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  1. The greatest terrorist state of all time

    Blum points out that "as commonplace as it is for American readers to speak of freedom and ... mujaheddin as "freedom fighters" 鈥 they included Osama bin Laden and the germ of what would later ... for it, by the United States. Not one socialist government or movement... was permitted to rise or ...

  2. PALESTINE: Al Aqsa Intifada: 'Why should our youth accept oppression?'

    the Israeli state, poverty was constantly on the rise, while the standard of living steadily ... met by violent opposition and repression by the British forces. The strike was a fight for freedom and ... from the Palestinian people's aspiration for freedom and national independence. The popular ...

  3. Einstein was a socialist

    could be a short one: Freedom won. Free minds and free markets prevailed over fascism and ... him also the last hurrah of a dying empire and not the leader of a rising power makes his achievements ... Martin Luther King or Nelson Mandela. India and many other colonies won their freedom thanks, not to ...

  4. A voice against war

    their aggressive wars are unseen and unheard. A dutiful establishment media rises splendidly to the ... press attention (or disguised as "Operation Enduring Freedom") then it is "impossible to ... dressing up of war in the clothes of security, peace, freedom, democracy, the "national ...

  5. African National Congress landslide

    Democratic Party scored almost 10%, while the Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party of Chief Mangosutho Buthelezi ... rights clause, the granting of human rights (freedom of speech, association, etc.) to corporations, and ... rise of social discontent. If Mbeki is to maintain the confidence of South Africa's powerful ...

  6. End of the Keating myth

    Depression; it is now 8.7 per cent and rising again. This is where ten years of radical economics, of ... million less than the company would have paid, had it paid the statutory rate. A Freedom of Information ... Act was enacted, but the freedom to dissent was all but crushed. Under Keating's 1986 Media Bill, ...

  7. Trade accord will worsen North-South divide

    "free trade" so much bandied around has come to mean, in reality, the vastly expanded freedom of ... "freedom" from potential new competitors whose possibilities to develop technologically are now curbed by ... national pharmaceutical industries, it is expected that the prices of medicines will rise significantly and ...

  8. Write on

    hands in the blood of a Freedom struggle, so that Hawke, and his criminal friends, could snort and ... loudest. Should freedom of speech include the right to express racist views in an attempt to stir up racial ... will foster and encourage their hatred while the very real problems which give rise to it will go ...

  9. Socialist Alliance debates perspectives

    seconded by Peter Murray of the Freedom Socialist Party (FSP): "The continuing crisis in social ... united front approach to the Greens, voting that the alliance: 1. "Welcomes the rise in the vote for ... Freedom Socialist Party were adopted. These included policy 91自拍论坛 on corporate globalisation, defence ...

  10. Israel: New laws expose 鈥榙emocracy鈥

    vote, and freedom of movement and expression. Non-Jewish Israeli citizens make up about 20% of all ... blocks, as well as the wall, severely damages freedom of movement and makes the Palestinian economy ... police are on the rise, and in the case of the unrecognised villages such as Al Araqib. The number of ...

  11. After Brussels, putting terrorism in perspective

    鈥渢he terrorists hate our freedoms鈥 鈥 a claim usually made while taking more freedoms away in the name ... a major factor in turning the Syrian uprising into a religious-sectarian civil war. The sudden rise of ... ecosocialist revolution in Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan), led by forces allied to the Kurdish freedom movement and ...

  12. Fresh Western hypocrisy on Arab Spring

    promoting 鈥渄emocracy, freedom and prosperity鈥 in the Middle East. Obama also expressed 鈥渟olidarity鈥 with the ... of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. But despite the rising civilian bodycount, Western action against ... Sun said. Using information obtained under the British Freedom of Information Act, the May 29 Observer ...

  13. West seeks to undermine Arab struggle

    Economy Democracy Patrick Harrison The revolutionary struggle for democratic and economic freedoms ... aid what British Prime Minister David Cameron termed 鈥渄emocracy, freedom and prosperity鈥 in the Middle ... Washington to 鈥榙iscuss democratic transition in Tunisia鈥.鈥 The rise of Islamist parties in Egypt and Tunisia ...

  14. MIDDLE EAST: The US empire makes its move to take over

    museum's exhibitions is called "The Price of Freedom: Americans at War". In the spirit of ... children, are dispensed the vainglorious message that the US has always "built freedom and ... heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries". Moreover, at the Price of Freedom ...

  15. What would it take to make poverty history?

    to clean water. The term "free market" is deceptive. Freedom for multinationals to exploit ... human and natural resources takes away freedom from people. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one ... lengths to which these corporations will go to protect this freedom of ownership was demonstrated by ...

  16. Behind the refugee crisis: Globalisation for whom?

    have risked it all again to win freedom. The struggles by detained asylum seekers inside camps like ... processing or manufacturing, keeping them in backwardness. The rise of anti-colonial struggles in the Third ... has been a new "freedom" for US companies to set up assembly factories, or maquiladora, ...

  17. Is globalisation inevitable?

    rise and fall and as its owners see fit. The global stock of financial assets has grown sixfold, from ... power, the grasp and the freedom of manoeuvre of the transnational corporation has also been ... freedom of foreign investors and reduced government regulation. By 1998, 145 of the International Monetary ...

  18. INDONESIA: Budiman Sujatmiko 鈥 Democracy is yet to be won

    Sujatmiko said: "These are just the minimum criteria for democracy. "Freedom of speech, freedom of ... unemployed; this figure will continue to rise if the IMF policies are implemented further." "Wahid ... live in prison to win bigger freedom for the people you want to defend. If you live in a society where ...

  19. Write on: letters to the editor

    T.A. Jackson, a Marxist lecturer who memorably described freedom as 聯freedom to work if you can find an ... employer and freedom to go hungry and be humiliated when such is not to be found.聰 Every library should ... Declaration in 1917, had a population of 500,000 Arabs and 50,000 Jews. The rise of fascism in Germany led to ...

  20. Write on: letters to the editor

    present furore over gun laws is a diversion from the real issue 鈥 the rising incidence of urban violence ... enjoy! This is freedom!! Watch out girls, this is the Revolution! Don't lock us away. You can't ... silence the voice of freedom 鈥 the more you kill, the louder we get. Don't trap us with your medicine ...

  21. Hungary's year of bankruptcies

    cuts and for a 50% wage rise. One major issue not resolved by parliament relates to the basic ... conservative Freedom of the Press Club became the Hungarian Journalist Community, one old professor announced ... in his keynote address the need for "honesty of the press", instead of freedom of the ...

  22. Election manifesto of the ANC

    government or party political interference; freedom from discrimination on racial, gender or any other ... ground; freedom of association and the right to worship. People must be free to express their views ... without fear, including criticising the government of the day. Freedom of the media will be essential for ...

  23. WikiLeaks exposes TPP corporate power grab

    medicines. The intellectual property chapter has also alarmed internet freedom activists, who believe the TPP ... Frontier Foundation says the leaked proposals restrict innovation and freedom of expression online. It said ... Development (UNCTAD), there has been a ten-fold rise in reported cases since 2000. An ISDS mechanism is now ...

  24. Basque Country: Renewed Sortu sets target date for independent republic

    disarming of the armed pro-independence group Basque Homeland and Freedom (ETA). Emphasised that change ... time, the rise of the mass independence movement propelled into government a administration committed to ... Workers Party (PSOE) and Citizens. Rather, the rise in the Podemos vote was accompanied by growing support ...

  25. NGOs in Bolivia: Is Evo Morales cracking down on dissent?

    restricting civil rights, among them, freedom of expression and association鈥. They said Garcia Linera's ... pledging to reverse poverty, underdevelopment and indigenous oppression- is threatened by a rise in social ... actually takes for Bolivia to overcome 鈥渆xtractivism鈥. [Federico Fuentes edits the Bolivia Rising blog and ...

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