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Shift Magazine Call-Out for Articles for September issue

09-07-2010 15:31

Shift Magazine are asking for abstracts for potential articles for the next issue. These articles should be focused around the issue of borders and the emerging European political and security project.

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FILIPINOS around the world: Turn grief into revolutionary courage,

09-07-2010 15:06

Learn from Ka Elliot, Cast away parliamentary illusions!

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7/7, Terror and Torture: Protecting the Deep State

08-07-2010 23:07

Five years on from the London tube bombings, we remain no closer to a full, complete and impartial understanding of the terrible events of that day. Today, the coalition government has demonstrated that it has largely fallen in line with the steps of its predecessor.

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Manchester Class Struggle Forum #5 - Anarcho-Syndicalism

08-07-2010 17:24

The next Manchester Class Struggle Forum will host a discussion on Anarcho-Syndicalism.

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Afghan war: Petraeus expands U.S. military presence throughout Eurasia

06-07-2010 19:46

A week after Stanley McChrystal's resignation as head of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, an ephemeral scandal that disappeared as quickly, which is to say instantaneously, as it developed, the U.S. Senate voted as it customarily does in matters of foreign policy - unanimously - and in a 99-0 vote confirmed Petraeus as the new commander of the world's longest and largest-scale war.

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Do you believe in the Welsh Defence League?

06-07-2010 18:59

Like all previous mobilisations in Wales, the recent protests by the English Defence League (EDL) in Cardiff and Swansea on 5th June were called under the name of the "Welsh Defence League" (WDL). Judging by the combined turnout at both demos and taking into consideration the large number of attendees from England, the WDL numbers less than 50 people.

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Iran sanctions: an obsession explained in four acts and a poem

06-07-2010 08:35

The five nuclear powers go after Iran, that unlikeable country ruled by priests of a foreign religion that happens to be sitting on the world’s third largest lake of oil.

But it’s not Iran’s oil they’re interested in, it’s Iran’s right to develop its own nuclear technology that worries them. And it’s not Iran’s rights they want to suppress, it’s the right to nuclear technology that they want to eliminate.

They want to establish a precedent. They want to reform the NPT to turn certain aspects of nuclear-technology development into something that will be illegal for all except for themselves, and they want to intrusively verify compliance to these new rules, enforcing this verification militarily if need be.

What is at stake in the Iranian nuclear affair is our own right to the future. If we don’t stop the nuclear barons now, we never will.

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Dangerous Crossroads in World History: Obama’s New Iran Sanctions: An Act of War

04-07-2010 21:22

"Iran is facing the exact same situation. Whereas the Obama Administration calmly portrays economic sanctions as “peaceful” solutions to political problems, they are anything but. The strategy here is to economically attack Iran until it responds militarily, giving the U.S. a fake moral high ground to “defend” itself, since the other side supposedly attacked first."

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Obama's new Iran sanctions are an act of war

04-07-2010 18:14

When the UN refused to agree to the severe sanctions that the U.S. wanted, Obama responded with typical Bush flair and went solo. The new U.S. sanctions against Iran — signed into law by Obama on July 1st — are an unmistakable act of war.

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BALOCHISTAN: “Energy Security In Exchange For Independence”

04-07-2010 16:25

The idea of the concept of "energy Security in Exchange for Independence", containing some evaluations of the nature of the Baloch Resistance and the goals of national strategy to end this stale mate and revival of the Baloch Nations state hood, has been prepared by (The Baloch unities National Center for Strategic Research and Political Technologies, Dr Jumma Khan Marri

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Sanctions and war threats against Iran: Who cares about the Iranian people?

03-07-2010 12:11

Seemingly, the history is being repeated once again. The western leaders send sympathetic messages to the Iranian people and declare that they want the well-being of our nation. They express their understanding of the status of Iranian people and assert that they want to empower the "subjugated" and "oppressed" Iranians. However, the United States and its European allies, in long with their past trajectory, are recurrently failing to practice what they preach.

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PHILIPPINES: Unions urge Noynoy to prioritize ‘full employment,’

03-07-2010 01:50

Unions urge Noynoy to prioritize ‘full employment,’ not to renege on his ‘people’s mandate’

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Whodunnit? Enquiry into the 7/7 London Bombings

02-07-2010 23:43

Whodunit? Five years on we examine the evidence. An hour long ivestigation into the 7/7 London Bombings

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Americans have no rights

02-07-2010 17:51

Under Barack Obama, the former professor of constitutional law, Americans’ civil liberties have shrunken drastically – to the point that his administration claims the right to execute its citizens without charge or due process of any recognizable kind. And citizens that leave the country cannot be sure they will be allowed back in. But where is the outrage among Democrats, when Obama out-Bushes Bush? “It seems that Democrats did not in fact feel any affront to Bush policies, only to his party affiliation.”

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Final Leg, Five Day Peace Walk, London to Colchester - Pictures.

02-07-2010 14:46

After five days, and a pedometer reading standing at just short of 80 miles, 80 year old Malcom Pittock successfully arrives in Colchester at the head of the Trail of Tears peace walk, which set out from Westminster in London five days ago.

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Climate Justice? Climate Refugee? Capitalism, Nationalism and Migration

02-07-2010 11:21

The term ‘climate refugee’ is used by more and more activists to connect environmental and anti-racist politics. Here, STEPH DAVIES argues that the term isn’t as unproblematic as it seems.

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Last Call for Workshops at EF! Summer Gathering

01-07-2010 15:54

The Earth First! Summer Gathering are looking for workshops on all sorts of topics, whether it is about a campaign you are involved in, environmental justice, building sustainable alternatives, green and anarchist theory or perhaps you have a skill you want to pass on.

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UG#505 - The Matrix Deconstructed (Why Strict Fathers teach "Economic Liter

01-07-2010 05:06

This week's show attempts to deconstruct the matrix of illusion that surrounds money and economics that is used to disorientate citizens and keep them working hard for their corporate masters.

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Iran Sanctions: an Obsession Explained in Five Acts and a Poem

01-07-2010 03:54

What is at stake in the Iranian nuclear affair is our own right to the future. If we don’t stop the nuclear barons now, we never will.

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Philippine President Aquino's inauguration

30-06-2010 14:47

THERE IS A REASON to celebrate the inauguration of President Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino -- we have finally dumped the most corrupt and most hated regime since the fall of the Marcos dictatorship in 1986. GMA didn't deserve the President's farewell granted her. She should have been ousted years ago. Nevertheless, Aquino’s victory rightfully belongs to the Filipino people who voted against Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her minions.