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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

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A former Royal Marine was put on trial for ?stirring up racial hatred? after a Facebook post in which he urged people to protest peacefully about illegal immigration. It took a jury 17 minutes to find him not guilty.
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offsite link How to Reverse the Death Spiral of the United Kingdom Sat Feb 08, 2025 07:00 | James Alexander
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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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Our new censors tried to ban a video of a Christian bishop being stabbed by a Muslim extremist. But would they have done the same if it was a far-Right assailant attacking a Muslim? Of course not, says Prof James Allan.
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday July 14, 2009 22:11 by Paula Geraghty   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 15, 2009 09:45)   image 4 images
On Monday 13th July at 1pm the People Before Profit Alliance organised a protest in support of 13 contract cleaners who were unlawfully dismissed by the private contractor in the Custom House. read full story / add a comment
Johnny Cash Tribute Night
dublin / animal rights / event notice Tuesday July 14, 2009 20:02 by Irish Vegan Society   text 3 comments (last - friday july 17, 2009 12:54)   image 2 images
A great night is in store on the 16th of July for all fans of Johnny Cash. 7 bands will play a number of Johnny Cash songs. Proceeds will go towards the Irish Vegan Society. read full story / add a comment
Saying a bad word about St.Bono might render you liable for prosecution under the Republic’s new Blasphemy Law?
dublin / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday July 14, 2009 18:27 by Anti-hypocrite   text 2 comments (last - thursday july 16, 2009 18:54)   image 4 images   video 1 video file
"U2 now have their heads inserted so far up their anterior orifices it’s doubtful they’ll ever succeed in uncorking themselves. Does it not occur to them that the reason there might be a new resentment of the rich on this island is that we have just seen the mass of the people ripped off, homes lost, jobs destroyed, wages slashed, to save the sin-crinkled skin of the hoodlums who have run the economy into ruin? I suppose not" In his Counterpunch article Geldolf doesn't escape the withering contempt of scourge of hypocrisy Eamonn McCann ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday July 14, 2009 15:26 by PBPA   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 15, 2009 09:46)   image 1 image
People Before Profit Councillor Brid Smith and patients’ families learned today from the HSE in Cherryorchard Hospital that the controversial decision to close the Beech Unit has been reversed. The Beech Unit will remain open for the foreseeable future. This has been the result of a magnificent campaign by the families who care for the patients and the local community read full story / add a comment
The back of the promotional postcard.
dublin / arts and media / press release Tuesday July 14, 2009 13:14 by DCTV   text 3 comments (last - friday july 31, 2009 13:18)   image 7 images

WHAT TO EXPECT ALL WEEK

Responses from the street to economic collapse, including protests,
occupations, ballot box revolutions, and finally solutions. In short
content you'll find no where else on Irish TV sets. It's Dublin
Community TV, where else? read full story / add a comment
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derry / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday July 13, 2009 19:54 by Free Derry Activists   text 18 comments (last - tuesday july 21, 2009 15:04)   image 65 images
A make shift camp was created at Free Derry Corner earlier today in Derry's Bogside as a gesture of international solidarity with the continued Israeli Policy of wide spread house evictions.

Activists also held a street collection in an effort to raise money for Derry - Gaza Medical Aid Convoy currently being organised by the Derry Anti War Coalition who will be taking part in an international convoy to Palestine this coming October.

Several hundred information leaflets were also distributed to passers by on today's world wide event of which Derry played an important role. read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous / news report Sunday July 12, 2009 21:20 by Jio   text 9 comments (last - monday august 17, 2009 17:06)   image 2 images
Founded in 1977, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) is the oldest political organization active in Afghanistan. Its' priority is the establishment of a democratic and secular regime, based on the self-determination of the Afghan people and the recognition of the rights of women [1]. RAWA conducts clandestine educational operations. The activists are constantly at risk and thus act under cover of humanitarian action. However, RAWA is 'not a humanitarian organization', and its social activism is driven by political goals.

As part of a lecture tour in February, Alternative Libertaire had the opportunity to speak with one of its activists, Zoya. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Saturday July 11, 2009 20:31 by Sheila Green   text 4 comments (last - thursday july 16, 2009 17:09)   image 1 image
Protest at the Green Party special conference. read full story / add a comment
Steve McGiffen
national / eu / feature Saturday July 11, 2009 19:18 by Steve McGiffen   text 42 comments (last - saturday september 26, 2009 15:24)   image 5 images
Steve McGiffen is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the American Graduate School of International Relations and Diplomacy in Paris. He is editor of the radical left website Spectre [www.spectrezine.org] and, with Kartika Liotard, MEP, the author of Poisoned Spring: The EU and Water Privatisation (Pluto Press, 2009). Steve can be contacted at spmcgiffen [@] yahoo.co.uk

The Lisbon Treaty is the latest step in a process which, though its conception can arguably be traced to the Treaty of Rome itself, was born at Maastricht. This process is one of removing what is truly of fundamental importance to capitalism – principally, the way in which it manages its economy – from the realm of an at least partially democratised politics.

This is, moreover, not an exclusively European process, but one which is global. As parliamentary institutions have spread following the collapse of authoritarian systems of 'left' and right, they have simultaneously been deprived of a range of powers once considered proper to them. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Saturday July 11, 2009 18:45 by Judy   text 11 comments (last - friday october 14, 2011 22:14)   image 1 image
The Ryan report into the abuse that occurred in the industrial and reformatory schools – which were run by the religious orders and supposedly under the supervision of the state – has recently been released. At this system’s height there were 7,998 children in the care of the state. Since the release of the report we have heard politicians rushing to condemn this system and saying how shocking it was. I find it incredible to hear the politicians pandering to the press in their condemnation of the old industrial school system when they know that children under their care in 2009 are being neglected still. read full story / add a comment
Councillor Ted Tynan (WP)
national / anti-capitalism / press release Saturday July 11, 2009 10:43 by Workers Party (Cork)   text 11 comments (last - tuesday july 14, 2009 12:48)   image 1 image
A motion calling for an inquiry into the Corrib Gas Project has been put down by Councillor Ted Tynan and is on the agenda for next Monday night's meeting of Cork City Council (13.07.09). read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday July 10, 2009 20:00 by TD   text 1 comment (last - monday august 03, 2009 17:04)   image 3 images   video 1 video file
Irish Friends of Palestine Against Lisbon (IFPAL) is an organisation founded in June 2009 to call for a No vote in the imminent second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, on the grounds that the European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) is inimical to the interests of the Palestinian people and detrimental to Ireland's relationship with the Arab and Islamic world.

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international / anti-capitalism / news report Friday July 10, 2009 13:39 by Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC)   image 2 images
MANILA, Philippines. Members of the Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) staged a protest action in front of the World Bank office here today to demand the total and unconditional cancellation of all debts it is claiming from the Philippines and developing nations. The protest action coincided with the opening of the Group of Eight Nations’ (G8) 35th Summit in Italy which sets among its agenda the development of a comprehensive response to the global economic crisis.

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national / education / news report Friday July 10, 2009 10:17 by Vincent O'Malley   text 2 comments (last - friday july 10, 2009 20:44)   image 1 image
On RTE news on 18/5/09, Mary Hanafin stated, in her usual Orwellian fashion, that the Department of Social and Family Affairs (DSFA) had now provided a financial incentive to encourage those under 20 to go into training or education. This ’financial incentive’ involved cutting the dole to €100 per week for new claimants under the age of 20. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / racism & migration related issues / news report Friday July 10, 2009 01:42 by Residents Against Racism   text 3 comments (last - sunday june 01, 2014 20:46)   image 5 images
As the Dáil drew to a close, a group of Irish citizen children gathered to deliver a heartfelt message to Minister Dermot Ahern: please don't send our daddies away.

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Protesters wall off the embassy gate, while Diarmuid recites his poem.
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday July 09, 2009 23:00 by Freda   text 4 comments (last - friday july 10, 2009 10:12)   image 13 images   video 1 video file
Today, Thursday 9th July, about 50 members and supporters of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) held a loud and lively two hour demonstration outside the Israeli Embassy in Ballsbridge. Protesters chanted pro-Palestinian slogans and formed a ‘human wall’ at the gates of the embassy to symbolise the Apartheid Wall under construction by the Israeli government in the West Bank since 2002. Gardai informed the organisers that the embassy staff had all been given a half day due to the planned demonstration outside, meaning that the IPSC successfully closed down the embassy for half a day.
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If he is to serve his sentence He will have to live to 116 years. That's longer than Hitler. according to some.
international / crime and justice / news report Thursday July 09, 2009 22:51 by iosaf   text 1 comment (last - friday july 10, 2009 14:18)   image 2 images
Colonel Luis Arce Gómez was the right hand man of Luis García Meza who headed up the bloody coup d'etat in Bolivia on the 17th of July 1981. His extradition to serve a prison sentence for abuses of human rights and international drug trafficking has long been sought and expected as the least sign that one really can squeeze blood from stones without resorting to magical alchemy or that elusive Nobel prize category of finest plasterers or Quantum brickies.

As of writing this man born in 1938 can only enjoy only sparse internet biographical referential coverage in either Spanish language or English. Though I'm sure we can correct that soon enough. We need to explain so much about the chap who as usurping minister of the interior counted on such luminaries and advisors as the convicted NAZI and ex-SS officer, Klaus Barbie as well as the Italian fascist terrorist, assassin of trade unionists & champion of arch-catholic values Stefano Delle.

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national / eu / feature Thursday July 09, 2009 20:29 by O. O'C.   text 10 comments (last - saturday august 29, 2009 16:28)   image 2 images   video 2 video files
The Lisbon Treaty will result in: A big-state power grab; copperfastening Laval; permitting direct EU taxes; exclusive power regarding foreign direct investment, & Court power to harmonise; abolishing right to propose Commissioner; establishing an EU Federal State; requiring citizen loyalty; power to decide our rights; abolishing veto, binding us in 32 new policy areas; reducing National Parliament power; a self-amending treaty; enabling politicians over voters and militarizing EU. Thats all we know about so far, there may well be even more. read full story / add a comment
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antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday July 09, 2009 16:50 by Alan MacSimóin   image 1 image
The occupation of the Visteon motor parts factory in Belfast ended on May 3rd when the company gave in and agreed pay extra compensation of between six month’s and nearly two year’s money to the workforce for the loss of their jobs. read full story / add a comment
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