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The Human Costs of Washington’s Ongoing Collusion With Terrorists

Twice in the last two decades, significant cuts in U.S. and western military spending were foreseen: first after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and then in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. But both times military spending soon increased, and among the factors contributing to the increase were America’s interventions in new areas: the Balkans in the 1990s, and Libya today.1 Hidden from public view in both cases was the extent to which al-Qaeda was a covert U.S. ally in both interventions, rather than its foe.

End of the American Empire

Craig Murray | 07-08-2011 20:40 | Analysis | Sheffield | World

China’s call today for a new global reserve currency to replace the dollar spells the beginning of the end of the American Empire. China holds most of the dollar credit in the world, and that of course gave China a powerful incentive to maintain dollar hegemony. That China now views the risks to world trade from the US’ indebtedness, to outweigh the potential loss in value of its own dollar reserves, is the tipping point that spells the inevitable beginning of the end of the US empire.

UG#562 - Our Biggest Enemy is Ourselves (Deschooling Society 1)

This week we look at the need to deschool ourselves both as individuals and collectively, by relying more on our own wits and those of our personal contacts and less on the dying impersonal centralised institutions which dominated 20th century developed life. The title is a quote from an extended interview with John Taylor Gatto, which we follow by reading the first chapter of Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society.

ATOS Worker - Sick are "Parasitical Wankers"

Anthony Treasure (Tony Treasure) from Castleford, Wakfield speaks out about his job de-benefitting the sick and disabled.

The bomb: 76 years later

Seventy-six years ago today the city of Hiroshima was ravaged by a US nuclear bomb. Within days Nagasaki too had been torn apart by this terrifying new weapon of mass destruction.

Britain’s Secret Post-9/11 Torture Policy Revealed

As the British government's toothless torture inquiry is abandoned by ten NGOs and lawyers for the former Guantánamo prisoners, who have long recognised that it was nothing more than a whitewash, but have now given up on even trying to engage with it, politicians n the Tory-led coalition government are not the only ones feeling the heat. Yesterday, in a world exclusive, the Guardian's Ian Cobain exposed a top secret document, entitled, "Agency policy on liaison with overseas security and intelligence services in relation to detainees who may be subject to mistreatment," which "reveal[ed] how MI6 and MI5 officers were allowed to extract information from prisoners being illegally tortured overseas."

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Campaigners welcome MOX nuclear fuel plant closure, call for end to reprocessing

Campaigners welcome MOX plant closure, call for end to reprocessing

Kick Nuclear - 4 August 2011

Kick Nuclear welcomes yesterday's announcement that the mixed oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication plant at Sellafield, Cumbria is to close, but demands an end to reprocessing and to highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel transports through London and across the country.

Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens

On June 13, George Monbiot devoted his Guardian column to naming and shaming a 'malign intellectual subculture that seeks to excuse savagery by denying the facts'. 'The facts', Monbiot noted, 'are the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda.'

New Leeds ABC Pamphlet

Leeds ABC | 02-08-2011 11:41 | Repression | Sheffield | World

A Passion For Freedom: An Interview With Jean Weir

UG#561 - $100,000,000 to Crack A Lone Nut? (Amerithrax, Gladio, 7/7...)

Focusing on the Anthrax attacks of 2001 in the weeks after Sep 11th, we look at the deep state's policy of blaming its false flag attacks either on nebulous foreign terrorist groups, or, as a fallback, on a domestic 'lone nut'. Mark Crispin Miller speaks on the changing use of the term 'conspiracy theory', researcher Danielle Ganser on NATO's Operation Gladio, ex-UK police researcher Tony Farrell on 7/7, and researchers Meryl Nass and Graeme MacQueen on the 'Amerithrax' attacks.

Politically motivated (presumably) supsension of Alaskan scientist

A scientist working for the US government who identified the link between polar bear deaths by drowning and climate change, has been suspended after a complaint from an unidentified source. This is thought to be a politically motivated suspension as oil companies are currently lobbying to drill in the Arctic next year.

The war on Libya : An imperialist project to create three Libyas

The division of Libya into three separate countries is part of the US-NATO imperial design. It is part of a project shared by the U.S., Britain, Italy, and France.

The NATO war launched against Libya in March 2011 was geared towards the breakup of the country into three separate entities.

The NATO led war, however, is back firing. The Libyan people have united to save their country and Tripoli is exploring its strategic options.

LaDIY Cinema Fundraiser Presents: Itty Bitty Titty Committee (2007)

On Sunday, July 31 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm at the Rutland Arms, 86 Brown Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S1 2BS

LaDIY Festival presents a first in a series of feminist film screenings

Starting with Jamie Babbit's light hearted comedy approach to radical feminism in 'Itty Bitty Titty Committee' (2007).

Sab Benefit: Active Minds/Jew-Dis/Shankland/Powered By Tofu/Fear The Wolfingtons

Fri 5th August · 19:30 - 23:30
The Riverside, 1 Mobray ST, Sheffield

Sea Shepherd Film Showing In Sheffield

Sunday August 7th, 6:30PM
Upstairs in The Rutland Arms, Brown Street, Sheffield. S1 2BS

The Left has lost its way over Libya

In an essentially excellent piece Sarah Flounders ‘Libya: Demonization and Self-determination‘, near the beginning under the sub-hed ‘What should be the response to this terror?’ she writes:

“Unfortunately, a minority of groups or individuals who present themselves as opponents of war spend more time cataloguing Gadhafi’s past real or alleged shortcomings than rallying people to respond to this criminal, all-out U.S. attack. Their influence would be small, except that it coincides with the opinions of the U.S. ruling class. Thus it is important to thoroughly answer their arguments.”

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=FLO20110724&articleId=25760

Leeds ABC Rebel Night A Roaring Success

Leeds ABC | 26-07-2011 12:12 | Anti-racism | Sheffield

A report on Sunday's Leeds ABC benefit in support of the recently imprisoned UK antifascists.

2011: the year we took on the unaccountable elites

The people are fighting back - even Charles Moore wonders if ‘the Left may actually be right’

British media quick to dismiss death in Murdoch phone hacking case

Robert Stevens | 25-07-2011 21:45 | Other Press | Sheffield

In an article posted July 20

http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2011/07/482488.html , the World Socialist Web Site noted the rush to judgement by the Hertfordshire Police in the UK, who issued an extraordinary statement declaring the death of former News of the World reporter Sean Hoare to be “unexplained but not thought to be suspicious”. This statement was made just hours after police arrived at Hoare’s home to discover his body and before a post-mortem had been conducted.

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