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international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday August 28, 2006 - 19:26 by pat c
 5 comments (last - wednesday september 06, 2006 - 11:24)
Another Political Prisoner in Iran, Ali Khodabakhshi, has been tortured and may killed by his gaolers. You can intervene on his behalf contact the Iranian Embassy to protest. Details below. pat c Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran 72 Mount Merrion Avenue Blackrock Co. Dublin Tel: 01 288 0252 /01 288 5881 Fax: 01 283 4246 Web Site: http://www.iranembassy.ie Email: [email protected] ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday August 28, 2006 - 11:19 by dingo
Victory over any opponent is the result of functionally superior values and strategies not advanced technologies as is often imagined; wars today continue to be fought by men and women. The relative strengths and weakness of combatants and cultures determine outcomes in today’s conflicts. The recent conflict in Lebanon demonstrates that military might is no match for superior strategy and tactics – superior technology is the intoxicant of technocrats and the drug of weak and incapable fighters/soldiers. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Sunday August 27, 2006 - 20:44 by d'other
2 comments (last - wednesday august 30, 2006 - 10:49)
Some of you may remember the internet presence of one of Indymedia's most ferocious trolls. Going under the title of Indymedia Ireland Watch (IIW) and registered on the Blogspot hosting site, they used a snide satirical tone to highlight the supposed flaws attached to various Indymedia 'personalities.' Those that put their head over the parapet and stepped beyond online anonymity to be published in the mainstream media, or even exerted more time on Indy editorial duty were viciously lampooned and castigated. The blog also offered financial rewards for the names and addresses of activists appearing in photos on the site. The IIW site under went a sudden and dramatic closure last April but later that month a new site opened up calling itself the Vincenzo Monologues. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Sunday August 27, 2006 - 12:11 by spider
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The Irish Times writes that an EU decision has enabled the deployment of Irish troops to Lebanon as part of a UN peacekeeping mission. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Friday August 25, 2006 - 18:14 by pat c
Yet another woman, Ashraf Kalhori, is to be stoned to death in Iran for "committing adultery". You can help Ashraf. Protest to the Iranian Embassy, demand that the death sentence be commuted and that she be granted a new trial. Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran 72 Mount Merrion Avenue Blackrock Co. Dublin Tel: 01 288 0252 /01 288 5881 Fax: 01 283 4246 Web Site: http://www.iranembassy.ie Email: [email protected] Full story at the link pat c ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Friday August 25, 2006 - 15:21 by ollie
What happens when a GM grass that doesn't need to reproduce sexually escapes into the wild? From :http://www.startribune.com/561/story/627420.html see also: http://www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_1620.cfm ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday August 25, 2006 - 14:36 by R. Isible
An Algerian man, cleared by an Old Bailey jury in the "ricin terror plot", may be sent back to Algeria where he will face the strong possibility of being tortured by the state security forces who have a long track record of this practice. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday August 25, 2006 - 10:36 by Breda
Today's Examiner continues to highlight the hazards we may be exposed to at our local pools due to the lack of any testing or statutory body responsible for monitoring or compliance. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday August 25, 2006 - 08:01 by Kwang zi
8 comments (last - saturday august 26, 2006 - 19:46)
“Israel has a right to defend itself” was the inane excuse offered to the world by the Bush administration for the murder and vandalism committed by Israel in Lebanon – what price ‘defensive warfare’ in today’s world? The unprecedented vandalism and indiscriminate slaughter in Lebanon was (we are supposed to believe) the measured response to a border incursion and two kidnapped soldiers! Hundreds of dead children, wanton destruction and the criminal oil pollution of the Mediterranean coast are the results of Israel ‘defending’ itself? ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Friday August 25, 2006 - 01:55 by peace17
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Flag removed again from tribute to F.D.N.Y chaplain Mychal Judge. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / sci-tech Thursday August 24, 2006 - 23:11 by redjade
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and who elected the 'International Astronomical Union' anyway?! ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Thursday August 24, 2006 - 22:04 by yulio
GERARDO, Ramón, René, Fernando and Antonio are still behind bars in the United States, three of them in maximum security prisons, and all of them subjected to the hateful revenge of those in Washington who have made them the target of reprisals against the Cuban Revolution. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Thursday August 24, 2006 - 05:41 by reposted
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This is a report by Leuren Moret, a renowed expert on Depleted Uranium explaining why delpeted uranium itself should be considered a weapon of mass destruction. This would largely because the dust which spreads widely in the environment, affects everyone exposed to it, both military and civilian alike and that its damaging effects continue for many many years afterwards.
The use of DU also breaks many known conventions on war. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 23, 2006 - 22:33 by TD
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The United Nations interim force in Lebanon estimates that Israel dropped approximately 150,000 bombs during the 34-day military offensive.Many of these remain unexploded, even as villagers return home to start clearing away the rubble. The large unexploded missiles, while extremely threatening, are easier to find. It is the estimated 15,000 cluster bomb munitions, each carrying anywhere from 80 to 600 small bomblets, that pose the most immediate threat. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 23, 2006 - 13:30 by Ciarån Barnes
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by Ciarån Barnes Daily Ireland 23 August 2006 The British government is coming under renewed pressure to reveal if it used a controversial gas on republican prisoners during a prison riot 32 years ago. The Ministry of Defence has always denied using CR gas, a known carcinogen, on inmates during the burning of Long Kesh in October 1974. More than 300 prisoners were affected by the gas fired from helicopters. It’s claimed that around a fifth of this number have since died or are suffering from unexplained cancers. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 23, 2006 - 00:01 by Eamon
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The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) accused the UK government in the high court in London today of knowingly assisting "acts of terrorism" by Israel in its campaign against Hizbullah in southern Lebanon ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 22, 2006 - 17:49 by Sean Corcoran
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Daily Ireland 22/08/2006 IRA informer Sean O'Callaghan was tied up by two men he met in a gay pub, and held at knifepoint while they ransacked the house he was meant to be looking after, a court heard yesterday. The former IRA man had invited the pair back to the home he was looking after for his friend, author Ruth Dudley Edwards, following an evening drinking with them in a nearby gay pub. The 52-year-old had selected the bar "only because it was the nearest", but once the men were back at the home they knocked him to the floor, tied him up, threatened him at knifepoint and burgled the house. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday August 22, 2006 - 05:48 by budgie
Is the Hague court a joke or have we just lost our sense of perspective? The latest indiscriminate slaughter of children and innocent civilians in Lebanon by ‘God’s chosen’ seems not to warrant the attention of the Hague court. Carla Del Ponte’s latest remonstration against the Serbian leadership for not delivering war criminals to her court seems ‘slightly’ dissociative in view of recent events. Her obsession with Serbs now borders on the pathological. Would the civilian death toll in Iraq warrant her attention? Iraq now approaches one hundred thousand innocent civilian deaths – eighty percent directly attributable to the forces of occupation! ... read full story / add a comment
national / sci-tech Monday August 21, 2006 - 21:26 by R. Isible
5 comments (last - saturday september 29, 2007 - 15:15)
For years people have been claiming to have discovered perpetual motion engines, "free" energy and other contraventions of the laws of physics as we understand them. An Irish company has now joined the throngs of utopianists and has "challenged scientists to test its claims" ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / consumer issues Monday August 21, 2006 - 21:06 by Toe-tape
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Images are printable from the Fianna fail Website Gallery. http://www.fiannafail.ie/ Harold's Cross has been lacking a post-office since the post-master died of a heart attack (RIP), whilst at the other end of the ward, a one-stop client shop for political bring and buy was opened just past La Touche Bridge. The shop looks like a Spar and Bertie was there to cut the ribbon and a bevy of tanned blondes in hats accompanied the opening cermemonies. Meanwhile pensioners and single mothers have to await the appointment of a new post-master or travel to alternate locations to get the services once provided by the State. ... read full story / add a comment |
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