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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 Trump Unveils Plan to Take Over Gaza, Move the Palestinians and Turn it into the ?Riviera of the Mid... Wed Feb 05, 2025 11:11 | Will Jones
President Donald Trump has outlined an extraordinary new plan for Gaza in which the US will take over the strip and turn it into the "Riviera of the Middle East" while the Palestinian population is moved elsewhere.
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offsite link Why Does George Soros Want Britain to Rejoin the EU? Wed Feb 05, 2025 09:00 | Charlotte Gill
George Soros appears keen for the UK to rejoin the EU, judging by all the projects he funds. Why, asks Charlotte Gill ? and where are the howls from those who complain about Elon Musk's 'foreign interference'?
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offsite link Why Do Experts Think That Talking About Racism a Lot is Going to Reduce Rather Than Increase Racism? Wed Feb 05, 2025 07:00 | James Alexander
How are we going to get rid of racism when we have expects and intellectuals paid to find us guilty of racism at all costs? The answer is never, says Prof James Alexander.
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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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national / anti-war / imperialism / press release Saturday October 30, 2004 12:12 by Dublin Catholic Worker   text 3 comments (last - sunday october 31, 2004 02:51)
Halloween Return to Shannon, October 31st read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Friday October 29, 2004 20:01 by pc   text 4 comments (last - thursday november 04, 2004 12:00)
Hollywood hero-turned politician Arnold Schwarzenegger said today he would like to run for President of the United States. read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / event notice Friday October 29, 2004 18:49 by Barry Finnegan   text 2 comments (last - saturday october 30, 2004 15:43)
2pm to 5pm, Saturday 6th November, 2004. Teachers Club, Dublin 1.

Details:

ESF Feedback & ISF Future Visions Meeting: Details Below

------------------------------------------------------------ Background:

Prior to the Irish Social Forum (ISF) in early October and the European Social Forum (ESF) which was the following weekend, the ISF Working Groups weekly meeting discussed co-hosting a report-back meeting from the ESF in London. We intended to assist in bringing together different sectors and perspectives from the Global Justice Movement (or whatever you want to call it) to have an open discussion about how people got on over in London.

The second objective we outlined was to take the opportunity of the gathering to discuss peoples future visions for the ISF and to take action based on these discussions.

So if you want to learn more about the ESF and the ISF do come along, and/or if you want to share your views about the ESF and the ISF please come along.

Prior to the meeting, it may be helpful for you to read the World Social Forum Charter of Principles under the articles of which the ISF and the ESF takes place:

Charter

Solidarity, - Barry Finnegan
2.00 to 2.30pm:
The first 20 to 30 minutes will consist of seven report-backs of impressions and experiences of the European Social Forum (ESF) which took place in London on the weekend of 15th to the 17th of October this year which had over 20,000 in attendance. Where possible report-backs will be from ESF attendees rather than from those who spoke at ESF top-tables. The purpose of these report-backs is to stimulate the discussion and to get impressions from the different sectors/perspectives that travelled from Ireland to the ESF representing:
- trade unionism
- anti-war/ anti-imperialism
- development/ trade justice
- feminism
- republicanism
- community/ youth
- pro-democracy & anti-EU Constitution

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national / eu / event notice Friday October 29, 2004 17:45 by Donnacha   text 1 comment (last - monday november 01, 2004 18:01)
DAPSE ( Democracy and Public Services) - the civil society group campaigning against the liberalisation and privatisation of public services throughout Europe are having their first planning session since the Irish and European Social Forums.

The Agenda will include:

- discussion of EU-wide campaign against the draft European Constitution
- how to raise awareness re EU's proposed Internal Market Directive
- getting DAPSE website up and running
- funding

All are welcome.

The meeting will take place on Tuesday, November 2nd, between 7-9pm. To find out details of the location write to [email protected] or ring 085-7131903 read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday October 29, 2004 17:36 by Michael Hennigan
More than 100,000 civilians have probably died as direct or indirect consequences of the US-led invasion of Iraq, according to a study by a research team at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Friday October 29, 2004 15:03 by Eoin Dubsky
Six ‘Trident Ploughshares’ anti-war activists from Leicester, London and Norwich, who this June entered Burghfield, one of Britain’s WMD bases, and put it out of action for over an hour -- left Reading Magistrates’ Court this afternoon disappointed that the Magistrate had found four of them guilty of criminal damage (the other two had accepted ‘bindovers’ and so the charges against them were dropped), but pleased that their arguments about why their actions were valid under international law were at least heard sympathetically by the Court. read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / news report Friday October 29, 2004 14:55 by Lasc   text 1 comment (last - monday november 01, 2004 11:51)
The IUF which has been to the forefront in attacking Sinaltrainal and the boycott is to testify on behalf of Del Monte in Guatemala against its own affiliates. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Friday October 29, 2004 12:52 by ohdear
Clergy in the news. Brother convicted, and priest cleared (and guest which priest!)
http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/1028/abuse.html
http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/1028/horann.html read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Friday October 29, 2004 12:09 by Michael Hennigan   text 9 comments (last - tuesday november 16, 2004 19:07)
'The Irish poet Brendan Kennelly once described Bewley's Café in Grafton Street as the 'heart and the hearth of Dublin'. Dublin, he said, would not be Dublin without Bewley's. These sentiments have been echoed by generations of Irish people since Joshua Bewley first introduced tea to the Irish public in 1835.

Bewley's is a name synonymous in the history of Dublin and more recently of Ireland as a whole. Bewley's itself has a rich history of growth and survival which has proved it to be one of the last bastions of tradition in a changing Ireland.' read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday October 28, 2004 23:55 by ipsiphi .:.   text 1 comment (last - friday october 29, 2004 00:19)
Oh is it Fir Bholg or Milesians?
- I know the answers to this one.
but I can't publish it, it has too many F and C words. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday October 28, 2004 19:50 by Observer   text 28 comments (last - saturday october 30, 2004 20:02)
The jury in Mary Kelly's trial have just returned after three hours with a "guilty" verdict, ten to two. Sentencing will be tomorrow. The judge had directed the jury to ignore anything Mary had tried to say about the US military and Iraq. To further ensure a conviction he told them that a threat would need to be "immediate" for someone to have a lawful excuse to damage property. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday October 28, 2004 19:02 by Global Action   text 5 comments (last - saturday october 30, 2004 16:49)
On Wednesday the 3rd of November there will be a ceremony in University College Dublin to celebrate the college’s 150th anniversary. Students calling themselves “Global Action” are determined to use the occasion to raise serious questions about the current state of higher education. Three days of teach-ins are planned which will discuss a wide range of topics from the threat of privatisation, inequality of access and democracy in education. The events will culminate in what has been billed as a ‘Reclaim the Campus’ party. The event is timed to clash with the celebrations of the college authorities and is modelled on the ‘Reclaim the Streets’ carnivals that have been popularised world wide by the anti-globalisation movement. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday October 28, 2004 14:03 by Anton Ludvik
The consequences of the theoretical division between Bakunin and Marx have been huge. Historically we have seen, not a unified labour movement, but in fact three main components of the movement – Labourism, as well as Marxism/socialism and anarcho-syndicalism.

There have been sporadic attempts to link the two main components:
• Joseph Dietzgen’s turn to assist the victims of the Haymarket "bomb.
• Daniel Guerin’s anarchist publications.
• The German council communists’.
• The Friends of Durruti Group’s.

But these are a few exceptions, and the barriers of division are continually being erected with scares, smears and misinformation. If we are to even think of winning the common struggle, some unity will have to be reached and the truth about past events, beyond Marx and Bakunin, both clarified and placed firmly in the history books. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday October 28, 2004 13:10 by Peter Ravenscroft   text 2 comments (last - thursday november 18, 2004 16:59)
This is a request for support in asking the International Criminal Court to investigate war crimes in Iraq read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday October 28, 2004 13:05 by iosaf   text 2 comments (last - thursday october 28, 2004 21:12)
For the First year ever, Ireland has achieved position one which it shares with Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia and Switzerland.

Congratulations to all journalists, editors and media workers who have finally brought Ireland into the fold! read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday October 28, 2004 10:19 by Anonymous   text 10 comments (last - friday october 29, 2004 00:22)
international / miscellaneous / news report Thursday October 28, 2004 08:15 by zapatist   text 4 comments (last - sunday october 31, 2004 18:18)
60.000 to 80.000 people celebrated the victory of the "Red Sox" in Boston. However, police went crazy and shot a 22-year old girl with a "non"-lethal weapon in the eye. She died.
There was no specific action she did, there were no "riots" around her, nothing. She was just celebrating and chanting with others.

Meantime police is trained to see the enemy in us, the people: this is what we learn from this murder.

Here are some reports and links: read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday October 28, 2004 00:38 by pc
UK: Harm on Removal: Excessive Force against Failed Asylum Seekers - report by the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture (pdf) read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday October 28, 2004 00:37 by never trust the rich   text 10 comments (last - tuesday november 02, 2004 04:51)
For as long as time immemorial, the greedy rich, have been waging war against the poor/working class/peasants, all over the world.

From the shanty towns of africa, to the slums of brazil and sprawling run down council estates of the developed world. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 27, 2004 23:51 by Michael Hennigan   text 3 comments (last - monday november 15, 2004 17:12)
Some years ago, when I worked in a Swedish multinational, it issued a communication from HQ which read: 'Mr. X has asked to be relieved of his position as President of Y Division (the biggest in the group)..We wish Mr. X well in his future career.'

Mr. X of course go a pay-off to keep his trap shut and agree to a 2 yr non-compete clause. He was soon forgotten and the usual self-serving tripe about 'Group culture' continued to be peddled as if nothing had happened. read full story / add a comment
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