Author Archives: editor

Occupy protests: a four step guide to bypassing high-street banks

Posted on December 8, 2011 by editor

You’ve read about the Occupy Wall Street and London protests You’ve read about the Occupy Wall Street and London protests and you know about corporate greed (and the banking bail-out) but how can you do something about it? Read the … Continue reading →

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Greenpeace asks us to watch closely, repost widely.

Posted on July 8, 2011 by editor

This short Greenpeace film was pulled without explanation or warning from YouTube and Vimeo. So we are asked to spread it as widely as possible. Here’s the embed code for Episode I: <iframe src=”http://greenpeacenordic.23video.com/v.ihtml?token=718ae6f308dee72a89acd52bee5c4fcf&photo%5fid=2224824″ width=”640″ height=”380″ frameborder=”0″ border=”0″ scrolling=”no”></iframe> Episode … Continue reading →

Posted in Capitalism, Climate change, Corporations, Environment | Leave a comment

Johann Hari: David Cameron’s latest con

Posted on March 21, 2011 by editor

The Johann Hari Podcast: Episode 3 – David Cameron's Latest Con by The Independent on Mixcloud

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Please stop American corporations buying up India’s water

Posted on February 28, 2011 by editor

Please read and sign the petition drawn up by the Peoples’ Campaign for Right to Water (Karnataka state), India. It is really important to prevent people’s water being sold off over their heads. I will add resources about the water … Continue reading →

Posted in Corporations, Environment, India, USA, Water | 1 Comment

Behind the Arab revolt is a word we dare not speak

Posted on February 27, 2011 by editor

JOHN PILGER, JOHNPILGER.COM 24 FEBRUARY 2011 Shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I interviewed Ray McGovern, one of an elite group of CIA officers who prepared the President’s daily intelligence brief. McGovern was at the apex of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Capitalism, Conflict, Corporations, Democracy, Dissent, Egypt, Freedom struggle, Media, Middle East, Palestine, UK, UnCuts, USA, Wikileaks, World | Leave a comment

State of Chhattisgarh Versus Dr. Binayak Sen

Posted on February 21, 2011 by editor

By Radha Surya, Countercurrents.org, 21 February, 2011 There is an image that torments our collective conscience. This is the image that shows Dr. Binayak Sen sitting inside a police vehicle after he was awarded a life sentence by the Raipur … Continue reading →

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“I try to hope that I will live again with Binayak in my lifetime”

Posted on February 21, 2011 by editor

Dr ILINA SEN, well-known social activist and feminist scholar, who currently heads the Department of Women’s Studies in Mahatma Gandhi University, Wardha, Maharshtra speaks in detail to M SUCHITRA about her husband’s trial and her appeal to the Chhatisgarh High … Continue reading →

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Delirious Joy in Bahrain

Posted on February 19, 2011 by editor

By NICHOLAS KRISTOF, NEW YORK TIMES, FEBRUARY 19, 2011, 11:21 AM BAHRAIN — There’s delirious joy in the center of Bahrain right now. People power has prevailed, at least temporarily, over a regime that repeatedly used deadly force to try … Continue reading →

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Bravo Egypt!

Posted on February 12, 2011 by editor
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Mubarak’s Egypt NO MORE, by Sandmonkey

Posted on February 12, 2011 by editor

RANTINGS OF A SANDMONKEY, FEBRUARY 11, 2010 Today, the people were more resolved than ever to get rid of Hosny Mubarak, especially after last night’s provocative statement. I went to the presidential palaces alongside thousands of Egyptians and we surrounded … Continue reading →

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