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A Memory Abused: No Rest or Peace for Neda Agha-Soltan

13-12-2009 20:28

The ruthless exploitation of the death of Neda for political purposes is an egregious example of a propaganda war being waged by the enemies of Iran – everyone should be concerned, however, since the manipulation of the media and public opinion is a feature of domestic news coverage in the West as much as it is of reporting on a Middle Eastern state.

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Return of terrace politics

13-12-2009 14:52

As Gordon Brown declares class war on David Cameron from the hallowed turf of the House of Commons members bar via his middle-class PR machine, football stadiums are becoming the new battleground for expressing genuine class anger and dissent.

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This Week in Palestine – Week 50, 2009

11-12-2009 19:53

Welcome to This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for December 5th, to 11th 2009

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New alternative media & news platform in Southampton

11-12-2009 19:32

The Dolphin’s Blowhole, Southampton’s new alternative media platform for residents, students and activists, has now been launched!

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Three members of Newcastle Animal Right's summoned to court.

11-12-2009 00:17

Three Members summoned before Newcastle Magistrates on 14th December 2009

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Palestine Today 121009

10-12-2009 21:01

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, December 10th, 2009.

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Normalising the Crime of the Century

10-12-2009 17:11

The purpose of the Chilcot inquiry is to normalise an epic crime by providing enough of a theatre of guilt to satisfy the media so that the only issue that matters, that of prosecution, is never raised. When he appears in January, Blair will play this part to odious perfection, dutifully absorbing the hisses and boos. All “inquiries” into state crimes are neutered in this way.

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100 Iranian Intellectuals called for Protest Movement’s Victim Families Invitati

10-12-2009 14:14

A group of Iranians that includes writers, artists, journalists, humanitarians, and political and social activists living in exile request that the Norwegian Nobel Committee for Peace Prize invite to the ceremony the mothers, or another immediate family member of those killed in recent protests in Iran.
The Open Letter signed in last November as a symbolic act to support Iranian protesters.

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Obama announced troop deployment

10-12-2009 08:52

Obama announced troop deployment

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Palestine Today 120809

08-12-2009 18:09

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, December 8th, 2009.

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Climate Justice Chronicle - free newspaper in Copenhagen

07-12-2009 17:28

The Climate Justice Chronicle is being published every other day during the Copenhagen climate talks.

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Give Up Anti-Fascism: An Anarchist Response

07-12-2009 10:10

An article appeared in the August edition of Red Pepper magazine entitled ‘Anti-fascism Isn’t Working’. Written by a non-aligned anarchist it was originally called ‘Give Up Anti-fascism’ it is this version we shall be referring to here for the simple reason it’s both the author’s original edit and the one most read, by radicals at least.

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Can Police or BBC Count?

07-12-2009 00:30

I thought inflation was pretty low at the moment, perhaps the Police don't realise this?

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The Silence of the BBC 100 - BBC Trust Chairman Responds to ‘Newspeak’

04-12-2009 12:18

One of our readers recently took us to task for a serious omission in our new book, ‘Newspeak in the 21st Century’ (Pluto Press, 2009). He asked how we could possibly have failed to include the BBC’s Newsnight presenter, Emily Maitlis.

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The Grey Matter 2, out in Newcastle!

03-12-2009 15:20

The difficult 2nd edition of The Grey Matter, Newcastle's independent free newsletter is out now.

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Cop15: Notes from below

03-12-2009 12:49

This December (ten years since the alter-globalisation movements took to the streets of Seattle to oppose the world trade organization) activists from across the globe will be descending on Copenhagen to protest the COP15 round of discussion. Has the UK Direct Action movement changed in the interceding years between these cycles of struggle? And what lessons, if any, can it learn from its recent past?

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We need a New Anticapitalist Party in Britain

02-12-2009 12:54

After more than 12 years in office, Labour has proved itself time and again to be a party that attacks workers’ pay, conditions, jobs and rights. And now we face the worst capitalist economic crisis for decades, with a massacre of jobs sweeping the country.

The working class in Britain does not have a party of our own to organise and inspire resistance to the bosses’ crisis on a daily basis – on the streets and in the workplaces as well as at election times.

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Riot police on tour: The Times runs sick TSG PR as Tomlinson family attend vigil

02-12-2009 04:41

Last night, with phenomenally insensitive timing The Times newspaper published a puff piece aimed at rehabilitating the Metropolitan Police's Territorial Support Group, at exactly the same time as Ian Tomlinson's family were attending a candlelit vigil to remember him at Royal Exchange Buildings, near to the spot were he was attacked by a TSG officer on April 1st. The article was later pulled from The Times website, but not before copies were cached by other online news services.

In the article Chris Allison, the Met's kettler-in-chief, explained that the TSG are just misunderstood and do a lot of great work for charity...

The Times piece was published here:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6939597.ece

See traces here:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22G20+riot+police+to+go+on+good+will+tour%22

The Ian Tomlinson Family Campaign website:

http://www.iantomlinsonfamilycampaign.org.uk/

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Nazi Combat18 claimed responsibility for Russian train bombing

28-11-2009 20:40

There are things You never gonna hear on BBC News;)

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Nick Davies, Bad News: Benn Journalism Lecture 2009

28-11-2009 20:38

Commercial imperatives elbowing out truth in the UK media. Nick Davies reviews media lies and the state of Journalism in Britain today - at the Bristol Arnolfini Arts Centre last Thursday evening.