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offsite link The Saker blog is now frozen Tue Feb 28, 2023 23:55 | The Saker
Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.? We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).?

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

offsite link Moveable Feast Cafe 2023/02/27 ? Open Thread Mon Feb 27, 2023 19:00 | cafe-uploader
2023/02/27 19:00:02Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of

offsite link The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
Pepe Escobar for the Saker blog A powerful feeling rhythms your skin and drums up your soul as you?re immersed in a long walk under persistent snow flurries, pinpointed by

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offsite link News Round-Up Sat Nov 30, 2024 01:30 | Toby Young
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link ?Ulez Architect? and 20mph Zone Supporter Appointed New Transport Secretary Fri Nov 29, 2024 17:38 | Will Jones
One of the 'architects of Ulez' and a supporter of 20mph zones has been appointed as the new Transport Secretary?after Louise Haigh's resignation, raising fears the anti-car measures may become national policy.
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offsite link Assisted Suicide Set to Be Legalised as MPs Back Bill Fri Nov 29, 2024 15:07 | Will Jones
MPs have voted in favour of legalising assisted suicide as Labour's massive majority allowed the legislation to clear its first hurdle in the House of Commons by 330 votes to 275.
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offsite link Australia Passes Landmark Social Media Ban for Under-16s Fri Nov 29, 2024 13:43 | Rebekah Barnett
Australia is the first country to ban social media for under-16s after a landmark bill passed that critics have warned is rushed and a Trojan horse for Government Digital ID as everyone must now verify their age.
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offsite link Is Banning the Burps of Bullocks Worth Risking Our Bollocks? Fri Nov 29, 2024 11:32 | Ben Pile
Is banning the burps of bullocks worth risking our bollocks? That the question posed by the decision to give Bovaer to cows to 'save the planet', says Ben Pile, after evidence suggests a possible risk to male fertility.
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national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday May 01, 2009 - 16:29 by Harvey Duff   text 3 comments (last - saturday may 30, 2009 - 13:42)

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 .
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 01, 2009 - 14:25 by Irish Freedom News   image 1 image
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   image 1 image
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
Battle of Belfield, 1975.
dublin / education Tuesday April 28, 2009 - 14:24 by Jay   text 5 comments (last - sunday january 02, 2011 - 09:51)   image 2 images
A new blog dedicated to collating the radical and social history of UCD. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / crime and justice Tuesday April 28, 2009 - 13:53 by Eoin Trotskylite   image 1 image
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   text 3 comments (last - tuesday april 28, 2009 - 13:03)
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.

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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
national / eu Saturday April 25, 2009 - 13:45 by Conor. M   text 4 comments (last - saturday may 30, 2009 - 12:19)
According to 'Generation Yes', who sported their t-shirts with the boys wearing a blue top with ''Yes, Yes, Yes'' and the girls wearing pink saying ''I only Kiss boys who say Yes'', say the ''EU is Ireland's best friend''. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Saturday April 25, 2009 - 13:13 by mick b

Obituary to Franklin Rosemont , surrealist poet, artist, labour historian and street speaker .

For Rosemont surrealism was “an unrelenting revolt against a civilisation that reduces all human aspirations to market values, religious impostures, universal boredom and misery.”
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday April 24, 2009 - 19:17 by Group of support of the political Catalan prisoners
International solidarity with who fight for the liberation of the nations and the socialism! ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday April 24, 2009 - 12:27 by amnesty1   text 6 comments (last - saturday may 02, 2009 - 20:33)
Amnesty International has demanded that the Israeli army make public the full details of the findings of its probe into some of its attacks during the 22-day Gaza military offensive. The report concluded that the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) had committed no violations and only rare mistakes, some of which may have resulted in the killing of Palestinian civilians.
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday April 23, 2009 - 01:03 by kbranno   text 1 comment (last - thursday april 23, 2009 - 09:21)
Jack Jones passed away in his sleep on Tuesday night aged 96. Jones was a life long Union man, veteran of the Anti-Fascist war in Spain and descibed at one time in 1977 as 'the most powerful man in Britain' ahead of the then Prime Minister, James Callaghan.

No Pasaran!

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national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 22, 2009 - 12:19 by http://irishfreedomnews.freeforums.org   image 1 image
http://irishfreedomnews.freeforums.org is a Republican forum to discuss your Republican views without censorship. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Tuesday April 21, 2009 - 22:41 by bubbley water   text 5 comments (last - saturday april 25, 2009 - 12:30)
Evo Morales the democratically elected president of Bolivia has today strongly criticised the attitude of three European Union member states' governments to the reported disarticulation of a presumed terrorist cell in his country, which resulted in the deaths of 3 individuals with EU nationality. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 21, 2009 - 13:47 by john moore
Delegates to the U.N anti-racism conference in Geneva walked out on Monday in protest at Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s address . The walkout by representatives from at least 30 countries happened within minutes of the start of President Ahmadinejad’s speech in which he equated Zionism with racism. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday April 20, 2009 - 20:28 by Palestine Solidarity Project
Thinking of Coming to Palestine?
Interested in Being a Responsible Solidarity Activist?
Palestine Solidarity Project Needs YOU! ... read full story / add a comment
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed got this 183 times in one month... he confessed of course.
international / crime and justice Monday April 20, 2009 - 15:08 by Funderland   text 2 comments (last - tuesday april 21, 2009 - 18:09)   image 1 image
Today's New York Times reveals that ["C.I.A. interrogators used waterboarding, the near-drowning technique that top Obama administration officials have described as illegal torture, 266 times on two key prisoners from Al Qaeda, far more than had been previously reported. ... read full story / add a comment
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