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international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday April 03, 2007 - 16:43 by Toma Hamid
Articles in this issue: The Occupation is Not the Solution, It is the Problem. ‘The U.S. Project in Iraq is Doomed to Fail’. IFC Supports Teachers Strike in Althawra (Sadr City). Safety Forces Remove Sectarian Militia from a Residential Area. The IFC Safety Forces have thwarted efforts by the Mahdi Army attempting to install its camps in the Alaskari complex in the Babalmuadham district of Baghdad. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Tuesday April 03, 2007 - 16:10 by Houzan Mahmoud
In Iraq amid chaos, sectarianism, a rise in tribalism, and the enslavement of women, one can think of a constitution which is being written only as a document - or some how an agreement between the political players in Iraq. The constitution is only a clear indication of power sharing, pleasing each party's desire to practice their policies, and practices outlined by law. When reading the constitution, from the preambles to the end, I thought it is just written in a patriarchal, religious and tribal language, and this is the political mixture of the parties we have in power in the so called “parliament”. It does not represent anything to do with Iraqi people, and their aspiration for freedom and equality. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Tuesday April 03, 2007 - 15:36 by Jessie Raeder
 6 comments (last - tuesday april 17, 2007 - 10:59)
If you were a feminist activist in Iran today, you would be under the constant threat of arrest for a simple action: asking for equal rights. On Sunday, March 4, 34 women’s rights activists were arrested for silently gathering outside Tehran’s Revolutionary Court to protest the prosecution of four women on trial that morning. The four women’s rights leaders are facing multiple charges including “acting against national security” for organizing a protest for women’s equality in Tehran in 2006. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday April 03, 2007 - 12:36 by Duine
Tá oiliúint a chur ar dhaoine ó áiteacha iarchogaíochta ar fud an domhain i leith iarsmaí cogaí ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / history and heritage Tuesday April 03, 2007 - 09:22 by Jack Lane
22 comments (last - tuesday december 04, 2007 - 18:34)  11 images 2 attached files
by Jack Lane Irish Political Review April 2007 Peter Hart's latest effort to defend his thesis on the Irish War of Independence took the form of a review of John Borgonovo's book "Spies, informers and the 'Anti-Sinn Fein Society': the intelligence war in Cork City 1920-1921" in History Ireland, March-April 2007. In case readers need reminding Hart's thesis is that "…. the Dail had no legal standing and was never recognised by any foreign government. Nor did the IRA, as a guerrilla force acting without uniforms and depending on their civilian status for secrecy, meet the requirements of international law. The British government was therefore within its rights to give courts-martial the power to order executions." (Irish Times, 23 June 1998) ... read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage Tuesday April 03, 2007 - 05:15 by an t-uasal foghlai
5 comments (last - sunday october 04, 2009 - 20:58) 4 images
They are still a bit too fjordish without the sides for my liking. And in this way I am very Irish, we have never settled much below a certain latitude. There's a bunch of welsh cymru speakers in patagonia who never got a silly flag from London and are for all said respected members of the very diverse Argentinian people. So the Malvinas aren't your fault (if you're Irish) and they're not the Argentinians fault. But the blame thing won't bring back the dead. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Monday April 02, 2007 - 20:18 by non-payer
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The We Won’t Pay Campaign today attacked the DUP and Sinn Fein for announcing that they are to introduce water charges through the Assembly. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Monday April 02, 2007 - 20:12 by Free Catalonia
News from Catalonia at Catalan Solidarity. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 02, 2007 - 18:20 by dr magneto
1 comment (last - friday february 15, 2008 - 01:31)
US Supreme court has denied an appeal on behalf of inmates at gitmo this afternoon. Read the news at the link. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Scotus-Guantanamo...login This is what Bush wanted. There now just short of 400 people officially at camp Delta which is one of 2 confirmed facilities in the bay. Only 5% of those were captured by US soldiers, the vast majority were bought from Pakistani and a variety of Afghan based militia groups. Yes. Dr Magneto just said "bought". It sounds different to detained, arrested, renditioned, seized, or magically levitated and moved. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Monday April 02, 2007 - 12:12 by TD
5 comments (last - monday april 09, 2007 - 09:37)
In a Guardian article, Python, Terry Jones, lays into western hypocrisy with powerful sarcasm and flays the fucker to the bone - make your day and read full article? : ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 02, 2007 - 07:47 by nano
It’s confirmed, total panic grips Howard government over Hicks scandal! The novice Environment Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has weighed in on the Hicks debate with a wild accusation inferring that Hicks was “.. seeking to destroy our civilisation.” -- what next? Turnbull's statement follows hot on the heels of the stratospheric logic (see link) displayed by the Federal Treasurer in his effort to save the government -- who's next? ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday April 01, 2007 - 18:46 by Obit
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Tanya Reinhart died on March 17th 2007. She wrote for Israel Indymedia. Znet. Counterpunch (amongst others). She was activist against the brutalisation of the Palestinian people her articles are listed at ;- http://tau.ac.il [under Tanya Reinhart] ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday March 31, 2007 - 17:42 by Ciarán Barnes
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The unionist myth that more people in the North of Ireland speak Chinese than Irish has been shattered in the House of Lords. Statistics released at Westminster last week clearly show that the North's Irish speaking population is eight times that of the Chinese speaking population. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Saturday March 31, 2007 - 17:23 by DM
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday March 31, 2007 - 06:17 by dingo
5 comments (last - monday april 02, 2007 - 16:39)
Notice the use of language -- Australian news radio (12 noon) today broadcast that “convicted terrorist, David Hicks, receives nine month sentence...” – shame on ABC news radio, one can only wonder whether the choice of wording reflected the fundamentalist conservative, evangelical christian values of the Howard-loving producer, who will remain nameless in this report. Unlike American loving evangelical christians, most Australians accept “convictions” as a result of fair trials and due legal process NOT sordid kangaroo court 'determinations'. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday March 30, 2007 - 15:39 by bigchiefrandomchaos
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The US marine corp has banned marines getting large tattoos. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday March 30, 2007 - 10:52 by Dorothy
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The six medical personnel that are to be executed in Libya for the alleged HIV epidemic at the El Fath Childrens Hospital in Benghazi in 1998- deserves a ping. Europe- The EU has called for unity on the issue of what they consider a mis-trial and the EU is not very unified at the moment, especially on Africa. It is not within the Blair Government's foreign policy to accept the EU, it clashes with their own policy of colonialism or neo-colonialism. The ex-colonies are rising up at the moment. Old Europe is clashing with the US/K hegamony and Africa seems to be where the policy of abuse and imperialism is playing out for the Brits. Bush has his own problems with South America. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday March 29, 2007 - 18:23 by an t-uasal foghlaí
4 comments (last - thursday september 20, 2007 - 18:10)
The Peoples' Republic of China have today through their ambassador to the UN at Geneva and their state news agency Xinhua called for a new treaty to stop the militarisation of space arguing (quite correctly) the current international law and treaties are not adecquate to the challenges & criminal potential of state and non-state agencies. The chinese know what they're talking about. They proved it by destroying one of their own satelites earlier this month. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Thursday March 29, 2007 - 11:36 by Jacques Dauphin
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A very disturbing Ryanair advert published in the Guardian tells us that Gordon Brown's tax on flights is just the state stealing from us. It also says that "aviation accounts for just 2% of CO2 emissions" so the tax has nothing to do with environment. George Monbiot must have been pleasad to read the Guardian yesterday! ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday March 29, 2007 - 10:12 by Phil The Greek
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Faye Turney, a married mother of a young daughter, serving in the British armed forces, was shown wearing a black headscarf as she was interviewed and forced to apologise for "aggression" against Iran. The sight of a non-muslim Western woman forced to submit to the misogynist Islamic headscarf demonstrates the bigotry of the Islamic government of Iran and echoes the forced "conversion" of an American reporter and cameraman to Islam when they were captured by Palestinian terrorists last year. ... read full story / add a comment |
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