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international / miscellaneous Tuesday May 27, 2008 - 15:12 by Ciaron
 6 comments (last - monday december 07, 2009 - 07:23)
"Folksinger, Storyteller, Railroad Tramp Utah Phillips Dead at 73" Nevada City, California: Utah Phillips, a seminal figure in American folk music who performed extensively and tirelessly for audiences on two continents for 38 years, died Friday of congestive heart failure in Nevada City, California a small town in the Sierra Nevada mountains where he lived for the last 21 years with his wife, Joanna Robinson, a freelance editor. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday May 26, 2008 - 15:12 by Miriam Cotton
6 comments (last - friday may 30, 2008 - 14:41)
A surprise awaits John Bolton, one of the chief architechts of the illegal invasion of Iraq, at the Hay book festival this Wednesday. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Sunday May 25, 2008 - 01:27 by D. Flanagan
5 comments (last - wednesday june 04, 2008 - 11:50)
A report in the Sunday Business Post links Libertas to Rettet Osterreich, an Austrian rightist political group. Rettet Osterreich held a rally in Vienna on March 12 which was attended by the neo-nazi National People's Party. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Saturday May 24, 2008 - 08:38 by mission possible
"ntergalactic tyrants beware: the boys in blue are after you" Anyone who thinks the police aren't interested in diversity will be amazed by the links they have built with Scientology Interesting article by Marina Hyde in today's "Guardian" follows up explosive recent allegations that the cult of Scientology has infiltrated police in the City of London and community groups in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday May 23, 2008 - 13:17 by Bazooka Joe
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The US military murdered eight people including two children in northern Iraq's Salaheddin province on Wednesday. This came the same day the US killed 14 civilians in Baghdad. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Friday May 23, 2008 - 09:41 by isn'er
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The text of an article on the Lisbon Treaty from Resistance no. 6, the May/June issue of the Irish Socialist Network paper, can be found at the following link: www.irishsocialist.net ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday May 22, 2008 - 18:43 by Johannes Wilm
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On a recent trip to Belfast/Northern Ireland I wanted to find out who is really to be accepted as being a progressive force up there. The Left has generally supported those pro-catholics, who are working for a united Ireland as a part of a national liberation struggle from London rule. I decided to interview representatives of progressive parties on either side on the issues that socialists should really care about -- social issues -- to see how different they really are in their day-to-day politics in these current times of peace. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Wednesday May 21, 2008 - 20:02 by Gar
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I'm not a member of Comhlamh, but just thought I'd point out a document the NGO has produced on the Lisbon Treaty. The PDF is available on their website. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 21, 2008 - 18:50 by Bazooka Joe
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The United States has admitted to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child that it has detained about 2,500 children, mostly in Iraq, since 2002. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday May 20, 2008 - 19:28 by GH
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Here is a brief outline of the day ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Tuesday May 20, 2008 - 18:42 by pat c
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Amnesty has once more taken up the cases of women activists who have been persecuted in Iran., some of them were beaten whilst in custody. Others have now been sentenced to flogging. Their only crime is to campaign for womens rights. Full text at link. Amnesty International has written to the Head of the Judiciary in Iran, urging him to ensure that appeals hearings against the convictions and sentences of six women’s rights defenders (WRDs) passed in recent weeks in connection with their peaceful exercise of their rights to freedom of expression and association are heard promptly and impartially. If the sentences are confirmed at appeal, the organization is calling on the Head of the Judiciary, Ayatollah Hashemi Shahroudi, to review the cases and to overturn the convictions of the women, all of whom will become prisoners of conscience if imprisoned. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday May 20, 2008 - 18:33 by Sean Matthews
While the rest of us are slaving away to make end’s meat and facing the brunt of the ‘credit crunch’ We are continually told by our political rulers to be ‘competitive’ for the bosses waiting for the promised ‘trickle-down effect’ that never arrives. Staggering rises in energy prices above the rate of inflation, imposition of un-wanted water charges while hundreds of people die every year due to ‘fuel poverty’ it seems the North elite rich club have never had it so good according to the latest Sunday Times rich list. There is now a record of 61 people from the north among Ireland’s richest 250 and they are getting richer! Last year their wealth increased to a combined £10.7 billion! On top of the list like every year is Fermanagh’s Sean Quinn worth about £3.7 billion, who does allot of dealing in insurance and property market. Alright for some eh? ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday May 20, 2008 - 17:28 by Peter Sullivan
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Doctors For Choice was set up in 2002 by doctors, mainly GPs, who want to contribute to ending the silence around abortion in Ireland. In a new article, published in the current (May) edition of Forum magazine (a publication for GPs in Ireland), a member of Doctors For Choice looks at the issue of silence around abortion and general practice in Ireland today. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Monday May 19, 2008 - 15:03 by tomeile
17 comments (last - saturday may 24, 2008 - 12:13)
Iran has broken up a network of CIA backed spies and saboteurs .The Iranian authorities believe that the group was behind the bombing of the religious centre in Shiraz last month which killed thirteen people. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday May 18, 2008 - 15:15 by Ciaron
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In May 1968, during the Vietnam War ine people walked into a Selective Service Office, in Catonsville Maryland U.S.A., took hundreds of draft files from a cabinet, took them outside, doused them with homemade napalm and burned them in the name of peace. It raised serious questions about nonviolent resistance to the U.S. war in Vietnam and initiated a praxis that today engages U.S. wars in Iraq & Afghanistan Footage of action.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3SHRc-NTrk ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Friday May 16, 2008 - 18:46 by Jean B
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Carlos Andrade. Santiago Cadena. Diana Cabascango Francisco Jaramillo. The Colombian Citizen whom was picked up by Interpol has not been named (as yet) ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday May 16, 2008 - 18:44 by pat c
Hamid Dabashi, Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York writes on Hillary Clintons outburst regarding Iran in the 8 may issue of al-Ahram. Hamid writes: The only legitimate manner in which the Islamic Republic can be prevented from becoming a nuclear power is by ensuring that all the other nuclear powers in its neighbourhood engage in regional disarmament, first and foremost the mirror image of the Islamic Republic, the Jewish apartheid state of Israel. The latter is fully supported and sustained by the American Christian Empire, and will be after Senator Golda Clinton Meir possibly becomes its Commander-in-Chief. Full text at link. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 16, 2008 - 14:55 by Ciaron
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Pauline Campbell, who was found dead yesterday morning, put the deaths of women in prison on the map. A formidable and tireless campaigner, she had personal experience of deaths in custody. Just over five years ago, her much-loved daughter Sarah, 18, died of a drug overdose at Styal prison. Campbell's body was discovered close to her daughter's grave in Oakhills cemetery in Malpas, Cheshire. As we went to press, it was not clear whether she had killed herself or died of other causes, but it looks bleak. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Friday May 16, 2008 - 12:08 by Jean B
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The European Union has criticised the mass expulsion of Romani from four provinces in the Italian state. 12,000 families including children are moving north through italy and facing summary expulsion. it's called hate crime. For three days in Naples, Shanties and encampments have been subject to mob violence. This is after the media-owning Mr Burlusconi and his friends decided to abuse citizen rights in an act of expulsion that has no precedent in Post WW2 European History. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Tuesday May 13, 2008 - 19:15 by Terence
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This article from the LA Times by Bill McKibben presents the case that the situation with the Earth's environment is far worse than has been admitted so far and he reports on the latest scientific paper from climate scientist James Hansen which in the opening paragraph he says: "if humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm." ... read full story / add a comment |
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