|
Upcoming Eventsno events match your query! New Eventsno events posted in last week
Blog Feeds
Anti-Empire
Human Rights in IrelandPromoting Human Rights in Ireland
Lockdown Skeptics
Voltaire NetworkVoltaire, international edition
|
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 21, 2006 - 04:29 by barra
It’s Official, marijuana represents the USA’s most lucrative locally grown product – at $200 billion/annum, corn, wheat and potatoes are chicken feed. While U.S. borders seep various powdered imports it’s good ol’ home grown pot that makes the bankers smile. The USA is drowning in contraband and the negative social ramifications of the neo-PROHIBITION of unenlightened conservative beliefs – when will they ever learn? ... read full story / add a comment
armagh / politics / elections Wednesday December 20, 2006 - 20:48 by Charlie Kerins
 27 comments (last - thursday january 04, 2007 - 22:27)
Davy Hyland and Pat O'Rawe have both been de-selected from contesting the forthcoming assembly elections. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6194757.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/619...9.stm ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 20, 2006 - 20:48 by TJ
2 comments (last - thursday december 21, 2006 - 19:47)
Today's Guardian is reporting that : The state-owned Russian group,Gazprom, is close to taking control of Shell's Sakhalin-2 project with Shell chief executive Jeroen van der Veer making a third trip to Moscow in as many weeks to tie up the final details of the agreement. ... read full story / add a comment 
clare / crime and justice Wednesday December 20, 2006 - 19:57 by Nora M.
 2 images
Irving is set to leave Austria after winning an appeal today against a three-year prison sentence for denying the Holocaust,The Austrian judge who ruled in favor of his release is considered to be a supporter of Jorg Heider's rightist Austrian Freedom Party, the Austrian news agency APA reported on Wednesday. When Haider's party was a coalition member, judge Ernest Mauer was appointed as member of the Austrian Broadcasting authority Osterriechischer Rudfunk. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday December 20, 2006 - 15:20 by Terence
3 comments (last - thursday january 04, 2007 - 19:26)
One of the high ranking nut-cases in the Pentagon, Brig. Gen. Mark O. Schissler, an Air Force commander and the Defense Department’s deputy director for the “war on terrorism" has warned last week that the “global war on terror” will go on for another 50 to 100 years and voiced concern that “politics” not be allowed to interfere with the protracted struggle Who are these people? Such argument if it can be even called that, shows how depraved those in power are. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 20, 2006 - 06:07 by Cleaves Editorial Team
1 comment (last - wednesday december 20, 2006 - 21:53)
The world today is in no doubt as to the criminal status of the illegal detention centre of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The past three years have not only witnessed unprecedented assaults on the founding principles of the USA by the Bush regime, but also on international law and convention. The government of the USA is clearly rogue, a fact in which its officials delight. The contempt the neo-cons display for their own citizens is only exceeded by the extreme disdain they exhibit toward the international community. Each day that Guantanamo Bay remains operational is a day of unspeakable psychological horror, torture and injustice. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Tuesday December 19, 2006 - 13:55 by S.Cat
1 image
Yet another story of nationalisation in the oil and gas industry. There may also be some interest in the fact that the attempts to raise consciousness of the potential pitfalls of getting involved in projects like Corrib don't rate a mention. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Tuesday December 19, 2006 - 11:37 by Disgusted
7 comments (last - tuesday december 19, 2006 - 17:21)
While the government is busily celebrating the greed festival that are SSIAs, (the scheme by which the already well off are made even more well off by the much less well off) they are showing a much less generous attitude to the hapless folk who have gone online to order a few cheap CDs and DVDs from other countries – almost certainly Christmas presents in most cases. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 19, 2006 - 02:26 by Oleophobe
1 comment (last - tuesday december 19, 2006 - 16:52)
According to the Al Jazeera website : "A suspected bomb exploded at a Shell residential compound in Port Harcourt and another went off near the perimeter fence of a compound of the Italian oil company Agip" and "The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta said it planned to attack strategic locations throughout the oil-rich region". ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Monday December 18, 2006 - 23:48 by S.Cat
1 image
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
7 comments (last - saturday october 20, 2007 - 06:59) 1 image
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
1 image
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
54 comments (last - monday january 08, 2007 - 15:06) 1 image
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
3 images
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
4 comments (last - tuesday january 23, 2007 - 15:49)
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 |
|
|
