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international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday October 30, 2007 - 15:32 by pat c
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The Iraq Freedom Congress held its First Convention last week in Kirkurk. The IFC opposes both the Occupation of Iraq and the the sectarian Militias. The IFC slogans are "No Shiite ... No Sunni… ours is humanitarian identity" and "No to the occupation ... No to the sectarian gangs" On October 21, 2007 the first Convention of Iraq Freedom Congress was held in the city of Kirkuk, attended by many elected delegates who came from different provinces and cities of Iraq (Basra, Nasiriyah, Shatrah, Diwaniyah, Kut, Hashemite, Suwayrah, Numaniyah, Kifl, Hillah, Alexandria, Baghdad, Samarra, Tikrit, Bejee, Mosul and Kirkuk). The delegates were able to reach the conference hall despite the serious danger they could have faced on their way and the collapse of the security situation, such as booby-trapped cars, bombs and sectarian gangs. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday October 30, 2007 - 13:59 by Yassamine Mather
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Yassamine Mather in an article published in the Weekly Worker (25 Oct 07) deals with the growing threat of war against Iran. She also analyses developments amongst the Kurds and highlights how the Iraqi PUK are betraying other Kurds. If anyone is in any doubt about the level of the threat of war against Iran, I suggest they read the text of a speech by Tony Blair comparing “Iran’s extremism” to “rising fascism in the 1920s and 1930s” (Times Oct 19). Quiet clearly Blair has spent so much time in Israel that he repeats like a parrot the most stupid utterances of Israeli politicians - all this in line with the US administration’s plans for possible military attack against Iran and paving the way for more extensive sanctions. Worst of all for Iran’s leaders, Russian president Vladimir Putin, in Tehran for talks with the theocratic regime gave a stark warning that Russia will not oppose further sanctions and military strikes against Iran, unless it stopped its enrichment of nuclear-grade uranium. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday October 30, 2007 - 12:38 by pat c
Peter symonds reflects on the decision of the Bush Regime to brand the iranian Revolutionary Guards as a weapons proliferator and a supporter of terrorism. Who says irony is dead when the Bushistas come out with this kind of guff? Peter symonds also deals with the heightening tensions regarding nuclear power in Iran. The Bush administration’s unprecedented decision last week to brand the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a weapons proliferator and its Quds Force as a “supporter of terrorism” has heightened tensions with Tehran and undermined European efforts at negotiations, setting the stage for a US attack on Iran. While the White House still claims to be seeking a diplomatic solution to the current confrontation, a series of media articles have noted Washington’s increasingly bellicose rhetoric and warned that the US appears to have decided on military action against Iran. ... read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues Tuesday October 30, 2007 - 03:50 by Spailpin Fanach
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Bernadette Devlin McAliskey has criticized the exploitation of migrant children who work below the minimum wage producing cheap food. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 29, 2007 - 10:40 by gurggle
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The Dutch government have decided to ban shroom sales. But at least one hundred people gathered to save them Saturday last carrying colourful shroomie messages "When will they ban bread?" and "Boss of your own brain", they thus vowed to go on doing whatever it is they do to their brain. Amongst marchers were included the weighty psychedelic Arno Adelaars who criticised foreign tourists for getting pissed up on beer, gawking at prostitutes, stuffing their faces with hash cake & then thinking that's the time for a dose of psilicybin. Quite right. I agree. Rather than banning the shrooms they should ban the tourists. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-capitalism Saturday October 27, 2007 - 16:00 by Mick
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In today's Guardian, John Pilger flagellates the hypocrisy of the West when it comes to Burma : Condoleezza Rice comes to mind. "The United States," she said, "is determined to keep an international focus on the travesty that is taking place in Burma." What she is less keen to keep a focus on is that the huge American company, Chevron, on whose board of directors she sat, is part of a consortium with the junta and the French company, Total, that operates in Burma's offshore oilfields. The gas from these fields is exported through a pipeline that was built with forced labour and whose construction involved Halliburton, of which Vice-President Cheney was chief executive". ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Friday October 26, 2007 - 16:12 by SP Online
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The November 2007 issue of The Socialist (#29) is now online at the Socialist Party website. See below for contents. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday October 26, 2007 - 00:37 by Cogsy (M-L)
Statement from REVOLUTION National Council on the exclusion of HOPI and Communist Students from affiliation to Stop the War Coalition 21/10/07 ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday October 25, 2007 - 12:08 by Damien Moran
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international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday October 24, 2007 - 13:48 by Terence
Yes, you read that headline correctly! In a brilliant strike at the never ending hypocrisy of the US government, the new left wing President Rafael Correa of Ecuador said Washington must let him open a military base in Miami if the United States wants to keep using an air base on Ecuador's Pacific coast. The existing lease on the current US base in Ecuador expires in 2009. Now that this call has been made, the US govt will no doubt work hard to have him removed by then, as the base can surely be used for no other purposes than for their own self corporate interest. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Tuesday October 23, 2007 - 19:15 by C Murray
3 comments (last - friday october 26, 2007 - 11:18)
Our sports are tribal with The Rebel County being one that comes to mind but our constituency boundaries are being changed and the geographers along with the Political commentators have begun questioning the wisdoms of the Reform Commission. I have garnered Little except that Dun Laoighre is to lose a seat and areas of Limerick will be moved into a Kerry North Constituency, which to honest sounds confusing. There is a big constituency to be created in the North Western Region and Leitrim is effected, according to the I.T commentator Leitrim will not return a TD. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday October 23, 2007 - 14:56 by guild of assassins
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Michele Fabiani, 20 yrs, Andrea Di Nucci, 20yrs, Dario Polinori, 21yrs, Damiano Corrias, 25yrs, and Fabrizio Reali Roscini, at 42 years of age have become the latest people described by Italian commercial media as "linked to the Federazione anarchica informale" to be arrested under article 270 (b) of the Italian criminal code. That's the one that makes it illegal to organise a group for national or international terrorist acts and the subversion of the democratic order. At first glance we're talking about 2 young women and 2 young men & one 42 year old. Maybe the auld-fellah uses mosturiser. Though I doubt it, but at that first glance we might presume on the scant data available at the moment that he'll be termed a "ringleader" of this "informal anarchist federation group". But since I myself (who has never used mosturiser) am closer in years too 42 than 20 - I suggest this story be considered as an update on the ongoing oppression of social movements & black block anti-system types in Italy. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday October 23, 2007 - 12:37 by pat c
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The Iraq Freedom Congress rejects the right of the US Senate to decide the destiny of the Iraqi nation. The IFC also make their own case against partition. The United States Senate have adopted a resolution in which partitioning of Iraq to regional federalism is proposed. This decision comes after more than four years of virtually dividing Iraq (legally, constitutionally and politically) to wards. Since the occupation of Iraq; the Governing Council and all successive governments were established based on sectarianism and ethnicity after enacting a constitution that paved the way for this division. What is taking place today, such as the conflict at the highest level of the political power in Iraq and the killing of thousands of innocent people by militia groups who are wrestling among each other throughout the recent years, is a clear expression of each group's intention to obtain a greater share of power, influence and wealth based on the aforementioned division. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Tuesday October 23, 2007 - 11:38 by Iseult
The Border Arts Centre has a call for 2 Artists in Association. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 22, 2007 - 17:03 by Sean
Award winning journalist and documentary maker, John Pilger marks the European release of Michael Moore's latest film, Sicko, with an examination of why the documentary film-maker exerts such influence, with fans and enemies alike. "In societies ruled by an invisible government of media," he writes, "no one has broken through like Moore, who breaks every rule by reporting from the ground up, instead of from the top down." ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday October 22, 2007 - 16:22 by Erich Muehsam
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Here is a report of yet another murderous attack on a worker activist by the Iranian State forces. Trade Unionists in Iran deserve our support in their struggle for the right to form unions. On Thursday, October 18, at 9:00 AM in Sanandaj in Iran, 3 plain clothes agents who had covered their faces attempted to assassinate Majid Hamidi a labour activists in Sanandaj. Mr. Hamidi is a member of the Coordinating Committee to Form Workers’ Organization as well as a member of the Committee in Defence of Mahmoud Salehi. Reports by the two above organizations, indicate that Mr. Hamidi was shot 7 times in the arm, shoulder and neck. Friends and neighbors immediately took Mr. Hamidi to the Sanandaj’s hospital and he was transferred to Tehran for surgery. According to the Committee in Defence of Mahmoud Salehi, Mr. Hamidi himself has said that this is the least price workers and labour activists have to pay in Iran to achieve their demands and rights. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday October 21, 2007 - 02:23 by anon
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ACLU V Jeppesen In July 2002, Ethiopian citizen Binyam Mohamed, while in CIA custody, was stripped, blindfolded, shackled, dressed in a tracksuit, strapped to the seat of a plane and flown to Morocco where he was secretly detained for 18 months and interrogated and tortured by Moroccan intelligence services. 238. Flight records from July 2002 confirm that the Gulfstream V jet aircraft owned and operated by Premier Executive Transportation Services (“PETS”) and Aero Contractors Limited (“ACL”) departed Islamabad, Pakistan on July 21, 2002 at 5:35 p.m. and arrived in Rabat, Morocco, the next morning, July 22, 2002 at 3:42 a.m. before departing Rabat an hour later, at 4:44 a.m., for Shannon, Ireland, arriving there at 7:21 a.m. Then departing on 23rd to Dulles Washington and then on to Johnston County NC. http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/29920prs20070530.html ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday October 20, 2007 - 11:02 by Alden Pyle
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Tony Blair ,the UN’s peace envoy to the Middle-East has issued a stern warning on the rise of Islamo–fascism. Speaking at a charity event in New York last Thursday night Mr Blair addressed the danger Iran posed to peaceful countries in the Middle-east and beyond. He told the audience at the $1000 - a -head dinner that the world faces a situation which he compared to the “ rising tide of fascism in the 1920s”. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7052080.stm ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Saturday October 20, 2007 - 01:22 by obit
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Neither you nor I are alphabet soup. We are not numbers. Genetics is not new nor really that literal. One of the two men who presented a molecular modeling of DNA/NDA & got a Nobel prize for it back in 1962 has been suspended from his place of work. It is fitting that since he was one of the "beginners" of "genetics", Dr James Watson had better explain to you the utility of his discovery. He has not passed that test in his last 45 years. His latest assertions that intelligence may be compared between "whomever he thinks he speaks for when he says" := "us" and whatever he means by "black" are being pruned out of what we considered civilised ¡ normal now even though Watson in both his science and comments remains so loyal to 45 years ago. And all his public pilloring is happening just before you get to ask him how smart he thinks orientals are. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Friday October 19, 2007 - 12:42 by halowe'en decorations
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New York Times :- .........."The Supreme Court has granted two stays of execution and refused to vacate a third in the three weeks since it agreed to hear a challenge to Kentucky’s use of lethal injection. On Thursday, the Georgia Supreme Court became the latest state court to interpret the justices’ actions as a signal to suspend at least some executions. It granted a stay to Jack Alderman, who had been scheduled to die by lethal injection Friday night for murdering his wife 33 years ago. The top criminal court in Texas, a state that accounts for 405 of the 1,099 executions carried out in this country since 1976, has indicated that it will permit no more executions until the Supreme Court rules, sometime next spring..........." ... read full story / add a comment |
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