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“There Is a Transformation In The Content, Character, and Operation of the Capitalist State in the United States”
The mobilizations and protests have changed their nature. The protests began against the repression of victims of racism, but now there are some social, political, and legal demands, among others, which could have an impact on the structure of power. Continue reading
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Community control Vs. defunding the police: A critical analysis
The intensity and scope of the mass rebellion that has gripped the U.S. and expanded internationally has shaken global white supremacist capitalist patriarchy to its knees. The people have tasted a real sense of their own power and as a result some very unexpected developments have emerged. Continue reading
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Would ‘Defund the Police’ Work in the UK?
‘Defund the police’ has emerged as a central demand amid a spectacular eruption of collective action against lethal police violence in the United States. As UK Black Lives Matter activists take inspiration, questions are being asked about how this demand – forged in the long history of the US prison abolition movement – can gain purchase in Britain. Continue reading
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Ukrainian ultras: New challenge to West By Sergey Strokan
As the Euromaidan (Independence Square) movement went into a third month, its magic ‘revolutionary velvet’ has seemingly been worn out. Molotov cocktails, gunshots and medieval-age catapult to fire at police, hastily erected at the streets of Kiev, along with the seizure of government buildings, including the Ministry of Justice, show that Ukrainian peaceful protests have… Continue reading
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TPP Uncovered: WikiLeaks releases draft of highly-secretive multi-national trade deal
Details of a highly secretive, multi-national trade agreement in the works have been published by WikiLeaks, and the whistleblower group’s founder warns there will be vast implications for much of the modern world if the contract is approved. Continue reading
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The spread of social blindness: migrants & the immigration Bill By Dexter Dias
The vans have stopped rolling, the posters have been taken down, the police have been forced to apologise. But something of importance has been revealed. For this group of cultural signals are wind chimes. Chimes that have been set in motion by the torrent of rhetoric swirling around the Immigration Bill, which received its Second… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 6 November 2013: President Arafat Murdered
6 November 2013 — Information Clearing House The Brutal Past and Present are Another Country in Secret Australia By John Pilger More than any colonial society, Australia consigns its dirtiest secrets, past and present, to a wilful ignorance or indifference. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36776.htm Continue reading
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Police State UK: The NSA spy scandal and the attack on press freedom By Chris Marsden
Recently released police documents on the August 18 arrest and questioning at London’s Heathrow airport of David Miranda, the domestic partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald, are a serious warning on the advanced stage of the decay of democracy in Britain and internationally. Continue reading
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The Censorship That Dare Not Speak Its Name By James F. Tracy
The panel on which I participated was organized by Project Censored Director Mickey Huff to address the contrast between the radical journalistic activity practiced by Project Censored and the decade-old US media reform movement that has sought to initiate broader policy changes at the federal level. In previous years PC has been excluded from media… Continue reading
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Video: Israeli soldiers detain, terrify young Palestinian boys in Hebron By Annie Robbins
Israeli soldiers hid in an alleyway outside a school and fired stun grenades directly at school children, before grabbing two young boys and marching them towards a nearby police station. Continue reading
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Police State Britain By Stephen Lendman
The vanishing of real democracy in Britain and the US, their close partnership in global lawlessness, and the mounting roster of crimes and trespasses against all forms of established law protecting citizens and institutions, shows conclusively that ruling class interest always trumps formal protections for the population at large. Democracy’s values and norms are respected… Continue reading
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Turkey seizes massive chemical haul at Syrian border – army
Turkish authorities have seized a large quantity of chemicals from a convoy trying to illegally enter the country from Syria, which “could be transformed into weapons”, the army said Sunday. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 4 November 2013 (19/13): Metropolitan police detained David Miranda for promoting ‘political’ causes
4 November 2013 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Continue reading
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G4S guard bludgeoned woman to death By Clare Sambrook
Last November a 42 year-old pharmaceutical worker from Thailand took part in a conference about HIV treatment at Glasgow’s Clyde Auditorium. Her name was Khanokporn Satjawat. A G4S guard checked Satjawat’s ID. He didn’t like her manner. Later he followed her into the toilets and bludgeoned her to death with a fire extinguisher. Continue reading
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How to abolish a free health service, step one By David Cullen
The Tory plan to charge migrants for NHS treatment has rightly come under fire for being policy directed at an invented non-issue; because it will therefore probably cost more money than it will save; and because it will change the doctor-patient relation in an insidious way – asking doctors to police their patients. Continue reading
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Police State UK: Guardian faces parliamentary investigation over Snowden revelations By Chris Marsden
Britain’s Guardian newspaper is facing an investigation by at least one parliamentary committee, in line with demands made by Prime Minister David Cameron, concerning the exposures of Edward Snowden, the whistleblower from America’s National Security Agency (NSA). Continue reading
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“Intelligence Led Surveillance” and Britain’s Police State: The Manufacture of “Mass Surveillance by Consent” By Charles Farrier
In the dark ages known as the twentieth century, mass surveillance of entire populations was a sport practised only by elitist totalitarian states . Those unlucky enough to live in what was then termed a “free country”, had to sit on the sidelines and simply imagine what it was like to be subject to constant… Continue reading
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Repeal Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act!
Schedule 7 allows for people to be detained for nine hours, fingerprinted, strip searched and asked questions without a right of access to a lawyer. It can be exercised without the need for any grounds to suspect the person is involved in terrorism, or any other criminal activity. This means it can be used against… Continue reading
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