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international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday October 24, 2005 - 22:11 by iosaf
 4 comments (last - friday october 28, 2005 - 13:20)  2 images
Last week saw the publication of this year's "transparency org" world corruption perception report. Its a report which is taken seriously by some, and certainly no country looking for foreign investment wants to be at the bottom of the 158 rankings. But both the annual list of "corruption perception" and "bribery perception" indixes, can not be understood as isolated statistics. Just as Greenspan's biographer assured us he takes stock of over 4000 weekly indicators, we can not consider just one single country or economy when discussing corruption or bribery. Nor can we refuse to draw in other human development indicators, (the UNHDR report) all the usual "facts and figures" and internal data. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 24, 2005 - 11:44 by Fiona de Londras
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Today we celebrate the 60th birthday of the United Nations but to what extent can we celebrate the United Nations’ capacity to enforce the human rights standards they have successfully put in place in international law since the 1940s? ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice Monday October 24, 2005 - 01:15 by MMcD
13 comments (last - tuesday december 13, 2011 - 17:00)
With the pressure on the Minister for Injustice McDowell and the Government to tackle the Garda corruption being constantly exposed, an opportunity exists for all those affected by police harassment to push for a genuine independent complaints body. Both political activists and ordinary people, working to expose Garda brutality can have an effect. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday October 22, 2005 - 18:11 by Robbie Sinnott
5 comments (last - thursday april 17, 2008 - 12:49)  1 audio file
With the construction of the China-Tibet railway this week, the destruction of Tibet reaches a new level. Studio interview with Yungchen Lhamo (from Tibet) and Neil Steedman (Tibet Support Group Ireland). mp3 (22mins, FM-friendly). To listen on broadband (immediately - depending on your player settings/preferences), left-click the next link. http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/yungchenradioedit.mp3 to download on any connection, right-click etc. The above link is also the radio edit, suitable for rebroadcasting on FM. The same interview is segmented at lower resolution for immediate access for all sorts of internet connections lower down, and synopsis given under those headings. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / racism & migration related issues Saturday October 22, 2005 - 15:31 by iosaf
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Once upon a time, the global system allowed pharmaceutical companies to withhold patents on drugs, vaccines and treatments needed by the poorest of this earth to protect intellectual property rights, assets, and the R&D budgets of scientists in the newly prosperous technologically focussed economies of the north. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 21, 2005 - 22:25 by IRSP
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20 October 2005 Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday October 20, 2005 - 03:03 by Robbie Sinnott
9 comments (last - friday october 21, 2005 - 19:43) 1 audio file
18 min phone interview mp3 (128kbps - Fm-friendly). to hear on broadband immediately, click http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/nuria.mp3 or, to download on anyinternet connection, just right click the link etc. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-capitalism Wednesday October 19, 2005 - 22:34 by banker
5 comments (last - thursday october 20, 2005 - 12:01)
If you live in south belfast, you might as well be living in a totally different country, to the rest of belfast. If you live in south belfast, your experience of belfast, would be totally different to that of people who live, in the new lodge, lower north belfast, shankill and the Falls. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / environment Wednesday October 19, 2005 - 00:06 by Olga
2 comments (last - wednesday october 19, 2005 - 12:05)
What's all the fuss about. The recent leakage of 20 tonnes of plutonium and uranium fuel from sellafields Thorp processing plant has forced the closure of the Thorp processing plant. Radioactive waste leaked into a huge stainless steel chamber which is so radioactive it is impossible to enter. http://guardian.co.uk/nuclear/article/0,2763,1479527,00.html ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / crime and justice Tuesday October 18, 2005 - 17:00 by m.m.mccarron
1 comment (last - tuesday october 18, 2005 - 18:21)
Irish Times on Corrib Shell Illegal Pipe Today. Shell, break the pipe and obey the law! ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 17, 2005 - 22:12 by John Waters
15 comments (last - tuesday august 22, 2006 - 17:18)
I have heard of no case where the department has taken the most rudimentary steps to ascertain whether the so-called "absent father has declined to support his child or children. When did the department last contact such a man and ask him if he was willing to marry the mother, or to accept joint, or even sole custody of his child/children? Not one of, these 70,000 men owes mothers or the State a cent, because there can be no legal obligation on a father to pay "maintenance" for children he has not refused to support in these ways. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday October 17, 2005 - 15:40 by Jim
35 comments (last - saturday october 22, 2005 - 19:37) 1 image
Yesterday the people of Iraq - Shia, Sunni and Kurd alike - voted overwhelmingly in support of the new Iraq Charter defying political extremists of the Ba'athists and Islamic fundementalist terrorists. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Friday October 14, 2005 - 14:56 by Independent Media Consultants
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Outlines the benefits of unleashing the P.R.I.C.K. on the Irish electorate. ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Thursday October 13, 2005 - 15:10 by "John"
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Alcoholism is a bad thing, right? Anybody who makes any attempt to eradicate it deserves our gratitude and encouragement. Well, that’s not the story at all, as it turns out. There is only one way to do it and it’s the Alcoholics Anonymous way. At least according to AA themselves, that is. Theirs is the only thing that works and they are 100% infallible in what they say and do. Jesus Christ had more self-doubt than the AA. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 12, 2005 - 17:50 by Miriam Cotton
5 comments (last - tuesday january 22, 2008 - 20:34)
At a public meeting in Co Cork, a parent in the audience inadvertently used the expression ‘his SNA’ in referring to her son’s Special Needs Assistant while asking a question of one of the speakers. It was an incidental thing in terms of the woman's question but it was interpreted as its central point by the CEO of the National Council for Special Education, Mr Pat Curtain, who was there to tell about all the progress being made by the NCSE in implementing the Education of Persons with Special Needs Act 2004. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Tuesday October 11, 2005 - 04:26 by Seán Ryan
36 comments (last - tuesday october 18, 2005 - 22:26) 1 image
Our Constitution is mocked by our Government's use of their vile and ultimately ficticious "Neutrality Policy." I believe I have found a part of our constitution that forbids our Government from forming such a policy. I'd like to hear your comments and any advice or ideas would be welcome. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Sunday October 09, 2005 - 22:16 by Michelle Clarke
7 comments (last - wednesday september 27, 2006 - 00:45)
to special privileges!!! Like Stallions etc Ireland What about making those in control of government departs such as health, transport, education ....... an extract of criminally responsible for reckless or negligent behvaviour......This may enhance Corporate Governance, Accountability, Transparency. It is time to avoid tangents and focus on our Prisons, our Vulnerable people, a system of health similar to Europeans and lower wages and to ensure we do not stand away from the principles Of James Connolly and Jim Larkin. We have fought hard in Ireland for fair wages let us not discriminate now. Well done Joe Higgins going out to Turkey re. the Gama workers. Let us ask were low wages costed in to the construction contract!!!! What annoys me most in Ireland now - Committees and more committees followed by academic research, research and more research. The publications are beyond a joke now. Where is the committee on Common Sense? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday October 09, 2005 - 11:15 by FPF-fwd.: Andrew Sparrow
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Good news: Even in a mainstream paper like 'The Telegraph' in England reality begins to dawn! Scott Ritter - former UN inspector: "Both these men could be pulled up as war criminals for engaging in actions that we condemned Germany in 1946 for doing," he said. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Saturday October 08, 2005 - 21:55 by Jim Holohan
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The result is already known ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday October 08, 2005 - 18:31 by Robbie Sinnott
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2 .mp3 interviews (128kbps - FM-broadcastable). click the below links to lsten on broadband directly, or right click them to download on any connection. Part 1: 14 mins http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/2005.9.19-9.christina__dennis___james.mp3 Part 2: 12 mins http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/2005.9.19-12._christina__dennis___james__ii_.mp3 That such integrity, optimism and informed analysis can flourish within an environment of suffocating media and authoritarian state/junta, is testamemt to the indefatigability of human warmth. ... read full story / add a comment |
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