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The end of the post-Cold War era News & Analysis
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.


¡Fuera Ulises! - graphic interpretation of the events in Oaxaca Editorial content | Public Library
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.
The booklet is 6 pages in length, full color, and is a run down of the events of last year. The booklet is also very critical of the actions of ‘politicos’ within APPO to hijack the popular movement for it’s own ends.

From: http://www.collectivereinventions.org/


I Don't Sell My Body Anymore Because I Can Sell Drugs OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
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.


How long will the 'bureaucratic course' last? OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
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/


Excerpt on the invasion OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
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


Destination Darfur: a new cold war over oil Editorial content | News & Analysis
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.
This article comes from Counterpunch: http://www.counterpunch.org/prashad08112007.html


Embedded Adventurism Editorial content | Articles
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.


The Pottinger settlement OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
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...
http://squattercity.blogspot.com/

Thursday, January 04, 2007

The Pottinger Settlement


Surging towards the holy oil grail Editorial content | News & Analysis
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.


A Short History of Abahlali baseMjondolo, the Durban Shack Dwellers' Movement OpenPublishing | Public Library
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.


Mexico on the brink: there's a riot going on OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
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.


Intensities of Labour: from Amphetamine to Cocaine Editorial content | Articles
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


Benetton In Patagonia (United colours of land grab) Editorial content | Magazine
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


Tamass: Contemporary Arab Representation Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Thursday, 3 July, 2003 - 23:00
Zoe Young

Zoe Young explores post-war issues in the Middle East

In 1996, a family of squatters died, demolished along with their Beirut home by the private company reconstructing the post-war city.


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