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international / arts and media Thursday January 17, 2008 - 13:07 by + "ora pro nobis"
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This week's Vatican Observatory newspaper has fielded two articles on Harry Potter explaining to whomever bothers that the popular kids' series of novels & movies is really doing what the mad sicko fundamentalist Americans already said it is. Yep. Sending your kids to Satan. ....."J.K. Rowling's successful character Harry Potter is the wrong model of a hero, says the Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano in its Monday-Tuesday edition. In an article signed by Edoardo Rialti, L'Osservatore says that many have tried to establish a parallel between Rowling's main character and "the great fantasy masterpieces of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and Clive Staples Lewis, the Christian authors of the most beloved fables of the 20th Century............" ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday January 16, 2008 - 17:18 by Joe
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Pentagon Officials spun the 6th January incident between US warships and small Iranian boats in the Strait of Hormuz in order to create the illusion of Iranian military aggressiveness. A short video with added audio warning US warships would "explode in a few seconds" was fed to the media. Deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs in charge of media operations Bryan Whitman was responsible for the initial fabrication, which has since been denied by Navy Officer who were involved. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday January 16, 2008 - 16:12 by Miriam Cotton
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Eleven people are currently on death row in Iran sentenced to death by stoning, nine of them women convicted of adultery. Amnesty says that many of their trials were conducted in very unfair circumstances. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday January 15, 2008 - 22:28 by Cathal Lalor
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The Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation today released their so-called 'Index of Economic Freedom' for 2008. This index ranks countries according to how their institutions and policies facilitate the power of capital. Ireland is third, beaten only by the dictatorships of Hong Kong and Singapore. The dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and its rationalizing ideology,-neo-liberal economics-, has triumphed in Ireland. The developing societal breakdown is a measure of its success. The other side of the coin is the dismal failure of the left. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday January 15, 2008 - 18:35 by pat c
This is an open letter from from Iranian Worker & Student activists to President Chavez. They are asking him to intervene on behalf of imprisoned students and workers. Full text at the link. Dear Mr President: We hear the news of the release of two of the FARC's hostages with renewed hope for the future of Colombia. The release of Clara Rojas and Consuela Gonzalez is not only a joyous event for their families but a development with great potentials for Colombian society. We believe that your negotiation and persuasion skills can be put to further use in the release of captives in other parts of the globe. In particular, as you have developed very close relations with successive Iranian presidents, we hope that you can use your influence to help free the genuine trade unionists, democrats and socialists locked up in Iran. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Tuesday January 15, 2008 - 12:08 by + "ora pro nobis"
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67 members of staff at the university of Sapienza in Rome have joined their student body in rejecting a planned visit by Pope Benedict XVI this Thursday citing his position & opinion on Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) common era, who was placed under house arrest by the Roman Catholic church from 1633 onwards in a process which Joseph Ratzinger described as "reasonable & just" in 1990. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday January 15, 2008 - 10:18 by Mark C
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Tom Hodgkinson has written quite an interesting article about Facebook, published in last Monday's G2. It begins: I despise Facebook. This enormously successful American business describes itself as "a social utility that connects you with the people around you". But hang on. Why on God's earth would I need a computer to connect with the people around me? Why should my relationships be mediated through the imagination of a bunch of supergeeks in California? What was wrong with the pub? And does Facebook really connect people? Doesn't it rather disconnect us, since instead of doing something enjoyable such as talking and eating and dancing and drinking with my friends, I am merely sending them little ungrammatical notes and amusing photos in cyberspace, while chained to my desk? A friend of mine recently told me that he had spent a Saturday night at home alone on Facebook, drinking at his desk. What a gloomy image. Far from connecting us, Facebook actually isolates us at our workstations. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday January 13, 2008 - 14:59 by SY Online
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It seems like on the cusp of being real. For the first time in the U.S., a black man has a serious chance of being the next occupant of the White House. Barack Obama won the Democratic caucus in Iowa and finished a strong second to Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire. The centerpiece of his campaign has been the claim that he is the candidate of “hope” and “change” as opposed to the establishment figure Hillary Clinton. He has crowned himself the king of post-racial and post-partisan politics. With the assistance of the corporate media machine, he’s been allowed to capture the imagination and hope of millions of voters, particularly new layers of politicized young people. This includes hope that he has a “realistic” plan to end the Iraq War, that he is not beholden to big business interests and that he’s the candidate of universal healthcare. Obama wants us to believe that he’ll lift up the working poor and save the middle class. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Thursday January 10, 2008 - 12:18 by neighbourly
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Despite the cost of building them, the delay in bringing them online, the cost of cleaning up the old ones, the cost of disposing of all the waste so far, the need to invest in carbon capture or at least print up colourful brochures for the next generation on climate change, the general un-Scottishness of a post-nuclear "chernobyl style" disaster UK (most of Scottish people & many Welsh ones too would peel & die) the government of the UK has decided to approve new nuclear power plants. Because of the Scottish thing, their PM AlexSalmond has gone radge & insists not a single nuke will be build the Caledonian side of the border. Nobody remembers the name of the Welsh PM so all attention is on the Taoiseach to say something rousing. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday January 09, 2008 - 19:56 by wageslave
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Former CIA agent Philip Agee, a critic of U.S. foreign policy who infuriated American intelligence officials by naming purported agency operatives in a 1975 book, has died, state media reported Wednesday. He was 72. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice Wednesday January 09, 2008 - 19:14 by Concerned Group for Republican Prisoners
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I wish through your media outlet to bring attention to a grave injustice being perpetrated against an Irish Citizen by his own government, Noel Maguire is seeking repatriation back to Ireland from an English jail to serve the remainder of his sentence in the country of his birth and to be closer to his family. The refusal by the Irish government in accepting Noel’s application seems to be stripping him of his Irish Citizenship and the civil rights that are associated with it. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Wednesday January 09, 2008 - 14:40 by tomeile
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Another black American is running for President . Cynthia McKinney, a former Democrat from Georgia, was one of only three members of Congress to vote "yes" on a House Resolution in 2005 calling for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. One of her last acts in office was introducing Articles of Impeachment naming George Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice. With thousands of Afro-Americans still refugees in their own country following Hurricane Kathrina three years ago , McKinney is running on a reconstruction programme . She is demanding that the billions currently being spent on war should be used to address " .......the conditions of poverty, racism, and neglect that have existed since America's first Reconstruction Period after the Civil War." ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Wednesday January 09, 2008 - 12:01 by staring at rats
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Really quite a miscellany of human interest stories this one. Naples is notorious throughout Europe for its rubbish problem, which for many is blamed on the intransigence of the Comora or Napolitan mafia who sabotage every attempt to provide the city with incineration facilities. Over the Christmas the Italian military were sent into the city to clean up mountains of household waste which quite simply has nowhere to go. Today the Italian state has appointed a "garbage czar" to sort it out. Meanwhile the Peoples' Republic of China is to ban plastic bags in an attempt to stop pollution in its land. Very thought provoking. & there is a spat in Italy between a bishop and family members over plans to exhume & display the body of Padre Pio the patron saint of "January blues". ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday January 04, 2008 - 17:49 by Johnny H
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In mid December, the Connolly Youth Movement sent out the following message to all members of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, to raise awareness and solidarity about the situation in Mayo. ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Friday January 04, 2008 - 13:52 by Laura Broxson
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NEW AR WEBSITE ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday January 04, 2008 - 01:44 by Guy
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The Interior Ministry of Saudi Arabia confirmed yesterday that blogger Fouad Al-Farhan(32) has been arrested for interrogation. Fouad, who is a father of two young children has been critical of the Saudi regime. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights Thursday January 03, 2008 - 23:11 by Siobhan Higgins
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In 2006 Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN), Ireland's national grassroots animal protection group organized the first ever national stop cruelty to animals rally in Dublin. We were joined by huge numbers of our own members and supporters and were supported by many national animal rescue and respected protection groups who took time out of their busy schedule to be with us on December 10th 2006 to make a statement that cruelty to animals is not wanted here in Ireland. Our event was actually so successful and so well organized that it received headlines on literally every news paper and radio station across the country. The Irish Gardai congratulated ARAN on such a wonderful, peaceful and well organized event! We thank them also for their cooperation in the run up to our event. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Wednesday January 02, 2008 - 23:48 by JM
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[M]ovement for the Survival of Ogoni People [MOSOP] has accused Shell Petroleum Development Company [SPDC] of sabotaging oil pipelines in Ogoniland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Sunday December 30, 2007 - 19:07 by phlegm
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A recognised spokesperson for Al Qaeda has informed the global satelite TV network "GEO" that they were not involved in the assassination of Benazir Bhuttu which of course contradicts something or other which was like fact & brought lots of tippy toppy declarations with words in them until about one hour ago. gosh. Now that's Imran Aslam the president of GEO the telly most pakistanis watch once they leave Pakistan & can afford to share a telly with someone else or get a job with telly laid on. you'll want a link. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Friday December 28, 2007 - 22:02 by JM
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Just as top government officials are gathering in Bali for the UN Climate Change Conference comes news that carbon dioxide emissions at a new gas power plant in northern Norway are exceeding all limits. ... read full story / add a comment |
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