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international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday May 12, 2009 - 18:09 by Ram Puniyani
 2 comments (last - wednesday may 13, 2009 - 11:29)
The article below shows that the Talibans terrorisation of Sikhs is not justified by the Quran. The Taliban’s capturing of Swat valley and other parts of Pakistan are accompanied by the news of their atrocities in the region, which not only include the brutal killings of innocent citizens, mostly Muslims, on the ground of their belonging to different sub-sect of Islam, but also there has been imposition of Jizya, on non Muslims, Sikhs. While many Muslims have been killed and abducted many on various flimsy grounds, many a Sikhs have fled from the area. The failure to pay the full Jizya has caused Sikhs dear, while some of them have been kidnapped and others’ households-properties have been confiscated. Taliban’s logic is that they are imposing this as per the tenets of Islam. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Tuesday May 12, 2009 - 17:56 by A. Faizur Rahman
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Here you will find an exposition of the truth about what is mandated by the Quran and how this is twisted and ignored by the fundamentalists. About a month ago the world media reported a shocking decision by a Saudi judge in which he refused to annul the marriage of an 8-year old girl to a 47-year old man. But to those who are already familiar with the so called Islamic laws of Saudi Arabia this ruling was merely the latest in the sequence of several such cases of human rights abuse in the name of the shariah. The question is: does the Islamic law really uphold child marriage? ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday May 12, 2009 - 17:31 by Tratto
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Sloganeering and socialism ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday May 12, 2009 - 11:37 by Red Banner
The ‘Hidden Connolly’ articles published in Red Banner, previously unavailable to the general reader, are now available from the magazine’s website ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Monday May 11, 2009 - 13:57 by insurance scammer
Anyone lucky enough to catch episode 5 of the 13th series of "South Park" will already have digested the idea that Somalian pirates could be directed by a little fat kid with an attitude problem. But now the Spanish radio station "SER", acknowledged through its long list of leaks for its links to the intelligence services, has broadcast fresh claims, it says is based on a leaked briefing from European military intelligence that the pirates are being guided from London. & not just a bedsit in Dalston - but rather insiders in the maritime transport industry and insurance sectors. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Sunday May 10, 2009 - 14:15 by Miriam Cotton
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A Youtube of film-maker Quinn reading his letter on the upcoming occasion of its 40th anniversary - 14th May 2009. Approx 4 mins long. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Saturday May 09, 2009 - 23:47 by indo
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May 9th. "Irish Independent" ........As work/life balances go, he (Martin Sheen) seems to be onto something, looking at least a decade younger than his 68 years. The most recent arrest was less than two years ago, and related to trespassing on a nuclear test facility in Nevada. He has, he says, no plans to add to his impressive tally as he tours around Ireland this weekend with his grandson. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday May 09, 2009 - 23:04 by vendeval
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In the report on the annual police operation in Berlin delivered by local district German Federal Police chief Dieter Glietsch, we may read the usual justification for expenditure on kevlar, praise for "garda management", plea for more than this year's 6000 officer deployment, attention brought to the 450 of them who reported injuries and then one little jewel of intelligence. a 24 year old police officer who is normally stationed in Frankfurt Airport was arrested after not only throwing cobble stones at Berlin plod but then having a fisticuff go at resisting arrest. He is now suspended from duty. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 08, 2009 - 16:28 by Socialism or Barbarism!
Review of blasphemy law's implications ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday May 06, 2009 - 19:36 by Kat
I would just like to forward this article from the Dublin SPCA website. I feel this issue is not getting enough media attention. see story below. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday May 06, 2009 - 09:02 by Wallshaveears
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HAMAS POLITBURO chief Khaled Meshaal said yesterday the movement was ready to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on the basis of the two-state solution. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday May 05, 2009 - 02:45 by frequentblasphemer
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In the Irish Times Fintan O'Toole points out that 2009 is the centenary of the occasion when a play by Bernard Shaw, "The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet", was used to show up the absurdity of having blasphemy laws. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday May 04, 2009 - 15:05 by Peter
"A Bigger, Bolder Role Is Imagined For the IMF Changes Suggest Shift in How Global Economy Is Run" "Inside a cavernous assembly hall in downtown Washington, dignitaries gather twice a year for routine meetings of the International Monetary Fund. Before long, though, the room could take center stage in the IMF's transformation into a veritable United Nations for the global economy" ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday May 04, 2009 - 14:16 by David L
A good short article in Counterpunch showing the boycott of Israel is having an effect. It mentions the centrality of Jewish activists supporting boycott, the determination with which Palestinian civil society is pursuing it. Also mentions the campaign against Veolia, and the Galway decision to grant no further contracts to Veolia. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday May 01, 2009 - 23:00 by Anonymous
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"EVERY SATURDAY a group of young people, their faces hidden by masks or scarves, gathers outside the office of the Church of Scientology in Abbey Street in Dublin with leaflets and placards making serious allegations about the sect. If the new law prohibiting publishing or uttering blasphemous matter becomes law, as proposed yesterday by Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern, they could face fines of up to €100,000 and have their homes raided by members of the Garda Síochána in order to seize the offending material." ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday May 01, 2009 - 16:29 by Harvey Duff
3 comments (last - saturday may 30, 2009 - 13:42)
Leaders of the Prison Officers Association (POA) whose annual general meeting is being held in Castlebar , Co Mayo this week have called for a crackdown on the activities of dissident paramilitary prisoners held in Portlaoise Prison . At a time when the prison service faces an acute shortage of staff and cell space , 48 Continuity IRA, Real IRA and INLA inmates are currently allocated 120 cells at Portlaoise on four landings . Inmates can order in special food like steak to be cooked for them in the jail . The POA is particularly concerned about subversives holding military parades in the jail and has urged the Minister of Justice to intervene to stop them . But Prison Service boss , Brian Purcell , has rejected the union’s complaint saying that republican prisoners have always been treated differently to ordinary criminals . ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 30, 2009 - 21:22 by WAT
For the past 100 days Witness Against Torture has been keeping daily vigil outside the White House demanding the immediate close of Guantanamo. The 100 day campajgn saw 62 arrested today.check out youtube on following link and background info ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Sunday April 26, 2009 - 22:59 by Funderland
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Czech authorities ordered a former Ku Klux Klan leader, David Duke, to leave their country at midnight yesterday. The 59-year-old American had been invited to the Czech Republic by a local far-right group to give lectures in the University of Charles social sciences department, promote a book, and foment the agenda. But on Friday he was arrested and questioned by police on suspicion of denying the Holocaust, an offence under Czech law, however he was not charged since he had not actually denied the Holocaust publically on Czech soil at that point. Today responding to internet social group messages, neonazi's who had been due to converge on Prague to hear him speak appeared to change their mind and offer low key solidarity with David Duke. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Sunday April 26, 2009 - 15:13 by funderland
Natalia Morar , the 25 year old journalist whose twitter use sparked off the events of April 6th in Moldova in which a crowd of over 10,000 young people demonstrated forceably against the government and burnt the parliament, has had her house-arrest lifted. On April 9, Natalia Morar was officially charged by the Moldovan government with "calls for organizing and staging mass disturbances." She has spent the period since April 15th under house arrest and has just given her first interview published in English to the BBC. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday April 26, 2009 - 13:19 by Yassamine Mather
Yassamine Mather explains why the Left should boycott the upcoming Iranian Parliamentary and Presidential elections and how the Iranian Government embraces the policies of the IMF. Full story at link. Last week during a visit to Iran, Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan president, ridiculed the G20 summit and its attempts to ease the capitalist economic crisis. However, his hosts, who have embraced ‘Islamic’ capitalism with fervour, did not join in his condemnations of the IMF and international capital. Instead, Iran’s clerics concentrated on explaining ayatollah Khamenei’s message for the Iranian new year, during which he announced that cutting consumption should be the theme of the new year, as the country struggled to cope with the recession. ... read full story / add a comment |
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