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Issue 2549 | September 2012

Editorial: Society and the Spectacle

by Milan Rai and Emily Johns | Comment | September 2012

Why the Olympics corrodes democracy

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Roouminations ...

News in Brief

Bradley Manning· Police clean up streets· Fracking trial· Nepal crisis· Western Sahara· More Bobby Sands· G4S occupation· CO 18 months· Pentagon prayers· Occupy acquittals ...read

Letters

Overcoming the barrier of ... amnesia· Scotland against NATO· Gilad Atzmon - don't bother!· Avaaz in Syria· Social community centres ...read

Reviews

David Swanson, War is a Lie
Laurie Penny, Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism
Rami Zurayk, Food, Farming and Freedom: Sowing the Arab Spring
Pat Barker, The RegenerationTrilogy

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Olympics news & comment

No cycling - it's the Olympics

by David Polden | News | September 2012

182 arrested at Critical Mass action

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For an Olympic Peace

by Pat Gaffney | Feature | September 2012

Pat Gaffney surveys faith groups' Olympic activism

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Olympics, politics and me

by Virginia Moffatt | Feature | September 2012

Peace campaigner Virginia Moffatt is (partially) seduced by the Olympics

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Editorial: Society and the Spectacle

by Milan Rai and Emily Johns | Comment | September 2012

Why the Olympics corrodes democracy

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More news

Hiroshima fast in Paris

by Dominique Lalanne | News | September 2012

European activists mark bomb anniversary

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Pit props

by PN | News | September 2012

Armpits 4 August ...

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Vulture fund loses case

News | September 2012

Privy council rules against FG Hemisphere

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Nagasaki day at Nationalist's headquarters

by Jane Tallents | News | September 2012

Die-in at SNP HQ

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News

Trident at risk

by Milan Rai and Emily Johns | News | September 2012

Activists force nuclear disclosure

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Chiapas community threatened with attack

by Maria Gomez | News | September 2012

Zapatistas call for international solidarity

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Withdrawal de-escalating Afghan war - report

by Gabriel Carlyle | News | September 2012

Partial US troop withdrawal leads to drop in Taliban attacks

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Lawyers challenge UK over Afghan 'kill list'

by Gabriel Carlyle | News | September 2012

Afghan bank worker pursues judicial review over assassinations

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Features & comment

Glorious

by PN | Feature | September 2012

Looking back at PN Summer Camp 2012

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George Lakey speaking tour

by PN | Feature | September 2012

PN hosts visit of veteran US radical

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Jill's Defence Weekly

by Jill Gibbon | Cartoon | September 2012
Police equipment on show at Eurosatory 2012

Nurturing conflict

by Val Archer | Feature | September 2012

Does mainstream education steal conflict from children?

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The poet offers his wares

by Jeff Cloves | Feature | September 2012

Jeff Cloves on a new book of poems by John Rety, and why poetry matters

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Hi-de-hi, campers

by Jeff Cloves | Comment | September 2012

Jeff Cloves reflects on PN Summer Camp 2012

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Liverpool diary: September 2012

by Jennifer Verson | Comment | September 2012

Jennifer Verson reflects on the intersection between activism and everyday life

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40 years ago: Military revolution

Comment | September 2012

Selections from the Peace News archives

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Activism and ... Decoys

Comment | September 2012

There had been an ‘issue’ in our group, so I had to talk face-to-face with someone. ...

Wales & Scotland

Trident welcome haunts first minister!

by Kelvin Mason | News | September 2012

Welsh activists mobilise against potential Trident relocation

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Lampeter Clowns close Faslane

by Lotte Reimer | News | September 2012

From Wales to Scotland ...

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Mainshill action

by Sarah Young | News | September 2012

Coal site shutdown

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Scottish anti-NATO coalition formed

by Brian Larkin | News | September 2012

Activists mobilise to pressure SNP

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On technology

by Tony Telford | Cartoon | September 2012

Almost...

by SEG | Cartoon | September 2012