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Iran Bloggy

Posted on June 17, 2009 by @ndy

Extraordinary scenes: Robert Fisk in Iran, ABC, June 17, 2009 Support for the mass protests against Ahmadinejad’s re-election! But we should have no illusions that Massouvi would have been any better, Yassamine Mather, chair of Hands Off the People of … Continue reading →

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40 Kiwi anarchists headed for Calais!

Posted on June 17, 2009 by @ndy

Fresh from their victory in London in April, 40 Kiwi anarchists are headed for Calais, France. There — beneath the mask of ‘consensus’, where one person (possibly a Londoner named ‘John’), is accepted by some unwritten rules as The Secret … Continue reading →

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Autnews : This Account Has Been Suspended

Posted on June 17, 2009 by @ndy

Brutal backlash targets Iran’s students Robert Tait and Saeed Dehghan, Tehran The Age June 17, 2009 HEAVY-handed police tactics with Iranian students are apparently aimed at quelling a wave of campus rebellions against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election, which authorities … Continue reading →

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Hail Ahmadinejad! Hail Chávez!

Posted on June 16, 2009 by @ndy

See also : Follow The Developments In Iran Like A CIA Analyst, Marc Ambinder, The Altantic Monthly, June 15, 2009. 30 years ago, dead French philosophe Michel Foucault hailed the Islamic Revolution. See : ‘The Seductions of Islamism: Revisiting Foucault … Continue reading →

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Czech Bully Boys face inconvenience

Posted on June 16, 2009 by @ndy

Czech neo-Nazis have cancelled a gig scheduled for June 20 in Prague. The gig — promoted on MySpace — was organised by the local franchise of Blood & Honour, members of the neo-Nazi Workers’ Party (DS) and a local businessman … Continue reading →

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Ward Churchill on COINTELPRO and Terrorism

Posted on June 15, 2009 by @ndy
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Crazy G20 Solidarity Speech

Posted on June 15, 2009 by @ndy

“The left should offer no comfort to these crazies. We should do whatever we can to isolate them. They are wreckers. If they grow in Australia it will simply make it harder to build future protests and movements.” ~ Mick … Continue reading →

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notes on “the intervention”

Posted on June 14, 2009 by @ndy

[For A.] The “Intervention” — aka the ‘Northern Territory National Emergency Response’ (NTER), launched on June 21, 2007 — was triggered by the release of a report, Ampe Akelyernemane Meke Mekarle: Little Children are Sacred. The report was commissioned by … Continue reading →

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From Greensboro to Washington

Posted on June 14, 2009 by @ndy

The recent shooting @ the USHMM — and the largely tedious debates which have emerged from it concerning potential radical right-wing terrorism (a product, it is frequently argued, of the equation Black President+economic dysfunction+white racism) — reminded me of a … Continue reading →

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Hard-working, legitimate businessmen under persecution by The Age

Posted on June 14, 2009 by @ndy

I am shocked. Shocked and stunned. Hard-working, legitimate businessmen are being excoriated in the pages of The Age — simply for going about their entirely lawful and extremely profitable business. As Steven Shirreffs, SC, stated in the course of defending … Continue reading →

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