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After the Bankruptcy (Jürgen Habermas)

03-12-2008 18:40

The privatization mania has ended. Politics is necessary for the public interest, not the market. The collapse of the Soviet Union produced a fatal triumphalism. A tension always exists between capitalism and democracy because the market and politics are based on opposite principles.

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Palestine Today 120308

03-12-2008 16:59

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org, for Wednesday December 03 2008

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02-12-2008 16:03

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for Tuesday December 02 2008

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Launching of LIS CRITIQUE: new critical journal of library & information science

02-12-2008 08:33

Welcome!!!
Last news: November 19, 2008

Library & Information Science Critique has launched its FIRST ISSUE, and you can download it here,  http://critica.bibliotecologica.googlepages.com/liscritique in full, free, free of charge, unhampered, democratic and Open Access here, but if you wish we can also send it by e-mail and you can also contact us if you have any problems to access the articles, or queries, or if you like to send us your critical contributions for the next number, our contact here:  critica.bibliotecologica@gmail.com

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Irish Government deny children access to father Please Act Now!

01-12-2008 21:17

We are drawing the media’s attention to the fact that the Irish Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform Dermot Ahern has once again denied an Irish citizen the ability to return home to serve his sentence in an Irish Jail which is allowed for under a European directive. All the information is available on our website:  http://friendsofnoelmaguire.webnode.com/

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Tiny conviction rate of Israeli soldiers reported in mainstream press

01-12-2008 16:38

Reports from the AP on the findings of the human rights group Yesh Din show up the appalling conviction rate of Israeli soldiers accused of crimes against Palestinians between 2001 and 2007.

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Palestine Today 120108

01-12-2008 15:16

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

29-11-2008 18:06

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.

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

29-11-2008 00:49

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!

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This Week in Palestine, Week 48

28-11-2008 18:01

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This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org, for November 22 through 28, 2008.

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Surveillance Security State- Arrest of Shadow Cabinet MP

28-11-2008 13:15

Reports are coming in from official news sources that Damien Green,a leading member of the Opposition Bench has been arrested in connection with the "leaking" of documents which might be in the public interest.

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How free UK journalists are when working in UAE?

28-11-2008 12:46

An article published in the Guardian by Frank Kane, Sunday 23 November 2008 titled A bridge over the journalistic gulf in the Emirates triggered my pain, and opened my old wound wide open. I worked in a media establishment in UAE for 8 years, and it is is a well known fact that Journalism in the United Arab Emirates is water proof strictly controlled by the government. Why would a British journalist defend this state agenda and its preaches of human rights? what about his ethics?

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Palestine Today 112708

27-11-2008 15:21

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26-11-2008 15:32

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Common Purpose 'leadership charity' at the BBC

26-11-2008 00:41

Scoop? Hardly, but here's an interesting list of BBC Common Purpose graduates which was sent to me anonymously. It shows, if genuine, that Common Purpose has been targeting the BBC quite specifically, as I'm sure most organisations won't have such a high proportion of Common Purpose graduates. Most of these people will probably be entirely unaware of the criticism the likes of Ex-Royal Naval officer Brian Gerrish have been levelling at the charity. See if you recognise on-air staff from your BBC region.

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Thousands to March Against MassEviction for a Themepark in South Afgrica

25-11-2008 20:34

Ten thousand Zulu families, perhaps 50 thousand people or more, face eviction for a Dubai funded Zulu Themepark.....

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Palestine Today 112508

25-11-2008 15:39

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Beyond TV 2008 festival a great success

24-11-2008 17:08

Beyond Tv stage
Hundreds of people flocked to see inspiring films in Swansea at the weekend.

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Natalie Bracht found and kids seized

24-11-2008 16:37

News reports are appearing which claim that fugative mother Natalie Bracht has been tracked down to Munich in Germany and her five kids seized by the authorities...

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Palestine Today 112408

24-11-2008 13:14

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