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international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday February 03, 2009 - 09:34 by gazasympathiser
 1 comment (last - saturday february 07, 2009 - 12:30)
Four-year-old Samar Abed Rabbu is a little girl with a captivating smile to melt the heart of the most hardened correspondent. Samar had been shot in the back at close range. The bullet damaged her spine, and she is unlikely to walk again. At her bedside, her uncle Hassan told us the family had been ordered out of their home by Israeli soldiers who were shelling the neighbourhood. A tank had parked in front of the house, where around 30 people were taking shelter. The women and children - mother, grandmother and three little girls - came out waving a white flag and then, he said, an Israeli soldier came out of the tank and opened fire on the terrified procession. Samar's two sisters, aged seven and two, were shot dead. The grandmother was hit in the arm and in the side, but has survived. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday February 02, 2009 - 13:09 by gazasympathiser
Israel has paid £1.5m in damages to the family of James Miller, the British cameraman murdered by an Israeli officer while waving a white flag in Rafah (Gaza) 2003. At first the Israelis had claimed he was shot by Palestinian gunmen but this false allegation was disproved by ballistics tests ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday January 30, 2009 - 18:26 by Miriam
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There may be many things about the Turkish Prime Minister that people find objectionable but his challenge to Peres at Davos yesterday is surely not one of them. When he was prevented from being given equal time to Peres, he left the conference completely and has returned to an appreciative welcome in Turkey where feelings are running very high about the slaughter in Gaza. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday January 30, 2009 - 16:53 by Strike Supporter
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As part of the the ongoing campaign of the BATU strikers against their unfair dismissal by their employer (BATU), that union has now been suspended from the Dublin Council of Trade Unions. The statement of the BATU strikers about this can be found at http://batustrikers.wordpress.com/ and should be of particular interest to indymedia readers as it is a brilliant example of the struggle going on against the right wing union bureaucracy and for democratic, fighting unions. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday January 27, 2009 - 23:04 by Dublin Catholic Worker
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Kathy Kelly longtime nonviolent resister, serving sveral prison sentnces for resistance to war preparations. In the mid - 90's she was a founder of the sanctions busting direct action group "Voices in the Wilderness". Kathy attended all three Pitstop Ploughshares trials in Dublin '05-'06 to give evidence. She made her way to Lebanon during the Israeli assault of 06 and recently into Gaza. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now interviews her on what she witnessed in Gaza. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday January 27, 2009 - 20:30 by C.D. Stelzer
In 2008, Gen. James Jones, President Obama's national security adviser, was a member of the Afghanistan Study Group, an offshoot of the US Institute for Peace. The study group advocates escalating the war. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Saturday January 24, 2009 - 18:05 by Miriam
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Many people posting here are aware of the more subtle form of trolling that goes on at times. The Mr or Ms Reasonables who claim to be neutral on a given issue but who are clearly anything but. Israel has an army of such people it calls on to promote its actions. It has been working at fever pitch during the war on Gaza. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday January 23, 2009 - 00:56 by reject
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22-01-2009 16:37 IMC UK Server seized (again)! This time Kent Police have a warrant and are removing an Indy server from a Manchester colo. This is believed to be related to posts on the SHAC trial. IMCs UK, London and docs sites affected. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday January 22, 2009 - 17:21 by pat c
Despite their rhetoric the Iranian Mullahs witheld practical support from the Palestinian Resistance. Yassamine Mather reveals the extent of the Mullahs treachery. Full article at link. There can be no doubts that over the last few weeks Tehran has used the most colourful rhetoric amongst Islamic states to ‘prove’ its support for Gaza’s Palestinian population. However Iran’s actions have, as always, failed miserably in matching its slogans. According to one commentator writing in last week’s Economist, “Iranian support for Hamas was more theatrical than practical.” ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Thursday January 22, 2009 - 13:51 by PhillyActivists
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Please see the urgent message below from Leonard Peltier's sister. Pursuant to Betty Ann Peltier Solano's letter about her brother, let the Bureau of Prisons know that the public will hold them accountable for the safety and wellbeing of Leonard Peltier. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday January 21, 2009 - 19:55 by Miriam
14 comments (last - saturday january 24, 2009 - 14:40)
As if Obama's disgusting and complicit silence about the slaughter in Gaza while it was ongoing were not enough, news is emerging that the great black hope of America will be nothing if not more ruthless than his predecessor. Here's a quote from one of his 'Homeland Security' statements: "Ensure that our military becomes more stealthy, agile, and lethal in its ability to capture or kill terrorists. Bolster our military's ability to speak different languages, navigate different cultures, and coordinate complex missions with our civilian agencies." ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Wednesday January 21, 2009 - 17:01 by Clio
2 comments (last - friday february 27, 2009 - 13:18)
Trying to locate anyone with connections to Na Fianna Éireann from 1909 onwards! ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday January 21, 2009 - 03:41 by Ethiopian Women Human Rights Alliance
A popular Ethiopian woman political leader in her early thirties has been thrown in prison for life under very harsh conditions. Her crime is speaking her mind on the legal process. As lawyers appear to shy away for fear of government reprisals, please give her your moral support. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday January 20, 2009 - 07:14 by Miriam
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Morgan Kelly, Professor of Economics at UCD has delivered a scathing criticism of Cowen's decision to rescue Anglo Irish Bank - and describes how Cowen and Lenihan went against advice of the Central Bank and their own experts in the Department of Finance - fully aware of what it would do to the citizens of the state. The reality is that Anglo has no importance in the Irish financial system. It existed purely as a vehicle for a few politically connected individuals to place reckless bets on the commercial property market. These property speculators may be of systemic importance to the finances of Fianna Fáil, but their significance ends there. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 19, 2009 - 17:30 by TD
In a powerful Counterpunch article, human rights activist, Caoimhe Butterly, working in Jabaliya and Gaza City as a volunteer with ambulance services and as co-coordinator for the Free Gaza Movement vividly describes the abattoir and war crime scene that is now Gaza: The bodies in their blood-soaked white shrouds cover the entire floor space of the Shifa hospital morgue. Some are intact, most horribly deformed, limbs twisted into unnatural positions, chest cavities exposed, heads blown off, skulls crushed in. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 19, 2009 - 11:35 by John Mearsheimer
John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, co-author of the paper (available online) and subsequent book (with Stephen Walt) _The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy_, presents a concise timeline description and absolutely the clearest account of the true reason behind Israel's wanton atrocities in Gaza. Mearsheimer argues that diminishing Hamas or stopping their rockets are subsidiary goals for Israel, to Israel's more central goal of controlling all of historical Palestine via an "Iron Wall" policy that would permanently subjugate the Palestinian people Mearsheimer points out that this goal cannot be achieved, and certainly not by the brutal method of a total war on the Palestinian people. The likely outcome even in the case of relative Israeli success is a permanent Apartheid, which itself will [thankfully] doom Israel as a chauvinistically and exclusionary "Jewish State" [and its racist state ideology of Zionism]. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday January 18, 2009 - 15:59 by Solidarity
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Anti-militarist activists entered the ITT/EDO MBM arms factory in Moulescombe, Brighton, England in the early hours of Saturda morning, January 17th. 09, where they are believed to have caused extensive damage to the offices, and to equipment used to make arms, including the 'zero retention force arming units' and 'ejector release unit 151' which the Smash EDO/ITT campaign says are supplied to the Israeli Air Force. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday January 17, 2009 - 10:37 by redjade
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Israel's Achilles’ heel.... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday January 16, 2009 - 15:35 by Miriam
"But this is only the tip of the ice berg. The Israeli forces have begun to use civilians as human shields. According to Amnesty International Israeli forces occupy civilian houses and keep the civilians as hostages on the first floor, while they position their soldiers on the second floor; ensuring that any fire on the house (especially with anti-tank or RPG missiles) kills the civilians as well." ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday January 16, 2009 - 13:20 by Miriam
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Israel's communist party looks set to benefit from the government's decision to ban the Arab parties from the upcoming elections. ... read full story / add a comment |
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