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international / miscellaneous Saturday October 23, 2004 - 10:14 by ..
Below is an article by well known Indy media commentator Marc Mulholland. It is possibly the best and most honest explanation of a pro war stance that I have come across and raises many interesting points for debate. Gambling on Revolution For those who supported the Iraq War as a punt on the prospects of detonating democratic revolution in the country and by extension in the region – sections of the Neocon Right and the Liberal Left – the question of realism is critical if we are not to be condemned as dilettante utopians. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 22, 2004 - 18:54 by Operation Indi Freedom
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The video of Margaret Hassan really appalls me. This woman should be released immediately. How utterly shameful that this woman, an Irish citizen, too, should be humiliated like this. Yet again, Indymedia Ireland is silent on this embarrassment to their fellow travellers' unjust cause. Just check out Liverpool Indymedia's churlish silence on Ken Bigley. Where are the Senator Mary Henry's and the Naomi Klein's appealing for her life? She must be released immediately. Freedom must prevail. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 22, 2004 - 13:15 by Ray
Oregon is voting on a constitutional measure that would ban gay marriage. The state has produced a booklet that lets various interested parties on either side put their cases. They should have checked out some of the people putting 'pro' arguments... ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 22, 2004 - 01:22 by pc
During the EU meeting in Dublin some activists had be arreted. One for example cannot leave Irland please send this petition quickly against because Polly proces is on 10 November International legal support team\Larc 62 Fieldsgate Street, London E1 1ES England merci\thank no nation no border salut Alain... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday October 21, 2004 - 11:39 by Friends of Freedom
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"The Battle of Venezuela" by Michael McCaughan. Reviewer amazed to discover own writing, word for word sometimes, and in some cases in slightly paraphrased sentences, with no reference whatsoever to the original article & no credits that this written by anyone other than Michael McCaughan. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday October 20, 2004 - 21:34 by SP Member
1 comment (last - friday january 28, 2005 - 12:29)
On 14 October the Forum on Europe heard an address by the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan who had come to speak about planned reforms to the United Nations. All Party leaders were allowed to address comments to Kofi Annan. The following speech was made by Joe Higgins. Annan, reflecting the arrogance of all diplomats and members of the political elite these days, did not answer any of Joe’s questions or refer to any points made in his speech in the summation given to the Forum. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Wednesday October 20, 2004 - 19:44 by iosaf
2 comments (last - wednesday september 14, 2005 - 01:58)
It's legal and free and based in Luxembourg the Skype company founded by Niklas Zennström last August offers users "free telephone calls". ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday October 20, 2004 - 12:43 by Slarti
"President Bush's special envoy, James Baker, who has been trying to persuade the world to forgive Iraq's crushing debts, is simultaneously working for a commercial concern that is trying to recover money from Iraq, according to confidential documents." "Mr Baker's Carlyle Group is in a consortium secretly proposing to try to collect $27bn (£15bn) on behalf of Kuwait, one of Iraq's biggest creditors, by using high-level political influence" "Yet Iraq continues to make regular reparations payments for Saddam's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. In the eighteen months since the US invasion, Iraq has paid out a staggering $1.8 billion in reparations--substantially more than the battered country's 2004 health and education budgets combined, and more than the United States has so far managed to spend in Iraq on reconstruction." Selected highlights from http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20041101&c=1&s=klein http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1326037,00.html ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Tuesday October 19, 2004 - 18:46 by R. Isible
An excerpt of an Amy Goodman interview with Noam Chomsky was carried on the Tue Oct. 19th. 2004 edition of DemocracyNOW! In it Chomsky comments on the furore over his endorsement of the VoteToStopBush petition. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice Tuesday October 19, 2004 - 16:35 by Anthony
32 comments (last - saturday september 10, 2005 - 19:00)
Two gardaí were acquitted of assaulting a participant in the Reclaim The Streets party held in May 2002. It's interesting to note that two years later, despite extensive video evidence of garda brutality not one garda has yet been convicted of any crime. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday October 19, 2004 - 11:50 by Mister Ed
Given the current escalation of Israeli depredations in Gaza and the daily US bombings of Falluja, it is interesting to examine Amnesty International's (AI) statements on the situation. AI is widely viewed as an authority on human rights issues, and thus it is of interest to analyze its output on these recent events. Careful scrutiny of AI's record reveals that, its typical response to the daily obscene deeds by either Israeli or US armies is a few barely audible ruminations with an occasional lame rebuke. The impotence of these responses raises many questions. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday October 19, 2004 - 00:46 by pc
judges rules out metal detectors for school of the Americas protest on Nov.19-21, Call to Action: Shut Down the School of the Americas! http://www.SOAW.org ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 18, 2004 - 18:26 by pc
French and Spanish interior ministers today shot down a German proposal to set up transit camps in North Africa that would process asylum seekers before they reach Europe. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday October 18, 2004 - 12:15 by Michael Hennigan
1 comment (last - tuesday october 19, 2004 - 07:59)
Last week the Guardian launched Operation Clark County to help readers have a say in the American election by writing to undecided voters in the crucial state of Ohio. In the first three days, more than 11,000 people requested addresses. Here is some of the reaction to the project that it received from the US ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Saturday October 16, 2004 - 21:53 by Migratory Bird
Check out the corp watch link for more war profiteers. All of these links, amnesty international etc are extremely important for reviewing. In America our impartial unbiased news is actually the war machine "driving" us towards our own destruction. But maybe we can break the silence of media monoploies and bring the humane back! ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday October 16, 2004 - 10:33 by Michael Hennigan
Roderick Johnson, a gay man and former inmate, said he was bought, sold and treated as a sex slave in his time in prison. -Article from today's New York Times. Full content provided as site registration is required. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Friday October 15, 2004 - 12:48 by iosaf
2 comments (last - friday october 15, 2004 - 21:23)
The polls were carried out in the following countries- Canada, France, UK, Russia, Spain, Israel, Japan, Australia, Mexico and South Korea. The results signal 80% of the known universe favour Kerry over Bush (of course) ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday October 13, 2004 - 12:00 by Glen
Figures released yesterday by Shannon Airport, where the numbers for 2004 have already breached the 100,000 barrier, with 112,803 troops going through Shannon on 1,114 flights in the nine months to the end of September. This marks a 17 per cent increase on the 96,403 troops who passed through Shannon in the corresponding period last year, when the Iraq war took place. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday October 12, 2004 - 15:04 by iosaf
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The day the italian Columbus, known as Colom to the Spanish, landed on a carribean island claiming it for the crown of Aragon (modern catalonia) thinking he had discovered India is also the day of the patroness of Zaragoza, the virgin Pilar. Spain marks this day with a military parade in Madrid and homage to the flag, and the usual polemic between all those who despise or value such displays of nationalism / imperialism / cultural hegemony et cetera... But there has been something never seen before- Veterans of both the liberation of Paris and the republican side of the civil war and a volunteer for the fascist division on the Russian front have taken part. Meanwhile in Zaragosa, Aragon, there is a big procession with statue bedecked in hundreds of thousands of flowers and a really good televised mass said to invoke the virgin, by no less than three cardinals assisted by all sorts of hooded holy types, a few score of altar boys and not a single woman. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Monday October 11, 2004 - 20:10 by eeekkk
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