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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 22, 2004 18:56 by john petrovato
 35 comments (last - friday january 14, 2005 00:55)
Bethlehem today is little more than a sleepy town. But not the same sleepy town it was 2000 years ago. After 4 years of military incursions, oppression, and violence, the town remains beseiged. Frequently the town is put under “curfew”, meaning that the residents are not allowed to leave their homes. More frequently, roadblocks and checkpoints are placed in and around the town to make travel to and from Bethlehem nearly impossible. Under such conditions, it is not surprising that the town expects very few tourists and visitors during the holidays. Rather than being greeted on the street, we are asked by young children in Bethlehem for help in finding missing relatives, taken by Israeli forces. Refugee camps have sadly become permanent fixtures, with United Nations relief replacing Christmas spirit. Army green seems to be the color of this Christmas season, with coils of barbed wire trimming the roads and alleys. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday December 22, 2004 13:23 by pi
3 comments (last - wednesday january 05, 2005 17:24)
Barcelona's offer to host a peace conference in 2005 has been rejected by Ariel Sharon. This marks a rejection of the Sharon administration of centring peace efforts on the Barcelona process, which the EMP (The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership) is usually known by. The EMP reflects the reality of Israel's geographical location as a state of the Mediterranean and one who trades with the EU. It also reflects the reality of Israel's demographic origins, Isreal is a European nation, the vast majority of whom are descended from European jews. The dictatorship of Libya is not participating in the EMP. Today Tony Blair on a visit to the region has proposed holding a conference in London in 2005. This supports the joint US/UK strategy as announced at the Bush & Blair press conference which followed the death of Arafat at Percy hospital in Paris and his burial ceremony in Cairo. read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 22, 2004 12:00 by i remember
3 comments (last - thursday december 23, 2004 23:09)
As I watched the annual Televised lottery numbers taken from the drum this morning by little orphan children, and the first prize awarded to a ticket whic had been bought in the Catalan Town of "Sort" which translates to the english "Luck", I thought about the concept of luck as one of the other writers of the collective in the last days as wondered about "Belief". read full story / add a comment
An Imam (author of a book which advised the faithful on how to punish their wives) has been released
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday December 21, 2004 19:56 by gnñ gnñ gnñ gnñ chug chug chug baby e baby e baby
6 comments (last - friday june 10, 2005 14:06)
Barcelona's high court has released on various conditions, an Imam who was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment in November for inciting gender violence. It was the first prosecution under a law passed by the Tripartite. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 21, 2004 13:30 by Terry
4 comments (last - thursday december 23, 2004 23:52)
An investigation into the Suas ‘development education’ course and the whole issue of World Bank window dressing. See also: http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68015 read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 21, 2004 13:25 by Terry
5 comments (last - wednesday december 22, 2004 23:00)
Backgrounder on the social origins of world hunger and on the policies of the I.M.F. and World Bank. read full story / add a comment
louth / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday December 21, 2004 12:35 by Brian Vernon
8 comments (last - thursday january 27, 2005 04:24)
....Also on Tuesday, unknown armed men shot dead an Iraqi nuclear scientist north of Baghdad, witnesses said. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday December 21, 2004 02:12 by aurora
The Winter Solstice takes place on Tuesday (December 21) at 12:42pm read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Monday December 20, 2004 21:00 by awaiting the end of blunkett ID/DNA vulgarity.
8 comments (last - sunday january 02, 2005 19:46)
2004 common era will be seen as just another year. too many people died of, yeah the horsemen did gallop and Babalon is still occupied. But the man in the White House says She will be free soon. read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / other press Monday December 20, 2004 15:19 by redjade
3 comments (last - tuesday january 11, 2005 14:13)
you know you're paranoid when the US Government agrees with you.... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday December 19, 2004 01:31 by anonymous person
Desire to curb liberty correlated with exposure to television news and religiion read full story / add a comment
louth / miscellaneous / other press Saturday December 18, 2004 16:30 by Brian Vernon
1 comment (last - sunday december 19, 2004 15:13)
he British arms firm BAE yesterday refused to comment on documents showing mysterious payments linked to UK weapons purchases by General Augusto Pinochet. Sums of up to $5m (£2.57m) are listed in Gen Pinochet's bank records obtained by a Senate investigation in Washington. Some appear to be linked to arms purchases he agreed to make from Royal Ordnance, a BAE subsidiary. http://www.12thharmonic.com/wordpress/index.php?p=548 read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Saturday December 18, 2004 15:17 by Michelle Clarke
8 comments (last - friday march 11, 2005 17:41)
The Home Secretary, Mr. Blunkett chose to resign. There is a need to re-focus in line with characteristics of integrity, justice, equality and honour.........Administratively the vulnerable in Irish society are not being protected - nb the hospital/pension issue at present. read full story / add a comment
galway / miscellaneous / event notice Friday December 17, 2004 18:19 by Orla Ni Chomhrai
An end of year bash that unashamedly caters for activists in Galway. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Friday December 17, 2004 14:23 by nerd
4 comments (last - wednesday january 05, 2005 17:34)
No one expects Mr Bush to weaken his support for a project that has become an article of faith among many Republicans. But analysts said that they expected sceptics in Congress and in the Pentagon to try to whittle down the vast sums being spent on the project, some $10.2bn this year alone. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday December 17, 2004 11:58 by Kieran O'Sullivan
14 comments (last - tuesday december 21, 2004 13:51)
Rwanda Invades Democratic Republic of Congo again and the commercial media don't say a word. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday December 17, 2004 05:47 by redjade
'Under a presidential directive and authorities approved by administration lawyers, the CIA is allowed to capture and hold certain classes of suspects without accounting for them in any public way and without revealing the rules for their treatment.' read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday December 17, 2004 00:16 by Appeal
9 comments (last - friday january 14, 2005 09:26)
Ever since the major disarmament actions in Jan/Feb 2002 there has been an Irish military presence at Shannon Airport. Their mission? To ensure the unfettered use of the airport by the US military. Each day that Irish soldiers guard US military flights they are accessories to America's criminal wars. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday December 16, 2004 22:33 by Mark Johnson
27 comments (last - monday august 08, 2005 04:36)
Despite being acquitted by Colombia's courts, political pressure has led to the conviction of three Irishmen. International observers are aghast at how contrived and insufficient evidence has led to this conviction. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday December 16, 2004 22:13 by Peter Quinn
1 comment (last - saturday december 18, 2004 19:48)
The Partition of Ireland did not create a peaceful state as what was hoped by the British. There was serious tension in the North in the 20’s and 30’s and the Unionists consolidated their state. There were several stringent measures taken in to end IRA action. Many Nationalists believed that the border would be re-fixed so that they could live in the Irish Republic however this never materialized and the Unionists dissolved Nationalist majority councils and took over their power. In 1921 and 1922 Proportional Representation (PR) was ended in General and Local Elections and although this broke the Government of Ireland Act, the British took no action. Nationalists walked out of Stormont in 1922 after the Unionists got rid of PR and the Unionists then re-drew the council ward boundaries. read full story / add a comment |
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