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international / arts and media Monday March 10, 2008 - 21:57 by ec   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 11, 2008 - 20:30)
Interesting news. This is a first of a kind legal case in Europe. Originally from RTE I think.
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international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday March 08, 2008 - 18:22 by Seán Ryan   text 1 comment (last - sunday march 09, 2008 - 05:25)
When presented with a Bill from Congress today, a bill that would have outlawed waterboarding amongst other criminal acts, President Bush simply vetoed it. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday March 07, 2008 - 12:20 by Sean Crudden
Does psychiatric back-up improve the effectiveness of an army? Will it help to mitigate the effects of war? Is all war madness? Are psychiatrists and mental health professionals colluding in a chaotic and destructive adventure? ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Thursday March 06, 2008 - 00:44 by Pollytix   text 4 comments (last - sunday march 09, 2008 - 12:57)
'The problem for the senior vice-president of technology at Phorm, an Aim-listed company which recently tied up a deal with the UK's three biggest internet service providers - BT, Virgin Media and TalkTalk, who between them have more than 10 million customers - is that it's not the privacy groups who he really needs to convince. It's the millions of people whose services will be affected by Phorm's scheme, because some are up in arms over what they see as an invasion of their privacy through Phorm's intention to categorise all of their web-surfing habits in order to target online ads at them.' ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Tuesday March 04, 2008 - 11:40 by Drew
The latest edition of THE RED STAR, Nepal's National Magazine is now available on line.

There are articles on

the upcoming election,

Indian Expansionism, ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday March 04, 2008 - 09:13 by OZ   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 14, 2009 - 23:24)
Satirical clip (very funny) on Peter Garrett former lead singer of radical rock group "Midnight Oil now Australian government minister does yet another backflip on U.S. bases, uranium etc etc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIsJCR6w1Vg
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national / anti-capitalism Friday February 29, 2008 - 19:01 by reabhloid dearg   text 28 comments (last - wednesday march 05, 2008 - 20:28)
Founding IRSP member Jim Daly argues in his presentation at the RSYM Winter School that Green and Orange are incompatible, and that the traditional failure of Republican leaderships left and right to recognize this is part of the reason for the present debacle. Jim argues that only Republican socialist leaders such as Connolly and Costello were free of the illusion of their compatibility. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday February 29, 2008 - 16:28 by Red Banner
Issue 31 of Red Banner is out now, available at €2 / £1.50 from Red Banner sellers, good bookshops, or from the address above. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday February 29, 2008 - 14:43 by Joe   text 21 comments (last - tuesday april 01, 2008 - 01:47)
Five boys and a 6 onth old baby ere killed in in Jabalya, a refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip and two in the West Bank on Thursday. Witnesses said the children were playing soccer when they were killed by an Israeli missile. The baby was killed when Israeli jets bombed a government building
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday February 28, 2008 - 15:54 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - friday february 29, 2008 - 14:38)
Yet another Iranian Trade Unionist is threatened with flogging by the Iranian Theocratic Regime. His "crime"? Participating in "illegal" Mayday demonstrations. Here is an appeal from Iranian Trade Unionists, support them in their struggle against the Iranian Dictatorship.

A summons for the administration of a flogging has now been issued for Tayyeb Chatani for participating in the May 1st event last year. Mr Chatani works at Par Rees factory, where he is an active shop steward. Eleven of the workers arrested for taking part in the May 1st event last year in Sanandaj were sentenced to 91 days in prison and 10 strikes of the lash. The Appeal Court changed the sentences to fines, but upheld the sentence of 10 lashes. So far, the lashing have been carried out in the case of 3 workers: Seddigh Amjadi, Habibollah Kalekaani and Faares Gaviliaan. The only crime of these workers is having participated in the May Day ceremony in Sanandaj. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday February 28, 2008 - 14:25 by Joe   text 5 comments (last - sunday march 30, 2008 - 21:31)
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday praised Japan’s “firm” stance on Iran as the Zionist state agreed to strengthen ties with Japan. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday February 27, 2008 - 18:24 by Seán Ryan
An article that's currently doing the rounds is one which the authorities wish would quietly go away.

Let's not forget that we in Ireland facilitate this barbarity by allowing the unfetterd access of our airports and airspace to the CIA. Wink wink... Nod nod... ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday February 26, 2008 - 14:04 by John Cornford
Jim Moody interviews Ahmed Hussain who has defected from the SWP to the Conservative Party.

JM: Why have you left Respect (Independent) group on Tower Hamlets council?

AH: Initially the four of us left the party because of the leadership: it was not going anywhere. It was just out of order, because everyone was doing what they wanted to do. The reason I left the new group is because we were trying, but we were not going anywhere to help the community.

The other thing is, the party itself is just not going anywhere because the electoral commission has put an embargo on the name. You can’t really re-establish the party all over again. It was quite hard to do with Respect. People had elected me to the council to serve them, and that was not happening because I was concentrating more on party problems. That was why I thought I should move on to another party. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday February 21, 2008 - 16:14 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 13, 2008 - 12:43)
Yet again the US Occupation Forces have launched an attack on The Iraq Freedom Congress.

In another poor move; the occupying troops has made another attempt to eliminate the voice of freedom from Iraq by raiding the IFC headquarter in Baghdad on 12 February when they forced themselves in, verbally and physically assaulted the guards and stood them out in the rain for several hours. It is understood from the many previous incidents that these attempts are not to look for weapons or investigations regarding terrorist activities; but in fact they are to intimidate and eliminate any voice that objects the occupation and its puppets.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 21, 2008 - 14:42 by John Cornford   text 3 comments (last - monday december 15, 2008 - 23:36)
James Turley writes on how in Respect Chris Bambery claimed that Secularism ‘justifies’ islamophobia. Yet now Socialist Worker demands separation of church and state.

Bambery writes on islamophobia in media and establishment reactions to the speech. The Sun’s “bash the bishop” campaign and David Blunkett’s reference to something “external to this country” is a breath away from “there ain’t no black in the union jack”. The article implies that the pro-islam stance of the SWP has hardened since the break with Galloway. He writes that in spite of talk of muslim ‘backwardness’, many of the foundations of science were commonplace in islamic culture by the middle ages. True -science would not be doing well without the concept of zero. But it buys into the logic of the ‘clash of civilisations’. The idea of religions competing in some cosmic dog-show for the prize of ‘most progressive’ is ridiculous in itself without Bambery on the judges’ panel. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 21, 2008 - 12:10 by tomeile   text 5 comments (last - wednesday march 24, 2010 - 09:54)
Catherine Nevin’s appeal against her conviction for murder began in the Court of Appeal yesterday. Ms Nevin was convicted in 2000 of the murder of her husband Tom at their pub, Jack White's Inn, Brittas Bay, on March 19, 1996. The appeal will be based on evidence that prosecutors failed to disclose at her original trial that witnesses , William McClean and former provos Gerry Heapes and John Jones ,were long-standing police informers . Nevin’s lawyer ,Anne Fitzgibbon , is seeking access to classified documents including security files which indicate that Mr McClean was a suspect in the Dublin/Monaghan bombings of 1974.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday February 19, 2008 - 18:44 by Cael   text 3 comments (last - wednesday february 20, 2008 - 14:00)
Irish people all over the world will be saddened to hear that Maggie Hughes, the mother of Francis Hughes, has passed on to her eternal reward. She gave her most precious treasure for the cause of Irish freedom. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a h-anam dilís.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday February 19, 2008 - 17:15 by Miriam Cotton   text 5 comments (last - friday february 29, 2008 - 12:41)
"Wikileaks Under Attack: California Court Wipes Wikileaks.org Out of Existence
Mon Feb 18, 2008 at 06:20:15 AM PST
One of the most important web sites in recent months has been Wikileaks.org. Wikileaks has upset the Chinese government enough that they are attempting to censor it, as is the Thai military junta. Wikileaks is now under attack from a censorship effort by a California court."

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international / gender and sexuality Monday February 18, 2008 - 16:47 by Gender aware
While many Indymedia readers are probably not fans of any of the prospective presidential candidates in the US, I thought this analysis of the coverage was quite interesting and worth putting up. While I don't agree with all the points made, it does provide some interesting and disturbing commentary on the media coverage, and the way in which feminisation of the candidates is seen as a way of degrading them (particularly in relation to Clinton, of course). While I'm not her greatest fan, I do think some of the points made here and the examples given show how deep the distrust of female leadership still goes in Western society. Obama has faced some ethnocentric bias too, but it seems his charisma and gender are saving him from the worst of it. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday February 18, 2008 - 12:52 by Joe   text 3 comments (last - friday february 22, 2008 - 04:34)
Raymond Gilmour who served as a British agent inside the IRA and who has now been left, penniless, homeless with a heart condition and post traumatic stress disorder by his handlers is now giving free advice to other potential rats. Don't do it! ... read full story / add a comment
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