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galway / anti-war / imperialism Saturday August 12, 2006 - 11:59 by DT
... Yesterday, military sources in Israel announced that 400 of the 1200 Hizbullah "terrorists" have been killed. That's to say, a mere 1200 fighters have been standing against the tens of thousands of our soldiers, who are equipped with the most advanced weapons on earth, and hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens are still under rocket fire while our soldiers continue to be killed. ...
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international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday August 12, 2006 - 11:30 by .
After nearly a month of carpet bombing the country, by air, sea and land, the enormous sound of the Israeli war planes is now sinking into the background with noises of people trying to go about their daily lives.

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international / anti-war / imperialism Friday August 11, 2006 - 22:27 by ali la pointe   text 5 comments (last - friday august 18, 2006 - 23:40)
Leading American academic, Noam Chomsky, whose prolific writing and lectures cover US foreign and domestic policy, the Military-Industrial complex, the State of Israel and the Middle East crises, today congratulated the protesters who disarmed Raytheon, describing the action as 'inspiring', and the people who did it as 'wonderful'. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday August 11, 2006 - 19:24 by peptide
The war in Lebanon is one month and hundreds of innocent lives old; the international community is displaying all the coherence and cohesion it did in 1939 – déjà vu! The solution today is as it should have been then – stop the invader with a confederation of nations opposed to the war. It stops! Count the nations for war, two, against the war, the rest of the world! ... read full story / add a comment
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international / arts and media Friday August 11, 2006 - 09:40 by redjade   text 7 comments (last - tuesday august 22, 2006 - 13:33)   image 2 images
a 96 Word smear on George Galloway
to silence the rest of us ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / miscellaneous Friday August 11, 2006 - 00:32 by Cormac Ryan PRO éirígí   text 19 comments (last - friday august 25, 2006 - 14:35)   image 4 images
Follow the related link below to read the full story on the éirígí website. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday August 10, 2006 - 12:14 by Anti-War Ireland   text 43 comments (last - monday june 23, 2008 - 01:49)
Anti-War Ireland has reiterated its call for a boycott and workers' 'blacking' of Israeli goods in solidarity with the people of Lebanon and Palestine.

See the following in today's Irish Examiner:

http://www.irishexaminer.com/irishexaminer/pages/story....1.asp ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 09, 2006 - 13:43 by anti war   text 28 comments (last - thursday august 10, 2006 - 23:27)   image 3 images
War protesters storm Raytheon
Up to 50 police involved in stand-off
By Brendan McDaid ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday August 08, 2006 - 15:16 by R. Isible   text 7 comments (last - tuesday august 08, 2006 - 19:15)
Several posts on the blog LittleGreenFootballs detail the uncovering of faked photos on the Reuters newswire. ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday August 08, 2006 - 14:10 by Fiona Murphy   text 18 comments (last - wednesday august 09, 2006 - 18:47)
The only thing preventing Israeli officials from jumping up and down with glee, according Aluf Benn of the daily Haaretz newspaper, was the fear that "demonstrated Israeli enthusiasm for the draft could influence support among Security Council members, who could demand a change in wording that may adversely affect Israel." So no celebration parties till the resolution is passed.
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galway / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday August 08, 2006 - 12:29 by DT   text 10 comments (last - saturday august 19, 2006 - 16:14)
Below are two extracts from George Monbiot's "Comment" in today's Guardian. Full story available on link.

... The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) reports that Israeli aircraft crossed the line "on an almost daily basis" between 2001 and 2003, and "persistently" until 2006. These incursions "caused great concern to the civilian population, particularly low-altitude flights that break the sound barrier over populated areas". On some occasions, Hizbullah tried to shoot them down with anti-aircraft guns...

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"bad sites"
international / sci-tech Tuesday August 08, 2006 - 07:35 by o as if   image 1 image
Google yesterday announced that they are now offering a warning to their browser users if they are about to access a site associated with spyware, malware or malicious advertising who have been reported to the organisation "stopbadware".

This is the latest initiative to come from an association between the group "Stopbadware" and Google. & it has met with positive reactions across the internet related media. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Tuesday August 08, 2006 - 00:56 by Terence   text 4 comments (last - thursday august 10, 2006 - 13:35)
Swedens' regulators have been meeting in emergency session to decide on further nuclear power station shutdowns, after a near meltdown situation developed last week at the Forsmark nuclear power station when one of the backup generators failed. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday August 07, 2006 - 17:44 by Ploughshares Support   text 2 comments (last - tuesday august 08, 2006 - 07:53)
On Feb 3rd. 2003, the Pit Stop Ploughshares 5 carried out an act of nonviolent disarmament on a U.S. Navy War plane at Shannon Airport. In July '06, the five Catholic Workers were found not guilty of "US2.5million criminal damage without lawful excuse" by the unanimous verdict of a jury - the conscience of the commuity - at Dublin's Four Courts. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday August 07, 2006 - 16:56 by nano
The world we live in today is characterised by States adopting the methodologies of organised crime. The traditional methods of criminal organizations have been legitimised by expropriation; no longer are deception, violence, theft, disregarding social codes/contracts the sole province of the sub-culture of organised crime they are now openly employed methods of various conservative governments around the globe – most notably, the USA, UK and Australia. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday August 07, 2006 - 16:07 by Chris Murray   text 8 comments (last - friday december 08, 2006 - 18:17)   image 2 images

From: http://technology.guardian.co.uk/0,,782450,00.html

A 415 million pound scheme of biometric passports is in question today
after hackers broke the codes (within two weeks) of the biometric
passport scheme- ( A Blairite response to 9/11)
The biometric info includes finger-prints, facial scan and iris patterns.

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galway / anti-war / imperialism Monday August 07, 2006 - 15:56 by DT   text 4 comments (last - monday october 01, 2007 - 14:39)
The UN Security Council's draft resolution : "... a document of such bias and mendacity that a close Lebanese friend read carefully through it yesterday, cursed and uttered the immortal question: "Don't these bastards learn anything from history?" ... . ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Monday August 07, 2006 - 09:55 by o as if
European German speakers appear to be leading the way in combatting internet addiction. The Swiss canton of Zurich has just joined with some of the German states and one Austrian province to draw up plans to combat "cyber addiction".

The Swiss estimate at least 3% of surfers in their country suffer from "excessive" internet use. Suffering surfers are most likely male, aged between 20 and 30 and have grown up with computer games and other entertainment systems such as "playstation" and "gameboy". ... read full story / add a comment
Photos of Beirut, three weeks apart
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday August 07, 2006 - 01:01 by redjade   text 16 comments (last - monday august 14, 2006 - 12:12)   image 9 images
{ Notes on the Long War: .003 / August 7-14 2006 } ... read full story / add a comment
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