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Just 20% of Muslim Americans voted for Kamala Harris ? fewer than voted for Donald Trump! The reason Muslims are abandoning the centre-Left is clear, says Noah Carl: they want parties that don't back Israel.
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international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday May 01, 2012 - 06:52 by Ciaron
Jeremy Scahill http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Scahill author of "Blackwater" is a former New York Catholic Worker now a writer for "The Nation" Magazine.

YOUTUBE - Jeremy Scahill Speech on Obama Administration and the Use of Drones in a Policy of Assassination

Excellent viewing.... http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/04/29/obamas-deat...ideo/

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international / anti-capitalism Monday April 30, 2012 - 05:19 by lefty   text 1 comment (last - monday april 30, 2012 - 09:03)   image 2 images
For the last while we have been cultivated like proverbial economic mushrooms, "kept in the dark and fed a lot of economic shit". The fact is the current conditions have been deliberately cultivated to achieve exactly the effect they are having. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday April 27, 2012 - 12:02 by pat c   text 13 comments (last - wednesday may 09, 2012 - 11:19)
That money grubbing clown Senator Fergal Quinn now wants to use anti terrorist methods to monitor welfare claimants.The software would look for words like holiday or new car. This is the same crook who set up a separate company to get around hello money legislation. Full text at link.

Senator Feargall Quinn moments ago in the Seanad has suggested that the Government consider monitoring the use of the internet by social welfare recipients to detect instances of fraud. Keywords such as "holiday" and "new car" could indicate instances of fraud, according to Senator Quinn.
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international / miscellaneous Friday April 27, 2012 - 10:23 by Ciaron   text 42 comments (last - sunday may 06, 2012 - 14:03)   image 3 images   video 2 video files
On April 20 there’s a memorial for Christopher Hitchens at the Cooper Union in Manhattan.
There’s a PEN tribute, also in Manhattan, on April 30.
Here’s my own little envoi. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 24, 2012 - 23:46 by anon   text 1 comment (last - saturday august 04, 2012 - 00:18)   image 2 images   1 attached file
Jerrie Ann Sullivan, one of the women who made a recording public in the Garda "rape tape" controversy, has said that the Garda Ombudsman investigation into the incident has been "about protecting An Garda Síochána".

But James Gill, the sergeant found to have made remarks about two female protesters arrested at a controversial Shell gas project at Erris, Co Mayo will escape any action because he recently retired. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday April 22, 2012 - 20:01 by Ciaron   text 1 comment (last - sunday april 22, 2012 - 20:09)
A21 REPORT - 40th. anniversary of the Anniversary of Harrisburg 7 Trial - F.B.I. attempt to destroy Catholic Resistance to Vietnam War
http://tinyurl.com/873szz8
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international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday April 22, 2012 - 15:16 by An Draighneán Donn   text 2 comments (last - sunday april 22, 2012 - 18:03)   video 1 video file
Being Black in Libya, under the NTC régime, means being subjected to racially motivated torture and lynching. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / politics / elections Monday April 16, 2012 - 22:13 by pat c   text 4 comments (last - tuesday april 24, 2012 - 03:21)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
Jean-Luc Mélenchon of the Front de Gauche is now the third candidate in the French Presidential election, at 16% he is level with La Pen but his trajectory is upward. His standing is sending shivers up the spines of the French Bourgeoisie, fearful of what concessions Edwin will wring from Hollande for support in the second round of voting. Here are two articles regarding his candidacy. Full texts at links. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday April 16, 2012 - 19:59 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - sunday april 22, 2012 - 16:07)
The UN deploy monitors but the US is preparing for a military intervention in Syria. The Fundamentalist opposition have little support within Syria and have publicly boasted of their intent to Ethnically Cleanse Christians and Alawis, this doesn't seem to bother their Western backers. Full text of article by Niall Green at link.

Despite the claims of the United States and its allies that they are seeking a peace deal and humanitarian relief in Syria, the Annan mission and the presence of foreign observers constitute a political fraud. They are a smokescreen behind which the imperialist powers and their regional proxies are advancing their agenda of regime-change in Damascus. ... read full story / add a comment
Israel: ready to attack
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday April 14, 2012 - 22:05 by pat c   text 4 comments (last - friday may 18, 2012 - 13:38)   image 1 image
Its not just a rogue attack from the Israeli Terrorist State thats on the agenda: Obama and his minions are deliberately psyching up the US people with their bellicose statements. Preconditions which cannot be met are being set for negotiations. Israel is being supplied with enhanced missile capability. Yassamine Mather deals with these points in the article below. Full text at link.

On Saturday April 14 Iran will attend talks with six world powers. The US has indicated this is Iran’s “last chance” to avoid military intervention and the Obama administration is taking very specific demands to the talks as preconditions for further negotiations: for example, Iran “must immediately close” a large nuclear facility allegedly built underneath a mountain if it wants to avoid a devastating strike. ... read full story / add a comment
one of the few images I could find for North Korea that wasn't propaganda
international / anti-capitalism Saturday April 14, 2012 - 06:04 by lefty   image 1 image
"The failed north Korea rocket launch has been pounced upon gleefully by a servile media as an excuse to peddle and rehash the usual propaganda statements about North Korea that the US likes to see being propagated. To balance this wave of propaganda, here is an old article by war veteran Brian Willson which is somewhat less hysterical. Reproduced verbatim here under the terms of the global research site
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Are we tired being viewed as the drunken idiots of the world yet?
national / anti-capitalism Friday April 13, 2012 - 18:52 by lefty   text 9 comments (last - friday september 27, 2013 - 10:50)   image 7 images   1 attached file
Profit takes precedence as drinks industry representative body tries to downplay damning report about alcohol and it's relationship with domestic violence and rape in Ireland. In light of this report, perhaps those in government who still have some semblance of a moral compass remaining could override their complete deference to money, economic considerations and profit as the most important things in our society, and might now consider removing sales of cheap alcohol from supermarkets. This is long overdue as the strains on our already underfunded health system from alcohol related cases and the social breakdown exacerbated by the availability of cheap alcohol, often cheaper than bottled water, are becoming more and more pronounced. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 07, 2012 - 12:11 by Ali Baba   text 2 comments (last - tuesday april 17, 2012 - 19:32)
The Arab Spring morphs into the Islamic Winter. This is supposed to be moderate muslims in control? Full article at link.

Officials in Tunisia say two bloggers have been jailed for seven years after posting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad on the internet.

The Ministry of Justice said the men had put naked caricatures of the prophet on their Facebook accounts.

Activists have criticised the sentences and voiced fears that they could herald a clampdown on free speech. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 07, 2012 - 06:27 by BrianClarkeNUJ   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Mounties were apparently well-bred Englishmen defending the ideals of the British empire according to English writers. However. that's not exactly how writers from the rest of the world see them, with their history of shootouts and extra-judiciary killing and kidnapping. The Mountie according to Brit writers could ride into a hostile native American camp and arrest a chief 's son without raising his weapon, because of a violent reputation of power. residing not in himself but in the history of the British Empire he symbolized. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / crime and justice Saturday April 07, 2012 - 01:13 by lefty   image 2 images
It's outrageous that John Kiriakou, a whistleblower, is the ONLY INDIVIDUAL TO BE PROSECUTED IN RELATION TO THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S TORTURE PROGRAM. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday April 06, 2012 - 00:07 by John Cornford
Video from the March 4th demonstration in Toronto against sanctions and the threats of war on Iran by the US and its allies. HOPI’s message – that we must oppose both war and the Iranian theocracy – is gaining ground, especially amongst Iranians living in Canada. This is evidenced by interviews with some of the demonstrators- and the numerous HOPI placards being waved around at the demo! ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Wednesday April 04, 2012 - 19:07 by lefty   text 2 comments (last - monday april 01, 2013 - 20:55)
A greek pensioner and world war II hero, shot himself on front of the greek parliament to die with some dignity rather than waiting until he had to search for food in garbage cans, and becoming a burden to hs children. Apparently Suicide rates have soared in greece. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 02, 2012 - 02:05 by Paul Baynes   text 1 comment (last - monday april 02, 2012 - 15:45)
Link to an excellent Foreign Policy piece by an Irish journalist who lived in Syria from c. 2007-2012. Accurate and insightful. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Thursday March 29, 2012 - 13:53 by JoeMcIvor   text 5 comments (last - sunday april 01, 2012 - 16:30)

Energy giants Total and Shell are downplaying the threat to the environment from the Elgin gas leak , which was first detected last Sunday in a field that lies150 miles off the coast of Scotland . The French Total energy conglomerate which owns the well has evacuated staff from the platform . Shell evacuated 120 oil workers from a nearby rig citing the danger of drifting gas.

“The Norwegian Bellona environmental group that monitors the oil industry has described the Elgin platform as “the well from hell”. The head of the organisation, Frederic Hauge, citing anonymous sources said that platform staff had struggled for 14 hours to contain the leak before having to evacuate the rig on Monday. “They saw the sea bubbling with gas under the platform. This is quite shocking”.’

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national / miscellaneous Tuesday March 27, 2012 - 22:52 by .
Sharing Ireland is an informal project to connect anyone in Ireland who is interested in non-commercial culture. We want to encourage varied and meaningful forms of direct sharing, cooperation and mutual aid. ... read full story / add a comment
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