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international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday March 18, 2004 - 23:42 by espantopajáros
No twister ever ended so quickly. The evil doers and liars and manipulators and warmongers are regrouping and attempting to attack the Borg. Silly they really ought to have watched more sci fi. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Thursday March 18, 2004 - 18:07 by Dearmuid Early
On September 1, 2003, the Miami Herald reported that, "Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry...appeared to shift his stance on the trade embargo with Cuba on Sunday, telling a national television audience that he now supports keeping sanctions in place. Kerry's remarks, delivered on NBC's Meet the Press, seemed to contradict statements he made during a 2000 interview with the Boston Globe that a reevaluation of the embargo was 'way overdue.'" ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday March 18, 2004 - 13:59 by John Boyle
 42 comments (last - thursday april 22, 2004 - 17:02)
While the Kim family and its supporters live like royalty, the bulk of the North Korean population lives like serfs. Survival depends on your rank and circumstances. North Korea has the most rigid class system in the world. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday March 17, 2004 - 19:00 by Eoin O' Cearbhaill
13 comments (last - saturday march 20, 2004 - 13:22)
This piece seeks to analyse the reasons why the left have oppossed the attempts by many on the right to create a world on a democratic basis, while the left has adopted a position largely in support of sovereignity and the 'he may be a bastard, but he is our bastard mentaility' ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday March 17, 2004 - 11:59 by Basque & Catalan Solidarity Ireland
1 comment (last - thursday march 18, 2004 - 02:39)
We are a group of Basque and Catalan activists living in Ireland (occupied six counties). This is a statement from our group following the recent Madrid bombings. This text will be distributed during national demonstrations in Ireland on March 20th against the continuing Occupation and War in Iraq. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday March 16, 2004 - 19:52 by Vngelis
25 comments (last - sunday march 21, 2004 - 15:42)
Who profits from the bombings? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday March 16, 2004 - 16:56 by Harpo G
9 comments (last - thursday march 18, 2004 - 13:49)
Forget about Bush. Forget about Blair. Forget about oil. Forget about the motivation for the war. Is Iraq a better place now that Saddam has been ousted and a replacement regime is being put in place? ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday March 16, 2004 - 12:13 by Joleen Kuyper
10 comments (last - sunday march 21, 2004 - 14:37)
Cervical Smear Tests are no longer covered by the medical card and the only reason I found out about this was a notice in my doctor's office. How can the government do this without even letting the people know? ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday March 16, 2004 - 11:20 by Diarmuid Doyle
8 comments (last - thursday march 18, 2004 - 17:04)
LASTMarch, at the annual poodle show in the White House, the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern stood proudly beside the American president and purred. "The world acknowledges the United States, with its immense power, and its status as a beacon of justice and liberty, as a leader with the United Nations, " Ahern said, his little tail wagging like a dachshund just rescued from a puppy farm. ... read full story / add a comment 
donegal / environment Monday March 15, 2004 - 12:16 by C. Price
2 comments (last - friday march 19, 2004 - 20:05)  3 images
Before coming to Ireland, I was warned not to have any romantic notions about the ‘Emerald Isle’. My Irish friend had travelled to my home country of Canada and was aware that many Canadians, especially those of Irish ancestry, have notions of Ireland that are based on commercial hype about leprechauns and beer and on the nostalgic laments of The Chieftains and the Irish Tenors about rolling hills and a glorious past. He cautioned that Ireland was changing and that the nation is manifesting the most unfortunate symptoms of economic success. I shrugged off the warning because my hopes for Ireland went much further than commercial stereotypes and, admittedly, because I really wanted to believe. After all, I endured eighteen years in a North American suburb. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday March 14, 2004 - 05:15 by john throne
1 comment (last - sunday march 14, 2004 - 21:05)
I am posting a piece below on Patricks Day that I wrote a couple of years ago. It tries to give an idea of the contradiction between remembering and missing my home and at the same time having to seperate myself from the form that the celebration of March 17th takes in Chicago. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Saturday March 13, 2004 - 21:49 by In Solidarity
5 comments (last - tuesday march 16, 2004 - 02:03) 3 images
Reports have it that many political prisoners are currently being attacked while being held in Spanish prisons. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday March 12, 2004 - 21:45 by iosaf
50 comments (last - sunday march 12, 2006 - 22:17) 17 images
In the corner of the screeb of every national TV channel in Spain. In the corner of every local cable TV station in Spain. On the banner of most national newspapers. On the doors of many shops, retail chains, ministry of culture, museums, libraries. In madrid the route of the concentration was overlooked by black ribbons hanging from the tower blocks. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday March 12, 2004 - 20:43 by NBRU
4 comments (last - saturday march 13, 2004 - 22:28)
Absolutely disgraceful. That's the only way to describe the National Bus & Rail Union's (NBRU's) total lack of support for SIPTU's official 24-hour bus and rail strike next Thursday, March 18th. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday March 12, 2004 - 13:45 by Anarcho
28 comments (last - thursday march 18, 2004 - 12:12) 1 image
The horrific bomb attacks in Spain are inexcusable. Targeting ordinary people is the work of evil people and no cause can justify it. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / politics / elections Wednesday March 10, 2004 - 14:31 by Anarcho
1 comment (last - wednesday march 10, 2004 - 19:47)
Blair's support for random drugs tests in schools is just insane. It should provoke any sensible person to demand random drugs tests for the cabinet. Only someone out their face on drugs could make the decisions Blair's government has made. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous Tuesday March 09, 2004 - 15:42 by Celeste
1 comment (last - thursday march 11, 2004 - 12:50)
'The boys who remember and the School that forgot' a documentary shown last night, told the harrowing story of how the sexual abuse of young boys was brushed under the carpet by a Top ulster private establishment school Campbell College. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Tuesday March 09, 2004 - 11:23 by Shinner
18 comments (last - friday march 12, 2004 - 13:57)
Establishment parties quaking in their boots at the rise of Sinn Fein. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday March 08, 2004 - 23:45 by Fintan Lane
26 comments (last - monday march 15, 2004 - 05:17)
On International Women's Day, it is worth reminding ourselves of the dedication of those Irish women who struggled for the women's right to vote in the early 20th century. Sometimes one gets the impression that the vote was gained through nothing more than polite lobbying. Not the case, as the following excerpt from Maria Luddy's short biography of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1995) shows. These women went to jail while fighting for a basic right, and today a number of women (Deirdre Clancy, Nuin Dunlop, Karen Fallon and Mary Kelly) are facing jail sentences for similar actions, taken while protesting against an immoral and unjust war. These women stand in a proud tradition of civil disobedience against injustice. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday March 08, 2004 - 17:52 by jordanista
15 comments (last - monday march 22, 2004 - 16:55)
After a report carried out by Deloitte and Touche, it seems Dublin Institute of Technology SU has found that the best way to increase the participation of students in their organisation is to write students out of the constitution! ... read full story / add a comment |
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