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national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 23, 2006 - 13:30 by Ciarån Barnes
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by Ciarån Barnes Daily Ireland 23 August 2006 The British government is coming under renewed pressure to reveal if it used a controversial gas on republican prisoners during a prison riot 32 years ago. The Ministry of Defence has always denied using CR gas, a known carcinogen, on inmates during the burning of Long Kesh in October 1974. More than 300 prisoners were affected by the gas fired from helicopters. It’s claimed that around a fifth of this number have since died or are suffering from unexplained cancers. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 23, 2006 - 00:01 by Eamon
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The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) accused the UK government in the high court in London today of knowingly assisting "acts of terrorism" by Israel in its campaign against Hizbullah in southern Lebanon ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 22, 2006 - 17:49 by Sean Corcoran
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Daily Ireland 22/08/2006 IRA informer Sean O'Callaghan was tied up by two men he met in a gay pub, and held at knifepoint while they ransacked the house he was meant to be looking after, a court heard yesterday. The former IRA man had invited the pair back to the home he was looking after for his friend, author Ruth Dudley Edwards, following an evening drinking with them in a nearby gay pub. The 52-year-old had selected the bar "only because it was the nearest", but once the men were back at the home they knocked him to the floor, tied him up, threatened him at knifepoint and burgled the house. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday August 22, 2006 - 05:48 by budgie
Is the Hague court a joke or have we just lost our sense of perspective? The latest indiscriminate slaughter of children and innocent civilians in Lebanon by ‘God’s chosen’ seems not to warrant the attention of the Hague court. Carla Del Ponte’s latest remonstration against the Serbian leadership for not delivering war criminals to her court seems ‘slightly’ dissociative in view of recent events. Her obsession with Serbs now borders on the pathological. Would the civilian death toll in Iraq warrant her attention? Iraq now approaches one hundred thousand innocent civilian deaths – eighty percent directly attributable to the forces of occupation! ... read full story / add a comment
national / sci-tech Monday August 21, 2006 - 21:26 by R. Isible
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For years people have been claiming to have discovered perpetual motion engines, "free" energy and other contraventions of the laws of physics as we understand them. An Irish company has now joined the throngs of utopianists and has "challenged scientists to test its claims" ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / consumer issues Monday August 21, 2006 - 21:06 by Toe-tape
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Images are printable from the Fianna fail Website Gallery. http://www.fiannafail.ie/ Harold's Cross has been lacking a post-office since the post-master died of a heart attack (RIP), whilst at the other end of the ward, a one-stop client shop for political bring and buy was opened just past La Touche Bridge. The shop looks like a Spar and Bertie was there to cut the ribbon and a bevy of tanned blondes in hats accompanied the opening cermemonies. Meanwhile pensioners and single mothers have to await the appointment of a new post-master or travel to alternate locations to get the services once provided by the State. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday August 21, 2006 - 01:04 by Dublin Dave
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Two long-standing members of the tiny Irish Trotskyist grouping 'Workers Power' have been expelled from their international the 'League for a Fifth International', following allegations that they were part of a plot to split the organisation in advance of a congress, which was to debate the sharply divergant views withing the group on the world economy and political perspectives. ... read full story / add a comment
wexford / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday August 20, 2006 - 22:40 by Michael K.
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"There’s, as you've reported, no sign that the people had plane tickets. It's very difficult to bomb a plane without a plane ticket, no sign that they’d actually made any bombs yet. And the evidence is that these people had been under surveillance for quite a long time by the British Security Services, who hadn't seen any need of the early arrests ... ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / miscellaneous Sunday August 20, 2006 - 21:43 by Cormac Ryan PRO éirígí
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Make the éirígí website your homepage. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday August 20, 2006 - 15:08 by gan
Most people are familiar with the popular tales of the half-dead venomous snake that bit the man who saved its life and the scorpion that stung the frog that ferried it (on its back) away from floodwaters that threatened to drown it. Both stories share a similar moral; the beast remains true to its nature regardless of noble, humanitarian, mitigating factors – serpents will always strike and scorpions will always sting, regardless! ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday August 20, 2006 - 14:57 by glenda cimino
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John Negroponte, Director of National Intelligence for the United States, announced on Friday, August 18, 2006, the creation of a new special CIA mission to oversee intelligence activities in Venezuela and Cuba. Patrick Maher will be responsible for integrating collection and analysis on Cuba and Venezuela across the Intelligence Community, identifying and filling gaps in intelligence, and ensuring the implementation of strategies, among other duties. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / sci-tech Sunday August 20, 2006 - 02:13 by Ezra Niesen
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Scientists who study human evolution have made great discoveries into the origins of human emotions and how they affect people and interpersonal relationships. People can put these discoveries to use in their everyday lives—if they learn about them. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Saturday August 19, 2006 - 09:33 by d'other
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There were some disturbing reports circulating on the net last year from the Workers Communist Party of Iraq on attacks on women by political Islamists. Now it seems in Baghdad Islamists are deepening their imposition of social morals on women. Anyone who has ever read Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, with its account of the slow disintegration of female autonomy in Iran will notice the striking similarity with the blog account below. Its by an Iraqi woman and is an award winning blog.. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday August 18, 2006 - 17:50 by finch
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FAILURE is emblazoned on the foreheads of all those involved. The VICTORY of the day is for PEACE and there is nothing any power, state, or group could do to prevent the (future) peaceful intentions of the people. Human civilisation and the blood of innocents demand it! ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday August 18, 2006 - 17:43 by esperanza
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Mexico, Oaxaca. Since a few months the people stand up to fight the corrupt government of Ulises Ruiz Ortiz. Since june the repression against the movement has grown. Activists were kidnapped, tortured and killed by police and paramilitairs. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage Friday August 18, 2006 - 15:58 by admin
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National Public Radio, http://www.npr.org in the US, broadcast a feature on the Hill of Tara / M3 issue, to over 700 stations nationwide yesterday. International attention is still growing. Rais TV (RTV) filmed a special last week, which will be broadcast across Europe shortly. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Friday August 18, 2006 - 08:18 by anon
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Defence Minister Willie O'Dea has criticised the outcome of the recent trial involving the five anti-war activists who damaged a US military aircraft at Shannon Airport more than three years ago. The five admitted attacking the plane, but said they did so to prevent greater crimes from being committed in Iraq and Afghanistan. They were all acquitted last month after a jury at Dublin Circuit Court agreed that they had a lawful excuse for their actions. However, Mr O'Dea, who is a trained barrister, claimed today that the jury was wrong in its decision. "I don't think this defence should have been allowed to go to the jury in the first place and secondly, I don't think the jury should have found as they did," he said. "But, as you know, the courts are independent and the Government can't over-rule or interfere in the operation of the courts. "That's essential in a democracy, but a democracy also has the right to protect itself against terror." ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday August 18, 2006 - 01:58 by Anti-Nazi
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This looks fairly sinister... from Searchlight Mag ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Thursday August 17, 2006 - 16:47 by R. Isible
A YouTube hosted video commenting on the "special relationship" between Bush and Blair using "Endless Love" synced with publically available footage. Funny. http://youtube.com/watch?v=nupdcGwIG-g ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 17, 2006 - 15:12 by Terence
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We were told last week that the 'Terror Plot' was only days away from being implemented. Now it turns out there were no bombs made, they had NOT bought any airline tickets and that some of the so-called plotters didn't even have a passport. That would mean they would not even get pass the check-in desk. In other words there was no plot. So it is just like all the other scares that had no substance to them and it was purely designed to hype the fear and ratchet up further police state measures and basically intimidate the population. ... read full story / add a comment |
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