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national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 07, 2006 - 11:53 by Danny Morrison
 19 comments (last - friday september 15, 2006 - 17:20)  1 image
When the IRA split in December 1969 the dissidents set up a
Provisional Army Council until a proper IRA convention could
re-constitute the organisation. That convention took place in
September 1970 but by then the name 'Provisional' or 'Provo' had stuck
and was used as shorthand by both supporters and the media, despite
the distaste some veterans in the Movement had for that term. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Wednesday September 06, 2006 - 23:35 by reptilian
14 comments (last - friday september 08, 2006 - 12:28) 2 images
Natascha Kampusch told viewers of Austrian television what it's like to be locked in a cellar for 10 years tonight. She's gone global. In fact she's top of the ratings. Natascha was all but forgotten about by Austrians a decade ago, but now reproduction and syndication rights of her interview have been traded worldwide. Each country & language giving it's own spin & peculiar title. I phoned my local television station which airs the interview tomorrow to complain at its choice of title which in English is "Natasha's confessions". ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Wednesday September 06, 2006 - 22:43 by John Donovan
The management of Royal Dutch Shell has more than met its match in the current no-holds-barred "negotiation" with the Kremlin over potential profits from the $20 billion Sakhalin II project in Russia. Little interest is being paid however by either party to the fate of the endangered Whale population. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday September 06, 2006 - 12:24 by T
4 comments (last - wednesday september 06, 2006 - 19:42)
A report by Israel’s National Insurance Institute shows that another 100,000 people fell below the poverty line in Israel bringing the total impoverished to 1.6m or 24.7% of the population. The report also indicated that Israel at 35% had the highest child poverty rate amongst capitalist countries. Much of this has been caused by various cutbacks in social spending from previous military adventures with further cuts planned as a result of the most recent war in Lebanon. Unemployment is also running at 9%. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday September 05, 2006 - 22:57 by Plastic Paddy
Hamas Government Challenged ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Tuesday September 05, 2006 - 21:30 by R. Isible
2 comments (last - wednesday september 06, 2006 - 00:52)
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, (PRD) the "leftist" opponent of Calderon (PAN) has stated that he will not accept the ruling which was made half an hour ago. The ruling was conducted by a panel of seven judges (the TRIFE), who only consented to review approximately 13,000 of the 130,000 polling stations returns. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / racism & migration related issues Tuesday September 05, 2006 - 15:19 by James
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At least 5.271 people have died since 1988 along the european frontiers. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 05, 2006 - 13:41 by Yusuf
3 comments (last - tuesday september 05, 2006 - 17:33) 2 images
A new tape featuring Ayman al Zawahiri and Californian Adam Gadahn speaks clearly about the present situation facing US citizens and invites them embrace Islam before it is too late. Full video at: http://www.sendspace.com/file/7rqrcu Click "download link Mmmmm.rm" US has been removing all traces of full video but it is posted here for now . If this link is taken down I will try to post a new one in comments ... read full story / add a comment
offaly / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 05, 2006 - 02:17 by Naomi Murphy
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In the 1950s, he opposed Senator Joseph McCarthy's witch hunt and was almost jailed for refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday September 04, 2006 - 17:47 by Dick
47 comments (last - saturday november 11, 2006 - 12:46) 1 image
Workers at the National Aquatic Centre have served notice of industrial action, it was revealed this afternoon. The latest development stems from a dispute between the company which runs the centre, Dublin Waterworld, and SIPTU. The company has refused to recognise SIPTU union membership. The union has claimed that four people were wrongfully dismissed from the company, including three of its members. The action will take the form of a ban on overtime, a work to rule and unannounced short work stoppages. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday September 02, 2006 - 18:36 by finch
Surely it is time to restore intelligent, sane, Democratic secular government throughout the world! Over the past eight years we have all had a taste of the simplistic binary ‘us or them’ logic of religionists; the reality is that the majority of people on the planet reject religious divisionism and the associated violent ‘solutions’ of criminals, liars, demented murderers and delusional fools. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / sci-tech Friday September 01, 2006 - 14:50 by sofia
20 comments (last - thursday april 10, 2008 - 18:59) 4 images
Vincent Paquette & Mario Beauregard are tippy toppy scientists based in Canada who have built their reputation scanning happy brains. Meaning, they have paid their mortage, put their kids through school, gone on holidays & generally got on with it all thanks to ample government & some small corporate funding. During which they've selected small groups of "happy individuals" & put them through brain scans to discover what really kicks that happiness switch". Having had wonderful results on their neural scans of men at orgasm they have now recruited no less than 15 Carmelite nuns (who belong to the order founded by the very happy Teresa in today's illustration) to go through functional magnetic resonance whislt they remember the most intense..... ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Friday September 01, 2006 - 12:59 by resistenza
22 comments (last - monday september 04, 2006 - 11:15)
The Second World War started on the 1 September 1939. The invasion of Nazi Germany into Poland started on this day. This very day didn't only become the beginning of the horrible and sanguinary war in Europe but as well the day of the onset of the pan European resistance. This happened 67 year ago. And then came Victory. It seemed that Nazism was conquered once and for all. But today we face people and whole organized groups, who popularize the supremacy of one race, ethnos or religion. It turns out that virtual monsters are tough to be buried at once. That's why on 1 September we keep iterating over and over again - "resistance to Nazism didn't remain in the past and is crucial today". ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday August 31, 2006 - 19:06 by redjade
4 comments (last - wednesday january 07, 2009 - 23:59) 1 image
Somethings these days are too weird for words.... ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 31, 2006 - 00:34 by TD
1 comment (last - friday september 01, 2006 - 21:47)
The Democracy Now website is reporting that Bush & co are facing fresh accusations of seeking regime change in Venezuela. Documents obtained by the Associated Press show the US Agency for International Development – USAID – has given more than twenty six million dollars to opponents of President Hugo Chavez in the last four years. USAID released copies of more than one hundred contracts with the groups ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 31, 2006 - 00:29 by Brian Feeney
11 comments (last - thursday november 16, 2006 - 22:00) 2 images
Irish News August 30, 2006 Wednesday - Briefing - The Wednesday Column DUP is beneficiary of daft eejits' ramblings Brian Feeney There was to be a meeting of the Flat Earth Society (Irish republican section) in Toome last night. They were to try to think how to avoid falling off the edge of the world. We were promised a gathering of Real IRA, Continuity IRA, and wait for it, INLA members 'disillusioned with the leadership of Gerry Adams'. So there you are now. You didn't know that Gerry Adams was the leader of the Real IRA, Continuity IRA and INLA. Interesting nevertheless that they all acknowledge that Adams is the leader of republicanism. Their beef is that they don't like where he's leading the movement. Too bad. They're not in it. So after years of ineffectual bitching about him they've decided to look for 'a way forward for republicanism'. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Wednesday August 30, 2006 - 18:17 by Sean
Harold H. Thompson Anarchist Prisoner Harold H. Thompson is an anarchist prisoner serving life plus sentences in Tennessee, USA after a series of farcical trials. Harold is well known for his work as a 'jailhouse lawyer' and copes with prison by fighting for his fellow prisoner in the courts for some semblance of real justice. "I am an anti-authoritarian, anti-racist, anti-sexist, anarchist revolutionary of proud Irish heritage. I am also a vegetarian and strongly support the animal liberation movement. I stand for civil/human rights and will not break, bend nor be intimidated. I stand in solidarity with all people struggling against oppression but most particularly with my brothers and sisters in the anarchist movement". ... read full story / add a comment
galway / environment Wednesday August 30, 2006 - 18:09 by gníomhaí
79 comments (last - sunday may 20, 2007 - 18:01) 5 images
How many people think twice about what effect flouride (a toxic by-product of the aluminium industry) is having on their health? ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday August 29, 2006 - 18:15 by ollie
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Can Journalists Be Prosecuted for Receiving Classified Information? US Judge finds that, well, maybe you can be.............. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday August 29, 2006 - 16:08 by Solidarity
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In 2005, Frank Cordaro addressed a public meeting at Dublin's Teachers Club in solidarity with the Pit Stop Ploughshares, then awaiting trial. On Dec 28th. - the Feast of the Holy Innocents - Frank was arrested in a nonviolent anti-war trespass action at Offcut Air Force Base, Omaha, Nebraska. Frank was sentenced to six months. He served several months in the overcrowded County Jail system, before being designated to Yankton Federal Institution, South Dakota. ... read full story / add a comment |
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