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News Desk: 4 Retailers use 5 billion plastic bags

05-08-2010 13:05

Common Action spokesperson Lindsay Keenan commented: “The four retailers who are responsible for the highest annual use of plastic bags, an estimated 5 billion plastic bags per year between them, are trying to hide the facts of this environmental abuse from the public”.

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Preparing for World War III, Targeting Iran - Part I: Global Warfare

04-08-2010 18:58

U.S. Global Command and Control System
War preparations to attack Iran are in "an advanced state of readiness". Hi-tech weapons systems including nuclear warheads are fully deployed. Public opinion, swayed by media hype is tacitly supportive, indifferent or ignorant as to the likely impacts of what is upheld as an ad hoc "punitive" operation directed against Iran's nuclear facilities. The prospect of war against Iran is presented to public opinion as an issue among others. It is not front-page news. The devastating consequences of a nuclear war are either trivialised or simply not mentioned. The fact that an attack on Iran could lead to escalation and potentially unleash a "global war" is not a matter of concern. The scale of anti-war protest in relation to Iran has been minimal in comparison to the mass demonstrations which preceded the 2003 bombing and invasion of Iraq.

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Unwelcome Guests #510 - The Race Towards Global Consciousness

02-08-2010 20:33

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Hitting Rock Bottom & Realising The Reunion

This week's show includes three speakers' exciting vision of a single, global, interconnected human family. We start with Jeremy Rifkin's uplifting conclusion of last week's Empathic Civilization talk, before an interview with Charles Eisenstein and concluding with a similarly uplifting call to change the human narrative by David Korten.

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Preparing for World War III, Targeting Iran +

02-08-2010 02:59

"When the spoofs first appeared on the web, not a few readers took the opening paragraphs seriously, because there was such a ring of psychological truth to them.
Anyone who ignores the psychological factor in politics must have been in hibernation during the eight years of the Bush-Cheney pathology. When sane military professionals were testifying to the perils of new wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the neocon faction followed its insane instincts and the bombs began to fall. Dr. Justin A. Frank, an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, authored a brilliant study entitled Bush on the Couch.(25) Relying solely on published speeches, statements, and interviews, Frank diagnosed the president as seriously mentally ill, actually a sociopath. Were Dr. Frank to examine statements on the public record by Netanyahu, Barak, Peres, Lieberman, Tzipi Livni among others, he might come to a similar conclusion. When, at a recent public speaking event in Germany, I asked the IPPNW member aboard the Mavi Marmora, how he, as a practicing psychiatrist, would evaluate the mental state of the Israeli leadership, he quipped that he was merely a psychotherapist, and did not deal with cases of grave psychosis."

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Wkileaks founder 'dissapointed' in Gates

31-07-2010 18:47

"Secretary Gates could have used his time, as other nations have done, to
announce a broad inquiry into these killings," the statement said. "He could
have announced specific criminal investigations into the deaths we have
exposed. He could have announced a panel to hear the heartfelt dissent of
U.S. soldiers, who know this war from the ground. He could have apologized
to the Afghani people.
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> "But he did none of these things. He decided to treat these issues and the
> countries affected by them with contempt. Instead of explaining how he would
> address these issues, he decided to announce how he would suppress them.
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> "This behavior is unacceptable. We will not be suppressed. We will continue
> to expose abuses by this administration and others."

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Ahmadinejad: US, Israel plan to attack at least two countries in the Middle East

31-07-2010 11:18

source:"Options in Dealing with Iran’s Nuclear Program", CSIS Report, March 2010
“We have precise information that the Americans have devised a plot, according to which they seek to launch a psychological war on Iran. They plan to attack at least two countries in the region within the next three months", said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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US Treasury Running on Fumes

30-07-2010 17:39

"The White House is screaming like a stuck pig. WikiLeaks’ release of the Afghan War Documents “puts the lives of our soldiers and our coalition partners at risk.”

What nonsense. Obama’s war puts the lives of American soldiers at risk, and the craven puppet state behavior of “our partners” in serving as US mercenaries is what puts their troops at risk."

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The Burial of the C.P.G.B. A question of tradition

29-07-2010 15:36

- COMMUNIST LEFT - International Communist Party

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Wikileaks-FALLOUT FROM THE COLD WAR IN AFGHANISTAN

29-07-2010 10:42

The Wikileaks documents published this week proved US helicopters, drones and warplanes had been shot down by surface-to-air heat-seeking missiles and not, as military spokesmen kept claiming, by artillery and ground fire.
Obviously no one in the Pentagon was eager to recall the Cold War against the Soviets when the Americans shipped hundreds of the shoulder-held Stingers to the Afghan

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Venezuela: We cannot sail towards socialism on the capitalist Ship of State

29-07-2010 01:22

From my African elders I have learned that you cannot poison the black mamba snake with its own mortal venom.

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PHILIPPINES: Keeping an eye on Aquino’s commitment to change

28-07-2010 14:59

MANILA - The new administration of President Benigno S. Aquino III begins with an extremely high trust rating of 88 percent – higher than any of the post-dictatorship presidents. This is a measure of people’s belief in the commitment of the Aquino administration to reverse the anti-poor policies implemented during the regime of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

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Earth First! gathering, 4-9 August, programme & location announced

28-07-2010 11:29

The full details of the Earth First! summer gathering is up on the website, how to get there, progamme and all.

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Class Struggle and Consciousness in Venezuela: Some Socialist Reflections

25-07-2010 19:14

On Sunday, July 25, 2010, President Hugo Chavez was warning that there exists a very high probability of a coming United States military invasion of Venezuela via Colombia.

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Getting Away With Murder: My Memories of the Death of Ian Tomlinson

25-07-2010 11:21

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UG#509 - Gift Economy (1) - Reconceiving The Market

25-07-2010 08:58

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The show this week looks at the gift economy. We look at a range of reasons to challenge the cynical, capitalist view of the human as 'red in tooth and claw', listening to evidence from speakers including Alfie Kohn, Genevieve Vaughan & Jeremy Rifkin.

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The economic journalism as spokesperson of the financial cap

24-07-2010 23:02

We approached that crossing variables: when the sense production generated through the economy news section, it naturalizes or chews the lethality of the speculators' in different orders of greatness premeditated actions and the effects that cause in the day by of entire populations.

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Call for Contributions: Anarchist Reflections on Migration, Population and Clima

23-07-2010 20:34

A callout for contributions for articles that examine anarchist reflections on migration, population and climate change. Interested in articles that are open and accessible from all parts of the anarchist and activist spectrum.

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Democracy Village Eviction, London - Pictures

23-07-2010 15:45

End the War in Afghanistan & Victory.
On the morning after the Democracy Village anti-war campaign is evicted by private bailiffs from the grass at Parliament Square, anti-war campaigners gather on the pavement to assess the success of the campaign and to vow to continue to remain in the Square to press upon the British Government the case for withdrawal of British military forces from Afghanistan and the continuing occupation of the country.

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Earth First! Summer Gathering set-up

22-07-2010 15:36

This year's Earth First! Summer Gathering will be taking place from 4th-9th August in Derbyshire with over eighty workshops covering many different topics from workshops on direct action to theory to campaigns against the destruction of the planet. We are in the process of finalizing set up. If you are interested in helping with set-up, or even just coming then please read the following.