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international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday January 22, 2008 - 14:14 by tom eile
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Five of Nato’s top strategists have issued a” radical manifesto” urging the alliance’s member states to prepare for nuclear first strikes in order to counter fanatics who , they claim , are bent on destroying the West’s “way of life” . The vehement language of the manifesto has puzzled some commentators . Robert Cooper, an influential shaper of European foreign and security policy in Brussels is quoted in the Guardian article as saying "Maybe we are going to use nuclear weapons before anyone else, but I'd be wary of saying it out loud." The 150 page manifesto will be delivered to the Pentagon over the next ten days . It is issued at a time of crisis for NATO whose conventional forces face the prospect of defeat in Afghanistan . According to the Guardian, it was written following discussions with active NATO commanders and policymakers, many of whom are unable or unwilling to publicly air their views. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Tuesday January 22, 2008 - 09:49 by phlegm
"Spiegel" the German magazine has published an interview conducted by Erich Follath and Susanne Koelbl in Islamabad with Musharref of Pakistan to mark his current visit to Europe. At the link you can read its english translation. The assassination of Bhutto, the nuclear arsenal get mentions whereas cricket don't. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday January 22, 2008 - 09:40 by David Manning & Miriam Cotton
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Dahr Jamail is scathing about Western media coverage of the war in Iraq. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday January 21, 2008 - 07:56 by reabhloid dearg
An Glor Issue 9 News sheet of the Republican Socialist Youth Movement ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Sunday January 20, 2008 - 21:12 by spoor
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A certain hysteria has it certain sectors of Spanish & Catalan public opinion following the arrests of 14 suspected Islamist terrorists in the city of Barcelona between Friday night & Saturday morning. In an operation involving the Spanish secret service (the CNI) the Guardia Civil & local regional Catalan police (Mossos d'esquadra) co-ordinated raids made on a bakery, mosque & several flats in the Raval district of central Barcelona. Immediately news services both in the Spanish state & abroad cited further co-operation with amongst others the intelligence services of France & the UK. The Spanish state will celebrate a general election on the 9th of March almost 4 years after the M11 massacre which was falsely attributed to ETA by the then right wing regime. Nobody wants to talk about bombs now - but we should all the same. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday January 20, 2008 - 16:15 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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Following our recent efforts to stage solidarity vigils with the NVDA in D.C. to Shutdown Guantanamo, I received the sad news that Peter McGregor died on the J11 day of actions.I had been in regular email contact with Peter leading up to the J11 actions - the 6th.anniversary of Guantanamo's opening. Peter was organising in his hometown of Newcastle, Australia. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Sunday January 20, 2008 - 13:56 by Cedar1
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Analysis of the Green Party's decision yesterday on Lisbon published on the Cedar Lounge Revolution. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Saturday January 19, 2008 - 00:40 by JM
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Environmental activists filed a federal lawsuit today against Shell Oil on behalf of citizens, saying state and federal environmental officials have failed to enforce the Clean Air Act at the company's Deer Park plant. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Friday January 18, 2008 - 20:49 by Joe
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The US puppet government in Iraq, headed by Nouri al-Maliki reinstituted the death penalty in 2004. Since then, they have carried out executions under the watchful eye of the United States, itself a country which kills its own citizens every year. This state sponsored murder in Iraq and the United States is however dwarfed by Communist China, where thousands are killed every year. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Friday January 18, 2008 - 12:32 by Fu manchu
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Tara Brabazon is Professor of Media Studies a the University of Brighton and Director of the Popular Culture Collective. She's an author of a few bits & bobs on internet use, media culture & is building quite a profile for herself for attacking Google & Wikipedia claiming that they undermine educational & didactic processes & more than Harry Potter actively contribute to turning our kids brains (& minds) to utter mushy shite. Thing is, her arguments are proving to interest & influence far beyond the generally airified chitchat discussions of Media Studies university departments. Today's "Liberation" the French leftwing daily reports how the "Just say No to Wikipedia!" stickers are appearing across the USA in high schools as well as public amenity libraries. The cultural link with Nancy Reagan's "Just say no to Drugs!" ought be obvious. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Friday January 18, 2008 - 10:37 by Fu manchu
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2 years ago before Sarah Green worked in education, she accepted a job offer from a model & casting agency in Manchester (UK). The resulting video to promote "Hardwear" durable clothing for building sites & other intensive labour work garnered a few prizes on the film circuit. & then most likely Ms Green forgot all about it. That is till her teenage students at the Stockport Grammar School (an independent or private school in England) not only discovered the video clip whilst trawling Youtube for erotica, but let their parents know about it too. She's now been suspended from her work & 21,000p.a. salary. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday January 17, 2008 - 14:53 by Joe
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Last year more than 40 people in the United States were killed by the barbaric Lethal Injection and one by the even more barbaric electrocution. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday January 17, 2008 - 13:20 by Davy Carlin
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Now - ‘Arise from your slumber. ... read full story / add a comment 
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 |
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