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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 Is Facebook Really Committed to Free Speech? Fri Jan 10, 2025 18:25 | Rebekah Barnett
Depending on which echo chamber you get your news from, this week Mark Zuckerberg took steps to either save democracy or to end it. But how far is he really going in his new commitment to free speech, asks Rebekah Barnett.
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offsite link Reform Candidate ?Sacked? by Housing Association for Reposting ?Racist? Daily Telegraph Cartoon Fri Jan 10, 2025 15:10 | Will Jones
A housing officer was sacked for being a Reform UK candidate and reposting a Daily Telegraph cartoon after being told Reform?s policies on immigration and Net Zero were "in direct conflict" with his employer's "values".
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offsite link Trudeau?s Prorogation of Parliament is a Mistake He Must Be Allowed to Make Fri Jan 10, 2025 13:18 | Dr James Allan
Justin Trudeau wants to prorogue Parliament to buy time before the election. Voters will punish him for it, says Prof James Allan, but it's a mistake he must be allowed to make without activist judges getting in the way.
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offsite link The Significance of Jordan Peterson Fri Jan 10, 2025 11:00 | James Alexander
Jordan Peterson should make his mind up about Christianity, critics say. Prof James Alexander disagrees: he's a profound Jungian explorer who wants to help a secularised world see why Christianity still matters.
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday July 23, 2008 - 12:03 by Darren C
Farzad Kamangar could face execution in the near future, according
to the web site Human Rights Activists in Iran. On 11 July, the
Iranian Supreme Court confirmed the death penalty against Kamangar,
a 33-year-old Kurdish teacher and trade unionist.

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international / arts and media Tuesday July 22, 2008 - 17:19 by Eugene Mc Cartan - Communist Party of Ireland   text 2 comments (last - tuesday december 09, 2008 - 13:33)   image 1 image
For those interested in the future of the internet.

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international / anti-capitalism Tuesday July 22, 2008 - 13:03 by Paul Bowman   text 1 comment (last - friday july 25, 2008 - 13:55)   image 2 images
The Turbulence crew who put together the best read at last year's G8 blockade in Heiligendamm are back with another thought-provoking and inspiring read. PDF online now. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / housing Tuesday July 22, 2008 - 09:58 by Paul D   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 22, 2008 - 23:36)   image 4 images

The recent collapse of 5 housing regeneration schemes in Dublin city has been a massive blow to the communities involved.
The group campaigning for regeneration in St Michael’s estate in Inchicore have set up an en excellent website. The site can be found at www.stmichaelsestate.ie.
Campaigners are appealing of continued solidarity and support. A petition can be signed on the site.
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international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday July 22, 2008 - 09:19 by Mark C   text 2 comments (last - tuesday july 22, 2008 - 15:17)
Having been on the run for over ten years, Radovan Karadzic has been arrested in Serbia. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous Saturday July 19, 2008 - 20:26 by Recession Diaries   image 1 image
What a time we live in - recession time! Economic downturn, the onslaught of the Right, the unsettling quiescence of the Left, the besieging of the trade union movement; it's all coming at us so fast it's difficult to know which uttered untruth to dissect, which unstated truth to promulgate. So here's a diary - a recession diary - to keep up with the rapid-fire events and commentary - as rapid as the downturn itself. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday July 18, 2008 - 14:46 by by
Iñaki de Juana Chaos who is due to be released this Summer has informed both the Basque political prisoner network and the authorities of his prison that he is on hunger strike again.

He has offered as reason the concerted media campaign of vilification launched against him in the last days as it was revealed that upon leaving prison and completing his prison sentences he will take up residence in a flat owned by his wife, who he married whilst in prison, on the same street as several victims of ETA.

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international / environment Thursday July 17, 2008 - 03:58 by .   text 1 comment (last - thursday july 17, 2008 - 04:08)
This is a frightening report and the 'demand destruction' it describes - due to unprecedentedly high prices of oil - explains the recent fall in oil price. Global misery.

http://www.energybulletin.net/node/45911 ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday July 16, 2008 - 11:02 by Sean Crudden
Barack Obama outlines his key foreign policy ideas. Will the present administration adjust its policy in line with what Obama says he wants? Or is Obama merely playing ducks and drakes with the Bush government? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday July 13, 2008 - 13:08 by tomeile   text 4 comments (last - wednesday july 16, 2008 - 00:10)
A senior Pentagon official explained to the Sunday Times that : “Amber means get on with your preparations, stand by for immediate attack and tell us when you’re ready” ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 11, 2008 - 17:35 by rogy

Immigrant workers often find themselves involved in the jobs indigenous workers no longer want. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Friday July 11, 2008 - 14:27 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - friday july 11, 2008 - 14:45)
The Iranian Regime continues its persecution of trade unionists. Mansour Osanloo was brought to court instead of hospital.

Mansour Osanloo, the jailed President of the Syndicate of Workers of the Tehran and Suburbs (Vahed) Bus Company was taken to the Intelligence Court Branch 2 this morning to be arraigned, instead of being taken to the hospital for medical treatment.
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national / anti-capitalism Friday July 11, 2008 - 11:55 by James
international / miscellaneous Friday July 11, 2008 - 00:25 by Andrei Zhdanov   text 43 comments (last - thursday august 07, 2008 - 12:05)
Galway Branch of the Socialist Workers Party have strongly condemned a poem by Kevin Higgins. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 10, 2008 - 18:41 by pat c
Noam Chomsky writes on the oil robbery taking place in Iraq. No-bid contracts written by the oil corporations with the aid of U.S. officials, triumphed over offers from 40 other companies, including those in China, India and Russia. Chomsky also deals with the occupation and aggression towards Iran. Full text at link.

The deal just taking shape between Iraq's Oil Ministry and four Western oil companies raises critical questions about the nature of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq — questions that should certainly be addressed by presidential candidates and seriously discussed in the United States, and of course in occupied Iraq, where it appears that the population has little if any role in determining the future of their country. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday July 10, 2008 - 17:40 by Tara Finglas
Irish Aid is launching a Pilot Virtual Online Volunteering programme for 20 volunteers over 6 months. The purpose of this exercise is to increase awareness of online volunteering using experiences gained through this pilot programme. Virtual Online Volunteers will be linked with developmental NGOs through the UNV Online Volunteering Service to work for sustainable development on various projects around the world. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 10, 2008 - 14:35 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - friday july 11, 2008 - 08:54)
Yassamine Mather analyses the likely effects of any sanctions on Iran and makes it clear that ordinary Iranians will suffer rather than the regime. Full text at link.

In the next few days the US Senate will consider what has been labelled an ‘Iran war resolution’ calling on the president to “initiate an international effort to immediately and dramatically increase the economic, political and diplomatic pressure on Iran to verifiably suspend its nuclear enrichment activities ...” The resolution calls, among other things, for the prohibition of the export to Iran of all refined petroleum products and “stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains, and cargo entering or departing Iran”. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Thursday July 10, 2008 - 13:25 by BreakingNews.ie
More than two-thirds of Irish voters found the No campaign in the Lisbon Treaty referendum more convincing, according to a poll conducted by the European Commission. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 10, 2008 - 13:12 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - wednesday november 05, 2008 - 15:23)
Amnesty raises the case of four youths who face imminent execution in Iran. Full text at the link.

Iran executed 16-year-old Mohammad Hassanzadeh, an Iranian Kurd on 10 June 2008 for a crime committed when he was 14. Four other juvenile offenders are at risk of execution between 11 and 25 July. 24 international and regional human rights organizations called on the head of Iran’s judiciary to suspend these four executions immediately. ... read full story / add a comment
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