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Ali Abunimah: Uncovered: Israel’s role in planned US lawsuit to fight BDS
Israel is busily attempting to disrupt the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement in support of Palestinian liberation and self-determination. Continue reading
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Riotgate : Dispatch from East London By Felicity Arbuthnot
From afar we have heard the politicians, the social scientists, the psychologists. It is ‘feral youth’, ‘black youth’, ‘low life scum living off the State’ (say the millionaire politicians in charge of the State, living off it courtesy the tax payer.) The ‘lazy’, the ‘feckless’, ‘people from sink estates’, are responsible – and so it… Continue reading
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UK Riots: The violence of the violated By A. Sivanandan
Everyone is clutching at explanations for the riots – gangs, greed, family breakdown, lack of respect. But I would like to go into their deeper causes. Continue reading
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The state unleashes the Dogs of Media By William Bowles
What a depressing state of affairs. The media, like some slavering pack of wolves, eager for blood has descended on our dispossessed and demonized them some more. It’s like something out of the worst of the Victorian period, where to be poor was literally regarded as a crime and treated as such. Continue reading
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UK: Turkish and Kurdish Labourers and Traders Must Refuse to Be Pitted Against the Black People
Surely the traders have the right to protect their shops. But such events should not be use to pit the Turkish and Kurdish community against the Black community. Such event should not be used to strengthen the prejudices that the oppressed and migrant communities have against each other. Continue reading
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Left groups respond to the UK riots
Statements by various left groups on the riots that have swept the UK over the past week. Continue reading
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Britain’s Riots: A Society In Denial Of The Burning Issues By Finian Cunningham
Although the arson attacks on commercial and residential premises do have an element of criminal spontaneity by disparate groups of youths, it is simply delusional for Britain’s political leaders, police forces and the media to claim that it is all a matter of law and order. Continue reading
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NATO War Crime: Libya Water Supply By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
If NATO’s contribution to protecting civilians is bombing their water supply then the world community will respond to this heinous war crime, whether or not the politicians do. Continue reading
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Video Trailer: Just Do It — A tale of modern-day outlaws
Emily James spent over a year embedded in activist groups such as Climate Camp and Plane Stupid to document their clandestine activities. With unprecedented access, Just do It takes you on an astonishing journey behind the scenes of a community of people who refuse to sit back and allow the destruction of their world. Continue reading
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Stop the EDL march in Tower Hamlets
On Saturday 3 September the English Defence League plan to march through the streets of Tower Hamlets. They want peddle their racism and hatred through the heart of one of Britain’s biggest Muslim communities. I am asking for your help to stop them. Continue reading
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‘If NATO loses in Libya, the consequences will be enormous’ – lawyer
NATO has denied a top Libyan official’s claims that they are intentionally using their airstrikes to assist rebel advances. Meanwhile, international lawyer Franklin Lamb claims that if NATO loses in Libya, it will face enormous financial consequences. Continue reading
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‘If NATO loses in Libya, the consequences will be enormous’ – lawyer
NATO has denied a top Libyan official’s claims that they are intentionally using their airstrikes to assist rebel advances. Meanwhile, international lawyer Franklin Lamb claims that if NATO loses in Libya, it will face enormous financial consequences. Continue reading
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Why is the flotilla heading for Gaza to break the blockade? Nadezhda Kevorkova on Flotilla Free Gaza 2
In May, Egypt announced that it was lifting the blockade of Gaza from its side. This has prompted many to wonder why the upcoming Gaza flotilla is necessary. We found some compelling reasons. Continue reading
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Slowly, Alzheimer’s Erases a Poet’s Gifts and Memories By Almudena Toral
The memory of the New York poet Jack Agüeros is capricious nowadays. He remembers the lyrics of certain Puerto Rican folk songs and the name of his petite, growling dog: Nikki. He does not remember collecting the old radios, locks and cast-iron pieces that once decorated his bright Manhattan apartment on West 14th Street. Continue reading
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Britain accused of collaborating with Israel over Salah arrest
Arab Israelis and Palestinians say arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah in London is ‘strange’ and ‘illegitimate’, and call for his release Continue reading
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“Rebels” are power-hungry terrorists, say Libyan refugees — RT
Civilian casualties have raised serious misgivings about NATO intervention in Libya, even among supporters of the ongoing aerial campaign. And while the international community is taking sides in the conflict, it is the Libyan people who suffer most. Continue reading
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Bilderberg And You By Global Research
This weekend the high-powered think tank, the Bilderberg Group, is meeting to discuss current events, form a consensus on the coordination of policies of the Western imperial powers, and to attempt to influence and shape the world in a direction of their liking. Continue reading
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Pilger Film Banned By Lannan Foundation By John Pilger
I am writing to you and a number of other friends mostly in the US to alert you to the extraordinary banning of my film on war and media, ‘The War You Don’t See’, and the abrupt cancellation of a major event at the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe in which David Barsamian and I… Continue reading
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Take Action to Stop Violent Force Evictions in Haiti
Members of the Haitian National Police accompanied by agents of Mayor Wilson Jeudy of Delmas have been destroying camps in the Delmas neighborhood of Haiti’s capital. On Monday, May 23rd, they arrived after many people had left the camp to look for work and immediately began to destroy tents with batons. Continue reading
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Jeju Island: My Solidarity Fast Begins Today Bruce K. Gagnon
I have decided to begin an open-ended fast today in solidarity with Yang Yoon-Mo and the other eight leaders recently arrested for trying to stop the Navy base construction in the Gangjeong village on Jeju Island. By my calculations, professor Yang is now on his 49th day of his hunger strike. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 