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national / miscellaneous Tuesday March 25, 2008 - 12:57 by P O'Brien
 19 comments (last - saturday march 29, 2008 - 08:18)
The old adage ‘You can fool some people some times, but you can’t fool all the people all the time’ comes to mind when summing up Provisional Sinn Fein’s ‘grass roots’. At what point will they stop being fooled and maybe step back and question the honesty and integrity of their party leader Gerry Adams ? Having once been a supporter and admirer of Adams I now find it difficult to listen to him. He was interviewed by Ursula Halligan on TV3’s The Political Party on Sunday, March 2nd . I have not read any comments regarding this interview on any of the usual sites where this might be debated or discussed. The first part of the interview was taken up with how Sinn Fein got it so wrong in the 26 counties Elections and what direction they where now taking etc etc. Ursula then went on to ask Adams………… ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday March 25, 2008 - 10:21 by Jim
3 comments (last - tuesday april 07, 2009 - 20:42)
Two intellectually lazy revisionist views have gained ground in the popular Irish historical mythology in relation to the Easter Rising. 1) That the Easter Rising was a a deliberate romantic blood sacrifice by rebels who knew in advance that they would fail. 2) That the Easter Rising was a terrorist act. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday March 24, 2008 - 16:29 by Ed W
1 comment (last - monday march 24, 2008 - 20:21)
Right-wing paramilitaries in Colombia killed four more civilians this month. If the western media had done its job during the recent border confrontation between the government of Alvaro Uribe and its neighbours, the death squads might have thought twice before adding to their bloody hit-list ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday March 23, 2008 - 18:04 by Kevin T. Walsh
20 comments (last - sunday october 21, 2012 - 14:45)
As you read the posting below, I would suggest you check Inydymedia coverage on two topics: Brain Injury writtten Michelle Clarke and the posting of Mr. Justice Barr's Report and the shooting dead of John Carthy...... ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday March 23, 2008 - 12:58 by Irish Basque Committees
1916 Dublin. Irish republicans rise up in arms against the British Empire and proclaim the Irish Republic. Young Basque nationalists send telegrams to congratulate the brave rebels. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday March 22, 2008 - 19:07 by Cael
26 comments (last - monday april 14, 2008 - 22:11)
In Athens, election of officials was not practiced because it was thought to favor the wealthy and powerful. Giving decision-making power to elected officials was thought to take away the power of the people and effectively make the state an oligarchy, that is government by an elite group ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Saturday March 22, 2008 - 15:23 by Cael
20 comments (last - thursday may 08, 2008 - 22:48)
It seems to me that we have well and truly returned to the days of Michael Davitt and the Land League. Where huge numbers of people are being bled dry by a small group of Landlords. And what do these latterday Landlords do with their ill gotten gains? Like the Landlords of old, they take the money out of the country. The Landlord class in Ireland have bought overseas land and buildings to the sum of 1.2 trillion euro - that right 1200 billion euro. ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday March 22, 2008 - 15:01 by Cael
1 comment (last - saturday march 22, 2008 - 20:08)
ATTEMPTS by some members of Limerick City Council to place obstacles in the way of the new regeneration boards must be condemned, a spokesman for Republican Sinn Féin said this week. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday March 21, 2008 - 17:43 by KevinT. Walsh
1 comment (last - saturday march 22, 2008 - 00:16)
Contemporary Irish society is more divided than it has been for a long time - or so it was written last week. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday March 21, 2008 - 07:49 by James R
Army Sergeant Ronn Cantu is serving his second tour in Iraq. He's also a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. Last year, he rose to prominence as a rare outspoken troop against the war and occupation when he spoke live from his base in Iraq, to America's radical online radio network Democracy Now. Then he described how he was scared out of his mind during the interview for expressing opinions the military machine simply did not want the public to hear. This time round, in an interview for another radical media outlet, we chatted over Myspace, about how he is utilizing the internet to organise against the occupation from its front line, just as the Winter Soldier events were getting closer. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday March 20, 2008 - 11:29 by Jim
We've been here before. In 1992 Bill Clinton who never served in the military or fired a shot in anger challenged President George H W Bush, who was one of the youngest US fighter pilots of World War 2 and who was shot down and rescued at a sea while others who participated in the same attack were captured and cannibalised by the Japanese. In 1996 Bill Clinton challenged Bob Dole, a veteran of the the WW2 Italian campaign who was wounded by a German machine gun and waited for nine agonising months to be evacuated to an American hospital leaving his right arm paralyzed preventing him from shaking hands, a serious disability for a politician. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday March 16, 2008 - 23:20 by Fu Manchu
14 comments (last - wednesday march 19, 2008 - 21:32)
Firstly, I do not intend to exhonerate or belittle human rights abuses by the PRC in this piece. However, I feel it appropriate to provoke the thoughts of the readership & our horizontal media community on what exactly are the main issues & ethical social principles at the root of the recent violence in Tibet & other provinces of the PRC with ethnic Tibetan communities. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Tuesday March 11, 2008 - 03:07 by Rob Henderson
Feel free to circulate this text at will. It might not mean much but if you think it could make a difference somewhere then post it there, or write your own version. Those in the most ideal positions of our national press are not investigating this issue. The people on the ground only have so much time to spread around each day. It is up to you to provide whatever you think we need, we'll accept all the help we can get. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday March 10, 2008 - 00:21 by ronan
15 comments (last - wednesday march 26, 2008 - 14:41)
Most people will be aware that Irish troops are being sent to Africa as part of an EU 'peace-keeping' mission to Chad and Central African Republic (CAR), but many will be relatively unaware of the background to the conflict and the reasons for the mission. This article looks at some of the realities behind the rhetoric and suggests some more plausible motivations for the intervention. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Saturday March 08, 2008 - 11:57 by Cael
16 comments (last - sunday march 23, 2008 - 15:30)
Personally, the biggest problem I see with private property is that western society has not been able to put any limit on it. It has become, or always was, psychotic. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Friday March 07, 2008 - 17:51 by Tracy Donegan
3 comments (last - monday march 10, 2008 - 13:23)
Tokophobia is a debilitating fear of childbirth which in many cases is so profound that it can lead to a complete avoidance of pregnancy or a pregnancy filled with terror and anxiety. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Friday March 07, 2008 - 11:02 by Des
13 comments (last - sunday march 09, 2008 - 22:58)
Foreign kictchens bought instead oof our own. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday March 02, 2008 - 13:42 by Gecoga
3 comments (last - monday march 03, 2008 - 17:49)
This articule makes an analisis of the current junture of multitudinary marchs in Colombia. It reviews the situation of human rights violations and the causes of the Colombian conflict to finally explore alternatives to achieve peace in the country. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Saturday March 01, 2008 - 12:43 by Movie Fan
12 comments (last - wednesday march 05, 2008 - 22:33)
It does what it says on the tin. A simplistic plot. A damsel in distress must be rescued by a hero against impossible odds. A black and white vision of good and evil. BUT WHAT EVIL! Like no other movie I have ever seen, perhaps Schindler's List, this movie demonstrates the evil of ethnic cleansing, tyranny and injustice that the West would like to pretend does not exist. Nobody can see this movie and not be changed, outraged and forced to do something for the people of Burma and other peoples oppressed through out the world. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday February 24, 2008 - 17:27 by seosamh an chnoic
1 comment (last - tuesday march 11, 2008 - 21:14)
I spent about 10 years involved in voluntary community initiatives like local publishing, charity concerts, youth concerts. My motivation at that time was intensely political and leftist. I believed that the economy was a machine run by the merciless logic of profit and that any involvement in it meant unacceptable compromise. Therefore, my own political principles meant that I marginalised myself from any formal involvement with it. On the sidelines, from my Comfortable And Quite Elevated Chair of Ideological Analysis, it was crystal clear to me that Community Development was just a con-job. It was a ploy by The Elite to sap the revolutionary vigour of the people and co-opt potential revolutionaries. ... read full story / add a comment |
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