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This Sunday: A Participatory Performance of Guy Debord "The Game of War"

19-03-2013 08:28

On Sunday, March 24th the theorist, writer and academic will bring Class Wargames to the South Coast. Come along to the Cowley Club at 12 London Road, Brighton to take part in "a participatory performance of of Guy Debord's The Game of War". The event is free (although a donation would be appreciated) and open to the public.

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Orwellian Secret Courts in the UK: Britain on the Brink of Tyranny

11-03-2013 12:13

Judicial trials to be held in secret
By Global Research News

Global Research, March 10, 2013

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Britain is on the brink of tyranny.

The Justice and Security Bill, if it becomes law, will enable judicial trials to be held in secret, and it will even be illegal to tell anyone about them. The bill has now gone through all stages in the House of Commons, and will now go to the House of Lords for consideration. In other words, it’s nearly there (

http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2012-13/justiceandsecurity.html).

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UG#621 - US Capitalism From Start To Finish (911 As Finance Capitalist Endgame)

06-03-2013 20:46

As we return to reading David Graeber this, we look at the origins of capitalism in USA - how the system of self-sufficient slave estates and family farms gave way to one of wage labor. Then we ask, were the events of 11 years ago the cover for a massive financial fraud? We conclude by reflecting on what these angles contribute to our understanding of 'capitalism' and the importance of personally, consciously stepping away from it.

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Public Meeting: ‘50 Shades of Resistance’

06-03-2013 11:39

The Anne Frank Trust UK is proud to present its International Women’s Day 2013 public meeting in Manchester: ‘50 Shades of Resistance’.

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A Son Of Portugal's Carnation Revolution, Forgotten 1974 Anti-Fascist Coup

27-02-2013 19:14

He held a gun to the commander's head and said "we do not shoot civilians". Portugal's forgotten 1974 Carnation Revolution, could it happen here in the UK?
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Anne Frank +You in Manchester

24-02-2013 17:35

The Anne Frank Trust UK is delighted to announce that their flagship exhibition Anne Frank +You, will be on display at Z-Arts in Manchester, from 25th February to the 23rd March 2013.

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UG#617 - Money, Power and Sociopathy (Competition, Randroids, Economists)

18-02-2013 11:14

We start the final chapter of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years this week by going beyond the 'bad apples' line at the deeper, systemic truths which underlie the rottenness of finance capital and indeed of the idolization of competition. Gary Weiss speaks on his book, Ayn Rand Nation and entrepreneur and journalist Margaret Heffernan speaks on Money, Power and Competition.

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Vegetarianism, Reincarnation, Fallibility In The Early Christian Church

16-02-2013 18:49

Papal infallibility did not become Catholic doctrine until 1870. Long before that
vegetarian and reincarnation teachings had been quashed.

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UG#614 - Granting Autonomy to The Logic of Money 1 (Capitalism, Debt & Banking)

13-02-2013 13:00

We left off our reading of David Graeber with the statement that "The logic of money was granted autonomy. Political and military power were then gradually reorganized around it". This week we look in more detail at what that meant, focusing mainly on the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries. As well as reading more from Debt, The First 5000 Years we hear a few words from Ivan Illich and the first half of a radio adaptation of a video on the Banking Cartels and the US Federal Reserve.

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UG#615 - Granting Autonomy to The Logic of Money 2 (Capitalism, Banking...)

13-02-2013 12:53

This week is a sequel to last week's episode, again combining some hidden history of the bankers in USA with our continued reading of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years. We conclude with the audio of an introductory presentation on Altruistic Economics which Robin Upton gave at the Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin in December 2009.

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Dr Azzam Tamimi – The Arab Uprising and its Effect on Egypt & Palestine

11-02-2013 21:16

Dr Tamimi, a British Palestinian academic and political activist delivered his opinion on the Arab Uprising and its effects on Egypt and Palestine on Sunday 10th February 2013 in Peterborough, UK. A video of his presentation can be viewed here -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCeh7uk37rc&feature=share&list=UU7XhMItxEJ2mNmwSoflTHLQ

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UG#613 - Economic Disposal of The Worthless (Hidden History of Eugenics in USA)

11-02-2013 02:56

This show examines the history of eugenics in USA. Robert Whitaker tells how WASPish business magnates took up the idea of racial purity and aggressively promoted eugenics, leading directly to forced sterilizations and lobotomies across USA, and indirectly to Nazi Germany's Final Solution.

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UG#612 - From Conquistadors to Opium Wars (Debt & the Great Capitalist Empires)

07-02-2013 22:18

This time we look at the grim consequences of the logic of imperialist exploitation for profit since the Middle Ages. As a specific example of the general principles we read about in Debt, The First 5000 Years we hear Frank Sanello on the Opium Wars between Britain and China.

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BBC South East News 28th Jan 2013 Re: Combe Haven Defenders

29-01-2013 20:34

Video of the Camp Decoy Eviction and opinion from News Readers and public....

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Greek revolutionary songs

28-01-2013 20:40

Greek revolutionary songs

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UG#611 - Money as Powerlessness(Economic Parasitism,MMT,Debt in the Middle Ages)

28-01-2013 17:35

Does money really empower people, or does it trap them in a zero-sum game in which >99% will come out as losers? A two-parter this time on money and debt. In our first hour, two speeches from the first conference on Modern Money Theory in Rimini, Italy. In the second, we continue reading from David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years.

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SEA uncovers the conspiracy of the Syrian enemies

23-01-2013 12:37

In the current war that takes place in Syria, there are big spaces for the electronic war. One of the activist groups that work in this field named itself by “Syrian Electronic Army” has enabled to hack into many important official sites in each of Qatar, Saudi Arab kingdom and Turkey and to download thousands of secret documents, where Breaking News Network got these documents through mediator after proving the truthness of the reviewed part. An agreement has been done to publish these documents with the Lebanese Newspaper ‘Akhbar’, which got them from the same mediator at the same time.

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Uri Davies - Britain's Legacy in Palestine Conference 2013

22-01-2013 09:37

Uri Davies talks about 'Reversing the Political Zionist Interpretation of Britiain's Colonial Legacy in Palestine' at the Britain's Legacy in Palestine Conference held in London on 19th January 2013. A video of his presentation can be viewed here -

http://youtu.be/_vmhzOmUkuI

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UG#610 - From Enclosure to Privatization (Luddism, Magna Carta & Debt)

16-01-2013 10:52

We start with Peter Linebaugh on Luddism and the multifaceted enclosure movement in UK. Then, a report on prison privatization in Canada. We conclude by starting chapter 10 of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years on the decline of the Axial age empires and social systems in India and China.

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Syrian Army hits gunmen around Syria

11-01-2013 16:02

The Syrian Air force and artillery have targeted several dens of Free Army militia in several areas in Damascus countryside, Aleppo countryside and Edlib countryside, causing large losses of the gunmen and the destruction of their vehicles. Our correspondent in Damascus Countryside confirmed that more than 50 insurgents got killed in targeting their dens by the Syrian Arab Army in Saqba, Duma, al-Sheifounia, Duma and Marj al-Sultan, where other militants were killed during clashing with the Syrian Army units in Zamalka, al-Ziabia and Hijjira.