How are the police being trained and why are they being trained to treat the public as an enemy? Guardian.co.uk Watch a collection of videos passed to the Guardian that appear to show police using excessive force against G20 protesters In the fortnight since the G20 protests in London, the […]
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Anti-government protesters were preparing for their final stand in Thailand as thousands of troops encircled about 5,000 diehards still out on the streets. By Thomas Bell in Bangkok Last Updated: 6:40PM BST 13 Apr 2009 Red Shirt anti government demonstrators face off the army lines outside the Pattaya Exhibition and […]
More than 100 people are in custody after police smashed a major plot to sabotage one of Britain’s biggest power-stations. 13 Apr 2009 Officers swooped on environmental protesters as they prepared a mass raid that could have disrupted supplies to tens of thousands of homes. The demonstrators are thought to […]
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 12:15 pm Press Release: New Zealand Parliamentarians Group on Population Embargoed until 1130am 9 April Cross-Party Parliamentarians’ Group Calls for Focus on Population Issues in ETS Review Wellington, 9 April 2009: Gender, sexual and reproductive health, and other population issues need to be at the heart […]
https://www.3news.co.nz/News/Nandorleavesthewayhecameinwithabang/tabid/419/articleID/60986/cat/68/Default.aspx Nandor Tanczos Thu, 26 Jun 2008 8:41p.m. Nandor Tanczos left Parliament today saying he was going away to cleanse his soul and wouldn’t need to know the time any more. So he took out a hammer and pounded his watch to pieces. The Green Party MP came to Parliament […]
Ed: This is written by a former CIA agent: By Ray McGovern 1-14-6 “It is no longer credible to maintain that the failures in the Iraqi intelligence were the product of a broken intelligence community. The Bush administration deliberately fabricated the case against Iraq, lying to Congress and the American […]
Worth the read…. January 4, 2006 – On November 10th 2005, the Muckraker Report published an article that described one of the unspoken reasons why the United States had to invade Iraq; to liberate the U.S. dollar in Iraq so that Iraqi oil could once again be purchased with the […]
INITIAL POST 11.05.05 PROPHET TALK: CLARIFICATION & NEWS ANALYSIS Time Warner, Inc.'s subsidiary AOL recently questioned the validity of an article used as the basis for a report claiming Homeland Security had received “unfettered access” to AOL customer files. Readers should look to the end of this article for additional […]
The Unrestrained President By Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch.com Wednesday 04 January 2006 As 2006 begins, we seem to be at a not-completely-unfamiliar crossroads in the long history of the American imperial presidency. It grew up, shedding presidential constraints, in the post-World War II years as part of the rise of the […]
By Tom Engelhardt Tomdispatch.com Wednesday 26 October 2005 Bush’s October surprise. Those in the anti-fascist struggle of the 1930s who went off to fight in the Spanish Civil War were later termed “premature antifascists.” Perhaps, in the same spirit, I might be considered a premature Bush-administration implodist.