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offsite link The Saker blog is now frozen Tue Feb 28, 2023 23:55 | The Saker
Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.? We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).?

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

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offsite link The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
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offsite link Cooking the Books: Why You Just Can?t Trust the Annual Bestseller Lists Anymore Sun Jan 12, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
The New York Times Bestseller list is "pure propaganda", says Elon Musk. The newspaper even admitted in court it is "editorial content", not factual. But what about the Sunday Times version? Steven Tucker investigates.
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offsite link News Round-Up Sun Jan 12, 2025 01:23 | Will Jones
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Top Journal: Scientists Should Be More, Not Less, Political Sat Jan 11, 2025 17:00 | Noah Carl
Science, nominally the most prestigious scientific journal in the world, is at it again. In November, they published an editorial saying that scientists need to be even more political than they already are.
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offsite link BlackRock Quits Net Zero Asset Managers Under Republican Pressure Sat Jan 11, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, is abandoning the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative after coming under pressure from Republican politicians over its support for woke climate policies.
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offsite link The Appalling Treatment of Covid Vaccine Whistleblower Dr. Byram Bridle Sat Jan 11, 2025 13:00 | Dr Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson
Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson write about the appalling treatment of Covid vaccine whistleblower Dr Byram Bridle, the Canadian immunologist who was removed from duties for raising the alarm about the vaccine.
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dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Tuesday November 27, 2007 - 10:50 by Stephen O Regan   text 60 comments (last - saturday march 01, 2008 - 10:44)
Coverage of the Bin Tax Protest held outside City Hall last night (Nov 26 2007). ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday November 26, 2007 - 16:50 by Aragon   text 1 comment (last - monday november 26, 2007 - 17:05)
If predictions by Professor Nouriel Roubini, of the Stern School of Economics are correct - and some say he is the most accurate predictor of world economic perofrmance - then the world is in for a very rough ride for the forseeable future. The capitalist glutton fest of the last 15 years is about to catch up - and guess who is going to have to pay for it all? ... read full story / add a comment
Maryam Hosseinkhah
international / gender and sexuality Monday November 26, 2007 - 16:50 by Dorothy Gale   text 8 comments (last - monday january 21, 2008 - 15:02)   image 4 images
Maryam Hosseinkhah wrote this article in Evin Prison. Maryam was arrested on November 17 in relation to her activities and writings in defense of equal rights for women. On the 18th, a very high bail order was issued in her case. Maryam couldnt meet it and she was committed to Evin Prison.

This is prison; the women's ward of Evin prison. This is not my first time here; not the first time I've come to Evin. The first time, I came here as a journalist. Alongside the warden, I walked from cell to cell to listen to the stories of women who were here on charges of addiction, prostitution and murder. ... read full story / add a comment
Reza Dehghan.
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday November 26, 2007 - 15:58 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - thursday december 06, 2007 - 15:58)   image 1 image
This is an appeal for support for the imprisoned Iranian TU Activist Reza Dehghan. Messages of support should be sent to: [email protected]

Reza Dehghan, a labour activist and a member of the Founding Committee of the Syndicate of Building 's Painters and Decoration's Workers have been arrested and incarcerated since November 18, 2007. The following letter to international labour organization has been sent by the founding Committee on November 25, 2007.

This is to inform you that Reza Dehghan, labor activist and founding member of painters union in Iran has been detained by the Iranian security forces with no regard to legal procedures without producing any court summon nor informing him, his family or any one about his charges. ... read full story / add a comment
Plan Mexico!
international / crime and justice Sunday November 25, 2007 - 11:01 by Frieda   text 2 comments (last - sunday december 16, 2007 - 14:09)   image 2 images
The Illustration is of a Frida Kahlo painting.Her dress, which was part of the identity that
she assumed as a campaigner and as a Mexican woman hung between the borders of
the Juggernaut America (Henry Ford's Vision) and Mexico as a sustainable and unique
country. Unfortunately Diego did work for Ford and Kahlo died after contracting Pneumonia
fighting the barricades after the CIA overthrew Guatemala. (in a wheelchair).

Bush is of course using FTAs to re-absorb Central and South American States, and he is
blithely installing dictators such as Ulises Ruis, Felip Calderon to accomplish food and
drug supply chains to the USA. ... read full story / add a comment
The waxing - arrivals
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday November 25, 2007 - 05:14 by Seán Ryan   text 8 comments (last - saturday december 15, 2007 - 06:34)   image 2 images
Planes used by CIA war criminals in their illegal rendition program have landed all over Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism Saturday November 24, 2007 - 18:19 by caz
First Thursday Film Night at CAZ ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday November 24, 2007 - 16:42 by Aragon   text 37 comments (last - friday november 28, 2008 - 14:39)
Mary Harney cannot convincingly deny the serious conflict of interest that exists between her role as Minister for Health and the business interests of her husband Brian Geoghegan, Chairman of the consultancy firm MRPA Kinman.
... read full story / add a comment
Sharef
international / crime and justice Saturday November 24, 2007 - 11:09 by Chris Murray   text 5 comments (last - monday december 17, 2007 - 13:57)   image 2 images

To mark the 16 day Against Violence Campaign and to collate varied threads on the newswire
with regard to anti-violence in other cultures and In this country, I am publishing the Campaign
Letter from The Progressive Centre for Women Equalisation Studies and Research.
http://www.pcwesr.org

So far in Ireland Women's Aid have been on the airwaves and a small campaign has
stood outside the Dail to commerorate the 137 murdered women: victims of Domestic
Abuse. the families have not received either satisfactory answers nor feel that the issues
raised are being adequately addressed. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday November 22, 2007 - 22:00 by Kevin H   text 54 comments (last - sunday december 16, 2007 - 09:42)
A well liked and respected priest from Erris has stated “To use a phrase beloved of Shell to Sea supporters, there is no ‘community consent’ for the badgering of the Gardaí as they seek to maintain the rule of democratic law at the gates of Bellanaboy”
... read full story / add a comment
Sahsa Litvinenko
international / history and heritage Thursday November 22, 2007 - 16:27 by Salesian   text 8 comments (last - saturday november 24, 2007 - 19:06)   image 1 image
Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned by agents of the Russian Government and died a year ago on November 23rd 2006.

... read full story / add a comment
Karyn Harty
dublin / crime and justice Thursday November 22, 2007 - 13:38 by Domhain Sceadaman   image 1 image
Gorgeous, Pouting, Karyn Harty revealed on RTE radio tonight that she had never met her latest client, the writer Justine Delaney Wilson. Why is this important? Read on.
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international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday November 21, 2007 - 11:30 by Terence   text 9 comments (last - tuesday december 04, 2007 - 09:52)   image 1 image
In an article published today titled: Coup D'Etat Rumblings in Venezuela , it has been revealed that one of the world's most feared, well funded and deadly terrorists groups, the CIA and their sponsors in the White House and Wall Street, are planing yet another assassination attempt on Chavez. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Tuesday November 20, 2007 - 17:33 by Michael Nugent   text 4 comments (last - friday november 23, 2007 - 21:57)   image 1 image
This video highlights just fifty of the many Fianna Fail scandals that have hit the headlines since Bertie Ahern became Party Leader in December 1994. This sheer volume of continuous scandals - some serious, some more trivial - has now become almost helpful to Fianna Fail, because we have now become so desensitised to scandals that we just accept them as the normal state of affairs. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday November 20, 2007 - 14:27 by Jim Miles
An interesting review:of Treacherous Alliance – the secret dealings of Israel, Iran and the United States By Trita Parsi. Yale University Press, New Haven. 2007 by Jim Miles.

As the prospects of a limited ‘strike’ or a full out attack on Iran become more and more familiar in the media, and as the end date for the Bush-Cheney regime in the United States draws ever nearer to its close, a better understanding of the tripartite relationship between Iran, Israel, and the U.S. requires a strong presentation of the underlying so far verbal conflict between the three governments. Trita Parsi succeeds in this goal in Treacherous Alliance, in which he discusses the relationship between the three. ... read full story / add a comment
Dennis O Driscoll
national / arts and media Tuesday November 20, 2007 - 11:44 by C Murray   text 1 comment (last - thursday november 22, 2007 - 23:08)   image 1 image
" Yet we have an understanding with the weather:
Whenever squalls end and sun returns with
Friendly fire, we would forgive it anything"

(From 'Skywriting' )

'Reality Check' was launched on the Fourth of September 2007 in the Royal College of Surgeons
and it was nice to see the luminaries and the establishment having to queue and snake through
the room to get their copy signed (!)

The book is in two sections, the first 17 short poems and series ;and the second is a beautiful
long poem called 'Skywriting' which is all about light and the sun threading his way over
our Irish map.

... read full story / add a comment
Rath Lugh Mappie
national / arts and media Sunday November 18, 2007 - 18:56 by Tara Support   text 7 comments (last - wednesday november 21, 2007 - 20:46)   image 5 images
This is a message from the good People at sacredireland.org:-

"A photo competition to show your idea of the most beautiful hidden feature of the Gabhra
Valley or surrounding area... Rainbow weather is imminent so for those special pics..."

The list of prizes and details of the photosize etcetera can be had from:-

[email protected]

... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday November 18, 2007 - 17:52 by Aragon   text 14 comments (last - sunday january 27, 2013 - 15:48)   image 1 image
Survey puts the true death toll of US service personnel at 15,000 ... read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday November 17, 2007 - 16:52 by Archie Heron   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 13, 2007 - 11:22)   image 2 images
An International week in solidarity with Iranian Workers is being organised for November 24-30, 2007. This action is support of the Iranian People and against the Capitalist Iranian Government but is also against the US Capitalist Warmongers.

The recent wave of oppression against activists of workers' organizations in Iran and other social movements is not a new incident but a routine practice of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI). This wave of repression nevertheless has caused the radicalization and development of class-based labour protests. These conditions have jeopardized the entirety of Islamic Republic of Iran. Social and economic crises are rapidly escalating. It is a proven fact that the promises of the capitalist regime of Iran are false and that this regime has brought nothing but the continuous oppression of working people. This regime has caused ever-increasing poverty and misery for working class. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday November 17, 2007 - 13:39 by Miriam   text 12 comments (last - monday december 24, 2007 - 00:58)   image 1 image
Nauseating discussion between two war criminals. At least the public are not buying it according to a Times poll. ... read full story / add a comment
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