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galway / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 27, 2006 - 22:37 by Jack
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The European Union has handed the Middle East to the militarists, writes Michael D Higgins TD in todays Irish Times. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 27, 2006 - 21:45 by Anthony
A letter from Chomsky and other well known anti-imperalists outlines some of the less well reported events around the start of the recent escalation of Israeli violence and looks at the double standards that can be seen in the coverage and treatment of Palestinians. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 27, 2006 - 17:19 by Red Banner Fleet
This is the complete Barr Tribunal Report http://www.eire.com/photos/Barr_Tribunal.pdf Sure to become as controversial as the Warren Report. McDowell claims that ERU are not "trigger happy bucaneers." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 27, 2006 - 14:59 by nano
The middle of the twentieth century was the last occasion a belligerent nation stunned the world with violent military invasions. The major powers watched passively while a rogue military nation boldly occupied a number of sovereign states; the excuses offered by the aggressor at that time were similar to the inane, irrational rubbish the world is offered today by Israel and the U.S. However, some would make the distinction that the comments made by John Bolton and Condoleezza Rice are even less believable than the propaganda of Dr. Joseph Goebbels. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 27, 2006 - 12:44 by pat c
He beat himself up so badly he was paralysed! It reminds me of people beating themselves up during the days of the Heavy Gang. Or Andreas Baader shooting himself in the back of the head. Full story at link. pat c ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 27, 2006 - 02:13 by io
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By now most western Europeans with fair to middling interest in current affairs know that the UN observers in southern Lebanon, observed in time that Israeli artillery shells were landing close to their position. Ireland which prides itself on leading the way in UNIFIL operations knows how many phone calls were made - 10. We also all pride ourselves on knowing the mandate finishes next Monday. Most of the UN observers stationed with UNIFIL at that observer post were Indian, though those killed weren't. The first reports to hit Indian newswatchers that their own soldiers were in the line of fire came from the BBC who had their own team "observing" in the same little zone. This is how things work :- FINUL, the UN, the BBC, the government & army of Lebanon, the government & army of Israel, and even Hezbollah exchange phone numbers. They tell each other where they are. So "little accidents" like "friendly fire" don't happen. Otherwise indeed the whole idea of "UN peace-keeping" which started 50 years ago with the thereafter Nobel peace laureate, former prime minister of Canada Lester B. Pearson, would fall apart at the seams. So I thought I'd give you a round-up of Indian media reaction since as we all realise the UNIFIL mandate expires next Monday :- (we did all realise that didn't we???????????) _____________________________________________________________________________ ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Wednesday July 26, 2006 - 23:04 by Ciaran Long
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Every hunting season it's a regular occurrence for Saboteurs to be beaten up, some murdered, hospitalised, have their transport damaged and their personal belongings stolen by hunters and supporters. It's very seldom that anyone is charged. And if they are it's usually just a slap on the wrist. But when the table is turned, it's a totally different story. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday July 26, 2006 - 21:09 by Tommy Donnellan
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Independent journalist Dahr Jamail, who exposed how the U.S. used white phosphorus bombs in Iraq, says Israel is using the same tactic in Lebanon - this is now confirmed by the Ministry of the Interior in Lebanon. Also, according to Human Rights Watch, Israel has used artillery-fired cluster munitions in populated areas of Lebanon. Below are copied extracts from Dahr Jamail's Democracy Now interview (see link) and the relevant article/photos (cluster bombs) on the HRW website. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday July 26, 2006 - 09:52 by tora
Today 26, July 2006 everything has an unreasonable hue a certain irrational shimmer. I can taste the air and it is bitter with unreason and cruelty. I am able to detect the world passing all the horror, lies and weeping. I must be dreaming or I could be mad! ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday July 25, 2006 - 16:54 by anon
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Caoimhe Butterly, an Irish social justice activist and one of Time Magazine's Heroes of 2003 is heading to the Lebanon next week. She is aiming to get more impartial and unbiased reportage from the ground of the desperate situation in the country, amidst western indifference and what she describes as 'sanitised' reporting in the mainstream media. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday July 25, 2006 - 16:49 by anon
NOBEL peace laureate Betty Williams displayed a flash of her feisty Irish spirit yesterday, lashing out at US President George W.Bush during a speech to hundreds of schoolchildren. "I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence', because I don't believe that I am non-violent," said Ms Williams, 64. "Right now, I would love to kill George Bush." Her young audience at the Brisbane City Hall clapped and cheered. "I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die the anger in me is just beyond belief. It's our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life." ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday July 25, 2006 - 14:03 by James Reilly
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'They knew I was a Catholic: I was an appropriate target' - Almost six weeks after a son of Police Ombudsman Nuala O'Loan was viciously attacked at a north Belfast interface, the young victim speaks to Irish News chief reporter Sharon O'Neill [Note: This story and the others - including a letter from me in the Irish News on July 24 - illustrate the way in which sectarianism, orangeism and unionism are interlinked. The brutal sectarian killing of Michael McIlveen, the vicious attack on Damien O'Loan, the Orange bonfire 'celebration' of the killing of McIlveen and the Orange Order banner remembering a UDA sectarian killer - all of these are part of the carnival of reaction which the state of Northern Ireland was created to promote and to sustain. Susan McKay’s piece shows the relationship between Ian Paisley’s bloody rhetoric and the bloody misdeeds of his followers (followers he, with consummate hypocrisy, will later distance himself from). The state of Northern Ireland is a failed state. It is Britain’s failed state. Tony Blair and George Bush justify massive violence, death, injury, torture and cruelty on peoples in the Middle East. Meanwhile, Northern Irish unionists, the biggest supporters of British violence overseas, inflict it at home also on ‘the enemy within’, who they identify on the basis of their Roman Catholic religion. JR] ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Monday July 24, 2006 - 18:53 by SP Online
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The July 2006 issue of The Socialist (#18) is now online at the Socialist Party website. See below for contents.. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / anti-war / imperialism Sunday July 23, 2006 - 23:34 by Danny Kaplan
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Below is a copied/pasted article from the Wayne Madsen Report website. U.S. military intelligence sources have told WMR that the artillery shell shown below being used by an Israel Defense Force member in Lebanon, is a type of dual and multi-use weapon the neocons falsely accused Saddam Hussein of possessing. Although the canister artillery shell is marketed as an anti-land mine fuel-air bomb, its payload can also include the chemicals used in thermobaric bombs, white phosphorous weapons, and chemical weapons. Thermobaric bombs contain polymer-bonded explosives or solid fuel-air explosives in their payloads. Thermobarics use a fuse munition unit (FMU) such as that seen on the nose of the Israeli artillery shell. The shell penetrates buildings, underground shelters, or tunnels, creating such a blast pressure that all the oxygen is sucked out from the spaces and the lungs of anyone who happens to be in proximity. Israel's use of such "vacuum" weapons has been reported from across Lebanon. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment Sunday July 23, 2006 - 15:56 by Shell to Sea
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An article published in the Sunday Times last week recounted the ending of the mediation, when Peter Cassells wrote to the Rossport Five to say he could find no basis for a settlement between the consortium of multi-national companies who want to force a dangerous experimental pipeline through Rossport and the five men, who with their families, friends and supporters have campaigned for the gas from the Corrib field to be processed offshore. The article was broadly factual, while showed a tendency to look at the situation from the point of view of big business and government, which is of course to be expected form a newspaper like the ST. What was interesting was an editorial published in the same edition, which tried to present as fact a complete misrepresention of the controversial pipeline/refinery scheme,while attempting to smear the campaign against it as a local dispute which had been "hijacked' by Sinn Féin. Below are the letters sent in to counteract these views. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday July 23, 2006 - 13:51 by redjade
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{ Notes on the Long War: .001 / July 23-30 2006 } Just because the 'West' makes mistakes doesn't mean it has to have regrets ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Saturday July 22, 2006 - 22:45 by erqwnqr
international / miscellaneous Saturday July 22, 2006 - 21:07 by anon
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Obituary by Alan Woods http://www.marxist.com/ted-grant-obituary.htm ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Saturday July 22, 2006 - 15:28 by eeekkkk
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international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday July 22, 2006 - 11:25 by peptide
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Condoleezza Rice (finally) announced that she would visit the war torn Middle East in the near future – let’s not rush to the assistance of innocent civilians and perhaps even prevent a humanitarian disaster! Rice also dismissed any hope of brokering an immediate cease-fire. She added that negotiating a cease-fire would be counter-productive at present! The international community has noted America’s lethargy and unwillingness to act in the present circumstances. The world is aware however that Israel would not have pursued its present hostile course without consent from Washington; Rice’s inaction and firm dismissal of any hope of a brokered cease-fire spells very clearly the relationship between Washington and Tel Aviv. ... read full story / add a comment |
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