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Palestine Today 120108

01-12-2008 15:16 | Other Press | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for Monday December 01 2008

Nazis and Nationalists demonstrate in Sweden. Anti-fascists attack.

30-11-2008 21:22 | Anti-racism | World

Every year sees a lot of Nazi activity around Sweden this time of the year as the Nazis celebrate the imperialist Swedish 'war' king, Karl XII.

Indymedia refuses to be co-opted by the Knight Foundation

30-11-2008 19:35 | Indymedia | Technology | World

A $200,000 grant proposal, submitted by a group of Indymedia volunteers to the Knight News Challenge contest, has been blocked by other IMCs and subsequently dropped due to the abiding ethos that Indymedia is a counter to corporate, money-fiaxted media entities. The grant application to the Knight Foundation was to fund technical development work for Independent Media Centres (IMCs), also known as Indymedia, and has caused much controversy within the global network. The debate has encapsulated, once again, the thorny issue of how to sustain radical projects without compromising that radicalism by accepting tainted money.

Businessman calls for UK lockdown

30-11-2008 19:18 | Analysis | Migration | Repression | World

In a BBC interview, ready-meal millionaire Sir Gulam Noon makes several misguided and misleading comments regarding immigration to the UK and its relationship to racism. The comments are reportedly echoed in his as yet unreleased autobiography

Arson against Swedish social center Cyklopen. Nazis suspected!

30-11-2008 19:09 | Anti-racism | Free Spaces | World

Shortly before 19:00 Swedish time on Saturday the 29th of November, the social center Cyklopen (the Cyclops), caught fire. The place had been broken into and arson was immediately suspected. Nazis are believed to have been behind the attack against this self built house at the outskirts of Stockholm.

Discrimination in UAE against expatriates

30-11-2008 16:59 | Anti-racism | World

No driver's license for you if you do not have a university degree, and you happen not to be a UAE citizen

Philippines: An urgent call to the NDF and the GRP regarding the recent killings

30-11-2008 12:24 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

An urgent call to the National Democratic Front (NDF) and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) regarding the recent killings of farmers!

of not-so-good 'Patres' and not-so-bad 'good fellows'

30-11-2008 09:36 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

For the first time ever, 739 Italian prisoners, mostly accused of belonging to ‘the Mafia’
or the Mafias, as the movement includes prisoners from all the different ‘Coscas’ ranging from Cosa Nostra to the Stidda, the Santa Corona Unita, the Ndrangheta etc. –
all condemned to life imprisonment, have united and stood up for their rights, by presenting the European Court in Strasburg with as many requests for legal review of procedures.

Imperial justice might jail martyr's brother

30-11-2008 06:42 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Glowing tributes were paid to Nawabzada Bala'ach Marri at a meeting at Busboys and Poets in Washington DC on Saturday afternoon. The victim's brother Hairbiyar Marri and Faiz Baloch face jail in the U.K. for trying to organize Baluch resistance against military brutalities.

Child Soldiers: US Military Recruiting Children to Serve in the Armed Forces

30-11-2008 01:07 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Repression | World

In violation of its pledge to the United Nations not to recruit children into the military, the Pentagon “regularly target(s) children under 17,” the American Civil Liberties Union(ACLU) says.

ICTR: Dallaire "failed in his mission"

29-11-2008 19:22 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | History | World

A French military historian testifying as an expert witness before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has attacked the Canadian General who commanded the UN Force in Rwanda in 1994. "Dallaire failed in his mission", said the witness..

Colossal Financial Collapse: The Truth behind the Citigroup Bank "Nationalizatio

29-11-2008 19:13 | Analysis | Globalisation | Workers' Movements | World

"The scale of the hidden losses of perhaps the twenty largest US banks is so enormous that if not before, the first Presidential decree of President Barack Obama will likely have to be declaration of a US ‘Bank Holiday’ and the full nationalization of the major banks, taking on the toxic assets and losses until the economy can again function with credit flowing to industry once more."

"The health of Citigroup is not the only gripping crisis that must be dealt with. At this point, political and ideological bickering in the US Congress has so far prevented a simple emergency $25 billion loan extension to General Motors and other of the US Big Three automakers—Ford and Chrysler. The absurd spectacle of US Congressmen attacking the chairmen of the Big Three for flying to the emergency Congressional hearings on a rescue loan in their private company jets while largely ignoring the issue of consequences to the economy of a GM failure underscores the utter lack of touch with reality that has overwhelmed Washington in recent years."

The Bologna Declaration: Critical Notes - Part 1

After nearly ten yeas, the effects of the Bologna Declaration in shaping European Higher Education (HE) along neo-liberal lines are becoming evident

APPO prisoner on hunger strike

Following harrassment and beatings of several political prisoners in Oaxaca, a hunger strike has been commenced to demand their release.

as seen on BBC1 ITN Channel 4 Arsenal architects in "28 Days Later Lab"!

The architects HOK who are desgining the notorious "28 Days Later" lab in Camden are the same architects who designed the Arsenal Stadium!!! If you are an Arsenal fan do you find this shocking? The lab is opposed by local people and business in Camden who want council homes & community facilities on the site. The lab has been criticised by MI5 and will be next to St Pancras International.

No Foie Gras in Camden! Foie Gras? No ta!

A letter has appeared in Camden New Journal warning that a number of Fench restatraunts have sprung up in the borough and that many of them are selling Foie Gras......

Time for action!

Israel's Slow-Motion Genocide in Occupied Palestine

28-11-2008 21:14 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Repression | World

Today starving Gazans won't be silenced. They keep protesting, and according to Hamazah Mansur, head of the Jordanian-based Islamic Action Front's six-member parliamentary bloc: If conditions in the Territory worsens, "Arab rulers should expect an earthquake that would shake their countries and regimes." It's high time something shook them out of their silent complicity with decades of slow-motion genocide, now worse than ever in Gaza under siege.

Anti-Starbucks Demo in Brighton (Sat Nov 29 midday-2pm)

The world's largest coffee chain is guilty of corporate greed. It serves only 4% Fairtrade and has a branch in Guantanamo Bay. Whenever it sets up it seeks to wipe out competition and put smaller independent cafes out of business. Stand up to corporate corrupters...