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international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 20, 2006 - 15:38 by pat c
 3 comments (last - monday may 15, 2006 - 10:58)
This is an extract from a WSM article on Islam. It is timely that it should be brought forward again. It challenges many of the ortodoxies of the "Left" and Liberals who have prostrated themselves before Islam. Thes e perhaps are the most important couple of sentences: "Anarchists have a long and proud tradition of fighting the power of organised religion, including in countries like Spain fighting fascist gangs formed on a religious basis. While we recognise the freedom of people to hold a religion we also recognise that there has to be a freedom from religion - an idea that runs against the basis of Islam." Read and enjoy. The full article is at the link below. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 19, 2006 - 22:02 by hs
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This whole episode started in what appeared to be a harmless way. Danish author Kåre Bluitgen wanted to write a children’s book on the life of Mohammed, but was unable to find an artist prepared to illustrate it for him (ironically the book has since been published, complete with illustrations, although the artist insisted on anonymity). The editors of Jyllands-Posten claim they decided to test out this unwillingness to depict the prophet by asking 25 cartoonists to send then an image of Mohammed “as they saw him”. Thirteen refused, but the other 12 were all published in the newspaper. There seems little doubt that the exercise was intended as a provocation. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / housing Saturday February 18, 2006 - 05:30 by Dominion Post (NZ)
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IT IS billed as a David-and-Goliath struggle – the young and poorly paid pitched against wealthy multi-nationals – and new union Unite is there, making sure the slingshot is fully loaded. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 17, 2006 - 12:30 by pat c
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Yet another example of Anti-Semitism which gets a little paragragh on an inside page. I wonder if those who have been rushing to the defence of Islamic Fundamentalists will condemn this and acknowledge that the Holocaust took place? I hope so. pat c ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday February 16, 2006 - 16:42 by cafe
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Time to name and shame the FF senators Fianna Fáil senators have blocked attempts to set up a Seanad investigation into allegations that the US has illegally transported prisoners through Shannon airport for torture elsewhere. Apparently Fianna Fáil senators feared that the creation of a Seanad inquiry would be seen as an unfriendly act by the United States, and possibly threaten the US military's increasingly important use of Shannon International Airport. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday February 16, 2006 - 14:07 by john tullis
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This article examines the press response to last week's shooting of Harry Whittington by US vice president Dick Cheney . ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday February 16, 2006 - 13:28 by Terence
The story reported in the URL below reports on the death of 74 people and injury of 627 in the Philippines after a stampede to get into a stadium go gain entry into a game show competition. Those killed and injured were mainly those in dire poverty What this incidence shows is that all these types of game shows, pop-idle shows and so on, all serve to act as an opium for the masses because life under capitalism offers no other hope. ... read full story / add a comment 
clare / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 15, 2006 - 23:20 by Niall Harnett
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Written by Andrew Hamilton. Photo by Yvonne Vaughan. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday February 15, 2006 - 17:43 by Socialist Party
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The February issue of The Socialist is now online ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday February 15, 2006 - 15:34 by anon
Justice Minister Michael McDowell is to be called before a special European Parliament committee to answer questions about whether CIA "torture flights" are passing through Irish airports. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Wednesday February 15, 2006 - 14:30 by pat c
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Some see religion as a disease of the mind. Richard Dawkins describes it as a malign virus of the mind spread through memes. But religion also spreads physical diseases and viruses. The article below might well prove to be an eyeopener for some. You can find Richard Dawkins Viruses of the Mind at: http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi//Dawkins/viruses-of-th....html Jack Woodall who wrote the article below is the director of the Nucleus for the Investigation of Emerging Infectious Diseases in the department of medical biochemistry at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [email protected] pat c ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday February 15, 2006 - 13:59 by Shannon
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The US government sent our troops into Iraq siting the posession of "weaponds of mass destruction" as the reason to enter. We've found none. As a result, the government is now telling us that we still needed to be there because it is a country accomodating terrorist organizations. Thousands of US troops and Iraqi civilians have been killed as a result of this "war on terror." Now, as I read an article in the Guardian about "The Long War" I cannot help wondering if the fighting will ever end. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Tuesday February 14, 2006 - 22:18 by Liam Mullen
As part of the 2003 Wexford Festival Opera, the Dublin writer Hugo Hamilton gave a talk about his new work – The speckled People. A tall thin man, dressed in black, Hugo stepped up to the podium in the children’s section of Wexford Library and began to speak softly about his latest work. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday February 14, 2006 - 19:11 by Starstruck
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As the violence and senseless bloodshed conti ues in Iraq John Pilger takes a look at what many are describing as the "new Vietnam". I'd call it murder. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday February 14, 2006 - 17:24 by pat c
At last some backbone is shown by one of the larger parties. Labour have stood up against Islamic Fundamentalism. In the piece below, Liz McManus criticises the way the President was allowed to address a\meeting in Saudi Arabia where women were kept behind an opaque screen. Women are treated like animals in Saudi Arabia where the mullahs \wield abnsolute power. This is what the Irish mullahs dream of. pat ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 14, 2006 - 11:56 by Oliver Delaney
This is an article in this week's Sunday Mirror article about RTE's celebrity businessman ripping off migrant workers ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday February 13, 2006 - 23:15 by redjade
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»Perhaps what is most disturbing about her blog post is that the raid did not seem to be directed at her - this is just 'normal' life in Baghdad - Iraq's 'New Normal';« ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday February 13, 2006 - 22:13 by freek
Irish Farmers Journal reports the IFA and ICMSA and Macra na Feirme Ireland three largest farming bodies make no submissions on GM?? Why is that? I call shenanigans http://www.gmfreeireland.org/ifm/index.php It is the bioethics ctte who look at the ethics of GMO http://www.bioethics.ie/pdfs/GM%20Report1.pdf The survey at the end is overwhelming negative. Yet they call for consumer choice!! I don't think trials would get sabotaged if people felt that there was a level playing field between the public and enviromental safety and corporations influence, even with biotethics committees and EPA environmentalists. The Bio-ethics Ctte conclusions are all very sensible but again I don't think the reflects the forces for and against GMO, the bioethics survey for Ireland and the well publicised GM Debate in the UK are overwhelmingly negative. There is this phrase "consumer choice", does the average consumer have choice in the USA to buy GM or not I don't think they do. Just as this one is. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 13, 2006 - 20:05 by gerard
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WE ARE A NATION AND WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO DECIDE! ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday February 12, 2006 - 23:10 by Elephant O'Room
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In a Channel 4 documentary to be broadcast on Monday, Ryanair, Europe's largest budget airline, will be accused of security lapses, dirty aircraft and making its cabin crew and pilots work dangerously long hours. ... read full story / add a comment |
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