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History: Greek riots 1991 - photos and videos

09-01-2013 14:37

Anarchists vs. police

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UG#604 - Occupy The Past (Gandhian Non-Violence and Direct Action Movements)

04-01-2013 21:26

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Another show made with the ongoing Occupy movement in mind. Our main feature is author and researcher James Douglass on his book Gandhi and the Unspeakable, and we hear thoughts from Chris Hedges and Barbara Epstien also from earlier this year.

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UG#605 - The Institutionalized Shadows of Psychopaths (Histories of the CIA/FBI)

04-01-2013 21:20

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In our first hour this episode we hear author Tim Weiner on the FBI and the 48 year reign of its founder, J. Edgar Hoover, whom Weiner describes as 'a Machiavelli'. In our second hour, a vintage recording of Alan Francovich speaking about On Company Business, his groundbreaking 1980 film on the CIA.

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Buenos Aires: Candle Light March for Syria

31-12-2012 14:21

Candle Light March for Syria
Syrian Community in Argentina, Buenos Aires Hold Candle Light March in Support of Motherland ...... The Syrian community and students in Argentina held on Sunday a candle march outside the Syrian embassy in Buenos Aires in solidarity with motherland, Syria, expressing support to the Syrian leadership and national army.

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UG#601 - The Psychopathology of Money (Nick Leeson, The Economics of Happiness)

27-12-2012 00:28

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We continue examining money with radio adaptations of 2 films. In our first hour, Adam Curtis' 25 Million Pounds narrates the rise and fall of financial fraudster, Nick Leeson. In our second hour, The Economics of Happiness which recommends relocalization as the urgent solution to economic globalization.

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The Westcountry Mutineer #3 Out Now!

24-12-2012 17:45

Ho! Ho! Ho! The Westcountry Mutineer issue 3 is out now - better late than never! A new-ish radical tabloid, definitely not in the same style as The Bath Bomb, but for all the westcountry

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Czarist War, Communist Peace

01-12-2012 21:28

anticommunist war propaganda in the 1930's

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Abuse of Process: Factors in Prosecution Denial of Assange London Interview.

30-11-2012 16:19

The Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) Letter of Request (LOR), Disclosure and Abuse of Process in the Julian Assange Case. The factors requiring the prosecution to deny an
interview in London.

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A Hidden Web: Kafka's Case Against Julian Assange

23-11-2012 05:23

As the standoff at the Ecuadorian embassy in London continues, the facts, point to an unraveling conspiracy -which for the moment, remains hidden from view.

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Farewell to Indymedia London and Shift Magazine

19-11-2012 20:10

This special edition of Dissident Island features two radical media collectives: London Indymedia and Shift Magazine.

Featured Speakers/Commentators: tony, maqui, yossarian, rikki, lauren, ben, dissident island, jahpawa, dissident island crew

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Manuel Cuesta Morúa on Anna Ardin, WikiLeaks and Sweden in Cuba,

15-11-2012 20:25

Manuel Cuesta Morúa (Cuban socialist opposition leader) interviewed by Catalan journalist Oriol Malló. Topics: Anna Ardin, Swedish intervention and WikiLeaks.

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Man Arrested for Poppy Burning on Remembrance Sunday

13-11-2012 15:32

In a week when a man has been arrested for burning a plastic poppy on facebook, we should remember that this is in a long tradition of hysteria around similar 'desecrations'. Here's an article from 2000 which points out that:

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Julian Assange, Sex Crimes and the U.S. Proxies in Cuba.

09-11-2012 03:45

Young European politicians are now acting under the banner of activism with their governments' assent to support the United States 59 year de facto war with Cuba.

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Picardie, First World War, a mother’s grief.

07-11-2012 13:46

The poem 'PICARDIE' was written by the mother of a young man Lieutenant A.N. Trotter who was killed in Bethune, France during the First World War. In it she recalls a holiday they had spent as a family in the same district when her son was just a lad of fourteen.

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'Can We Rebuild the Plebs Tradition?'/Destruction of Archives at Ruskin College

01-11-2012 12:25

Meeting in Barsley on 24th November organised by the Independent Working-Class Education Network entitled 'Can We Rebuild the Plebs Tradition?'
Also, info on how the archives of Ruskin College, pioneer institution of working-class education, have been partly destroyed, on the instructions of the college principal and despite protests and an offer from the Bishopsgate Institute to take everything. What remains may still be at risk.

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Texas Police Sniper Guns Down Immigrants

31-10-2012 10:49

Welcome to America: Texas Police Sniper Guns Down Immigrants From Helicopter ....... Remember a few months ago how a DEA helicopter was used to gun down two pregnant women and two 14-yr-old boys in Honduras because they were "suspected" of being drug dealers? Well, those same tactics are now being used in America. After being pulled over for having a suspect "covered truck bed," a vehicle which fled from Texas game wardens was shot at by Texas "Department of Public Safety" agents with a sniper rifle from a helicopter.

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abuse sussex police helped to cover up

15-10-2012 15:22

historical abuse

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Cuts Cafe: We remember the Rotunda!

14-10-2012 23:16

Great to see the Cuts Cafe has occupied the building on the corner of Stamford Street and Blackfriars Road… And not just because we’ve passed that building regularly for years and thought it should be squatted… but also because they’re reviving a powerful radical connection on that corner…

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Alternative Currencies

11-10-2012 11:15

This article discusses the introduction of another currency system called TEM, in Volos, Greece. Considering the financial instability of the euro, I feel that we should explain this possibility to everyone and, more importantly, it should be of interest to your readers.

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Agent Provocateurs & Radical Violence

02-10-2012 09:12

George Edwards mocking the executed revolutionaries
The British State has been using agent provocateurs since at least the early 19th century