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Hard lesson for Obama (by Latuff)

05-02-2010 02:03

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

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J18 London & N30 Seattle 1999 - 10 years on

02-02-2010 15:01

Booklet compiled by Bristol Anarchist Bookfair Collective - 3 articles looking at recollections and critiques of J18 and the anti-capitalist movement and the possibilties for future organising.

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Flashback: Impeccable politicians who order the mass killing of ordinary people

29-01-2010 18:11

On 29 January 2003, 50 days prior to the launch of the invasion of Iraq, John Pilger wrote the article below.

Exactly seven years later, UK's former Prime Minister Tony Blair, during his testimony before the "Iraq Inquiry", made the following statement:

"The decision I took - and frankly would take again - was if there was any possibility that he could develop weapons of mass destruction (WMD) we should stop him,"

(source: "I have no regrets says defiant Blair", Independent, 29 January 2010

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/blair-insists-he-was-right-to-stop-saddam-1882847.html)

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Nottingham Radical History Group 'Peopleshistreh' idea-share Wed 3rd Feb @Sumac

29-01-2010 09:41

Nottingham Radical History Group 'Peopleshistreh' is holding an 'Idea Share' event at the Sumac Centre on Wednesday 3rd Feb at 7pm-9pm. Hope you can make it.

Read on after our event poster for details of event.

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Iraq Enquiry: Sir Michael Wood Damns Blair, Straw and Croney Goldsmith

26-01-2010 14:37

Sir Michael Wood confirmed today that the consistent advice from the FCO's Legal Advisers was that it was illegal in international law to invade Iraq without a second Security Council Resolution following UNSCR 1441. He also made plain that he consistently over two years advised both Blair and Straw direct that the war would be illegal.

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A Politician Should Not Rule on the Legality of War

25-01-2010 12:55

Tomorrow morning, Sir Michael Wood, former Foreign and Commonwealth Office Legal Adviser, gives evidence to the Chilcott Inquiry. To my mind, this is the most important evidence to be given so far. Michael's then deputy, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, who resigned over the war of aggression, will give evidence in the afternoon, I believe speaking in public for the first time since her resignation.

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Hajo Meyer and Haidar Eid: Never Again - For Anyone

25-01-2010 00:35

Attached is a recording of Hajo Meyer, an Auschwitz survivor, speaking in Sheffield on 25th January 2010 at a meeting organised by the Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign as part of a tour organised by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign,

http://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/ and the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network,

http://www.ijsn.net/.

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Genocide education needs to be brought into the present

22-01-2010 11:26

Secondary education is comprehensive in teaching about the Holocaust and schools around the country will mark Holocaust Memorial Day with commemorative activities. Yet there are limited avenues for educators to translate commemoration into practical action against the racism and prejudice today. A small organisation of young people in the UK tries to make a difference.

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Origins of Israel/Palestine conflict & prospects for peace

19-01-2010 00:56

Discussion with former BBC & ITN Foreign Correspondent Alan Hart aired last week on BCfm. The conflict in Israel/Palestine seems to be just about the most divisive in the world. This discussion marks the return of those who participated in the Gaza convoy.

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German Action Guide and Legal Rights

07-01-2010 18:13

Yearly german and european nazis march through the city of Dresden, Germany. This will show you how you could avoid danger and will inform you about the legal rights in Germany.

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New Caledonia: only wise policy would lead to independence.

21-12-2009 16:01

This large Pacific island was discovered by James Cook in 1774, and named Caledonia, the ancient name of Scotland, Cook's homeland. Favorable island climatic conditions and fertile soil had attracted the interest of European colonizers - traders, planters and missionaries. In 1853 France announced the island its colony. Then within 30 years the French government had deported many convicted criminals to New Caledonia.

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September 11, 2001: America and NATO Declare War on Afghanistan

21-12-2009 07:53

Both the media and the US government, in chorus, continue to point to the 9/11 attacks and the role of Al Qaeda led by "terrorist mastermind" Osama bin Laden.

The bombing and invasion of Afghanistan is described as a "campaign" against Islamic terrorists, rather than a war.

To this date, however, there is no proof that Al Qaeda was behind the 9/11 attacks.

Neither is there evidence that Afghanistan as a Nation State was behind or any way complicit in the 9/11 attacks.

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Israel's Nuclear Weapons Program - What Americans Need to know about Vanunu

15-12-2009 23:05

"I'm not a traitor. I'm a man with a conscience who did what he did out of a deep belief after much thought and many doubts. But I knew that I had to do it, that I had no choice…somebody had to do it…I contributed my share by making public what the public ought to know and they shut my mouth behind the prison walls."

-- Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu

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Normalising the Crime of the Century

13-12-2009 13:46

I tried to contact Mark Higson the other day only to learn he had died nine years ago. He was just 40, an honourable man. We met soon after he had resigned from the Foreign Office in 1991 and I asked him if the government knew that Hawk fighter-bombers sold to Indonesia were being used against civilians in East Timor.

“Everyone knows,” he said, “except parliament and the public.”

“And the media?”

“The media – the big names – have been invited to King Charles Street (the Foreign Office) and flattered and briefed with lies. They are no trouble.”

As Iraq desk officer at the Foreign Office, he had drafted letters for ministers reassuring MPs and the public that the British Government was not arming Saddam Hussein. “This was a downright lie”, he said. “I couldn’t bear it”.

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New Fargate Speaker out (Dec/Jan issue)

06-12-2009 23:09

In This Issue: Sheffield stands against deportations, surviving a Credit Crunch Christmas, Fargate Calling - a look at Sheffield’s radical past, Sports, News and other views.

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Serious Risk of Mafia Infiltration in Europe

28-11-2009 10:14

... Investigations into connivance with the three Mafia organizations, Cosa Nostra, ’Ndrangheta and the Camorra, involve people in top positions in the state, local authorities and public bodies ...

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Brian Anson - Architect, Story Teller, Poet, Revolutionary... passed away over t

24-11-2009 00:10

From Donegal and Clare, and Connaught and the Munster hills...... Your plea is remembered and we battle on, energised by your passion

Brian Anson (1934-2009) passed away over the weekend after being inflicted with a sudden illness, he was a Liverpudlian, who came to Ireland to do what he could to help..

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Wales, the first and final colony

19-11-2009 02:01

The speech Adam Price, the MP for Dinefwr and East Carmarthenshire, presented to the Institute of Welsh Politics on Monday night.

Institute of Welsh Politics, Annual Address, Aberystwyth, 16th November 2009

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Report and Pics of the 'Signs of Revolt' exhibition in London

18-11-2009 21:26

The opening night of the 'Signs of Revolt, Creative Resistance & Social Movements since Seattle' exhibition took place on Friday 13th November 2009.The show runs for a week until Sunday 22nd, so if you missed the fun you still have a change to see the exhibition:

Old Truman Brewery,
Shop 14, Brick Lane,
London E1.

Opening Times: Weekends 10-9pm, Weekdays 12-9pm

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