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offsite link The Saker blog is now frozen Tue Feb 28, 2023 23:55 | The Saker
Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.? We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).?

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

offsite link Moveable Feast Cafe 2023/02/27 ? Open Thread Mon Feb 27, 2023 19:00 | cafe-uploader
2023/02/27 19:00:02Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of

offsite link The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
Pepe Escobar for the Saker blog A powerful feeling rhythms your skin and drums up your soul as you?re immersed in a long walk under persistent snow flurries, pinpointed by

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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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offsite link NHS Staff Should be Given ?Enforced Career Breaks? for Their Mental Health, Says Prince of Wales Wed Mar 05, 2025 18:23 | Will Jones
The Prince of Wales has suggested that NHS staff should be given "enforced breaks" in their careers for the sake of their mental health to help prevent burnout.
The post NHS Staff Should be Given “Enforced Career Breaks” for Their Mental Health, Says Prince of Wales appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Trump Compares Starmer?s Britain to Communist China in Podcast Wed Mar 05, 2025 15:30 | Dr Frederick Attenborough
President Trump compared Keir Starmer's UK to Communist China after the Government ordered Apple to give it backdoor access to users' encrypted data. This isn't far-fetched, says Frederick Attenborough: it exposes us all.
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offsite link French Navy Refuses to Rescue 60 Migrants From Dinghy Filling with Water Off French Coast ? and Inst... Wed Mar 05, 2025 14:07 | Will Jones
French navy officers refused to rescue 60 migrants on a cramped boat filling with water off the French coast ? and instead radioed and asked UK Border Force to come and take them to Britain.
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offsite link Vance?s Message to Europe: Give Up the Information War and Get the Hell Out Wed Mar 05, 2025 12:00 | Will Jones
If European states don't want to be treated as enemies of the US they're going to have to retreat from the war they've been waging on behalf of Washington's old regime and disarm their censorship machines, says N S Lyons.
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offsite link A Diplomatic Dust-Up for the Ages Wed Mar 05, 2025 09:00 | Ramesh Thakur
Trump's art of the deal always has been to ask for everything, judge the point at which the other party has made his final offer and then take what he can get, says Ramesh Thakur. That's what he's doing with Ukraine.
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international / politics / elections Friday October 15, 2004 - 12:48 by iosaf   text 2 comments (last - friday october 15, 2004 - 21:23)
The polls were carried out in the following countries-
Canada, France, UK, Russia, Spain, Israel,
Japan, Australia, Mexico and South Korea.

The results signal 80% of the known universe favour Kerry over Bush (of course) ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday October 13, 2004 - 12:00 by Glen
Figures released yesterday by Shannon Airport, where the numbers for 2004 have already breached the 100,000 barrier, with 112,803 troops going through Shannon on 1,114 flights in the nine months to the end of September.

This marks a 17 per cent increase on the 96,403 troops who passed through Shannon in the corresponding period last year, when the Iraq war took place. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday October 12, 2004 - 15:04 by iosaf   text 3 comments (last - wednesday october 12, 2005 - 19:35)   image 1 image
The day the italian Columbus, known as Colom to the Spanish, landed on a carribean island claiming it for the crown of Aragon (modern catalonia) thinking he had discovered India is also the day of the patroness of Zaragoza, the virgin Pilar.

Spain marks this day with a military parade in Madrid and homage to the flag, and the usual polemic between all those who despise or value such displays of nationalism / imperialism / cultural hegemony et cetera...

But there has been something never seen before-
Veterans of both the liberation of Paris and the republican side of the civil war and a volunteer for the fascist division on the Russian front have taken part.

Meanwhile in Zaragosa, Aragon, there is a big procession with statue bedecked in hundreds of thousands of flowers and a really good televised mass said to invoke the virgin, by no less than three cardinals assisted by all sorts of hooded holy types, a few score of altar boys and not a single woman. ... read full story / add a comment
sex and sinners
international / arts and media Monday October 11, 2004 - 18:56 by dunk   text 1 comment (last - friday december 21, 2007 - 17:39)   image 5 images
art, politics, culture, spirituality, eco living::

"the land of sex and sinners" is the excellent documentary directed by Jimmy Duggan that will be on air on TG4 soon. it appeared in the IFI documentary film festival the weekend before last and was followed by an open discussion arising from the film, topics included paradigm shift in society today, a more balanced age @ time of newgrange- current politics, eco issues, language, culture, tara, alternative media, indymedia, social forum, storytelling.
that was followed by a chance meeting and very lively discussion with 2 of irelands leading artists.
paris 68, situationists, chernobyl, berlin love parade were discussed ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday October 09, 2004 - 14:53 by redjade   text 1 comment (last - wednesday october 13, 2004 - 13:10)
international / miscellaneous Saturday October 09, 2004 - 04:31 by Mary La Rosa
Tali Fahima , an Israeli woman under administrative detention, joins Palestinian women and girls held in prisons as political prisoners. The way in which Israel keeps them is cruel, without conscience and in violation of many human rights.

The Prison authority is answerable only to the Prime Minister, who has, himself, been accused of war crimes.
Please ask for a full investigation into the human rights violations. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday October 08, 2004 - 21:32 by R. Isible
Meredith Kolner in Counterpunch argues that Kerry has made it clear that he's going to be as much if not more of a warmonger than Bush and that the "anti-war" movement needs to get off its arse and set the agenda. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday October 08, 2004 - 20:34 by Joyce Walker   text 4 comments (last - sunday october 10, 2004 - 02:03)
A voice is rising above the wails of grieving mothers heard around the world. It's a bold and angry voice speaking out against the tyrants who cold-heartedly consume our children in the name of phony "Wars on Drugs" and "Wars on Terror." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday October 08, 2004 - 17:38 by Ireland.com reader   text 38 comments (last - friday october 15, 2004 - 01:09)
Breaking News. Video Released by hostage takers. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday October 07, 2004 - 13:57 by -   text 2 comments (last - thursday october 07, 2004 - 15:13)   image 1 image
the usual mixture of stuff that Europeans like to read about-
gore - murder - terror - horror etc. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday October 06, 2004 - 23:45 by sp
New socialist voice online, articles on public services, aer lingus, joe higgins on the presidency, weapons conference in dublin, deportations, water charges, education, american elections and monday protests in germany.

Details on "socialism today" weekend of debates in the teachers club.

http://www.socialistparty.net/ ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 06, 2004 - 21:21 by redjade   text 3 comments (last - thursday october 07, 2004 - 13:37)
Mothers and relatives of dissidents camped out in Havana's Revolution Square for a second day in a rare, bold public protest seeking the release of one of 75 dissidents rounded up in a major crackdown by Cuba's communist government in March 2003. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 06, 2004 - 19:23 by Paul McAndrew   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 07, 2004 - 14:15)
The founder of Sierra Leone's only lesbian and gay rights organization has been brutally murdered, to the shock of international human rights organizations and gay activists. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 06, 2004 - 17:58 by Pete
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=18062002-051845-8272r

Active in Gaza and the West Bank, Hamas wants to liberate all of Palestine and establish a radical Islamic state in place of Israel. It is has gained notoriety with its assassinations, car bombs and other acts of terrorism.

Israel and Hamas may currently be locked in deadly combat, but, according to several current and former U.S. intelligence officials, beginning in the late 1970s, Tel Aviv gave direct and indirect financial aid to Hamas over a period of years.

Israel "aided Hamas directly -- the Israelis wanted to use it as a counterbalance to the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization)," said Tony Cordesman, Middle East analyst for the Center for Strategic Studies.

Israel's support for Hamas "was a direct attempt to divide and dilute support for a strong, secular PLO by using a competing religious alternative," said a former senior CIA official.
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=18062002-051845-8272r ... read full story / add a comment
cork / crime and justice Wednesday October 06, 2004 - 17:33 by Paul McAndrew
The Government was yesterday urged to introduce tougher anti-racism legislation by a group working with asylum seekers and refugees following repeated racist graffiti incidents at an African shop in Cork

PSNI investigates racist motive in Armagh attack ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday October 06, 2004 - 12:55 by redjade   text 11 comments (last - thursday october 07, 2004 - 18:11)
info and such about the 5 Oct 2004 debate ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Wednesday October 06, 2004 - 04:01 by rampART
Are you heading to London for the European Social Forum? If so, check out the ESF coverage now streaming from indymedia icecast server in London.

http://radio.uk1.indymedia.org:8800/rampART.m3u ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Wednesday October 06, 2004 - 00:28 by pc
By Adam Pasick, UK media correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - A new flexible form of copyright for creative material is set to launch in Britain next month, at a time when "remix culture" is gaining in popularity despite the fact it is often illegal. Creative Commons, a U.S. based non-profit foundation, has created a copyright licence that lets musicians and authors decide what limits to put on their creations -- enabling DJs, for example, to remix music legally. ... read full story / add a comment
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