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IRAQ: Video - Voice to the voiceless: Iraqis under imperial terror

29-09-2007 01:59

Alive in Baghdad was formed to counter the sound-bite driven, “Live From” news model. Through the work of a team of Americans and Iraqi correspondents on the ground, Alive in Baghdad shows the occupation through the voices of Iraqis. Alive in Baghdad brings testimonies from individual Iraqis, footage of daily life in Iraq, and short news segments from Iraq to you.

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UK-US Military Alliance Creates Fascist UK-Faslane

28-09-2007 18:49

Who can deny it 'go l**ney, go p*ki, go n*gger, go p**ftah as well as sch*z, go y*ppee and lesser verbal intimidation is heard every day in the UK moreso then most other places in western europe. This is the most common that I have known such verbal abuse since being born in 1961. Who can block now at Faslane?

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Arrest of Maya Evans and Fr Martin Newell at Labour Party Conference

28-09-2007 17:38

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Maya Evans and Father Martin were arrested outside the Labour Party Conference in 2007 for daring to express the views held by 75% of the British people against the illegal and immoral wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

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Are the liberals clueless?

27-09-2007 23:31

In my opinion Iran under its current president is slowly but certainly moving up the ladder of economic justice and democratic development, and we in the west, Europeans and Americans alike under our corrupt and cynical leaders are moving downwards rapidly.

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Blockade of Total Garage in solidarity with Burmese protesters

27-09-2007 22:19

Around 30 activists blockaded a Total petrol station to protest against the company's heavy involvement with the military junta in Burma which is responsible for the deaths of several protesters in just the last few days.

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Burma Solidarity Protest in Bradford

27-09-2007 22:07

Around 25 protesters blockaded a Total petrol station in Bradford today in solidarity with the Burmese people.

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Large turnout at Burmese and Chinese embassies in London

27-09-2007 18:58

Large numbers of protesters rallied outside the Burmese embassy, before marching to the Chinese embassy to demand China's support for the pro-democracy uprising in Burma.

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B-52 Nukes Headed for Iran: Air Force refused to fly weapons to Middle East

27-09-2007 18:36

WMR has learned from U.S. and foreign intelligence sources that the B-52 transporting six stealth AGM-129 Advanced Cruise Missiles, each armed with a W-80-1 nuclear warhead, on August 30, were destined for the Middle East via Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.

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Palestinians visit the factory that makes thier lives hell.

27-09-2007 13:25

Members of the Palestinian delegaton to Brighton went to the weekly noisy demonstration outside EDO MBM in Home Farm Road, Brighton, yesterday to express their anger at the manufacturers of components for weapons used on thier families by the Israeli military.

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We are ALL burmese, in this little 2007 world .Cyberslavery. . . . then you?

27-09-2007 12:38

In london, the address of the burmese embassy is necessary to discover it . . . . this lunchtime the present day "representation" had hidden their flag.
Shame, or cowardice . . . . people are choosing against the cyberslavery put upon them in test case new deliberate designs of "repression-cities", as much a test for the world as was the nazi slave labour deathcamps - or peenemunde. Could global institutions have had pride in their actions if the retort to, say, the attempts at a breakout in Sobibor have limits of stopping the passports or overseas credit of the Auschwitz troops? A town a week is destroyed as we "wait."

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Joe’s Borrowed Idea: Split Iraq Up into Three Pieces

27-09-2007 08:31

It is, to say the least, a predictable outcome, one that dovetails nicely with the neocon master plan. “US lawmakers voted Wednesday to split Iraq into a loose federation of sectarian-based regions and urged President George W Bush to press Iraqi leaders to agree,” reports Monsters and Critics.

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Iran’s Impending Destruction: Is Ahmadinejad Clueless?

27-09-2007 00:28

Either way—if Ahmadinejad is sincerely clueless or an agent working for British-U.S.-Israeli intelligence—it is truly astounding the president of Iran glossed over what should be considered, with a heaping dose of trepidation, the brutal and criminal shock and awe reduction of his country to a “failed” Neolithic condition.

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Iranian University Chancellors Ask Bollinger 10 Questions

26-09-2007 23:51

Seven chancellors and presidents of Iranian universities and research centers, in a letter addressed to their counterpart in the US, Colombia University, denounced Lee Bollinger's insulting words against the Iranian nation and president and invited him to provide responses to 10 questions by Iranian academics and intellectuals.

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Sons of Paradise

26-09-2007 14:04

'Sons of Paradise' is a new play based on characters who join the Sheffield Pals Battalion to fight in World War One.

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Full text of Ahmadinejad appearance at Columbia University

26-09-2007 02:15

Well, here I'm your guest. I've been invited by Columbia, an official invitation given for me to come here, but I do want to say something here. In Iran, when you invite a guest you respect them. This is our tradition required by our culture, and I know that American people have that culture as well.

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"Drum Them Out!" at Menwith Hill - Say No to "Missile Defense"

25-09-2007 16:31

On July 25th Prime Minister Gordon Brown went largely unnoticed when he announced Britain's agreement to use two UK bases as part of American Missile Defense. On October 13th join us at Menwith Hill to protest and Drum Them Out!

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Atomic Weapons Establishment a catastrophe waiting to happen

25-09-2007 14:30

The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) and the Ministry of Defence have submitted a planning application for a new nuclear warhead component factory at the Burghfield site in Berkshire, yet the site has been struggling to remedy as many as 1,000 safety defects uncovered by the government's official nuclear watchdog. And it has only been allowed to remain open because the Ministry of Defence says the work it does is vital.

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The Cuban Five

25-09-2007 13:24

I attended a briefing by Leonard Weinglass (he of the Daniel Ellsberg/Pentagon Papers fame, of the Amy Carter tribulations, and other famous efforts to achieve justice against at times huge odds) at Howard University's Law School on Wednesday, 12 September. I was stunned by what counselor Weinglass revealed...

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Consequences of a forced regime change in Iran

25-09-2007 00:03

As the Neocons and their allies continue to push for a devastating war against Iran, they are joined by some Iranian exiles who profess that they cannot wait a minute longer for the war to start. They are claiming, as their Iraqi counterparts did, that they are supporting the Neocons because they want to free the long suppressed Iranian People.