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international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday December 25, 2005 - 06:28 by cleaves
Bush is furious that patriot/s who still hold the values and laws of the USA sacrosanct, leaked the story of illegal bugging and surveillance to the media. The American Fuhrer’s indignation equals that of his historical Nazi counterpart. How dare someone expose the ‘commander and chief’ for the criminal that he really is! ... read full story / add a comment
Uighurs live in Xinjiang Province
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday December 25, 2005 - 02:35 by redjade   text 7 comments (last - wednesday january 25, 2006 - 15:03)   image 4 images
two ethnic Uighurs at the U.S. prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba need a home ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 22, 2005 - 20:30 by R. Isible   text 2 comments (last - monday december 26, 2005 - 07:31)
Ingmar Lee writes a round-up style piece for Counterpunch in which he points out the harsh sentences and scare-mongering publicity directed at eco-activists in the USA and contrasts it with the soft-pedalling of the much more effective Pacifist direct action movement. Ciaron O'Reilly's name appears twice in the list. Tim Hourigan, Mary Kelly, Eoin Dubsky all get a mention too. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday December 22, 2005 - 16:43 by pat c
Whiler there isnt a breakdown on how much harassment takes place on non-union as distinct from unionised airlines i would imagine non-union workers suffer worse. Harassment still occurs though on all airlines. Anyone convicted of sexual harassment should be banned from flying for at least 5 years.

pat c ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 22, 2005 - 05:39 by NOT BORED!
Sixteen years ago, we wrote and published the following satire of the US's Christmas-time invasion of Panama and the rock'n'roll world's support of it. U2's Bono was singled out for derision. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 21, 2005 - 18:46 by 006.5   text 1 comment (last - wednesday december 21, 2005 - 18:49)
By Carol D. Leonnig and Dafna Linzer, Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
A federal judge has resigned from the court that oversees government surveillance in intelligence cases in protest of President Bush's secret authorization of a domestic spying program, according to two sources. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 21, 2005 - 04:40 by finch   text 3 comments (last - wednesday december 21, 2005 - 12:23)
Bush confesses his criminality and hopes that his ‘act’ of contrition will save him from the dock. He has finally acknowledged that the invasion (and occupation) of Iraq was/is based on incorrect information (lies). Supporters and citizens who desperately hope that Bush’s admission demonstrates his contrition had their hopes dashed against the hard reality of further sordid deeds – the illegal 'bugging' and monitoring of US citizen’s private communications by the NSA. [Would anyone seriously expect this criminal administration to change character?] Bush’s admission is a political gesture, a strategic manoeuvre in response to increasing international disapproval of the dishonesty of his regime. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 20, 2005 - 19:31 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha   text 8 comments (last - tuesday december 27, 2005 - 19:06)
A well-travelled student at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth was interrogated by agents of the Department of Homeland Security in October because he had ordered a copy of Mao Tse-Tung's book on Communism, The Little Red Book, while researching a paper on totalitarianism.
One of the student's lecturers is considering cancelling a course on terrorism planned for next semester, because it might put his students at risk.
Reported in The Standard-Times on December 17, 2005. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday December 20, 2005 - 16:18 by Red Clydeside   text 13 comments (last - thursday june 02, 2011 - 18:26)
Scotland, America and Denis Donaldson ... read full story / add a comment
derry / housing Tuesday December 20, 2005 - 13:53 by Conor   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 31, 2006 - 18:54)
Campaign against water privatisation, newsletter #1 now available to read.

You can read it here.

http://irishsocialist.net/cawp1.html ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 20, 2005 - 11:53 by Joe Higgins T.D.
The following is a report from Survival International about the forcible eviction of the Guarani/ Kaiowa Indians from their lands at Nanderu Marangatu, Municipality of Antonio João, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 19, 2005 - 19:05 by RSF   text 1 comment (last - monday december 19, 2005 - 19:10)
1. RSF to rally opposition to loyalist march in Dublin
2. British army patrols to be stepped up in Six Occupied Counties
3. Provos fraternise with RUC/PSNI in Derry
4. 'Continuity with the past, forward to the future'
5. Top Provo revealed as British spy
6. McDowell undermined DPP authority, says Flood
7. Family want the truth over 1971 British army Ardoyne murders
8. Nelson inquiry is delayed to 2007
9. Ferries' deal does not address real causes of dispute
10. RSF address open letter to Spanish Ambassador ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday December 19, 2005 - 14:03 by kahootz   text 2 comments (last - tuesday december 27, 2005 - 21:24)
Some 300 million of South America's 365 million people will now live in countries with left-leaning governments following a convincing victory for a charismatic congressman. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday December 18, 2005 - 19:02 by cleaves
Bush has declared that it’s acceptable to illegally bug US citizens for a ‘good cause’; Cheney opposed legislation banning the use of torture by US agencies! Rumsfeld denounces claims that Iraq invasion is related to Oil appropriation; US Congress attacks Bush or rather those responsible for the debacle that is the Bush Presidency. But the news of the week is the residents of Sydney contracting the disease that is John Winston Howard (cowardice). ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday December 18, 2005 - 04:12 by budgie
The inherent qualities of anarchism are egalitarian, democratic and cooperative relations. These qualities enable it to ‘roam’ at will within any cultural dynamic and to be seen or appreciated as compatible with whatever it encounters. However, its inherent qualities are not realised until after the host has been affected/‘equalised’ by constant dilution/dispersal of ‘congested’ power. The cuckoo’s egg becomes the fully developed bird of a completely different genus to that which nurtured it. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Friday December 16, 2005 - 11:50 by iosaf   text 6 comments (last - saturday january 07, 2006 - 17:21)
There comes a stage in the progress of a people through their misery when not even our words may offer proper description or testimony to their suffering or optimism.
I can not underestimate my respect and admiration for the writer known as "Salam Pax". I first read his posts on http://www.almuajaha.com which was the name used by 7 Iraqi students for their collective which proposed in 2003 one week after the US invasion to start "baghdad indymedia".

This was the mission statement :-

"For decades almost all governments in the world, including our own, abused and terribly ignored the basic humanity of the Iraqi people. Al-Muajaha aims to provide an open forum for all Iraqis to freely debate current issues, and in so doing educate themselves and the world." ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday December 15, 2005 - 20:58 by AJ   text 3 comments (last - wednesday january 04, 2006 - 16:34)
Workers Power (Ireland) and the League for Fifth International have published their response to the ending of the Irish Ferries strike. You can read it here:

http://www.rebelnation.com/wp/?view=entry&entry=282 ... read full story / add a comment
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