Category Archives: War on Terror

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

No shit Sherlock

Jake Arnott is a Best selling author still ‘learning to write’ writes Robyn “I really love heavy metal. No, really” Doreian. In his new novel, Johnny Come Home, Arnott trades brass knuckles for bell-bottoms as he depicts glam-rock London in … Continue reading →

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Responding to DreamHost and Redwatch

I received the following comment inre DreamHost’s hosting of Redwatch from a bloke called Brad, and decided that I may as well post my reply here. I saw a comment that you posted on Direland about the Polish redwatch site … Continue reading →

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Redwatch UK not OK with MP; DreamHost still hearts neo-Nazism

BBC, June 20, 2006: Action urged on far-right website A far-right website which publishes leftwingers’ addresses has come under fire in the Commons in the wake of a knife attack on a union activist. The victim, Alec McFadden, has apparently … Continue reading →

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Lodhi Goes Down

Lodhi guilty of terror plot: “Faheem Khalid Lodhi, 36, is the first person in the country to be convicted of planning a terrorist act and faces a maximum penalty of life in jail.” Thus becoming the third person to be … Continue reading →

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National Lawyers Guild [US] on Green Scare

“Please forward widely”, it said. So here it is. Oh, and thanks to everyone who braved the cold and came to the film screening last Friday night! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 12, 2006 Contact: Heidi Boghosian, NLG Executive Director, 212-679-5100, … Continue reading →

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FBI confidential informant also said to be provocateur

From the Department Of Things Some People Will Do For Money: FBI confidential informant also said to be provocateur Jennifer Van Bergen Published: Thursday June 8, 2006 According to activists from Des Moines, Philadelphia, Miami, Sacramento, and other locations, a … Continue reading →

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GRAPO Marx

Three people from the north-eastern town of Reus in Spain — Juan García Martín, Carmen Cayetano Navarro and María Arñanzazu Díaz Villar — have been arrested by Spanish police, accused of membership of a terrorist organisation: GRAPO (Grupo de Resistencia … Continue reading →

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Yesterday and today

According to the Battle Creek Enquirer (June 3rd, 2006): 100 years ago today, 1906: Local detectives in Portland, Oregon, have learned of the existence there of a large body of Russian anarchists who allegedly have been plotting the assassination of … Continue reading →

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The Hun’s “War on Terror”

The corporate media is always eager to do its bit for the ‘war on terror’, on this occasion aiming its not-very-smart bombs on innocent civilians: the wives and children of 13 “allegedly ‘would-be’ terrorists”… Families benefit as accused go to … Continue reading →

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Nothing to see here…

1) Writing in The Age (May 8, 2006), Tom Allard reports that ‘Changes urged for terror laws’: “A HIGH-POWERED committee appointed by the Federal Government has recommended that Attorney-General [Montgomery Burns] be stripped of his power to determine which groups … Continue reading →

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