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Fasting in London in the last week of Ramadaan

30-10-2005 12:16

The month of Ramadaan is about to end... marked by Eid al Fitr .. not meant to be an excuse for excess or indulgence but for sharing the wealth and the means with others for an equitable and humane community and world.... while the BBC continues to neglect the victims of the Pakistan quake and undermines attempted ties between India and Pakistan.....

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Wiped off the map

30-10-2005 09:31

Has Israel's stated intention of keeping Palestine off the map “indefinitely” caused Britain and the US any of the concern expressed this week at the remarks of the Iranian President?

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Preventive Detention: A Shield or A Sword?

30-10-2005 03:19

Preventive detention is an unnecessary evil
Yet there are no bombs being thrown any where in the country. If anything, it was only the 'smoking gun memo' and troops off to wage war that occasionally pervaded the atmosphere in Australia.

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Proposal for the Australian Sedition Act

30-10-2005 02:57

Shall be punished by imprisonment
Australia, Statutes at Large, Canberra, A.C.T., 2005.

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Uzbek Opposition Leader Tortured, the West Does Nothing

29-10-2005 23:46

Sanjar Umarov, leader of the Uzbek opposition Sunshine Coalition, is currently in solitary confinement suffering torture by psychotropic drugs. Craig Murray analyses the complex realpolitik behind the lack of international response.

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Media neglect of Pakistan, Kashmir quake victims - media crave terror news

29-10-2005 23:18

Why the ‘developed world’ media who control the ‘developing world’ media are wrong to prioritise the agenda of terror

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Appeasement or Cover-up

29-10-2005 14:02

Bush has announced that Libby is “innocent until proven guilty”, one law applies to disgraced officials while another to the Australian, David Hicks (and many others) who have been denied even the most basic human rights (while they rot for years in illegal detention centres around the world). Should we cite the flagrant double standard or rest in the assurance that a glaring hypocrisy and double standard would not pass unnoticed?

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Relations algero-américaines.

29-10-2005 11:07

Relations algero-américaines.

Au beau fixe.

Les relations entre l’Algérie et le pays de l’oncle Sam s’améliorent de jour en jour et évoluent de façon progressive.

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ARGENTINA AGAINST CYANIDE

29-10-2005 01:39

ARGENTINA: Impelling Act to prohibit mining with cyanide.

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The Lords of the Lies

28-10-2005 09:29

British Bill bids to block Internet access: a group fronted by MPs keeps trying to get more control over the Internet. None of the criminals concerned likes publicity, and the everywhere used sneaky excuse - to start with and further censorship - is, as was thought: 'to stop pornography.'

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The race that doesn't stop the nation

28-10-2005 07:14

The Anti-Terrorism Cup
The race that doesn't stop the nation

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The SHORTWAVE REPORT 10/28/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!

27-10-2005 23:23

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.

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Gianfranco Fini to become Italian prime minister

27-10-2005 12:38

i know this is corporate media but...

ANSA) - Rome, October 26 - Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini said on Wednesday that Silvio Berlusconi could be replaced as leader of the centre right if other coalition parties fare better than the premier's Forza Italia in next year's elections .

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Prime meanster 'tells' States?

26-10-2005 23:21

hoWard controls the media giants, the sin-ate, the States and Territories
hoWard controls the media giants, the sin-ate, the States and Territories and now he wants you! Any time he pushes a button on his dictatorial consol, you will jump and he'll use you as cannon fodder. hoWARd will be handed insurmountable scapegoats on a silver platter to wipe his dirty lies and war crimes clean.

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Hariri Reportedly Assassinated To Make Way For Large US Air Base In Lebanon

26-10-2005 21:13

According to high-level Lebanese intelligence sources-Christian and Muslim-former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was reportedly assassinated in a sophisticated explosion-by-wire bombing authorized by the Bush administration and Ariel Sharon's Likud government in "Israel".

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Ewa Jasiewicz talk in Glasgow’s Caledonian University on Iraq.

26-10-2005 01:41

This is a 920 word article about a talk given by freelance journalist and activist Ewa Jasiewicz at Glasgow's Caledonian University recently. 9 labelled photos and several relevant websites are attached.

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Anarchist Bookfair 2005

25-10-2005 15:35

Lots of books, lots of activists, leaves falling off the trees. It's that time of year again, the Anarchist Bookfair.

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G8 trials at the Sheriff Court in Edinburgh

24-10-2005 22:02

This is a brief account with 4 photos of the trial of five G8 protesters and members of the SSP (Scottish Socialist Party) at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Monday 24th October 2005.

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New pamphlet: Beating Fascism: Anarchist anti-fascism in theory and practice

23-10-2005 17:53

"Beating Fascism" is a new compilation about anarchist anti-fascism. From the 'People's commandos' who fought against Mussolini's bootboys, through the Spanish Civil War, to the anti-fascist activists of the eighties, nineties and beyond who took up the challenge from a new crop of boneheads.

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Thoreau's Civil Disobedience

23-10-2005 03:20

I recently had the good fortune to read Henry David Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience". I did not realise it when I first started reading but this essay has a most remarkable history. Tolstoy, Gandhi and Martin Luther King have all read and been influenced by it. Emma Goldman, the American anarchist, was arrested for reading Thoreau's essay from a public platform in 1917.