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international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday November 06, 2007 - 08:56 by Watcher
 19 comments (last - wednesday november 21, 2007 - 19:45)
With Iraq in ruins and the oil resources secured, the neo-cons that run the west have now turned their malign attention to Iran. All media is now saturated with propaganda putting Iran in the role of aggressor and a threat to world peace.Others day and daily place stories in the media portraying the internal position as one of oppression and brutality in which the Iranian people are supposedly yearning to be liberated by the west. Nothing could be further from the truth. Iranians want noting to do with western style "democracy" Medialens has collated a number of examples of how the media is being manipulated by the neo-cons as they whip up support for an attack on Iran We should take great care of what and who we give credance to in this very dangerous game in which Iran and it's perople are targeted and placed in deadly danger. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Thursday November 01, 2007 - 22:03 by Sean
3 comments (last - monday november 05, 2007 - 17:35)
In response to a number of comments in relation to the Communist Party of Ireland's celebration of the Ninetieth anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution both on the internet and in the print media on what we might or might not say about events pertaining to the revolution and subsequent developments we have poster the speech delivered by Eugene Mc Cartan, to a packed meeting in Liberty Hall on Friday 26th October ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 01, 2007 - 20:43 by Cathal McCarthy
On 1 October 2007, the Weston Gardens Residents' Association, of which I am Cathaoirleach, sent a letter by registered post to Brendan Kenny (CEO Limerick Regeneration Agencies). When Mr. Kenny did not respond after 3 weeks, we decided to go public. On 24 October 2007, we bought a full page in the Limerick Leader and published a shortened version . The reaction of Mr. Kenny & co. was predictable; spin and deny. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice Thursday November 01, 2007 - 09:51 by Domhain Sceadaman
25 comments (last - friday november 30, 2007 - 01:47)
I cam across this tale whilst having coffee in leafy D4, in the Baggot Street area and this tied in with something that I had heard a few weeks ago in that Palace of Epicurian Delights the Embassy Grill in Ballsbridge. The story is about corporate greed, arogance and "murky stuff" which links back to the rendition flights out of Shannon. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday October 30, 2007 - 16:54 by paul o toole
7 comments (last - saturday november 03, 2007 - 02:02)
Hypocracy all across the board. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Tuesday October 30, 2007 - 14:38 by Ender Yılmaz & José Antonio Gutiérrez D.
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An member of the WSM and the Turkish anarchist organization AKI look at the crisis in Turkey, a crisis pushed further into the spotlight since this article was written by the threats to invade Iraqi Kurdistan. Turkish politics are full of contradictions and paradoxical situations. But the bottom line is that both the “democratic” political Islam as well as the “authoritarian” army are elite alternatives opposed to the basic interests of workers, that have agreed on the fundamentals and will likely keep agreeing in maintaining the repressive political structures of the Kemalist state, ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Monday October 29, 2007 - 01:03 by JM
19 comments (last - tuesday october 30, 2007 - 13:56) 10 images
The latest Irish Times online Head2Head poll concerned itself with the Corrib gas controversy in North Mayo, and asked the following question: Is Shell's Corrib Gas project good for the local community? The result came in as a resounding NO, with 84% believing the project as proposed is bad for the local community, with less than 1 in 6 agreeing it was good for the area. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday October 27, 2007 - 18:38 by Jolly Red Giant
43 comments (last - sunday november 18, 2007 - 17:59)
The recent untimely death of Susie Long was widely covered in the media in the South. Susie made a powerful impression in January of this year when she spoke on RTE radio of how she had developed terminal cancer of the colon. It was a tragic and shocking story. By Joe Higgins ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday October 26, 2007 - 20:50 by jim travers
5 comments (last - friday july 04, 2008 - 11:34)
Although I welcome this long awaited initiative by the Road safety Authority in attempting to reduce the carnage we see on our road each year,I cannot help but wonder at the thinking that went into calling an immediate halt to the driving by drivers holding a provisional driving licence while unaccompanied. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday October 25, 2007 - 13:53 by El Libertario, Venezuela
1 comment (last - saturday october 27, 2007 - 15:36)
* With a lot of rhetoric and propaganda the Chavez administration has advanced different examples of co-management which, they claim, demonstrate their desire to transform Venezuela’s relations of production. A compañero from Europe visited us recently and got to know two of the most celebrated cases: Alcasa and Invepal. Here is the report he prepared for El Libertario # 51 about the actual working conditions in the country’s most “important” co-managed businesses. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 24, 2007 - 19:27 by Michelle Clarke
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We the plain people Aaron Russell documentary is well worth watching.......... The presentation alerts people involved in financial, markets, transactions to review history before consolidating on present day financial transactions.. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Wednesday October 24, 2007 - 11:41 by P'd off customer
9 comments (last - saturday january 12, 2008 - 12:05)
I signed up to BT broadband over two months ago. Not only did the hook up the wrong house, but they billed me for it, insisted nothing wrong happened, and are dawdling over my What's worse, their call centre takes ages to do anything, not surprising, given that one of their agents admitted to me that there were only 10 people working there the day I spoke to her, when the staffing level is supposed to be 60. Anyhow, sick of waiting for the always promised call back, I went hunting for the bigger fish. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 22, 2007 - 18:44 by Anne O'Connor
43 comments (last - saturday april 16, 2011 - 18:25)
Ireland granted residency to about 17,000 parents of Irish born Children mostly women and then decided that these category of Irish Citizen Children do not have any entitlement to family unification and so we have a situation where the fathers of these children are being turned away. What we risk creating for our future generation is what I dread because this policy if not reversed will only polarise the community and we will have the "us" and "them" divide. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday October 22, 2007 - 11:51 by Tim Hourigan
25 comments (last - sunday october 28, 2007 - 08:52)
A look at the similarities and differences between two routes out of Shannon. The Aer Lingus route SNN - LHR and the US military flights to Iraq. ... read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues Sunday October 21, 2007 - 22:49 by Seosamh an Chnoic
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How an irish middle class person's ideological beliefs led him to a life of poverty, and how he found his way out of that dark wood. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism Sunday October 21, 2007 - 12:41 by C Murray
6 comments (last - sunday january 13, 2008 - 16:25) 3 images
The leaders are in Lisbon putting little finishing touches to a Treaty to replace Nice II which the Dutch and French "Scuppered', the last round of negotiations had seen the Polish and the British Objecting to aspects of the Treaty, Blair was Brown's man in Europe and was sent back to re-negotiatate. The 'Lisbon Treaty 'agreed by the EU members seeks to create a new Foreign Policy head and reduce the cumbersome issue of the rotating presidency, interestingly according to AFP Tony Blair has been one of the names for mooted a more 'permanent presidential position'. That being a diplomatic role, he would have to leave off those dinner parties he attends and those remarks he has made about Islamo-Facsim. ... read full story / add a comment 
meath / history and heritage Sunday October 21, 2007 - 05:04 by viajft
3 comments (last - sunday october 21, 2007 - 20:07) 9 images
It’s a little darker under the trees than the last time I was here and the colors of Autumn have started there march through the leaves at Rath Lugh. This hill here was never put on an ordnance survey map and the name has shifted and been shifted until it now means only a small monument which may soon disappear. It can be seen from everywhere in the valley, it has been here throughout all of Tara’s history yet details about it are sketchy and it appears only briefly in ancients writings. One of the monuments on its roof has been temporary preserved but which one is unsure. This is after years of planning a road around it, destroying a part of it and then trying to protect it. Due to the advance of the M3 everything in the valley has been documented, mapped and numbered except this hill and now its woods, monuments, graves and spring are snared and encircled by a speculator driven, badly planned and unwanted road. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday October 20, 2007 - 11:46 by Henk Ruyssenaars - Foreign correspondent
11 comments (last - tuesday january 01, 2008 - 16:30)
''Voters in five EU countries want treaty referendum,'' was the result of a poll published by Thomson and the Financial Times in London, a scoop-like item which was also reprinted in the bible of the money makers, Forbes: "A substantial majority of voters in five large European Union countries want a referendum on the bloc's new reform treaty, according to a poll published Thursday. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday October 18, 2007 - 04:01 by jim travers
Back in February of this year (09-02-2007) I wrote an article in Indymedia about the Ireland, San Mario match and what I though was Ireland’s darkest day, until tonight or is it today going into tonight. Is it possible that Irish soccer could plunge to such a debt where the playing of such, was in itself an insult to the standard required in order for one to play on a pitch as fine as that which is in Croker. The Cyprus match has given us food for thought, not about Staunton but about the FAI itself. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage Thursday October 18, 2007 - 01:17 by Philip
11 comments (last - monday october 22, 2007 - 11:58) 5 images
The October 31st holiday that we today know as Halloween has strong roots in paganism and is closely connected with worship of the Enemy of this world, Satan. It is a holiday that generally glorifies the dark things of this world, rather than the light of Jesus Christ, The Truth. ... read full story / add a comment |
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