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international / anti-capitalism Monday February 11, 2008 - 18:39 by Miriam
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The British, Dutch and other court's have awarded the voracious Exxon Mobil a first round victory in a court decision which may lead to a savaging of Venezuelan investment in social programmes the benefit the poorest and most needy in that country. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday February 11, 2008 - 10:35 by ET
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Jose Ramos Horte was a frequent visitor to Ireland as an exiled activist. These days he is the President of East Timor. He was shot in the last 24 hours. Operated on by the Australian military in Dili, he has been flown to Darwin. See link..... ... read full story / add a comment 
international / consumer issues Saturday February 09, 2008 - 18:00 by Care-Giver
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''Women in Saudi Arabia are willing to buy your cars. But you need first to to support the campaign to allow women to drive cars. Write to your government officials make the non- governmental organisations aware, inform the parliament members in your countries about the status of women in Saudi Arabia' ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Saturday February 09, 2008 - 16:36 by R.
Robert Fisk "interviewed from his home in Ireland" gives a brief interview on the USA's NPR (national public radio) program "Weekend Edition" of Saturday 9th February 2008. A biography of Saddam Hussein purportedly written by Robert Fisk has been circulating in Eqypt. Fisk describes his tracking down of the author and the amusing denouement that follows. Not very important, lightly interesting. ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / anti-war / imperialism Saturday February 09, 2008 - 13:13 by Fanny
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In his 28th Jan 2008, column for the New Statesman, John Pilger with withering outrage attacks the "ritual danse macabre" that is the US presidential election : Barack Obama is a glossy Uncle Tom who would bomb Pakistan. Hillary Clinton, another bomber, is anti-feminist. John McCain’s one distinction is that he has personally bombed a country. They all believe the US is not subject to the rules of human behaviour ... ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Friday February 08, 2008 - 20:12 by C Murray
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This is a short piece in general response to queries received regarding the setting up of sites on existing available free open software systems. There are many women's groups currently developing tech and doing road shows for women who wish to focus their community voices onto IMC type systems. This is in response to a developing awareness of a need within women's political communities for 'a room of one's own' to work on issues and themes that never quite make the radar. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday February 08, 2008 - 16:24 by Miriam
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Over a million dead Iraqis, several thousand US soldiers killed in action, several thousands more soldiers dead by suicide, an even great number of soldiers maimed and disabled. All those lives for non existent weapons of mass destruction and a false allegation of links between Iraq and Al Qaeda - yet George Bush thinks it is funny. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday February 08, 2008 - 15:15 by pat c
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Yassamine Mather of Hands Off the People of Iran faced pro-war journalist Nick Cohen of The Observer in London’s Soho Theatre on January 29. There are links below to an artiocle about the debate and to an mp3 of the proceedings. Yassamine said the peoples of Iran have no wish to be a pariah on the international scene and have a deep antipathy to the theocracy, they also do not want their country to be “humiliated - either by sanctions or air strikes”. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage Friday February 08, 2008 - 03:22 by anarchaeologist
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Photographs of Frank Ryan, Pat Read and other volunteers of the XV International Brigade are now on line at the link below. Thanks to the Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library in New York.
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international / miscellaneous Friday February 08, 2008 - 01:03 by obit
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Mahesh Prasad Varma (Srivastava) died on February 5, 2008, at approximately 7:00 p.m. less than month after he retired from public life on the 11th of January 2008. He shall be remembered for being the first eastern guru to embrace pop culture in the form of "The Beatles" & extended sitar lessons to George Harrison. His influence on western culture can not be underestimated. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, spiritual leader and businessman, is thought to have been born on January 12 1917. He died on February 5, 2008, aged about 91. He invented TM or "transcendental meditation" & founded the "natural law party" famous for its regular demonstrations of yogic flying. His organisation spanned the globe & its real estate holdings include islands in Ireland. The Beatles made him famous, "The Doors" first met at one of his gigs. NASA sent the Beatles' song "Across the Universe" into space the same day he died. We hopefully will not see his like again. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday February 07, 2008 - 16:10 by tomeile
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The Irish media coverage of the fire which killed nine people of Turkish origin in the German city Ludwigshafen last weekend focused mostly on the image of a baby thrown from a window to be caught by a heroic firefighter . The Turkish media has however concentrated on the possible involvement of xenophobic and Islamophobic elements in starting the blaze. The Turkish ambassador to Germany said it was strange that German politicians had ruled out such involvement before police had established the cause. Turkish State Minister Mustafa Said Yazicioglu met German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble in Ankara on Monday to ask for a full investigation saying : “Islamophobia spread because several incidents after September 11th attacks were exaggerated thus racist incidents emerged, and all these brought an unpleasant situation for Turks in Germany.” ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 07, 2008 - 14:15 by Joe
On December 11, one of the Arab world's top bloggers Fouad Al-Farhan was arrested by the Saudi Interior Ministry. A successful hi-tech entrepreneur, Fouad was arrested at his office and his computers seized. He was detained after refusing to apologize for blog posts criticizing Saudi officials. Fouad remains held in an undisclosed location. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights Thursday February 07, 2008 - 14:01 by staring at goats
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"......The British Ministry of Defence says it will abandon deep-diving experiments which involve inducing decompression sickness in live goats. The animals were used to see what the likely risk of "the bends" would be following escape from a submarine at varying depths under water. The information would help crews judge whether it would be safer to abandon a stricken vessel or wait to be rescued. Animal rights campaigners say the move will "end decades of animal suffering". More than 400 such experiments have taken place since 2000. However, the tests were suspended in March 2007 while a review committee of six experts examined alternative methods, such as computer-modelling techniques to simulate the effects of the "bends". Now the UK MoD says there is no further need for the animal testing......." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday February 07, 2008 - 11:47 by Miriam Cotton
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Letter in today's Guardian about how these two vultures are squawking for a slice of the blood-soaked action. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 07, 2008 - 06:46 by Avila TV
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Venezuela suffered a Coup d'Etat in april 11 of 2002. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Wednesday February 06, 2008 - 18:39 by C Murray
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/feb2008/spai-f06.shtml The first abortion rights issue that I was involved in was a press-statement forwarded by some polish activists who asked for dissemination of a petition to do with an amalgamation of three far right parties which included the LPR, PiS and another group. They had hoped to change the Polish constitution (article 38) to 'protect life from the moment of conception'. During the ensuing parliamentary debate and rucus, the tri-partite union who had attempted to force the issue down throats split ;and Poland was found in breach of Human Rights Articles in relation to the Alicia Tysiac case. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday February 06, 2008 - 01:14 by +
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The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has long been on of the most trustworthy & respected research resources for people who like to count Scud missiles & stuff like that. In addition to "stuff like that", they do pretty good analysis too & not for nothing have they been ranked in the top 30 most influential think-tank entities on the planet. But most people who use this site don't pay attention to think-tanks & probably wouldn't even notice if they were floating like Tom Cruise in a tank having a think about how bad & evil the arms trade is for the good reason they didn't get the right degrees or recruited by the appropriate sort of shadowy agencies in their youth. Thankfully SIPRI has now decided to offer a lot of its information not only for free, but in a format & language. In short - (for I know no other way) I introduce you to the website " Armsflow ". ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Tuesday February 05, 2008 - 12:24 by C Murray
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Ronald Brooke Kitaj, Painter and Writer born in Cleveland 1932- died 2007. RB Kitaj- Diasporist Artist and Magician. He wrote in 1989 a book which was entitled 'The First Diasporist Manifesto', it was sold along with catalogues that accompanied his Retrospective at the Tate Gallery. A further book entitled :- The Second Diasporist Manifesto' was later published by Yale. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday February 04, 2008 - 12:40 by Michelle Crawley
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Ryanair Profits Plummett amid market fears ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 03, 2008 - 19:29 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
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A Danish documentary crew working for the national TV channel DR1 has detailed the movements of CIA aircraft that have repeatedly transited in Greenland and flown through Danish airspace in connection with the covert agency's widely condemned programme of abduction and torture. Having gained access to flight plans, duty payments, hotel registrations, catering invoices and crew lists, the documentary shows that the Greenlandic airport Narsarsuaq has played a particularly prominent role in the so-called "extraordinary renditions" programme. In a related development, DR's news programme this evening reports us that the Icelandic customs authorities have begun to search all international flights, in response to media coverage of shady CIA transits. ... read full story / add a comment |
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