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November 6, 2009 - 9:52am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
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ACTA Treaty is DMCA on Steroids Kevin Carson

[Reposted from Center for a Stateless Society]

In last year’s election campaign Obama came across as vaguely more friendly to open-culture than the alternatives, among other things supporting “fair use” reform of the DMCA and opposing requirements for ISP data retention (both issues on which Hillary waffled). As somebody put it, “Obama’s a Mac and Hillary’s a PC.” Even the U.S. Pirate Party endorsed Obama as the least evil candidate.

November 4, 2009 - 5:21pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
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The Heart of India Is Under Attack Arundhati Roy

A shortened version of this article appeared in The Guardian (UK), Friday, October 30, 2009. This is the full version. Ed.]

To justify enforcing a corporate land grab, the state needs an enemy — and it has chosen the Maoists

October 26, 2009 - 2:59pm -- jim
News
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British Police in £9m Scheme to Log 'Domestic Extremists

Thousands of activists monitored on network of overlapping databases Police are gathering the personal details of thousands of activists who attend political meetings and protests, and storing their data on a network of nationwide intelligence databases.

October 14, 2009 - 3:41pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
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Democratic Terrorization A Not Bored interview with Claude Guillon

Q: You will soon publish Democratic Terrorization (Libertalia), which analyzes in detail the French and European legislative arsenals concerning anti-terrorism. Can you develop the thesis of your book and compare the situations in 1986 and today?

October 13, 2009 - 1:04pm -- Anonymous Comrade (not verified)
Analysis & Polemic
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Statement in support of Abahlali baseMjondolo

9 October 2009

October 3, 2009 - 7:24am -- Anonymous Comrade (not verified)
News
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ANC Atrocity in South African Shack Settlement

On Saturday 26 September, Abahlali baseMjondolo, the shack dwellers movement, was attacked in the Kennedy Road settlement, Durban, by an armed mob chanting ethnic slogans and backed, fully, by the ANC. [The following is based on a report from an Abahlali member in Durban]

Kennedy Road is one of the poorest shack settlements in Durban. Local police appear to be entirely complicit in these attacks, as do local members of the African National Congress.

July 10, 2009 - 10:01pm -- Anonymous Comrade (not verified)
Analysis & Polemic
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The Logic of Terrorism Michel Bounan

http://www.notbored.org/logic-of-terrorism.html

June 19, 2009 - 7:30pm -- stevphen
Analysis & Polemic
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A Somali Pirate Story Jordan Zinovich with Hans Plomp

June 7, 2009 - 9:24am -- stevphen
Analysis & Polemic
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Interview with Julien Coupat LeMonde

Here are the responses to the questions that we [Isabelle Mandraud and Caroline Monnot] posed in writing to Julien Coupat. Placed under investigation on 15 November 2008 for “terrorism,” along with eight other people interrogated in Tarnac (Correze) and Paris, he is suspected of having sabotaged the suspended electrical cables of the SNCF. He is the last one still incarcerated. (He has asked that certain words be in italics.)

Q. How are you spending your time?

A. Very well, thank you. Chin-ups, jogging and reading.

May 4, 2009 - 10:22am -- Anonymous Comrade (not verified)
Announcements
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Academic Freedom Controversy at the University of California Santa Barbara Leading Radical Scholar Accused of Anti-Semitism

Professor William Robinson, a world renowned Jewish scholar, is facing charges of Anti-Semitism at the University of California Santa Barbara. A list of his publication and other information about his work can be found at: http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/robinson/

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