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Is Barack Obama steering a healthy ship out of turbulent titanic global waters?

19-08-2009 17:04

Is the capitalist world economic crisis over? Are we coming to grips with the financial scandal and banking fiasco? Have we saved world capitalism and can we now peacefully get down to big business, to big wars again?

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Repression And Resistance In Mexico Part 3 Chiapas

16-08-2009 22:05

REPRESSION AND RESISTANCE IN MEXICO PART 3 CHIAPAS

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Repression And Resistance In Mexico Part 2 Atenco

16-08-2009 22:02

Repression and Resistance in Mexico
Part 2
Justice For Atenco

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Repression And Resistance In Mexico Part 1 Oaxaca

16-08-2009 21:57

Ruben Valencia Nunez from Oaxaca Mexico spoke in Glasgow and Edinburgh at the end of July as part of a 2 month European Speaking tour campaigning against the criminalisation of social movements in Mexico.

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Africa: U.S. Military Holds War Games on Nigeria, Somalia

16-08-2009 08:31

In May 2008, the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, hosted "Unified Quest 2008," the army's annual war games to test the American military's ability to deal with the kind of crises that it might face in the near future. "Unified Quest 2008" was especially noteworthy because it was the first time the war games included African scenarios as part of the Pentagon's plan to create a new military command for the continent: the Africa Command or Africom.

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Latin America: Social Movements in Times of Economic Crises

15-08-2009 21:03

The most striking aspect of the prolonged and deepening world recession/depression is the relative and absolute passivity of the working and middle class in the face of massive job losses, big cuts in wages, health care and pension payments and mounting housing foreclosures. Never in the history of the 20-21st Century has an economic crisis caused so much loss to so many workers, employees, small businesses, farmers and professionals with so little large-scale public protest.

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Afghan War: NATO Builds History's First Global Army

14-08-2009 19:02

Two months before the eighth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and the beginning of NATO's first-ever ground war the world is witness to a 21st Century armed conflict without end waged by the largest military coalition in history. Never before have soldiers from so many states served in the same war theater, much less the same country.

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man driving 'cowes boatshed' car drove into crowd on #vestas march

14-08-2009 04:29

rooftopjaxx early edition Fri 14th Aug

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Vestas - scuttle the f*cker

13-08-2009 23:17

SCUTTLE THE F*CKER #Vestas Rooftop protesters to head down to NIMBY MP’s [Andrew John Turner

http://bit.ly/602W] noffice

http://bit.ly/zW7NW

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Vestas rooftoppers DESCENT 1100 Fri 14 Aug

13-08-2009 21:10

After being on the roof for eleven nights, rooftop protesters will descend from the Vestas factory in East Cowes tomorrow morning (Friday) at 11am. They will then take the protest to the local MP Andrew Turner’s constituency office in Newport.

Rooftop Jaxx reports on Twitter the rooftoppers are coming down Fri 14th 11.00am

Vestas Rooftop protesters to head down to NIMBY MP’s office

http://bit.ly/zW7NW

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It’s… National Day of Solidarity with Vestas Workers!

12-08-2009 06:22

It’s… National Day of Solidarity with #Vestas Workers! Posted by: vickim57 Aug12, 09

http://bit.ly/1TY9Jo #savevestas

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The Pentagon's 21st Century Counterinsurgency Wars: Latin America and South Asia

10-08-2009 15:31

Coups and counterinsurgencies engineered and supported by Washington are no longer relics of the past century. Coups of the Georgian variety and its offshoots or of the Honduran model and Vietnam-style counterinsurgency wars have been reactivated as foreign policy options of choice. What is new is the degree of international coordination now practiced by the US and its allies.

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after we have burnt everything

10-08-2009 10:06

Correspondences about revolutionary strategy and emotions
(written after the NATO summit in Strasbourg, France, April 2009)

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Radio Interview: Cristina González, Franz J. T. Lee & Jutta Schmitt

08-08-2009 19:52

We will talk about the Bolivarian revolution and the new (wo)man.

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No Mill Road Tesco Protest

08-08-2009 15:06

Campaigners and residents met for a protest outside the proposed Tesco site on Mill Road, Cambridge. People from different backgrounds were in attendance from local people to animal rights activists to anti-capitalists, all with one message Mill Road is no place for a Tesco!

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Cambridge Mill Road Tesco Knitted On

07-08-2009 21:37

Protest art group 'Get Knitted' have woven the word 'ARROGANT' to the fence surrounding the site earmarked for a Tesco store on Mill Road, Cambridge.

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Niger Coup: Onward to Kleptocracy

07-08-2009 20:32

The fabricated referendum this week in Niamey is just neo-colonial business as usual

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Fruit of the Loom universities boycott nears 100 mark as protest spreads to Brit

07-08-2009 16:36

Major student organisations in US and UK unite in protest over
clothing company's human rights violations in Honduras, as university boycott
becomes the 'biggest ever'.

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War on Terror over!

07-08-2009 06:30

According to the Washington Times, the Whitehouse have now 'declared' the War on Terror to be over.

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Olive Picking [Palestine, October 2009]

06-08-2009 23:23

Dear Friends,
On behalf of the coordination Committee of the JAI/ATG of Palestine we hope that the PSC is able to publicise this years Olive Harvest event on your web pages and e mail listings. We are hoping for a greater turn out this year from Britain and further afield.

Details can be found via the web link

http://www.freewebs.com/visitpalestine/oliveharvestoctober2009.htm

and on the PSC web site

http://www.palestinecampaign.org/index9b.asp?m_id=1&l1_id=3&l2_id=62&Content_ID=758

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