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international / miscellaneous Thursday July 30, 2009 - 16:13 by Bazooka Joe
Fighting continued for a second day on Wednesday between Iraqi soldiers and members of an Iranian opposition group whose camp was stormed Tuesday on orders from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.The US is obligated to the MEK (People's Mujahedin of Iran, Mujaheddin-e Khalq) because it provided information about Iran's nuclear program and because US officials promised to protect them after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. MEK member Behzad Saffari said that Iraqi troops were stopping injured people going to hospitals outside the group's camp Ashraf. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 30, 2009 - 13:34 by Committee for protection of Ashraf
On Tuesday, Iraqi police attacked Camp Ashraf in Iraq, where 3500 Iranian opposition live. They are unarmed and have no way of defending themselves. The Iraqi police have opened fire on the residents as well beating them with batons, sticks and running them over with humvees donated by the coalition forces. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Wednesday July 29, 2009 - 11:02 by Hypatia
Amnesty reports on the situation in Nicaragua where pregnant women are being refused necessary medical treatment. This has led to an increase in maternal deaths. Full story at link. Nicaragua’s total ban on abortions is endangering the lives of girls and women, denying them life-saving treatment, preventing health professionals from practicing effective medicine and contributing to an increase in maternal deaths across the country, concludes Amnesty International in a new report issues on Monday. According to official figures, 33 girls and women have died in pregnancy this year as compared to 20 in the same period last year. Amnesty International believes these figures are only a minimum as the government itself has acknowledged that the number of maternal deaths is under-recorded. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Wednesday July 29, 2009 - 10:11 by G
From the New Internationalist Website: http://blog.newint.org/editors/2009/07/21/blades-of-glo...ments ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday July 27, 2009 - 16:28 by Michel Chossudovsky
"What is happening is that the widespread incidence of the common flu is being used to generate the reports delivered to the WHO pertaining to the H1N1 swine flu. Nonetheless, in the tabulated release of country level data, the WHO uses the term: "number of laboratory-confirmed cases", while also admitting that the cases are, in many cases, not confirmed." ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Thursday July 23, 2009 - 00:40 by hogworts
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The site of the former Hotel Gerhus in the village of Fassberg in the German state of Lower Saxony is now squatted by a neoNazi group loyal to the far-right German NPD deputy leader Jürgen Rieger. Although the building is in receivership, and despite the little village never reportedly having had the pleasure of a squat or social centre before, the 8000 metre squared piece of real estate is now breaking news in the German language. A mostly ignored press statement issued by Rieger last Friday announced his activists would occupy the premises after a leasing deal went sour (for the nazi's) & they felt they were being ripped off by someone in the estate agents' sector for offering them the space. Accordingly in the last 24 hours German NeoNazi's have indeed occupied the site - with the intention of turning the 70+ plus bedroomed building into a "training, educational & political revival" centre. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Monday July 20, 2009 - 10:45 by Lillian Hellman
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This is the story of the rape and murder of another young Iranian who was protesting for justice. Full story at link. On Friday June 19, a large group of mourners gathered at the Ghoba mosque in Tehran to await a speech about the martyrs of the post-election protests by presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi. According to one Iranian blog, 28-year-old Taraneh Mousavi was one of a group of people that was arrested by plainclothesed security forces for attending the gathering. Weeks later her mother received an anonymous call from a government agent saying that her daughter has been hospitalized in Imam Khomeini Hospital in the city of Karaj, just north of Tehran -- hospitalized for "rupturing of her womb and anus in... an unfortunate accident". ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Saturday July 18, 2009 - 16:25 by Ann Garrison
July 16th, 2009, marked the 30th anniversary of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history, when, at 5:00 A.M., 1100 tons of uranium mining tailings, and 100 million gallons of radioactive water burst through United Nuclear's earthen dam, into the Rio Puerco, at a uranium mine in Church Rock, New Mexico, on the Navajo Reservation. Today, the Navajo Nation remains under toxic siege, by coal mining, uranium mining, and coal-fired power, even though an EPA doc already suggests that the entire reservation is a Superfund site. The Navajo Tribal Council, in 2005, passed a uranium mining ban, the Diné Natural Resources Protection Act, and thus won a Nuclear Free Future Award, but the ban has been under pressure ever since, and uranium mining claims now surround the Navajo Reservation like an advancing army. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday July 16, 2009 - 23:34 by Socialism or Barbarism!
A brief snippet of a detailed analysis of the report of 'An Bord Snip Nua'. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday July 15, 2009 - 21:03 by Sligo leftie
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Sligo éirígí activist Gerry Casey has described as “shameful” the silence of the north-west’s TD’s and MEP’s over continuing human rights abuses being inflicted on those opposed to the giveaway of our natural resources to Shell in County Mayo. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday July 14, 2009 - 17:56 by Alfonso Petrini
This is an article by a Tehran doctor who has witnessed the real number of people killed and wounde iby Islamic militias and police. Full article at link. I have been working in a public hospital in Tehran over the last few weeks. The authorities are covering up the number of dead protesters and their causes of death. The official statistic is 20 dead – that's wrong. In our hospital alone there were 38 riot deaths in the first week. Most died from gunshot wounds. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday July 12, 2009 - 17:44 by Yassamine Mather
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In this article Yassamine analyses the nature of the ongoing demonstrations. She points out that only conspiracy theorists belive that the protests were organised from outside Iran. She shows hoe thw actions of the working class are crucial at this conjuncture and finally she says that all sanctions against Iran must be opposed. Full article at url. The continuation of demonstrations and protests against the Islamic republic of Iran, albeit on a smaller scale than two weeks ago, have fuelled further divisions at every level of the religious state: the Shia scholars of Ghom oppose the clerics in the Council of Guardians; leaders of the Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guard) are arrested for siding with the ‘reformist camp’; senior ayatollahs are divided, with Ali Saneii and Ali Montazeri declaring the election results fraudulent, while most other grand ayatollahs have remained loyal to the supreme leader. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday July 11, 2009 - 15:30 by Greg T
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She was stabbed 18 times, when a policeman finally responded he shot her husband (allegedly by mistake). Deficient reaction of German news media. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 09, 2009 - 00:49 by Justin Morahan
(Welcome to the ambassador and a number of issues raised: Iraq during Bush and Clinton's US presidencies, Afghanistan. Pakistan, US military using Shannon, a critique of US policy vis-a-vis Israel) ... read full story / add a comment
waterford / history and heritage Saturday July 04, 2009 - 21:30 by Archangel
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Son of Flying Column veteran refused permission to spread Father's ashes on Republican Plot ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Saturday July 04, 2009 - 09:03 by Blacbloc
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A politics.ie poster has retrieved the text of a House of Lords debate from Hansard in which Kinnock says the guarantees are not legally binding. The whole yes camp are caught with trousers down by their ankles! Here's what she said: "Those guarantees do not change the Lisbon treaty; the European Council conclusions are very clear on them. The Lisbon treaty, as debated and decided by our Parliament, will not be changed and, on the basis of these guarantees, Ireland will proceed to have a second referendum in October." She added: "Nothing in the treaty will change and nothing in the guarantees will change the treaty as your Lordships agreed it." ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 03, 2009 - 18:25 by Jerry Cornelius
This is the story of an 18 year old protester who was arrested, beaten and raped. It more than just a description of brutsality, this story gets to the heart of the matter. Full story at the url. His shoulder blades and arms were wounded. There were some slashes on the face. No bone fractures, but he was bruised all over the body. I wanted to take some photos but he did not let me. The doctor said only four of his teeth were intact, the rest were broken. You could hardly understand what he said. Then the doctor told me what had happened. He had suffered rupture of the rectum and the doctor feared colonic bleeding. He suggested we take him to the hospital immediately. ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Wednesday July 01, 2009 - 16:57 by Laura Broxson
Today is the National Animal Rights Association's 2nd anniversary, and below is our "Year in Review" report, documenting the work we've done in the past year. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday July 01, 2009 - 16:28 by Saoirsí
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The American Conservative's (August 01, 2009 Issue) Philip Giraldi ("Deep Background") - a former CIA Officer - is a fellow with the American Conservative Defense Alliance: "Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s chief of staff, is coordinating a White House effort to remake the Israeli government... The choice of Rahm Emanuel, a pro-Israel hardliner, to head the campaign is intended to limit criticism that there might be an anti-Israel agenda at work." ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Monday June 29, 2009 - 12:34 by The Fox
Nigerian rebels attack and raid oil facility in DELTA area. ... read full story / add a comment |
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