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  • Greek riot police prepare attack against prisoners
    25 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Athens - Riot police prepared to mount an attack on a high-security prison in central Greece after inmates refused to return to their cells and set fires in protest over prison abuses for the third straight day. Police surrounded a Malandrino prison in central Greece after some 150 inmates remained on the roof of the prison. Television reports showed many of them setting fires and carrying sticks and cement rocks.
    The inmates are protesting the beating of a prisoner and poor sanitary (…)

  • Feds Ordered VA Police To Stand Down
    21 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Feds Ordered VA Police To Stand Down Local authorities were told to take no action to pursue killer
    Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Friday, April 20, 2007
    Police and EMT workers at Virginia Tech tell us that campus police were given a federal order to stand down and not pursue killer Cho Seung-Hui as Monday’s bloodshed unfolded.
    Though wishing to remain anonymous for obvious reasons, we have received calls from police and EMT’s who tell us that a stand down order was in place, and (…)

  • Why Virginia Tech killings happened
    19 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Yet another rampage has occurred at a school, this time leaving 33 people dead at Virginia Tech—the worst such incident ever at a U.S. college campus.
    The news media seem stunned and surprised, yet their coverage sounds so similar to the stories about Columbine eight years ago. They dwell on the personality of the young man the police say did the shooting, before killing himself. They talk about him being a “loner,” depressed, perhaps angry at women.
    But aren’t there lonely and depressed (…)

  • Full Text: The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2006
    15 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhua) — The Information Office of the State Council published a document titled "The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2006" here on Thursday. Following is the full text:
    On March 6, the U.S. Department of State released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2006. As in previous years, the State Department pointed the finger at human rights conditions in more than 190 countries and regions, including China, but avoided touching on the human (…)

  • Two FBI Whistleblowers Confirm Illegal Wiretapping of Government Officials and Misuse of FISA
    5 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    National Security Whistleblowers Coalition
    www.nswbc.org
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE- March 5, 2007
    Contact: Sibel Edmonds, National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, sedmonds@nswbc.org or William Weaver, wweaver@nswbc.org
    Two FBI Whistleblowers Confirm Illegal Wiretapping of Government Officials and Misuse of FISA
    State Secrets Privilege Was Used to Cover Up Corruption and Silence Whistleblowers
    The National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC) has obtained a copy of an (…)

  • Bush World’s #1 Terrorist (Qantas T-shirt ban) & Stupid (huge Mebourne Airport advertising sign)
    26 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Melbourne International Airport, gateway to one of the World’s Most Livable Cities, is in the news because of George W. Bush.
    Thus (1) Australia’s international carrier Qantas recently excluded an Australian passenger for wearing a T-shirt depicting Bush with a caption “World’s #1 terrorist” and (2) TODAY at Melbourne Airport there is a huge entrance billboard depicting a bemused George Bush and advertising a real estate search site with the caption: “So easy anyone can find a new home” (…)

  • Photos - Protesters Arrested in Sydney After Cheney Arrives
    23 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Feb. 23 - Twelve people have been arrested and charged in Sydney during protests after U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney arrived for talks on Iraq and the war on terrorism.
    Three women and a man were charged today after demonstrating outside the Shangri-La Hotel in downtown Sydney today as Cheney addressed the Australian-American Leadership Dialogue, according to a New South Wales state police statement. About 50 protesters gathered outside the hotel.
    Seven men, aged 16 to 53, and a (…)

  • Solidarity to the comrades attacked by repression!
    16 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Committees to Support Resistance – for Communism (CARC) - Italy
    Via Tanaro 7, 20128, Milano
    Tel. +39 0226306454 e-mail resistenza@carc.it
    website www.carc.it
    National Direction - International Relations Department
    e-mail carc.ri@libero.it 12/02/07
    National Direction’s Statement
    On 12th February at dawn, the repressive forces attacked several comrades and organizations of the Communist movement of our country. The repressive operation has been carried out in Padua, Milan, (…)

  • Police clash with anarchists in Athens - January 17, 2007
    19 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Greek protesters clash with riot police during a rally in Athens January 17, 2007. Students and teachers participated in a rally against the government’s plans to reform higher education and introduce private universities
    Greek riot police clashed with anarchist youths in Athens on Wednesday, turning the city centre into a battleground of billowing smoke for hours.
    The youths hurled hundreds of petrol bombs at police, burning four cars and one shop. Police retaliated with several rounds (…)

  • Snake eyes for Bell pal in gambling raid
    1 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Photo: Trent Benefield
    Groom killed by N.Y. police
    by Warren Woodberry Jr.
    One of the men wounded in the fatal police shooting of Sean Bell answered three outstanding warrants in Queens criminal court yesterday - after he was busted inside an illegal Harlem gambling den, authorities said.
    Trent Benefield, 23, was on crutches and leaning against a dice table about 9 p.m. Thursday when cops raided the gambling den on the second floor of a W. 128th St. building, a police source said. (…)