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offsite link Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
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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

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

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

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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Human Rights in Ireland
Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link News Round-Up Wed Feb 05, 2025 01:58 | Richard Eldred
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 Starmer Hands Prisoners 6.6% Pay Rise at Cost of ?4.4 Million Tue Feb 04, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer has handed prisoners a 6.6% pay rise at a cost of ?4.4 million despite depriving 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel allowance because money is so tight.
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offsite link EU Plans to Let States Deport Failed Asylum Seekers and Criminals in Reform to Refugee Convention Tue Feb 04, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
The EU is drawing up a plan to overhaul its 1951 Refugee Convention that prevents countries from rejecting asylum seekers at their borders in a belated effort to address Europe's exploding migrant crisis.
The post EU Plans to Let States Deport Failed Asylum Seekers and Criminals in Reform to Refugee Convention appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link How Afraid Should we be About the Government?s Plan to Come up With a Legal Definition of ?Islamopho... Tue Feb 04, 2025 15:00 | Sam Bidwell
The prosecution of a man for burning the Qur'an shows how Islamic blasphemy codes are becoming embedded in criminal law. Coming up with a legal definition of 'Islamophobia' will accelerate this process, says Sam Bidwell.
The post How Afraid Should we be About the Government?s Plan to Come up With a Legal Definition of ?Islamophobia?? Very Afraid appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link US to Stop UNRWA Funding and Withdraw from UN Human Rights Council Tue Feb 04, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order today withdrawing the US from the UN Human Rights Council and removing all US funding for the Gaza agency UNRWA.
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international / anti-capitalism / other press Monday September 20, 2004 01:14 by John Meehan
Alan Thornett has written a critique of Alex Callinicos's approach to RESPECT and the SSP - Callinicos is a leading member of the British SWP.

Thornett's article is at the link below :

http://www.socialistresistance.net/thornettcritiquecll.htm read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Monday September 20, 2004 01:03 by John Meehan
The Italian revolutionary socialist Livio Maitan died at the age of 81 on September 16 2004 - tributes can be read at this link :

http://www.socialistresistance.net/liviomaitan.htm read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Sunday September 19, 2004 23:50 by john mcdermott   text 2 comments (last - monday september 20, 2004 22:35)
Only people protest can stop them... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday September 19, 2004 23:11 by hs   text 11 comments (last - thursday december 23, 2004 15:03)
interesting article in the weekly worker on homophobia by oppressed people and what the lefts attitutde is and should be.

Criticising the oppressed
The gay rights group, Outrage, is renowned for its headline-making campaigns against homophobia - of, for example, the Church of England, Robert Mugabe and elements of the Palestine Liberation Organisation. This led to a fierce denunciation by the SWP’s Lindsey German and a heated exchange on BBC2’s Newsnight. Most recently Outrage has highlighted the murderous lyrics of certain Jamaican reggae artists. But is it right to criticise the oppressed? Peter Tatchell, Outrage’s leading activist, explains his approach

http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/544/tatchell.htm read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday September 19, 2004 14:50 by Michael Hennigan   text 1 comment (last - sunday september 19, 2004 17:38)
Last June, during the voting on the referendum on citizenship, an exit poll of 3.300 voters which had been commissioned by RTE Radio, found that 36% of yes voters at 166 polling stations agreed that the main reason for their vote was because 'the country is being exploited by immigrants.' Another 27% had agreed with the statement that 'there are too many immigrants in the country.'

It may surprise some of those voters who believe that immigrants (the bulk of whom are here on approved work permits) are costing us lots of money, that we are still receiving large transfers from the European Union. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Sunday September 19, 2004 13:45 by John Cahill
Wed nesday 22 September
Socialist Forum
The Politics of Food
Speaker Dr Juliet Bresson
Doyles Pub, College Green, 7.30pm read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Sunday September 19, 2004 02:38 by john mcdermott
The Luas has crashed,and Bertie will re-open the damaged fiasco/700 million euro toy train,. a few days before his major re-shuffle.Question is will this venture be a goldmine for the legal profession or will Mary Harney curb their avarice? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday September 18, 2004 19:33 by redjade   text 2 comments (last - friday september 24, 2004 17:33)
louth / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Saturday September 18, 2004 18:21 by Sean Crudden   text 29 comments (last - saturday september 25, 2004 16:34)
Will the Church transform itself or will it decay and allow a phoenix to arise from the ashes? read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / news report Saturday September 18, 2004 17:56 by moonwolf
Twenty two years after the massacre of hundreds of Palestinian refugees in the Camps at Sabra and Shatila and the then Israeli defence minister Ariel Sharon now presides over the continuing reign of terror as Israeli Prime minister. Despite having been one of those held responsibile for the massacre which provoked outrage worldwide at the time and led to mass demonstrations by israeli citizens, Sharon now heads the Israeli state and has succeeded in reinventing himself as a peace maker amongst the international community.Sharon continues to refuse to offer an apology for his part in this war crime. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday September 18, 2004 17:25 by moonwolf
The I.O.F continue their reign of terror against the Palestinian people killing a 19 yesr old girl in Nablus and in a seperate incident abusing a worker in Jerusalem forcing him to drink their urine.

http://english.wafa.ps/bodym.asp?field=tech_news&id=1589 read full story / add a comment
ECT
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday September 18, 2004 14:38 by s.fleming   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 22, 2004 17:23)
749 receive ECT.The question to psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses is: Would you be prepared to administer this to one of your loved ones? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday September 18, 2004 13:53 by Member
For the first time a Greek professional soldier refuses to join a war mission. During the attack on Iraq, seaman apprentice Giorgos Monastiriotis refused to embark on the battleship "Navarino" that was leaving for a mission in the Persian Gulf. A few days ago, 16 months after the war he was courtmatialled and imprisoned. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Saturday September 18, 2004 12:41 by Malatested   text 2 comments (last - monday september 20, 2004 23:58)
Direct Rule Minister John Spellar has announced that we can expect to pay an average of Ł415 for our water by 2008. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Saturday September 18, 2004 07:53 by Migratory Bird
I have written a few reflections on the daily poetry movement, my featured poem of the day and also inluded a link to my page on the imc network. Please feel free to submit orginal peices to me to be featured. Rise up! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday September 18, 2004 02:40 by Lest We Forget The Righteous Peacekeepers
Count Folke Bernadotte, special UN Mediator to Mid East ...responsibile for saving 20,000 Jews from Himmler was assassinated this day, September 17 1948. The man directly responsible for his death, Nathan Friedman-Yellin was sentenced, pardoned after 5 months and was allowed to serve on Knesset read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Saturday September 18, 2004 01:14 by moonwolf   text 1 comment (last - saturday september 18, 2004 14:33)
Extreme physical conditions have a way of bringing out the strangest behaviors that nature can muster. Just ask physicist John E. Thomas. Two years ago, he and his colleagues at Duke University in Durham, N.C., were working with intense lasers in a high-vacuum chamber at temperatures next to absolute zero. They were manipulating tiny clouds of lithium gas. When the scientists turned off the lasers, peculiar things began to happen. At first, the microscopic puff of lithium billowed out of the spot where the lasers had held it. But then, instead of expanding evenly in all directions, as any normal gas would, the lithium cloud morphed into a pancake. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Saturday September 18, 2004 00:57 by moonwolf
In Asia, China is pushing to increase its influence in military and strategic affairs in an attempt to counter US strategic interests in the region. read full story / add a comment
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