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international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 27, 2005 - 03:30 by with impunity
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By Andrew Cawthorne Sun Jun 26,11:08 AM ET NAIROBI June 26 (Reuters) - Torture is still meted out with impunity in Kenya, particularly by police, said two studies released on Sunday to mark the U.N. world day for torture. Former Kenyan strongman President Daniel arap Moi's security services were notorious for torture in the latter years of his 24-year-old rule that ended in 2002. President Mwai Kibaki came to power vowing better human rights, but the reports showed his record is by no means clean. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Monday June 27, 2005 - 01:59 by Christian Guerrero
* This article is about expanding coal mining consessions in Venezuela`s western state of Zulia. It explains the threats coal mining poses to indigenous communities and water security for Maracaibo, Zulia`s state capital. The article also explains how this initiative is part of a larger regional development plan, IIRSA, and other proposed projects that fall into Zuila`s regional development. The article is also about the grassroots resistence movement against the proposed projects. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday June 27, 2005 - 00:37 by redjade
''On Thursday, I received orders from the Army mobilizing me for Operation Iraqi Freedom. These orders followed an earlier set, cut on Tuesday, which transferred me from the Army's individual ready reserve into the 101st Airborne Division.'' ... read full story / add a comment 
international / summit mobilisations Sunday June 26, 2005 - 21:13 by redjade
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Hiberno-Blogo-Sphere G8-Blogo-Sphere Indy-Blogo-Sphere blog the dog.... ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Saturday June 25, 2005 - 20:07 by James Sorensen
Review of Renewable Energy technologies for the elimination of the energy crisis and for Real Sustainable economic Development. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday June 25, 2005 - 14:46 by seedot
A map showing the deaths in Iraq by country since 20th March 2003. Excellent visualisation. ... read full story / add a comment
international / public consultation / irish social forum Friday June 24, 2005 - 23:18 by Henk Ruyssenaars
It's not only their genocide in Iraq and Afghanistan: in England twenty-two-thousand old people died as a result of the cold last year. In Brussels however, the British PM shamelessly lied about his country as 'supporting a social Europe'. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday June 24, 2005 - 18:10 by R. Isible
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Associated Press reports that an Italian judge has issued arrest warrants for 13 CIA agents alleged to be involved in the kidnapping of Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, known as Abu Omar. The victim is alleged to have been tortured in Egypt. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Friday June 24, 2005 - 17:53 by Dissenter
This is a general list of items Dissent! Ireland encourages you to bring. When packing, please keep in mind that it will almost deffinetly rain. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Friday June 24, 2005 - 15:08 by unity
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The conference of the socialist party led Public and Commercial Services Union, held in Brighton two weeks ago saw a number of fringe meetings, the largest being that of Respect. George Galloway Respect MP called for the british Socialist Party (sister party of the joe higgins socialist party) to join the respect coalition ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Thursday June 23, 2005 - 22:09 by Sinn Féin
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23 June, 2005 Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún became the first person to address the European Parliament in Irish since the European Council agreed to give it the status of official working language of the EU. Ms de Brún spoke in Brussels yesterday evening. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday June 23, 2005 - 21:16 by reader
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if you log onto http//:www.italy.indymedia.org today, you get an important notice. the cryptological service offered to the server of Autistici and inventati (both .org) umbrella sites of Italian social movements was compromised, gosh do yousay, the 15th of june last year, being 2004, however the fact did not come to light in autistic and inventive circles till the 21st of this month, the sixth month of 2005. This effects Italy indymedia. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Thursday June 23, 2005 - 19:07 by Greenpeace - Philippines
The Greenpeace report challenges Monsanto's claim that Bt corn is the answer to poverty. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday June 23, 2005 - 17:44 by Bean-counter
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23 June 2005 16:34 The Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell, has told the Dáil that up to 1,500 people are actively involved in the Provisional IRA. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Thursday June 23, 2005 - 13:31 by Nerio B. Stanuzzi
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Periodistadigital, an average parasite, dedicated to clonar information (but only of liberal and facist newspapers), it today publishes (23 of June of 2005) this news: ... read full story / add a comment
waterford / animal rights Thursday June 23, 2005 - 01:32 by B Wright
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The Department of Agriculture has been slammed over claims a farmer was forced to kill his pigs with a sledgehammer. The incident took places on a farm in Co.Waterford in 2002 but details only emerged this weekend. The department had suspected the 4,300 pigs were being fed with carbodox-an illegal substance linked to cancer in humans-and insisted they be destroyed. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday June 23, 2005 - 00:39 by redjade
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"But why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that? And watch him suffer." - Barbara Bush on "Good Morning America," March 18, 2003 ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 22, 2005 - 23:34 by redjade
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USA/EU Cooperation: 'Information and Communications Technology Standards: Initial projects under this dialogue include information exchange on e-accessibility, security, and biometrics.' ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday June 22, 2005 - 18:30 by Gary Powers
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Breaking News By PATRICK QUINN, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - A U.S. Air Force U-2 spy plane involved in a mission in Afghanistan crashed while returning to its base in the United Arab Emirates, killing the pilot, the military said Wednesday. ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Wednesday June 22, 2005 - 14:36 by casual browser
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