Category Archives: War on Terror

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Jack Thomas and A Paranoid State

Posted on December 8, 2006 by @ndy

This week, while the Crown argues for a re-trial, Jack Thomas‘ defence lawyers argue for the lifting of the ‘control order’ the Government — in the person of the Attorney-General, Montgomery Burns — has placed on him. According to Thomas’ … Continue reading →

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Careful with that Axe, Eugene

Posted on December 3, 2006 by @ndy

Those “Eugene Anarchists” : A Cautionary Tale The Eugene Weekly is running a five-part series by Kera Abraham on anarchists in Eugene, Oregon (US), the community’s rise, government repression, and fall: In a high-profile sweep that began on Dec. 7, … Continue reading →

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G20: Observing human rights…

Posted on November 27, 2006 by @ndy

Pt’chang! The ‘G20 Human Rights Observers’ team has released their preliminary report into the G20 protest last weekend. It’s available as a PDF. The 3-page statement is an initial summary of observations made by Human Rights Observers over the three … Continue reading →

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US Political Prisoners

Posted on November 27, 2006 by @ndy

New York Indymedia journalist Brad Will was murdered by the Oaxacan regional government in Mexico late last month, and you can read a short tribute by imprisoned videojournalist Josh Wolf here. Josh himself is a political prisoner in the United … Continue reading →

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G20: Resistance vs. Socialist Alternative

Posted on November 25, 2006 by @ndy

Wearing my leftist train-spotting hat while clothed in white overalls, vegan boots, leading a dog on a string, listening to Loikaemie, and reading a copy of the Australasian Spartacist, I give you the wonderful mess that is: Resistance vs. Socialist … Continue reading →

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G20: And an unlawful police abduction

Posted on November 23, 2006 by @ndy

On Sunday, November 19th, a worker by the name of Drasko Boljevic was unlawfully assaulted and abducted by members of the Victoria Police operating as a plainclothes snatch squad. According to the one press report on the incident (Dan Oakes, … Continue reading →

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G20: With experts like these…

Posted on November 21, 2006 by @ndy

Luke Howie is a Research Intern at the Australian Homeland Security Research Centre and a lecturer in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University. He’s also the expert the ABC’s PM turned to today in order to … Continue reading →

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G20 and 60,000 dead children

Posted on November 20, 2006 by @ndy

Mr Costello said: “There are some socialists, there are some anarchists, there are some people that want to disrupt world trade. What do you want the international footage to be of? People trying to disrupt world leaders or a warm, … Continue reading →

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The G20 According to The Corporation

Posted on November 17, 2006 by @ndy

Following a very tired old script, the overpaid hacks in the corporate sector that abuse the term ‘journalist’ have been working overtime, busy providing a skeptical Australian public with an ideological framework within which the forms of police violence on … Continue reading →

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Relaxed… comfortable… ASIO

Posted on November 13, 2006 by @ndy

ASIO has just released its Annual Report to Parliament for the (financial) year 2005-06. Dale Mills (Green Left Weakly, November 10, 2006) has courteously provided the public with a brief summary, relaxedly and comfortably titled ‘ASIO steps up surveillance of … Continue reading →

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