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international / miscellaneous Saturday February 19, 2005 - 16:35 by Conor Purcell
 4 comments (last - friday february 25, 2005 - 14:54)
The U.S. embassy has just issued a warning to it's citizens to stay away from certain parts of Seoul. Demonstrations against foreigners are planned and an online petition to keep foreigners out of the country has already got thousands of signatures. Many foreigners are worried, some have already left. And all this because of a website? Welcome to Korea, one of the most reactionary and xenophobic countries in Asia. ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Saturday February 19, 2005 - 08:37 by Ross Getman
Coca-Cola may be making noises in the UK to cut down its branding and marketing of caffeinated sugar water to children, but in the US they are steaming full bore ahead like a schoolyard bully. The "pouring rights" contracts at public schools are not just incredibly bad policy, but they have been challenged as unlawful. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday February 18, 2005 - 11:31 by They haven't gone away (you know)
26 comments (last - wednesday february 23, 2005 - 18:32)  2 images
Strange, not a mention of the raids in Cork and elsewhere that appear to have recovered some of the Northern Bank sterling stolen in Belfast last December. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Thursday February 17, 2005 - 19:01 by Maria
2 comments (last - friday february 18, 2005 - 10:53)
Latvia rewrites its history by erasing its Soviet past. Socialist Party of Latvia proposal to recognize the 9th of May as Victory Day over Nazism in the Great Patriotic War of 1945 has been refused by the Latvian government. Vaira Vike-Freiberga presented “History of Latvia: XXth Century” to Vladimir Putin at the Holocaust Memorial Day in Oswiecim. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Wednesday February 16, 2005 - 22:05 by Various
1 comment (last - tuesday may 24, 2005 - 00:26)
[FOR INDYMEDIA IRELAND'S FILM CRRRRITTTIIICCCSSS] ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Wednesday February 16, 2005 - 18:10 by James R
4 comments (last - saturday february 19, 2005 - 00:04) 1 image
It took years for movies dramatising the agony of the Vietnam conflict to hit the big screen, yet oddly enough a jaundiced contemporary view of the states seeped into a mass audience through Leone's spaghetti westerns. Remaining conspicuous through absence from the canons of motion picture greats, the stylistic flourishes of Sergio Leone westerns provide the popular mind with an immediate shorthand for the genre cinematically. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Wednesday February 16, 2005 - 10:50 by Séamus Ó Cadhain
41 comments (last - saturday february 19, 2005 - 18:28) 3 images
Today's Irish Independent is inferring that the IRA is to blame for an attack on the French windows at Michael McDowell's holiday home. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday February 14, 2005 - 09:58 by ramor ryan
11 comments (last - tuesday february 14, 2006 - 22:57)
Once this was a place of great hope. During the late 1980’s, the Sandinistas were consolidating the revolution in Nicaragua, the FMLN were on the brink of overthrowing the government in El Salvador and the radical movements in Guatemala and Honduras were gaining ground. Today it is a region convulsed by massive delinquency and chronic state corruption whose economies are surviving tenuously on remittance money sent by migrants. The defeat of the revolutionary movements has ushered in an era of social disintegration resulting in a veritable neo-liberal dystopia. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 13, 2005 - 22:57 by Michelle Clarke
21 comments (last - friday april 04, 2008 - 21:34)
'Why Sinn Fein are a bunch of lying, stealing, cheating, hypocritical bastards? Freedom of the Press is to be valued and not jeopardised. I lived in Zimbabwe in the 1990's and alas I witnessed what control of the Press was all about......Let us preserve our right to report taking account of the words Ethics, Morality, Justice, Human Rights, Civil Rights, Peace.............. African Saying: 'The area covered by your life is not as important as what you build on it' ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment Sunday February 13, 2005 - 21:28 by jim travers
2 comments (last - wednesday february 16, 2005 - 01:11)
bin tax protest and automotive disposal ... read full story / add a comment |
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