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international / politics / elections Sunday August 19, 2007 - 19:30 by Borat
Kazakhstan as we all know is where Borat comes from. & in keeping with their post-Soviet democratic traditions they've just celebrated a general election with results which could probably cause even Ahern or Brown to go quite puice green with envy. The Fatherland's Ray of Light "Nur Otan" party has won all the seats in the parliament. Quite. every single one of them. Of course people are wondering were the elections fair - but nobody is calling Jimmy Carter quite yet because seemingly according to some mystical election pillar of Western life, there has never been a fair election in Kazakhstan.......so it doesn't matter then. Meanwhile the Kazakhs look forward to oil and gas revenue the new Russian/Chinese pipeline through their country will bring. Puice. lovely colour. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage Friday August 17, 2007 - 16:29 by pat c
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Dr Saad Eskander, Director of the Iraq National Library & Archives (INLA) is appealing for help. His institution has been occupied by the US Military and by the Iraqi National Guard. This is putting the lives of staff at risk, it is also treating Iraqs heritage with contempt. Please note that INLA refers to Director of the Iraq National Library & Archives. Please publicise this news as widely as possible. Can you spread the following news about the national guards' occupation of Iraq National Library & Archive. I need all the support I can get from around the world. Perhaps you can contact some newspapers. The message below explains everything (please note it will be difficult for me to have an easy access to the internet because of the 4-day curfew). All the Best Saad ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Friday August 17, 2007 - 01:08 by Fergus O'Connor
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The link is to a piece on the newly-appointed Senator, Eoghan Harris. It extols his vast political experience from his trenchcoat republican days in Cork to his current senatorial elevation. The writer of the piece says that Senator Harris' Marxism will be a welcome addition to Seanad Eireann. Link: http://www.southernstar.ie/article.php?id=265 ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday August 16, 2007 - 20:55 by Persian
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Recent ratifications by the International Labour Organization (ILO) based on which fishermen should be covered by the law. The ratifications will become mandatory in Iran after the Majlis approves them. Fishermen will then be protected like all other workers in Iran. according to a recent article in Iran Daily. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality Thursday August 16, 2007 - 10:47 by Chris Murray
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The We! publication of Isis women, based in the Phillipines is now out. It, as usual, draws together the threads of globalised resistance and how Western and globalised economic movements effect emergent democracies and economies. http://www.isiswomen.org is affiliated to the European Feminist Forum and runs a radio service and links to feminists in Iran, Costa Rica, Iraq and globally. This months issue focuses on the movement for Changes in the UN Gender Architecture Reforms ; and the Movement against CAFTA. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 15, 2007 - 20:57 by Fredrick Forsyth
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At last it's happening! Yippeeee! Whatever! the Glorious leader of Venezuela Hugo Chavez is today presenting his reforms of the five pillars of that state's constitution to the National Assembly. Item 1 for attention is his life-long presidency. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday August 15, 2007 - 14:23 by Nasser Asgary
This is a special edition of Workers in Iran. The main topic covered is the imprisonment of Iranian Trade Union Leaders Mansoor Ossanlou and Mahmoud Salehi and the campaign for their release. Full text of this edition at link below. Release Mansoor Ossanlou and Mahmoud Salehi Worker-communist Party of Iran (WPI) strongly supports the proposed international action for the release ofMansur Osanlu and Mahmud Salehi. WPI ceaselessly exposes the crimes of the Islamic regime in Iran against both the workers as well as the people at large, and struggles for the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners in Iran, including Mahmud Salehi and Mansur Osanlu. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Wednesday August 15, 2007 - 09:07 by John mcDermott
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Discredited former T.D. gets 100,000 per annum sinecure in the Seanad(to keep his mouth shut?) Ivor the Engine is waiting in the Seanad to relaunch his career. The High Court hearing of the Taxiplate owners compensation case taken against the state, and its various agencies, by solicitors,Obrien McMahon Downes has been delayed as the state has asked for a sixteen week adjournment to enable it defend its corner.It will be early 2008 before the case reaches the Four Goldmines.It may cost the taxpayer 200 million euros.Bertie Ahern and his special envoy Ivor Callely are central to this issue. http://www.soldiersofdestiny.org/taxitaxi.htm http://www.soldiersofdestiny.org/iscallelyacrooktoo.htm ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday August 14, 2007 - 18:32 by Yassamine Mather
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Yassamine Mather writes on the judicial murder of 50 people in Iran. She also points out that according to Iranian Govt figures, 150,000 women have been arrested for wearing an "improper hijab" (ie letting their hair show). Full article at link. At the end of July and beginning of August 2007, in less than a week, over 50 people were executed by public hanging in Iran’s islamic republic. This has taken place against the background of a campaign entitled ‘enforcement of national security’, under which over one million Iranians have faced questioning. Meanwhile, the state claims that it has arrested 4,000 ‘delinquents’ and detained 43,000 accused of drug offences. Just as alarmingly, anti-war, anti-imperialist activists such as Mansour Ossanlou and Mahmoud Salehi, as well as many workers and students, are held in prison on trumped-up charges. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday August 14, 2007 - 13:18 by C Murray
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Ariadna Grandson. Nuria Morello. Roman Sesen Laia Serra Were arrested and detained whilst touring the city of Oaxaca on the evening of the fifth of August 2007, they are currently detained in a deportation centre in Mexico. They have released two letters assuring people of their safety and reporting brutal treatment by their captors. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Monday August 13, 2007 - 10:33 by Cedar
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In the aftermath of the setback for the broad left in the May 2007 elections there has been a substantial focus in both establishment and alternative media about the implications for Sinn Féin and, to a slightly lesser extent, the Labour party. Yet it is perhaps the Socialist Party that suffered the most....... ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Monday August 13, 2007 - 03:12 by Ireland with Jose Artigas-Sudamérica
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Peter Campbell, soldier of the british empire on the S.XIX siecle, desertó (to desert) and live with gauchos and indios charrúas (sorry, I can't speak english). Luego fue soldado (soldier) de José Gervasio Artigas, en la Liga Federal sudamericana. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Sunday August 12, 2007 - 21:31 by Cloud Buster
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On Saturday the 11th of August the UK Police stated that they would use anti-terrorist legislation to break the Heathrow Climate Change Camp, since then they have placed a press embargo on the camp and refused toilet and hygeine facilities to the protestors. The indymedia.org.uk site is covering on features and the Guardian has interviewed a cross- section of protestors opposed to the airport expansion. ... read full story / add a comment 
roscommon / anti-war / imperialism Sunday August 12, 2007 - 13:13 by Padraig Murphy
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In today's issue of the Observer, Peter Beaumont in Baghdad reports that the US occupation army is enervated, all petered and in crisis: "Exhaustion and combat stress are besieging US troops in Iraq as they battle with a new type of warfare. Some even rely on Red Bull to get through the day. As desertions and absences increase, the military is struggling to cope with the crisis". ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday August 12, 2007 - 02:30 by Rav
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The Sunday Tribune has slowly but surely ceased to be a quality 'News' paper. Media baron Sir Tony may own just a minority share but he's the only one paying all the Sunday Tribune's salaries and bills. Which explains why it shamelessly, just a fortnight ago, poked a five-page dig at O'Reilly's corporate rival Denis O'Brien who is trying to take over Sir Anto's INM. The Sunday Tribune has deceptively swapped good news reporting for opinion and cheaply-found tabloid stories of human interest.... as expected O'Brien came away without even a bruise. A few months ago the Sunday Tribune published a document alleging serious wrongdoing at construction and insurance billionaire Sean Quinn's Quinn-Direct company. Quinn has sued....... it now looks like Sir Anthony may need the bandages!!!!!! (see Irish Times story below) ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday August 12, 2007 - 00:40 by redjade
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One potential Irish solution for those EU Roma in Ireland.... joke. ... read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues Sunday August 12, 2007 - 00:01 by iosaf
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Even the most casual of Irish news cyber-surfer will have caught yet another one of those photo-opportunities of First minister minister doctor right honourable Ian the big mon Paisley of little Ulster stroking the tail-fin of an Aer Lingus model plane this week. He was chuffed because his new government had just managed to strip Shannon airport of all its remaining christian traffic & good travellers & convince Aer Lingus to reschedule its Heathrow flights from Shannon to Belfast. Oh well that has brought ecumenical flavour and colaboration to the Sunday Homily and Sermon circuit of Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Friday August 10, 2007 - 20:48 by Moscow News Reader
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In a story from the Moscow News today, the deputy head of Russia's environmental agency denied that Shell had tried to bribe him by offering him fifty million dollars. He wanted to state clearly that he couldn't say for sure that it was Shell, only that "someone" had tried to arrange a meeting with him in Switzerland to discuss the possibility of suspending enviromental checks on the Sakhalin project. No actual amount of money was mentioned either. So that's clear then. It all brings to mind our own Frank Fahy, a former teacher who has managed to amass a huge property portfolio. Didn't Frank have some Moscow links of his own at one stage? see also www.indymedia.ie/article/76360 ... read full story / add a comment
offaly / anti-war / imperialism Friday August 10, 2007 - 15:31 by Mary P.
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger skewers "good 'ol Bill" (Clinton) where an "audience" with him during his forthcoming visit to London will cost up to £799 a head. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday August 07, 2007 - 13:59 by redjade
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US Teamsters Union organising US Military transport airliner Omni Air. ... read full story / add a comment |
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