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international / miscellaneous Tuesday September 06, 2005 - 13:57 by Monbiot fan
 4 comments (last - wednesday september 07, 2005 - 19:23)
Even as the G8 promises fall apart, Geldof stays silent - George Monbiot ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday September 06, 2005 - 13:13 by dave
The evacuation of New Orleans in the face of Hurricane Ivan looked sinisterly like Strom Thurmond's version of the Rapture. Affluent white people fled the Big Easy in their SUVs, while the old and car-less -- mainly Black -- were left behind in their below-sea-level shotgun shacks and aging tenements to face the watery wrath. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday September 05, 2005 - 23:24 by reader
3 comments (last - friday september 09, 2005 - 20:58)
good round-up of fema blocking help http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/5/16455/30830 ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Monday September 05, 2005 - 17:09 by mafia watcher
3 comments (last - wednesday september 07, 2005 - 12:47)
Old habits die hard, McCreevy is still working hard for big business. I am sure his efforts will be richly rewarded. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Monday September 05, 2005 - 16:40 by Starstruck
1 comment (last - tuesday september 06, 2005 - 12:33)  1 image
Hurricane Katrina kills thousands and devastates an entire city,vital failings in local and federal policy becoming exposed. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Sunday September 04, 2005 - 16:49 by bob
this group have been getting some press resently, here is an article from the kingdom this week. A lecturer at the Institute of Technology in Tralee has criticised political parties in Ireland for their inaccessibility after he was unable to deliver information packs to TDs on the 9/11 terror attacks. www.the-kingdom.ie/news/story.asp?j=18180 ... read full story / add a comment
down / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday September 03, 2005 - 18:35 by Dave
See how the fat cats network: "Alongside O'Leary at this press briefing sat David Bonderman - boss of Texas Pacific, who own Gate Gourmet - and the man O'Leary hopes will bankroll his medieval pillaging of the rest of the airline industry. O'Leary and Bonderman (who, incidentally, is also chairman of Ryanair) are already tied up through their joint interest in Texas Pacific, the venture capital firm which took over Gate in 2003. Bonderman is so loaded that he spent an estimated $7 million on his birthday party - with live music from the Rolling Stones, no less, and a stand-up routine from Robin Williams." ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Friday September 02, 2005 - 16:37 by hs
22 comments (last - monday june 05, 2017 - 17:12) 5 images
Hundreds of thousands are left homeless. Tens of thousands have been shipped to Texas as refugees. Buildings have collapsed. Entire communities have been reduced to rubble. The city of New Orleans, one of the centres of history and culture in the US, will likely be uninhabitable for months. The death toll from Katrina is certainly in the hundreds, and it will probably reach the thousands. Some commentators say this was all unavoidable, but that is a lie. Bryan Koulouris, New York City, US article continued at http://www.socialistworld.net/ ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday August 31, 2005 - 23:48 by A
2 comments (last - thursday september 01, 2005 - 21:43)
Provisional Sinn Féin was last night (Sunday August 28th, 2005) staying silent on reports that former PIRA members will join the RUC/PSNI. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 31, 2005 - 19:02 by qwe
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Im sure it wil be put on numerous indymedia's but we need to see this to show what they've been doing elsewhere in the name of freedom... US Army Prison Abuse Photos still blocked from release http://www.aclu.org/International/International.cfm?ID=18979&c=36 ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 31, 2005 - 06:55 by Kingfisher
I didn’t inhale or have sex with anyone in particular. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Wednesday August 31, 2005 - 05:04 by pretending to be an american
18 comments (last - saturday september 10, 2005 - 16:53) 2 images
New Orleans is under water, they're talking about evacuating the refugee centre in the stadium and car lots, the drinking water supply is gone. Maybe there's a million homeless, the dead will be in hundreds, the next storm is brewing in the carribean, the oil wells are closed, the crops of the mississippi valley are destroyed. People are stealing tvs from the mall. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / racism & migration related issues Wednesday August 31, 2005 - 01:52 by ipsiphi
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250 sub saharan africans attempted to cross the border into the European Union at melilla yesterday in a day of frenetic activity for the Guardia Civil in which migrant died, though Spanish Government sources are discounting any connection. Spanish national police for their part have called publically on the Moroccan authorities to stem the "avalanche". The migrants had attempted to vault the wire fence and mine field which marks the boundary between the EU and Morocco at the enclave of Melilla. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 31, 2005 - 00:18 by Justin Morahan
"Bullying is rampant in Irish schools and this is one way to stop it" ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday August 30, 2005 - 19:33 by knowing my duty
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The public disquiet raised by the presence of arms in society might lay behind the media interest in Catalonia in an incident this last week which saw young recently recruited police officers fire 4 shots at 1.75m described as "warning shots fired in the air" in response to an incident involving persistent graffiti taggers. The incident occured at a public metro city during an annual street festival which figures on the August itinerary for many tourists including Irish men and women, boys and girls. ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Tuesday August 30, 2005 - 17:23 by plato
A series of demonstrations in the cities of Xanthi and Komotini, followed by a march towards the "refugees reception center" in Vena, took place in the frame of the "Actions Against the Borders". Outside the detention center, the protestors had a violent conflict with the police while trying to get in. Finally, a group entered the place and managed to write down the names of the refugees, in order to submit asylum requests on behalf of them, while video-taping the place and the awful living conditions. At the first day, during a demonstration across the Greek-Bulgarian borders, two vans were temporarily blocked on Bulgarian side. Finally, given the pressure by the demonstrators on the Greek side, they were allowed to cross the borders. Video 1 - http://athens.indymedia.org/media_file.php?id=190&type=video Video 2 - http://athens.indymedia.org/media_file.php?id=192&type=video Solidarity! ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday August 30, 2005 - 17:18 by Jonah
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Rabbitte calls on Rossport Five to apologise. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday August 30, 2005 - 14:44 by Fintan O' Toole
One of the myths propagated by left-wing agitators is that the development of the Corrib gas field off the Mayo coast will not benefit the ordinary citizen. This is wildly inaccurate, argues Fintan O'Toole. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday August 30, 2005 - 01:49 by very persistent.
Raytheon, best-known globally for military electronics and weapons systems, saw sales rise 8 % in the first half of the year to US$10.4 billion. But Raytheon (with an Irish operation) are small compared to Boeing (a partner to Ryanair) who had At the end of June, military orders of USS$85.7 billion. Only 2 Arms companies of the US big ten of defence contractors presently engaged in the offence of Iraq. Of the "10" -- Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Litton, General Electric, United Technologies, TRW and Textron -- six are among the world’s top 10 arms-producing companies. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday August 27, 2005 - 17:15 by Emma
5 comments (last - friday march 21, 2008 - 21:04)
The Irish government is currently trying to deport women and children under the threat of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), which frequently results in death. Asylum in Ireland can be sought on grounds of religious or political persecution. However the government refuse to acknowlege FGM as a political act and therefore women and children cannot apply for asylum on the basis they have suffered or will suffer FGM if deported. ... read full story / add a comment |
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