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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
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offsite link NHS Staff Should be Given ?Enforced Career Breaks? for Their Mental Health, Says Prince of Wales Wed Mar 05, 2025 18:23 | Will Jones
The Prince of Wales has suggested that NHS staff should be given "enforced breaks" in their careers for the sake of their mental health to help prevent burnout.
The post NHS Staff Should be Given “Enforced Career Breaks” for Their Mental Health, Says Prince of Wales appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Trump Compares Starmer?s Britain to Communist China in Podcast Wed Mar 05, 2025 15:30 | Dr Frederick Attenborough
President Trump compared Keir Starmer's UK to Communist China after the Government ordered Apple to give it backdoor access to users' encrypted data. This isn't far-fetched, says Frederick Attenborough: it exposes us all.
The post Trump Compares Starmer’s Britain to Communist China in Podcast appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link French Navy Refuses to Rescue 60 Migrants From Dinghy Filling with Water Off French Coast ? and Inst... Wed Mar 05, 2025 14:07 | Will Jones
French navy officers refused to rescue 60 migrants on a cramped boat filling with water off the French coast ? and instead radioed and asked UK Border Force to come and take them to Britain.
The post French Navy Refuses to Rescue 60 Migrants From Dinghy Filling with Water Off French Coast ? and Instead Demands UK Border Force Come and Take them to Britain appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Vance?s Message to Europe: Give Up the Information War and Get the Hell Out Wed Mar 05, 2025 12:00 | Will Jones
If European states don't want to be treated as enemies of the US they're going to have to retreat from the war they've been waging on behalf of Washington's old regime and disarm their censorship machines, says N S Lyons.
The post Vance’s Message to Europe: Give Up the Information War and Get the Hell Out appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link A Diplomatic Dust-Up for the Ages Wed Mar 05, 2025 09:00 | Ramesh Thakur
Trump's art of the deal always has been to ask for everything, judge the point at which the other party has made his final offer and then take what he can get, says Ramesh Thakur. That's what he's doing with Ukraine.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday October 19, 2008 21:09 by Richard Walsh
Further Orwellian moves by the London administration in pursuit of a Big Brother society are evident in plans to require photographic identification when purchasing a mobile telephone. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Sunday October 19, 2008 16:04 by Laura Broxson
Get active for animal rights! read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-war / imperialism / press release Sunday October 19, 2008 14:21 by Richard Walsh   text 7 comments (last - friday october 24, 2008 00:45)
Provo plans to protest a parade glorifying British aggression throughout the world is an exercise in hypocrisy, a spokesman for Republican Sinn Féin has said. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday October 19, 2008 08:05 by Gary MacLennan   text 4 comments (last - monday january 26, 2009 13:27)
I began these writings on Catholicism in response to Ciaron O’Reilly’s request that I review Harry Browne’s Hammered by the Irish. I have never met Harry but I am a long time friend of Ciaron O’Reilly one of the defendants in the series of trials that followed the Catholic Worker /Ploughshare Activists’ attack on an American War plane that was stationed in a hangar at Shannon Airport in clear violation of Irish neutrality. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday October 19, 2008 05:26 by Vets   text 1 comment (last - sunday october 19, 2008 15:35)
"Iraq Veterans Against the War" Attacked by "stay at home patriot" Cops on Horseback, Long Island, New York U.S.A.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-60628185897533...hl=en

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national / environment / news report Saturday October 18, 2008 23:26 by Contaminated Crow
A power station in Mayo, pylons in Meath and Kildare, incinerator in Meath, gas terminal in Kerry and a race track in Co Tipperary read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday October 18, 2008 19:14 by breton in Ireland
news in english about the repression in britanny against the independantist left wing movement read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Saturday October 18, 2008 17:09 by David Arthur Walters   text 1 comment (last - saturday october 18, 2008 18:51)
We want instant salvation: we want to be born anew from the injected liquidity. But it is difficult to make people have faith in anything, particularly in their fellow creatures if not in the supreme personality. read full story / add a comment
waterford / animal rights / press release Saturday October 18, 2008 12:43 by Bernie Wright
LATEST NEWS from the Irish Coursing Club.(ICC website)

Message
Waterford Coursing Club would like to sincerely thank Lord Waterford, their loyal sponsors, landowners, greyhound owners and working members for their help and support over the years.
Regrettably their 2008 coursing meeting has to be cancelled but they look forward to being back in action in 2009. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Saturday October 18, 2008 12:35 by Michael Gallagher
IVAW gives a voice to active duty service people and veterans under pressure to remain silent. Hear what they have to say to Irish Times columnist Fintan O'Toole.

Abbey Theatre
Upper Abbey Street
Dublin 1

Tuesday 18 November
6.15-7pm

Booking info: 01 8787222

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international / crime and justice / other press Friday October 17, 2008 12:00 by Raul
Riot police in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo have clashed with other police officers who are on strike.

The confrontation happened when the striking officers tried to force their way past barriers to reach a building used by state governor Jose Serra. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / press release Friday October 17, 2008 10:02 by Dorothy Gale
Stop the Attacks on Women's Rights Leaders in Nicaragua

URGENT ACTION ALERT - For Immediate Release

As an organization that shapes and advances sexual and reproductive
ethics that are based on justice and respect for the capacity of women
to make moral decisions about their lives, Catholics for Choice (CFC)
calls on all SRHR and HR related international organizations abroad to
act in solidarity with the Nicaraguan women's rights defenders who are
being harassed by the Sandinista government.
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national / gender and sexuality / press release Friday October 17, 2008 09:51 by Dorothy Gale   text 2 comments (last - wednesday october 29, 2008 16:13)
Marie Stopes International (MSI) has become the first reproductive
health agency to offer Irish women abortion consultation and
counselling services by telephone. The charity has also reduced its
fees by the average cost of a discount air fare from Ireland to
England, to alleviate the financial hardship faced by many Irish women
who have to travel overseas to obtain abortion services.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday October 16, 2008 17:28 by Swedish network Ofog   text 10 comments (last - tuesday october 12, 2010 11:27)
Weapons used in the American led war on Iraq were successfully disarmed by a group of activists. Early this morning members of the Swedish peace network, Ofog, broke into Europe's leading weapon manufacturer BAE Systems and disarmed 20 grenade launchers of the type used in Iraq. Anna Andersson and Martin Smedjeback used hammers and bolt cutters to begin this disarmament. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday October 16, 2008 16:41 by Susan
27 October to 2 November 2008 is the Global Week of Action to Ban Cluster Bombs. The Global Week of Action takes place one month before the Oslo Signing Conference on 3 December 2008, where more than 100 governments are expected to sign the new Convention on Cluster Munitions that bans the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster bombs.

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dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday October 16, 2008 12:51 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - monday october 20, 2008 12:11)
Debate on the Middle-East – what is the answer to the crisis?

Speakers:

Moshe Machover, Israeli socialist & anti-Zionist

Raymond Deane, Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Yassamine Mather, Iranian political activist & founding member of HOPI

Thursday 13 November, 7.30pm. Teachers Club, 36 Parnell Square Dublin1 read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / event notice Thursday October 16, 2008 11:03 by Comhlámh
Bloom is a movement of people in Ireland taking action together for global justice. We believe there is a need to address and challenge the root causes of global inequality. Join us and help to build a global justice movement in Ireland! read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / press release Wednesday October 15, 2008 16:03 by Fred Johnston
'The Word Tree,' newsletter of the Western Writers' Centre, Galway, takes literary news, events, launchings, and new poetry . . . . read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Wednesday October 15, 2008 12:46 by Noel Murphy
Independent Workers Union National Secretary, Noel Murphy, has called on workers in the public sector to take action in solidarity with those working in the private sector. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday October 15, 2008 04:46 by Catholic Worker/Ploughshares   text 4 comments (last - friday october 17, 2008 07:14)
Anti-War Vigil *GPO Monday October 20th. 4pm-6pm
"Stop Irish Participation in the War!"
"U.S. Military Out of Shannon, Iraq & Afghanistan!"
*Outside GPO, O'Connel St. Dublin read full story / add a comment
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