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international / anti-capitalism Wednesday September 07, 2005 - 19:25 by toothpick
World leaders agreed in 2000 on a series of goals to be reached by 2015, including halving the number of people living in extreme poverty, cutting deaths of children under five by two-thirds and achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality, reduction of child mortality . improving maternal health, providing vaccines fighting AIDS, TB and Malaria and doing something dinky on the environment. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday September 07, 2005 - 14:02 by wl
The report finds that the legal agreements governing the project place a ‘price tag’ on human rights by creating financial disincentives for the governments of Chad and Cameroon to protect human rights. The agreements may require the two countries to pay large financial penalties if they interrupt the operation of the pipeline or oil-fields – even when making an intervention to protect rights and enforce laws that apply elsewhere in their countries. This makes it extremely difficult for Chad and Cameroon to take action against company malpractice, and for individuals adversely affected by the pipeline to obtain redress. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday September 07, 2005 - 13:29 by selforganiser
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by Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky Wednesday, Sep. 07, 2005 at 3:13 AM Two paramedics stranded in New Orleans in the wake of hurricane Katrina give their account of self-organisation and abandonment in the disaster zone ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Tuesday September 06, 2005 - 18:35 by water proof container
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The British Nuclear industry does not only include THORP issues which are familiar with most - Sellafield popped into the news today with a trade union case being dismissed in London which suggests worker relations are not their best at the plant. And the IT services have just been outsourced. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday September 06, 2005 - 14:11 by dave
international / miscellaneous Tuesday September 06, 2005 - 13:57 by Monbiot fan
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Even as the G8 promises fall apart, Geldof stays silent - George Monbiot ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday September 06, 2005 - 13:13 by dave
The evacuation of New Orleans in the face of Hurricane Ivan looked sinisterly like Strom Thurmond's version of the Rapture. Affluent white people fled the Big Easy in their SUVs, while the old and car-less -- mainly Black -- were left behind in their below-sea-level shotgun shacks and aging tenements to face the watery wrath. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday September 05, 2005 - 23:24 by reader
3 comments (last - friday september 09, 2005 - 20:58)
good round-up of fema blocking help http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/5/16455/30830 ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Monday September 05, 2005 - 17:09 by mafia watcher
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Old habits die hard, McCreevy is still working hard for big business. I am sure his efforts will be richly rewarded. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Monday September 05, 2005 - 16:40 by Starstruck
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Hurricane Katrina kills thousands and devastates an entire city,vital failings in local and federal policy becoming exposed. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Sunday September 04, 2005 - 16:49 by bob
this group have been getting some press resently, here is an article from the kingdom this week. A lecturer at the Institute of Technology in Tralee has criticised political parties in Ireland for their inaccessibility after he was unable to deliver information packs to TDs on the 9/11 terror attacks. www.the-kingdom.ie/news/story.asp?j=18180 ... read full story / add a comment
down / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday September 03, 2005 - 18:35 by Dave
See how the fat cats network: "Alongside O'Leary at this press briefing sat David Bonderman - boss of Texas Pacific, who own Gate Gourmet - and the man O'Leary hopes will bankroll his medieval pillaging of the rest of the airline industry. O'Leary and Bonderman (who, incidentally, is also chairman of Ryanair) are already tied up through their joint interest in Texas Pacific, the venture capital firm which took over Gate in 2003. Bonderman is so loaded that he spent an estimated $7 million on his birthday party - with live music from the Rolling Stones, no less, and a stand-up routine from Robin Williams." ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Friday September 02, 2005 - 16:37 by hs
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Hundreds of thousands are left homeless. Tens of thousands have been shipped to Texas as refugees. Buildings have collapsed. Entire communities have been reduced to rubble. The city of New Orleans, one of the centres of history and culture in the US, will likely be uninhabitable for months. The death toll from Katrina is certainly in the hundreds, and it will probably reach the thousands. Some commentators say this was all unavoidable, but that is a lie. Bryan Koulouris, New York City, US article continued at http://www.socialistworld.net/ ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday August 31, 2005 - 23:48 by A
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Provisional Sinn Féin was last night (Sunday August 28th, 2005) staying silent on reports that former PIRA members will join the RUC/PSNI. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 31, 2005 - 19:02 by qwe
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Im sure it wil be put on numerous indymedia's but we need to see this to show what they've been doing elsewhere in the name of freedom... US Army Prison Abuse Photos still blocked from release http://www.aclu.org/International/International.cfm?ID=18979&c=36 ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 31, 2005 - 06:55 by Kingfisher
I didn’t inhale or have sex with anyone in particular. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Wednesday August 31, 2005 - 05:04 by pretending to be an american
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New Orleans is under water, they're talking about evacuating the refugee centre in the stadium and car lots, the drinking water supply is gone. Maybe there's a million homeless, the dead will be in hundreds, the next storm is brewing in the carribean, the oil wells are closed, the crops of the mississippi valley are destroyed. People are stealing tvs from the mall. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / racism & migration related issues Wednesday August 31, 2005 - 01:52 by ipsiphi
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250 sub saharan africans attempted to cross the border into the European Union at melilla yesterday in a day of frenetic activity for the Guardia Civil in which migrant died, though Spanish Government sources are discounting any connection. Spanish national police for their part have called publically on the Moroccan authorities to stem the "avalanche". The migrants had attempted to vault the wire fence and mine field which marks the boundary between the EU and Morocco at the enclave of Melilla. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 31, 2005 - 00:18 by Justin Morahan
"Bullying is rampant in Irish schools and this is one way to stop it" ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday August 30, 2005 - 19:33 by knowing my duty
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The public disquiet raised by the presence of arms in society might lay behind the media interest in Catalonia in an incident this last week which saw young recently recruited police officers fire 4 shots at 1.75m described as "warning shots fired in the air" in response to an incident involving persistent graffiti taggers. The incident occured at a public metro city during an annual street festival which figures on the August itinerary for many tourists including Irish men and women, boys and girls. ... read full story / add a comment |
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