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Episode 5 of the Irish History Podcast is out now. This episode "changing times" looks are very important but relatively unknown period in Irish history - 902-930. After the Vikings were driven out in 902, war broke out between the two biggest factions in Gaelic Ireland - The O Neills and The Eoganacht. The result of this war heralded great change - ... read full story / add a comment 
national / education Thursday November 04, 2010 - 21:47 by Pax
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Published here in the national interest and in light of recent events. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday November 04, 2010 - 08:04 by Ciaron
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Rise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number. Shake your chains to earth like dew. Which in sleep has fallen on you. Ye are many – they are few. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 05:52 by Solidarity
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Devonport Dockyard in Plymouth was blockaded on the morning of 1 November in an action called by the Plymouth-based Trident Ploughshares (TP) group, The Tamarians. Devonport Dockyard refits, maintains, and upgrades the submarines which carry Britain's Trident nuclear weapon system, which has been declared illegal under international law. The yard is also increasingly becoming the dumping ground for old and out of service nuclear submarines, posing a further radioactive contamination hazard to the quarter of a million people who live nearby. The aim of the blockade was to close all gates to the shipyard from 6am. Fourteen people were arrested during the action. Article continued.... http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/10/467165.html ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Tuesday November 02, 2010 - 17:51 by Ajax
Michael Mann writes about the ongoing campaign by the climate Change deniers to not just deny Global Warming. Some, funded by Oil companies like Shell, have a broader agenda of repealing environmental measures such as fuel efficiency for vehicles. Full article at url. I'd like to say I was surprised when news broke a year ago that emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, UK, had been hacked into and leaked, and that scientists' personal emails were being quoted out of context to disingenuously imply impropriety on their part. But I wasn't. Books such as Merchants of Doubt by science historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway have detailed how front groups for the fossil-fuel industry have been waging an orchestrated, well-funded campaign against climate science and climate scientists for more than two decades. Hacking into the CRU's email was simply the latest skirmish in this war against science, timed to forestall any progress towards lowering carbon emissions at the Copenhagen climate conference being held about a month later. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Tuesday November 02, 2010 - 13:24 by IT Reader
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Article in Irish Times by RBB ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday November 01, 2010 - 20:56 by ¡Venceremos!
Urgent appeal to sign the petition for the granting of asylum to the Iranian hunger strikers in Athens, Greece. The aforementioned petition is addressed to the defaulting government of The Hellenic Republic: It is requested that it should comply with peremptory norms of International Law--in accordance with the European Union's Regulations and Directives, and the Statement by the Head of the Office of The United Nations High Commission for the Refugees in Greece--and grant asylum to the hunger strikers, who have already manifested alarming effects on their health due to the prolonged hunger strike. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday October 30, 2010 - 22:11 by Anti Fascist
Now available to buy from www.beatingthefascists.org ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday October 29, 2010 - 09:51 by Catholic Worker
The U.S. System of Punishment: an expanding balloon of wealth, racism and greed by Jenny Truax on October 28, 2010 (Jenny Truax has been a member of the Karen House Catholic Worker community in St. Louis for thirteen years) ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday October 26, 2010 - 18:32 by pat c
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While we hear of Wikileaks and Julian Assange, lets not forget about Private First Class Bradley E. Manning who made it all possible. He is the one who is suffering the consequences. Here is his story as told by Denver Nicks. Full text at link. Midnight, May 22nd, 2010. Army intelligence analyst Private First Class Bradley E. Manning is sitting at a computer at Contingency Operating Station Hammer, east of Baghdad. He is online, chatting with Adrian Lamo, an ex-hacker and sometimes-journalist based in San Francisco. “Hypothetical question,” he asks Lamo. “If you had free reign over classified networks for long periods of time… say, 8-9 months… and you saw incredible things, awful things… things that belonged in the public domain, and not on some server stored in a dark room in Washington DC… what would you do?” ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 25, 2010 - 16:50 by Avi Weinstein
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In an exclusive CounterPunch report, Professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley; Nancy Scheper-Hughes dishes the dirt on one of the many vile crimes of Israel. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday October 22, 2010 - 18:39 by pat c
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Fidel Castro speaks about the continuing Imperialist aggression towards Iran and vividly illustrates the consequences of such an attack. Full text of transcript at link. The use of nuclear weapons in a new war would mean the end of humanity. This was candidly foreseen by scientist Albert Einstein who was able to measure their destructive capability to generate millions of degrees of heat, which would vaporize everything within a wide radius of action. This brilliant researcher had promoted the development of this weapon so that it would not become available to the genocidal Nazi regime. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality Friday October 22, 2010 - 18:09 by Dorothy Gale
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Ari Up of The Slits has gone to the Great Gig in the Sky. Punks never die, they just pogo too high. Full text at link. THE DEATH of Ari Up aka Arianna Foster at 48 is a huge shock for her fans, not least because her musical career spanned 34 years until her death last Wednesday. The firebrand singer of UK punk band The Slits was an uncompromising innovator. At just 14, after meeting her fellow bandmates at a Clash gig in 1976, she set up an all-girl band and spearheaded the punk movement. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism Friday October 22, 2010 - 17:23 by V for vendetta
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As taxpayers are clenching up in anticipation of having wages cut and their basic services eviscerated and those on social welfare are expected to develop a taste for cheap baked beans on white bread, Here is a taste of how the corporate bloodsuckers are using our tax loopholes and playing countries off against each other to pay paltry amounts of tax. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday October 22, 2010 - 03:09 by Scanner
DEAGLÁN de BRÉADÚN, Political Correspondent SPIRITUAL AND political leader the Dalai Lama is expected to visit the Republic in April next year. During his visit, he is due to take part in a series of events being planned by three Irish-based non-governmental organisations – Children in Crossfire, Afri and SpunOut.ie. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday October 20, 2010 - 19:21 by pat c
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Here we have the truth about the freedom and democracy that the US brought to Iraq. From the very start they set out to crush independent trade unions. Full text at link. It is only in comic books and Hollywood movies that America's superheroes exist to defend the underdog. In practice, the armies of America have fanned out around the globe to show they are the willing servants of the corporate overdog. As Noam Chomsky writes in his book “Imperial Ambitions”(Metropolitan), “You can almost predict (U.S.) policy by that simple principle: Does it help rich people or does it help the general population? And from that you can virtually deduce what's going to happen.” There is no more disgraceful example than Iraq. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday October 20, 2010 - 17:58 by joe mcivor
Two articles from Indymedia UK on the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) protest at the Guardian Graduate Fair . The arms giant BAE had a presentation team at the fair in central London .Anti war protesters took over the stall yesterday (19 Oct) and staged a die-in . ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Tuesday October 19, 2010 - 16:46 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin
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As the current world economic crisis deepens, the role and meaning of art in society changes as more and more people are dragged down by the weight of personal debt, unemployment and poverty. Galleries close and less people can afford to buy art creating a new awareness among artists of the fragility of the art market and the economic system behind it that creates an increasingly alienated and elitist exclusivism. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Sunday October 17, 2010 - 23:27 by Marcus McSpartacus
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Is Peter Sutherland Stealing From His Own People To Give To The Vampire Squid? ... read full story / add a comment
Why should we be paying for the mistakes of bankers, developers and politicians for the next 25 year
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 13, 2010 - 11:54 by R
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