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international / sci-tech Wednesday February 15, 2006 - 14:30 by pat c
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Some see religion as a disease of the mind. Richard Dawkins describes it as a malign virus of the mind spread through memes. But religion also spreads physical diseases and viruses. The article below might well prove to be an eyeopener for some. You can find Richard Dawkins Viruses of the Mind at: http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi//Dawkins/viruses-of-th....html Jack Woodall who wrote the article below is the director of the Nucleus for the Investigation of Emerging Infectious Diseases in the department of medical biochemistry at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [email protected] pat c ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday February 15, 2006 - 13:59 by Shannon
2 comments (last - tuesday february 21, 2006 - 03:42)
The US government sent our troops into Iraq siting the posession of "weaponds of mass destruction" as the reason to enter. We've found none. As a result, the government is now telling us that we still needed to be there because it is a country accomodating terrorist organizations. Thousands of US troops and Iraqi civilians have been killed as a result of this "war on terror." Now, as I read an article in the Guardian about "The Long War" I cannot help wondering if the fighting will ever end. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Tuesday February 14, 2006 - 22:18 by Liam Mullen
As part of the 2003 Wexford Festival Opera, the Dublin writer Hugo Hamilton gave a talk about his new work – The speckled People. A tall thin man, dressed in black, Hugo stepped up to the podium in the children’s section of Wexford Library and began to speak softly about his latest work. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday February 14, 2006 - 19:11 by Starstruck
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As the violence and senseless bloodshed conti ues in Iraq John Pilger takes a look at what many are describing as the "new Vietnam". I'd call it murder. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday February 14, 2006 - 17:24 by pat c
At last some backbone is shown by one of the larger parties. Labour have stood up against Islamic Fundamentalism. In the piece below, Liz McManus criticises the way the President was allowed to address a\meeting in Saudi Arabia where women were kept behind an opaque screen. Women are treated like animals in Saudi Arabia where the mullahs \wield abnsolute power. This is what the Irish mullahs dream of. pat ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 14, 2006 - 11:56 by Oliver Delaney
This is an article in this week's Sunday Mirror article about RTE's celebrity businessman ripping off migrant workers ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday February 13, 2006 - 23:15 by redjade
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»Perhaps what is most disturbing about her blog post is that the raid did not seem to be directed at her - this is just 'normal' life in Baghdad - Iraq's 'New Normal';« ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday February 13, 2006 - 22:13 by freek
Irish Farmers Journal reports the IFA and ICMSA and Macra na Feirme Ireland three largest farming bodies make no submissions on GM?? Why is that? I call shenanigans http://www.gmfreeireland.org/ifm/index.php It is the bioethics ctte who look at the ethics of GMO http://www.bioethics.ie/pdfs/GM%20Report1.pdf The survey at the end is overwhelming negative. Yet they call for consumer choice!! I don't think trials would get sabotaged if people felt that there was a level playing field between the public and enviromental safety and corporations influence, even with biotethics committees and EPA environmentalists. The Bio-ethics Ctte conclusions are all very sensible but again I don't think the reflects the forces for and against GMO, the bioethics survey for Ireland and the well publicised GM Debate in the UK are overwhelmingly negative. There is this phrase "consumer choice", does the average consumer have choice in the USA to buy GM or not I don't think they do. Just as this one is. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 13, 2006 - 20:05 by gerard
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WE ARE A NATION AND WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO DECIDE! ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday February 12, 2006 - 23:10 by Elephant O'Room
6 comments (last - friday february 24, 2006 - 15:21)
In a Channel 4 documentary to be broadcast on Monday, Ryanair, Europe's largest budget airline, will be accused of security lapses, dirty aircraft and making its cabin crew and pilots work dangerously long hours. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 12, 2006 - 05:04 by furlong
Faced with the undeniable and now unavoidable truth of the criminality of the Bush, Blair and Howard governments, what do you suppose are the consequences for these men? People are fined for parking and littering offences but murder and plunder on an international scale incurs no penalty it would seem. [The ICC is a puppet court, an institution with zero credibility.] Is the lack of legal and public response surprising? Advice from leading consultants and ‘people managers’ was/is unanimous; once a decision is acted upon by a government and a nation is committed to a particular course, the people are swept along regardless of compromising evidence released during or after the event. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Sunday February 12, 2006 - 02:53 by Fedayeen
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The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine unsuccessfully tried to unite all the Palestinian left on one list in the recent elections for the Palestinian Parliament. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday February 11, 2006 - 21:37 by redjade
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“The Agency is bound by law to investigate and pursue any act which potentially represents sedition,” ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / miscellaneous Friday February 10, 2006 - 21:09 by Fin
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An idiot or an idiot car thief left a car on the Luas track just at Rialto Bridge. Luckily there were no injuries and it was soon removed. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 09, 2006 - 17:34 by redjade
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"World War III will be a guerrilla information war, with no division between military and civilian participation." - Marshall McLuhan ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday February 09, 2006 - 12:15 by Grandpa Munster
2 comments (last - thursday february 09, 2006 - 21:14)
Al Lewis, the actor who played Grandpa Munster in the 1960s TV sitcom Grandpa Munster actor was a firm socialist until the end The Munsters, died in New York last Friday at the age of 95. In the 1960s, Grandpa Munster — the cigar-smoking vampire father-in-law of the Frankenstein’s monster-like Herman on The Munsters — was a regular presence on television screens from Cairo to Chicago, and Belfast to Buenos Aires. JIM DEE Daily Ireland USA correspondent ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Wednesday February 08, 2006 - 21:34 by browser
Adding this here as it references alot of stuff on this site and is to interest to this site. Its seems Rory is using his connections to get published its a question though is he as good as writer as his contact, this piece is alittle of everything and not as verbose. But a timely reminder that perhaps its time for an education category on this site? ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 08, 2006 - 12:22 by Robert Bechert
6 comments (last - thursday february 09, 2006 - 19:32)
The angry worldwide Muslim protests against the publication of cartoons depicting Muhammad in various European newspapers have shown again the enormous anger provoked amongst Muslims by Bush’s “war on terror” and the invasion of Iraq. However the issue that has sparked off these protests and their character has renewed discussion about a war of civilisations or of cultures. These developments are a sharp warning of the divisive tensions can develop in the absence of a strong socialist workers’ movement offering a class alternative. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday February 07, 2006 - 06:58 by nano
US Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, recently announced the ‘war on terror’ would be re-named “the long war”; this announcement has not surprised analysts who are aware that neo-con ideologues and strategists follow the Straussian (and perverted Trotskyist) doctrine of permanent war. Some interpret this as nostalgia for the ‘good old days’ of the Cold War in which a clearly defined enemy (communist bogeymen) kept the nation on permanent alert and amenable to the powers of the time. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 05, 2006 - 21:21 by hs
3 comments (last - monday february 06, 2006 - 20:28)
After the "cartoon scandal", a re look if socialists and muslims can work together, without socialists compremishing progressive beliefs such as equal rights for all people regardless of gender, sexuality, religion or race. ... read full story / add a comment |
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