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national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 27, 2010 - 14:15 by Bimpe Archer
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The former face of the BBC Northern Ireland's GAA coverage has unleashed an extraordinary attack on the corporation for downgrading its coverage of Gaelic games and subjecting him to "racial harassment". Self-proclaimed "Mr GAA" Jerome Quinn is representing himself in a case against the BBC in which he alleges unfair dismissal and discrimination. He was sacked last year after his employer discovered he had been posting anonymous criticism of its coverage of Gaelic football and hurling on a GAA discussion board. The award-winning presenter said they were an attempt to "inform fans of what was behind anti-GAA coverage in BBC NI". ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Sunday April 25, 2010 - 13:31 by WMD
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According to a notice issued by Eamon Ryan's Department of Transport, work is to re start shortly on the Corrib Pipeline. The notice gives a rough outline of plans to survey the estuary, but makes no mention of Shell/Garda security compounds, increased garda and navy presence, dodgy security guards with cameras, and articles in the O'Reily press saying "we need the gas". Maybe that's a different department... ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday April 24, 2010 - 18:28 by pat c
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Here are two articles by Eva Bartlett on the war that the Israeli Army wages against Palestinian farmers. full texts at links. "Our sheep and goats would feed at the base of trees before the trees were all destroyed," she says. Over the years of Israeli air and land invasions, Israel's bulldozing and bombing trees and agricultural land, the environment in Gaza suffers almost as much as the people. With animal fodder only sparingly allowed into Gaza under the siege, that which enters through the tunnels from Egypt is unaffordable to herders like Um Mohammed. http://www.countercurrents.org/bartlett230410A.htm ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 24, 2010 - 18:17 by pat c
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Israel continues its war against Palestinian children by destroying a Strategic WMD - a childrens playground! 100 olive and fruit trees were also destroyed. Full text at link. Israeli bulldozers today destroyed a garden and children’s playground in Beit Jala, and 100 fruit and olive trees in Al Walaja and Beit Jala, both in the Bethlehem district, to make way for the continued construction of their illegal apartheid wall. Soldiers present used violent force to remove Palestinian, Israeli and international activists who attempted to prevent the destruction. Two Israelis were arrested immediately, and six internationals were later arrested. ... 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 / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 22, 2010 - 11:14 by People Before Prophets
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Looks as if the South Park crew could have some problems angry islamic fundamentalists. Mocking buddha and christ is one thing but mocking the "prophet" of islam is a tad more dangerous. Islamists have warned the creators of TV show South Park they could face violent retribution for depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit. A posting on the website of the US-based group, Revolution Muslim, told Matt Stone and Trey Parker they would "probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh". The Dutch film-maker was shot and stabbed to death in 2004 by an Islamist angered by his film about Muslim women. ... 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
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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 
mayo / environment Saturday April 17, 2010 - 14:55 by Mubara
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The Shell manager who accepted the latest load of letters from objectors to the Shell project just last week turns out to be the son of a (former) Labour politician. A politician who always campaigned hard on Corrib, but on behalf of the multi-national, not his constituents. So it was a bit of a surprise to see Jerry Cowley, wealthy Barrister and GP, and once supposedly a supporter of the Shell to Sea campaign, sign up for Labour yesterday. ... read full story / add a comment
international / education Friday April 16, 2010 - 21:44 by D. Grant Haynes
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A culture and educational system that permits a student like Irish teen Phoebe Prince to be bullied and harassed until driven to suicide needs to undergo vast systemic changes immediately. ____________________________________ ... 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 
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday April 12, 2010 - 16:25 by pat c
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Yassamine Mather writes about the ongoing Imperialist agenda to impose even stronger sanctions against Iran. Now Obama has the support of the Chinese regime. Yassamine makes it clear that this has got nothing to do with nuclear weapons. Full text at link. For the last few months, every day - and at times more than once a day - media presentation of world news has been dominated by US attempts to impose sanctions on Iran. Sometimes it is the visit of a foreign head of state to Washington that is the occasion for the latest call; at other times it is Hillary Clinton’s world tour, or a phone call from Barack Obama to a Chinese leader. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday April 12, 2010 - 16:08 by pat c
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Tony Greenstein writes on how the Zionists are continuing to cleanse the Occupied Territories, making parts of the West Banks permanent no go areas for Palestinians. But the Zionist State is also moving against Israeli Jews who oppose Zionism. Full text at link. In the past two weeks there has been an increase in Israeli attacks on Gaza, culminating with the bombing by Israel of a factory and civilian areas on April 1. Presumably some form of April fool’s joke - with a vengeance. However, the sporadic firing and shelling does not tell the whole story or even part of it. Israel continues to maintain its starvation blockade, which has in itself resulted in hundreds of silent deaths - ie, medical emergencies, the elderly and very young without nutrition, people living outdoors in the cold (concrete is barred from the list of imports). ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday April 12, 2010 - 15:43 by pat c
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Stephen Lendman writes about the ongoing Zionist campaign against Palestinian Youth. Every year, approx 700 West Bank children, are arrested, detained, interrogated, and prosecuted in Israeli military "courts". About 6,500 since 2000. Full text at link. In June 2009, Defence for Children International (DCI)/Palestine Section published a report titled, "Palestine Child Prisoners: The systematic and institutionalized ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities." DCI/Palestine "is a national section of the international non-government child rights organisation and movement (dedicated) to promoting and protecting the rights of Palestinian children," according to international law principles. ... 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
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday April 07, 2010 - 12:43 by Danny Kaplan
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Democracy Now reports: Massacre Caught on Tape: US Military Confirms Authenticity of Their Own Chilling Video Showing Killing of Journalists. The US military has confirmed the authenticity of newly released video showing US forces indiscriminately firing on Iraqi civilians. On Monday, the website WikiLeaks.org posted footage taken from a US military helicopter in July 2007 as it killed twelve people and wounded two children. The dead included two employees of the Reuters news agency, photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and driver Saeed Chmagh ... 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
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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 |
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