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offsite link Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
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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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offsite link Have Covid Travel Requirements Gone Away? Fri Jan 24, 2025 17:00 | Dr Roger Watson
Back in 2022 and 2023 when Covid travel restrictions and vaccine passports were all the rage Dr Roger Watson published his country-by-country guide. Now, in 2025, he takes a look to see if any are still at it.
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offsite link A Golden Age for American Meritocracy Fri Jan 24, 2025 14:15 | Darren Gee
The second Trump Presidency has already dissolved hundreds of DEI programmes and looks set to herald a new golden age of American meritocracy. It's a movement America and the world are hungry for, says Darren Gobin.
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offsite link Think Tank?s Net Zero Survey Concludes the Public is the Problem Fri Jan 24, 2025 13:10 | Ben Pile
The Social Market Foundation has carried out a survey on public attitudes to Net Zero and concluded that the "uninformed" and reluctant public are the problem. Why else would they say no to heat pumps?
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offsite link Number of Children Who Think They are Wrong Sex Surges 50-Fold Fri Jan 24, 2025 11:10 | Will Jones
There has been a 50-fold rise in children who think they are the?wrong sex in just 10 years, with two thirds of them girls, analysis of GP records suggests.
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offsite link Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey: Go Back to Your Constituencies and Prepare to Live in Mud and Grass Huts Fri Jan 24, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
With all 72 Lib Dem MPs supporting the mad Climate and Nature Bill, their clownish leader Ed Davey is effectively telling them to go back to their constituencies and prepare to live in mud and grass huts.
The post Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey: Go Back to Your Constituencies and Prepare to Live in Mud and Grass Huts appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 01, 2011 - 13:24 by éirígí Sligeach   text 2 comments (last - saturday june 04, 2011 - 10:46)   image 6 images
This is an article remembering those massacred by Israel and asking what has changed in the 12 months since. ... read full story / add a comment
Dean Foley
national / crime and justice Monday May 30, 2011 - 13:50 by éirígí Sligeach   text 8 comments (last - thursday november 21, 2013 - 17:21)   image 3 images
Convicted garda walking free after leaving man he brutally assaulted for dead exposes corrupt two-tier nature of what passes for 'justice' in this state ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday May 30, 2011 - 07:55 by INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST PARTY   text 11 comments (last - wednesday july 11, 2012 - 19:21)   image 2 images
From "COMMUNIST LEFT" review of International Communist Party ... read full story / add a comment
Richard Bruton
national / anti-capitalism Friday May 27, 2011 - 22:02 by éirígí Sligeach   text 3 comments (last - monday may 30, 2011 - 20:45)   image 2 images
Enterprise minister Richard Bruton plans to dismantle the JLC;s strating with scrapping the Sunday premiums ... read full story / add a comment
What RISE called "sport" in its PR campaign!
international / arts and media Thursday May 26, 2011 - 19:09 by Against Bloodsports   text 8 comments (last - friday june 17, 2011 - 21:26)   image 3 images
Disgraceful if RISE gets award! ... read full story / add a comment
Tweet from Labour's Colm Keaveney as shown in Galway Independent
national / anti-capitalism Thursday May 26, 2011 - 15:14 by éirígí Sligeach   text 4 comments (last - wednesday june 15, 2011 - 13:06)   image 5 images
This is an article published on the éirígí sligeach website in response to Labour party TD Colm Keaveney's attack on éirígí for protesting against the Windsor visit. It highlights the hypocrisy of Keaveney and the Labour party who insist they are following in Connolly's footsteps yet have abandoned all that Connolly stood for ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday May 25, 2011 - 12:32 by Paddy Hackett   text 2 comments (last - thursday may 26, 2011 - 12:48)
The recent official visit by the British Queen to the Republic of Ireland led to many temporary restrictions on the freedom of Irish workers and the loss of income to many of them due to the disruption it caused in Dublin and other places in Ireland.

Among other things it intensified alienation by the exclusion of the vast majority of citizenry from the various public events staged in Ireland for the British Queen. Only a small elite can be be trusted, in such contexts, by the Irish state.

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national / miscellaneous Tuesday May 24, 2011 - 23:59 by Declan Cullen   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 26, 2011 - 11:19)
I watched the BBC news today that showed Anti - Gadaffi Protesters shouting outside Buckingham Palace.
One thing that struck me as very odd is the fact the they could get so close to the Palace,
especially considering that Barack Obama had just drove into the Palace a short time earlier.
That was until a light bulb went on in my brain. The reason, I said to myself, why they got so close
was that they were against Gadaffi and not in favour of him or his regime either, stupid!.
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national / miscellaneous Friday May 20, 2011 - 16:45 by Irish Republican
The following letter was printed in the Irish Times on Thursday 19th May 2011. For me it articulates the Republican position, it represents the voice of the unconquered few. Pádraig Pearse stated in a speech on Robert Emmet that "we are the voice of an idea which is older than any empire and will outlast every empire....". This veiw also resonates within the Bobby Sands poem, "Rhythm of Time". This idea that no matter what is thrown at people there remains "something inside" that cannot be defeated. Voices that are raised because they can do nothing else but cry out when faced with injustice. Voices that attempt to clarify and pro (fess) and test (ify) that not all of us have been purchased or intimidated. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday May 19, 2011 - 18:02 by Declan Cullen   text 3 comments (last - sunday june 19, 2011 - 10:31)   video 1 video file
Citizen's Rights Suspended Because of Queen's Visit

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Dublin Food Co-op
dublin / consumer issues Wednesday May 18, 2011 - 22:40 by Dave   text 21 comments (last - sunday march 16, 2014 - 11:57)   image 1 image
After 28 years of operation, Dublin Food Co-op is chronically sick: divorced from its founding principles and acutely dysfunctional. Following a deeply troubling incident in March, this author – until recently one of its most committed volunteers – has found it necessary to part ways.

So, what’s gone wrong with the city’s pioneering consumer wholefood co-operative?
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A "sport" that will now hopefully be weakened...
international / miscellaneous Wednesday May 18, 2011 - 19:22 by Battling Bloodsports in Ireland   text 3 comments (last - thursday may 26, 2011 - 21:52)   image 3 images
Great news from the Commercial Court today (May 18th) re the case of Greenband Investments v Irish Coursing Club! ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday May 16, 2011 - 06:41 by ws   text 29 comments (last - friday november 04, 2011 - 11:44)   image 1 image
We all rely on large companies to safeguard our health and we allow them to control and direct much of our science. Is this trust really justified? ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday May 13, 2011 - 13:12 by Tom Stokes
Much-publicised initiatives to bring about political reform and constitutional change are a smokescreen to mask the maintenance of hegemonic control by the same privileged political class responsible for institutionalised inequality, injustice, and the destruction of our hard-won sovereignty and independence as a nation. ... read full story / add a comment
Matt Treacy - Rethinking the Republic - out now
national / history and heritage Friday May 13, 2011 - 12:05 by Anthony Coughlan   text 23 comments (last - wednesday october 10, 2012 - 10:09)   image 1 image
AN IMPORTANT BOOK

This is an important book on Irish republican and leftwing politics in the 1960s, on the background to the destruction of Ulster Unionist political hegemony by the Northern civil rights movement of that decade, and the formation of the Provisional IRA.

Dr Treacy gives us much new information on a relatively neglected period. His book will be a significant source for those seeking to understand the explosion caused by the Partition of Ireland half a century after David Lloyd George’s Government of Ireland Act sundered Ireland into two parts in 1920.

Unfortunately it will not be the definitive work on its subject. This is because Dr Treacy seems somewhat divided over what one might call “the conspiracy thesis” which has been subscribed to by sundry previous writers on this topic. This is that there was an attempt at some form of communist takeover-bid of the 1960s Republican Movement which contributed significantly to the 1970 split which gave rise to the Provisional IRA. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday May 10, 2011 - 19:48 by Paddy Hackett   text 2 comments (last - monday may 16, 2011 - 23:10)
And yes, then, in a perverse way, I do think Vincent Browne has a point. In the short term there is no way out other than, more or less, what is being officially advocated by the establishment i.e. outside of revolution. At present neither Ireland nor Western Europe have the popular culture nor organised forms to develop social revolution into communism. In the absence of these conditions Europe can secure nothing more than the model of present day Iraq on a European scale --nihilism. ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Monday May 09, 2011 - 23:02 by AC   text 4 comments (last - wednesday may 18, 2011 - 20:19)   image 1 image
DOZENS OF African migrants were left to die in the Mediterranean Sea after European and Nato military units apparently ignored their cries for help. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday May 09, 2011 - 00:44 by Truth seeker   text 2 comments (last - monday may 09, 2011 - 15:15)
Thoughts on the Queens visit. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday May 07, 2011 - 20:01 by Revolutionary Anarchist   2 attached files
Revolutionary Anarchist International Platform

The Anarchist Popular Union of Brazil, and the Revolutionary Anarchist Popular Organization from Mexico, presents the Revolutionary Anarchist International Platform, wich is an international call claiming for the union of the revolutionary anarchist of the world on the base of the Bakuninism. (document can be readed in this time only in spanish and portuguese.brasil, english and frensh translations will pe published in a few days)
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national / anti-capitalism Friday May 06, 2011 - 22:26 by Diarmuid Breatnach   text 4 comments (last - sunday may 08, 2011 - 15:38)
Some readers will be aware that for some time I have been advocating the construction of a cross-union grass roots network. A meeting has been convened tomorrow to discuss such a project. Unfortunately for me (and for any other with similar interests) a conference to discuss Republicanism & Socialism has been scheduled for some time now to take place on the same day. I publish these draft principles for discussion not to promote bureaucracy but with the intention that any such network formed remains a broad and militant organisation, the property of its members and not of one political party or another nor as a sectarian battleground. ... read full story / add a comment
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