israel and the West Bank. Media reports said Israel will not renew the work visas of some Israeli-based al-Jazeera employees, and that the network's reporters will have less access to news conferences and briefings.

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A Life On The Run

05-02-2009 20:13 | Education | Other Press | Social Struggles | World

New book describes young man's flight from war torn Africa. His hopelessness, refugee camps and eventual escape to the West.

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Affectionate racism?

05-02-2009 19:34 | Anti-racism | Culture | Other Press | South Coast | World

Having flicked on the TV over breakfast this morning, I was subjected to the somewhat absurd spectacle of BBC 1 controller Jay Hunt debating the meaning of the word "golliwog", and whether or not it's racist, with the morning news presenters.T he reason for this, of course, was the row over Carol Thatcher's sacking from The One Show for using the word to describe a black tennis player off-air. Hunt pulled out the dictionary definition, which was similar to this definition I just found online – "A doll fashioned in grotesque caricature of a Black male", so any argument for it not being racist was quickly put to bed (and if you want any further evidence, the fourth Google result for "golliwog" involves the BNP trying to argue that banning golliwog dolls is political correctness gone mad).

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