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Syriza Party Poised to Win Greek Elections on Anti-Austerity Platform

24-01-2015 04:28 | Social Struggles | World

The anti-austerity Syriza party is poised to win Greece's elections Sunday and is pledging to renegotiate Greek debt. Greece is the world's third most heavily indebted country.

The Crisis Denial Illusion as a Shadow Deficit Symptom

23-01-2015 15:47 | Analysis | Anti-Nuclear | Anti-militarism | World

The fact is undeniable: The civilian Unitedstates atomic (i. e. nuclear + electronic) program is a bigger risk of extinction than the Russian military one. And that is all the more so if it is being assumed that intentional destruction was excluded. The accidental risk alone is unbalanced enough to make up for this odd result. The suicide belt of geological fault-line reactors that is on Unitedstates territory is at a significantly higher risk to bring about catastrophe than Moscow´s military submarine reactors, as indicated by its own fire protection regulations resp. lack thereof. The boiling point of this crisis is a fuel and/or reactor meltdown in the very backyard of Unitedstates population agglomerations, which would turn the abolition of imperialism from an external into an internal necessity, as it then were to immediate crumble the crisis denial illusion that currently regulates the Washington regime.

Kevan Thakrar Urgently Needs Your Support!

20-01-2015 00:05 | World

Despite being found not guilty of attacking three prison officers, but instead that he acted in self-defence after months of racial, physical and psychological abuse (a ruling that goes against prison officers is VERY unusual in a court) Kevan Thakrar continues to be held in the prison services 'Close Supervision Centres' more than five years later.

Campaign In Support Of Kevan Thakrar – by John Bowden

19-01-2015 23:48 | World

The abuse of psychiatry in pathologizing and punishing “difficult” prisoners has a long and disturbing history in the British prison system and is probably the worst example of human rights abuse suffered by some prisoners labelled “challenging” and “unmanageable”.

The Missing and Missing Still – Mining, Renaturation, Implications

19-01-2015 21:32 | Analysis | Ecology | Repression | World

The Moon is kind of a cosmic climate recording that the Earth does not provide, because our atmosphere swallows most of it. But no material wind has ever blown the crust of the Moon, making the craters of meteorite impacts a historical record of activity measurements. Paralleling the era of temperature recordings for climate prognosis, the full planet has however experienced a similar phenomenon: Mining, most but not all of it for energy consumption, has left an unequivocal writing on it that can be read even by the futurologically blind. Millions of mines small to mega-large overwhelmingly inflicted during the energy boom generations leave a lasting message of the carelessness of this finite era in the face of these to come. Renaturation can only make them former mines – of everything from millstones to uranium – but not natural landscape. Neither are they reasonably filled up with debris to restore the destroyed surface. It is not merely the mortal sins like mountaintop removal or the “fossil trinity” of oil, coal and gas making up for the lion´s share of exploitation, but a general carelessness for the whispering of the “Mother of all Nightmares” in the sky which quite obviously is warning against the temptation to leave the ground beneath the feet in similar condition. This is the same species that speculates about the construction of planetary meteorite shields – not only with war ravaging the planet making any such shield a classical antiquity “wonder of the world”, but also with the contradictory intent of leaving something very similar to the impact it is allegedly meant to avoid.

On suppression of truth during Pope’s visit and challenges to the Filipino relig

19-01-2015 09:24 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Terror War | World

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) joins the Filipino people in condemning the Aquino regime for suppressing the truth and covering up the realities of poverty and oppression during the course of Roman Catholic patriarch Pope Francis’ visit to the Philippines on January 15-19.

In San Francisco USA, "Dispatches Against Displacement" -- a review

19-01-2015 08:19 | Culture | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

A work by a prominent San Francisco housing activist in a context of ongoing defeat for San Francisco renters...

Rep. Governor Jindal due to spread #FoxNewsFacts lies in speech in London

Republican Governor and "potential presidential candidate" Bobby Jindal is due to give a 'lecture' on Monday at the House of Commons in which USA media reports that he will "reiterate the disputed claim that Muslim immigrants have created "no-go zones" in Europe".

Such statements take us back to Enoch Powell politics and are naive and ill-judged prejudice at best, and deliberately reactionary, divisive and inflammatory at worst.

UG#701 - The Temptation of The Technofix (The Quest for "New Nature")

We hear a group of speakers from a conference on "Techno-Utopianism & the Fate of the Earth" organized last month by the International Forum on Globalization. A range of speakers offer perspectives on humanity's efforts to improve on nature, including critical looks at GM, synthetic biology, nanotechnology and electrosmog. Geoengineering, as we hear, is setting a new precedent - a technology designed not to improve life on earth but to mitigate the effects of older technologies.

Ronald Ryan: Did Australia Hang an Innocent Man?

13-01-2015 01:42 | Culture | History | Social Struggles | World

Ronald Ryan was the last man hanged in Australia in 1967. Today, more than four decades later, serious doubts remain whether Ronald Ryan was guilty of murder beyond all reasonable doubt.

How Mao Delt with Soviet Revisionism

12-01-2015 08:29 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

The Cultural Revolution could not have been successfully launched without the polemics that Mao initiated against Khrushchev and the revisionist leadership of the CP of the Soviet Union.

SONY, Obama and Snowden What's been happening after Leveson on phone hacking?

Are the Big Corporations being held to account? Are they still hacking the little people?

23/24 January: 2nd Manning Truthfest in west Wales

Remember the Manning Truthfest in January 2014? Well, it's back!

A troupe of Irish musicians, actors and activists supported by Afri will travel across the Irish sea to Pembrokeshire on 23rd January for a solidarity weekend for Chelsea Manning and her Welsh-Irish family.

The Price of Oil and its Macroeconomic Meaning

09-01-2015 13:54 | Analysis | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | World

The dialectics of power and weakness makes it that when power becomes weak by Nature its strength is turning into an open wound. The bleeding of the oil monopoly is such a case, it illustrates why it is wise to calm down before death, though in the case of the oil industry it is the monopoly power which is dying, not necessarily the populations depending on it as sort of ecological hostages. What is bleeding here is the futurological formula of the Saudi monarchy in Arabia, as it is burning the resources it is meant to leave for future generations for the mere purpose of clinging to a misinformed hegemony in the way of creative chaos. The decision to increase the oil output now instead of much later on reflects a shrunk expectation horizon of a human future, and even in the best case, where it would be assumed that it is more of a conscious choice than of a motoric reflex to dispatch the oil which is left to a shorter timespan than appropriate from the perspective of intergenerational justice, it expresses the untold admission that the Saudi racket does not see a future for itself it would deem worth of any conservation. What shows itself in the current price dump is the metabolic rush of the prisoner who gets to smoke a last cigarette before execution, and as the inhalation is in full scale it is not visible how much of it has already burned down before the Mammal Squad turns on its cameras. Apparently the increased strength of the Islamic State is rock-firm enough to shake the petroleum market into sell-out panic.

Squat Eviction in Mexico City - Chanti Ollin

09-01-2015 01:04 | Free Spaces | Repression | Zapatista | World

Early morning of 7th January, Chanti Ollin was evicted violently by police.
But the resistance continues..

Julian Assange should be free to go where he wants

Julian Assange, the founder and editor of Wikileaks has been a virtual prisoner in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for the past two and a half years. What, pray, is the nature of Julian Assange’s crime? He has spoken the truth to power and power does not like it might be one answer.

Australian Politicians Must Speak Out AGAINST Death Penalty

06-01-2015 06:56 | Anti-racism | Culture | Social Struggles | World

Aussie politicians claim that executing Australian citizens is barbaric and seeks clemency, yet the execution of non-Australians is acceptable. Racist ??? Discrimination ???

Can Greece Shrink the Submarine Bubble Without Burst?

05-01-2015 22:34 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

The European currency is a case of a congenital error that can only be survived with early awareness and correction. Every other culture, even the North Americans with their obscene adoration of money, has different words for cash and people. Only the Euros do not. So while everyone else sees money as some kind of tool in their hands, Europeans are seduced by language to perceive money as an equivalent of themselves, not as a dead thing with function and purpose but as a living entity with will and soul. Yet the European languages do not put up a grammatical wall between living and dead things, nor between liveable and unliveable ones. In this sense the British separate currency is European as well, because it is cherished as a matter of identity rather than an exchange technique. It would have to be advised that, when change is being made to that, it should directly go to separate words for currency name and currency unit such as grammatically appropriate for material things instead of remaining in the half-way position of different words but indifferent grammar. Money is a material thing such as mud and not a living entity such as Earth. “The Euro” is a speculation currency with no anchor in natural treasures set to be passed on to these who do inherit the outcome of it. It breathes like an exotic lilly under the cheese-cup of Unitedstates military dominance, which is another shared circumstance with its British counterpart. But with the revolutionary cause of anti-austerity accordingly accomplished, the Greek awakening seems to have gained momentum to paradoxically save the “European” currency from itself by squeezing it down to healthy dimensions before it collapses into nothingness.

My view on the `Honours System`

`The UK Honours system recognises people of outstanding merit and those who have committed themselves to service to the nation. It's been around for centuries, but it was a closed system for many years. Only since 1993 has everybody been free to nominate. ` Thus mass murderers oops International Statesmen like Henry Kissinger are likely to receive an award as he did in 1995.

Infringed in the City of London

This Diary is penned as a daily tally of the loot that the billionaires carry out every day. This Diary will start in London and move as the facts demand.

World Newswire Archive

Syriza Party Poised to Win Greek Elections on Anti-Austerity Platform

The Crisis Denial Illusion as a Shadow Deficit Symptom

Kevan Thakrar Urgently Needs Your Support!

Campaign In Support Of Kevan Thakrar – by John Bowden

The Missing and Missing Still – Mining, Renaturation, Implications

On suppression of truth during Pope’s visit and challenges to the Filipino relig

In San Francisco USA, "Dispatches Against Displacement" -- a review

Rep. Governor Jindal due to spread #FoxNewsFacts lies in speech in London

UG#701 - The Temptation of The Technofix (The Quest for "New Nature")

Ronald Ryan: Did Australia Hang an Innocent Man?

How Mao Delt with Soviet Revisionism

SONY, Obama and Snowden What's been happening after Leveson on phone hacking?

23/24 January: 2nd Manning Truthfest in west Wales

The Price of Oil and its Macroeconomic Meaning

Squat Eviction in Mexico City - Chanti Ollin

Julian Assange should be free to go where he wants

Australian Politicians Must Speak Out AGAINST Death Penalty

Can Greece Shrink the Submarine Bubble Without Burst?

My view on the `Honours System`

Infringed in the City of London

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