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national / arts and media Thursday October 11, 2007 - 19:09 by C Murray
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The Long Room library in TCD is exhibiting the Annals of the Four Masters until the 21st of December 2007. http://www.tcd.ie/library/heritage/events.php http://www.ucc.ie/celt/publishd.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_of_the_Four_Masters They date from 2242 to 1616. Trinity has also got Piers Plowman amongst other books, however you need a special permission to access some of the texts or be a student in the Lit Dept. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday October 11, 2007 - 15:24 by guild of assassins
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......"If you're going to tell people they're wrong & unsportsmanlike you have to direct their energies elsewhere"..... I realise & so do other regular contributors that there's a lot of anti-China sentiment floating about. It's quite understandable considering the Mattel Toy corporation scandal earlier this year which misled the world into thinking they were expected to send back their Barbie dolls because Chinese factory workers had poisoned them, only to learn later it was Mattel Toy Corp's manufacturing instructions which were at fault. & of course since the mid-19th century it was been impossible to treat on anti-chinese sentiment without mentioning Lama-ism. So a spot of news for those who hold Lama-ism in great esteem. "The democratically-elected Tibetan government-in-exile (TGIE) has challenged China over a new law designed to limit Tibetan Buddhism’s role in identifying reincarnated lamas." ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Wednesday October 10, 2007 - 18:09 by Guy de Cervens
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The first Argentinean Roman Catholic priest charged with killings, torture and kidnapping was convicted and sentenced to life on Tuesday. Father Christian von Wernich was convicted on all counts: 7 murders, 31 cases of torture and 42 kidnappings between 1976 and 1983 when the military ran Argentina with the support of the Catholic Church. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday October 10, 2007 - 17:31 by John Cornford
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Nick Bird has been a member of the SWP for 17 years. Below he outlines his reasons for parting with what he sees to be an undemocratic and dishonest organisation. As for my intentions, I have been an SWP member for 17 years, but frankly I’ve had enough. This is a bit of a wrench for me, since I feel that I learnt the core political ideas and principles that I hold from the SWP. But for some years I have felt my belief in the good things that the party does being qualified by frustrations at its practices and methods. I will stay in Respect and align myself with those who want an inclusive, democratic party that fights for peace, justice, equality and socialism. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice Wednesday October 10, 2007 - 16:37 by C Murray
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This morning the State gave assurances to the Council of Europe that the health and Safety of Irish prisoners would be upheld. This unusual occurence happened because it is the second such report from outside the state which highlights the problems in our prisons. Both the Amnesty International report for 2006 and the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture highlighted the murder of Gary Douch in a holding cell int the basement of Mountjoy and the continued medieval practices of slopping out in that prison. The Committee visited ten Garda stations, seven prisons and the Central Mental Hospital. The report is damning. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday October 10, 2007 - 13:51 by Charlotte Despard
See below a plea to the US and UK governments to enter into negotiations with the Iranian regime. This is from CASMII, the organisation that the SWP is involved in. They are suddenly keen to portray the US and UK governments as capable of playing a progressive role in the region! It is clear now who is really creating illusions in the US and UK governments – as well of course as being loyal supporters of the Iranian regime. We urge the leaders of the U.S., the U.K. and Iran to set aside allpre-conditions and resume direct and open negotiations on all issuesof dispute, to bring about a lowering of tensions, to create an opening for meaningful progress toward understanding, and to envision a Middle East in which all its residents can coexist and together address the common problems of violence, poverty, illness and environmental degradation. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday October 10, 2007 - 13:40 by Miriam
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A doctor gives an account of the condition of the Palestinian people. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday October 10, 2007 - 09:21 by Miriam
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The west does everything badly because if it doesn't, China will do it for us instead. Low wages, environmental degradation - you name it - it's all the fault of the Chinese. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday October 09, 2007 - 14:57 by Miriam Cotton & David Manning
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This is a response to the recent address to Ahmadinejad by Lee Bollinger, President of Columbia University and the media coverage it subsequently had. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday October 08, 2007 - 22:18 by Miriam Cotton
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The UK government's attempt to ban a march in support of bringing troops home from Iraq is scuppered by strength of popular resistance. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday October 08, 2007 - 14:24 by indyjourno
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An Irish woman, Ciara Durkin, was shot in suspicious circumstances in Afghanistan. She was shot in the head inside Bagram air base in Afghanistan. She had previously warned her family to investigate if she was killed. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Sunday October 07, 2007 - 16:03 by Guy de Cervens
17 comments (last - wednesday november 07, 2007 - 20:53) 1 image
All over the US hysteria is rising that they are going to be nuked and invaded by Al Qaeda agents posing as Mexicans. Are they just paranoid or could they be catching a glimpse of their future? Remember, just coz they’re paranoid doesn’t mean we’re not out to get them! ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice Saturday October 06, 2007 - 09:40 by C Murray
4 comments (last - monday october 08, 2007 - 18:53)
Last night two men were shot dead in Greenhills Road in Dublin. The story with attendant media-speak is hitting the headlines in the form of : "Two Men Shot dead In Gangland Attack". The details are that:
A car carrying two gunmen pulled up to a garage and shot the owner and salesman, between nine and ten bullets were fired.
http://www.ireland.com[frontpage] ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Thursday October 04, 2007 - 14:30 by pat c
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The Iranian Junta attempted to use the daughter and son of Che to whip up support for the Islamists and to do down Socialism. This backfired spectacularly when Aleida Guevara made it clear that Che was a Communist and an Atheist. An attempt to rope in the son and daughter of the Argentine revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara to forge a parallel between Iran’s Islamist revolution and the socialist revolution in Latin America through a four-day conference has ended in fiasco. After Aleida Guevara protested from the podium against perceived distortions of her father’s ideology by the first Iranian speaker, Haj Saeed Ghasemi, the four-day ‘Che Like Chamran’ conference, that started Sep. 25, was aborted and the Latin American guests whisked away. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Wednesday October 03, 2007 - 23:55 by guild of assassins
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Last week the out of the way website "Damn Data" picked up on the latest buzz amongst those for whom fear of hermetic or allegorical secret societies on the Western model has waned in recent years perhaps due to unsurmountable silliness or maybe just solving all the secrets. For in truth not even 911 or the current legal attemps by Mohamed Fayed to bring Philip Mountabatten to an unlawful death verdict relating to the death of his (fayed who prefers to be known as alFayed) son's lover Diance Spencer [who was the ex-wife of course of Mountabatten's son (who prefers to be known as the prince of Cymru & Wales)] can really get us SEEING THE TRUTH ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday October 03, 2007 - 11:11 by C Murray
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On the Third of October 2006 there was a alert here and on the IMC Networks that there was going to be a suppression and violent putdown of the APPO and the Popular movement in Oaxaca. Narconews had been sending out alerts since the 30th of September, reporting troop gathering of up to 5,000 men and reporting that only one radio station was working. http://www.indymedia.ie/article/78757 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/ ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday October 02, 2007 - 20:14 by Maluka
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Democracy Now is reporting that : "In his latest article in the New Yorker magazine, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/10/08/071008fa_...=true investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reports there has been a significant increase in the tempo of planning for war with Iran inside the Bush administration. Hersh says the White House recently requested the Joint Chiefs of Staff redraw longstanding plans for a possible attack. Hersh also reports the Bush administration's rationale for bombing Iran has shifted from Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program to Iran's role in Iraq". ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday October 02, 2007 - 19:19 by Chris Murray
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The monthly Isis Women e- newsletter is just released with its focus on International Women's Rights and Issues. Generally these are related to trade and its effects on indigenous communities as well as journalism that encompasses huge regions around the Pacific Basin and further afield. This Month's blog section is studying the Japan-Chile, Japan-Thailand FTAS (Free Trade Agreements) and how Japanese corps are buying legal rights over biodiversity in developing nations- or 'biopiracy" ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday October 02, 2007 - 15:21 by Indyjourno
In this essay on the anniversary of Gandhi's birth (Oct. 2, 1869), writer Pablo Ouziel recalls Gandhi's enduring message about the evils of violence and the hope for human redemption ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday October 02, 2007 - 12:28 by Headser54
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In an amazing redefinition of 'GM free' and contrary to Green Party policy, Green Junior Minister Trevor Sargent has now stated GM free is 'not about banning imported GM feed' according to the Irish Independent (Oct 2, 2007) (see below). ... read full story / add a comment |
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