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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 14, 2006 23:09 by Liam Mullen
INTRODUCTION Eleven years after the conflict, which claimed an untold numbers of lives, it seems that it is only now seeping into the western consciousness the scale of the human genocide that occurred in this region with the shooting down of President Habyarimana’s airplane, and the death of Burundi's President Cyprien Ntaryamira. Writing for the Irish Times a year after he first reported on the conflict, Ed O’Loughlin, states that the unrest between the Hutu majority and the wealthier Tutsi minority runs deep and that massacres occurred here back in 1959, 1961, 1963 and 1972. In many ways O’Loughlin’s report sounds like a class struggle between rich and poor, uneducated and educated, and this kind of struggle has been replicated in many other arenas and trouble spots around the world. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 14, 2006 22:58 by Liam Mullen
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Philip Knightley wrote ‘The First Casualty’ in 1975, and the updated edition was published in 2003 by André Deutsch to take account of new conflicts. The New Yorker describes it as “Disturbing, even dismaying, yet also in its painful way, enormously entertaining.” The renowned journalist, John Pilger, describes the work as follows: “Philip Knightley’s clear-sighted and principled book throws down a challenge to journalists to examine their role in the promotion of war.” (Book Jacket) The title of the work is derived from what American Senator Hiram Johnson said in 1917: “The first casualty when war comes, is truth.” read full story / add a comment
international / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 14, 2006 22:28 by Liam Mullen
Introduction. When looking at the reasons why the NGO’s might be up in arms when facing the policies of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, I have decided to focus on Trócaire and Concern, two Irish organisations passionately involved in debt relief for the Third World. Concern has been in existence since the Biafra famine of 1968, and has become internationally recognised in the intervening years. Trócaire was set up by the Irish Catholic Church in 1973 as a response mechanism to combat disasters, famines, and to offer aid to the “world’s poorest and most oppressed peoples”. (http://www.trócaire.org). read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / other press Tuesday February 14, 2006 22:18 by Liam Mullen
As part of the 2003 Wexford Festival Opera, the Dublin writer Hugo Hamilton gave a talk about his new work – The speckled People. A tall thin man, dressed in black, Hugo stepped up to the podium in the children’s section of Wexford Library and began to speak softly about his latest work. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / event notice Tuesday February 14, 2006 20:36 by freek
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Call on EPA to prohibit GMO potato experiment Irish farmers, food producers and consumers will hold a public protest at the entrance to the Dáil at 1.15pm on Wednesday 22 February to call for the Government to ban genetically modified (GM) crops in Ireland, and prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from authorising the release of GMO potatoes in Co. Meath. 22 February is the deadline set by the EPA for public submissions on a proposal by BASF Plant Science GmbH to conduct a five-year GMO potato experiment at a Teagasc research centre in Summerhill, Co. Meath, located near the Hill of Tara in the Boyne Valley, one of the oldest cultivated sites in Europe. The experiment is due to begin this April and continue till October 2010. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday February 14, 2006 17:24 by pat c
At last some backbone is shown by one of the larger parties. Labour have stood up against Islamic Fundamentalism. In the piece below, Liz McManus criticises the way the President was allowed to address a\meeting in Saudi Arabia where women were kept behind an opaque screen. Women are treated like animals in Saudi Arabia where the mullahs \wield abnsolute power. This is what the Irish mullahs dream of. pat read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday February 14, 2006 11:56 by Oliver Delaney
This is an article in this week's Sunday Mirror article about RTE's celebrity businessman ripping off migrant workers read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Tuesday February 14, 2006 10:28 by Michael O'Brien
Come to the Pavillion in Swords and talk urge shoppers to show their support for Joanne by boycotting Dunnes read full story / add a comment
international / bin tax / household tax / water tax / press release Tuesday February 14, 2006 04:21 by RFE
RFE goes on the road to celebrate 25 years of irish pragrammimg on WBAI read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday February 14, 2006 01:56 by Liam Mullen
Calls were made recently for the arrest in Germany of Uzbekistan’s Interior Minister Zokirjon Almatov. Almatov was in Germany to receive medical aid following a diagnosis of cancer. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday February 14, 2006 01:31 by Liam Mullen
There are no “magic bullet” formulas to the corporatist culture prevalent among huge conglomerations with budgets that exceed that of certain countries in the southern hemisphere according to Minister of State of Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation, Conor Lenihan, speaking at the February Comhlámh debate in Bewley’s café theatre. He was speaking about the difficulties of changing the mindset of large corporations operating in third world countries read full story / add a comment
kildare / history and heritage / event notice Tuesday February 14, 2006 00:24 by Muireann Ni Bhrolchain
Public lecture by Dr Muireann Ni Bhrolchain on Tara in Irish literature, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Co Kildare. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday February 13, 2006 23:15 by redjade
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»Perhaps what is most disturbing about her blog post is that the raid did not seem to be directed at her - this is just 'normal' life in Baghdad - Iraq's 'New Normal';« read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / event notice Monday February 13, 2006 23:04 by Pádraig
Connolly Society read full story / add a comment
national / environment / other press Monday February 13, 2006 22:13 by freek
Irish Farmers Journal reports the IFA and ICMSA and Macra na Feirme Ireland three largest farming bodies make no submissions on GM?? Why is that? I call shenanigans http://www.gmfreeireland.org/ifm/index.php It is the bioethics ctte who look at the ethics of GMO http://www.bioethics.ie/pdfs/GM%20Report1.pdf The survey at the end is overwhelming negative. Yet they call for consumer choice!! I don't think trials would get sabotaged if people felt that there was a level playing field between the public and enviromental safety and corporations influence, even with biotethics committees and EPA environmentalists. The Bio-ethics Ctte conclusions are all very sensible but again I don't think the reflects the forces for and against GMO, the bioethics survey for Ireland and the well publicised GM Debate in the UK are overwhelmingly negative. There is this phrase "consumer choice", does the average consumer have choice in the USA to buy GM or not I don't think they do. Just as this one is. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Sunday February 12, 2006 23:10 by Elephant O'Room
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In a Channel 4 documentary to be broadcast on Monday, Ryanair, Europe's largest budget airline, will be accused of security lapses, dirty aircraft and making its cabin crew and pilots work dangerously long hours. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / event notice Sunday February 12, 2006 15:20 by Ailbhe Smyth
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People Before Profit Public Discussions WASTE AND INCINERATION: WHO PROFITS? A public discussion organised by People Before Profit will be held in the Meeting Room at the Irish Film Institute, Eustace St, Dublin 2 on Friday 24 November at 7.30 pm. Speakers include Aine Walsh (Meath Anti-Incinerator Campaign, Joan Collins (Ind. Councillor and Campaign Against the Bin Tax), Nicola Curry, (Ballyogan Environmental Group, and facilitator Catherine Swift (People Before Profit). Admission is free. Future dates: 10 March ‘Tigers of a Different Stripe? Women in 21st Century Ireland’; 7 April ‘Your Health: Whose Business?’; 12 May ‘Who Owns Ireland?’. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / news report Sunday February 12, 2006 14:13 by Sean Crudden
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The recital given last night by Bettina Jensen and Karola Theill in The Peppercanister was their first in Ireland. Almost certainly it will not be their last. It was "an education" for the (older) people in the audience. Maybe the performance would have been lost on younger people. However there were one or two young people there - like concert pianist Finghin Collins who really seemed to be caught up in the performance, engrossed and happy. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday February 12, 2006 05:04 by furlong
Faced with the undeniable and now unavoidable truth of the criminality of the Bush, Blair and Howard governments, what do you suppose are the consequences for these men? People are fined for parking and littering offences but murder and plunder on an international scale incurs no penalty it would seem. [The ICC is a puppet court, an institution with zero credibility.] Is the lack of legal and public response surprising? Advice from leading consultants and ‘people managers’ was/is unanimous; once a decision is acted upon by a government and a nation is committed to a particular course, the people are swept along regardless of compromising evidence released during or after the event. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Sunday February 12, 2006 02:53 by Fedayeen
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The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine unsuccessfully tried to unite all the Palestinian left on one list in the recent elections for the Palestinian Parliament. read full story / add a comment |
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