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international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 20, 2005 - 08:44 by Indy
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CUENCA, ECUADOR – By a unanimous vote Ecuador's lawmakers removed President Lucio Gutierrez from office Wednesday and replaced him with Vice President Alfredo Palacio, following days of intensifying street protests. While the focus of media attention has been on the capital city of Quito, the southern city of Cuenca has been in open rebellion against its former president for the past week. The discontent had been simmering for some time but in the weeks and days before the ouster of Gutierrez it reached a boiling point. Daily, students manned street blockades and fought pitched battles with police over control of the streets while across town the main park overflowed every night with a diverse array of people who had come to protest the president and government. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Tuesday April 19, 2005 - 02:56 by sun
NIAID Encourages Use of Leaky Device in Biodefense Chambers are Located in Nine US States, India, New Zealand, and Northern Ireland ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Monday April 18, 2005 - 22:03 by LOL
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In case you've missed it, 115 men are voting for the black pope at the moment in rome who will lead 1,200,000,000 catholics, of which over 500,000,000 are eligible to be pope, into what they call the XXI century. your participation is requested. please burn your rubbish and ring your neighbours doorbells at the appointed time "habemus papa!" is the appropriate and indeed ritual expression. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday April 18, 2005 - 12:11 by Yoshie
While it is clear that the US and coalition forces have been killing more civilians than combatants and that more civilians have been killed by the US and coalition forces than by guerrillas, questions stilll remain. First of all, do Iraqi guerrillas themselves in fact attack more civilians than combatants, as the corporate media regularly suggests? ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Sunday April 17, 2005 - 20:54 by -
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The _*unrecognised*_ Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus has a presidential election today. The self-proclaimed republic was declared in 1983 in the the northern region of the island which the Turkish Army occupied back in 1974. Turkey is the world's only country to have recognized it. The Organization of the Islamic Conference (bit bigger than the arabic league but the mint tea isn't as food) granted it observer member status under the name of "Turkish Cypriot State". ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Sunday April 17, 2005 - 10:55 by -
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1,800,000 voters to decide today on distribution of 75 seats. Seven main parties will be competing for seats in the Basque Autonomous Community Parliament. coverage of the elections in english starts today- ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Saturday April 16, 2005 - 20:40 by micheailin o'cinnsealach
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Links to use to protest the seal slaughter ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 16, 2005 - 20:08 by John Meehan
A written debate between Gilbert Achcar (Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire, LCR, France) and Members of the Inerrnational Socialist Group (ISG) (Britain) on the above topic can be found at this link to the International Viewpoint site : http://212.67.202.147/%7Eivnet05/index.php3 ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / crime and justice Friday April 15, 2005 - 20:55 by examiner
The PSNI today raided the offices of the Ulster Unionist Party in Castlereagh, Co. Antrim. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday April 15, 2005 - 17:39 by redjade
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The US Government has defended its decision to award a £293 million Iraq Security contract to British mercenary Tim Spicer, in reponse to concerns raised by the family of Belfast man Peter McBride, who was shot dead by Scots Guards soldiers under Spicer’s command in 1992. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Friday April 15, 2005 - 13:49 by .:.
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1931 the 14th of April was declared the 2nd Republic of Spain. In its short life it brought hope, inspiration, creative solutions, the values of fraternity, liberty, equality to countless people who had lived in near feudal conditions through dictatorship. It's "firsts" were many- free education, free health care, over 50% of the arable land organised in autonomous collectives, the first parliamentary representation by anarchists, the first political radio broadcasts, the first Catalan & Basque republics were declared as an associate component within it's state architecture. All too quickly it fell, as the first victim of European fascism. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday April 15, 2005 - 05:24 by Yoshie
Grassroots opposition to Tokyo's bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council is spreading like wildfire on the Net and spilling over into the streets in China, Korea, and elsewhere. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Thursday April 14, 2005 - 13:36 by iosaf
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the Campaign to free Florence Aubenas and Hussein Hanoun Al-Saadi have been held hostage for 99 days in Iraq. The French news media will demonstrate their support for Florence and Hussein throughout the day on Friday, 15 April, their 100th day in captivity. Plans for this show of solidarity were approved at a meeting of news media executives and editors at TF1 headquarters on 11 April. From 00:00 hours until midnight, all broadcast TV stations will regularly display a special logo designed by TF1, while radio stations will repeatedly broadcast a spot produced by France Info and spoken by Christian Chesnot, a former hostage in Iraq. All newspapers are invited to display the logo on their front page, and websites are invited to display the banner. http://www.rsf.org/breve.php3?id_breve=1131 ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Wednesday April 13, 2005 - 23:21 by John McDermott
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The election campaign is under way. ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Wednesday April 13, 2005 - 22:31 by Brent Herbert
I do not have cable tv, but it would appear, based on the Internet, that American media sources are burying the story. Time to blow the whistle... ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Wednesday April 13, 2005 - 21:44 by .:.Q & A+
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In a few days, a little more than a hundred mature men will enter a special place to engage in a millenial ritual to elect one of their belief pattern to lead over 1.2 billion fellow believers into "the XIX century". The result of their ritual shall influence the social, political, ethical, economic, moral and "spiritual" direction of this planet. Here's a short reminder of the "very special arrangements" ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday April 13, 2005 - 16:36 by Dave
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 12, 2005 - 10:28 by Cate
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The Associated Press Updated: 9:04 p.m. ET April 11, 2005 ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Tuesday April 12, 2005 - 10:09 by Joe Bloggs
In todays Daily Ireland a Nationalist Republican daily, Joe Higgins is pictured with Gama workers. Joe is 'the leader of the Socialist Workers Party' it headlines. Do the Socilaist Party know this Joe? Good pre election publicity for the SWP. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday April 11, 2005 - 23:27 by hs
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The reaction of the mainstream media and ruling classes to the death of pope John II must have, at the very least, bemused many people. How, after all, could this elderly leader of medieval, obscurantist Roman catholicism, which has been mired in so much scandal of late, have beguiled the world in the way the media is now claiming ‘John Paul the Great’ did so miraculously? Surely it defies the laws of history! ... read full story / add a comment |
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