tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63450362011-04-21T21:53:46.765+01:00 "It is unimaginable that men who for four years have fought in silence... will agree to see the forces of resignation and injustice return in any form whatsoever. We cannot live forever by murder and violence. Happiness, tenderness will have their day." - From an editorial in the French Resistance paper, 'Combat', entitled 'De la Resistance a la Revolution', by Albert Camus, August 1944. This is a blog against the forces of resignation and injustice in any form whatsoever!Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09040790828659958003noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6345036.post-86253894472498717572007-08-03T09:38:00.000+01:002007-08-03T10:47:16.878+01:00

While, I've been busy writing on all manner of subjects in recent months, I have lamentably failed to put any articles on my actual website... Here for your benefit or otherwise are thoughts on the following subjects:Revisiting the Iranian Hostage Crisis - adding some reality to an episode long exploited by the US Republican Party for partisan advantageThe Religious Shouldn't Embrace a Fake

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A new year, due to some quirk of human psychology, represents a new chance to start over or renew neglected projects and well-meaning efforts of one kind or another. From say, sticking new material on a website when you haven't done so in ages, to dieting.2007 is a year that looks like it might be a bad one. Another round of horrifying bloodshed in Iraq and central Africa, a nuclear arms race in

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War with Iran? Don't Get Fooled Againwww.sauer-thompson.com/Seymour Hersh on the Bush administration's deliberations over IranIranians need freedom, but not a war - Iranian Women's Rights Campaigner and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Shirin Ebadi, speaking in February 2005"Instead, the most effective way to promote human rights in Iran is to provide moral support and international recognition to

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Welcome to all (and any) readers who are passing by or returning to Bring on the Revolution - a blog about injustice in all its varieties, with stories of the victims, perpetrators and the activists taking up the case of the former. Scrolling down, you can read some of these new posts:Cutting to the Chase - Police car chases are the staple of prime time TV entertainment, but in reality they are

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Welcome to any and all readers or passers-by. In the absence of posts on a more diverse range of issues, I have reproduced here some recent pieces of mine - hardly keeping up to date with news around the world, but covering some topics that are hopefully of some interest: Whatever happened to the heroes? - The US army killed their own poster boy last year in Afghanistan then lied about it, as the

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Liberal blogs for Hurricane ReliefAmerican Red Cross "Many people didn't have the financial means to get out. That's a crime and people are angry about it." - Alan LeBreton, a Biloxi resident "We are watching this devastation unfold on our televisions for days and you have to ask: where is the federal government?" - Senator Frank Lautenberg (Dem-New Jersey)"First question: Why have aid and

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June 19th, 2005 - Welcome to Bring on the Revolution, a blog about injustices around the world from the point of view of those at the receiving end and those trying to fight back. Please take a look around. The world of political blogs is, readers will discover, very heavily populated by the right. This, however, is an unashamedly, indeed aggressively, bleeding-heart blog that takes issue with

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Britain's Golden Day was the headline in the Independent on July 7th, which like the other papers delighted in London's successful bid for the 2012 Olypmic Games. The following day's headlines were rather different. [This post was written on July 7th, it has since been updated slightly]."This was not a terrorist attack against the mighty and the powerful. It was not aimed at Presidents or Prime

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This was a quick response to the recent massacres of demonstrators in Uzbekistan... The Leader of the Free World and the dictator of UzbekistanAndijan: The War on Terror's very own Tiananmen Square "Hundreds of bodies left outside a school were removed early Saturday, the witnesses said. Blood and body parts could still be seen on sidewalks and in gutters Sunday in Andijon, a city of about

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Kamalvathi undergoes treatment in Cuddalore, south of the Indian city of Chennai. Photo: Reuters (Sydney Morning Herald)Some ways we can make ourselves useful - places you can donate money: UNICEF, Oxfam, Cafod, Christian Aid, Red Cross, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Save The Children US government stingiest donor among rich countries to emergency relief - Boston GlobeBritish public forces

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"There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it and that’s just a fact."Donald Rumsfeld, with unintentional irony"So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." President Franklin D. RooseveltIn giving George W. Bush a second term

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Post US Election lament... The US elections have dealt a severe blow to the movements for peace, democracy, social justice, the environment, civil rights and workers' rights in the USA and around the world. This time, despite serious voting irregularities, Bush did not even need to cheat and was able to secure the popular vote, even in Florida. It hurts for sure, but all we can do is pick up

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Alex Higgins, London, September 3rd '04 respond_Alexblog@yahoo.co.uk New posts are written every month or so. A new one is due soon. Tragedies follow each other so quickly in an unjust world it is almost impossible to keep up - Burundi, Iraq, Darfur, Russia... There are no words sufficient to condemn the episode of child kidnap and murder that has just taken place in Beslan. The pictures tell

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Welcome readers, old and new, to another instalment of news items at Bring on the Revolution, a blog that highlights stories from all over the world in a grossly ambitious effort to promote peace, justice, internationalism, democratic values and general decency in opposition to the powers that be everywhere. As ever, the posting is long, so feel free to look around at leisure. Also, you can

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Hiya all, welcome and happy May Day, the day of international struggle against bad things. For new readers, this blog is a response to a fraction of the world's many injustices, highlighting a few stories from around the world with my own take on them, along with links to more information and other sites and ideas for taking action. For established readers - thanks for coming back,

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Above Google sometimes places an advert calling for people to join Britain's Labour Party. It has nothing to do with this site, and i would advise readers to do no such thing. Unfortunately, i do not know how to get rid of it. The adverts above are selected badly by a search engine and i don't endorse them, necessarily.

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A warm welcome to any net surfers and bloggers who may have strayed on to this blog. I've never done anything quite like this before and i'm still trying to figure out how it all works. The point of this blog is to put together a range of news stories from around the world highlighting various injustices and cruelties and suggesting things that people can do about them. It is definitely

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Rather to the point...

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