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Hospital blitz on deaths in custody

09-10-2007 16:48

Mikey Powell: Died in police custody
COPS are joining forces with hospital Accident & Emergency staff in a bid to prevent more deaths in custody. Around half of all deaths in police cells involve detainees with some form of mental health problem.

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STOP PRESS! legal rights shock! tune BBC radio 4 16:00

09-10-2007 12:35

latest threat to legal rights under arrest in "minor" cases. bizarre proposals remove rights to duty lawyer and replace with a call centre staffed by ex-police officers.

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Fool me twice

09-10-2007 01:30

In short, when it comes to the Middle East, domestic politics rule. Oil and “the spread of democracy” are secondary factors. It is all the explanation you need to understand Hillary’s vote to invade Iraq five years ago as well as her vote last week to enable a war against Iran. She was not fooled by Bush in 2002, any more than she is being fooled by Joe Lieberman today.

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America's Energy Wars - A New Front - Africa

07-10-2007 22:59

Energy Corridor
With the U.S. military announcing this week that it is opening up what it is calling The Africa Command

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Iran war - danger of impending false flag

07-10-2007 22:54

This is what a nuclear bomb looks like
If we get October out of the way without a major incident I, for one, will be extremely relieved.
Justin

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That Damned Marx

07-10-2007 18:01

No matter what they say, the bourgeois cannot escape the fact that Marx's ideas still hold water after all these years. His analysis of the capitalist system, its laws and contradictions are as relevant today as they were 150 years ago. The serious journals of capitalism confirm this.

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Corporate publishing houses

07-10-2007 03:46

For all the bad press that they receive, a lot of people still believe that Western corporations are making some sort of contribution to improving the lot of people in the third world. Let me present a counter-example.

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Ubiquitous Surveillance: Mayor Bloomberg's New Clothes

06-10-2007 20:53

New York City, London, Beijing: what do they have in common? surveillance cameras

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'the Climate Camp hijacked by liberals...'

05-10-2007 18:48

...argues a new zine! Shift aims to make a contribution to radical naval gazing with analysis of G8 and Climate Camp mobilisations. The approach is simple: capitalism is more than just 'us' versus 'them'. So you won't find any articles slagging off George Bush or Coca Cola in our pages.

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7th Annual Claudia Jones Lecture by Theologian and BroadcasteDr. Robert Beckford

05-10-2007 15:05

Seventh Annual Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture dedicated to the memory of the pioneer of Black journalism in Britain. This year's lecture will be delivered by Dr Robert Beckford, Reader in Black Theology and Popular Culture at Oxford Brookes University. An award-winning broadcaster for Channel Four, Dr. Beckford's lecture will explore how understanding "whiteness" offers an important strategy for community cohesion and democratic inclusion.

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Prisons await a judgment

05-10-2007 10:24

A report by the Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody found that there were 600 deaths in prisons, police cells, secure hospitals and young offender institutions last year, 200 of which were self-inflicted. While the numbers of suicides in prisons fell marginally (from 78 in 2005 to 67 last year), more could still be done to protect prisoners.

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Crassness at the core of the CROSSRAIL scam exposed!

05-10-2007 08:08

The ECONOMIST website has 'let slip' in the last 20 hours that Gordon Brown's now trumpeted decision to 'give the go-ahead' to the CRASSrail scam was, indeed, a scam.

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The Atmosphere Is Not For Sale

04-10-2007 13:26

I feel like an eco-fraud. There’s me thinking that we should be protecting the land, the sea and the atmosphere from the profit motives of large corporations, and then a big group of like-minded people come along with a signed document saying the opposite and repeatedly hit you round the face with it.

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Run on the bank @rampART

04-10-2007 02:10

With the run on the Northern Rock bank still creating major ripples in the banking world ( http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&q=run%20on%20the%20bank%20northern%20rock&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn) we thought it was a good excuse to show the film 'Money as Debt' - an animated explanation of the history of money and banking...

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Venezuela behind the smokescreen

03-10-2007 19:46

A critical review of the current political and social situation in Venezuela.

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Bush's Global 'Dirty War'

03-10-2007 15:33

George W. Bush has transformed elite units of the U.S. military – including Special Forces and highly trained sniper teams – into “death squads” with a license to kill unarmed targets on the suspicion that they are a threat to American military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to evidence from recent court cases.

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Thatcher gave Pergau Dam arms company “unjustifiable” £300m contract

02-10-2007 17:33

In 1988 the Thatcher government illegally paid the Malaysian government £234 million from the overseas aid budget to secure an order for two British arms companies. Anti-fraud campaigner and former MCCS employee Rob McCartney reveals how they simultaneously lied to cover up important evidence about fraud allegations being made against one of the companies, and awarded it a £300 million contract without any apparent justification.

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Channel 4 Dispatches on Immigration Oct 1st 2007

01-10-2007 20:32

Jon Snow's presentation of Dispatches expressed the real difficulty that we now have with a media that relies on 'research' that is partial and concentrates on the symptoms of problems rather than their real underlying cause. Plea for documentaries not shockumentaries...

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Gordon Brown will lose credibility by aping Livingstone's Crossrail mantra

01-10-2007 19:03

Khoodeelaar! Demonstration against CrossRail hole in Hanbury Street London E1 Mo
Gordon Brown has been quoted by the London Evening Standard website this evening [Monday 1 October 2007] as saying “…. London businesses and developers who will benefit significantly from Crossrail."

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Last Hours #16 - radical culture magazine

01-10-2007 09:22

Last Hours issue 16 cover
The new issue of Last Hours is back from the printers; it's 116 pages packed full of articles, interviews, columns, comics and reviews about DIY culture, revolution, punk rock and autonomy.