Support GetUp’s campaign against internet censorship by the Australian government

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The Government’s test trials on internet censorship are about to end, the results [...]

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Analysis of the Iran uprising and its aftermath

The Iranian uprising crosses all classes, and it’s neither the result of internet access (especially Twitter) nor CIA involvement, argues Reese Erlich, journalist and author of The Iran Agenda.

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Weekly list of articles on topics from the financial crisis to Iranian elections

F. William Engdahl, Larry Everest, Catherine Lutz and Cynthia Enloe, and Ellen Brown are guests on The Global Research News Hour
Host: Stephen Lendman, June 22-26
- 2009-06-26

Obama’s Financial Reform Proposal: A Stealth Scheme for Global Monetary Control
- by Stephen Lendman – 2009-06-24

Peruvian government forced to repeal Amazon free trade decrees
- by Luis Acre – [...]

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A history of CIA coups and atrocities

CIA operations follow the same recurring script. First, American business interests abroad are threatened by a popular or democratically elected leader. The people support their leader because he intends to conduct land reform, strengthen unions, redistribute wealth, nationalize foreign-owned industry, and regulate business to protect workers, consumers and the environment. So, on behalf of American [...]

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From Airbus to Afghanistan, Israel, Peru, Antarctica and Clinton/Bush as war criminals …

… and much more – a long list of articles on current political topics by Global Research. I like GR because its critical perspective shines a torchlight onto the otherwise pretty meaningless and superficial news coverage of the mainstream press. The articles listed below were posted between the 2nd and 12th of June 2009.

And if [...]

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List of current articles on the global economic and social crisis

The list represents a collection of recent articles by the Global Research Institute:
Sid Shniad, Daniel Estulin, James Petras & Russ Baker on The Global Research News Hour- Host: Stephen Lendman. Program Details, June 1-5 – 2009-06-05
Biopiracy, GM Seeds & Rural India
- by Priya Kumar – 2009-06-02
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The Economic Crisis in Australia
- by Peter Murray [...]

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UK on the way of becoming a police state?

George Monbiot is reflecting on the repression of dissent in the UK, with the help of draconian legislation, happily enforced by the police. The latter even gets away with murdering the innocent, just like in those dictatorships our self-styled Western democracies regard as inferior systems of governance. But was there ever a time in history [...]

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App Store rejects eBook Reader because it allows access to Kama Sutra

Apple’s App Store censorship sucks – completely and utterly. The latest example where an application has been rejected because it can access the Kama Sutra is simply insane. This old Vedic Scripture from somewhere between the 4th and 6th century CE on sexuality, including some practical advice on sex, is a harmless classic. Below are [...]

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New ’slurring laws” continue history of racial discrimination against Aboriginal people

Racist prejudice and actions against Aborigines still seem to be deeply entrenched in the traditional white Australian psyche, and especially in one of the nation’s most conservative institutions: its police forces. New “slurring laws” introduced in NSW allow police to issue move-on orders valid over extended periods of time. If people return to the place [...]

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Optus customers: Opt out of Internet filtering trial!

Optus has broken ranks with the majority of Internet providers and declared it will take part in Stephen Conroy’s internet filtering trial. What Conroy wants to do sound svery simple: based on a massive blacklist he wants to force ISPs through legislation to filter out sites that contain child pornography. On the surface that sounds [...]

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Video of the unprovoked police assault on Ian Tomlinson, who consequently minutes later died at the London G20 protest

London Police has done it again. The same force that in July 2005 brutally murdered the innocent Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes in the London Tube is now responsible for another death, that of the again innocent newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson. Tomlinson was on his way home when he got [...]

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A new world order: one currency, one central bank, one government, no democracy

It hasn’t been only lately that people like Gordon Brown or Obama espoused the idea of a New World Order; the concept developed naturally with globalisation and regionalisation of economies (like the EU). As capital left behind its national boundaries it needed to become unfettered from from the constraints that go hand-in-hand with sovereignty of [...]

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New World Order: Still A Conspiracy Theory?

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, April 3, 2009
Despite the fact that the term “new world order” was mentioned in connection with the G20 this week hundreds of times by both global leaders and in news reports, it is still regarded as a “conspiracy theory” by that bastion of truthiness, Wikipedia.
British Prime Minister [...]

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The dissenting public the new terrorists – according to Australian Federal Police?

The always sour and worried looking Australian Federal Police chief Mick Keelty told a national security conference yesterday that the economic crisis might overtake terrorism as the number one security threat in Australia. Worried about demonstrations, strikes and riots witnessed overseas, especially in European countries, he’s looking at the UK for answers – of course. [...]

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Preparing for Civil Unrest in America? Legislation to Establish Internment Camps on US Military Bases

One thing is pretty certain: if the current economic disaster unfolds further, hitting Americans harder, the chances for social unrest are increasing. We already had large scale demonstrations and uprisings in many countries all over the world, including the still ongoing conflict in Greece and last week’s demonstrations and a general strike in France in [...]

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Government plans to track blogs critical of itself

… and it is starting, as this Age article reports, with those critical of Conroy, known for his useless and invasive Web and Bit Torrent filtering scheme. Feels a bit like a lighter shade of China descending upon the Australian blogosphere:
The Federal Government will begin trawling blog sites as part of a new media monitoring [...]

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Mexico’s drug war? No, the actions of a US backed semi-dictatorship

Mexico, Pakistan, and the So-Called “Failed State”: Washington’s War on “Narco-Terrorism”
by Shamus Cooke
Global Research

Are Mexican drug cartels a threat to the United States?  This is an easy conclusion to make after reading most mainstream U.S. newspapers.  Hardly a day goes by without sensational stories about “broad daylight” gun battles, heart-wrenching interviews with weeping [...]

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US Air Force plans to develop a whole fleet of spy blimps – who do they want to spy on?

Just what we need – more spying by the Yanks. Engadget today reported that the “US Air Force has announced that it will do its part for economic stimulus by spending $400 million on a dirigible designed to float 20 km above the Earth, where it will provide constant surveillance of an area (such as [...]

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Aboriginal Elder died of heat stroke in van operated by private prisoner transport contractor Global Securities Limited

A couple of days ago I published an article by George Monbiot on the privatisation of prisons causing deaths, corruption and the ethical and legal violation of human rights and criminal law. Monbiot was talking about the UK and US, but in Australia we of course have very strategies in place that ‘outsource’ the prison [...]

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On the dangers and suffering caused by Israel’s self-righteousness

The State That Tolerates No Criticism: How Israel Gives Jews a Bad Name
Mar 16, 2009 By Saul Landau
Saul Landau’s ZSpace Page/ ZSpace
Most Jews I know get little pleasure from the existence of Israel; just the opposite. They feel disgusted by the behavior of their tribal kin toward Palestinians. This antipathy doesn’t concern Israel’s right to [...]

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