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8 May 2013 — Housmans
Over 50 bookstalls, 20 guest authors, 2 book prizes, 1 real ale bar, 1 vegan food stall, and hopefully you! Come and support radical bookselling and publishing in all its traditions, this Saturday at the inaugural London Radical Bookfair. Continue reading this...
17 April 2013 — MRZine
Opposition protests turned deadly yesterday, with at least seven people having been reported killed and over 61 others injured as opposition groups reportedly burned the homes of PSUV leaders, community hospitals, andmercales (subsidized grocery stores), attacked Cuban doctors, attacked state and community media stations, and threatened CNE president Tibisay Lucena and other officials. Violence is likely to continue today, as both Capriles and Maduro have called for their supporters to demonstrate in the streets. Continue reading this...
16 April 2013 — Venezuelanalysis.com
This afternoon president Maduro said the opposition’s call for a general strike today had “failed”. He also blamed the losing candidate in Sunday’s elections, Henrique Capriles, for the seven deaths last night.
15 April 2013 — Venezuela Analysis
Maracaibo, April 14th, 2013 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Nicolas Maduro has won the Venezuelan presidential election with 50.66 percent of the vote against 49.07 percent for opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski. Maduro gave a victory speech immediately after, while Capriles initially refused to recognize the results.
12 April 2013 — Media Channel
Investigative journalist Alexa O’Brien sits down with MediaChannel.org to discuss her work covering the Bradley Manning trial.
We are very pleased to bring you the latest Mediachannel.org interview with the awesome Alexa O’Brien, one of only a handful of journalists covering the trial of Bradley Manning. It is no exaggeration to say that Alexa is responsible for the lion’s share of information we have about what may very well be the most important trial in a generation. Her work is simultaneously a stellar example of great journalism and a glaring indictment of our “established” media institutions.
12 April 2013 — World Socialist Web Site
During a pre-trial hearing for Army private Bradley Manning Wednesday, a military judge ruled that government prosecutors can call witnesses to testify anonymously and in secret against the accused whistleblower. The ruling exposes the case for the frame-up that it is.
6 April 2013 — Pambazuka News
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9 March 2013 — Climate and Capitalism
This week I was privileged to see an advance release of the film Greedy Lying Bastards.
My advice is simple. See it. Tell your friends to see it. And tell everyone else as well. Use Facebook, Twitter, Email, Morse code — whatever tools you’ve got, use them to spread the word.
8 March 2013 — Pambazuka News
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23 February, 2013 – War is a crime
22 February 2013 — Vice
You know why black folk in the south don’t vote? According to the New York Times and the experts at the Pew Charitable Trust, they’re just too damn fat!
18 February 2013 – Corpwatch
Capita, a UK outsourcing company, sent text messages to thousands of people in the UK, asking them to leave the country, as part of a privatized deportation scheme. Unfortunately hundreds of people that they targeted were in the country legally.
19 February 2013 — FAIR Blog
Non-violent protesters came up with a novel way to protest Israeli plans to build more settlement colonies in the occupied West Bank: They occupied the land themselves. The Bab Al Shams tents went up on Friday on privately owned Palestinian land in what Israel designates as the E1 part of the West Bank. Israel‘s announcement of a plan to build new colonies in that part of the West Bank was especially controversial. Continue reading this...
7 February 2013 — vice
I’ve been tracking a tube of black putrid ooze, a toxic viper slowly slithering 2,000 miles across the belly of America, swallowing all water aquifers, politicians and reason in its path.
The XL Keystone Pipeline.
6 February 2013 — RT
3 February 2013 — Cherwell.org
The whistleblowing organisation alleges that the Oxford Union doctored video of Julian Assange’s talk over fear of reprisal
2 February, 2013 — Global Research
I looked at pretended and real reasons for wars and found some of the real reasons to be quite irrational. It should not shock us then to discover that the primary goal in fighting a war is not always to win it. Some wars are fought without a desire to win, others without winning being the top priority, either for the top war makers or for the ordinary soldiers.
25 January 2013 — Pambazuka
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19 January 2013 — localorg.blogspot.com
Worried about draconian Internet laws? Creeping surveillance? The inability to share with others without being criminalized? The Internet is still a tool of tremendous power, but a deep rot has set in. We have caught it early and we are fighting to stop this rot, but there are other options we can begin exploring to hedge our bets, enhance our current efforts of fighting against corporate monopolies, and eventually, build an Internet of the people, by the people, for the people – big-telecom monopolies not welcomed. Continue reading this...
11 January 2013 — Pambazuka News
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Greenwashgold.org
If the largest reserves have now been determined to be in Venezuela, Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution are in trouble. How long before a major case of R2P (responsibility to profi… er, protect) is brewed up in Washington so the tanks can roll and the fighters fly?