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international / anti-war / imperialism Friday August 04, 2006 - 21:48 by Daithí
Suffice it to say, it’s an uncomfortable summer here in New York. My own neighborhood was among those without electricity for a greater part of last week.
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international / miscellaneous Friday August 04, 2006 - 17:17 by SP Member   text 269 comments (last - friday may 04, 2007 - 07:42)   image 1 image
Tommy Sheridan has won his case against the News of the World. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Friday August 04, 2006 - 16:09 by Phuq Hedd   text 20 comments (last - wednesday august 09, 2006 - 20:12)
In Counterpunch, Aug 4th 2006, Jonathan Cook reports on Human Rights Watch's analysis of civilian casualties inflicted by Hizbullah and the IDF and concludes that indiscriminate media reporting is perpetuating at least two inaccuracies: that IDF strikes are "targetted" with Lebanese civilian deaths being a result of Hizbullah using them as human shields; and that Hizbullah attacks are deliberately targetting civilians. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Friday August 04, 2006 - 15:14 by salamander
The major communication mediums of the world continue to bombard the public with images and descriptions of the Israeli-Lebanon conflict. The media works tirelessly to deliver our social consciousness. Today’s mass media maintains its status as the principal means of creating and sustaining social realities. The internet-based ‘independents’ lack real independent front-line resources and continue to rely on the mainstream for most of their information (much to their chagrin). ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday August 04, 2006 - 14:17 by Media   text 1 comment (last - friday august 04, 2006 - 16:24)
The US Embassy has helpfully posted up a guide to independent journalism on their website http://dublin.usembassy.gov/

here http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/journalism/index.htm
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national / miscellaneous Thursday August 03, 2006 - 20:17 by supp
Sinn Féin spokesperson on Natural Resources Martin Ferris TD has accused Shell of duplicity in their announcement that they are to drop their court injunction against the Rossport Five.

Deputy Ferris said:

"In announcing that they are dropping their injunction, Shell have absolved themselves of the requirement to surrender key documents relating to various aspects of the pipeline project. On Monday Justice Mary Laffoy made an order of discovery that for the first time would have placed this information into the hands of those who object to the pipeline.

"The fact that Shell, after more than a year of attempting to bully Rossport men, should now drop their action speaks volumes. It confirms what many of us believe; that the entire deal regarding the Corrib field stinks to high heaven. The fact that Shell is willing to abandon its campaign of intimidation rather than shed any light into this dark corner speaks for itself. ... read full story / add a comment
international / housing Wednesday August 02, 2006 - 19:54 by zee lumpen
During the summer of 1946, over 40,000 British people took the law into their own hands and squatted in property that they didn't own - initially disused military camps, then empty hotels and blocks of flats. It was an unprecedented movement of civil disobedience, and it presented Atlee's Labour Government with its first great crisis. Mark Whitaker tells the story - with testimony from several of the squatters themselves. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Wednesday August 02, 2006 - 13:03 by republica   text 2 comments (last - wednesday august 02, 2006 - 15:43)
This is a call from Barcelona to give suport to the prisoners 4f that have been unfairly in prison for half a year next 4th of august. Any actions are wellcomed, ballons with names, information about this, placards especially in front of the spanish embassy but not necessarily, just use your creativity. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 01, 2006 - 03:37 by E.Goldstein   text 5 comments (last - wednesday august 02, 2006 - 02:59)
We need your solidarity now. Daniel Gross, an organizer in the IWW Starbucks Workers Union, is being "investigated" by the company over a protest he and his co-workers participated in to support another IWW barista, Evan Winterscheidt. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday August 01, 2006 - 00:10 by D_D   text 1 comment (last - wednesday august 16, 2006 - 22:54)
Issue 25 of Red Banner, the independent magazine of socialist ideas, is available now, from PO Box 6587, from [email protected] or from some bookshops (e.g. Books Upstairs, Dublin).
Euro 3/£2
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international / anti-war / imperialism Monday July 31, 2006 - 10:58 by finch   text 3 comments (last - sunday august 20, 2006 - 02:43)
Indirectly confirmed by John Bolton, U.S. Ambassador to the UN (and sociopath) in a public statement; the first casualty of war is LANGUAGE – the needless slaughter of innocent children in Qana by an Israeli airstrike was an “accident of war”! In the face of an obvious war crime it is now incumbent on the Bush regime, especially its representatives Bolton and Rice, to define the rules of engagement and what constitutes a war crime. We do not forget how quick the U.S. and NATO were to condemn war crimes in the Balkan conflict – it would seem that allies of the U.S. (Israel) are immune; their obvious crimes become tragic ‘accidents’ whereas those opposed to the U.S. are war criminals and liable to indefinite incarceration (‘Torture’ Bay) or trial in an ‘independent’ court at the Hague. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Sunday July 30, 2006 - 17:04 by red   text 3 comments (last - monday july 31, 2006 - 19:17)   image 1 image
Sect with class roots

Ted Grant died on July 20 at the age of 93, after more than 75 years as a Trotskyist activist. He was the effective founder and theoretical guru of the Militant Tendency, which at its height, recalls Mike Macnair, before the splits of the 1990s, was probably the largest and best-rooted of the Trotskyist organisations in Britain
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longford / anti-war / imperialism Sunday July 30, 2006 - 00:16 by Jake
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, south of Tyre
Saturday July 29, 2006

Guardian

Inside a well-furnished apartment in a village on the outskirts of Tyre, with shelves of books piled from floor to ceiling, a black turbaned cleric and three men sit sipping bitter coffee. By the door is a pile of Kalashnikovs and ammunition boxes; handguns are tucked into the men's trousers. The four are Hizbullah fighters, waiting for the Israelis.
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laois / anti-war / imperialism Sunday July 30, 2006 - 00:02 by Fiona G.
Made in the UK, bringing devastation to Lebanon - the British parts in Israel's deadly attack helicopters
· Key parts for Israeli aircraft made in UK
· Rights groups say Apaches used for assassinations

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international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday July 29, 2006 - 08:05 by cleaves
The people are once again faced with a very real opportunity to act and change the status quo. The USA has abandoned its traditional role of peacekeeper in the Middle East. Two clear prerogatives present themselves in the face of ongoing hostilities, a people’s movement or another nation filling the vacuum left by the U.S. (which has tragically become an involved party in the conflict). How many times must the opportunity for Peace go begging? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday July 29, 2006 - 04:11 by Seán Ryan   text 10 comments (last - monday july 31, 2006 - 00:32)
Cindy Sheehan buys plot of land near George Bush's Ranch in Crawford, Texas. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday July 28, 2006 - 12:18 by Starvin Marvin   text 3 comments (last - sunday july 30, 2006 - 23:30)
The following is an article I read in the Irish Times.

At first I thought I was reading an article by Richard Perle or some other neo-con ideologue but then I saw its author was none other than Joschka Fischer.

What do Trevor Sargent and John Gormley have to say about their Green cousins in Europe? ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday July 28, 2006 - 10:20 by Frank Cordaro   text 3 comments (last - friday july 28, 2006 - 15:05)
Former RC priest ,and long time Catholic Worker, is presently serving a 6 month sentence for a nonviolent trespass at Offcut Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska. Offcut is headquarters of what was once called the U.S. Strategic Air Command. This is Frank's 7th. 6 month stint for nonviolent resistance at Offcut AFB. Frank also did time for a (1990's) Plowshares action on a B-52 Bomber at Andrews Air Force Base. (By happenstance, Amy Goodman was on site and covered the action for "Democracy Now"). Although Frank is presently a prisoner of the Federal Government he spent the first 2 months of this sentence in overcrowded County Jails (There ar e now 2.3 million prople locked up in the U.S.) Frank is now ensconsed in Yankton Fed Pen (once rated by Penthouse 'zine as one of the 5 easiest places to do time in the U.S. system. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 27, 2006 - 22:37 by Jack   text 2 comments (last - friday july 28, 2006 - 18:35)
The European Union has handed the Middle East to the militarists, writes Michael D Higgins TD in todays Irish Times.

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international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 27, 2006 - 21:45 by Anthony
A letter from Chomsky and other well known anti-imperalists outlines some of the less well reported events around the start of the recent escalation of Israeli violence and looks at the double standards that can be seen in the coverage and treatment of Palestinians. ... read full story / add a comment
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