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international / environment Wednesday November 08, 2006 - 14:10 by Niamh Nic Carthaigh
Against a backdrop of poverty, failing rains and increasing drought, delegates from 189 countries are meeting in Nairobi, Kenya to discuss climate change. Christian Aid is there too, urging the world’s environment ministers and their climate change negotiators to agree a new framework for rapidly and dramatically cutting carbon emissions to safeguard people’s lives and livelihoods in the future. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday November 08, 2006 - 03:59 by TJ
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Through "purity of arms" at least 50 Palestinians have been butchered, forty homes destroyed and 400 damaged in the IDF's latest invasion of the Gaza Strip, ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Wednesday November 08, 2006 - 00:48 by paddyweb
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How Kildare County Council treats it's tennants. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday November 07, 2006 - 23:01 by iosaf
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In the last week this year's "transparency org" world corruption perception report has been published. It's a report which is taken seriously by some, and certainly no country looking for foreign investment wants to be at the bottom of the 163 states ranked this year. (Interestingly the world boasted 158 states for last year's report) But both the annual list of "corruption perception" and "bribery perception" indices, can not be understood as isolated statistics. Just as Greenspan's biographer assured us he takes stock of over 4000 weekly indicators, we can not consider just one single country or economy when discussing corruption or bribery. Nor can we refuse to draw in other human development indicators, (the UNHDR report) all the usual "facts and figures" and internal data. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday November 07, 2006 - 22:35 by redjade
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In the US of A on November 7th 2006 mid-term elections will be held for 33 of 100 Senate seats, 36 of 50 governor seats, and for all 436 seats of the House of Representatives. George Bush's party is predicted to lose, Big Time.... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday November 07, 2006 - 17:32 by Maryam Namazie
A 21st century worthy of human beings is difficult to envision when our lives, our rights, our children, cities, schools and homes – are caught in the crossfire in a war of terrorists. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Tuesday November 07, 2006 - 11:32 by pat c
Yet another example of the compassion and mercy of Islam. Women are treated so well by those men who interpet the Koran and administer justice in the name of Allah. Full story at the link. pat c ... read full story / add a comment |
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