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Obama: All the evidence indicates that Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons

03-04-2010 18:24

President Obama’s video message to mark the Iranian New Year, 20 March 2010
In his video message to mark the Iranian New Year (Nowruz), US President Obama accused the leaders of Iran of showing a "clenched fist" to his "extended hand". Two weeks after releasing that message, he went a step further...

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Centre MK: Cruel Petting Zoo

01-04-2010 16:53

The Grand Arcade Easter Farm cancelled. Now its Centre MK!

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Victory: Grand Arcade Cancels Cruel 'Easter Farm'

01-04-2010 00:32

The Grand Arcade agrees to drop cruel animal show after email/phone campaign!

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Climategate Scientists Cleared

31-03-2010 21:34

Climategate' Investigation Clears UK Scientists Of Most Serious Claims
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/31/climategate-investigation_n_519644.html
"The House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee said that they'd seen no evidence to support charges that the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit or its director, Phil Jones, had tampered with data or perverted the peer review to exaggerate the threat of global warming – two of the most serious criticisms levied against the climatologist and his colleagues."

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Grand Arcade To Host Cruel Live Animal Show!

29-03-2010 13:11

The consumerist, chain-store temple that is the Grand Arcade is now using animal cruelty to drum up trade!

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Miliband is lying about Iran's nuclear program

28-03-2010 19:33

UK Foreign Minister David Miliband before the Iraq Inquiry, 8 March 2010
UK Foreign Minister David Milliband has an op-ed in the International Herald Tribune calling for sanctions on Iran that hits all the usual talking points: that Iran is going nuclear, that a nuclear-armed Iran would cause proliferation in the region, that Israel sees Iran as an existential threat would "act in self-defense" against Iran, and that Iran has failed to "come clean" on its nuclear progam. All of these points are of course entirely false.

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NATO Chief: Weapons of Mass Destruction threat is real and growing

28-03-2010 14:37

NATO Secretary General Rasmussen speaking at the Brussels Forum, 27 March 2010
“The threat of Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction” was the key argument of the relentless Anglo-American propaganda campaign in the run up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Seven years later, the head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) points the finger at the next target by declaring that the threat of proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction “has remained largely abstract” until now, but it is “real and growing”.

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Pornography of Suffering

26-03-2010 17:46

The American mentality seems hopelessly rooted in the gutter, keenly attuned to tales of rape and bestiality but supremely indifferent to the elementary facts of life and history. The current genocide in Congo is as little known as that country’s previous holocaust, at the hands of the Belgians, more than a century ago.

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News from Greece-Fascist soldiers singing racist chants

26-03-2010 15:30

Fascist soldiers from the Special Forces together with police officers are singing racist chants during the day of National Parade 25 of March.

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When Facts and Propaganda Collide - The BBC and Israel

23-03-2010 15:19

When a Thai kibbutz worker was killed in Israel by a rocket launched from Gaza last week, BBC News online gave the incident headline coverage flagged up on its home page. (BBC news online, ‘Rocket fire from Gaza kills man in southern Israel’, 23:42 GMT, Thursday, 18 March 2010)

By contrast, the killing of two Palestinian teenagers, Mohammad Qadus and Osaid Qadus, by Israeli soldiers on Saturday was buried at the end of a short news report on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon's Middle East visit. Even worse, the BBC’s footnote simply echoed Israeli propaganda that “no live bullets were fired, only tear gas and rubber bullets”, despite ample evidence to the contrary. (BBC news online, ‘UN chief says Gaza suffering under Israeli blockade’, 11:26 GMT, Sunday, 21 March 2010)

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Baltic region anarchist newspaper Bez Granits - 3rd issue is out

21-03-2010 22:37

In early March 2010, 3rd issue of the international anarchist newspaper Bez Granits had been published. While the size and publishing schedule remained stable, the paper expanded its geographical coverage.

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The battle of Bolton and the media

20-03-2010 21:42

Anti-fascist protesters emerged victorious on Saturday after holding Bolton’s central Victoria Square against the racists from the English Defence League.

But mainstream national media reports are presenting it as a contest between two violent groups – and blaming the anti-fascists for the violence.

Anti-fascists faced brutality from police with dogs and on horseback. There were over 60 arrests – 55 Unite Against Fascism and 9 EDL, according to Sky news – including UAF leader Weyman Bennett “on suspicion of conspiracy to commit violent disorder”. The police commander made disgraceful allegations about the protesters.

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Brookside DVD Campaign

20-03-2010 13:03

The Corkhills
Brookside fans gather pace in aim to get their Soap released onto DVD.

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Israeli army chief visits Turkey to hold talks on Iran’s nuclear program

19-03-2010 14:24

Gabi Ashkenazi and Ilker Basbug had a meeting in Ankara on March 15th, 2010
Already during the Clinton Administration of 1993-2001, a triangular military alliance between the US, Israel and Turkey had unfolded. This ‘triple alliance’ is coupled with a strong bilateral military relationship between Tel Aviv and Ankara.

Amply documented, Israel and Turkey are partners in the planned US aerial attacks on Iran, which have been in an advanced state of readiness since mid-2005.

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From Trickle to Torrent

18-03-2010 16:56

by Action Against Hunger’s Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Advisor, Nick Radin

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The War on Education

18-03-2010 13:10

Battle lines are being drawn in the bitter conflict for the future of our schooling system

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Néjàd vu, all over again: The media, 'pretext', context & 9/11

17-03-2010 16:02

authors of the report written in 2000 by the Project of the New American Century
The mainstream media's favorite scapegoat, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, resurfaced on Saturday amidst reports that he called the attacks of September 11, 2001 "a big lie."

According to the immediate and rabid response of virtually every Western news network around, this was simply the latest insane claim of the same raving madman who has previously threatened to wipe a foreign state off the map and denied the Holocaust.

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An anarchist book fair for Sheffield

14-03-2010 13:06

Announcing Sheffield's first anarchist book fair.

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University Bosses admit Zionist links

13-03-2010 12:24

Universities UK admit links to Board of Deputies