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offsite link ?It?s Time to Scrap the Asylum System? Fri Feb 21, 2025 17:17 | Will Jones
It's been exasperating to watch as, in defiance of the wishes of Western electorates, the cultural make-up of our countries is radically transformed. It's time to scrap the asylum system, says Lionel Shriver.
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Germany's 'firewall' against the AfD is set to saddle voters with the same pro-migration Leftoid Government they're desperate to get rid of. When will the Right realise the Left has them over a barrel, asks Eugyppius.
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Listening to the US Vice President's speech in Munich, Prof James Allan says he found himself muttering "my kingdom for a J.D. Vance" ? because he can't see one in the rest of the conservative anglosphere right now.
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Sometimes Trump's mercantilist thinking is so radical as to be wildly, crazily brilliant, as with the Gaza Riviera plan. But on Ukraine it's letting him ? and the West ? down, says Ian Rons.
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According to a new political science article highlighted in the Guardian, "Misinformation and radical-Right populism must henceforth be understood as inextricable". Apparently, everyone else always only tells the truth.
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cork / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday May 11, 2004 - 15:52 by John   text 2 comments (last - tuesday may 11, 2004 - 16:38)
Several dozen protesters from a range of campaigning groups demonstrated outside Cork's Rochestown Park Hotel this morning (Tuesday) at the opening day of an 'informal' European Union Health Ministers gathering. ... read full story / add a comment
ALL welcome to speak their mind (no reservations necessary)
dublin / arts and media Tuesday May 11, 2004 - 14:50 by redjade   text 8 comments (last - wednesday may 12, 2004 - 13:07)   image 18 images   audio 1 audio file
{ photos by redjade } (c) ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday May 11, 2004 - 13:58 by Kevin   text 11 comments (last - wednesday may 12, 2004 - 12:01)   image 2 images
Cllr. Kevin Humphreys tabled a Labour Party motion at last night's city council meeting, which called on Dublin City Council to fly white flags of peace along the Liffey Quays during the visit of President Bush, as a symbol of solidarity with the United Nations and support for International law. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / summit mobilisations Tuesday May 11, 2004 - 11:46 by Joe Black   text 12 comments (last - wednesday may 12, 2004 - 16:25)
5,000 word article on the march by one of the DGN organisers of it. More of an account of the planning, the media and what happened on the day than an analysis of what it all means. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday May 11, 2004 - 09:07 by BOYCOTT EXXONMOBIL!
Paul Bremer III was Kissingers' Assistant to the Secretary of State ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday May 10, 2004 - 15:47 by Pit Stop Ploughshares   text 5 comments (last - wednesday may 12, 2004 - 13:18)
As serious nonviolent resistance grows to the US/UK war on Iraq, brothers and sisters find themselves before the courts and in custody.

A simple letter or a postcard can make all the difference to a sense of solidarity, morale, a sends a signal to jail/brig authorities that our friends are not alone etc.

**Consider sending a letter or postcard to a military resister or anti-war prisoner listed below.

Here in Ireland, Mary Kelly goes to trial on June 15th. in Kilrush, Co. Clare.

The Pit Stop Ploughshares return to the Four Courts on May 27th.
www.ploughsharesireland.org ... read full story / add a comment
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galway / anti-war / imperialism Monday May 10, 2004 - 15:09 by karen eliot   image 5 images
Support for Mary Kelly is building on the streets each week in Galway. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday May 10, 2004 - 14:52 by LASC
the offices of the Colombian trade union Sintraminercol were bombed last Monday. the President of the Union was in Ireland last July to address the ICTU conference. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / politics / elections Monday May 10, 2004 - 04:11 by Keith Martin   text 6 comments (last - tuesday may 11, 2004 - 18:37)
Keith Martin has declared himself as an Independent candidate for a seat on Westport Town Council. ... read full story / add a comment
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clare / anti-war / imperialism Saturday May 08, 2004 - 17:51 by David   text 4 comments (last - tuesday may 11, 2004 - 02:16)   image 5 images
Anti-War activists show their support for Mary Kelly who is shortly facing re-trial on charges resulting from her disarming of an American Warplane en-route to Iraq.
She did nothing more than her civic duty under the terms of the Nurenberg war crimes tribunal that states and protect the Irish constitution.

"Individuals have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against the peace and humanity from occuring"

If convicted, she faces up to ten years in Jail. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday May 08, 2004 - 12:05 by R Glenn
THE FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) conference starts on 11 May. In the wake of last year's national strikes against low pay, the two keynote conference debates will be on pay and the union's link with New Labour. ... read full story / add a comment
kildare / eu Saturday May 08, 2004 - 12:05 by Eoin Dubsky   text 5 comments (last - monday may 10, 2004 - 16:00)
Peace campaigner and environmentalist Eoin Dubsky is running for election to the European Parliament and he needs your help. Because he is running as an independent candidate in the East (Leinster) constituency for the European election, he needs 60 registered voters from the area to sign up as "assenters" endorsing his campaign. The authorities have made it quite difficult, where you need to sign the nomination form in the County Council head office during office hours next week only , and not including lunch. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Saturday May 08, 2004 - 11:52 by Dominic Carroll   text 3 comments (last - wednesday may 12, 2004 - 12:41)
A Cork anti-war activist will appear in Cork District Court on Monday (10th May) following a peaceful protest at the Cork-based weapons manufacturer, DDC Ireland Ltd., a subsidiary of the powerful US multinational, Data Device Corporation (DDC). ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Friday May 07, 2004 - 21:48 by John Meehan   text 45 comments (last - thursday may 13, 2004 - 17:05)
social and democratic, feminist and ecologist, peaceful and in solidarity

February 15, 2003, was a historic date: tens of millions of people, all around the world, demonstrated to stop the war. Moreover, these unprecedented mobilisations show a strong political will to impose universal peace, justice, international solidarity and social equality on those in power.
That day a new Europe was born. A rank and file Europe that is confronting the European Union and the ruling classes whose instrument it is. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / summit mobilisations Friday May 07, 2004 - 14:39 by Sean Heffernan   text 11 comments (last - saturday may 08, 2004 - 07:53)   image 15 images
These are some prictures I took of mayday. More to follow, depdening on what day I'm in the mood to spend ages dscanning them in, that is! ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Friday May 07, 2004 - 12:24 by John McDermott
A trying day in the life of a Fianna Fail Minister for the Environment. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Friday May 07, 2004 - 06:42 by Anti-War Ireland
Convenor: Fintan Lane (087 1258325)

PROs/Spokespersons: Caoimhe Butterly (087 2134160) and Tim Hourigan (087 9777703)

Anti-War Ireland is a broad-based and inclusive national alliance of anti-war groups. It is explicitly anti-racist and anti-sexist. ... read full story / add a comment
national / summit mobilisations Thursday May 06, 2004 - 21:05 by Labour Youth   text 32 comments (last - tuesday may 11, 2004 - 10:50)
As well as taking part in the “Another Europe is Possible” demonstration on May 1st, members of Labour Youth were prominent at events over the Bank Holiday weekend organised by the Dublin Grassroots Network. Activists ignored the scandalous hysteria in the corporate media and intimidation by the Gardaí to partake in a number of peaceful actions over the weekend for a Europe based on social needs, not big business wants. ... read full story / add a comment
international / summit mobilisations Thursday May 06, 2004 - 14:13 by Kashmiri   text 2 comments (last - thursday may 06, 2004 - 15:56)
Mayday was celebrated with renewed vigor in Kashmir on both sides of the dividing Line of Control between India and Pakistan, at a time when US imperialists and its allies continue to kill innocent Iraqi youth, workers and children. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / summit mobilisations Thursday May 06, 2004 - 14:09 by reporter   text 42 comments (last - monday may 10, 2004 - 14:13)
The Government set out to thwart civil rights this weekend. It did it to frighten people away from their democratic right to protest and to keep numbers down at demonstrations against President Bush. It will not work. ... read full story / add a comment
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