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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 19, 2007 - 12:12 by pat c
 44 comments (last - thursday august 16, 2007 - 18:01)
This is an article from Human Rights Watch in which they condemn the televised confessions forced out of Iranian Dissidents. It is wrong for the US to torture those who yhey hold illegally and it is also wrong for the Iranian SState to torture "confessions" out of those they hold illegally. Full article at link. The Iranian government should cancel the scheduled July 18 broadcast of the “confessions” of two detained Iranian-Americans, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch expressed concern that Iranian authorities have used coercive means to compel Haleh Esfandiari and Kian Tajbakhsh to make statements that may be later used to incriminate them in court. The authorities have held them in largely incommunicado detention for more than two months, preventing lawyers and family members from visiting them. They have only been permitted brief phone calls to family members. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 19, 2007 - 08:28 by Aragon
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Those who oppose the US wars of imperialism are probably quite cynical about the lies and distortions used to justify what they slaughter. Nevertheless, it is likely that a press release issued by the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran will shock even those who thought they had seen it all. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Tuesday July 17, 2007 - 16:29 by o as if
4 comments (last - wednesday july 18, 2007 - 08:40)  3 images
In the last months an extraordinary plague of mice has hit China. Only in the last days has the story gone from the sarcastic coverage verging on racism "poor Chinese people think eating mice is good for the libido" turned to serious reporting of the phenomena. Which naturally the Chinese state are keen to downplay. The mice are estimated by the Guardian (reporting Chinese state authorities) to number over 2 billion now. Strange things happen you might think.., Except that in early June farmers in the mid-peninsular region of Spain roughly at the same lattitude as those affected in China began to complain of plagues of voles or fieldmice. Voles are pretty much like mice in that they are small rodents which feed on crops, do nothing for your libido if eaten and once they enter your water or sanitation system spell complete disaster for anyone who survives the famine which used to follow soon after. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday July 16, 2007 - 20:44 by Daithí
international / consumer issues Monday July 16, 2007 - 20:20 by Linker
4 comments (last - saturday july 21, 2007 - 20:16) 2 images
Community media advocates are demanding that Mexico's congress proceed with major reforms to the Federal Law on Radio and television that would allow for diversity in the medium. This is spearheaded by Article 19 , the National Centre for Social Communications (CENCOS) and AMARC Assoc.of Community Radio Broadcasters and IFEX , International Freedom of Expression eXchange. ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Monday July 16, 2007 - 18:32 by Mirza Kuchak Khan
23 comments (last - friday may 14, 2010 - 19:36)
Some socialists would claim that Iran is goverened by a radical anti-Imperialist regime. However the way Iran treats asylum seekers shows that the Iranian government is just as racist as the US when it comes to immigration. The article below was written by a member of the Communist Party of Iran (MLM). A campaign to kick out Afghan refugees in Iran is continuing unabated. Between late April and late June, the Islamic Republic of Iran rounded up more than 100,000 Afghans working in Iran and dumped them on the other side of the border. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / environment Sunday July 15, 2007 - 20:49 by Attack Media
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On Friday 13th of July the Corrib gas project to build an onland refinery, led by Shell, had a unprecidented unlucky day. Two members of the Shell To Sea campaign locked on to a van parked across the only access road to the Bellanaboy refinery site, stopping work for over 5hours. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Sunday July 15, 2007 - 19:08 by greendublin2007
Green Leadership Candidate sets out her stall for leadership in YouTube video ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday July 15, 2007 - 13:33 by John Cornford
11 comments (last - friday july 20, 2007 - 16:26)
An allegation of disgraceful behaviour has been made against a leading member of the English SWP. To clarify what actually occurred n indepebndent investigation will be required. Here is an extract of an article from the Weekly Worker, 12 July 2007. This year’s Marxism was marred by a disgraceful physical assault by SWP national organiser Martin Smith. On July 7, the second full day of Marxism, Socialist Workers Party national organiser Martin Smith physically assaulted comrade Simon, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and the Tower Hamlets branch of Respect. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Sunday July 15, 2007 - 01:37 by EU Watch
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This may be the biggest story published in the newspapers this year.... is anyone paying attention?? (Copy of Sunday Business Post article from SaveTara.Com) Direct weblink: http://www.savetara.com/articles/2007/070807_ndp.html ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Thursday July 12, 2007 - 19:19 by M Cotton & D Manning, MediaBite
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Why is the IT ignoring the fact that Iran's nuclear enrichment activity is entirely legal? ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Thursday July 12, 2007 - 00:32 by John Mc Anulty
Andrew Johnson Prior to the recent Dail election, the one constant prediction had been of very large gains for Sinn Fein. In the event, the party made a modest gain in its vote share, from 6.5% to 6.9%, a credible gain in absolute votes from 120,000 to 140,000, but failed to win any new seats and suffered the high-profile loss of Sean Crowe in Dublin South-West. ... read full story / add a comment 
limerick / environment Wednesday July 11, 2007 - 18:38 by Limerick Socialist Youth
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According to a recent report by the Environmental Protection Agency Limerick will be flooded within 50 years (if not sooner) due to rising sea levels resulting from climate change. In response to this Socialist Youth have been out on the streets of Limerick recently, demanding immediate action to stop climate change. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday July 11, 2007 - 03:41 by arpiai
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Leading Iranian trade unionist Mansour Osanloo kidnapped. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday July 10, 2007 - 23:35 by Brian Wardlow
Video Discussion about Irish Republican issues censored, ignored, or misrepresented by the mainstrem media. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday July 10, 2007 - 15:30 by io
8 comments (last - sunday november 04, 2007 - 14:38)
We don't know at what stage the branch davidian group of fundamentalist christians of mount Carmel in Waco, Texas crossed the line of extremism. Most people don't remember what the suspected crime was which brought the US federal agencies complete with tanks and psychological weaponry to lay seige to the compound & demand its leader David Koresh to surrender. Was the illegal fully automatic weapons which neighbours professed to hear or the rumours that Koresh had taken unto him as wives all the females (some barely adolescent) in the compound to mother his children? Few will tell you that the Oklahoma bombing of a Federal social security office by Timothy Veigh & others as revenge for the Waco massacre was first atttributed to Islamic fundamentalists. We now know the FBI regretted the crises as soon as the charred remains of the children were brought out of the rubble. Musharraf's attack on the Lal Masjid or Red Mosque of Islamabad is comparable. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday July 09, 2007 - 15:47 by Mediahead
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http://www.ireland.com/head2head/yes.html. Nice little row brewing on the Irish Times web-site if anyone wants to contribute or voice opinion on women's reproductive rights. pro-choice are taking a bashing, which is a pity. Apparently women are not contributing to the debate. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Monday July 09, 2007 - 15:33 by nologo
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80 minutes video about the resistance against the g8 summit 2007 in germany/rostock-heiligendamm. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Sunday July 08, 2007 - 14:16 by Channel4
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A story on shell polluting Carrowmore lake has been removed from the channel 4 website ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday July 08, 2007 - 09:39 by peptide
The mainstream press is full of stories but for ONE BIG exception; a FAILURE the proportions of which promise to sear the pages of history. The criminal intervention and the consequent holocaust and humanitarian disaster that is Western Interventionist Iraq! The media is at pains to avoid this story for obvious reasons -- it participated in the original ruse and deception upon which a full-scale military invasion was launched. The list of war criminals includes the name of Rupert Murdoch as he clearly carries equal responsibility with Bush, Cheney, Blair, Howard and the conservative forces that support them. War crimes arrests must therefore extend to Murdoch and other responsible parties – Murdoch is damned by his own words, delivered in numerous speeches and addresses to fellow conservative criminals. ... read full story / add a comment |
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