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The Prince of Wales has suggested that NHS staff should be given "enforced breaks" in their careers for the sake of their mental health to help prevent burnout.
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French navy officers refused to rescue 60 migrants on a cramped boat filling with water off the French coast ? and instead radioed and asked UK Border Force to come and take them to Britain.
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If European states don't want to be treated as enemies of the US they're going to have to retreat from the war they've been waging on behalf of Washington's old regime and disarm their censorship machines, says N S Lyons.
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Trump's art of the deal always has been to ask for everything, judge the point at which the other party has made his final offer and then take what he can get, says Ramesh Thakur. That's what he's doing with Ukraine.
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national / public consultation / irish social forum Thursday October 23, 2008 - 05:44 by A Questioning Catholic waiting for change   text 39 comments (last - friday december 05, 2008 - 18:51)
This is a wonderful site run by an Irish Priest who believes in giving the full story of happenings within the Church in Ireland and worldwide and not the spin often given by those high up the ranks who give the watered down version or spin. There are interesting things to read about the Church worldwide every day even if you are not an active member of the Church or even a Catholic for that matter. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 22, 2008 - 06:17 by gar
Jewish settlers have been caught on camera punching and kicking two news photographers and a British woman who was helping Palestinians pick olives near a West Bank town.The Israeli police responded to the situation on Saturday by stopping the harvest.
The scuffle near the town of Hebron was the latest in a series of incidents blamed on settlers trying to disrupt the annual harvest which provides a livelihood for many Palestinians.
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international / sci-tech Wednesday October 22, 2008 - 06:07 by gar
An angry Chinese lawyer accused Microsoft of perpetrating the biggest ever hacker attack in response to the software giant's controversial move to trigger hourly screen blackouts on computers using pirated copies of Windows XP.
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday October 21, 2008 - 18:42 by a-films
Bourj ash-Shamali Camp: "Harvesting Oranges"
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national / animal rights Tuesday October 21, 2008 - 17:58 by Duchamp
A Fianna Fail spokesperson has claimed that the former leader of the party, Bertie Ahern, broke his leg in what they are calling an accident. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday October 20, 2008 - 18:05 by Peter Sutherland's Nemesis
Good news for the Left and progressives in general today, when the FT revealed that 30% of people in Germany, Europe's biggest economy and the world's second* largest exporter, "attributed the financial market crisis to ... the 'failure of capitalism'" rather than "to 'abuses of capitalism'.

Or, as the Financial Times newspaper themselves put it: "Majorities in the UK, France, Spain, Italy and the US attributed the financial market crisis to “abuses of capitalism” rather than the “failure of capitalism”. The Germans were more divided, with 46 per cent blaming abuses, and 30 per cent saying capitalism itself had failed." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday October 20, 2008 - 11:27 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - monday october 20, 2008 - 13:49)
Yassamine Mather writes on the danger of a US/Israeli military strike on Iran over the next 3 months. She also criticises those on the "left" who criticise Iran but who fail to condemn US/Israeli Imperialism. Full text at link.

Over the last few weeks French president Nicolas Sarkozy has publicly suggested on at least three occasions that an Israeli attack might be imminent - and acceptable - unless Iran quits enriching uranium, and implied that in such an event the international community should turn a blind eye. In early October French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner said Israel was expected to launch a military strike on Iran before Tehran acquires a nuclear bomb. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday October 19, 2008 - 05:26 by Vets   text 1 comment (last - sunday october 19, 2008 - 15:35)
"Iraq Veterans Against the War" Attacked by "stay at home patriot" Cops on Horseback, Long Island, New York U.S.A.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-60628185897533...hl=en

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international / miscellaneous Saturday October 18, 2008 - 17:09 by David Arthur Walters   text 1 comment (last - saturday october 18, 2008 - 18:51)
We want instant salvation: we want to be born anew from the injected liquidity. But it is difficult to make people have faith in anything, particularly in their fellow creatures if not in the supreme personality. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday October 17, 2008 - 12:00 by Raul
Riot police in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo have clashed with other police officers who are on strike.

The confrontation happened when the striking officers tried to force their way past barriers to reach a building used by state governor Jose Serra. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Tuesday October 14, 2008 - 18:18 by Saoirsí
From the site: "Superstruct is the world's first massively multiplayer forecasting game. By playing the game, you'll help us chronicle the world of 2019--and imagine how we might solve the problems we'll face. Because this is about more than just envisioning the future. It's about making the future, inventing new ways to organize the human race and augment our collective human potential." ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Sunday October 12, 2008 - 15:33 by Reports from Liverpool   text 1 comment (last - sunday october 12, 2008 - 21:44)
The Police have made arrests and issued fixed penalty notices of two political activists in Liverpool. Liverpool has long historical links with Ireland and the attached articles may be of interest.

The arrests were made as a result of a number of campaigning groups setting up stalls on Church Street, these ranged from the Anarchist Federation to the National Health Service. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday October 12, 2008 - 12:04 by joe McIvor
The Chinese government is suspected of being behind the recent “denial of service attacks” on the Marxist Internet Archive website . Brian Basgen who has worked on the site since 1990, says that ,since January , there have been hundreds of attacks ,99 percent of which emanate from China . As a consequence , the MIA may be forced to sacrifice its Chinese language material to keep the rest of the archive open . Although the attacks have only targeted Chinese files , security experts say that Chinese machines can be exploited by people outside the country, making the attacks appear to come from China . ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / history and heritage Thursday October 09, 2008 - 19:18 by Betty   text 1 comment (last - friday october 10, 2008 - 15:24)   image 1 image
Jonathan Cook in an Electronic Intifada article addresses the phenomena of a book 19 weeks on Israel's bestseller list that challenges Israel's biggest taboo. The book: When and How Was the Jewish People Invented? written by Shlomo Sand, an"expert on European history at Tel Aviv University" controversially argues that: the Jews were never exiled from the Holy Land, that most of today's Jews have no historical connection to the land called Israel and that the only political solution to the country's conflict with the Palestinians is to abolish the Jewish state .... ... read full story / add a comment
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international / arts and media Wednesday October 08, 2008 - 13:35 by gav corcaigh.   image 1 image
CrimethInc. operatives have labored over various versions of this text for more than eight years, and we’re excited to present what we consider to be the definitive edition. Those familiar with earlier versions will be glad to see new sections of text and plenty of new artwork. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / history and heritage Tuesday October 07, 2008 - 16:33 by TaraWatch   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 07, 2008 - 19:32)   image 2 images
This article was picked up by Archaeology Magazine, run by the Archaeological Institute of America:

"Here’s a summary of what preservationists have tried to do to save Ireland’s Hill of Tara from highway construction. Their new argument suggests that the downturn in the country’s economy requires Ireland to save its historic resources as tourist destinations."
http://www.thestar.com/World/Columnist/article/512894 ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday October 07, 2008 - 00:46 by Paul McAndrew
Metropolitan Community Church Manchester (England) ishelping Prossy, who is from Uganda. She fled to the UK eight months ago. The Home Office accepts she is lesbian and has endured horrific treatment, ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday October 06, 2008 - 22:28 by Bazooka Joe
On Sunday tens of thousands across Turkey attended the funerals of soldiers slain by the PKK. 15 soldiers were killed, twenty wounded and two are missing after the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) launched a cross border attack from their base in Iraq. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday October 06, 2008 - 22:20 by ec   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 07, 2008 - 00:49)
Iceland is deflating at an unbelievable rate. This is a good English language blog tracking the Icelandic economy through the floor. Hope ours doesn't follow it. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 06, 2008 - 19:54 by Share
If you feel there are serious problems about intellectual property legislation, you need to watch this new film. ... read full story / add a comment
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