Category Archives: International
Notes from the US
The silly season is over – inasmuch as it ever is in the United States (it emerged in late August, for instance, that Senator John McCain, former 2008 presidential candidate, promised to provide arms and military aid to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi during a meeting in August 2009. And there are a few small victories for [...]
Syria in Turmoil
Mainstream media here in the west, especially television news, has been remarkably terse on the political uprising in Syria, given the fact that it has been far more violent and long-term than in Egypt. For instance, clashes between agitating masses and military forces have been going on for six months now, with around 3000 dead [...]
Chile’s Student Fury in Full Force
Young lead the way as unrest intensifies in South America Since May this year Chile has been witnessing mass social unrest not seen since the inception of liberal democracy in 1990. Right-wing President Sebastian Pinera’s proposals to make neoliberal ‘reforms’ to the education system has been met with furious student protests ranging from kissing demonstrations [...]
State hacking
Hacking into the computer systems of government agencies and institutions seems to be an exercise in objective defiance by a newly politicised generation of computer literate youngsters. Both Anonymous and Lulzsec internet hacking teams have made the news in recent weeks with their audacious cyber attacks on sensitive government computer systems. And whatever people may [...]
Occupation of Wall Street
The dawn of a new American uprising, or a formulaic reaction bound to fizzle out? The belly of the beast, the finance capital of the world’s richest country, is experiencing some uncomfortable rumble. Wall Street (the equivalent of London’s City) has been directly targeted by protesters as the focus of their anger. On 17th of [...]
Israel’s social protests
What began as a spontaneous tent city protest, mimicking the Tahrir square and Spain’s 15M indignados, has developed into one of Israel’s biggest anti-government protests in recent times and a universal call for greater social change. In less than a month from when activists occupied Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv and turned it into a [...]
Notes from the US
Environment In Montana in early July, an oil pipeline operated by Exxon Mobil ruptured beneath the famous Yellowstone River leaking as much as 42,000 gallons of crude oil. Although the company originally claimed that the spill affected only 10 miles of the river, a distance of 150 miles was soon revealed as accurate.
Carlo Giuliani Park
On the tenth anniversary of the killing of anti-capitalist protester Carlo Giuliani by Italian police at the anti G8 summit protest in Genoa, a memorial park was opened in Kreuzberg Berlin to commemorate his death, and as permanent reminder of the power of resistance and the fragility of human life. Article originally appeared [...]
Bash Back! – No more hell raising
The US state’s final clamp down on the queer anarchist action group The Lansing chapter of the queer anarchists Bash Back! Network have been served a court injunction that permanently prevents them from disrupting religious services anywhere in the United States. The fourteen named individuals are also permanently prohibited from conducting protests on the private [...]
Notes from the US
In the midst of the ‘opening up’ of Murdoch’s media and propaganda empire, at least some of his outlets stayed true to type: Just as the front age of The Sun screamed, “Al Qaeda’s Massacre, Norway’s 9/11″, Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal at first blamed ‘jihadists’ and reported that, “Norway is targeted for being true to [...]
