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  • G20 Climate Camp 09: YouTube Video
    5 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Just saw the following video all the way through.
    G20 Climate Camp 09
    A number of videos are emerging there at YouTube. Don’t know how long they’ll be up.
    http://www.youtube.com/user/CorruptMedia
    – Flash

  • Will the economic crisis lead to social unrest in the UK?
    28 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If the predictions of some economists are right and we are heading for a prolonged slump, then the answer to the question has to be yes. What is more difficult to predict is exactly how this social unrest will manifest itself and who will be the main actors. Some commentators are implying that we could see a return to the kind of disturbances that swept across the country during the early 1980s. My view is that as the UK has changed so much since the early 1980s as to be almost (…)

  • UK "Left" New Statesman joins Anglo Mainstream media in CENSORING out Obama’s war crimes
    10 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    I have been reading the UK New Statesman magazine for all my adult life. It provided some kind of alternative to the outrageous lying by commission and omission of the mainstream media of the Western Murdochracies. However the New Statesman has CENSORED out carefully researched data on White Establishment creature Obama’s huge war crimes for his new Masters in his first few weeks of office. Obama is the ultimate Uncle Tom – and he has just started.
    Recently I published carefully researched (…)

  • My Future As An Arms Manufacturer by Terry Jones (The Nation)
    1 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Terry Jones The Nation January 22, 2009
    Source:/www.philhart.com
    It’s not that I’m keen on killing people. It’s just that the money’s so good. It’s not that I’m keen on killing people. I haven’t actually killed anyone myself yet. It’s all to do with economics. You see, I can’t help but notice that the arms industry is doing extremely well. In fact in these times of economic disaster, it’s the one industry that seems to be expanding.
    According to the Government’s Defence and (…)

  • Save the Arts Centre, Storytelling Festival and our education work
    23 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Save the Arts Centre, Storytelling Festival and our education work Published by SDAC on Feb 04, 2008 Category: Arts & Entertainment Region: Wales Target: Arts Council of Wales
    Background (Preamble): The Arts Council of Wales (ACW) is proposing to cut the annual grant to St Donats Arts Centre.
    Unless we can reverse their decision, it will result in the loss of: St Donats Arts Centre and cinema for people in the Vale of Glamorgan, the UK and abroad. Up to 326 arts events in a (…)

  • We must stop arming Israel
    15 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Brown has to stop sitting on his hands, halt British weapons exports and insist the EU do the same
    by Nick Clegg
    The world watched in horror yesterday as the conflict in Gaza claimed its latest innocent victims in the rubble of a UN school. Any hopes of reconciliation are being snuffed out as anger spills into protests around the world.
    The past two weeks have been a telling indictment of the international community. We have an outgoing US president sanctioning Israel’s military (…)

  • George Galloway | Stop Gaza Massacre protest London Saturday 3 January 2009 (video)
    4 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Photo: Joëlle Pénochet 2007
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-26426110.html

  • Global protests end in riot on London streets
    4 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jeremy Watson
    RIOT police had to be deployed last night as a protest outside the Israeli embassy in London over Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip erupted into violence.
    In a day of global demonstrations over Israel’s military campaign against the Islamist Hamas movement, thousands of protestors gathered outside the embassy with some attempting to storm the Kensington compound.
    As tensions mounted in the early evening, police officers came under fire from missiles. The barrage, (…)

  • The Bologna Declaration : Critical notes - Part 2
    7 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Employability
    Employability is a point around which the Bologna Declaration has based its rhetoric of the positive forces of the free market.
    The Bologna Declaration sustains rhetoric of employability that is central to the redefinition of HE as an economic system. It promotes tools like the Diploma Supplement (a document giving more information about the contents of a qualification earned) aimed at increasing the depth and comparability of degrees across Europe. This is supposed to make (…)

  • Barroso: Britain closer to joining euro than ever before
    1 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Barroso: Britain closer to joining euro than ever before
    Senior Labour politicians believe that Britain would now be financially better off had the country joined the euro, according to the president of the European Commission. By Matthew Moore Last Updated: 1:03AM GMT 01 Dec 2008
    EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso says Britain is closer to joining the euro than ever before. Photo: AP
    José Manuel Barroso said that the UK is "closer than ever before" to entering the single (…)