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galway / anti-war / imperialism Monday August 06, 2012 - 10:40 by GALWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR
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GALWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR SUMMER 2012 BULLETIN DUE TO THE RAID ON THE HOME OF GAAW'S PRO AND THE SEIZURE OF HIS COMPUTER, WE ARE WITHOUT THE DATABASE OF 800+ SUPPORTERS, WHO WE REGULARLY EMAIL THE GAAW BULLETIN. SO WE WOULD APPEAL TO YOU TO PASS ON THIS BULLETIN TO PEOPLE YOU KNOW ARE SYMPATETIC TO THE CAUSE OF PEACE. IF YOU WISH TO BE INCLUDED ON OUR MAILING LIST, JUST CONTACT US AT [email protected] OR JOIN US ON OUR FACEBOOK GROUP PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/312442090965/ OR BEFRIEND US ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/#!/galway.antiwar GAAW SUPPORTED PEACE EVENT PEACE VIGIL SHANNON SUNDAY 12TH AUGUST. 2-3PM AT THE ROUNDABOUT BEFORE THE ENTRANCE TO SHANNON AIRPORT AGENDA 1. NEVER FORGET: IRELAND IS AT WAR 2. THE GARDAÍ AND GAAW 3. THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA: a) Somalia & The Real Pirates b) MALI: “Collateral damage of the Libyan crisis” ... read full story / add a comment
national / education Saturday August 04, 2012 - 17:52 by Topsy Crets
1 comment (last - sunday august 05, 2012 - 00:45)
Case Study: Secret Socities in Ireland- the Freemasons. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Saturday August 04, 2012 - 14:39 by Chris Gray
The Little People speak out on behalf of the little people. We Leprechauns, friends of the Irish People, hereby give notice of our latest collective decision, and address ourselves to that social grouping commonly known as the Irish political class. Down through the ages we have strained every nerve on your behalf: we have always aided you when you were sorely prest. The marauding Danes, robbers of the chalice, landed long ago; when Brian Boru and his fighters overcame them, we guarded the gold they left behind: in pots, in bags, under rocks, beneath crags, we kept it safe. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday August 04, 2012 - 02:28 by GARY WEBB
IF THEY'D BEEN IN a more respectable line of work, Norwin Meneses, Danilo Blandon and ''Freeway Rick'' Ross would have been hailed as geniuses of marketing. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday August 02, 2012 - 17:48 by Paddy Hackett
Generally in the West individuals, in a quailfied way, are free to express their views independently of how subversive those views may be. They are even, in a sense, free to organise themselves against the government. Marxists even become professors in bourgeois universities. Given that capitalist society is defined by Marx as inherently oppressive it appears as an inexplicable contradiction that it should have this free and just character in the West while still retaining its inherently exploitative and oppressive character ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday July 30, 2012 - 17:19 by boroba
Jeff Immelt, the chief executive of General Electric was interviewed by the Financial Times at the weekend . He told the paper that « nuclear power is so expensive compared with other forms of energy that it has become “really hard” to justify « . On the face of it ,Immelt's comments would seem to be at odds with General Electric being one of the world’s largest suppliers of atomic equipment. So what is going on ? ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Thursday July 26, 2012 - 19:34 by I. Greene
On Monday 18th June 2012, a group representing some of the bereaved Omagh families presented Northern Ireland Secretary of State Owen Patterson with a specially commissioned report claiming that the atrocity could have been prevented by both governments. After the meeting, a spokesperson for the families in a delicately veiled threat called on both governments to respond positively or face a court challenge. The relatives also told the waiting media “we have brought together all available evidence on the case and showed where the authorities on both sides of the border could have prevented the bomb attack on Omagh.” The report was commissioned from a group of London-based-consultants and is said to contain ‘fresh information’ on the Omagh bombing. There are some issues surrounding the report that are questionable and it would be in the public interest to know exactly who financed the commissioning of the report. ... read full story / add a comment
Q. I consider myself of average intelligence and do not suffer fools gladly but lately I’ve been receiving these mixed signals and I just don’t know what’s wanted from me. You see I’ve recently finished college and am quite eager to start work, which is supposedly what you and your fellow party members also want but I keep coming up against obstacles which have been put in place by you and your fellow party members. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday July 10, 2012 - 04:43 by Anthony Ravlich
A compilation of some comments made on Facebook regarding the proposed ethical approach to human rights, development, globalization to replace neoliberalism which may help give readers a greater understanding of the former approach which emphasizes bottom-up development rather than the extreme top-down control of development of the latter. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday June 29, 2012 - 20:00 by Jim Averill
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I'm putting up the full article as it requires registration to access it. Many activists are put off by this so please leave it up. It tells an important story about how land in the developing world is stolen, even by god fearing folk who made their money in private prisons. Another great article by Fred Pearce. MIGHTY MOM was angry. She was doing her washing a few miles from Lake Victoria in east Africa, soaping her clothes in the shadow of a tall chain-link fence, behind which there was a large farm. The farm was owned by an evangelical American who had made his fortune running private prisons for state governments in the US before coming to Kenya and taking a leasehold to drain the Yala swamp and grow rice in place of papyrus. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday June 29, 2012 - 12:08 by Indyjourno
Sark is a tiny island, with a population of around 600 people of the coast off the coast of Normandy which operated a feudal system of government until 2008 when it was forced to comply with the EU convention of human rights. It is held as a fief on behalf of the Queen of England and while it is a part of Britain it is not part of the UK and sets its own tax rates which is set at an extremely low rate. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday June 17, 2012 - 13:28 by uli schmetzer
When two Americans raised their fists in the Black Power salute in 1968 no one paid much attention to the third man. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Thursday June 14, 2012 - 12:27 by Sonya Oldham
This is in response to the article 'Frank Convery, Yvonne Scannell, Fracking and Local Credibility in Ireland' published in Irish Environment on May 30: http://www.irishenvironment.com/commentary/frank-conver...land/ ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Tuesday June 12, 2012 - 03:01 by Lisa Hiariej
By Lisa Hiariej, an Indonesian and Australian lawyer. Almost all Australians have no sympathy for those they perceive as people smugglers. I do not blame Australians for that because they don’t know the real story about why they end up in Australian waters. I believe Australians know only what journalists tell them through the media. The real story of the people who crew the boats is that they are lied to by the Mr Bigs, the organisers, who have little sense of responsibility towards them. These people took the passengers’ money and promised to give a small payment to those who would skipper, cook and deckhand the boats. But they never ever received the money. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday June 11, 2012 - 14:11 by Sean Marks
5 comments (last - tuesday june 12, 2012 - 17:47)
Rightwing parties have rounded on Mick Wallace, a true friend of the working class. ... read full story / add a comment
The proposal to ratify the European Stability Mechanism Treaty as it stands and to approve the Article 136 TFEU amendment to the EU Treaties as authorizing the Stability Mechanism envisaged in the ESM Treaty, are unlawful under the EU Treaties and are therefore unconstitutional in Ireland and the other EU Member States. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Friday June 01, 2012 - 20:00 by D Martyn
35 comments (last - friday august 10, 2012 - 08:59)
Like lambs to the slaughter the Irish people ratified the Fiscal Stability treaty by a yes vote of 60.3%. Even members of the parties advocating the yes vote admitted fear and confusion were among the reasons why Irish people gave into the demands of the government. As they threw around buzz words such as stability, growth, investment and threatened a harsher budget if the treaty wasn’t ratified, it’s no surprise their school yard bully tactics won out. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday May 30, 2012 - 23:36 by Tom Stokes
8 comments (last - monday june 04, 2012 - 17:20)
There are fools who decry history as if it was irrelevant to the present or the future. Here is an extract from a piece my late father wrote in 1969 on the subject of the drive towards membership of the EEC, now the EU. Relevant? I certainly think it is, in the context of the vote we are going to cast, or not cast, or cast unwisely, on May 31st. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Sunday May 27, 2012 - 22:48 by Galway Alliance Against War
GAAW SUPPORTED PEACE EVENT DON’T EVER FORGET: THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND IS AT WAR IRISH TROOPS & GARDAÍ OUT OF AFGHANISTAN! US MILITARY OUT OF SHANNON! SUNDAY 10th JUNE BETWEEN 2-3PM PEACE VIGIL ORGANISED BY SHANNONWATCH AT SHANNON AIRPORT (PLEASE ASSEMBLE AT ROUNDABOUT BEFORE AIRPORT) CONTENTS 1. Revisiting the Lisbon Treaty 2. The Irish Military & the Turf Dispute 3. Contrasting Quotations: A Proverbial Week in Politics or Labour in Opposition and then in Government? 4. The Silent Closure of the Irish Embassy in Iran 5. Reader’s Email 6. News from the USA: War Vets Throw Back Medals at NATO Summit – plus 2 must-see video clips: 4-Star General Wesley Clark --USA will attack 7 countries in 4 years ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday May 23, 2012 - 11:43 by italy calling
Last Saturday morning a bomb exploded outside the vocational college for young women “Morvillo-Falcone” in the Southern city of Brindisi, killing a teenage girl, Melissa Bassi, and severely wounding several other classmates. ... read full story / add a comment |
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