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The end of the post-Cold War era
Submitted by unterschreber on Wednesday, 13 August, 2008 - 23:25
MK Bhadrakumar All-too-plausible explanation from Asia Times (http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/JH13Ag02.html) of Georgia's attack on South Ossetia (2,000 civilians killed and refugees made of another 30,000; a helping hand from US airlifts of 2,000 'essential' Georgian troops back from Iraq) in terms of the push to extend NATO into the Caucasus, which, as it says in the title, would 'end the post-Cold War era', permanently activating the military faultline along Russia's southwestern border and the course of the major Central Asian gas and oil pipelines. subject: Asia | Cold War | Energy Resources | Events | Information | Media | Neoliberal | Occupations | Oil | State | Strategy | War | War on Terror
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Submitted by anthony on Thursday, 19 June, 2008 - 20:37
Ana Nimo ¡Fuera Ulises!, is a new graphic interpretation of the events in Oaxaca from an antiauthoritarian and anarchist perspective. From: http://www.collectivereinventions.org/
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Submitted by demetra on Tuesday, 5 February, 2008 - 17:52
Justine Illiria An Albanian woman writes about her experience with prostitution and drug dealing in Greece (defending her choices all the way), setting up a grassroots support organisation, and about NGOs in Albania as agents for the interests of centralised elites. This was first published in the Harm Reduction Communication newsletter, Summer 2001, but is still relevant considering the increasing presence of EU/NATO military forces and NGOs in the area given Kosovo's imminent declaration of independence. subject: Drugs | Immigration | NGO | Occupations | Sexuality
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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 9 October, 2007 - 14:27
Wildcat The following is a report from Wildcat on the occupation of a bicycle factory in Nordhausen, Germany by its workers. It appears by kind permission of the excellent Prol-Position newsletter and will appear in the next issue (number 9): http://www.prol-position.net/
subject: Activism | AntiCapitalist | Europe | Finance & Trade | Labour Struggles | Occupations | Politics
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Submitted by unterschreber on Thursday, 16 August, 2007 - 02:32
Angela Mitropoulos This extract from an unfinished text by Angela Mitropoulos, posted on archive : s0metim3s (http://archive.blogsome.com/2007/08/07/indigenous-land/#comments), gives part of the historical background (which some European readers may have overlooked) to the current military-medical invasion of Aboriginal land in Australia's Northern Territory. Most importantly, the text explains the concrete connection between intervention in the name of 'health' and 'ed subject: Australasia | Class | Energy Resources | Government | History | Law | Mapping | Money | Multiculturalism | New Enclosures | Occupations | Policy | Politics | Precarity | Race | State | Surveillance
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Submitted by unterschreber on Wednesday, 15 August, 2007 - 21:36
Vijay Prashad In 'Lobster' 53 Robin Ramsay notes that the US 'military-industrial complex', in its perpetual need to generate enemies, "has just landed a big one: Africa". While the Bush administration has created the long-lobbied for Unified Command for Africa, it's the NGOs, Hollywood liberals, Clinton functionaries and other sundry 'multilateralists' of the Save Darfur Coalition who are leading the charge. subject: Africa | Energy Resources | Occupations | Oil | Strategy | War
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Submitted by mute on Thursday, 22 February, 2007 - 11:22
Matthew Hyland Creative and professional class squatters are being lauded in The Financial Times as socially responsible agents of regeneration. Meanwhile, the UK’s market-driven housing crisis is making squatting more necessary and more insecure.
subject: Architecture | Autonomist | Film | Gentrification | Labour Struggles | Law | Media | Occupations | Politics | Precarity | Urbanism
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Submitted by matthew hyland on Saturday, 13 January, 2007 - 06:21
Robert Neuwirth / Takebacktheland Robert Neuwirth's urgently necessary 'Squattercity' draws attention to the Takebacktheland occupation in Miami, where on the site of a demolished block of cheap apartments the homeless are building and defending the housing that the 'market' and the state will never provide. As Neuwirth suggests, imagine if this supposedly 'third world' phenomenon were to spread to New Orleans and...and... Thursday, January 04, 2007 The Pottinger Settlement subject: Class | Commons | Gentrification | N. America | Occupations | Politics | Race | Regeneration | Slums | Social Movements | Squatting | State | Urbanism
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Submitted by matthew hyland on Saturday, 13 January, 2007 - 05:09
Pepe Escobar Schedule of impending disaster in Iraq according to the oil rights law (cf. Midnight Notes any time since 2003) about to be passed under cover of moral fever over the US cannon fodder 'surge'. From by-no-means-sympathetic perspective the speculator, sorry, journalist almost acknowledges a common class interest between insurgent Sunni and Shia non-oil-owners, against their 'representatives' including the newly-ministerial Badr Brigades as well as th ex-Ba'ath thanatocrats courted by the occupiers as potential deal-brokers. subject: Class | Insurgency | Iran | Iraq | Middle East | Occupations | Postcolonial | Slums | State | War
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Submitted by inkani on Monday, 18 September, 2006 - 13:53
The Abahlali baseMjondolo Book Collective The Abahlali baseMjondolo (Shack Dwellers) Movement began in Durban, South Africa, in early 2005. Although it is overwhelmingly located in and around the large port city of Durban it is, in terms of the numbers of people mobilised, the largest organisation of the militant poor in post-apartheid South Africa.
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Submitted by matthew hyland on Sunday, 2 July, 2006 - 03:04
John Ross Overview of the exceptional extent and intensity of class confrontation going on in Mexico beneath the election circus. From Counterpunch: http://www.counterpunch.org/ross07012006.html 'Mexico on the Brink : there's a riot going on' By JOHN ROSS Mexico City, Mexico. subject: Broadcast Media | Class | Government | Insurgency | Labour Struggles | N. America | Occupations | Politics | Slums | Social Movements
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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 7 March, 2006 - 12:45
John Barker In the '60s 'labour saving' technology was used to sell the promise of infinite leisure. After thirty years of speed ups and lay offs, RSI and dotcom sweatshops, the dream is looking distinctly tarnished. John Barker draws on his personal and theoretical capital to explore the contradictions and possibilities of a hi-tech, low-wage world
subject: Business | Labour Struggles | Marxist | Occupations
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Submitted by mute on Thursday, 18 December, 2003 - 00:00
Sebastian Hacher Patagonia has a long history of colonial oppression. But the corporate conquistadors behind the current round of evictions are more renowned for their interest in worthy causes than their cut-throat approach to real estate, reports Sebastian Hacher subject: History | Latin America | Neoliberal | Occupations | Postcolonial | Squatting | War
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Submitted by mute on Thursday, 3 July, 2003 - 23:00
Zoe Young Zoe Young explores post-war issues in the Middle East
subject: Middle East | New Economy | Occupations | Squatting | Urbanism
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