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national / miscellaneous Sunday August 12, 2007 - 02:30 by Rav
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The Sunday Tribune has slowly but surely ceased to be a quality 'News' paper. Media baron Sir Tony may own just a minority share but he's the only one paying all the Sunday Tribune's salaries and bills. Which explains why it shamelessly, just a fortnight ago, poked a five-page dig at O'Reilly's corporate rival Denis O'Brien who is trying to take over Sir Anto's INM. The Sunday Tribune has deceptively swapped good news reporting for opinion and cheaply-found tabloid stories of human interest.... as expected O'Brien came away without even a bruise. A few months ago the Sunday Tribune published a document alleging serious wrongdoing at construction and insurance billionaire Sean Quinn's Quinn-Direct company. Quinn has sued....... it now looks like Sir Anthony may need the bandages!!!!!! (see Irish Times story below) ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday August 12, 2007 - 00:40 by redjade
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One potential Irish solution for those EU Roma in Ireland.... joke. ... read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues Sunday August 12, 2007 - 00:01 by iosaf
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Even the most casual of Irish news cyber-surfer will have caught yet another one of those photo-opportunities of First minister minister doctor right honourable Ian the big mon Paisley of little Ulster stroking the tail-fin of an Aer Lingus model plane this week. He was chuffed because his new government had just managed to strip Shannon airport of all its remaining christian traffic & good travellers & convince Aer Lingus to reschedule its Heathrow flights from Shannon to Belfast. Oh well that has brought ecumenical flavour and colaboration to the Sunday Homily and Sermon circuit of Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Friday August 10, 2007 - 20:48 by Moscow News Reader
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In a story from the Moscow News today, the deputy head of Russia's environmental agency denied that Shell had tried to bribe him by offering him fifty million dollars. He wanted to state clearly that he couldn't say for sure that it was Shell, only that "someone" had tried to arrange a meeting with him in Switzerland to discuss the possibility of suspending enviromental checks on the Sakhalin project. No actual amount of money was mentioned either. So that's clear then. It all brings to mind our own Frank Fahy, a former teacher who has managed to amass a huge property portfolio. Didn't Frank have some Moscow links of his own at one stage? see also www.indymedia.ie/article/76360 ... read full story / add a comment
offaly / anti-war / imperialism Friday August 10, 2007 - 15:31 by Mary P.
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger skewers "good 'ol Bill" (Clinton) where an "audience" with him during his forthcoming visit to London will cost up to £799 a head. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday August 07, 2007 - 13:59 by redjade
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US Teamsters Union organising US Military transport airliner Omni Air. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday August 03, 2007 - 01:36 by John McAnulty
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In June this year the socialist unity magazine ‘Red Banner’ split, with the ‘Editorial board’ announcing that the magazine was ceasing publication and a new publication was planned, and an ‘Editorial collective’ announcing that publication will continue. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday August 02, 2007 - 20:33 by Global Women's Strike
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An extraordinary community-teacher movement has been unfolding in Oaxaca, one of Mexico’s poorest, mostly Indigenous states. For months, 1.5 million people out of a population of 3.7 million have been on strike, have marched, held sit-ins and occupied radio and TV stations, to protest electoral fraud and the most violent repression Oaxaca state has ever seen. Women – teachers, housewives, students and others – have been prominent throughout. All sectors – priests, nuns, vendors, nurses, environmentalists and other professionals … are involved. .. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday August 02, 2007 - 10:56 by HMMMM
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TWO Israeli-made robot spy planes are to be used by the Defence Forces for surveillance missions after the country won a tender competition to supply the hi-tech aircraft. ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Wednesday August 01, 2007 - 11:04 by Greenie
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The government has announced a new tax for oil and gas finds ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 01, 2007 - 09:21 by Cathar
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Is Ireland now considered part of Nato as an Irish General takes over a key NATO post in Kosovo ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday July 31, 2007 - 17:06 by Green anti-Militarist
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There seems to be some principles left within the Green party, still. Below is the text of a letter published in the Irish Times and Irish Examiner today. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday July 31, 2007 - 16:50 by Clive Sullish
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According to a report published by the Bank of Ireland, there are now more millionaires per head of the population in our little republic than in the USA. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Monday July 30, 2007 - 19:40 by Cross Pollinator/Obit
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This is a C+P from the London and UK indymedia Service. It is over two years since Jean Charles De Menzes was shot dead in London. http://justice4jean.com ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday July 30, 2007 - 12:26 by pat c
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Yes, as far as the main stream media was concerned it never happened. It was only a Palestinian journalist who shot by the Israelis. He was then shot twice more by IDF members as he lay injured on the ground. Oh, and 11 palestinians were shot dead by the IDF that day; maybe it got a paragragh somewhere. Full story at link. "It never happened..." John Pilger One of the leaders of demonstrations in Gaza calling for the release of the BBC reporter Alan Johnston was a Palestinian news cameraman, Imad Ghanem. On 5 July, he was shot by Israeli soldiers as he filmed them invading Gaza. A Reuters video shows bullets hitting his body as he lay on the ground. An ambulance trying to reach him was also attacked. The Israelis described him as a "legitimate target". The International Federation of Journalists called the shooting "a vicious and brutal example of deliberate targeting of a journalist". At the age of 21, he has had both legs amputated. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Friday July 27, 2007 - 11:24 by rt Hon Dr O as if
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Maybe the pigeons are coming home to roost after all.., This morning the former prime minister of France & one top dauphin of Chirac faced his first grilling in relation to allegations that he (& others in the DGSE) bugged Sarkozy, smeared Sarkozy & all to hide their role in the biggest corruption scandal in modern history - "the clearstream affair". In the last years of Chirac's presidency I found myself writing quite a bit about Dominique de Villepin the man whom I gave the dubious honour of calling the Dev of our age a man who alas thought to stop a scandal which involves over twenty times the budget of the Irish state getting out of the big shoeboxes they keep for that sort of money with lots of zeros on the end. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Wednesday July 25, 2007 - 22:01 by iosaf .:. ipsiphi
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The title of this story might intrigue some and put others off but I can think of no other way to report on the mass media news spin which Spanish people & then various westerners learnt today of the charges of treason brought against a former employee of the Spanish secret service. As we must have noticed by now, things are changing on the geopolitical stage & media manipulation as much as exposure is increasingly pointing to the end of any entente between the former Soviet Union or its citizens and NATO or its dependents. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday July 25, 2007 - 10:51 by Yassamine Mather
This article is based on a speech given by Yassamine Mather of Workers Left Unity Iran at a Marxism 2007 fringe meeting. It explores the position socialists should take in light of both US aggression towards Iran and the Iranian Regimes onslaught against the working class of Iran. Anti-imperialism and Tehran Every day the media publish unattributed briefings by US generals and Pentagon sources regarding Iran’s connections to Al Qa’eda, the Taliban and various other terror groups. Most of the media briefings contain no details of substance and many simply repeat previous accusations. However, they are undoubtedly intended to keep tensions ratcheted up, and there is no doubt that the danger of an extension of the current sanctions against Tehran and of limited military action by the US or Israel is very real... ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Tuesday July 24, 2007 - 15:37 by wolfie
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Biofuels have been touted as the way to go facing fossil fuel shortages and global warming.The reality is that they are leading to higher food prices for the worlds poor and to degradation of the environment. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday July 24, 2007 - 14:15 by Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL)
A dismal failure! This is the verdict of workers belonging to the Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) as they slammed the Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) administration ahead of her State of the Nation Address (SONA) for its consistent failure to clip the jobs crisis. ... read full story / add a comment |
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