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international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday May 27, 2006 - 10:55 by JIM DEE Daily Ireland USA correspondent
Have you ever been so impressed by a documentary that you’ve recommended it to others? Retired US army colonel Ann Wright did just that on Monday – and was promptly handcuffed for engaging in “seditious” activity. Wright’s trouble began when she set out to attend the court martial of a soldier accused in the Abu Ghraib prison abused scandal. The 29-year army veteran arrived at Fort McNair in Washington, DC, only to learn that the court martial was being held at Fort Meade in Maryland. As she was leaving for Fort Meade, she happened upon some anti-war friends at the Fort McNair’s gate who had some postcards advertising a film called “Yes Sir, No Sir!”, which is about American soldiers’ resistance to the Vietnam War. She’d seen the movie and was very impressed, and she felt others in the military might benefit from catching it during its limited engagement in Washington this week. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / sci-tech Saturday May 27, 2006 - 02:55 by ollie
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9000 of the US EPA's own scientists crtiicise........the EPA ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Saturday May 27, 2006 - 01:19 by £
Last weekend a story broke in the UK, of how a Home office official had offered a speedy asylum process to a Zimbabwean rape victim (18) in return for sex. Many Irish people might have missed this, being concentrated as they were on asylum seekers in St. Patrick's cathedral, and since then Mc dowell's legal disaster which puts our children at risk and has blown the lid on the judicial treatment of underage sex and the questionable sentances handed down. The UK story makes an interesting "compare & contrast". ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday May 26, 2006 - 20:16 by Anon and on
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Blair assassination 'justifiable' - Galloway ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday May 26, 2006 - 19:58 by Anon
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Alan McCoombes Jailed ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 26, 2006 - 18:39 by pat c
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It looks as if we will be able to lead the Catholic Church on a merry dance regarding the 'Rhythm Method'. This method, the only one approved by the Vatican may kill off more embryos than other forms of contraception. Pope Benny will not be well pleased. Extract below; full article at the link. pat ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday May 26, 2006 - 14:51 by Seán Ryan
24 Iraqi citizens were killed Last November in what is being investigated as a massacre. It now looks as if some very serious prosecutions will take place. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 26, 2006 - 13:15 by Jarlath Kearney
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Irish authorities actively covered up loyalist death squad actions Brother of Martin Doherty, who was killed in a 1994 gun and bomb attack on the Widow Scallan’s pub in Dublin, calls for full disclosure Jarlath Kearney 25/05/2006 Irish government authorities have actively covered up the actions of loyalist death squads that operated in the 26 Counties during the 1990s, a Daily Ireland probe today reveals. The objective of the persistent, top-level cover-ups has been to protect well-placed RUC/PSNI and British intelligence agents operating in both the Ulster Defence Association and Ulster Volunteer Force. The conduct of the Irish authorities raises serious legal, constitutional and human-rights questions for Irish citizens affected by the attacks. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Friday May 26, 2006 - 12:48 by j kelly
On May 22 FBI agents raided the congressional offices of US Representative William Jefferson – the first such raid in U.S history . This WSWS article suggests a rapidly developing US constitutional crisis in the confrontation between executive and legislature . ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Friday May 26, 2006 - 12:42 by pat c
The original "Dracula" Castle in Transylvania is being handed back by the State to a Capitalist Bloodsucker. One of the last Gains of October is being frittered away. Once more the Romanian People are being bled dry by Emigre Bourgeois Bloodsuckers. Pat ... read full story / add a comment 
wicklow / anti-capitalism Friday May 26, 2006 - 12:11 by Mick Hall
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Concerns have been raised over the transparency of one of Ireland’s biggest proposed developments. The €2 billion (£1.4 billion) plan by the Pizarro Development Consortium to build a high-density development on the 62-acre site on Bray town golf course in Co Wicklow was passed by Bray Town Council and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council earlier this month. Local residents have strongly objected to the plan, concerned it will cause widespread flooding in the Little Bray part of town, affecting more than 700 homes. The residents are holding a public meeting next Monday to discuss a campaign to have the high-density build of shops, offices and residential homes moved away from the River Dargle flood plain and relocated to higher ground on the site. Picture shows Sinn Fein Cllr. John Brady with Sinn Fein TD Sean Crowe and party member Marie Gavaghan checking proposed plans for develepment on the natural flood plain on in the Dargle valley, Bray, Co. Wicklow. [Pic: Shayne Phelan] ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday May 26, 2006 - 00:33 by redjade
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The two-page proposal for a broad Iran-U.S. agreement covering all the issues separating the two countries, a copy of which was obtained by IPS, was conveyed to the United States in late April or early May 2003. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Thursday May 25, 2006 - 16:16 by Danny Morrison
One day Bob Dylan poured a bottle of whiskey over his head and walked into a department store pretending to be drunk so that he would get some bad press. He found that being thrust into the role of ‘the conscience of a nation’ encroached on his privacy and interfered with his creativity and he wanted his freedom back. Those involved in political struggle in the USA placed an onerous responsibility on Dylan, demanding of him his talent, his time, his total commitment. Regardless of how he later revised his stance, the early songs which shot him to fame were the work of an artist responding to injustice and oppression and the politics of the day. He was heavily influenced by, of course, Woodie Guthrie, but was also open to the songs of Brecht and Weill as well as Irish rebel music. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday May 25, 2006 - 10:44 by Mick Hall Daily
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The killer of Belfast lawyer Pat Finucane has been given a generous relocation package by the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) in return for his silence on the extent of state collusion, one of his would-be victims claimed last night. UDA gunman and British agent Ken Barrett was freed by the Sentence Review Commission yesterday after applying for early release under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday May 25, 2006 - 08:05 by Kingfisher
Furthermore, theology induces passivity to authority – there is no better method of creating compliance than theology. Who else would quietly accept injustice, various forms of deprivation and huge disparities in the distribution of wealth than those who imagine it is the result of demerit, sin or the will of some God? Many extremely intelligent and capable people become observably handicapped when the subject/spectre of religion rears its illogical, paralysing and fear-inducing head. Never doubt the power that is born of theological indoctrination (child abuse) and the resultant fear that it engenders (usually for life). ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday May 24, 2006 - 21:18 by hedgehog
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Jessie Macbeth, a Former Army Ranger and Iraq War Veteran Tells All From seattle indymedia for any anti war people who may have missed it, you really should see this. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 24, 2006 - 20:17 by RSF
Irish Republican Information Service (no. 67) Teach Dáithí Ó Conaill, 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1, Ireland Phone: +353-1-872 9747; FAX: +353-1-872 9757; e-mail: [email protected] Date: 24 Bealtaine / May 2006 Internet resources maintained by SAOIRSE-Irish Freedom ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / racism & migration related issues Wednesday May 24, 2006 - 19:28 by Anthony
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Some coverage of the Afghan hunger -strike in the mainstream media from an NGO perspective. The first part of this article is an article written by Peter O’Mahony from The Irish Refugee Council which appeared in today's Irish Times (24th May). The second is a transcript of Peter being interviewed by Matt Cooper on his Last Word current affairs show on Today FM. The show was broadcast on Monday 22nd May and also featured a debate between Rosanna Flynn of Residents Against Racism and Ian O’Doherty of the Irish Independent (which is not covered by this transcript). ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 24, 2006 - 18:20 by RSF
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"Now some of those who would not give even a cup of water to those struggling for Irish national independence down the years, were climbing on the bandwagon of material gain and self- aggrandisement. It was a far cry from the beds of pain of the hunger strikers in the H-Blocks to the comfort of ministerial seats under British rule in Stormont and the cosiness and luxury of heavily-subsidised English offices in Westminster." ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 24, 2006 - 18:13 by Brian Feeney
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In case you haven't noticed, the assembly meeting up at Stormont isn't the Northern Ireland Assembly established by the Good Friday Agreement. It's 'the assembly' as the school-marmy speaker keeps telling her class. Oh yes, the speaker. At the first gathering Bob McCartney asked why she was calling herself the speaker when she hadn't been elected by the assembly. Cos our proconsul appointed me speaker, that's why, so there. ... read full story / add a comment |
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