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national / miscellaneous Sunday May 28, 2006 - 10:44 by Author Required   text 111 comments (last - wednesday october 18, 2006 - 03:33)
Today's papers carry the story of Martin McGuinness, MI6 spy. ... read full story / add a comment
First Frank Connolly column hits the usual suspects... hard
national / anti-capitalism Saturday May 27, 2006 - 11:19 by Frank Connolly   text 1 comment (last - saturday october 14, 2006 - 20:44)   image 2 images
In recent weeks, there has been a veritable tsunami of establishment media drivel against those who demand that the Irish government halt the give away of the country's oil and gas reserves and stop pandering to the multi-nationals, much of it from the O’Reilly controlled press. ... read full story / add a comment
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.
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international / sci-tech Saturday May 27, 2006 - 02:55 by ollie   text 1 comment (last - friday june 16, 2006 - 16:00)   image 1 image
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   text 8 comments (last - sunday may 28, 2006 - 16:04)   image 2 images
Blair assassination 'justifiable' - Galloway ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday May 26, 2006 - 19:58 by Anon   text 11 comments (last - tuesday may 30, 2006 - 10:15)
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 26, 2006 - 18:39 by pat c   text 21 comments (last - tuesday june 27, 2006 - 17:43)
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.

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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
Special Daily Ireland feature on Fullerton assassination
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 26, 2006 - 13:15 by Jarlath Kearney   text 3 comments (last - tuesday february 03, 2009 - 00:04)   image 2 images
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.

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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 .
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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.

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Cllr. John Brady, Sean Crowe TD and Marie Gavaghan
wicklow / anti-capitalism Friday May 26, 2006 - 12:11 by Mick Hall   image 1 image
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
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international / anti-war / imperialism Friday May 26, 2006 - 00:33 by redjade   text 6 comments (last - monday may 29, 2006 - 18:59)   image 3 images
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
Unionist killer - British Killer - British agent
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday May 25, 2006 - 10:44 by Mick Hall Daily   text 12 comments (last - saturday may 27, 2006 - 10:20)   image 1 image
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.
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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   text 4 comments (last - saturday may 19, 2007 - 17:18)
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
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dublin / racism & migration related issues Wednesday May 24, 2006 - 19:28 by Anthony   text 3 comments (last - saturday may 27, 2006 - 23:34)
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
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