World Repression Newswire Archive

NATO in disarray over military crisis in Afghanistan

12-09-2006 00:20 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

With the prospect of months of bitter combat and inevitable casualties fighting an entrenched and popularly supported insurgency, however, no country has stepped forward as of yet to provide the additional troops. Less than two months after taking over operational control of the southern promises, NATO forces are sinking into the same quagmire as their American counterparts.

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Canadian PM Harper becomes bagman for Bush, Rove & RNC

11-09-2006 16:54 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Repression | World

President Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper have now been fingered in the softwood lumber money laundry.
Harper allowed a $500 Million dollar deal to go forward at the expense of all Canadian citizens.

Australia: Channel 10 may get Wakely-Award over 9/11 'truth' film

11-09-2006 08:44 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

Are there no standards we can expect from other channels? Have they no sense of shame for trying to cover up killers against the memory of those cruelly murdered five years ago by maniacs in the White House?

The Smoking Bums!

10-09-2006 21:35 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

It's wrong but I want it to be right!

Two NUJ journalists ejected from Blair school visit

10-09-2006 16:14 | Education | Repression | London | World

Two NUJ journalists are ejected as Prime Minister Tony Blair visits St. John's Wood, North London.

Thoughtcrime in Britain’s Ascendant Police State

The latest bit of media hyperventilation surrounds the supposed discovery of an “Islamic school in the Sussex countryside, where it is alleged night-time training exercises were staged,” according to Mike Sullivan, billed as the Sun’s “crime editor.”

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Will Clinton, Berger and Albright threaten the BBC with a libel suit?

09-09-2006 18:28 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

As you know, the BBC is planning to show Disney/ABC's defamatory "Path to 9/11" program in the UK on Sunday. I'm told by a friend that under UK libel laws there is no public person defense and damages and costs can both be in the millions. And, "British libel laws are considered pro-plaintiff, meaning that the defendant must prove that she or he did not commit libel."

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Institutional racism and torture in Austria

09-09-2006 15:28 | Anti-racism | Repression | World

A trial against four police men, who tortured a man that resisted his deportation on 7th of April 2006, has been ended without any consequences on 31st of August 2006 in Vienna. Though the Cruelty was confessed by the officers, three of them were sentencd to 8 months on probation and another officer to 6 months on probation.

The Law is an Ass, by Philip Ruddock

09-09-2006 10:18 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Philip Ruddock, Australian Attorney General, announced today that a broader range of people in the Australian community (non-Muslims) are to be targeted as “terrorists!” Ruddock also stated that persons who are not ‘terrorists’ need not be alarmed as his new wider classification should not concern ‘them’(?)

Australian citizens are left to conclude that the determination of who exactly is a terrorist has become an arbitrary prerogative of the Attorney General and his gang of enforcers! Whatever happened to due process, innocent until PROVEN guilty? {God help that journalist who stepped on Ruddock’s toe, he will be the first to go!) It is not coincidental that the Bush regime also found due process to be an inconvenience. Ruddock’s logic and methods reek of neo-con methods, Guantanamo (Torture) Bay and Bush regime criminal methodologies have found expression in Oz.

Foreign Office Blockade video

The small resolution video of the Foreign Office Blockade on 21-08-06.

Israeli right-wing party threatens Brazilian cartoonist

Just a tiny example how the IsraHell' dirty tactics work.

COALITION AGAINST THE WELFARE REFORM BILL (CAWRB) Demo/Lobby In Manchester

08-09-2006 14:37 | Globalisation | Repression | Social Struggles | World

COALITION AGAINST THE WELFARE REFORM BILL (CAWRB) Demo/Lobby In Manchester on Monday 25th September 2006

Gather at 3pm in Exchange Square, opposite the Arndale Centre on Corporation St (¼mile to Victoria Stn, 1mile to Piccadilly and coach stns). The stroll and roll joins the protest outside the Labour Party Conference at the G-MEX centre on Lower Mosley St. The protest will be from 3pm so join us there if you can’t do the march.

Campaigners can meet you at either the bus or train stations. If you
have booked transport, there is a safe drop off point arranged with the
police.

Please get in touch and read below for more information:

Greg Palast faces Homeland Security charges & PAUL KRUGMAN ' S latest

08-09-2006 13:06 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

- Krugman: More On Inequality

- PLUS: Reporter Greg Palast faces Homeland Security charges and more

OutRage! (and HRW)- Uganda-45 gays 'outed in witch-hunt-arrests follow

08-09-2006 12:44 | Gender | Repression | World

Gay rights group OutRage! exposes the 'outing' of 45 gays by a Ugandan newspaper (Red Pepper) in a witch-hunt against lgbt people. arrests have followed.
Human Rights Watch (USA) have also condemned the Ugandan authrities and newspaper.

THE BALI NINE - 6 YOUNG AUSTRALIANS SENTENCED TO DEATH

08-09-2006 05:29 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

A look at the reasoning behind the unexpected upgraded death sentences for Matthew Norman (19yrs) the death sentence Scott Rush (20yrs),Tach Duc Thanh Nguyen (27yrs) and Si Yi Chen (20yrs)

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As CIA Detainees Transferred to Guantanamo, President Bush Acknowledges Secret P

07-09-2006 21:31 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

President Bush has acknowledged for the first time the CIA has been operating a secret network of overseas prisons. Bush made the admission as he ordered 14 prisoners previously held by the CIA to be transferred to Guantanamo Bay where they could be tried by a military tribunal. Bush said the CIA is no longer holding any detainees but that the secret prisons may be re-opened. We get analysis from Center for Constitutional Rights attorney Barbara Olshansky.

45 gays outed in Uganda witch-hunt

07-09-2006 16:46 | Gender | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The Ugandan tabloid newspaper, Red Pepper, has outed 45 gay and bisexual men, including army officers, priests, university lecturers, entertainers, bankers, students and lawyers. It also published details of five venues popular with gays and lesbians.

Pentagon report on Iraq reveals a deepening catastrophe

07-09-2006 07:14 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

US imperialism, however, has no solution to the communal catastrophe it has created. Instead, the Bush administration and American media are using the Pentagon report to justify preparations for stepped-up operations by the US military and the Iraqi government forces against the Sadrist movement and its Mahdi Army militia.

Phoney Bliar Faces Revolt, The Plan To Let Him Off Easy

07-09-2006 06:13 | Repression | World

Do not allow this War Criminal, this traitor to Britain, to cruise off into the sunset as if nothing's happened. He must be held to account for his crimes.

Distribute leaflets to keep the public mind fresh, and counter the Propaganda. Public art projects, to discredit the Propaganda, and those who spread it.

Direct action and NOISE at any planned "Praise Blair" events.

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Palestinian schools suffer heaviest days of strike

06-09-2006 08:19 | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

Palestine faced the fourth day of the strike today. Teachers and many other government employees are striking since Saturday 2nd September. They haven't received salaries in six months.