UK Indymedia - UK Analysis Newswire Archive

Vegetarianism, Reincarnation, Fallibility In The Early Christian Church

16-02-2013 18:49

Papal infallibility did not become Catholic doctrine until 1870. Long before that
vegetarian and reincarnation teachings had been quashed.

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UG616 - The Secret, Silent Poisoning (Nuclear Victims in Peace and War)

15-02-2013 05:13

We hear how not only the Japanese but also the Marshall Islanders continue to suffer as a result of the US military's determination to assert its nuclear superiority, whatever the cost to human life. Complementing out main focus on Nuclear Weapons, we hear from Chris Busby that the safety of Nuclear Power may be overestimated by a factor of 400.

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Brazil: SEMI-ARID will be a thing of the past?

14-02-2013 18:14

In this process truly poetic rather than scientific, in which consortia of species succeed in building an environment increasingly rich and varied, every plant, every animal, every micro-organism has its contributory role, being the man for the first time in history, leaving his sad protagonist role of stingy tormentor of nature and life and move creatively to assume the coordination of the construction process.

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Brazil: SEMI-ARID will be a thing of the past?

13-02-2013 18:26

In this process truly poetic rather than scientific, in which consortia of species succeed in building an environment increasingly rich and varied, every plant, every animal, every micro-organism has its contributory role, being the man for the first time in history, leaving his sad protagonist role of stingy tormentor of nature and life and move creatively to assume the coordination of the construction process.

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UG#614 - Granting Autonomy to The Logic of Money 1 (Capitalism, Debt & Banking)

13-02-2013 13:00

We left off our reading of David Graeber with the statement that "The logic of money was granted autonomy. Political and military power were then gradually reorganized around it". This week we look in more detail at what that meant, focusing mainly on the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries. As well as reading more from Debt, The First 5000 Years we hear a few words from Ivan Illich and the first half of a radio adaptation of a video on the Banking Cartels and the US Federal Reserve.

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UG#615 - Granting Autonomy to The Logic of Money 2 (Capitalism, Banking...)

13-02-2013 12:53

This week is a sequel to last week's episode, again combining some hidden history of the bankers in USA with our continued reading of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years. We conclude with the audio of an introductory presentation on Altruistic Economics which Robin Upton gave at the Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin in December 2009.

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UG#612 - From Conquistadors to Opium Wars (Debt & the Great Capitalist Empires)

07-02-2013 22:18

This time we look at the grim consequences of the logic of imperialist exploitation for profit since the Middle Ages. As a specific example of the general principles we read about in Debt, The First 5000 Years we hear Frank Sanello on the Opium Wars between Britain and China.

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Israel Fuels Syrian Fire, Risking Regional Outburst

07-02-2013 07:14

Israel is either trying to escalate militarily to embroil an unwilling United States in the Syrian conflict, in a too late attempt to pre-empt a political solution, out of a belief that the fall of the Al – Assad regime will serve Israel’s strategy or to establish for itself a seat at any international negotiating table that might be detrimental in shaping a future regime in Syria.

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The Tax & Cut Time Bomb: April Showers Pain on the Poor

31-01-2013 14:50

"A cabinet of millionaires rains hell on the poor. April 1st is doomsday for UK Sick, Poor & Disabled"

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Cowardly EDL Try To Disrupt Manchester Anti-fascist Gig #EDL @TheRamanShackle

31-01-2013 03:35

Alas! The end of the EDL is nigh! The priest has been called and the last rites have already been served on this pathetic excuse of a far right football-powered bootboy organisation. Bearing this in mind, a small pod of fascist footsoldiers have insanely decided they want to go out with all guns blazing in a heavily anti-fascist student area of Manchester. They intend to violently disrupt the anti-fascist benefit gig happening on the 9th of February at the Ram and Shackle pub on Wilmslow Road, Manchester. This is a very popular student pub frequented by a solid anti-fascist 95% student audience from Withington and Fallowfield.

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UG#611 - Money as Powerlessness(Economic Parasitism,MMT,Debt in the Middle Ages)

28-01-2013 17:35

Does money really empower people, or does it trap them in a zero-sum game in which >99% will come out as losers? A two-parter this time on money and debt. In our first hour, two speeches from the first conference on Modern Money Theory in Rimini, Italy. In the second, we continue reading from David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years.

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The Parabellum - new greek anarchist website

27-01-2013 15:15

The Parabellum - new greek anarchist website

http://theparabellum.squat.gr/

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The Imperialist Assault against Africa and its Origins

25-01-2013 22:10

It immediately crystallises awareness when in the age of panapocalyptic austerity and fictional accounting calculus someone is trying to strike a big deal with the fascist state. Not that the topic of prisoner release was not a fertile field for direct action, as any targeting of the cancer which is eating up imperialism from within, but an expectation based on the mutual balance of demands seems quite odd in regard to states which cannot even balance their own currencies, budgets and economies. Any concept of a rational state or remnant thereof from the past has long devolved into a mud hole of infantile dementia with no other agenda than sabotaging every political alternative to it. What is the point in asking a mud hole to release prisoners?

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Clinging Onto Patriarchy

25-01-2013 14:07

Having a sectarian dig at the SWP’s recent problems - as some have done - is not the best way to deal with the serious issues involved. For this reason the article below is entitled ‘Clinging onto Patriarchy’ and considers how the whole of society - including the left - is dominated by patriarchal forms which result in various forms of marginalisation and exploitation of women - and not just in the SWP.

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Coming on a neighbourhood near you the first POVERTY REPORT 2013

25-01-2013 12:36

Clegg has been making sideways appearances again. Thanks to the BBC and the Guardian. But Clegg is up to here in collusion with the Big Looters robbing the ordinary, the little people and then making us feel morally stigmatised “because” we have been robbed!

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Qatar and U.S.: Collusion or Conflict of Interests

23-01-2013 18:26

The Soufan Group’s intelligence analysts on last December 10 concluded that “Qatar continues to prove itself to be a pivotal U.S. ally, … Qatar is often able to implement shared U.S.-Qatari objectives that Washington is unable or unwilling to undertake itself.”

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Brazil: the perfect freedom of expression?

23-01-2013 17:03

"I don't agree with only one of the words you say, but I will defend to the death your right to do so!"(Voltaire),

It is controversial the relationship between freedom of expression and the degree of development of societies.

Many seek to justify the repressive character of the current regimes as a price that must be paid for achieving progress.

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The Davos Delusion: What You Need to Know

23-01-2013 14:27

Today, British Prime Minister David Cameron joins the great and the good at the annual World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland. Today’s article pulls back the curtain on this secretive hub of neoliberalism.

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university publications

20-01-2013 14:54

heres a lists of some of the unversity pdfs Aaron Swartz published on bittorrent networks.

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Mali Algeria intervention, NATO's drive to control Africa

19-01-2013 20:24

Bristol Community FM’s weekly politics show. At five: discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world. After six: straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers and Marina Morris. For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.