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offsite link The Saker blog is now frozen Tue Feb 28, 2023 23:55 | The Saker
Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.? We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).?

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

offsite link Moveable Feast Cafe 2023/02/27 ? Open Thread Mon Feb 27, 2023 19:00 | cafe-uploader
2023/02/27 19:00:02Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of

offsite link The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
Pepe Escobar for the Saker blog A powerful feeling rhythms your skin and drums up your soul as you?re immersed in a long walk under persistent snow flurries, pinpointed by

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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

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offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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Human Rights in Ireland
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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Declined: Chapter 8: Locked Out Sat Feb 15, 2025 11:00 | Molly Kingsley
Chapter eight of Declined is here ? a dystopian satire by Molly Kingsley about the emergence of a social credit system in the UK. This week: the moment when the screws tighten to breaking point finally arrives.
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offsite link Farmers, is the NFU Really Worth ?36 Million of Your Money Each Year? Sat Feb 15, 2025 09:00 | David Craig
Is the NFU really worth ?36 million of farmers' money each year? David Craig says his experience of trying to get in contact suggests this bloated organisation needs a strong dose of the DOGE treatment.
The post Farmers, is the NFU Really Worth ?36 Million of Your Money Each Year? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Reform Takes Aim at the Green Blob Sat Feb 15, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Reform UK has taken aim at the Green Blob as it "puts the renewables industry on notice". Some have criticised its windfall tax proposal, but Ben Pile says it's smart politics as it will already be scaring away investors.
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offsite link News Round-Up Sat Feb 15, 2025 00:50 | Toby Young
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link J.D. Vance Slams European Leaders for ?Criminalising? Free Speech and Opening the Immigration Floodg... Fri Feb 14, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
US Vice President J.D. Vance has slammed European leaders for "criminalising" free speech, opening the immigration floodgates and brutally clamping down on dissent in his landmark address to the Munich Security Conference.
The post J.D. Vance Slams European Leaders for “Criminalising” Free Speech and Opening the Immigration Floodgates appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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derry / anti-war / imperialism Thursday May 08, 2003 15:43 by IMC Editorial Group

This Saturday, the 10th May, Tony Doherty, whose father Patrick was killed on Bloody Sunday, is to take part in a walk from the Bloody Sunday monument to the monthly vigil outside Raytheon, to protest the killing by US Parachuters of 13 innocent protesters in the Iraqi town of Fallujah.

The massacre, which took place on Monday April 28th outside the school that the 82nd Airborne Division were occupying, was later justified by an official US military cover story. The story claimed that soldiers had come under fire, and that they had only fired aimed shots at gunmen. The walk is organized by the Foyle Ethical Investment Campaign as part of the campaign against the arms trade and its presence in Derry, in the form of Raytheon. Continue to the complete article here

Links: Foyle Ethical Investment Campaign / Irish CND / Mairead Maguire on Raytheon / Fallujah and the Media (from Counterpoint)

national / miscellaneous Wednesday May 07, 2003 15:40 by IMC Editorial Group
"On May 14, the various Irish groups campaigning on trade issues invite you to join in a public lobby of the Dail. We will meet at the Dail, and collectively lobby our TDs. Under the banner of the newly formed Trade Justice Ireland coalition, we will present our elected representatives with four simple questions about clear injustices:

"1. Why do trade rules allow the economies of third world countries to be undermined both by unfair barriers to products from poor countries, and by unfair practices of export subsidies and dumping?

"2. The new trade agreements that Ireland is currently involved in negotiating are unlikely to benefit developing countries. Poor countries do not have the negotiating capacity to protect their interests in new areas, and their concerns with existing agreement are being ignored. Why is there still a push to create even more trade rules?

"3. Why, in Ireland and within Europe, is there so little transparency and democracy in the negotiation of trade rules?

"4.Why do the rules of international trade, negotiated and enforced through the World Trade Organization, take precedence over all other international agreements on human rights, labour rights, and the environment, and why are the negative effects of trade on social, gender and workers' issues still being ignored by trade agreements?".

Full newswire article

Trade Justice Ireland / Comhlamh / Oxfam Ireland / Trocaire / ActionAid Ireland

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international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday May 06, 2003 15:45 by IMC Editorial Group
"It is effective” says Fatme, of the looting of the museums and ministries, “By destroying a people’s heritage, you destroy their past and future. We have been made - to them - a people without a past - our records and archives are destroyed, burnt in the ministries. We become a people without names, no records to say we exist. It is not the objects themselves we are sad about, it is what they represented to us. We are the oldest civilisation, but we are presented to the world as terrorists, as fanatics. Only people who fight with small guns are called terrorists. Bush, who bombs us with cluster bombs, and strangles us with the embargo, is a ‘civilised man.’".

Continue to full report from Caoimhe Butterly here

New report: 8th May
Previous reports from Iraq by Caoimhe
26th April: Lessons Unlearned
29th April: Crowd Control American Style

dublin / miscellaneous Monday May 05, 2003 15:47 by IMC Editorial Group
"And at times what a brilliant party, a mellow Police presence, a bizzare eclectic mix of music (Cyndi Lauper!)which went down a storm with the crowd. Best of all to me was the crowd. Kids, teenagers, locals, and members of the areas growing immigrant community came together. It was everything an RTS should be - peaceful, joyous, and a celebration of what a city community could be".

Continue to full newswire report here or analysis here.

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national / anti-war / imperialism Monday May 05, 2003 15:44 by IMC Editorial Group
The IAWM has called a National Assembly for 10th May in Liberty Hall, Dublin. This article is a critique of the widely published agenda for the Assembly which was posted to Indymedia recently.

"At present, the movement is not a democratic movement. It is ad hoc. Those who assumed responsibility for running a national campaign should be thanked and congratulated. Now, however, we have the time and space to properly and democratically constitute the Irish Anti-War Movement. The forthcoming assembly provides the first opportunity to set this in train. The status of this assembly should be seen as interim or provisional; a preliminary gathering dedicated to the proper establishment of a democratic Irish Anti-War Movement."

Continue to the complete article here

Initial report and reactions from attendees.

Another report.

IAWM 10th May Assembly Agenda and Details

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