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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   text 1 comment (last - sunday february 12, 2006 - 04:04)
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   text 3 comments (last - sunday february 12, 2006 - 22:25)
“The Agency is bound by law to investigate and pursue any act which potentially represents sedition,” ... read full story / add a comment
Car Luas (The Track Star?)
dublin / miscellaneous Friday February 10, 2006 - 21:09 by Fin   image 1 image
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   text 6 comments (last - saturday february 11, 2006 - 16:55)   image 2 images
"World War III will be a guerrilla information war, with no division between
military and civilian participation." - Marshall McLuhan
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international / anti-capitalism Thursday February 09, 2006 - 12:15 by Grandpa Munster   text 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
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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   text 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   text 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
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 05, 2006 - 15:09 by W. Finnerty
"The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online."
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 05, 2006 - 01:30 by finch   text 9 comments (last - wednesday february 15, 2006 - 16:04)   image 1 image
The recent religious furore over certain (cartoon) publications in the secular press unambiguously identifies ‘religion’ as little more than cheap politics; or put in simpler more accurate terms; religion is the politics of the mentally deficient. Consider the possibility of an infinite creator/God and the arrogance of those who actually think or imagine they or any other finite being could possibly pollute, insult or deface that God. A characteristic of Godhead is IMMUTABILITY! Rationalists would refer to the basic logic of the inability of the finite to apprehend the infinite (God); the two states are mutually exclusive. But it is obvious that ‘God’ is as far removed from the present issue as day is from night. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday February 03, 2006 - 04:27 by Seán Ryan   text 3 comments (last - wednesday february 15, 2006 - 21:49)
Illegal War was planned before the UN ever got to decide nothing...... ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Thursday February 02, 2006 - 22:17 by B. Wright
Report tells of new EPO drug use claim
Irish Times - Ireland
A greyhound racing board member told a board meeting last week he believed a number of trainers were using the performance-enhancing drug EPO on greyhounds, a ...
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Greyhound Action Ireland (affiliated to GA International) is tonight calling on its members to contact Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy in light of the recent revelations and admissions of drug administering by two well known trainers.

An urgent and immediate Gardai investigation into possible breaches of the Misuse of Drugs Act and the Protection of Animals Act by both trainers Paul Hennessy and John Kiely is being sought.

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Hamas no champion
international / politics / elections Thursday February 02, 2006 - 16:16 by hs   text 2 comments (last - thursday february 02, 2006 - 16:42)   image 1 image
Socialists should not celebrate Hamas’s victory in the Palestinian elections. Women and secular forces will very likely be the first to suffer,

http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/610/hamas.htm ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Thursday February 02, 2006 - 12:54 by Eamonn
A garden of Eden in Danger from Greedy Chinese Capitalists

I read about this story on the Times Online...

I am grateful to the newspaper for their reporting , and post the link with due regard for laws about copyright etc

Who looks after the Planet to such a degree? ... read full story / add a comment
doesn't look like that.
international / arts and media Thursday February 02, 2006 - 10:46 by iosaf   text 63 comments (last - wednesday february 15, 2006 - 14:28)   image 6 images
This story began (for some) on the 30th of Sept. 2005 when a Danish newspaper published a series of cartoons depicting Muhummad PBUH the prophet of Islam.

For others this story began on the 14th of February 1989 when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini then supreme leader of Iran issued a "fatwa" calling for the execution of Salman Rushdie on Tehran radio.

& for yet others more, this story began with the Quran and that no visual images or depictions of God exist because such artistic depictions may lead to idolatry and are thus disdained. A similar position in Christian theology is termed iconoclasm. Moreover, most Muslims believe that God is incorporeal, making any two- or three- dimensional depictions impossible. This prohibition is extended to the prophets of God. (peace be upon them).
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international / animal rights Thursday February 02, 2006 - 07:23 by GPSEA
Greenpeace, along with Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and the Humane Society, revealed the link between the whaling in the Southern Ocean and Gortons. We revealed that the Japanese parent company that wholly owns Gortons, Nippon Suissan, also partly owns the whaling fleet whose boats depart every year to hunt whales in Antarctica. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 01, 2006 - 19:51 by SAOIRSE
IRISH REPUBLICAN INFORMATION SERVICE (no. 52)
Teach Dáithí Ó Conaill, 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1, Ireland
Phone: +353-1-872 9747; FAX: +353-1-872 9757; e-mail: [email protected]
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 01, 2006 - 17:28 by grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr   text 1 comment (last - saturday june 18, 2016 - 02:17)
the 1st of April has been marked in Switzerland since 1891 as a national holiday and since 1994 as an official holiday to celebrate Swiss unity and the modern Swiss state.

Every year a celebration is organised on the hill of Grütli, where legend has it, a defensive pact was made in 1291 amongst the representatives of 'Uri, Schwytz and Unterwald, three of the Swiss cantons who later led the formation of the modern state in 1848.

for at least a dozen years, extreme right groups have attended the celebrations, and their presence prompted a "back-lash" from extreme left groups in 2005.
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