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international / miscellaneous Wednesday November 24, 2004 - 11:37 by carapau
Left ideology diagram at two dimensions

In this link you can see a diagram with almost all left ideology and a small resume of them: http://carapau.webcindario.com/viewtopic.php?t=65 or else www.carapau.pt.vu

In this link you can see a diagram with almost all left ideology and a small resume of them:

http://carapau.webcindario.com/viewtopic.php?t=65


or else

http://www.carapau.pt.vu ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Wednesday November 24, 2004 - 11:36 by ipsiphi   text 1 comment (last - monday december 13, 2004 - 20:42)
The Presidency of the European Union has taken note of the reports of the President and the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia before the Security Council on 23 November regarding progress towards implementation of the Completion Strategy of the Tribunal.

While welcoming the measures that have been taken to implement the Completion Strategy, the Presidency notes with deep concern that fugitives accused of serious violations of international humanitarian law, in particular Ratko Mladic, Radovan Karadzic and Ante Gotovina, remain at large. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 22, 2004 - 18:12 by pc   text 2 comments (last - tuesday november 23, 2004 - 16:35)
"...Military aircraft and components have been sold from Russia, China and Belarus and helicopter spares from Lithuania. Tanks, military vehicles and artillery were transferred from Belarus, Bulgaria, Russia and Poland. Small arms and light weapons were exported mostly from China, France, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Arms brokering has been offered from Bulgaria, Germany, the UK and Ireland, and military cooperation by Belarus, India, Malaysia and Russia...." ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Monday November 22, 2004 - 14:13 by iosaf   text 8 comments (last - sunday november 28, 2004 - 15:08)
didn't qualify as a free open democratic accountable election like the ones you get for school class rep.

Yushchenko versus Yanukovych
means - (according to aunty Beeb)
Viktor Yanukovych:
Aged 54
Imprisoned twice in his youth
Former governor of industrial Donetsk region
Raised pensions and public sector pay before election
Would make Russian second official language and allow dual citizenship
Viktor Yushchenko:
Aged 50
An economist and former central banker
Has an American wife
Promises to fight corruption, create five million jobs and pursue free market reforms
Would seek deeper relations with the Europe and the West ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Monday November 22, 2004 - 12:46 by Johnny Fox
A petty dispute re. occupancy of a deer killing hide in Wisconsin, USA escalated into a bloodbath when animal abusers turned their guns on each other.

5 hunters slain and another three wounded "in the bag". This novel approach to hunting will hopefully be taken up by those denied the opportunity to torment small mammals when hunting ban comes into force across the water. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Monday November 22, 2004 - 12:31 by iosaf   text 1 comment (last - monday november 22, 2004 - 14:21)
Sharon has confirmed that his government will not stop the Palestinians of Jerusalem in taking part in their planned elections which will be celebrated in less than two months on the 9th of January.

It is not certain that Sharons government will survive the Knesset votes till then, so he's not gone yet. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday November 22, 2004 - 11:39 by iosaf   text 10 comments (last - wednesday december 01, 2004 - 00:14)
for their annual ibero-american conference, the President of Spain Zapatero accompanied by Don JuanCarlos Bourbó de Bourbon (like a bourbon) the King of Spain discussed Zapatero's idea of an "alliance of civilisations" which would shape future relations between the continent and those who varyingly trade with it, invest in it, and exploit it.

The plan has been met with much enthusiasm not least from the popular "leftist" regimes. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday November 21, 2004 - 14:41 by redjade   text 3 comments (last - wednesday november 24, 2004 - 15:14)
'' In a reference to his plans to begin ordering the missiles next year, he said: "We've some significant money in the 2006 President's budget that we would begin to execute in October 2005." '' ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday November 21, 2004 - 06:09 by Gary Sudborough
US imperialism hits a stumbling block in Fallujah and the whole of Iraq in its drive for global hegemony and corporate control. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Saturday November 20, 2004 - 17:26 by jeejeejee   text 1 comment (last - saturday november 20, 2004 - 22:40)
Catholickes are not only putting the environment at risk by not obliging the USA with pain of excommunication to honour the Kyoto agreement but also are farming completely un-neccesarily beeswax. ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Saturday November 20, 2004 - 15:40 by Roberto X
Interview with Rebelión Animal from Uruguay ... read full story / add a comment
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international / sci-tech Friday November 19, 2004 - 14:13 by redjade   text 24 comments (last - wednesday february 23, 2005 - 11:39)   image 1 image
Today the University of California's Berkeley Quantitative Methods Research Team released a statistical study - the sole method available to monitor the accuracy of e- voting - reporting irregularities associated with electronic voting machines may have awarded 130,000-260,000 or more excess votes to President George W. Bush in Florida in the 2004 presidential election. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday November 19, 2004 - 11:45 by pat c   text 6 comments (last - monday november 22, 2004 - 12:07)
Venezuela prosecutor feared dead

A key state prosecutor may have been killed in a double explosion in his car in Venezuela, officials fear.
Police are carrying out tests on the dead driver of a jeep that blew up in a suburb of the capital Caracas.

They say the vehicle belonged to Danilo Anderson, a prosecutor investigating those involved in a 2002 coup against President Hugo Chavez. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism Thursday November 18, 2004 - 23:45 by cpgb   image 1 image
Hot on the heels of his diplomatically worded critique of the Socialist Workers Party’s intervention in Respect (see Weekly Worker November 11), veteran SWP leader John Molyneux has now turned his attention to the organisation’s own regime and culture. In this contribution to the Pre-conference Bulletin No2, headed ‘Democracy in the SWP’, comrade Molyneux exposes the intolerance and monolithism of the leadership and, as “a strongly committed member of the SWP”, calls for far-reaching cultural change... ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 18, 2004 - 21:18 by adili   text 1 comment (last - saturday november 20, 2004 - 11:21)   image 1 image
The overarching idea is to discuss and collectively develop new systems of governance which might be suitable for the quantifiable but as-yet undeclared state of Cascadia without limiting the discussion only to Cascadians. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Thursday November 18, 2004 - 17:42 by Bank of Ireland
Perhaps its the influx of dodgy bankers at the Dublin docks development. Certainly no mention of the antiquated 'justice' system or the growing gap between rich and poor, the homeless problem, corruption, intolerance etc etc. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday November 18, 2004 - 13:57 by Jem   text 7 comments (last - monday december 13, 2004 - 15:22)
Powell says Iran's nuclear activities "should be of concern to all parties." ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Thursday November 18, 2004 - 13:11 by iosaf merrovinginvanjan   text 3 comments (last - tuesday may 31, 2005 - 17:28)
Tomorrow President Chirac visits the UK for two days most british and french mainstream media organs look at the relationship between the two EU members with nuclear capability.

Chirac has confirmed that even though Blair is "supine" (one of three positions in which the body is laid flat upon the ground the others being prostrate and prone) in it's attitude to Washington, he still likes Mr Blair and has a photo of his young son Leo.
The same Leo who "someone" shopped for being drunk and disorderly years ago on Whitehall after a RTS! event.

Here are some other important things you should know- ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday November 17, 2004 - 21:42 by wcpi
Communists in iraq on the situation on the ground and a call not to support political islam

http://www.wpiraq.org/english/ ... read full story / add a comment
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