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UK Taxpayer subsidises out-sourcing to autocracies

04-10-2009 15:27

A government agency called Creative Connexions has been set-up to subsidise out-sourcing of production to autocratic states.

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Zhibin Gu: China's communist dynasty: politics history of 60 years in review

04-10-2009 13:07

What is really inside Communist China since 1949? What is really behind China's politics, business, economy and international relations? Is China's communist corruption going to ruin the nation in light of global financial crisis? Get powerful reviews from a new posting by provocative Chinese thinker George Zhibin Gu of World Association of International Studies at Stanford University.

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Nestle's threats to farmers in Zimbabwe

29-09-2009 03:38

An article in the Daily Telegraph profiles Nestlé under the headline: "Nestlé: the world's biggest food company and one of the 'most boycotted'" and reveals that the company is purchasing 1 million litres of milk per year from Grace Mugabe, wife of the President Robert Mugabe, despite sanctions due to human rights abuses by the regime.

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Stop Farnborough Airport Expansion

28-09-2009 15:06

no to airport expansion – plane stupid – flikr
Expansion of Farnborough Airport will lead to increased CO2 emissions at a time when we need deep cuts.

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More Lies, More Deception

28-09-2009 06:56

Nicholas Sarkozy, Gordon Brown and Barack Obama at the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh
Iran is insisting that the US government abide by the non-proliferation treaty that the US originated and pushed and that Iran signed. But the US government, which is currently engaged in three wars of aggression and has occupying troops in a number of other countries, insists that Iran, which is invading and occupying no country, cannot be trusted with nuclear energy capability.

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Promoting Corporate Welfare

26-09-2009 11:55

Unemployment Benefits give Businesses a 90% wage bill reduction. While Unemployment is at high, benefits rates are at an all time, historical low. This is resulting in a nett transfer of wealth from private individuals to shareholders.

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Academy Schools; The Sinister Programming of Children

25-09-2009 11:26

Something nasty is at work in education. Billed as a radical NuLabour rethinking of how to educate children, 47 schools are to be run as privately sponsored Academies with international corporations such as weapons giant Vosper-Thornycroft.

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Today your Freedom is being signed away

25-09-2009 01:10

Today at the UN, New York, States are signing a treaty which excludes core obligations and the right to development which will result in people becoming far more dependent on the State/Corporations and also result in discrimination against the poor. Many States are following these policies. However with these rights excluded it will be harder to discern the difference between terrorists and 'freedom fighters'. It is now known the rights to fight for.

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Camp Ashraf Day 59, US embassy, London - pictures

24-09-2009 17:16

Day 59.
On day 59 of the solidarity Hunger Strike taking place outside the US embassy in London by relatives of the residents of Camp Ashraf, Iraq: members of the Christian faith gather in London to issue statements of support.

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Global Systematic Discrimination against the Poor

23-09-2009 18:20

States are due to sign a UN protocol which by its exclusion of core obligations will allow States to discriminate against the poor. This will give more credibility to those terrorists who claim to be fighting on behalf of the poor. The protocol by also excluding the empowerment rights to development et al will allow States to create a more dependent population unable to help themselves. Many States are already following such policies.

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Save Our Herbs; the Campaign for the Protection of Herbal Medicine

23-09-2009 10:13

Without your support our traditional herbal medicines could become obsolete, inaccessible and your freedom of choice taken from you.

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Filipino workers say "Never Again"

23-09-2009 02:59

Filipino workers say "Never Again"
Workers belonging to the Coalition Against Contractualization (KONTRA) today marched to Mendiola to mark the anniversary of the signing of Proclamation 1081 that imposed Martial Law 37 years ago and to reaffirm their vows to never again let the country slip into darkness.

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Global Minga in Defence of Mother Earth and her Peoples: Oct 12 - 16

21-09-2009 14:50

In defense of Mother Earth and her Peoples against the commercialization of life, pollution and the criminalization of Indigenous and social movements...Marking the day Christopher Columbus first set foot on Abya Yala, 518 years ago. The mobilization will begin on Oct 12.

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Why is unemployment ignored by the Left?

20-09-2009 23:45

The Left are caught up in an endless series of navel gazing activities that ignore fundamental struggles. The relationship between people and economics is one of the struggles that has ceased to be of any great interest to campaigners and political activists. The reason is plain and simple: Thatcher Won the Class War.

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Vietnamese Vivisector Killed at Yale. The University Hides Nature of Research

20-09-2009 22:55

Yale University has at least 24 animal vivisection labs on campus.
Some are underground. Violence to animals attracts violence to
humans. Fast food chains have more crime and theft.
Slaughterhouse owners are scofflaws.

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Leopards Can’t Change Their Spots, Nor Can Capitalists

17-09-2009 17:16

Despite all the rhetoric, nothing much has changed and the fundamental contradictions of the system remain. The only solution is to rid ourselves of it.

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International Financial Crisis and End of the Dollar Hegemony ...

16-09-2009 01:22

A regional alliance like ALBA, with its own currency for trade and financial transactions, constitutes doubtlessly another nail in the coffin of dollar hegemony.

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Venezuela: The Principle of Hope Against Global United States Military Bases

15-09-2009 01:56

Franz & Jutta explaining the Principle of Hope against Military Terrorism
Our clarion call is the New, a new logic, science, philosophy and wisdom, that is, the New per se. To create this we need no Manhattan project for arms of mass destruction: we only need to live the Truth 'praxically', to study reality theoretically, and to surpass the bourgeois, capitalist, world revolution with creative emancipation, with emancipatory creation.

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Al Quds March and Rally, London - pictures.

14-09-2009 15:04

United they stand.
At London's Marble Arch, around 1000 people including religious scholars, clerics and Rabbi's gather together to hold the annual Al Quds march and rally to present themselves alongside those oppressed around the world including those struggling with the ongoing Israeli blockade of Gaza.