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international / politics / elections Tuesday May 31, 2005 - 16:59 by iosaf
 11 comments (last - tuesday april 04, 2006 - 21:28)  1 image
Very clever man is Mr. Chirac, very clever. I reckon it's on account of him not watching telly, and avoiding the richer heavier sauces at the antonine carâme suppers. Raffarin the unpopular and over-fed is out de Villepin the tall and lean is now PM. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday May 30, 2005 - 23:52 by Archie Kennedy
And in the end we can look back on our lives and remember all the great shows we watched on television; the great virtual escape from alienation. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday May 30, 2005 - 16:52 by redjade
3 comments (last - tuesday may 31, 2005 - 12:55) 1 image
"We were stupid," said Dominic Nutt at Christian Aid. "We didn't check it out, Cafod didn't check it out, and Oxfam didn't check it out." ... read full story / add a comment 
international / eu Monday May 30, 2005 - 13:14 by iosaf
4 comments (last - wednesday june 01, 2005 - 10:21) 3 images
As we were told, in no uncertain terms by the yes campaign, the rejection of the Constitution, would mean a rejection of not only the lengthy document of V.Giscard d'Estaing, but also of the treaties and accords incorporated therein- Nice, Maastricht, Shengen, Versailles, Lisbon and Rome. In it is thus not surprising that throughout France this morning, in between burning the 12 starred flag, shoppers have been attempting to pay for their bagettes in francs. Meanwhile the Pope has called on Kathurliks to abstain from €U referenda. ... read full story / add a comment
this is how to save the earth ... read full story / add a comment
hariri's game (part 6) a weakened france (&EU)withdraws and the USA increases pressure on the Levant
international / politics / elections Sunday May 29, 2005 - 23:25 by Antonin Carême
1 comment (last - sunday june 05, 2005 - 13:44)
it has been a little over 100 days since Hariri a lebanese billionaire died along with several of his employees in a car bomb attack in Beirut in the early hours of Saint Valentine's day. He left to his few sons business concerns worth approximately 2 billion euros in various sectors from primary (construction and quarrying) to services, = the most popùlar telly stations. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday May 29, 2005 - 22:50 by Clovis
4 comments (last - tuesday may 31, 2005 - 13:44) 1 image
The legal black hole that keeps 'suspects' detained by the US military in Guantánamo is not just an issue for liberals. From a pragmatic as well as moral perspective the system created in response to the September 11th attacks needs to change argues David Rose, journalist and author of Guantánamo. America's war on Human Rights. - in interview with Three Monkeys Online Interview available free online at: http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/threemon_article_guantanamo_human_rights_abuses_david_rose.htm ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Sunday May 29, 2005 - 10:51 by unslaver.com
1 comment (last - tuesday march 21, 2006 - 02:32)
Even the US Marines know that the best laid plans go wrong in the first 20 seconds and you better be prepared for anything to happen! The Organizers of Unslaver.com certainly understand that concept intimately, having survived the first six weeks of operation ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Saturday May 28, 2005 - 12:25 by i
8 comments (last - thursday june 23, 2005 - 15:56) 2 images
The British based news magazine "The economist" this week led with a cover "Italy the real sick man of Europe" which saw a little illustration of the peninsula on crutches hit news kiosks across the continent and a lot of content inside on the moribund, stagnant, depressed economy, and little digs at the lack of media freedom, disregard for civil and human rights and the "smellyiness" of it all. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday May 26, 2005 - 12:46 by Jonathan Schell
3 comments (last - thursday may 26, 2005 - 16:20)
In a shocking innovation in American nuclear policy, recently disclosed in the Washington Post by military analyst William Arkin, the administration has created and placed on continuous high alert a force whereby the President can launch a pinpoint strike, including a nuclear strike, anywhere on earth with a few hours' notice. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday May 26, 2005 - 00:24 by Browser
6 comments (last - friday may 27, 2005 - 17:05)
Ignore the backtracking. It happened all right. They did flush the Quran in the toilet: ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Wednesday May 25, 2005 - 12:01 by .:.
2 comments (last - thursday october 18, 2007 - 14:08) 1 image
"If Jesus Christ was alive today he would defend investigation with maternal [stem] cells" :- James Watson one of the discoverers of the double helix DNA molecule in a print interview published by the La Vanguardia in Spain yesterday. Makes me laugh. When exactly did Jesus die? Or rather didn't he die and go through the Resurrection? Isn't that why he's famous? Isn't he alive, still? out there somewhere, waiting to return and tell us all about stem cells, life support machines, exactly what sexual acts between consenting adults are ok? at what price a house may be sold? whether it was the right thing to invade iraq? & Today it is reported that the US congress have been debating changes to US law to allow stem cell research. Mr Bush believes Jesus lives, and he's not a scientist, he's a pharisee or saducee. & he's just lost his vote. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-capitalism Tuesday May 24, 2005 - 22:05 by Clayton Hallmark
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Mass-produced computers can KILL Microsoft and free the world's computer users. They'll be too cheap to accommodate MS Windows -- MS's bread and butter. Computers will go the way of TVs and VCRs -- cheap offshore (non-USA) production. They'll be cheap, simple, general-purpose (FREE SOFTWARE), all-electronic (no disk drive) -- in other words, real electronic computers, finally. READ ABOUT THE OPENING SHOT, MOBILIS, FIRED IN BANGALORE, INDIA, ON MAY 26, 2005. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday May 24, 2005 - 13:49 by Dorian Gray
2 comments (last - friday june 10, 2005 - 05:08)
From Counterpunch An Exclusive Interview with George Galloway ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Monday May 23, 2005 - 12:34 by solid@rity!
13 comments (last - thursday december 08, 2005 - 16:35) 1 image
the BBC are on strike from midnight 22/5/05 to midnight 23/5/05. Help them out. Don't watch BBC TV. (it may surprise you, but two of the BBC terestial channels are broadcast by powerful antennae into the Irish homeland). If you were sold a telly set with these stations on the preset selection, it is your duty as a socialist to ignore them today. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Monday May 23, 2005 - 05:56 by dk
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New zealand is thought of as "clean and green", the truth is exactly the opposite. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday May 20, 2005 - 21:50 by Sunsara Taylor
They say that an army is a concentration of the type of society they are fighting for. So, does anyone really want to live in a society created by an army that produces Abu Ghraib and Bagram? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday May 20, 2005 - 16:50 by Issa Samandar
The uranium level in El-Khalil valley reaches 237 becquerel (bcq) per kilogram3, which equals about 10 times the permitted concentration, which is 25 bcq. The Thorium 232 (Th) level reaches 152 bcq where the permitted concentration level is also 25 bcq. The readings on Cesium 137 (Cs), another radio-active isotope that only emerges from nuclear explosions or nuclear activities is equivalently high. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 20, 2005 - 16:23 by repellent writing style (LOL)
2 comments (last - saturday december 30, 2006 - 22:03)
Thousands marched to call for the return of exiled Haitian Jean Bertrand Aristide this May18th the day the caribbean state marks its flag day and comemorates the declaration of Toussiant L'Ouverture's republic. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4561811.stm As the people of Haiti look forward to elections and voting and "not voting" this summer / autumn and are in the "registration" process which lasts till August 9th. It is thus opportune to return our attention to Haiti. ... read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Friday May 20, 2005 - 14:16 by CABT
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