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With regard to ANAIRC’s campaign against NSEL, Flor de Caña and Grupo Pellas

11-03-2010 15:03

To this date, there is no recognized formal scientific study that establishes a relationship of causality between sugarcane cultural practices and chronic kidney disease (CKD).

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Dialogue between Nicaragua Sugar, Grupo Pellas and ASOCHIVIDA regarding CKD

11-03-2010 14:58

Report from the Compliance Advisor and Ombudsman (CAO) of the World Bank: Dialogue process between the San Antonio Sugar Mill and ASOCHIVIDA advances.

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Strangeways prison riot, April 1st 1990

10-03-2010 12:30

Twenty years ago the very day after the Poll Tax riot erupted in Trafalgar Square prisoners in Manchester’s oldest jail took control of the chapel for the start of what was to become the biggest riot and longest rooftop protest in British penal history and triggered a wave of revolt in over twenty other prisons across the country.

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Letter from editors of 6 Iranian news agencies to their Western counterparts

05-03-2010 21:12

The Times' front page on the eve of June 2009 presidential elections in Iran
Chief-editors of six news websites in Iran composed an open letter to some American and European news agencies (newspapers and websites) and criticised their way of covering Iran’s news in the aftermath of the 2009 June election and objected to the unprofessional behaviour of these media outlets in escalating the tension and chaos in Iran and distorting the news about Iran.

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Lappersfort Forest Eviction

05-03-2010 15:31

Lappersfort Forest, which has been occupied on and off since 2001, has finally lost it's battle and was evicted and cut down yesterday.

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Abahlali baseMjondolo Has Launched Four New Branches Since the Attack on the Movement in September Last Year

03-03-2010 19:33

AbM suffered a major set back after they were attacked by a state backed militia last year. But in this statement, issued this afternoon, they report that they have survived the assault and that in fact the movement is growing.

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Clinton: US can't prevent Israel attacking Lebanon if Hizbullah continues arming

02-03-2010 22:55

map of the "New Middle East"
During the Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006, the then US Foreign Minister Condoleezza Rice wrongly predicted the outcome by announcing "the birth pangs of a new Middle East"

Four years later, her successor Hillary Clinton's threats against Lebanon indicate that the next step of the "New Middle East" project will involve a war on multiple fronts: Iran, Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.

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Reading Rising

02-03-2010 22:35

Issue 3 of Reading Rising, newsletter of the Reading Shop Stewards Network is out now!

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Ending Israeli Apartheid

28-02-2010 10:52

Audio
Ali Abunimah speaks about the future of the movement to end Israeli occupation of Palestine, and much more

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Microsoft Global Criminal Compliance Handbook

27-02-2010 19:27

Wikileaks is reporting that  http://cryptome.org/ was forcibly taken down following its publication Microsoft's "Global Criminal Compliance Handbook", howere it is still up and is hosting this file at this address:  http://cryptome.org//isp-spy/microsoft-spy.zip

Following is the article from Wikileaks on the matter.

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Hereford Heckler - the first two years

27-02-2010 13:41

A short article taken from  http://herefordheckler.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/hereford-heckler-w12.pdf about the first two years of the Hereford Heckler, and what else we've been up to during this time.

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Greek capitalism – a tragedy in several parts

24-02-2010 12:30

Greece is the latest in a line of countries squeezed by the ongoing financial crises continuing to ripple around the world. It is an important case to watch, more so than say Iceland or Ireland, as the situation in Greece is closer to the economic positions of the UK – both have governments who form an important part of economy, and are financially overstretched.

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The Grey Matter 3, out in Newcastle now!

23-02-2010 19:12

The 3rd edition of The Grey Matter, Newcastle's independent political newsletter, is out now.

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Radiokebele - we done a number 2!

19-02-2010 21:11

Featuring extended interview with the “Sultan of Squats” Clifford Hanger which include a host of anecdotes from Bristol's finest radical raconteur. Also a telephone interview with the Olympic Resistance Network that lays out the ugly truth behind the Winter Olympics on stolen land. Then the usual global update and what's on guide.

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Syria: A Clenched US Fist Behind the Hand of Friendship

19-02-2010 18:43

Charles Hunter, Chargé d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Damascus
The announcement by Washington today that it is appointing an ambassador to Syria – after an absence of five years – is being hailed in the western media as another example of the Obama administration’s “policy of engagement” for regional peace.

The seeming US hand of friendship towards Syria is more accurately understood as the further clenching of Washington’s fist towards Iran.

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the Daily express on calais - combining fact and fantasy seamlessly!

18-02-2010 19:24

Outside of hangar 18 feb

Once again Peter Allen, well known right wing hack journalist, has had another vituperative piece of fantasy on the situation in Calais published, this time in the Express. 'Now Migrants Get A 'VIP Club' blurts the headline of this totally bizarre article.

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Movement #4 - No Borders newsletter

17-02-2010 01:49

For full details of the contents of issue four check out:
 http://noborderswales.org.uk/2010/02/17/movement-4/

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US army chief: We're obliged to make sure that the Holocaust never happens again

16-02-2010 22:25

US army chief Mullen and Israeli army chief Ashkenazi visit the Holocaust museum
In the name of preventing another Holocaust, the war-criminal-in-chief threatens war against a country that has never waged any war of aggression.

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The rumours of fascism and Blood & Honour in Elephant Head Camden are unfounded

16-02-2010 00:48

Recently claims were made by an Italian speaking poster that Blood & Honour fascists were meeting in the Elephants Head in Camden on Camden High Street London. Posts written by either an Italian person or Italian speaking person appear to be have been made maliciously. Anti fascists have checked out the pub & have found no evidence of this & it seems like a vendetta against the pub or rumours.

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Schnews 4 Indymedia together for eva tru luv

15-02-2010 23:12

Hi
Speaking as someone who waits with baited breath for the latest issue of Schnews to appear to give me anarchically comical insight from the back streets of be- right- on...

And speaking as someone who also clicks on indymedia.uk.org to get the latest hot from the streets reportage coming from legions of activist-journalists “being the Media” at the latests heroic attempt to crash the towers of Mammon........

I was slightly perplexed by the bizarre genetic merging of Indymedia and Schnews to create the bastard of offspring Frankenstein know as.......
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