UK Indymedia - UK Other Press Newswire Archive

25 years of GNU software.

30-09-2009 08:11

IMC loves GNU : Keep it libre, keep it free !

Guinea: Bloody Repression Kills Dozens of anti-Junta Protesters

29-09-2009 02:47

Today opposition and labor protesters descended from the main boulevards of the city to the national stadium ("Stade du 28 Septembre"), but were met with a ban order, lines of troops, live fire, and rumors that the military is disappearing captives and bodies of the dead. As many as 80 bodies have been rumored to have been laid out in the stadium itself. If anything like the events of 2007 reoccur, the military would be willing to continue this crackdown for weeks or even months.

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Chain reaction

26-09-2009 18:17

An article on Sofia dog population problem. It was written by Nick Iliev from The Sofia Echo,

http://sofiaecho.com
"Six countries (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Italy, Malta, Serbia and Spain) operated catch, neuter, release in a limited number of locations, although the reasons for this were unclear, as were the problems encountered when adopting this approach." (Stray Animal Control Practices - Europe, WSPA/RSPCA)

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U.S., NATO Poised For Most Massive War In Afghanistan's History

25-09-2009 07:57

Over the past week U.S. newspapers and television networks have been abuzz with reports that Washington and its NATO allies are planning an unprecedented increase of troops for the war in Afghanistan, even in addition to the 17,000 new American and several thousand NATO forces that have been committed to the war so far this year.

America's obedient media is preparing domestic audiences for the possibility of the largest escalation of foreign armed forces in Afghanistan's history.

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Lockerbie - now you see it, now you don't

24-09-2009 11:41

I started writing these comments about the reactions to Al Megreahis release to an article that has now been deleted. I've had two IM-UK articles hidden already but I don't want to self censor so I'll post them anyway, people who read hidden comments will see this.

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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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Obama: Bush was right that Iran’s ballistic missile program is a serious threat

19-09-2009 16:02

After 4 years of constant scare-mongering by the world’s leading nuclear powers over “Iran’s nuclear threat”, US President Obama reverts to Clinton administration’s “Iran’s ballistic threat” propaganda of the late 1990s.

In early October, these nuclear powers will hold the “much-anticipated” talks with Iran in Turkey; the neighbouring country that hosts the largest US nuclear arsenal outside the USA.

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Manchester Anarchist Bookfair

16-09-2009 21:15

This year's Manchester Anarchist Bookfair is on 26th September at Jabez Clegg, 2 Portsmouth Street, Manchester M2 9GB, opposite the University of Manchester Students Union.

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David shayler sniffing around the Climate change camp

15-09-2009 10:29

David shayler aka Delores kane eyes Climate change camp

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Charlie Sheen Challenges President Obama to Re-Open 9/11 Investigations

13-09-2009 22:30

Eight years on and in the aftermath of Hollywood actor Charlie Sheen's 9/11 challenge to President Barack Obama, journalists of the world's media conglomerates have been slow responders to follow the trail of evidence. Sheen posed numerous questions in a YouTube video directed at the President and claimed in a supporting document that the official 9/11 story was a cover-up that fitted an historical pattern of government scripted attacks as pretexts for war.

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Van Jones

09-09-2009 20:18

An advisor to Obama has just been forced to resign due to a smear campaign by Rupert Murdochs' Glen Beck on Fox News. This may seem irrelevant to IM-UK but have a look at his 'crimes'.

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Disarm DSEi 2009 timeline

09-09-2009 16:44

For video and photos visit

http://www.lasthours.org.uk/

On September 8th 2009, protesters gathered in the City of London to demonstrate against the DSEi arms fair taking place in the Excel Centre in East London. Last Hours was using mobile updates to document the event.

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Afghanistan's First Oil and Gas Licensing Round

09-09-2009 16:10

If evidence were ever needed as to the resilience of oil companies and their willingness to do business in some of world’s most hostile environments then surely it would be worth drawing on the story of Afghanistan.

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Lockerbie - FBI gangsterism

07-09-2009 14:10

FBI head Robert Mueller phoned up Lothian & Borders police in the middle of the night to get Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskills home address. He said this was to have his FBI agents in Scotland deliver a letter to MacAskhill immediately. To their great credit, L&B polis told him to deliver to the night-watchman at the Government offices.

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ElBaradei slams Western allegations against Iran and opposes sanctions

04-09-2009 20:21

“Nobody is sitting in Iran today developing nuclear weapons. Tehran doesn’t have an ongoing nuclear weapons program. But somehow, everyone in the West is talking about how Iran’s nuclear program is the greatest threat to the world. In many ways, I think the threat has been hyped."

[Head of the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei, interview with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1 September 2009]

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"An Existential Threat": The US, Israel and Iran

04-09-2009 08:38

The Guardian article depicts a deeply misleading picture of the US in the Middle East and the wider world, as we have often explained in our books and in media alerts. We are to believe that the world’s number one rogue state is searching for benign solutions to the world’s most “intractable problems”. This fiction is standard in corporate media coverage.

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Chile issues arrest warrants against at least 120 Pinochet agents

03-09-2009 17:30

The arrest warrants issued by a Chilean judge against at least 120 people – all of whom had worked as military or security personnel – constitute an important step towards justice in a country that hasn't paid sufficient attention to its past, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.

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Free the Cuban Five! week of action in support of Cuban Five. 6 and 12 Sep 09‏

01-09-2009 19:24

invites you to get involved in a week of Action in support of the Cuban Five locked up for 11 years in the US.

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NATO official: Iran could fire conventional or nuclear missiles into Europe

01-09-2009 18:31

Echoing the six-month-long intensive propaganda campaign before invading Iraq in 2003, the leading members of the NATO Alliance (US, UK, Germany, France) and Israel are desperately trying to show Iran as a threat, without presenting a shred of evidence.

Now, an anonymous “NATO official” is claiming that Iran is posing a threat not only to Israel, but also to Europe. Even more astonishingly, after 4 years of constant scare-mongering over “Iran’s nuclear threat”, this official is reverting to Clinton administration’s “Iran’s ballistic threat” propaganda.

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Palestine Today 090109

01-09-2009 15:35

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Tuesday September 1st, 2009