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international / arts and media Monday January 17, 2005 - 12:37 by pat c
So what is the truth behind this latest kerfuffle in the Art World? Is Hockney merely obscurely projecting his own opinions onto the work of Renaissance artists? Or have they all lost any sense of perspective? Read the New Scientist story and make your own mind up. pat c ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday January 17, 2005 - 11:57 by pat c
Not just in Ireland, across the water the image of the friendly bobby is also taking a bashing. What makes this case different is that it doesnt just hinge on the question of individuals being assaulted by the police; it also takes the form of an action over breach of Civil Liberties. The police intend to call Ken Livingston (in his capacity as mayor of London) as a witness. I await his testimony with bated breath. pat c (Story below) ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Monday January 17, 2005 - 03:11 by Big Irish from the USA
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fter routing the opposition at the polls last year, Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez has signalled an escalation of his offensive against the country's elites with a "war" on latifundio, big rural estates that he blames for rural poverty. This is a mistake. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / politics / elections Sunday January 16, 2005 - 13:52 by iosaf mac d.
11 comments (last - wednesday may 10, 2006 - 21:58)  3 images
Pius XII was pontiff, bishop of rome, secular head of the Roman Catholic Church, pope, head of the Holy See, and as such signed the diplomatic agreement with Mussolini ending a very long conflict over the territorial integrity of the Vatican and establishing it as a state, and as Pope did not call attention to the Shoah. Pius XII is currently being discussed for canonization by which he would be declared a Saint. ... read full story / add a comment
national / sci-tech Saturday January 15, 2005 - 04:01 by R. Isible
10 comments (last - friday may 13, 2005 - 09:55)
Slashdot (News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters) has a good article written by an insider about the closing of MIT Media Lab's sister institute based in Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday January 14, 2005 - 18:29 by Keith Harris
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Fine Gael Foreign Affairs Spokesman Bernard Allen TD on has called on Ticketmaster to consider waiving its service charge when booking tickets for Tsunami Aid events, or else to contribute the profits from the charges on these particular events to the appeal fund. But event organisers say the profits are being made by the banking, credit card and telephone companies who have declined to waive their own charges for Asia-relief charity event bookings. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday January 14, 2005 - 00:01 by Sean Mc Aughey
7 comments (last - monday january 17, 2005 - 23:43)
Sources and friends close to Northern Ireland lawyer Padraigin Drinan are saying the official reasons behind an enforced closure by the Northern Ireland Law Society of the offices of Ireland’s foremost human rights defender and solicitor remains wide open for damaging speculation.... ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Thursday January 13, 2005 - 23:56 by redjade
64 comments (last - tuesday february 01, 2005 - 22:26) 16 images
118,600 votes in Ohio would have altered history (a little) ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday January 13, 2005 - 23:05 by The media platoon of the Islamic Jihad Army of Iraq
30 comments (last - tuesday january 18, 2005 - 17:08) 5 images
'We only wish we had more cameras to show the world their true defeat.' ... read full story / add a comment 
international / racism & migration related issues Thursday January 13, 2005 - 12:23 by I & I mac d.
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Rita Marley the widow of singer and songwriter, spokesman of his nation, thorn in the side of rightous evil, musician, dancer, genius Bob Marley has agreed that the final mortal remains of her dead husband who died in 1981 from cancer may be returned to Ethiopia, which was and is his spiritual home. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday January 13, 2005 - 00:36 by hs
At a mass rally of 10,000 people on Monday January 10, Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez announced a new decree aimed at speeding up land reform. Since the Land Act was passed in December 2001, the National Land Institute has already distributed 5.5 million acres of land to peasant cooperatives. Up until now all the land distributed has been state-owned land and there have been no expropriations. The new decree is aimed at the large landed estates (latifundia) that have been left idle or are poorly used. (January 12, 2005) ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday January 12, 2005 - 21:53 by Jed Brandt
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Todd Gitlin, Paul Berman and assorted intellectuals of the "decent left" have earned their keep arguing that anti-imperialism is nothing but an echo chamber of nihilism, oedipal rage and tacit support for whomever the governing class declares the enemy. Once upon a time their kind derided the Communist left as window dressing for the gulag; now they argue with parallel duplicity that anti-imperialists are shills for "Islamo-fascist" death cults and suicide bombers. As the gate-keepers of acceptable dissent, that is to say "none," they rarely take time to note what it is, this America, they've declared their loyalty to and what it is exactly the "anti-Americans" oppose. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday January 12, 2005 - 18:01 by Libby
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The search for elusive weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has officially ended, the Washington Post says. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Wednesday January 12, 2005 - 10:23 by are talking to me?
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Now as many of you know, coz Dan Brown told you, people from the Elysee to the Louvre can't have proper conversations about their mummies and secrets anymore without being bugged (a technical expression) And they're sick of it. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday January 11, 2005 - 18:12 by pc
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Four remaining Britons and an Australian being held at Guantanamo Bay will be released soon, officials said Tuesday, amid reports the number of prisoners at the U.S. military base would be radically reduced. A lawyer acting for two of the Britons told Reuters all the British detainees would be released within weeks. "The Foreign Office has confirmed to me that the four of them will be coming back within the next few weeks," human rights lawyer Louise Christian said. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday January 11, 2005 - 16:59 by cwi
3 comments (last - tuesday january 25, 2005 - 20:22)
As in every country around the world, in Sri Lanka the people have reacted far more quickly than their government. It is an excellent opportunity for the masses to work together and to realise that co-existing and cooperation are possible and to experience them. Unfortunately, the authorities are not using this opportunity to forge unity, but the opposite. Article from socialistworld.net ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday January 11, 2005 - 00:24 by m. b.
6 comments (last - thursday january 13, 2005 - 17:29)
What exactly is fascism? Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt recently wrote an article about fascism ("Fascism Anyone?," Free Inquiry, Spring 2003, page 20). Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they all had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday January 10, 2005 - 22:35 by boo!
5 comments (last - friday january 28, 2005 - 21:36)
Pinochet is now going to get bail. and will be able to leave his house with swimming pool to have a toddle around only and only if the next judge supports the decision made earlier today to accept his bali application in relation to the ongoing investigation into his alledged missappropriation of several billion dollars during the extended operation Condor which brought him to power September 11 long time ago. He must be biting his nails. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 10, 2005 - 19:37 by R. Isible
January 10th DemocracyNOW: the continuing exploitation of the Indian Ocean Tsunami disaster by the major state powers continues with the alleged importation of "Al Qaeda t-shirt wearing militants" by the Indonesian military into the contested province of Aceh in order to show a need for US Military involvement. The interview is with Alan Nairn, a longtime reporter on things Indonesian (he was Amy Goodman's companion when they were beaten by Indonesian soldiers in the early 90's as they attempted to report on a human rights march). ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 10, 2005 - 14:26 by redjade
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Hadi Saleh, Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) International Secretary, assassinated 4th January 2005. ... read full story / add a comment |
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