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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday September 12, 2011 15:03 by Glengara
Civil servants and discredited bankers and politicians are walking away with millions. They say it is their entitlement. Who entitled them to all this? The Government should bring in an un-entitled law read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / event notice Monday September 12, 2011 14:26 by Levy Johnson
Venue: Fresh Claim Cafe, 48 King Street, Belfast, 7pm to 10pm Date: Thursday 15 September 2011 Book launch followed by discussion, food & drink served. All welcome. read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Monday September 12, 2011 14:13 by Declan Cullen
Minister Burton really gives new meaning to the phrase 'turncoat'. A real Fox running with the Hounds. There are countless videos on the internet of Joan Burton defending the poor..... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Monday September 12, 2011 13:50 by Paddy Healy
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A report arising from a statement by the Restaurant Association of Ireland was carried on several RTE news bulletins to-day and was also discussed on Morning Ireland on which a spokesperson was interviewed. The content of the statement is totally misleading. The news item and the interview provide examples of the uncritical broadcasting by RTE of employer propaganda. The RAI had claimed that the Irish restaurant sector had created 490 new jobs in the months of July and August and that 164 of these had been due to the abolition of JLC/ERO system by the courts on July 7. It went on to argue that the JLC/ERO system should not be restored as it was an obstacle to job creation. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Friday September 09, 2011 14:45 by MediaMega
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IRELAND is in the grip of a "heroin epidemic", while alcohol abuse among the young is leading them towards drug use, two youth support organisations warned yesterday. The Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children were told by Spunout and the Aislinn Adolescent Addiction Centre that alcohol was both a gateway and relapse drug and that issues such as the availability of alcohol and its below-cost selling needed to be tackled as a matter of urgency. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Friday September 09, 2011 13:04 by Simon Basketter
Papers found in Tripoli expose links between Libya and MI6 relating to rendition and the torture of prisoners. Previous investigations were a whitewash, this must not be allowed to happen again. New documents expose years of murderous interventions in Libya by British governments. Within days of celebrating their role in overthrowing former dictator Gaddafi, the shallowness of British claims to support democracy in Libya was shown in evidence of their support for torture. After years of denial and cover-up by both Labour and Tory governments there is now panic in the political establishment. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday September 09, 2011 05:57 by FYI
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The 32 csm have organised a demo for Sat 1st October at 2 o'clock to protest against the unjust internment of Marian Price. All Republicans are asked to attend to protest against this detention of Marian in an all male prison at the decision of a Tory Minister read full story / add a comment
national / housing / press release Thursday September 08, 2011 18:16 by Pat Riot
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This open Letter of Acceptance of Contract was sent to Michael Noonan T.D. Minister for Finance and copies have been sent to all TDs and media outlets, We the People of Ireland will take the responsibility that the stooges in the Dáil are afraid to take. We accept the contract to resolve the financial crisis and the mortgage scandal, we can and will remedy the situation, we are not paid by big business or shadowy power brokers, We accept this challenge because our political leaders have shown themselves to be impotent, we stand willing and able to take all actions necessary to get us out of the hole that the politicians have put us in. Minister Noonan You have [10] Ten days to reply to this acceptance of contract after which time we will deem it as binding. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday September 07, 2011 23:27 by Freeman Gerry
Fascinating example of double-speak and newthink in the latest of RTE's press-releases on behalf of our overlords in the IMF: http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0907/imf-business.html Instructive and personally therapeutic to sift through the seemingly innocuous and dry-as-dust statements therein and see what lies behind the appearance of 'news.' read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday September 07, 2011 14:03 by James Turley
James Turley looks at developments in Libya: the divisions among the rebels, how most of the Left opposed NATO intervention. More at link. As it threatened, briefly, to do this spring, the regime of Muammar al-Gaddafi has collapsed. The forces previously known as the Libyan rebels have seized power in most of the country, including the capital, Tripoli - assisted, of course, by months of aerial bombardment by Britain, France and America. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday September 07, 2011 13:43 by pat c
Latest on Libyan situation.: 52 more airstrikes by NATO and truce talks continue in some areas. Tense situation in Tripoli as water is restored to some. The humanitarian crisis in Libya is deepening as NATO-backed forces of the National Transitional Council (NTC) continue their offensive to crush forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, with the assistance of NATO bombing and special forces troops. Yesterday AFP reported artillery fire as NTC prepared to attack Surt, Gaddafi’s home city in the center of Libya’s Mediterranean coast. Surt was heavily bombed on Sunday, with NATO concentrating most of its 52 airstrikes on Libya that day on the city. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday September 06, 2011 18:27 by pat c
I wouldn't totally agree with the analysis in this article by Peter Symonds but its interesting in the way it deals with the divisions among the rebels and the continuing NATO bombing of Libya. Full story at link below. Pro-Gaddafi forces continue to control Gaddafi’s home town of Sirte, Bani Walid and the regions of Jufra and Sebha. Attention is currently focused on Bani Walid, a desert town of 60,000 about 150 kilometres south-east of Tripoli. Negotiations for its surrender have broken down and opposition militia have cut off the town. Over the weekend, NATO carried out more than 200 sorties over Libya, bombing 100 targets including near Bani Walid, Sirte, Hun, Buwayrat, Sebha and Waddan. Despite NATO air support and estimates that pro-Gaddafi fighters number fewer than 100, the NTC is using the siege to force tribal elders to negotiate a surrender. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday September 05, 2011 20:32 by Joe Hill
Gig will take place at 8.30 pm on Wednesday, September 7th, at The Pearse Centre, The Ireland Institute, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin. The ticket prices range from €5 (uw) to €10. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday September 05, 2011 17:46 by Ciaron
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We are ten years into a war on Aghanistan, 20 years into a war on Iraq and 250+ daze into the confinement without charge of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who has done so much to expose the true nature of these wars. Wars that have no end date, no popular support and presently little visible opposition. read full story / add a comment
dublin / education / event notice Monday September 05, 2011 16:51 by Tadhg
Físean (DVD) agus plé le Dónal Mac Billings - san Ionad Buail Isteach, Siopa Connolly Books, 43 Sráid Essex Thoir, BÁC 2 read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday September 05, 2011 13:27 by Hamid Taqvaee
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The people of Kurdistan in the frontier region of Iran, Turkey and Iraq have been under the Iranian artillery fire and the Turkish jet fighters’ attacks during the past month, on the pretext of fighting the armed forces of two organisations: PKK and Pejak. These bombardments were accompanied by cannons and artillery from the two bordering countries of Iraqi Kurdistan and military attacks on villages, as a result of which many people were killed, wounded, displaced and a great deal of casualties was caused. In just one day, on August 21st, seven civilians from a family, including a child, lost their lives as a result of the Turkish air raid. Kurdistan Regional Government’s authorities and the Kurdish media in Iraq stated that the inhabitants of 35 villages have been forced from their homes due to these attacks. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday September 05, 2011 13:13 by Peter Symonds
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Peter Symonds analyses the reports of dovuments found in Gadaffis security chiefs office. Peter concludes that they show that NATO was in cahoots with Gadaffi until shortly before they started bombing Libya. A hoard of secret documents uncovered in the Tripoli offices of Libya’s External Security Organisation on Friday has exposed the lie that NATO began bombing Libya for humanitarian reasons or has moved to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi because of concerns over his regime’s abuse of democratic rights. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Monday September 05, 2011 09:13 by PrisonReporter
In 1981, the wishes of hunger strikers, including IRA prisoner Bobby Sands MP, were respected and doctors supervised political death-fasts in Occupied Ireland by political prisoners demanding their international rights as Irish POWs refused by Margaret Thatcher. However Marian Price and her sister Dolours Price were on hunger strike for 200 days while their comrades Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg died, which Marian described as follows: read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Sunday September 04, 2011 19:02 by Des Dalton
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A time of economic crisis provides a moment in time when the revolutionary can more readily get the ear of the people. At such times people are open to the possibility of radical change. It is of such a juncture that Lenin wrote: “A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation” however he also warned “not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution”. A climate of economic crisis not only opens up possibilities for the genuine revolutionary but also for the false prophet of racism and fascism. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Saturday September 03, 2011 14:29 by RB
Bad news for the AGW deniers. Another one of their papers is discredited. Even the editor of the journal that published it is resigning. The editor of a science journal has resigned after admitting that a recent paper casting doubt on man-made climate change should not have been published. The paper, by US scientists Roy Spencer and William Braswell, claimed that computer models of climate inflated projections of temperature increase. It was seized on by "sceptic" bloggers, but attacked by mainstream scientists. read full story / add a comment |
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