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international / environment Monday December 18, 2006 - 23:48 by S.Cat
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Everyone remembers the appalling events surrounding the murder of anti-Shell activists including Ken Saro Wiwa in Nigeria in 1995. But the hot summer of ''95 was also the year of the Greenpeace campaign against Shell UK to stop the company from dumping the Brent Spar platform at sea. Talking to Shell people, you find that they still feel that they were right, and the British environmental group was misguided when it campaigned to have the disused rig dismantled on shore. But nevertheless, the debate was certainly won by Greenpeace, with Shell eventually giving in after a large scale campaign of direct action, blockades, occupations and pickets. The fact that Russian environmentalists have got in touch with the lawyers who represented Greenpeace, as outlined in the Guardian story below, must be causing disquiet in the Shell boardroom. They can only hope that Russian internal politics might mean a way out for them, or else their shareholders will have more to worry about in 2007. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 18, 2006 - 20:55 by Seán Ryan
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Organisation formed to combat the use of fluoride. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday December 18, 2006 - 12:35 by Despair
Below is the text of a letter sent to the Editor of The Oregonian, on December 4th from the father of a soldier in Iraq. It graphically depicts the reality of the danger into which US soldiers are being sent by the ruthless Bush regime. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media Monday December 18, 2006 - 02:57 by Kevin Higgins
Photos of final Over The Edge: Open Reading of 2006 ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Saturday December 16, 2006 - 14:32 by Prometheo
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The videoclip is now available in english version and in wmv format. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday December 16, 2006 - 09:08 by budgie
U.S. Vice-President, Dick Cheney, today praised the outgoing U.S. Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, for his contribution in spreading ‘democracy and liberty’ to the Middle East; Cheney also claimed that Rumsfeld was the “best” Secretary of Defence in U.S. history – additional evidence that the U.S. administration is INSANE is no longer required! ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Saturday December 16, 2006 - 07:31 by reposted
Climate change: 'It is, in fact, a crisis' ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 14, 2006 - 22:14 by Anti-racist
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After hearing that John Ward was savagely beaten, blasted with a shotgun and then executed with a second close-range blast when he was crawling away and no doubt aware of Nally's complaint that John was "like a badger" - he could'nt kill him with the spar of wood, the jury's "care and consideration" was evidenced in their verdict. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 14, 2006 - 19:59 by TJD
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A month after the Israeli human rights group Yesh Gvul, filed a petition against what the organization said was the failure to rule on a petition filed five years earlier, today, the justices involved, obscenely ruled that the Israel Defense Forces policy of targeted killings of militants does not categorically violate international law, and the legality of each targeted killing must be evaluated on an individual basis. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Thursday December 14, 2006 - 19:45 by Bill
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It is time to pause and take stock of the Corrib gas project, argues Mark Garavan, the main spokesman for the campaign against the project ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 14, 2006 - 18:50 by Dunlo
In today's UK Independent, Nigel Morris, Home Affairs Correspondent ,reports that Peace protesters and civil rights groups are celebrating an "enormous victory for free speech" after the House of Lords condemned the police for preventing a demonstration outside RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire in March 2003 - an airbase used in the Iraq war. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 14, 2006 - 14:40 by Brian Wardlow
Segment 3 welcomes John Horan of Cabhair in Ireland. John covers the history of Cabhair which provides financial and moral support to the dependents of Irish Republican political prisoners for over twenty years. John highlights the upcoming Cabhair Christmas swim in Dublin and how to support. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / politics / elections Thursday December 14, 2006 - 12:52 by Pat E.
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TG4 MRBI Poll indicates collapse of left in Sligo. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Wednesday December 13, 2006 - 23:37 by StripeyCat
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Over the Christmas, on some channel at some time of the day or night, it is pretty inevitable that Billy Wilder's excellent film, Some Like It Hot, will be shown. In the movie, when Tony Curtis wants to impress Marilyn Monroe about how financially secure he is, he picks up a sea shell and holds it up, to indicate that his investments are secure and, to say the least, high-yield. Recently however, a slew of financial and economic pundits have been sounding warnings about the company's future. Problems with the Sakhalin 2 project in Russia, the Bolivian re-nationalisation, and the worsening security situation in Nigeria, are making investors wonder whether there is a deep problem with the way Shell do things. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 13, 2006 - 05:32 by nano
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Corporate power and rulership in western societies is complete, governments either conform to corporate dictates or are quickly replaced by compliant political alternatives. The management of information via the monopolised mass media and the complete domination of the economy maintain and sustain corporate supremacy. The masses suffer increased subjection (debt slavery) and vulnerability (limited options) as a result of decreased representation by governments. Corporate rule has reduced the real status of the public to servility and subservience, not dissimilar to the ancient Roman model of kept house-slaves. The belief that Roman slaves were constantly maltreated is based on erroneous images (whipped galley-slaves) that Hollywood and the entertainment industry have popularised. Ancient Roman slaves lived in basic but tolerable conditions, similar (in relative terms) to the servile masses of today. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 12, 2006 - 18:45 by Dunlo
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Today's Guardian is reporting that "Shell is being forced by the Russian government to hand over its controlling stake in the world's biggest liquefied gas project ... After months of relentless pressure from Moscow, the Anglo-Dutch company has to cut its stake in the $20bn Sakhalin-2 scheme in the far east of Russia in favour of the state-owned energy group Gazprom". ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday December 12, 2006 - 08:42 by Fran
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A suicide bomber killed at least 54 people and wounded scores in central Baghdad this morning after luring a crowd of poor day labourers to his vehicle with promises of work, the Interior Ministry said. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Monday December 11, 2006 - 16:49 by Conor McGowan
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A document outlining the basic principles of the ISN on the issue of elections is now available to download at the publications and articles section of the new ISN site. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 11, 2006 - 12:01 by pat c
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An unfortunate gathering, especially following Tehrans Holocaust cartoon competition. This is no Histography Conference; the Iranian Foreign MInister has said: The first question to be posed is: Did the Holocaust actually happen or not? No mistaking that agenda. Conference participants include: Australian Fredrick Toeben, jailed in Germany for incitement and insulting the memory of the dead Frenchman Robert Faurisson, convicted in France under Holocaust denial laws Frenchman Georges Thiel, convicted in France under Holocaust denial laws American David Duke, a former KKK leader and white supremacist Full story at link. pat c ... read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media Monday December 11, 2006 - 02:02 by Over The Edge
The Galway-based literary events organisation Over The Edge has launched a web-blog. ... read full story / add a comment |
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