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Niger Delta activist to stand trial in Holland
Sunny Ofehe, known as Comrade Sunny to his friends and colleagues, is to stand trial today in a Rotterdam court on charges of conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism. Ofehe was arrested on 22 February 2011, originally on “suspicion of people smuggling and forgery” and has been in detention since then. The Dutch authorities…
5 Sep 2011 admin -
The world’s biggest data leak
On Friday 2 September, Wikileaks finally published the full batch of over 250,000 US diplomatic cables. The unredacted cables are now available online. The decision to dump the data in the open has landed Wikileaks in further controversy and drawn condemnation from its former media partners around the world, due to the possible risk of harm or…
3 Sep 2011 admin -
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Uncontainable truth – Gripping documentary on cargo ships
This speaks for itself. Those of us who have been somehow hoping that crossing oceans by ship is the lower carbon alternative to flight will be thinking again.“The Box that changed Britain”
1 Sep 2011 jane -
Crackdown intensifies in oil region – Shell pledges to keep paying Syrian regime
The crackdown on the Syrian uprising has intensified in the eastern oil region around Deir Az-Zour. According to the FT, The towns of Mayadin and Burhama were attacked on Wednesday, according to the Local Co-ordination Committees, an activist group, with tanks and machine guns used during mass arrest campaigns. Another local resident said she had…
26 Aug 2011 admin -
Two films that put tar sands campaigning in to context
Here are two short films that put tar sands campaigning into a historical and political context. The Justice for Aboriginal Peoples’ Campaign launches – this is the history that banks and oil companies operating in Alberta follow on from: This is Montana Women For…, a group of women who recently participated in Tar Sands Action…
25 Aug 2011 admin -
Gulfsands ends payments to Assad’s cousin – but continues supporting Syrian regime with $8 million every week
Documents revealed by the FT amid concerns raised by Avaaz show that Gulfsands Petroleum, the London-listed oil and gas company, agreed to give a share of profits from its production activities in Syria to a company controlled by Rami Makhlouf, the first cousin of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. The company has also paid more than…
24 Aug 2011 admin -
Oil corporations preying on Libyan oil – video with Greg Muttitt
“When Western powers look at the region, they talk about humanity and democracy, but they’re thinking about oil,” says Greg Muttitt, author of Fuel on the Fire, which examines oil and politics in occupied Iraq. “The great fear is that just as they did in Iraq they’ll create a democracy that serves British interests or…
24 Aug 2011 admin -
2100 people in US set to block tar sands pipeline
The Guardian has called it “the largest act of civil disobedience in US history”. Following calls for Tim de Christopher’s imprisonment to be the US climate movement’s ‘Rosa Parks moment’, Tar Sands Action has mobilised thousands of people for an act of collective civil disobedience in a continuous two-week sit-in in front of the White House.…
23 Aug 2011 admin
