|
Upcoming Eventsno events match your query! New Eventsno events posted in last week
Blog Feeds
Anti-Empire
The SakerA bird's eye view of the vineyard
Lockdown Skeptics
Voltaire NetworkVoltaire, international edition
|
international / miscellaneous Friday May 26, 2006 - 01:39 by king Herod
 20 comments (last - wednesday may 09, 2007 - 22:29)  11 images
Pope Benedict XVI the supreme moral authority for most citizens of the Irish Republic has begun his 4 day visit to Poland, during which he will speak against feminism, gay marriage, abortion, liberalism, contraception, & sex education. For those of you who don't know who pope Benedict XVI is, or why he is newsworthy.... A long time ago the archangel Gabriel appeared to a teenage girl in Palestine commonly called Mary, she was most probably aged between 14 and 16 based on customs of the time. The archangel told her that she was pregnant but wasn't to get too uptight about it.... It wasn't going to be a crime.... Because she'd have a virgin birth without DNA samples and her baby would be called Emanuel / Jesus / Brian & he'd be really famous and end up starring in the first Good Friday Agreement, and Michael Mc Dowell the sinful capitalist liberal hadn't been accounted for in the divine plan. Of course all the frothy stuff got removed over the centuries, and now we know better. Pope Benedict, the German Shepherd, Papa Ratzi, has been well prepared for by his hosts the former communist & bolshevik, Poland. The Polish government has banned adverts for items which might upset him or the memory of Mary the virgin teenager. 1) tampons.(+) 2) condoms. 3) beer. 4) lingerie (what Mary Harney wears underneath her suits) ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday May 25, 2006 - 14:38 by Liam Mullen
9 comments (last - monday june 15, 2009 - 10:51)
Although FAS JobsIreland have been in the news a lot lately regarding their proposed move under decentralisation, many of their job advertisements in recent months seem designed to promote illegal immigration. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Thursday May 25, 2006 - 14:01 by chekov
In the Sunday Independent of May 21st, Gene Kerrigan pointed out that the leaks of the Tribal Secta reports into the health service, which were reported as front page news by the Sunday Independent on several occasions, were misrepresentations of the whole truth. Unfortunately, the editor seems happy to continue the tradition, as evidenced by the front page of the edition in which Kerrigan’s article appeared. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday May 24, 2006 - 01:50 by jim travers
The Celtic tiger in the Republic of Ireland has shown that Protestants and Catholics on the island of Ireland can work and live in peace and harmony with one another, once the society they live in accommodates that need. See also: Opinion/analysis- Dublin-Miscellaneous.....jim travers ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Wednesday May 24, 2006 - 01:13 by jim travers
1 comment (last - friday may 26, 2006 - 15:55)
Commodity is one of the basic fundamental requirements that enable the capitalist system to operate in a world of varied political, religious and multi-racial societies. ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Tuesday May 23, 2006 - 18:16 by Liam Ó Maoláin
12 comments (last - monday november 17, 2008 - 16:43)
A review in Irish of the the Irish media scene. Native Irish speakers should ignore any errors on my part in relation to grammar etc. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday May 23, 2006 - 17:40 by Liam Ó Maoláin
1 comment (last - wednesday may 24, 2006 - 21:24)
The assumptions lying behind “mass communications research” have altered in the light of new evidence thrown up in a report published in 1970, entitled “Demonstrations and Communications.” (Halloran, Elliott and Murdock ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday May 23, 2006 - 16:32 by Liam Mullen
Audiences see TV as a producer of news and entertainment products but in fact its core role is producing ideologies. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday May 22, 2006 - 23:11 by Patrique
94 comments (last - monday august 13, 2007 - 21:57) 1 image
NIPSA conference meets next week to decide policies and principles. But who decides these, the members and branches, or General Council. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice Monday May 22, 2006 - 17:22 by iosaf
6 comments (last - friday september 29, 2006 - 13:55) 1 image
Mc Dowell wanted us to ponder this :- "Probably the most important one is that the United Nations high commissioner's representative in Ireland and his predecessor have both pointed to the fact that the Irish system is one of the best in Europe and that it's a good and fair one and that it's transparent, that it's subject to judicial review." Most of us of course disagree. But one word of Mc Dowell's statement made last week & republished again in today's Irish Times screams out for more attention :- "Transparent". ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday May 21, 2006 - 23:41 by Hs
67 comments (last - thursday june 01, 2006 - 13:31) 7 images
On Saturday we witnessed one of Ireland’s first organised racist counter demonstrations. The demonstrators while being made up of what can only be described as very disenfranchised poor who were joined in the evenings by an assortment of drunks. But there was at least on Saturday afternoon a number of ordinary working class residents who were angered at the attention being drawn to the refugees, while their local area suffered huge social problems. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday May 21, 2006 - 16:14 by sean
7 comments (last - monday may 22, 2006 - 20:02) 1 image
marginalised anti hunger strike protestors ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Sunday May 21, 2006 - 01:46 by Hedgehog
18 comments (last - tuesday may 30, 2006 - 16:18)
Daily telegraph chooses an animal rights bashing story for their coveted front page. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday May 20, 2006 - 20:29 by Michelle Clarke
This was a contribution to Indymedia 4th March by Redjade Coming To Grief by Hans Johnson Like the breeze of late winter, a single word, unspoken, has rippled through the recent funerals of several US service members returned from Iraq. Families and military presss officers have different reasons for tight lips on the topic. But Suicide among Iraq soldiers, 29 soldiers by recent count, says volumes about drooping morale and raises further doubts about how accurately the toll on service members is being measured and how much more they will bear' We all are delicate human beings...........bureaucracy can always be sorted out......life cannot be given back. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Friday May 19, 2006 - 08:52 by Ramor
2 comments (last - monday january 25, 2010 - 11:22)
( Note ; with Danish journalist Erik Pedersen I went to Michael’s house in Glasnevin a few months ago to conduct an interview about volunteers of the International Brigades for Danish radio. Despite his advanced years, a sprightly man brimming with wit and stories spoke to us for several hours. Characteristically he didn’t talk much about himself or his own endevours in Spain ( he is reported to have been a brave and fearless machine gunner in the battlefield, according to other sources ), instead concentrating on the politics of the situation and on remembering those who fell. History walks with us, and listening to Mr O Riordan reminisce about the heroic struggle waged against the fascist threat in the 1930’s reveals how many of the issues confronted then remain urgent today. Parts of the interview are unclear, and the brackets are mine, Ramor ) ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Thursday May 18, 2006 - 20:49 by Fiachra O!
1 comment (last - friday may 19, 2006 - 14:20) 1 image
Deirdre Ní Chonghaile from the Aran Islands sent this in to the Irish Times just before Easter and it wasn't published it. I thought it was brilliant when she showed me so I'm posting it here with her consent. Enjoy. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Wednesday May 17, 2006 - 22:08 by David MAnning
2 comments (last - saturday january 05, 2008 - 08:10)
The Illusion of Balance Ah that wistful sense of balance so uncommon in the liberal media. In response to a letter sent to the Irish Times criticising Charles Krauthammer's mis-quotation, among other things, of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's remarks at the "World without Zionism" conference held in Tehran, the Irish Times printed a 'counter balance' of sizeable proportion. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 17, 2006 - 17:55 by NC
2 comments (last - tuesday august 15, 2006 - 15:20)
The bullying and intimidation of workers in the Social Economy in Ireland has gone unpublisised for far to long. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 17, 2006 - 14:39 by Geraldine Moorkens Byrne
5 comments (last - friday june 02, 2006 - 22:29)
The NRA throws around groundless allegations: and those who protest find the price of exercising their democratic rights comes very high indeed. ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Wednesday May 17, 2006 - 13:51 by Dave
1 comment (last - thursday may 18, 2006 - 18:36)
|
|
|
