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international / miscellaneous Wednesday June 28, 2006 - 16:51 by Kwang zi
The Zionists in Washington (Perle, Wolfowitz etc) have the entire Bush regime distracted. While America fights all of Israel’s major wars in the Middle East – to no advantage whatsoever for America – the most strategically important regions in the world are left to other nations. As world power shifts inexorably eastward, to China, America is at a loss to meet the challenges of the future. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday June 28, 2006 - 16:16 by MichaelY
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A Meteoric Initiative ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday June 28, 2006 - 14:33 by pat c
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The Free Iranian Trade Union Move,ent is campaigning to have the Iranian Regimes Puppet Organisations expelled from the International Labour Organisation. Below is an extract from a speech by Bahram Soroush, in it he shows that the Ieranian Regimes Labour organistions are led by fascist thugs who attack genuine trade unionists. Full article at link. pat ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday June 27, 2006 - 23:53 by World Peace Forum
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Covering June 23-26, 2006 ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday June 27, 2006 - 18:58 by McKenna
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Patricia McKenna in today's Daily Ireland on HMS Ocean visit to Dublin port on Thursday. http://www.dailyireland.com/home.tvt?_scope=DailyIrelan...opp=1 ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday June 27, 2006 - 17:14 by FG
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international / miscellaneous Tuesday June 27, 2006 - 16:34 by peptide
John Howard was ‘surprised’ when he encountered the President of Indonesia, while taking his early morning walk in Jakarta, reported News Radio Australia. The report stated that Howard was “visibly shocked” by the unexpected encounter, which obviously was intended to deliver a clear message; the Indonesian President is not known for taking early morning walks, we can therefore conclude that his gesture was calculated. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday June 27, 2006 - 11:54 by EPA fan
The EPA website invites you to give them your opinion on how well they do their job. So go ahead - make their day. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 26, 2006 - 20:11 by Dolours Price
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"This book belongs on all shelves, in all libraries, in all schools.This is the story of a man, a movement who toiled on, against all odds, who stayed with his choices, he is not the last Republican, he has been a custodian of Republicanism, for generations yet to come. Read this book again and again." ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Monday June 26, 2006 - 18:39 by Reporter
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The following report is on the People Before Profit website. Brid Smith (SWP) is to run as a People Before Profit candidate in next year's general election. Does this mean that Brid Smith will run against Cllr Joan Collins, who has an established base? If so, the left vote will be badly divided. Or is this a negotiating ploy by the SWP? Or, are Smith and Collins running in different constituencies? Let us hope they have worked out something and that the latter is true. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 26, 2006 - 17:30 by cleaves
Just prior to the appointment of Ratzinger to Pontiff, I happened to cross the path of Cardinal George Pell in Pitt Street, Sydney, early one evening. I couldn’t help (politely) inquiring of him whether he was a man of God. He responded, much to my amazement, “I don’t know about, ‘man of God’, I am a Catholic Priest!” Regardless of anything previously stated by various commentators, his answer to me was forthright, candid and accurate (by his own admission). I was somewhat disarmed by his candour and manner, which was in contrast to his bearing and physical stature, he is a huge man around 6’ 5”, I would guess. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 26, 2006 - 17:28 by tom eile
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Senator Peter King ,chairman of the US House of Representatives' homeland security committee and long time friend of the Irish peace process has called for the prosecution of “treasonous” New York Times editors and journalists for reporting details of a huge US government spying operation. Since September 11 2001 the US Treasury Department has been secretly collecting financial data from the world’s largest financial communications network—the Belgium-based Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or SWIFT. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / gender and sexuality Monday June 26, 2006 - 15:03 by Giles King-Salter
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All photos copyright. No unauthorised reproduction ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 26, 2006 - 14:44 by pat c
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In an overnight raid into the Gaza Strip the IDF have abducted two brothers. The Israelis claim that the brothers are members of Hamas. Hamas denies this and states that the two brithers are merely the sons of a Hamas member. The two captured men were brothers Osama and Mustafa Abu Muamar, sons of Hamas activist Ali Muamar. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday June 26, 2006 - 07:50 by ETISC
On April 28 last, a section of the East Timorese army mutinied, ostensibly over pay. An eyewitness, Australian radio reporter Maryann Keady, disclosed that American and Australian officials were involved. On May 7, Alkatiri described the riots as an attempted coup and said that "foreigners and outsiders" were trying to divide the nation. The opportunity for "influence" arose on May 31, when the Howard government accepted an "invitation" by the East Timorese president, Xanana Gusmão, and foreign minister, José Ramos Horta – who oppose Alkatiri's nationalism – to send troops to Dili, the capital. This was accompanied by "our boys to the rescue" reporting in the Australian press, together with a smear campaign against Alkatiri as a "corrupt dictator." Paul Kelly, a former editor-in-chief of Rupert Murdoch's Australian, wrote: "This is a highly political intervention … Australia is operating as a regional power or a political hegemon that shapes security and political outcomes." Translation: Australia, like its mentor in Washington, has a divine right to change another country's government. Don Watson, a speechwriter for the former prime minister Paul Keating, the most notorious Suharto apologist, wrote, incredibly: "Life under a murderous occupation might be better than life in a failed state…." ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Sunday June 25, 2006 - 20:34 by Seán Ryan
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Usual suspects use child sex abuse to heighten their image ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday June 23, 2006 - 21:40 by Liam Mullen
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The new Palestinian Anti-Terrorist Act passed by the US House of Representatives last month is preventing aid agencies, like Mercy Corps, delivering assistance to Palestinians already burdened by poverty and hardship. Since the Hamas victory in the elections, Israel has punished the Palestinian people by withdrawing valuable tax breaks, freezing wages to teachers, healthcare employees, policemen and other municipal workers, and by limiting entry through checkpoints that Palestinians need to access in order to be able to go to work. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday June 23, 2006 - 16:31 by sun
Leaders are our example and we should emulate and follow that example at all times, in this way we guarantee a future of complete destructive ‘anarchy’ for the world – ‘blessed are the liars and murderers for they have inherited the earth’! Whatever the discourse and regardless of any other consideration we will incorporate it to achieve our aims. The law and other ‘constraints’ are for the weak; we create and alter laws according to our needs. ‘Sedition’ automatically implies our ‘right’ and your ‘wrong’ – we are the trustees of 'reality', we weave the social fictions YOU live by. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Friday June 23, 2006 - 15:39 by Stephen Potter
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The mysterious transformation of Janez Drnovsek, Slovenia's President: from technocrat to "guru". ... read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage Friday June 23, 2006 - 11:21 by Luke Gibbons
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Families divided by ideals Ken Loach's award-winning The Wind That Shakes the Barley captures the tragic texture of the War of Independence and the Civil War, writes Luke Gibbons At one point in The Wind That Shakes the Barley, an Irish audience is depicted watching a film about the War of Independence that gives rise to uproar in the cinema. The film is a newsreel outlining the details of the Treaty that had just been negotiated between the Sinn Féin delegation led by Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith, and the British cabinet fronted by Lloyd George and Winston Churchill. Responding initially with cheers, the mood of the audience divides and darkens as the realities of the historic compromise are spelled out on the screen. In this we have, perhaps, a dress rehearsal for Ken Loach's work since the 1960s, which has managed not just to entertain but to agitate audiences and bring viewers, in more ways than one, to their feet. ... read full story / add a comment |
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