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Clinton appoints former embassy hostage as point person on Iran

13-11-2009 10:38

John Limbert, Clinton's newly appointed point person on Iran
When the Iranian Revolution exploded on the world scene three decades ago, John Limbert was a greenhorn diplomat assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. After that station was taken over by revolutionary students, he spent 14 months as a political hostage in the building that came to be known as the “Nest of Spies.”

Today Limbert is the newly appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary for Iran in the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. That makes him Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's point person on Iran, just as pressure is building in Congress to impose more sanctions on the Islamic Republic.

While Limbert's preferred methods may differ from those of his predecessor Dennis Ross, it would be naive to think that his political goals are any less ambitious: undermining Iran's growing ability to oppose U.S. policy in the Middle East by restricting its access to alternative energy sources while promoting a change to a government friendlier to Western corporate interests.

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Notts County Council rewriting history?

11-11-2009 18:28

Before 1
Nottinghamshire County Council has made some major changes to the Spanish Civil War memorial at County Hall, West Bridgford, seemingly in an attempt to hide the memorial's radical nature.

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Nafeez Ahmed: Our Terrorists

09-11-2009 14:52

Following is an extended and footnoted version of an article previously published at  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/11/441115.html the updated version has been described by Nafeez as "a bit meatier, and murkier".

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Zhibin Gu: is China a socialist nation: politics, economy, history and Communist

08-11-2009 06:05

What has gone wrong with China's Communist revolution? Puzzle 1: why does China have a totally corrupt government? Puzze 2: Is China's bureaucratic corruption going to ruin the nation and economy in light of global financial crisis? How should one understand the Chinese Communist bureaucracy and its wild corruptive practice? Get realistic analysis and knowledge on Chinese economy, politics, and society from provocative Chinese thinker George Zhibin Gu of World Association of International Studies at Stanford University (5 parts)

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Afghanistan: Dying For OIL…..Unicol Corporation Feeding On Blood!

04-11-2009 09:06

As it is announced that 5 UK soldiers were shot by an Afghani policeman yesturday (bringing total UK army dead in Afghanistan since the start of intervention there to 212), here is a timely reminder of the real reason the west in over there which has been consistently and systematically hidden from public view - preparing the ground for the passage of the construction of an oil pipeline (like most people reading here didn't know or suspect).

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Year of Democracy

29-10-2009 20:10

Year of Democracy
This Dundee Student Association campaign has been designed to fight student apathy. There has been great success so far but more is to come. Read on to find out about the amazing speakers they have confirmed!

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Benito Mussolini worked for MI5

14-10-2009 21:08

Influence Peddling: Defending Democracy With Dictators and Dosh

It turns out that Benito Mussolini, inventor of fascism and promulgator of vast atrocities in Ethiopia and elsewhere, had his sinister career kick-started with dollops of secret cash from -- where else? -- the intelligence service of one of the great and good world-leading democracies of his day.

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New pamphlet: After Makhno (Hidden histories of Anarchism in the Ukraine)

12-10-2009 08:51

The Kate Sharpley Library are pleased to announce our new pamphlet containing two essays on Makhnovist opposition in the Ukraine after the triumph of Bolshevism.

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Gude Cause Anniversary March In Edinburgh

10-10-2009 21:27

Here are 20 photos from the `GUDE CAUSE` march in Edinburgh which commemmorated the 100th anniversary of the Women’s Suffrage Movement Procession along Princes Street in 1909.

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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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Venezuela: murderers can not make justice. On the exhumations of the Caracazo

01-10-2009 22:05

Caracas, Feb. 29 1989
* Different organizations and individuals from Venezuela with tradition in the social struggles linked to different anti-authoritarian and critical leftist approaches, with whom we have converged at the space called INSURGENTES, set position before the exhumations of the Caracazo.

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Leeds Turned Upside Down

29-09-2009 13:54

Leeds Turned Upside Down
Sat 10th October

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Al-Megrahi Was not the Lockerbie Bomber

28-09-2009 11:42

As I have previously stated, I can affirm that the FCO and MI6 knew that al-Megrahi was not the Lockerbie bomber.

I strongly recommend that you read this devastating article by the great lawyer Gareth Peirce, in the London Review of Books. Virtually every paragraph provides information which in itself demolishes the conviction. The totality of the information Peirce gives is a quite stunning picture of not accidental but deliberate miscarriage of justice.

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Goriletti (by Latuff)

23-09-2009 16:49

Honduran coup leader Roberto Micheletti
Honduran coup leaders are popularly known as "gorillas" and Roberto Micheletti as "Goriletti".

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Honduran coup leader Roberto Micheletti (by Latuff)

23-09-2009 00:56

Roberto Micheletti...GOLPISTA!
Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

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Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya returns home (by Latuff)

22-09-2009 10:05

Zelaya returns home!
In a dramatic move that seemed like something out of a Hollywood movie, ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya sneaked back into his country and turned up Monday at the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, the capital. (Source: Pakistan News)

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Hatemongering in America—the Post-Carter Dilemma Versus Conservative Opposition

20-09-2009 23:27

The venom and vile the spews forth from America’s body politic is endemic of a people infected with fear and prejudice; but this learned hatred of a democratic agenda is not one based primarily on racism—yet hostility and resentment is very much its spirit. Rather this anima of animosity is one that seeks scapegoats for any instability felt or imagined of America’s middle and lower class realities, and all presumptions of a relatively naïve and misinformed society.

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The Women Chainmakers' Festival 2009

14-09-2009 16:52

On Saturday 12th September 2009 the Black County Living Museum and the Midlands TUC hosted the Women Chainmaker's Festival to commemorate the women who almost a century ago went on strike to challenge the poverty pay of their female dominated forges.

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12/9/09: Bringing radical alternatives into Bristol city centre

09-09-2009 12:53

city centre bookfair mural
an invitation to all....
...radicals, strugglers, freethinkers, anarchists, workers, fighters, unemployed, dreamers, peace-lovers and planet-savers. Come along and join in the fun!

The Bristol anarchist bookfair 2009 sweeps into the city centre on 12 September. Bringing together local and national groups, networks, individuals and distros, the bookfair provides absolutely anything you have ever wanted to know about anarchism, and much more. It is also, this year, the opening event for the Bristol CoMutiny Convergence – details at  http://comutiny.wordpress.com/
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