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national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 19, 2010 - 12:13 by Brian Alance
 2 comments (last - monday may 31, 2010 - 03:41)
The Financial Times says it had no problem editorially with an Amnesty International ad criticising Shell's practices in Nigeria but had to pull it for legal reasons. In case anyone is in any doubt what people in Ireland and beyond are up against when trying to get justice, remember you are not really dealing with the touchy-feely Shell that sponsors local events in Erris but with a well-oiled, well-funded global judicial machine that will stop at nothing to maximise profits. http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&s...7&c=1 ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday May 19, 2010 - 11:21 by Laurence Cox
From Irish Left Review: Presentation to the the “Equality in a time of crisis” conference organised by the Egalitarian World Initiative and the UCD School of Social Justice (May 6 - 7). ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday May 14, 2010 - 19:52 by pat c
Seymour Hersh reveals how US troops are executing pows in Afghanistan. He also speaks about thhow the Bush Adminstration had developed detailed plans for a military attack on Iran. Full text and vid at link. "I'll tell you right now, one of the great tragedies of my country is that Mr. Obama is looking the other way, because equally horrible things are happening to prisoners, to those we capture in Afghanistan," Hersh said. "They're being executed on the battlefield. It's unbelievable stuff going on there that doesn't necessarily get reported. Things don't change." ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday May 13, 2010 - 21:09 by watcher
The network of powerful players within the golden circles of Irish capitalism becomes even clearer. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Thursday May 06, 2010 - 15:08 by David Miller & Claire Robinson (summary)
INTRO SpinWatch (www.spinwatch.org), created in 2005, provides public interest reporting on spin and deception, and campaigns for lobbying transparency. Spinwatch are co-founders of the Europe-wide Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation and the more recent UK campaign, the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency. Spinwatch has come under sustained attack from a bizarre group of former left wing activists who switched to the pro-market right in the 1990s. Today, this 'LM Network' act as lobbyists for and defenders of multinational corporations. As such, the LM Network features on the associated SpinProfiles.org website (http://spinprofiles.org/index.php?title=LM_network). Because of that fact the LM network, that guards its origins and activities from prying eyes, has attempted to undermine Spinwatch's credibility. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday April 30, 2010 - 10:50 by SIPTU Community
The latest edition of the SIPTU Community Newsletter is now available. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 29, 2010 - 10:37 by Mairead O'Shea
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The latest recruit to the Labour Party is Mary Harneys buddy Mae Sexton. Sexton was the PD Dail Deputy for Longford up until she was defeated at the last General Election. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 29, 2010 - 02:12 by Larky
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This is the text of the speech made by Michael O’Boyce the president of the Garda Representative Association to their annual conference. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 28, 2010 - 15:35 by lynn
2 comments (last - friday april 30, 2010 - 11:54)
The courts have recently become a very hotly contested arena in the conflict over Shell's imposition of their unsafe project on Erris. Charges and prosecutions have been coming thick and fast over the last year and a half, but they seem to be more about persecuting campaigners than any concept of justice, and recent weeks have shown a clear bias in the policing of protest. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Saturday April 24, 2010 - 17:29 by Oswald Bastable
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The Cochabamba Climate Summit in Bolivia has closed with a call for rich countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% and for the setting up of a court to punish climate crimes. President Evo Morales, who organised the gathering, also announced plans to mount a referendum of 2 billion people on solutions to the climate crisis within a year. Here are three articles about summit. Full text at links. Cochabamba Summit Calls For International Climate Court By Andres Schipani Cochabamba conference closes with call for rich countries to halve greenhouse gas emissions and set up a court to punish climate crimes. http://www.countercurrents.org/schipani230410.htm ... read full story / add a comment
international / health / disability issues Thursday April 22, 2010 - 02:09 by Robbie Sinnott
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Among other things, Richar Patterson says that Black liberation is more advanced than the liberation of Visually impaired [hear here]; that he was never ashamed of being black, but was ashamed of his visual impaierment. [interaction with the 'normal' people' is a strange nexus] He also describes some of the practical difficulties in processing information with a visual impairement. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Tuesday April 20, 2010 - 13:23 by TalliBean
2 comments (last - thursday april 29, 2010 - 18:09)
Just when you thought thinks couldn't get any worse: now women are blamed for earthquakes! A senior Iranian cleric says women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes. Iran is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries, and the cleric's unusual explanation for why the earth shakes follows a prediction by the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that a quake is certain to hit Tehran and that many of its 12 million inhabitants should relocate. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Thursday April 15, 2010 - 01:34 by Craig McInerney
A change in the Irish economy can only occur with a dramatic change in our political landscape. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice Monday April 12, 2010 - 20:47 by Christine Murphy
Gary Leupp, Professor of History at Tufts University and Adjunct Professor of Religion reports in Counterpunch that: Ratzinger conducts a devious slight-of-hand, feigning transparency and legal cooperation to obscure a history of concealment of egregious sex abuse instances “for the good of the Universal Church.” That’s the real history here, now requiring him to insist on diplomatic immunity so as not to appear in U.S. courtrooms. ... read full story / add a comment
national / education Monday April 12, 2010 - 09:31 by MediaBite
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Dr Gavan Titley of NUI Maynooth has written a guest article for MediaBite in which he analyses media coverage of the teaching union conferences last week. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday April 10, 2010 - 17:26 by postman
An alternative proposal to Chavez's "5th international" ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 06, 2010 - 15:19 by Darren C
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The English Defence League (EDL) wrought havoc on the streets of the Black Country Town of Dudley on Easter Saturday, attacking antifascists with firecrackers and laying siege to Dudley Central Mosque. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 05, 2010 - 15:02 by orangecitadel
1 comment (last - friday april 09, 2010 - 14:13)
Lebanese man, Ali Hussain Sabat, was arrested in Saudi Arabia for sorcery and is facing execution. Amnesty International is campaigning for him. You can write a letter in his defence or sign the Facebook petition. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice Sunday April 04, 2010 - 20:10 by John Farrell
5 comments (last - wednesday april 07, 2010 - 08:58)
The IT is reporting that: Easter Sunday Mass at Dublin’s Pro Cathedral was briefly interrupted as protesters placed children’s shoes on the altar to represent the victims of clerical sex abuse. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Saturday April 03, 2010 - 23:00 by no platform
Eugène Terre Blanche the horseriding Boer leader of the South African neo nazi movement who wanted to carve a seccessionist "homeland" for whites out of post apartheid South Africa has been murdered in his sleep on his farm just outside of Ventersdorp on April 3, 2010. It is alleged that he was beaten to death with pipes and pangas by two men ages 16 and 21 who apparently were upset over a wage dispute. ... read full story / add a comment |
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