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national / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 18, 2008 13:44 by Howard Holby
Ireland has rejected the Lisbon Treaty with a decisive majority and very high turnout, period. Yet, the Commission and the European Council declared the dead Lisbon Treaty still ‘alive’. The fallacious premise the EU has chosen as a basis for continuing to justify the unjustifiable course of Lisbon: “the Treaty has been ratified by 18 states”. The factual premise however is this: 1) The Lisbon Treaty has been rejected by Ireland; 2) The Lisbon Treaty, in its earlier form as the ‘EU Constitution’ [1], had already been rejected by France and Netherlands long before the said 18 countries started to ratify it under a new name. For many of the NO voters one of the main reasons to reject the Lisbon Treaty has been the fact that the Lisbon Treaty is already a dead treaty to begin with. If the EU insists that Europe’s ‘problems’ can be solved only without the agreement of its 500 million voters and only with a version of Lisbon Treaty - that is the real problem of Europe. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday June 17, 2008 19:34 by SP
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A 15 minute video on the detention and deportation of Scott Parkin by the Australian Security Intelligence Oraganisation. In 2004 Scott Parkin a nonviolent anti-war activist organiser from Texas was detained in Australia as a possible national security threat and deported. Video contains interviews with Scott and Australian activists. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday June 17, 2008 17:10 by tomeile
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Spiegel Online writes that a broad ,cross party consensus is emerging in Israel for an attack on Iranian nuclear facilites. Dani Yatom an ex Mossad chief ,but a Knesset member for the Israeli Labour Party and not considered a hawk ,is quoted as saying "We no longer believe in the effectiveness of sanctions .A military operation is needed if the world wants to stop Iran." Bruce Riedel, a Middle East expert who spent many years working for the CIA, says that an Israeli strike before the end of Bush’s presidency is the most likely scenario and that , if that happens , the middle east will go up in flames. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 17, 2008 16:53 by Zapata
Working Class voted overwhelmingly against the Lisbon treaty. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / news report Tuesday June 17, 2008 16:17 by Micky Joe anarchist
3 comments (last - thursday june 19, 2008 08:52)
being on the winning side good news for fishermen. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 17, 2008 16:02 by S - Mac
Radical Movements have been destroyed over and over again by their own membership. What are the traits and what can we do about it? read full story / add a comment
national / eu / news report Tuesday June 17, 2008 16:01 by Willy Joe anarchist
The Irish Farmers Association exposed as a paper tiger read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Tuesday June 17, 2008 15:54 by Dave Butler
National Electrical Contractors Ireland (NECI) Launch New Website read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Tuesday June 17, 2008 14:49 by O. O'C.
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Nearly seventy seven thousand voters in the South East Counties of Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford and Waterford voted No in last Thursday’s Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. Just over sixty seven thousand voted Yes. Yet already a process is under way to try to overturn the democratically expressed majority will of the people of this region and of the rest of the State. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / news report Tuesday June 17, 2008 14:11 by Mark P
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David Harvey makes his long-running City University of New York course on Volume One of Karl Marx's Capital available for free online. read full story / add a comment
kilkenny / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday June 17, 2008 14:10 by Sean Walsh
Commemoration and other events at Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny, Friday and Saturday 27th and 28th June 2008. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / press release Tuesday June 17, 2008 12:52 by Maggie, Global Women's Strike
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The sixth conference of the World Archaeological Congress to be held in Dublin at the end of June/beginning of July is hosting US military speakers and a session co-organised by the US military read full story / add a comment
national / environment / event notice Tuesday June 17, 2008 12:30 by draoi
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Secret plans to “dispose” of barrels of toxic hydrogen cyanide in Wicklow have been leaked. Demonstration called. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Tuesday June 17, 2008 12:19 by draoi
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Call goes out from for people’s presence at demonstration against "disposal" of gas chamber chemical next Friday at 6pm. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Tuesday June 17, 2008 11:21 by David Manning & Miriam Cotton
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A two-part interview with concluding analysis of how even journalists who make a big effort to write independently can subconsciously adopt the dominant framing of the mainstream media. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 17, 2008 11:16 by Yuri
If an act of savagery such as the bombing of an airliner, the murder of captive on an internet video, the assassination of a politician etc with the publicity it generates in the modern media can shake the will of a society that is more economically powerful and militarily stronger, an individual already contemptuous of decadent democratic politics, might be inclined to believe it is a greater crime not to use political violence and information manipulation to achieve his ends. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Monday June 16, 2008 16:07 by Laura Broxson
SAY 'NO' TO ANIMAL CIRCUSES! read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday June 16, 2008 14:33 by Leo Magee
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Any attempt at developing a revolutionary project has lost all direction. All energy has been consumed within the so-called anti-war movement. The anti-war movement will be in disarray with the election of Obama. The Left are dead but serve a very useful purpose by mopping up people who amazingly want to do something to change the world. A plethora of groups now exist to neutralise dissent by consuming possible dissenters into dreary political parties (all of whom claim to be left or socialist or green or in the Irish context 'left republican' etc etc) read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Sunday June 15, 2008 21:42 by Alan MacSimoin
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In 1984 ten young women and one young man, members of MANDATE trade union, started a long strike at Dunnes Stores in Dublin's Henry Street. They walked the picket line in support of their union's policy of solidarity with the anti-apartheid struggle and boycotting South African products. It only ended when the government agreed to ban the import of South African fruit & veg until the apartheid regime was overthrown. Dublin City Council is erecting a plaque outside Dunnes on Henry Street to honour the strikers who played a significant role in the anti-apartheid struggle. This will be on Monday, June 30th at 8am (yes, 8am!) read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday June 15, 2008 16:02 by pat c
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Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi opposes any aggression by US Imperialism and also speaks on how repression in Iran has been stepped up. Full text at link. With the international community fixated on Iran's nuclear ambitions, Ebadi says there is dwindling scrutiny of human rights in her homeland, and Ahmadinejad, has taken advantage of this to increase repression."Since the world started focusing on the nuclear programme, the human rights situation in Iran has worsened every day," says Ebadi, who won the Nobel prize in 2003. Dozens of activists have been prosecuted and condemned to prison, the lash or both. Arrests, detention and judicial harassment are increasing, with journalists, lawyers, students and trade unionists particularly targeted. read full story / add a comment |
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