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international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 26, 2006 - 06:01 by leef
Perhaps the two most feared words in the English language today are “suicide bomber”; the propaganda machine in the west ensures that these two words continue to strike fear and terror into the hearts of the civilian population. Circumstances occasionally present all of us with unusual opportunities. When a young man who claimed the above distinction wished to make known his story it would have been a dereliction of my profession to refuse the request. The public interest is not served unless both sides of a story are made available. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday September 25, 2006 - 21:06 by Cropbeye
Mark Langhammer has come up with some very interesting ideas on the North in Irish political review Vol 21 No 9 Can order through www.atholbooks.org or purchase in Connolly Book s Dublin and elswhere. He welcomes comments at [email protected] ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / housing Monday September 25, 2006 - 10:16 by d'other
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Anyone able to cast their mind back over the Robocop film franchise should be able to recall the many Omni Consumer Product ads featured in the film with their distinct dystopian undertones amidst a sea of promise. A similar style of ad has been circulating on the Irish inter-web as a viral video. Produced by the 'multi-disciplined, multi- talented' Wasaki Global Corporation it details the plans to build three islands off the coast of Dublin, complete with a replica Howth, 42,000 flats, 3 golf courses, several motor-ways and a giraffe only zoo. Yeah right says you., next they'll try and resurrect Atlantis. Word on the blogosphere would suggest that it's the work of an ad agency called Chemistry who conceived it as a stunt to launch new property website Funda Ireland. Clever bastards, eh? Well clever enough to take in a certain Labour politician on Morning Ireland earlier today. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Sunday September 24, 2006 - 22:40 by R. Isible
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The Russian government is pushing Shell out of the Sakhalin Islands oilfields using environmental arguments. This has the happy side-effect of stopping Shell (and its Japanese partners) and Exxon from being able to raise prices. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday September 24, 2006 - 17:05 by Observer
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Adams leadership prepare the ground for Policing ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday September 24, 2006 - 13:41 by Miriam Cotton
Sickening details of how Palestinians are torutred in Israeli jails. Report posted on Medialens earlier today. ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Sunday September 24, 2006 - 12:54 by Crossing Borders
From Warsaw in Poland to Nouakchott in Mauretania 7th of October 06: Transnational Actionday against migration-control One year after the escalations in Ceuta and Melilla a broad network of Migration related initiatives call for freedom of movement in a transnational day of action. In dozens of cities in Europe and also in Africa manifestations and demonstrations are in preparation for 7th of October. It was decided to organize such a day of migration-related actions at the European Social Forum in May 2006, when about 15.000 people from different social movements met in Athens. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday September 24, 2006 - 11:10 by Akrasia
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Only you, the Ordinary American People can Stop World War 3 ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday September 24, 2006 - 09:37 by anonymous
Announcing the second comic book/coloring book from www.prole.info: ABOLISH RESTAURANTS: a worker's critique of the food service industry ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday September 23, 2006 - 16:08 by peptide
The one glaring undeniable fact regarding the Bush administration is the fact that they have failed in ALL their endeavours – in other words they have done nothing right. The latest display of neo-con ineptitudes by John Bolton and Condoleezza Rice regarding their tactical inaction during the conflict in South Lebanon reveals the essential ideology/philosophy of the neo-cons – not only [to], ‘GIVE WAR A CHANCE; but also, WAR IS THE ANSWER’! [Thank you John Lennon.] ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Saturday September 23, 2006 - 12:03 by Galway Solidarity
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Below is the link to Keith Finnegan Show interview with Ciaron O'Reilly one of the acquitted Pit Stop Plloughshares www.peaceontrial.com The interviewer questions O'Reilly on the disarmamaent action at Shannon in Feb. '03, questions O'Reilly's take on Catholicism, his source of income, plans for further nonviolent direct action to demilitarise Shannon. It's a lively debate, O'Reilly gives as good as he gets. Worrth a listen! ... read full story / add a comment
roscommon / anti-war / imperialism Saturday September 23, 2006 - 02:27 by Elaine Murphy
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Chavez : "As Chomsky says here clearly and in depth, the American empire is doing all it can to consolidate its hegemonic system of domination, and we cannot allow them to do that. We cannot allow world dictatorship to be consolidated. The world tyrant’s statement -- cynical, hypocritical, full of this imperial hypocrisy, from the need they have to control everything -- they say they want to impose a democratic model, but that's their democratic model. It's the false democracy of elites, and I would say a very original democracy that's imposed by weapons and bombs and firing weapons. What a strange democracy. Aristotle might not recognize it, or others who are at the root of democracy. What type of democracy do you impose with marines and bombs?" ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday September 22, 2006 - 20:03 by Conor J. McGowan
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The Irish Socialist Network has sent a message of solidarity to the Scottish Socialist Party following the exit from that party of former convenor Tommy Sheridan, the Socialist Worker and CWI (Socialist Party) platforms and a number of others. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / anti-capitalism Friday September 22, 2006 - 14:07 by John Dunne
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THE Spanish Civil War veteran Mr. Bob Doyle told a public meeting organised by the Connolly Forum in Sligo this week that "the fight against those who put profit before people is just as intense today as it was 70 years ago." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday September 22, 2006 - 13:15 by tm eile
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According to this BBC report , after the events of 9/11 , US deputy Secretary of State ,Richard Armitage , threatened President Musharraf of Pakistan saying that his country would be bombed “back to the stone age” unless it backed George Bush’s War on Terror. The Pakistani dictator was surely not being over-sensitive when he described Armitage 's remarks as "very rude". ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Thursday September 21, 2006 - 19:38 by Killer
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The investigative website What Would Tyler Durden Do? reports that Michael Jackson is to open a leprechaun theme park in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 21, 2006 - 08:04 by finch
A well-known method of subjugation utilised by conquerors and rulers alike is, “divide and conquer”; this strategy applies equally in times of war and peace. It may surprise many but this method remains the principal means of social control in today’s western societies. The primary divisive structure today is the (separate, ‘closed-door’) nuclear family and the principal divided unit is the psychically isolated, competitive individual. [It should be noted that the ‘individual’, as distinct from the group, is a relatively recent social creation.] ... read full story / add a comment
kildare / anti-war / imperialism Thursday September 21, 2006 - 05:30 by d'other
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An Irish farmer has used the Ryder Cup and the endless streams of choppered in VIP's to make a general point on peace. The farmer describes how 'as the rich and powerful politicians chopper their way to the Ryder Cup, they might have to avert their gaze from my little farm next door.' Why? Because on this small area of farm land beside the K-Club venue he has made a huge CND style peace symbol encircled with a 'peace on earth' slogan. Weird or what? Photos are at the following link. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday September 20, 2006 - 22:52 by provetza
This VERY interesting interview republished from electronicintifada.net contains LOTS of info about Hezbollah and society in Lebanon that most western media prefer to HIDE... Check the website for updates/news on middle east issues and resistance. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday September 20, 2006 - 01:50 by Nunca Mais !
Newsweek magazine reports the US administration wants to maintain at least seven existing CIA interrogation methods for use against high-level detainees. The techniques include induced hypothermia; long periods of forced standing; sleep deprivation and so called "attention slapping." ... read full story / add a comment |
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