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Tanks shell rebels in Gaddafi compound assault — RT
Early on Monday morning, tanks rolled out of Muammar Gaddafi’s Tripoli residence and began shelling the rebels who had gathered near the compound as sustained heavy gunfire was heard in the Libyan capital. Continue reading
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Pambazuka News 544: Stealing the commons and looting the streets (Pambazuka Editor)
12 August 2011 — PAMBAZUKA NEWS 544: STEALING THE COMMONS AND LOOTING THE STREETS The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Announcements, 3. Comment & analysis, 4. Advocacy & campaigns, 5. Books & arts, 6. Highlights French edition, 7. Cartoons Continue reading
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World Food Program in Somalia: Angel of Mercy or Angel of Death? By Thomas C. Mountain
To hear the corporate media tell it, the Shabab resistance in Somalia is to blame for the drought and famine. But ten million people are threatened in the neighboring Ogaden region of Ethiopia, largely populated by ethnic Somalis, many of whom are at war with the Ethiopian dictatorship. Ethiopia restricts the movements of foreigners in… Continue reading
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Video: Resistance and Austerity in Europe
Richard Wolff reports on the mass movements against austerity policies in Europe 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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Disregard the Blairite undead
It is difficult to imagine either of Ed Miliband’s predecessors as Labour leader deciding to force a parliamentary vote to delay consideration of Rupert Murdoch’s swallowing up of BSkyB until criminal investigations into the News of the World are complete. Continue reading
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Fukushima: Growing resistance challenges pro-nuclear policies By Pierre Rousset
Every day brings new revelations on the gravity of the nuclear accident at Fukushima Daichi and on the mendacious policies which covered the activity of the nucleocrat lobby, on the breadth of the risks imposed on the population by the choice of the atom, on the denial of democracy. Continue reading
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The invasion of Australia – official at last By John Pilger
The City of Sydney has voted to replace the words ‘European arrival’ in the official record with ‘invasion’. The deputy lord mayor, Marcelle Hoff, says it is intellectually dishonest to use any other word in describing how Aboriginal Australia was dispossessed by the British. Continue reading
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Is Greece another Lehman’s? By Raphie de Santos
As Ruling Class fight over another bailout, is Greece another Lehman’s – that’s the question that has been raised in the financial markets over the last few weeks by financial analysts and more mainstream commentators. Continue reading
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Spain Newslinks 19-22 May 2011
22 May 2011 — williambowles.info 22 May 2011 BBC: Spanish polls open amid protests Spain is voting in regional elections overshadowed by mass protest rallies in cities across the country.” Elections in Spain underway after massive protests His government has been squeezed by Spain’s 21% unemployment rate, the highest in Western Europe, and a financial Continue reading
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What Is the National Front for the Salvation of Libya? by Yoshie Furuhashi
So, the imperialists’ Plan A was to see if Gaddafi could quell the uprising, as he had managed to put down many previous challenges to his rule. Now that Plan A is up in smokes, though, it’s time for them to shift to Plan B: try to find collaborators and to begin a new beautiful… Continue reading
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Vera Macht Reports from Gaza
The air is filled with the noise of the Israeli F-16s, which are flying so low that it’s almost like the air is trembling. You can positively feel the bombs before they fall, before they explode with a horrendous bang, that is unmistakable, with a pressure wave that breaks the windows of the houses in… Continue reading
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Wikileaks, Resistance, Genuine Heroes, and Breaking the Goddamned Rules (II) By Arthur Silber
29 July, 2010 — Once Upon a Time… Life and Death in the Obedience Culture I have sometimes described America today as an “obedience culture.” The phrase refers to the fact that, beneath the specifics of the largely pointless debates on any topic you care to name, those who purport to speak on behalf of Continue reading
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Gaza: The Tip of an Iceberg By Francis Clark-Lowes
This is part of an intentional war on the part of Israel, and, moreover, it clearly coincides with the international legal definition of genocide. Continue reading
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No place to run, no place to hide By William Bowles
It is directly because of ‘journalism’ like Bowen’s that we have no understanding of our Palestinian brothers and sisters’ situation, where, according to Bowen resistance to Israeli slaughter comes not from a proud people defending what’s left of their homeland but from religious fanatics. Continue reading
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Remembering Vietnam William Bowles
As with the ‘war on terror’, the ‘war on (godless) communism’ (or, if you prefer, fanatical Islamic fundamentalists) relied on a vast disinformation campaign based on fear and paranoia using the conception of the ‘other’ to put the fear of God into the population. So for example, many of the sci-fi movies that were made… Continue reading
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While the US crows, Iraq resists By William Bowles
As with all the other US military adventures across the world over the past decades, the US operates on the premise that people fight US invasions because they’re forced to. Yet time and again, this view has proved to be self-delusionary and follows from the imperialist elite confusing their own largely domestically targeted propaganda with… Continue reading
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