Democracy so good, many prefer Stalinism:

July 3rd, 2009 mat No comments

HOMESICK FOR A DICTATORSHIP
Majority of Eastern Germans Feel Life Better under Communism

By Julia Bonstein

Glorification of the German Democratic Republic is on the rise two decades after the Berlin Wall fell. Young people and the better off are among those rebuffing criticism of East Germany as an “illegitimate state.” In a new poll, more than half of former eastern Germans defend the GDR. Read more…

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Operation against anarchists in Italy:

July 3rd, 2009 mat No comments

Rome, 3 Jul. Two anarchists have been arrested by the Carabinieri Special Operations Task Force. The anarchists were allegedly planning an attack on the electrical cables of the Orte-Ancona railway line. Read more…

Blast at Athens tax office

July 3rd, 2009 mat No comments

July 3, 2009
ATHENS - A BOMB exploded early on Friday in front of a tax office in the central Athens district of Ambelokipi causing serious material damage but no injuries, police said. Read more…

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Nine arrests and discovery of a cache attributed to ETA in France

July 3rd, 2009 mat No comments

30 June

BAYONNE (France) - Nine people linked to Basque autonomist movement were arrested Monday morning in the French Basque country Read more…

class conflict clippings

July 3rd, 2009 mat No comments

CAW blockades auto parts company
Union fears plant will close owing workers money

july 1

CAW members from across southwestern Ontario are converging in Brantford and setting up a blockade around a Brantford automotive parts company. Read more…

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Cloned Meat Soon to Hit European Supermarkets

July 1st, 2009 phillip No comments

By Philip Bethge

Cattle cloning has long been standard practice in the United States. Now EU agriculture ministers have decided that cloned meat and milk should be allowed onto the European market. Not everyone is pleased.

Anyone who considers creation sacred should make sure they never talk to a cattle breeder. In-vitro fertilization, artificial insemination and embryo transfer are the terms of their trade. And now another word from the lexicon of reproductive medicine has joined the breeder’s jargon: cloning.

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Passport details to be kept on ID register despite card U-turn

July 1st, 2009 phillip No comments

Johnson accused of pressing ahead compulsory scheme by ‘back door’

by Alan Travis

British citizens who apply for or renew their passport will be automatically registered on the national identity card database under regulations to be approved by MPs in the next few weeks.

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Riot police descend on Calais as anarchists incite migrants

June 16th, 2009 mat No comments

Riot police have begun to arrive in Calais as an anarchist group pledged to help illegal migrants ‘tear down border controls and make for Britain’.

More than 2,000 protesters are expected in the port next week for seven days of direct action. Read more…

Officer fatally shoots tourist after confrontation in Miami Beach

June 16th, 2009 mat No comments

A tourist visiting Miami Beach was shot and killed by a police officer Sunday, and family members say it was due to a grave mistake. Read more…

Neo-Nazis are in the Army now

June 16th, 2009 mat No comments

By Matt Kennard:

June 15, 2009 | On a muggy Florida evening in 2008, I meet Iraq War veteran Forrest Fogarty in the Winghouse, a little bar-restaurant on the outskirts of Tampa, his favorite hangout. He told me on the phone I would recognize him by his skinhead. Sure enough, when I spot a white guy at a table by the door with a shaved head, white tank top and bulging muscles, I know it can only be him. Read more…

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