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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

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Human Rights in Ireland
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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Meltdown in the Scholarly Kitchen Mon Feb 24, 2025 13:00 | Dr Roger Watson
"Censorship!" cry the censorious Left as the Trump administration clamps down on wokery in publicly-funded research. Dr Roger Watson fact-checks the latest dubious claims from the DEI industry about book and word "bans".
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offsite link Merz Warns of End of NATO as Incoming Chancellor Set to Defy Washington by Forming Coalition With Ge... Mon Feb 24, 2025 11:38 | Will Jones
Friedrich Merz has warned of the end of NATO as the incoming German Chancellor is set to defy Washington by teaming up with the losing Left-wing parties, including the extreme Greens, and freezing out surging AfD.
The post Merz Warns of End of NATO as Incoming Chancellor Set to Defy Washington by Forming Coalition With Germany’s Extreme Left and Freezing Out Right appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Trump?s Cuts to USAID May Force Stonewall to Make Half its Staff Redundant, LGBT Organisation Claims... Mon Feb 24, 2025 09:00 | Toby Young
Trump's freeze on foreign aid has left Stonewall in the lurch, with US funding for its LGBTQ+ projects drying up, and up to half of its "shell-shocked" staff facing the chop.
The post Trump?s Cuts to USAID May Force Stonewall to Make Half its Staff Redundant, LGBT Organisation Claims. But Story Doesn?t Add Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Energy Geopolitics in a Putin-Trump World Mon Feb 24, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
In a world reshaped by Putin and Trump, the Daily Sceptic's Energy Editor explains how a thaw between Russia and the US could change the global energy game, sidelining Europe and lifting the Global South.
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offsite link News Round-Up Mon Feb 24, 2025 01:15 | 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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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
national / crime and justice / press release Wednesday October 15, 2008 01:00 by Mairtin Og
Long Kesh, October 16, 1974 read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday October 14, 2008 22:49 by Civil rights   text 1 comment (last - friday october 17, 2008 16:37)
Forty years on hear some of the activists from the coal face of Civil rights struggles from 40 years ago. Beats watching the telly! read full story / add a comment
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