April 10, 2009
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United Europe Represses the Right to Protest Against NATO By Ivan Drury
On April 4th the leaders of the NATO member countries met on the French-German border in Strasbourg France for the 60th anniversary of NATO. A major demonstration was organized to oppose this meeting, the occupation of Afghanistan, and to call for the dismantling of NATO. Continue reading
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THE WINTER OF OMAR BASHIR’S DISCONTENT Keith Harmon Snow
The ICC can now be viewed as a tool of hegemonic U.S. foreign policy, where the weapons deployed by the U.S. and its allies include the accusations of, and indictments for, human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Continue reading
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Inside the AT&T – NSA ‘Secret’ Relationship
Here’s an AT&T engineer explaining just what NSA wants to keep from American citizens: that the NSA is engaged in the warrantless surveillance of all communications (whether telephone conversations, emails, IMs or in other forms) involving AT&T customers. Continue reading
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“Demonstration in Baghdad against US Occupation”
Thousands of supporters of Shi’i leader Muqtada al-Sadr demonstrated in Baghdad to demand an end to the ‘US occupation,’ on the sixth anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime. Continue reading
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The Case Against Shell: Landmark Human Rights Trial (Wiwa v. Shell)
In the early 1990s, following decades of Shell’s environmental devastation in the Niger Delta in Nigeria, the Ogoni people of the region organized a non-violent movement against the oil company. Shell’s response? They armed, financed, and otherwise colluded with the Nigerian military regime to repress the non-violent movement — leading to the torture and shootings… Continue reading
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Serb Demonization as Propaganda Coup By Edward S. Herman
With Yugoslavia no longer useful as an ally after the fall of the Soviet Union, and actually an obstacle as an independent state with a still social democratic bent, the NATO powers aimed at its dismantlement, and they actively supported the secession of Slovenia, Croatia, the Bosnian Muslims, and the Kosovo Albanians. Continue reading
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Michael Franti & Spearhead – Soulshine
Michael Franti & Spearhead – Soulshine Continue reading
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UK: “Police TSG has Violent and Racist ‘form”
TSG Police officers in abuse case accused of 60 other assaults Met reveals four were subject of dozens of allegations by black or Asian men. Continue reading
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Craig Murray: Lies and Innuendo in the Ian Tomlinson Case
You cannot separate this brutalisation of power from the illegal war that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and thousands of our own soldiers, on the basis of a lie but really to secure oil. Continue reading
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Video: Who will stand up to the Bully Boys in Blue?
This is a video of the way Kent police treated climate protesters at the Kingsnorth Climate Camp in August 2008. Continue reading
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An Open Letter to Ban Ki-Moon: Why Haiti Can’t Forget Its Past By RICHARD MORSE
If you’re preaching democracy in the Haitian economy, I’ll support you, but if you’re preaching the Gang of Eleven gets richer and every one else gets poorer then I wouldn’t even know how to support you. The Haitian people vote the governments in and the gang of Eleven buys them. Continue reading
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Ingredients for a Disaster: NATO, Strasbourg and the Black Block By DIANA JOHNSTONE
In this cycle of provocation, there is no doubt who started it: NATO. The lavish celebration of NATO’s 60th anniversary, held in the Rhineland cities of Strasbourg, Kehl and Baden Baden over the weekend, was an insult to the citizens. Continue reading
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Pirates’ Strike a U.S. Ship Owned by a Pentagon Contractor, But Is the Media Telling the Whole Story? By Jeremy Scahill
The Somali pirates who took control of the 17,000-ton ‘Maersk Alabama’ cargo-ship in the early hours of Wednesday morning probably were unaware that the ship they were boarding belonged to a U.S. Department of Defense contractor with ‘top security clearance,’ which does a half-billion dollars in annual business with the Pentagon, primarily the Navy Continue reading
The New Dark Age 