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international / worker & community struggles and protests Friday January 27, 2006 - 04:43 by Richard Mellor
The world's rulers meet in Davos as favorite poster boy Bono offers them some cover. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday January 26, 2006 - 18:47 by Seán Ryan   text 4 comments (last - friday january 27, 2006 - 13:10)
A look into the stupidity of our system, and those who run it. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday January 25, 2006 - 13:54 by Justin Morahan   text 3 comments (last - wednesday january 25, 2006 - 18:48)
A reflection, as the Dáil returns, on the impossibility of protesting so many things that have gone wrong in today's Ireland ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / arts and media Tuesday January 24, 2006 - 23:55 by mags   text 3 comments (last - wednesday january 25, 2006 - 00:21)
Amer Wreck A
Say it out loud and you’ll get it.

The blurb describes it as Fahrenheit 911 meets Moulin Rouge and it has something for everyone- brilliant comedy about the current US President, fantastic music from 60s, sex and full frontal nudity, and a ‘God’ figure that I think most of us would be happy with! On top of that there’s a strong message about political activism. definitely one to debate in the pub after.

Everyone in limerick should grab the chance to see it. Only till Sat night in Belltable. For those of you unfortunate not to be in Limerick, I hear rumours of a movie version... ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday January 24, 2006 - 22:48 by W   text 1 comment (last - sunday january 29, 2006 - 16:32)
All the kidnapping that's fit to print ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday January 22, 2006 - 14:17 by Peter Ravenscroft   text 3 comments (last - monday january 23, 2006 - 06:09)
Was the ICC born a fossil, or did it petrify under the stern gaze of Snoopy? An open letter to all the less-than-energetic people who work at the ICC. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday January 21, 2006 - 23:34 by BP   text 5 comments (last - wednesday january 25, 2006 - 14:52)
Good quality audio (MP3) of two recent speeches by Noam Chomsky at University College Dublin:

1. Democracy Promotion: Reflections on Intellectuals and the State

2. Biolinguistic Explorations: Design, Development, Evolution ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday January 21, 2006 - 17:49 by Richard Mellor   text 2 comments (last - saturday january 21, 2006 - 23:29)
Capitalism's assault on New Orleans and the Auto Industry. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Friday January 20, 2006 - 14:43 by Davros   text 4 comments (last - monday february 13, 2006 - 12:54)
Is there a possibility of direct action in connection with Shannon? ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday January 20, 2006 - 11:50 by MichaelY
With thanks to Michael Liedtke, AP Business Writer ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday January 20, 2006 - 02:05 by Wanbli Watakpe and DJ Tanya
Tashunka Witko Brigade co-host Wanbli Watakpe interviews Irish socialist feminist historian Ruth Taillon who is also a long time ally of the indigenous struggle in North America. Ruth talks about issues parallel to both the Irish and Indigenous struggle, Leonard Peltier, and Bobby Sands. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday January 18, 2006 - 05:10 by Xavier   text 65 comments (last - thursday october 09, 2008 - 05:04)   image 4 images
Organised religion and political parties are one and the same thing, bodies formed for the exercise of social control through the centralisation of power and the use of hierarchical structures ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday January 17, 2006 - 18:32 by Paul Baynes   text 21 comments (last - friday february 01, 2008 - 21:19)   image 1 image
Although the mass media often links Islam with militancy, Political Islam can refer to a wide range of movements - many of them progressive. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday January 17, 2006 - 02:07 by Terry   text 9 comments (last - friday july 25, 2008 - 14:18)
This is the final part of a three part series on the potential role of alternative net based media could play in political mobilisation. Part one is here, and part two here. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday January 17, 2006 - 02:03 by Terry
This is the second part of a three part series on the potential role of alternative net based media in political mobilisation, part one is here. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 16, 2006 - 21:56 by ipsiphi   text 11 comments (last - monday april 09, 2007 - 13:30)   image 1 image
It would seem the great unseen powers so often ascribed the responsiblity for planning the co-incidences so many see politics and culture of local and global nature, can not find a suitable day to finally lay to rest Ariel Sharon. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Saturday January 14, 2006 - 20:31 by c murray   text 10 comments (last - monday january 16, 2006 - 15:13)
The case taken by Vincent Salafia to
judicially review the decision to grant
38 licences to excavate along the M3
Kells to Clonee is being examined at the
High Court. It will resume at eleven am
on Tuesday the seventeenth of january. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Friday January 13, 2006 - 16:31 by Davy Carlin   text 2 comments (last - friday january 13, 2006 - 18:21)
It is like a big big jigsaw, with many many players and many many pieces.


Below is today's front page article from Daily Ireland. I give though firstly a few lines of an article I had written a few years ago in relation to the {once termed} Belfast SWP's response to this murder. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Thursday January 12, 2006 - 20:34 by marcus   text 7 comments (last - monday january 23, 2006 - 19:58)
Veronica McDermott is a rep for BNFL in Ireland and has had an article in the Sunday Business Post (10/12/06) and been heavily quoted in an article in the Sunday Independent (08/01/06) both of which promote nuclear power as a real option and both of which only refer to her as a public affairs consultant. this along with David McWilliams article a few weeks ago shows that there is a pro-nuclear agenda being pushed in our papers preparing the nuclear industry to pounce when energy becomes a major issue. ... read full story / add a comment
clare / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday January 11, 2006 - 17:49 by Conor Cregan   text 23 comments (last - wednesday january 18, 2006 - 19:38)
On Saturday 7th of January we returned to the doorstep of Shannon Airport after a three year absence to hold a 24 hour vigil to mark the third anniversary of founding a peace camp in protest against the use of the airport by the U.S. Military as pit stop for George W Bush’s War on Terror. ... read full story / add a comment
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