UK Indymedia - UK Globalisation Newswire Archive

Iran’s ace weapon: Why the US won’t gamble on an Iranian war

23-04-2010 13:00

Given the crescendo of veiled and increasingly unveiled military threats by the US and Israel against Iran, one has to admire the Iranians for their coolness under extreme pressure. The latest despicable – and in some legal opinion, criminal – threat by the White House that it would use atomic weapons against nuclear-unarmed Iran in the event of a conflict has been dismissed by the authorities in Tehran, who say they remain determined to pursue their civilian nuclear energy programme.

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International banking – a system ruled by stupidity and fraud

23-04-2010 11:51

Goldman Sachs has been accused of fraud What is coming out of all this are the clever tricks of the trade, i.e. how to make money from money, without actually investing in the real economy, and in the process “advise” people on how to lose their money while making the likes of Goldman Sachs very rich... until it all crashes of course.

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"No blood for opium": The Afgan War's hidden agenda is to protect the drug trade

22-04-2010 19:59

Afghanistan’s major product is opium and opium production has increased remarkably during the present war. The current NATO action around Marjah is clearly motivated by opium. It is reported to be Afghanistan’s main opium-producing area. Why then won’t people consider that the real agenda of the Afghan war has been control of the opium trade?

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Bosnians riot against IMF cuts

22-04-2010 18:57

ANGRY Bosnian war veterans have risen up against IMF-imposed austerity measures in Sarajevo.

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Relentless Global Drive: NATO On Six Continents In Seven Days

22-04-2010 12:21

Most of the world has reconciled and submitted itself to the domination of one global military superpower and its equally global military alliance with barely a murmur. An unparalleled political and moral capitulation.

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Goldman Sachs in Eskom Privatisation Scam

21-04-2010 12:40

In the latest edition of Finweek, Sikonathi Mantshantsha reports that
Eskom has asked international mergers and acquisitions teams of
financial giants JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs to advise it on a proposed
restructuring.

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Law and Sausages: How Not to Legislate for The Digital Economy #debill

20-04-2010 17:50

Attached is the audio and the slides from a presentation titled 'Law and Sausages: How Not to Legislate for The Digital Economy' that Lilian Edwards, Professor of Internet Law at Sheffield University gave at the Café Scientifique,

http://www.sciencecafesheffield.org/ in The Showroom, Sheffield, on 19th April 2010.

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A visit to the INAF worker-occupied factory

20-04-2010 11:44

A delegation of comrades of the IMT from several countries is visiting Venezuela, attending the congress of the Venezuelan Marxists and bringing support for the formation of the Fifth International. On their first day they were taken on a tour of the INAF factory, which has been occupied by the workers and is under their management.

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Rossport Solidarity Night

20-04-2010 11:32

MAY 19th at THE CUBE CINEMA, BRISTOL

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Will Europe let dogmatists write the future of copyright?

20-04-2010 10:32

More evidence from La Quadrature du Net that the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement needs to be derailed

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Turbulence Mag: News from Cochabamba Climate Conference

19-04-2010 16:08

We're in Cochabamba, Bolivia, at the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, which began today and runs until April 22. We're there to launch the Spanish language edition of Turbulence and to participate in the event.

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How the U.S. Education System Leads to our Global Imperialism

19-04-2010 01:18

I was a volunteer in the War on Terror and I come from a large family of teachers. A lot of people are trying to do something about our education system. This video is a blueprint of science education in America anyone can use to prove how our "education" system trains Americans to depend on imperialism.

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Quiet corruption'?: The World Bank on Africa

16-04-2010 12:32

The 'Africa Development Indicators 2010' report, with its emphasis on the 'quiet corruption' of public sector workers supposedly not fulfilling their roles, is the latest attempt by the World Bank to wash its hands of its primary role in Africa's continuing impoverishment, writes Yash Tandon.

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Billions and Billions. What a Gig!!

15-04-2010 13:15

From 1995 to 2001 US government expenditures regarding intelligence contractors were roughly $20 billion a year. Following 9/11, in 2002, contracts rose to $32 billion. In 2003 they moved up again to $42 billion annually. Since then they have remained virtually the same regarding what's on the books publicly.

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Venezuela: the myth of "Eco-socialism of the XXI Century"

14-04-2010 02:23

* This text, which appeared in El Libertario # 58, March-April 2010, critically examines what has been meaning the government of Hugo Chavez from an environmental point of view, highlighting the clear separation between the rhetoric speeches that are emitted from power and the specific facts being promoted and implemented.

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Prompt global strike: World military superiority without nuclear weapons

13-04-2010 12:28

In essence, the new US nuclear doctrine is an element of the novel US security strategy that would be more adequately described as the strategy of total impunity. The US is boosting its military budget, unleashing NATO as a global gendarme, and planning real-life exercises in Iran to test the efficiency of the Prompt Global Strike initiative in practice. At the same time, Washington is talking about a completely nuclear-free world."

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Tar Sands Protest Closes BP Garage in London

12-04-2010 14:36

Protesters who claim BP's planned exploitation of Canadian Tar Sands is the most destructive project on the planet, with huge pollution, destruction of ancient forests and harm to indigenous communities, closed a BP garage at Shepherds Bush Green for the day by holding a 'Party at the Pumps. London, UK. 10/04/2010 Photographs copyright (C) 2010, Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

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7 million Iraqis below poverty line

11-04-2010 15:43

The Iraqi government is also going to be ending the ration system to millions of people to be inline with reforms to accomodate their loan aggreements.

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IMF Thuggery at Kings College Cambridge: VIDEO + PIC

11-04-2010 00:21

Security goons attack students and Cambridge people protesting the IMF!

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKnmVJaUefQ

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Save the Welfare State March and Rally, London - Pictures.

10-04-2010 19:15

Almost nine years after the invasion of Afghanistan, Seven years after the invasion and occupation of Iraq, Eighteen months after the UK economy is decimated as the UK banking system folds and just a few days after the General Election of 2010 is called, the British people gather in London to protest the oncoming onslaught of public spending cuts in the UK domestic economy...as reality finally dawns on the nation as a whole what the cost of illegitimate war means in reality.