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Are you equal in a democracy?

12-12-2012 01:59

In a remarkably inspiring book (A History of Democracy) Prof. Dunn (Cambridge) has called attention to two problems in democracy: it seems that one "equality" is that all ideas and arguments are equally doubtful and that equality of voting needs to be supplemented by regular referenda. But there are mathematical problems.

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On Typhoon Bhopa and the Doha Conference

11-12-2012 13:41

Typhoon Bhopa (Philippine name Pablo) have resulted to a total number of 647 casualties, with another 1,842 people injured, and 780 missing.

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BNP Support workers co-operatives

11-12-2012 12:59

Just like Oswald Mosely did back in the day

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UG#595 - An Antidote To Forgetfulness (The Great New Zealand Fire Sale)

07-12-2012 23:40

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This week we review the wholesale privatization of New Zealand carried out in the 1980s and 90s. We hear a radio adaptation of Alister Barry's 1996 documentary, Someone Else's Country and conclude with a few words from Chapter 7 of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years.

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UG#596 - Lifting The Lid on The NSA (Secret Rooms, Infiltration, Menwith Hill)

07-12-2012 23:38

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This week we learn more about NSA, which no longer limits its activities to mere intelligence gathering. Whistle-blower Mark Klein tells how he broke the NSA's unwarranted wiretapping scandal, Kevin Zeese speaks on a century of political infiltration of US political movements, and infiltration of Occupy movements and we conclude with researcher Steve Schofield on the NSA's largest base in Europe.

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UG#597 - The Psychology of Transition (Undoing Millennia of Social Control)

07-12-2012 23:36

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This week three speakers on the ongoing transition. Bruce Schneier begins by speaking about threats to the internet and social change, Robert Jensen speaks on the naturalization of violence against women, Rob Hopkins speaks on transition culture. We conclude by returning to Debt, The First 5000 Years.

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UG#599 - What Economics Can't Tell You About Money (Alienation, Black Magic...)

07-12-2012 23:31

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This week, a set of sideways looks at money. We begin with an interview of David Hawkes on a range of ideas about the 'magic' of money, its ability to promote materialism and alienate humans from their work. Next an audio version of Robin Upton's 2011 presentation, "What Economics Can't Tell You About Money", followed by a radio adaptation of the film On Modern Servitude.

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Israel’s Doomsday E-1 Settlement

05-12-2012 18:44

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has definitely crossed an international red line to vindicate a swift and firm rejection from Israel’s closest allies when he announced plans recently to build a new settlement on a corridor of occupied Palestinian land in East Jerusalem, which will render any prospective Palestinian contiguous state territorially impossible.

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Interview With Militant Prisoner John Bowden by From Here On In

05-12-2012 11:11

Recent interview with John Bowden by Bristol-based publication 'From Here On In' to be published in the next issue (  http://fromhereonin2012.wordpress.com/).
FREE JOHN!

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Abuse of Process: Factors in Prosecution Denial of Assange London Interview.

30-11-2012 16:19

The Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) Letter of Request (LOR), Disclosure and Abuse of Process in the Julian Assange Case. The factors requiring the prosecution to deny an
interview in London.

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UG#593 - Let Your Life Be A Friction (To Stop The Machine)

25-11-2012 08:53

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After a call to action to 'stop the machine', we hear a couple of voices of those whose lives have been a friction to slow it down. Angie Zelter tells of the plowshares destruction of nuclear weapons, and John Stewart on the prevention of airport expansion, while Gwen Schulman reports of how Canadian environmental NGOs are 'partnering' with big mining firms.

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A Hidden Web: Kafka's Case Against Julian Assange

23-11-2012 05:23

As the standoff at the Ecuadorian embassy in London continues, the facts, point to an unraveling conspiracy -which for the moment, remains hidden from view.

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A few thoughts on the matter of deficits: Do they matter or what?

21-11-2012 22:27

Everyone knows that almost all Western nations have been running trade deficits for decades know, and that it was once -famously- said that "deficits don't matter". This may sound strange, but I kind of agree:
It's not the 'deficits/debts' themselves that matter, rather than the 'ability to repay these debts in the future through future productivity" that actually matters.

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Leaflet for N21 demo - A bigger slice of the pie?

20-11-2012 04:53

Leaflet made by some students giving an anarchist perspective on students/anti-cuts resistance. Created to be handed out on the NUS demo this Wednesday. Print and distribute!

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Canada Resurrects Vampire—bill C-30 That Will Suck Internet Freedom Dry

19-11-2012 14:59

Can Canadians Hold Out Against Their Government's Forceful Efforts to Wiretap Their Lives? The Obama Government also wants the power (without a warrant) to introduce as evidence in U.S. Civil; Criminal and Administrative prosecutions any phone call record, email or Internet activity.

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Reciprocal Contamination and Reciprocal Assassination

18-11-2012 16:54

War is flaring up in Gaza, and the biggest surprise in it is that it is yet another conventional shooting match in the squeezed territory, while the previous expectation had been a radioactive war with Iran. This seems to be the conflagration of the rudiments of a much bigger storm that, for some reason or another, did not break out. What has so far prevented this radioactive war is the doctrine of reciprocal contamination which in the face of previously unknown cyber attacks tacitly installed itself on the core of the classical theocracies. The capacity to reciprocate contamination released by an attack on enemy territory can deter such attack no matter how the contamination is being achieved.

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Live English TV news from central Gaza City, by Harry Fear.. Breaking News.

17-11-2012 16:08

Operation Pillar of Cloud @ USTREAM: Live English TV news from central Gaza City, by Harry Fear.. Breaking News.

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Public discussion in Bath - Anarchy vs Chaos: An Introduction to Anarchism

16-11-2012 17:47

Introduction to Anarchism event poster
A series of short presentations and group discussions, examining the relevance of anarchism in modern-day Britain.

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Manuel Cuesta Morúa on Anna Ardin, WikiLeaks and Sweden in Cuba,

15-11-2012 20:25

Manuel Cuesta Morúa (Cuban socialist opposition leader) interviewed by Catalan journalist Oriol Malló. Topics: Anna Ardin, Swedish intervention and WikiLeaks.

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Shooting the messengers to protect the powerful

09-11-2012 13:13

Bryn Estyn, Wrexham
Child abuse, corruption, war crimes, whistleblowers and WikiLeaks – a Welsh perspective.

The north Wales child abuse scandal, whistleblowing in Wales and elsewhere, Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, WikiLeaks and the need for transparency.