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national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 08, 2009 - 16:28 by Socialism or Barbarism!
Review of blasphemy law's implications ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday May 07, 2009 - 21:53 by pat c
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Once again the USAF has slaughtered civilians in Afghanistan. But hey its OK! Hillary says shes sorry! Full story at link. On the eve of a tripartite summit in Washington which the Obama administration has organized with the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan, reports from Afghanistan indicate that US air strikes in western Farah province have killed and wounded scores of civilians, many of them women and children. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Wednesday May 06, 2009 - 21:12 by babycham
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Yesterday the unionist parties of the Spanish state of both ruling leftwing PSOE and rightwing opposition PP, who have never agreed on anything other than pay-rises, united to elect the leader of the Basque branch of the PSOE as first minister of the Euskadi region for their loyalist commitment to the project the PP saw a young up and coming member (before only noteworthy for her thoughts on condoms [she'd never use one]) appointed speaker of the Basque parliamentary house. The Lehendakari (taoiseach) of the last ten years of the PNV majority centre right nationalist party who have always held the post thus passes into history. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday May 06, 2009 - 19:36 by Kat
I would just like to forward this article from the Dublin SPCA website. I feel this issue is not getting enough media attention. see story below. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday May 06, 2009 - 09:02 by Wallshaveears
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HAMAS POLITBURO chief Khaled Meshaal said yesterday the movement was ready to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on the basis of the two-state solution. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / politics / elections Tuesday May 05, 2009 - 17:15 by prurience
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Irish readers might be missing a story whose soap-opera plotting and extraordinary comments are delighting the enemies of Berlusconi. The man who managed to bring the Vatican behind his new right wing alliance has just fallen foul of the RC newspaper who have published on their front page a stinging attack on the morality and behaviour of Silvio who only this weekend was accused of "cavorting with minors" by his estranged wife for attending an 18 year old birthday party depite never making it to his own childrens' 18th festivities. Preaching from the pulpit they have called on Italian voters to express their unease at the urns. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday May 05, 2009 - 02:45 by frequentblasphemer
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In the Irish Times Fintan O'Toole points out that 2009 is the centenary of the occasion when a play by Bernard Shaw, "The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet", was used to show up the absurdity of having blasphemy laws. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday May 04, 2009 - 15:05 by Peter
"A Bigger, Bolder Role Is Imagined For the IMF Changes Suggest Shift in How Global Economy Is Run" "Inside a cavernous assembly hall in downtown Washington, dignitaries gather twice a year for routine meetings of the International Monetary Fund. Before long, though, the room could take center stage in the IMF's transformation into a veritable United Nations for the global economy" ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday May 04, 2009 - 14:16 by David L
A good short article in Counterpunch showing the boycott of Israel is having an effect. It mentions the centrality of Jewish activists supporting boycott, the determination with which Palestinian civil society is pursuing it. Also mentions the campaign against Veolia, and the Galway decision to grant no further contracts to Veolia. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday May 01, 2009 - 23:00 by Anonymous
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"EVERY SATURDAY a group of young people, their faces hidden by masks or scarves, gathers outside the office of the Church of Scientology in Abbey Street in Dublin with leaflets and placards making serious allegations about the sect. If the new law prohibiting publishing or uttering blasphemous matter becomes law, as proposed yesterday by Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern, they could face fines of up to €100,000 and have their homes raided by members of the Garda Síochána in order to seize the offending material." ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday May 01, 2009 - 16:29 by Harvey Duff
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Leaders of the Prison Officers Association (POA) whose annual general meeting is being held in Castlebar , Co Mayo this week have called for a crackdown on the activities of dissident paramilitary prisoners held in Portlaoise Prison . At a time when the prison service faces an acute shortage of staff and cell space , 48 Continuity IRA, Real IRA and INLA inmates are currently allocated 120 cells at Portlaoise on four landings . Inmates can order in special food like steak to be cooked for them in the jail . The POA is particularly concerned about subversives holding military parades in the jail and has urged the Minister of Justice to intervene to stop them . But Prison Service boss , Brian Purcell , has rejected the union’s complaint saying that republican prisoners have always been treated differently to ordinary criminals . ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 01, 2009 - 14:25 by Irish Freedom News
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http://irishfreedomnews.freeforums.org is an Irish Republican forum to discuss your Republican views without censorship. IrishFreedomNews is the only Republican forum run by independent Republicans as Admins so that the news is not controlled by party policies nor personal preferences, the real news is posted without censorship. We have people on the ground who print the news the papers refuse to print because of the media blackout, lies and black propaganda that they print on a daily basis. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 30, 2009 - 21:22 by WAT
For the past 100 days Witness Against Torture has been keeping daily vigil outside the White House demanding the immediate close of Guantanamo. The 100 day campajgn saw 62 arrested today.check out youtube on following link and background info ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Wednesday April 29, 2009 - 14:37 by Saoirsí
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Although there is much discussion about the Global Warming from CO2 theory, attention is increasingly being focused on an apparent lack of solar activity currently, which historically has been associated with global cooling. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / education Tuesday April 28, 2009 - 14:24 by Jay
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A new blog dedicated to collating the radical and social history of UCD. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice Tuesday April 28, 2009 - 13:53 by Eoin Trotskylite
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Full details are yet to emerge but 10 BMWs were torched in Meath yesterday (April 27). Was this a crime gone wrong, as implied by corporate media, or a provocative action targeted at the bloated fat cat remnants of an regime in decline? ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Sunday April 26, 2009 - 22:59 by Funderland
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Czech authorities ordered a former Ku Klux Klan leader, David Duke, to leave their country at midnight yesterday. The 59-year-old American had been invited to the Czech Republic by a local far-right group to give lectures in the University of Charles social sciences department, promote a book, and foment the agenda. But on Friday he was arrested and questioned by police on suspicion of denying the Holocaust, an offence under Czech law, however he was not charged since he had not actually denied the Holocaust publically on Czech soil at that point. Today responding to internet social group messages, neonazi's who had been due to converge on Prague to hear him speak appeared to change their mind and offer low key solidarity with David Duke. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Sunday April 26, 2009 - 15:13 by funderland
Natalia Morar , the 25 year old journalist whose twitter use sparked off the events of April 6th in Moldova in which a crowd of over 10,000 young people demonstrated forceably against the government and burnt the parliament, has had her house-arrest lifted. On April 9, Natalia Morar was officially charged by the Moldovan government with "calls for organizing and staging mass disturbances." She has spent the period since April 15th under house arrest and has just given her first interview published in English to the BBC. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday April 26, 2009 - 13:19 by Yassamine Mather
Yassamine Mather explains why the Left should boycott the upcoming Iranian Parliamentary and Presidential elections and how the Iranian Government embraces the policies of the IMF. Full story at link. Last week during a visit to Iran, Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan president, ridiculed the G20 summit and its attempts to ease the capitalist economic crisis. However, his hosts, who have embraced ‘Islamic’ capitalism with fervour, did not join in his condemnations of the IMF and international capital. Instead, Iran’s clerics concentrated on explaining ayatollah Khamenei’s message for the Iranian new year, during which he announced that cutting consumption should be the theme of the new year, as the country struggled to cope with the recession. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Saturday April 25, 2009 - 16:09 by Chicherin
Azar Majedi makes the argument that socialist ideas and demands must be brought into theSecularist Movement. Otherwise the dominant rightwing ideology will prevail. Full article at link. The women’s rights movement is an integrated part of the general movement for equality and freedom. Every one here is well aware of the dismal situation of women in societies under the grip of religion; of the inherent misogyny of religion. Misogyny is an important part of the dominant ideology, so is religion. To fight misogyny and women’s inequality calls for a comprehensive and consistent struggle against the dominant ideology and the dominant political and economic order. ... read full story / add a comment |
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