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dublin / miscellaneous Friday February 12, 2010 - 16:14 by hydroponic john
Firefighters tackled a blaze at the Nirvana Head Shop on Capel Street in Dublin city centre which broke out around 6.30 this morning. Oblivious to risk from smoke installation , onlookers have apparantly been flocking to the area in large numbers all afternoon . Gardai have appealed for calm . Five units of the Dublin Fire Brigade (pictured in report) were involved in today's operation . ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday February 11, 2010 - 00:42 by P. Bowman   text 3 comments (last - saturday february 27, 2010 - 21:01)
Paul Holmes is standing for election as General Secretary of UNISON. Paul has been active in the union for 36 years, he’s branch secretary of Kirklees Branch in Yorkshire. The branch has over 10,000 members and an 80% membership density. Paul agreed to be interviewed for Fightback which is the Journal of the International Marxist Tendency in Ireland.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 10, 2010 - 17:35 by Drew   image 1 image
Below are excerpts translated from a leaflet by the Communist Party of Iran (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist) . Dated 5 February, it was put out on the occasion of the 31st anniversary of the people's uprising that toppled the Shah in 1979. Full article text at the link.

As millions of Iranian people all over the country await 11 February their hearts are beating hard.. Brave women and men are planning to turn that date into a decisive day. The enemy is also planning to stay in the field and not lose its perilous balance. The chants of "Down with the Islamic Republic of Iran!" will come from the heart and find echo in other hearts.

Over the last eight months the Iranian people's anti-regime movement has significantly inspired the people of the Middle East and other parts of the world. They too are enthusiastically looking forward to 11 February. The Western imperialists and Russia and China who are all as reactionary as the Islamic Republic are already speculating about "Iran after 11 February" and expressing their concern about the "future of the Middle East and Iran" – which means concern about their interests in Iran and the Middle East! ... read full story / add a comment
YOur passport could now lead to you being suspected of being a Mossad Assassin.
international / crime and justice Tuesday February 09, 2010 - 03:11 by Anti-Zionist   text 20 comments (last - wednesday february 24, 2010 - 09:36)   image 9 images
Israeli use of 'third country' passports is widespread. They have been known to use Canadian, British, New Zealand, Austrailian and of course Irish, Passports in the course of carrying out their illegal murders around the world. What is the Irish Gov't doing to protect the reputation of it's citizens travelling abroad? ... read full story / add a comment
international / education Sunday February 07, 2010 - 19:08 by John Cornford   text 6 comments (last - tuesday february 09, 2010 - 12:50)   image 1 image
Prof Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group really sticks the boot into Chomsky. He weighs Chomskys credentials in the balance and finds then wanting. Full text at link.

Chomsky was about to deliver a lecture in Delhi. Setting aside the usual niceties, his host - a certain professor Agnihotri of Delhi University - introduced the visiting speaker with a challenge. He was bewildered that a person “so deeply touched by human suffering” could ignore the roots of both happiness and suffering in his scientific work. Noam Chomsky, continued the professor, insisted on viewing language as a “purely biological cognitive system” unconnected with “sociological power-games”. But isn’t language a key tool used by the powerful to deceive, exploit and oppress? How can Chomsky turn a blind eye to such things in his linguistic research?[8] ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday February 05, 2010 - 14:31 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 2 comments (last - friday february 05, 2010 - 18:54)
VID 58 minutes - Howard Zinn was an American historian, social critic, and activist. He is best known as author of the best-seller A People’s History of the United States. In one of his last lectures before his death last week, he spoke at Boston University on November 11 2009, on the subject of American “Holy Wars.”

http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2010/1/8/howard_zinn_t..._wars

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international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday January 31, 2010 - 11:21 by Henk Ruyssenaars fwd. The Telegraph   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 02, 2010 - 13:56)
Not one word too much: those creatures are a living shame to humanity in which they not any longer take part.

They are not the solution: they are the problem! ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday January 30, 2010 - 15:09 by Catholic Worker   text 9 comments (last - friday july 16, 2010 - 22:08)
The Catholic Worker is 70+ year old radical anarcho-pacifist movement of some 180 autonomous communities (mostly in North America) combining the practise of the acts of mercy and nonviolent resistance. The CW houses and projects refuse all state funding. The Philadelphia Catholic Worker operates a free clinic and has a longstanding relationship with the "Mathew 25 -House of Hospitality" free clinic in Haiti.

The Catholic Worker delegation presently in Haiti includes CW nurse Joanna Berrigan, radical Detroit Bishop Thomas Gumbleton who has a long anti-war history and sanctios breaking in Iraq in the '90's and radical lawyer Bill Quigley who has longstanding involvement in Haitian human rights cases.

Background on the CW dlegation and Mathew 25 project (including a television news report) can be found on this link.....
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/95531&comment_limit=0&c...64761 ... read full story / add a comment
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antrim / arts and media Friday January 29, 2010 - 21:17 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora   text 2 comments (last - tuesday november 07, 2023 - 23:23)   image 2 images
www.myspace.com/armuinnamuice
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www.near.ie ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Friday January 29, 2010 - 12:27 by Dr Doom   text 36 comments (last - saturday april 11, 2015 - 23:24)   audio 1 audio file
At last Wakefield has been exposed as the crook that he is. He spread scare stories about the MNR Vaccine knowing that his claims were false.

The doctor who sparked a worldwide panic over the MMR vaccine could be struck off after being found guilty yesterday of a series of misconduct charges related to his “unethical” research. Andrew Wakefield, who in 1998 claimed an unfounded link between the vaccination and autism, “showed a callous disregard” for the suffering of children, subjecting them to unnecessary, invasive tests, a hearing found. The General Medical Council (GMC) ruled that he abused his position of trust as he researched a possible link between the MMR vaccine, bowel disease and autism in children.

It found that Wakefield and two colleagues acted dishonestly and irresponsibly in carrying out research on children against their best interests and without official permission. ... read full story / add a comment
Safety First- the badge of Shell Security Guards in Ireland in 2008
national / environment Friday January 29, 2010 - 11:21 by WMD   text 2 comments (last - friday january 29, 2010 - 18:42)   image 1 image

Natural Resources Minister Eamon Ryan today presented the Petroleum (Exploration and Extraction) Safety Bill 2010 to the Oireachtas

The Bill confers responsibility on the Commission for Energy Regulation for the regulatory function for the safety of oil and gas infrastructure in Ireland. It also sets the framework for the development and implementation of a risk-based safety assessment for upstream petroleum activities and associated infrastructure. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday January 25, 2010 - 21:33 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin   image 1 image
Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977 ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday January 25, 2010 - 10:28 by Margaretta D'Arcy
A Feminist International Solidarity Camp to help mobilize and transfer resources, and to open channels of communications directly with Haitian women will open next week on the frontier Jemaní between the Dominican Republic & Haiti. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday January 22, 2010 - 18:36 by Chicherin   image 1 image
As unrest continues in Iran, Yassamine Mather writes on the divisions within the ruling Theocracy and how the "Reformists" fear that that the revolt will result in genuine revolution. Full text at link.

More than two weeks after the demonstrations of December 27 2009, the political repercussions of these events, and the reaction to the anger and radicalism of the protesters, continue. Clearly now no-one, from the government to the ‘reformists’, to the revolutionary opposition, has any doubt that the current protests are no longer about who should be the ‘president’ of the Islamic Republic, but represent a serious challenge to the very existence of the religious state. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday January 22, 2010 - 16:39 by Andy Kershaw
Haitians have faced their tragedy with dignity and stoicism – not that you would know it from the way the disaster has been reported
Thursday, 21 January 2010 - The Independent ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday January 22, 2010 - 03:13 by campaigner   text 7 comments (last - wednesday january 27, 2010 - 23:18)
Couple of links highlighting the extent of repressive legislation in the North and the disparity with recent official reports

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international / anti-capitalism Sunday January 17, 2010 - 18:27 by I. Stone   text 7 comments (last - sunday september 04, 2011 - 12:03)
A PUBLIC inquiry has begun in the U.S. into the financial crisis. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday January 13, 2010 - 16:32 by Eugene Mc Cartan   text 4 comments (last - wednesday january 20, 2010 - 06:22)
Influenza A: They Organized a Psychosis
Bruno Odent, L'Humanité
Wednesday 06 January 2010

Exposé: the president of the Council of Europe's Health Commission, German Wolfgang Wodarg, accuses pharmaceutical lobbies and governments. He has obtained the launch of an investigation by the official body he heads on the role played by laboratories in the campaign of panic around the virus. A no-holds-barred interview.

Former member of the German Socialist Party, Wolfgang Wodarg is a physician and epidemiologist. He garnered the Council of Europe's Health Commission members' unanimous consent for a commission of inquiry into the role of pharmaceutical firms in the management of H1N1 flu by the WHO and by governments ... ... read full story / add a comment
derry / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday January 13, 2010 - 11:35 by doopa   text 17 comments (last - wednesday may 05, 2010 - 21:55)   image 1 image
The BBC is reporting that Raytheon is to close its Derry Plant.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/foy...5.stm ... read full story / add a comment
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