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national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday October 27, 2005 - 13:22 by redjade
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October 26, 2005 Amid all the natural and political disasters it faces, the White House is certainly tireless in its effort to legalize torture. This week, Vice President Dick Cheney proposed a novel solution for the moral and legal problems raised by the use of American soldiers to abuse prisoners and the practice of turning captives over to governments willing to act as proxies in doing the torturing. Mr. Cheney wants to make it legal for the Central Intelligence Agency to do this wet work. [....] But Mr. Cheney's proposal was even more ludicrous. It would give the president the power to allow government agencies outside the Defense Department (the administration has in mind the C.I.A.) to mistreat and torture prisoners as long as that behavior was part of "counterterrorism operations conducted abroad" and they were not American citizens. That would neatly legalize the illegal prisons the C.I.A. is said to be operating around the world and ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday October 27, 2005 - 12:56 by It was there as a link all along
international / miscellaneous Thursday October 27, 2005 - 00:53 by Jon Glackin
Request for assistance in addressing the innacuracy of Israeli Maps... ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 26, 2005 - 21:25 by anarchist
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UK to avoid cripplingly high rents in urban centres Diane Taylor Wednesday October 26, 2005 The Guardian Françoise is a well-groomed young French woman who works part-time in fashion PR in London, pays her taxes and shares a cottage with friends in north London. She pays no rent though, because she is one of thousands of people across the UK who is squatting. "Many people who squat are working in low-paid jobs and simply cannot afford to pay rent, particularly in London," she says. "We want to do something creative with our lives, not just working behind a bar or on a building site. If you don't have to pay rent on top of all your other living expenses it can mean the difference between having time to live and merely surviving." ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday October 26, 2005 - 14:41 by iosaf aye! aye!
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The last days have seen the various unions and collectives that represent spanish fishermen decide to blockade ports on the peninsula to demand a reduction in the cost of fuel. Its a European issue which has passed from state to state through the summer, and each government must fiddle with its budget to ensure that low costing subsidised fuel essential to its industry stays low. Despite hurricane supply pricing, despite Iraq, despite Mr Bush, despite the nerves that nigerians or poor south americans may blow up their oil wells. UK road haulers need cheap fuel too, and we remember their blockades didn't transpire this summer, well now its the Spanish trawlers turn... ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Wednesday October 26, 2005 - 12:17 by Vercingetorix (Ireland)
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"Too many people in this country have suffered enormous financial loss. They have suffered physically and mentally and have been totally destroyed. Their lives are a living hell," said Victims of the Legal Profession Society (VLPS) President Mary McDonnell. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 26, 2005 - 01:08 by Anthony
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Rosa Parks died at the age of 93 on October 24, 2005. It was 50 years ago that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man aboard a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was arrested and convicted of violating the state’s segregation laws. Her act of civil disobedience was the spark that lit the flames of the American civil rights movement - a long struggle for freedom which inspired others around the world to do the same - including our fellow countrymen north of the border. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday October 25, 2005 - 19:53 by Michael R.
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Please see here the article and picture from the Irish Times website today.
Judgment reserved in Rossport Five case Last updated: 25-10-05, 11:47 The 'Rossport Five' pictured after their release from Cloverhill Prison last month The five Mayo men who spent 94 days in prison for their contempt of court over protests against a controversial gas pipeline will have to wait to learn whether they face further penalties. The High Court today reserved judgment on the case of the five, who spent more than three months in Cloverhill Prison for failing to abide by an injunction preventing them from protesting against the high-pressure pipeline. The 70-kilometre pipe runs through some of men's land, only metres from their homes, from the Corrib gas field in the Atlantic to an onshore refinery at Bellanaboy. Micheal O'Seighin, Wille Corduff, Philip McGrath, Vincent McGrath and Brendan Philbin were ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Tuesday October 25, 2005 - 19:49 by Anti-Fascist
"As consumers we do not want our money used to fuel wars, environmental destruction and human rights violations." ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday October 25, 2005 - 15:59 by Starstruck
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An Article by Dahr Jamail,with thanks to Hytham in Dublin ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday October 25, 2005 - 14:34 by Tom Flocco
Bush administration suit against its own Justice Department, attempting to block the issuance of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald’s indictments ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday October 25, 2005 - 11:07 by mms
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Sue is going to be in Dublin tomorrow at Trinity College at the launch of the THE CHEMICAL WARFARE IN COLOMBIA: THE COSTS OF COCA FUMIGATION' By Sue Branford and Hugh O'Shaughnessy ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Sunday October 23, 2005 - 04:29 by R. Isible
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An appallingly confused piece by Paul Melia (and our old friend Tom "Security Correspondent as long as it doesn't involve foreign war planes at Shannon" Brady calls members of the Iraqi resistance "terrorists" and fails to mention the allegations of torture of an Irish citizen held in Algeria. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday October 23, 2005 - 01:57 by Seamas Connolly
Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is looking for evidence that Karl Rove, 'Bush's Brain', launched a covert operation to create forged documents to foment war and then conspired to out Valerie Plame when he learned the fraud was being uncovered by Plame's husband. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday October 22, 2005 - 05:55 by cleaves
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Australian federal government expenditure on media consultants and market analysts exceeds three hundred million dollars per annum. For all the Taxpayer’s money that is spent, only a proportion of the population adopts Howard’s cringe mentality and succumbs to the contractionist politics of fear. Announce the (remote) possibility of ‘chicken’ fever (avian flu) mutating and a percentage of the population rushes pharmacies and exhausts the supply of an anti-viral drug reputed to alleviate some of the ill effects (but not prevent) this disease. [Remember the Y2K scare and associated hysteria?] In answer to the tiniest ‘army’ in the history of warfare (a few dozen ‘terrorists’) we turn our whole existence upside down running in fear and loathing at every little alarm that our lying politicians would sound. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Friday October 21, 2005 - 21:06 by bong
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Link to ebay item (now removed) Gone now but copy caught http://www.kbannon.com/ebay/ ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday October 21, 2005 - 14:49 by Craig Murray
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As Britain's outspoken Ambassador to the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan, Craig Murray helped expose vicious human rights abuses by the US-funded regime of Islam Karimov. He is now a prominent critic of Western policy in the region. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday October 21, 2005 - 14:12 by non tali auxilio nec defensoribus istis tempus eget
"The UN probe led by German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis named as suspects in the February 14 killing members in the inner circle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, including his brother-in-law. The report said Foreign Minister Farouq al-Shara gave investigators false information and accused top pro-Syrian Lebanese officials of a major role in the killing, with suspicion cast even on President Emile Lahoud. Syria dismissed the charges as "far from the truth", while Lahoud denied them and indicated he would not be driven from office despite calls for him to resign. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday October 21, 2005 - 11:49 by Terry
In Sydney Australia the politicians have clearly being take a leaf out of the politicians books here as a 30 year deal was done with a private company for a toll on a tunnel in the city. Likewise our toll bridges, especially the one over the Liffey on the M50 -the West Link. Except that the Austrialian govt. hadn't expected the motorists to boycott it. This is a lesson for us here and Irish motorists too should likewise boycott our toll bridges and roads if they want to get the parasites off their backs. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 21, 2005 - 03:31 by kwang zi
Analysts and historians would recall the last time ’bogeyman’ hysteria gripped an unwary public; USA of the nineteen fifties and McCarthyism with the ‘red under the bed threat’ is now one of history's embarrassing moments. Joe McCarthy, puppet of ultra-right forces in the US, ruined numerous careers and lives – for nothing! The degree of 'threat’ attributed to the 'reds' proved to be wildly exaggerated, more a product of excited 'judgement' or shared delusion than accurate assessment. US intelligence agencies and ultra-right militarists fell victim to their own propaganda and the (dis)information warfare waged at the time. ... read full story / add a comment |
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