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international / environment Wednesday November 23, 2011 - 00:16 by Deep Green Resistance
Our planet is dying, and there is no mistaking the cause... Industrial civilization must me confronted as the machine of death that it truly is. The Occupy Movement has the makings of a revolutionary struggle, but it will only succeed if we can properly align our actions with an honest assessment of the predicament we face. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Monday November 21, 2011 - 22:50 by T
This article by Jan Lundberg of CultureChange.org suggests we should be occupying the land as Jan has pointed out elsewhere that the Occupy movement hasn't really taken on the environmental crisis and sustainability into its core thinking and what will matter in the end is access to land for food when the whole system does eventually crash. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday November 18, 2011 - 04:54 by john throne and Richard Mellor Jimmy Kelly.
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Bridget O'Toole. Friend and Comrade. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday November 17, 2011 - 14:28 by pat c
Iran claims the explosion was accidental but is there more to this? Full text at link.
A massive explosion at an Iranian military base on Saturday killed Major General Hassan Moghaddam and 16 soldiers of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp. While Tehran dismissed the blast as an accident, indications have already emerged that it was an act of sabotage carried out by Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad. Moghaddam, who was trained in China and North Korea, has been described in Iran as the architect of the country’s ballistic missile program. The Alghadir base, at which the explosion occurred, housed Iran’s Shehab-3 missiles, which are capable of reaching Israel. Such was the scale of the blast that it was heard 40 kilometres away in Tehran. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 17, 2011 - 13:34 by Joe Mc
French media and politicians have blamed Islamists for an arson attack on the offices of the satirical cartoon weekly Charlie Hebdo on November 2. The magazine has over the years published many anti Muslim cartoons and was a supporter of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005 when the latter published its infamous Islamophobic cartoon provocation . After the attack ,SOS-Racism, a group with ties to the Socialist Party (PS) and the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA), organized a demonstration in support of Charlie Hebdo.
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international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 14, 2011 - 19:27 by pat c
Jean Shaoul outlines the role that Saudi Arabia is playing in the Imperialist war plans against Iran. The lack of democracy in Saudi Arabia has never bothered the US. Full text at link.
Saudi Arabia’s key role in seeking to destabilise the Ba’athist regime of Bashir Assad has become the centrepiece of an attempt by Washington to cobble together an anti-Iranian alliance, aimed more generally at suppressing the Middle Eastern masses. Saudi Arabia, the world’s leading oil producer and exporter, has the largest known oil reserves in the world. This has brought untold wealth to the Saudi ruling family and its more than 20,000 princes. The House of Saud keeps power by a system of brutal repression that outlaws all public protests, strikes and expressions of dissent, combined with its championing of an extreme version of Sunni Islam, Wahhabism. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 14, 2011 - 19:19 by pat c
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Chris Marsden reports on Arab League to suspend Syria and exposes the hypocrisy of some of the despots who voted in favour. Full text at link.
The vote by the Arab League to suspend Syria brings a step closer the possibility of external military intervention into what is already a de facto civil war. A meeting in Cairo Saturday told Syria it will be suspended from the Arab League and face sanctions if it does not end its crackdown on anti-government protesters. A total of 18 countries agreed to the suspension, beginning Wednesday. Only Syria, Lebanon and Yemen voted against, with Iraq abstaining. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday November 06, 2011 - 21:39 by Robert Fisk
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I turned on the television in my Damascus hotel room to witness a dreary sight: all the boys and girls of BBC World wearing their little poppies again.
Bright red they were, with that particularly silly green leaf out of the top – it was never part of the original Lady Haig appeal – and not one dared to appear on screen without it. Do these pathetic men and women know how they mock the dead? I trust that Jon Snow has maintained his dignity by not wearing it.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/....html ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday November 02, 2011 - 00:30 by An Puc ar Buile
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This article questions why the current crisis has so far failed to bring us together as a people and why, in the face of the prospect of economic meltdown, we're still merrily clinging to the status quo of individualism and conservatism. It also asks what role a progressive nationalism has to play in getting us out of the crisis. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Saturday October 22, 2011 - 23:06 by An Puc ar Buile
What baffles me about the current controversies over undercover policing in Britain is that what would be considered a serious breach of policing ethics over there would be considered mild in terms of British policing over here. Two stories came together this week to illustrate the point: allegations that an undercover cop in Reclaim the Streets organisations lied in court to protect his identity coincided with far more serious allegations regarding collusion on Monday's BBC Spotlight. All the while, politicians who ignore what the RUC did in the North are still asking Gerry Adams to condemn (again) the killing of Garda Gerry McCabe; they seem to think there were only a handful of victims in the conflict and they were all killed by the IRA. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday October 20, 2011 - 13:44 by Maryam Namazie
See a wonderful protest of Tunisian for secularism and free speech against the Islamist attempts to silence free speech by attacking the broadcast of the film Persepolis via a TV station:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2011/oct/19/tunis...video ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday October 20, 2011 - 13:17 by pat c
A thought provoking collection of essays from an Anarchist perspective. Issue 1 (2011) of the journal Anarchist developments in Cultural Studies has special edition on 9/11. Full texts at link.
Editorial Ten Years After 9/11: An Introduction Michael Truscello Two New York City Radicals Discuss "9/11 Conspiracy Theories" 9/11 at Nine: The Conspiracy Industry and the Lure of Fascism Bill Weinberg (93-102) A New Path to Real Peace: Sander Hicks Responds to Bill Weinberg Sander Hicks ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday October 14, 2011 - 12:51 by pat c
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Bill Van Auken analyses the latest attempt by the US to ramp up pressure on Iran including an increase in sanctions. The FBI Director said it read like a Hollywood script. Well maybe its just that: a work of fiction. Robert Baer, a 21-year veteran CIA case officer in the Middle East told ABC News that the US charges were not “credible.” He said: "They’re much better than this. They wouldn’t be sending money through an American bank, they wouldn’t be going to the cartels in Mexico to do this." Full text at link. The White House announced Wednesday that it is imposing a new round of economic sanctions against Iran, while Vice President Joseph Biden warned that “nothing has been taken off the table” in regard to Washington’s response to an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington, suggesting the possibility of military strikes. Among the new targets of US sanctions is Mahan Air, Iran’s first privately owned airline, which flies to 12 countries. US officials claimed that the airline was involved in “secretly ferrying” members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Sunday October 09, 2011 - 09:39 by Red Banner
Issue 45 of Red Banner is out now. €2 / £1.50 from bookshops or from the address above. ... read full story / add a comment
international / education Thursday October 06, 2011 - 15:51 by opus diablos
This extract gives an update on the current state of play, and a little background, from the yankee 'backyard' of Latin America. It indicates there are lessons for our predicament that our betters would prefer we didn't learn. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday October 05, 2011 - 13:17 by pat c
British Maoist Harry Powell writes on the recent riots in Britain. Harry argues that the riots were led by a lumpen element that has long preyed on working class communities. Here is an extract, the full article runs to 36 pages. The incident that sparked off the rioting was the police shooting Mark Duggan in Tottenham, North London on 4th. August. After an unsatisfactory response from the police to their inquiries the family and friends of Duggan held a protest outside a police station. This attracted other people and developed into more general disorder involving fighting with the police, damage to buildings and looting from shops. This sort of disorder spread to other areas of London and outside in cities such as Birmingham, Manchester and Nottingham. Just as suddenly as these outbursts had begun, they came to an abrupt end on 10th. August when the weather turned wet. As someone commented, “I don’t recollect that the Russian Revolution came to a sudden halt when the weather turned bad.” ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 29, 2011 - 12:49 by pat c
An interesting article about the genuine and well founded fears of the Christian community in Syria. The possibility of a sectarian bloodbath is all too real. Just look at the example of Iraq. Also look at the Irish example: when loyalist demagogues in the six counties were rousing up Protestants against Catholics they also made sure that Protestant Socialists suffered in the pogroms. The same threat hangs over Syria. This is not a statement of support for Assad rather a reminder that if Assad goes and power falls into the hands of fundamentalists there is a risk of sectarian butchery. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Saturday September 24, 2011 - 16:59 by concerned
In a report from the WSWS site, they describe how the broadcasting media have been forced by the UK govt. to hand over 100s of hours of unbroadcast footage of the riots to the police. This is yet another serious erosion of checks and balances in the system and reflects both the paranoia and vindictivness of the system. Whilst the mainstream media are generally to be trusted anyhow especially when it comes to social justice and matters relating to maintaining the system, they rightly see that this is a threat to themselves. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 22, 2011 - 13:39 by An Draigneán Donn
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Libya is not only a republic. Officially, it does not call itself a ‘Jumhuriya’. Instead, it is described as a ‘Jamahiriya’, meaning a republic with a system of direct democracy. Not too many non-Libyans are aware that this North African country, conquered several times in the past - and which lost thousands of its citizens, including the legendary hero Omar Mukhtar, as martyrs, to colonialism - has been experimenting since the late 1970s with a governmental policy and practice that enables it to credit its own society as being ahead of a number of Western regimes that have habitually claimed to be the cradle of democracy. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Friday September 16, 2011 - 14:34 by John Cornford
Iran hangs men for having gay sex. Confirmed by the Iranian news agency ISNA Iran. Full story at Three Iranian men have been executed after being found guilty of charges related to homosexuality, according to a semi-official news agency. The men, only identified by their initials, were hanged on Sunday in the south-western city of Ahvaz, the capital of Iran's Khuzestan province. "The three convicts were sentenced to death based on the articles 108 and 110 of Iran's Islamic penal code, for acts against the sharia law and bad deeds," the Isna agency quoted a judiciary official in Khuzestan as saying. Iran Human Rights, an independent NGO based in Norway, said the men were charged with "lavat" – sexual intercourse between two men. It is not clear whether the three men were homosexuals or merely smeared with homosexualityaccused of being gay. ... read full story / add a comment |
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