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Video shows undercover agents assaulting man filming them at Montreal G20 protest

2010-07-04T06:45:00.001+01:00

Police "agents provocateurs" attempt to infiltrate family-friendly march in Montreal; MPP Amir Khadir denounces police tricks Montreal, 3 July 2010 -- A man arrested at Thursday's march against police repression around the G20 Summit has come forward to reveal that he was assaulted by undercover "agents provocateurs" when he attempted to film them. While 1,000 Montrealers, including many

An Open Letter to the Israeli Defense Forces

2010-06-06T03:04:00.026+01:00

Dear Israeli Defense Forces Just wanted to say that I thought it was real nice of you to welcome that so-called "humanitarian aid flotilla" into your waters (they are your waters, aren't they?) in such a restrained manner. After all, you could just have fired a few missiles into them and sunk those pesky ships. That would have been so much easier, and saved you so much trouble. And it wouldn't

Israelis subdued captain by pointing gun at a child

2010-06-05T01:54:00.000+01:00

From gulfnews.com... Dubai/Cairo: According to a report in The Guardian, an Algerian activist, who gave her name as Sabrina, revealed that Israeli troops pointed their gun at a one-year-old Turkish child in front of his parents to force the captain of the Mavi Marmara to stop sailing. Many reports have emerged from among the 124 activists who crossed over into Amman, Jordan, yesterday. In an

Israel Fired On Gaza-Bound Ship Before Boarding

2010-06-04T22:56:00.000+01:00

From The Huffington Post... A reporter and producer for the Arabic news organization Al Jazeera who was on board the Gaza-bound aid flotilla during Monday's deadly raid gave a firsthand account of the grisly scene aboard the ship to the network Thursday. According to Jamal ElShayyal's account of the raid, the Israeli military had fired on the Mavi Marmara before boarding the ship. "It was

Eyewitness accounts of the Israeli atrocity

2010-06-04T20:47:00.001+01:00

The BBC (not particularly well-known for criticising the Israelis, or indeed providing unbiased reporting about repression of the Palestinians) has published the following eyewitness accounts of the Israeli attack on the Gaza Aid Flotilla that occurred during the early hours of 31st May. Activists describe Israeli raid on Gaza aid convoy UK Gaza activist Sarah Colborne - ship raid 'surreal'

The real story from Mavi Marmara

2010-06-04T18:54:00.000+01:00

From the Morning Star... The Israeli massacre of unarmed campaigners aboard a ship carrying aid to Gaza is the "Sharpeville and Soweto of the Movement for Palestinian Solidarity," one of those who survived the bloodthirsty assault has said. Speaking to the Star from Istanbul shortly after his release from an Israeli jail British campaigner Kevin Ovenden, who was aboard the Mavi Marmara - the

Sea blockade of Gaza was "temporary" 15 years ago!

2010-06-04T00:38:00.001+01:00

From Redress Information & Analysis... Stuart Littlewood asks: “Mr Hague has been a Friend of Israel since his school days. Prime Minister David Cameron reminded MPs that he too counted himself a Friend of Israel. Why on earth do they and so many others in government champion a racist, rogue state?" and considers "a little-mentioned blockade of Gaza: an interim, five-year agreement signed by

We are all Gazans now

2010-06-01T11:21:00.002+01:00

Article by Pepe Escobar at Asia Times Online: Just imagine if these were Iranian commandos attacking a multinational, six-boat aid flotilla in international waters. The United States, the European Union and Israel would instantly make sure to shock and awe Iran to kingdom come. Instead, it was Israeli commandos who perpetrated this bit of gunboat diplomacy - or "self-defense" - in the dark

Israel attacks defenceless Gaza aid fleet in international waters

2010-06-01T09:57:00.003+01:00

31st May 2010 Report from Al Jazeera... Up to 16 people were killed and more than 30 people injured when troops stormed the Freedom Flotilla early on Monday, the Israeli Army Radio said. The flotilla was attacked in international waters, 65km off the Gaza coast... The Israeli Army Radio said soldiers opened fire "after confronting those on board carrying sharp objects" Free Gaza Movement, the

Undercurrents Alternative News: Provocative graffiti about Israel's invasion into Palestine

2009-01-10T06:49:00.000Z

Undercurrents Alternative News: Provocative graffiti about Israel's invasion into Palestine

Photographs like this may soon become illegal!

2008-11-05T01:19:00.002Z

Yep! According to some proposed legislation currently "going through the process" apparently I could get up to ten years in jail for taking a photograph like the above and publishing it in future!Read Terror Law and Photography on photojournalist Marc Vallee's blog.Worrying implications indeed!As an article on Indymedia so succinctly puts it:"If a police officer behaves badly and oppressively we

Britain... the Surveillance State

2008-09-15T23:21:00.002+01:00

From The Guardian website, by Henry Porter... The police ANPR database, which the Guardian today reveals will retain information from 50 million road journeys a day for five years, is a system that was never sanctioned or debated in parliament and which threatens the freedom of movement, assembly and protest.Presented simply as a tool to fight crime and terror by the police, it will

The deadliest terrorists

2008-06-14T00:51:00.000+01:00

The deadliest terroristsThe real trade of the CIA and MossadBy Paul J. Balles*Paul J. Balles argues that intelligence agencies, like the CIA in America and Mossad in Israel, "should have been prize winners as terrorists" because "in dozens of situations around the world, they have indulged their love of instilling fear in innocent people".The USA and Israel both have bad habits of labelling

Cops Cover Climate Campers!

2008-03-11T00:18:00.001Z

Climate Change is an issue that's affecting us all (whether we acknowledge it or not) and one about which we should all, rightly, be concerned.Increasingly we are seeing the effects of climate change impacting peoples' lives all over the world and, unless something dramatic is done, this situation will only get worse. Nor is this something that we can afford to simply put on the back burner for

'Wikileaks.org' taken off line in many areas after fire, court injunction

2008-02-18T20:15:00.002Z

February 18, 2008The website WikiLeaks.org has been taken off line in many parts of the world. Wikileaks is a website dedicated to leaking documents that are "anonymous, untraceable, uncensorable."Several factors have taken the site off line including DDoS attacks, which was followed by a fire which took out the main servers hosting the site in Sweden, and a restraining order on the domain name '

Be your own personal privacy czar

2007-11-19T16:22:00.000Z

Be your own personal privacy czar Some campaigners worry about using social sites such as Facebook Regular columnist Bill Thompson wonders if it is time to create web services

Life after Oil

2007-11-19T08:32:00.000Z

By Michael T. KlareThe information Clearing House 11/18/07 "The Nation" --- - This past May, in an unheralded and almost unnoticed move, the Energy Department signaled a fundamental, near epochal shift in US and indeed world history: we are nearing the end of the Petroleum Age and have entered the Age of Insufficiency. The department stopped talking about "

Media Workers Against the War at Alternative Conference

2007-11-13T15:43:00.000Z

John Pilger on Iraq and Terrorism

2007-11-13T15:40:00.000Z

A closer look at torture

2007-11-05T20:26:00.000Z

There isn't much difference between the Bush administration's interrogation policy and the techniques used by the Khmer Rouge. October 2, 2006 6:05 PM A few days ago, I was talking to a Senate aide about Afghanistan and the lack of a coherent US policy regarding the rising troubles there. Toward the end of the conversation, this aide, Jonah Blank (who is also an anthropologist),

Pakistan President Musharraf leaves White House in lurch

2007-11-05T07:05:00.000Z

Mathaba.netThe Bush administration's plan to orchestrate a political transition in Pakistan that would manage to somehow keep Gen. Pervez Musharraf in power without making a mockery of Bush's promotion of democracy in the Muslim world fell apart spectacularly.by Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Helene Cooper(NY Times)WASHINGTON — For more than five months the United States has been trying to orchestrate a

Don’t Let Musharraf Live With What He Has Just Done

2007-11-05T06:48:00.000Z

By Abid Ullah Jan 04 November, 2007 Countercurrents.org The situation in Pakistan has been tense for months for a number of reasons: the illegal steps by General Musharraf to grant amnesty to Benazir Bhutto to return to Pakistan despite charges of corruption, the decreasing popularity of the military regime, fall of

CRIMES AND CORRUPTION OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS: House passes Homegrown Terrorist Act: See the document that could get me arrested

2007-10-27T23:03:00.000+01:00

CRIMES AND CORRUPTION OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS: House passes Homegrown Terrorist Act: See the document that could get me arrested

Donald Rumsfeld charged with torture during trip to France

2007-10-27T08:52:00.000+01:00

Press releaseFrance/USAComplaint Filed Against Former Defense Secretary for Torture, Abuseat Guantánamo and Abu GhraibOctober 26, 2007, Paris, France – Today, the International Federationfor Human Rights (FIDH) along with the Center for ConstitutionalRights (CCR), the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights(ECCHR), and the French League for Human Rights (LDH) filed acomplaint with the

Beatdown on Bloggers

2007-10-20T23:41:00.000+01:00

Source: Reporters Without Borders, October 16, 2007 As the internet becomes an increasingly important source of information for the public, government repression is shifting from traditional journalists to bloggers, according to the latest Worldwide Press Freedom Index issued by Reporters Without Borders. The report notes the arrest of bloggers in China, Egypt

UK Government accessing telephone records

2007-10-20T00:45:00.000+01:00

October 19th, 2007 By Richard Tyler From: World Socialist Web SiteAt the beginning of October, the Labour government “activated” part three of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) granting various branches of the state wide powers to access telephone records without recourse to a judge. According to some reports, up to 800 state bodies and

Yahoo accused of misleading Congress about Chinese journalist

2007-10-18T23:29:00.001+01:00

DSC_0630_en Originally uploaded by Radical_Images (CNN) -- Yahoo misled Congress regarding information the Internet company gave to Chinese authorities about the journalist Shi Tao, Democratic Rep. Tom Lantos said Tuesday.Yahoo officials have been asked to testify before a House committee in November about a Chinese journalist's case. Lantos, a California representative and chairman of

Five people arrested for karaoke!

2007-10-11T01:56:00.000+01:00

SMASH EDO PRESS RELEASE10TH OCTOBER 2007Press Contact Andrew Beckett or Sarah Johnson 07875 7088735 PEOPLE ARRESTED FOR KARAOKE!Police arrested 5 people during a peaceful demonstration outside aBrighton-based arms manufacturer today. Thirty people turned out todemonstrate against the factory during a themed ‘Bad Karaoke’demonstration. Over 40 police were present.The police used a local byelaw to

Waiting for the Guards...

2007-10-10T04:30:00.000+01:00

A new film from Amnesty International:

Burma video clip

2007-10-05T06:11:00.000+01:00

Also posted to my other blog

Support the people of Burma

2007-10-04T03:32:00.000+01:00

From Iraq to Burma: Hypocrisy

2007-10-02T07:05:00.000+01:00

From Iraq To Burma: Hypocrisy Rules The West By Paul Craig Roberts 01 October, 2007Countercurrents.org Shame has vanished from Western "civilization." Hypocrisy has taken its place. On September 28, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown could be heard on National Public Radio decrying the use

UK High Court of Justice to Hear Legal Challenge on UK Sale of Arms-Related Equipment to Israel

2007-10-02T00:55:00.000+01:00

AL-HAQ PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE REF: 24.2007E 18 September 2007 UK High Court of Justice to Hear Legal Challenge on UK Sale of Arms-Related Equipment to Israel A full public hearing will be held before the UK High Court of Justice in London on 10 -11 October 2007 in the case of R (Saleh Hasan) v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. Following the blanket refusal

Attempted Citizen's Arrest of Bush at UN

2007-09-27T04:00:00.000+01:00

Came across the following item on Infoshop News through a link on TawNews. I wonder on what legal grounds the arrest was blocked?1,000 Attempt Citizen's Arrest of Bush at UN; Blocked by Police, 10 to 12 Arrests Wednesday, September 26 2007 @ 09:15 AM PDTContributed by: AdminViews: 2829/25/07A citizen's arrest warrant has been issued! Please do your duty and see that it is served!As George Bush

FIT info-tracking project

2007-09-24T22:27:00.000+01:00

Spinning off from the FitWatch initiative, the purpose of this project is to assemble the information acquired by various participants and present it in an easily-readable spreadsheet format. Scrolling across the spreadsheet will reveal links to photos where available. To return to the spreadsheet after viewing a photo simply click your browser's "back" button.If you'd like to collaborate in this

Flickr

2007-09-23T06:29:00.001+01:00

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.