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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 07, 2008 - 14:15 by Joe
On December 11, one of the Arab world's top bloggers Fouad Al-Farhan was arrested by the Saudi Interior Ministry. A successful hi-tech entrepreneur, Fouad was arrested at his office and his computers seized. He was detained after refusing to apologize for blog posts criticizing Saudi officials. Fouad remains held in an undisclosed location. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights Thursday February 07, 2008 - 14:01 by staring at goats
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"......The British Ministry of Defence says it will abandon deep-diving experiments which involve inducing decompression sickness in live goats. The animals were used to see what the likely risk of "the bends" would be following escape from a submarine at varying depths under water. The information would help crews judge whether it would be safer to abandon a stricken vessel or wait to be rescued. Animal rights campaigners say the move will "end decades of animal suffering". More than 400 such experiments have taken place since 2000. However, the tests were suspended in March 2007 while a review committee of six experts examined alternative methods, such as computer-modelling techniques to simulate the effects of the "bends". Now the UK MoD says there is no further need for the animal testing......." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday February 07, 2008 - 11:47 by Miriam Cotton
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Letter in today's Guardian about how these two vultures are squawking for a slice of the blood-soaked action. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 07, 2008 - 06:46 by Avila TV
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Venezuela suffered a Coup d'Etat in april 11 of 2002. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Wednesday February 06, 2008 - 18:39 by C Murray
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/feb2008/spai-f06.shtml The first abortion rights issue that I was involved in was a press-statement forwarded by some polish activists who asked for dissemination of a petition to do with an amalgamation of three far right parties which included the LPR, PiS and another group. They had hoped to change the Polish constitution (article 38) to 'protect life from the moment of conception'. During the ensuing parliamentary debate and rucus, the tri-partite union who had attempted to force the issue down throats split ;and Poland was found in breach of Human Rights Articles in relation to the Alicia Tysiac case. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday February 06, 2008 - 01:14 by +
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The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has long been on of the most trustworthy & respected research resources for people who like to count Scud missiles & stuff like that. In addition to "stuff like that", they do pretty good analysis too & not for nothing have they been ranked in the top 30 most influential think-tank entities on the planet. But most people who use this site don't pay attention to think-tanks & probably wouldn't even notice if they were floating like Tom Cruise in a tank having a think about how bad & evil the arms trade is for the good reason they didn't get the right degrees or recruited by the appropriate sort of shadowy agencies in their youth. Thankfully SIPRI has now decided to offer a lot of its information not only for free, but in a format & language. In short - (for I know no other way) I introduce you to the website " Armsflow ". ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Tuesday February 05, 2008 - 12:24 by C Murray
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Ronald Brooke Kitaj, Painter and Writer born in Cleveland 1932- died 2007. RB Kitaj- Diasporist Artist and Magician. He wrote in 1989 a book which was entitled 'The First Diasporist Manifesto', it was sold along with catalogues that accompanied his Retrospective at the Tate Gallery. A further book entitled :- The Second Diasporist Manifesto' was later published by Yale. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday February 04, 2008 - 12:40 by Michelle Crawley
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Ryanair Profits Plummett amid market fears ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 03, 2008 - 19:29 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
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A Danish documentary crew working for the national TV channel DR1 has detailed the movements of CIA aircraft that have repeatedly transited in Greenland and flown through Danish airspace in connection with the covert agency's widely condemned programme of abduction and torture. Having gained access to flight plans, duty payments, hotel registrations, catering invoices and crew lists, the documentary shows that the Greenlandic airport Narsarsuaq has played a particularly prominent role in the so-called "extraordinary renditions" programme. In a related development, DR's news programme this evening reports us that the Icelandic customs authorities have begun to search all international flights, in response to media coverage of shady CIA transits. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Sunday February 03, 2008 - 13:33 by JM
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National Grid won't be allowed to build a gas plant in Corse [Gloucestershire]. Villagers who have been campaigning against the building of a Pressure Reduction Installation in Corse are over the moon after a planning inspector refused permission for it. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Saturday February 02, 2008 - 16:35 by ipsi
The NYPD whom you quite probably have seen on television have lobbied successfully to propose a municipal law "to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to permits for biological, chemical and radiological detectors." The Council Members proposing it are Vallone Jr., Addabbo Jr., Comrie, Fidler, Gentile, Nelson, Recchia Jr., Stewart and White Jr. (by request of the Mayor). You might have seen him on telly too, in fact you might have seen his telly station, his name is Bloomberg. Their argument is that allowing the general public to use geiger counters & other bio- chem- or general WMD detectors may, will, does or perhaps did cause PANIC. They don't like panic. They like orderly queues & heroic administrations who chose to HQ their emergency services on a 23rd floor of a building leased by a party donor slap bang next to the World Trade Centre despite that bit of Manhatten being considered a "target" & the idiocy of clambering up 23 floors of stairs in a power outage. ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 01, 2008 - 13:15 by Young Socialist
Last Wednesday (January 30th) was 75 years since Hitler came to power. To mark the occasion and remember those who died UL Socialist Youth organized a series of anti-racist activities during the week, as part of a national campaign. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Wednesday January 30, 2008 - 15:53 by pat c
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Democracy Iranian style: you are not allowed to stand for election if the Iranian Regime doesnt like your opinions! Under the Iranian political system, potential candidates are vetted twice, once by the interior ministry and the second time by the Guardian Council, which is made up of Islamic clerics. Full report at the link from the well known Pro US Propagandists Al Jazeera. The Iranian government has barred more than 2,000 prospective candidates from contesting in forthcoming parliamentary elections, in effect removing the biggest rival to hardliners in power. Most of those disqualified were seeking democratic changes within Iran's ruling Islamic government led by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday January 30, 2008 - 15:21 by Peter Manson
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One of the more bizarre claims made at the SWP UK Conference was that Lindsay German would be elected to the Greater London Assembly. The report below covers the conference and pre-conference discussions. More at the url. Respect is alive and well, and the politics we pursued proved to be correct. That is the pathetic message the SWP leaders want people, including their own members, to believe. Yes, John Rees, Lindsey German, Alex Callinicos, Chris Bambery and Martin Smith treat the working class with barely concealed contempt. Under their post-Tony Cliff regime the SWP has not only adopted Joseph’s Stalin’s popular front politics, but also the same utterly cynical attitude towards the truth. SWP conferences are run along Stalinist lines too. Socialist Worker boasts of the January 5-6 gathering: “An overwhelming majority supported the way the party had conducted itself during the Respect crisis” (January 12). ... read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality Tuesday January 29, 2008 - 10:14 by ribbid
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"The licence of the magazine Zanan ('Women') managed by Shahla Sherkat has been cancelled as the monthly published articles undermining public confidence in law and order by leading people to believe that the Islamic republic was unsafe for women," the FARS news agency has reported citing an official it did not name. Shahla Sherkat author, directing editor & founder of "Zanan" (="women") has told a handful of western news organisations that she has not been contacted by the Iranian state & learnt of the news herself on the FARS website. FARS is not the official Iranian news service (that's IRNA) but it seems quite likely. Her last monthly offering published a feature on gender violence & included a monthly toll. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Tuesday January 29, 2008 - 09:04 by Mariella Froster
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Posters on politics.ie will be familiar with the vitriol directed at Indymedia. Accusations of stasi style censorship are routine. For some time now, however, the fact that censorhip on politics.ie is more frequent, arbitrary and subjective than anything seen on many other sites has become pretty obvious. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday January 28, 2008 - 17:00 by pat c
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Here is an appeal from International Labour Solidarity Committee of the Worker-communist Party of Iran on behalf of imprisoned students, workers and political prisoners. Full text at link. The news on the condition of over 50 jailed students in Iran is very worrying. Last week Ebrahim Lotfollaahi died under torture in the city of Sanandaj. Nearly two months since their arrest and detention, many students continue to be held incommunicado. Reports from prisons speak of long and severe interrogation sessions by the feared Information Ministry officials, with many students being tort ured and kept in solitary confinement. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Sunday January 27, 2008 - 16:10 by tomeile
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The Dutch government is bracing itself for violent protests following the scheduled broadcast this week of a provocative anti-Muslim film by a radical right-wing politician who has threatened to broadcast images of the Koran being torn up and otherwise desecrated. Geert Wilders , one of nine members of the extreme right wing PVV party in the Dutch parliament , has described the Koran as a 'source of inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror'. Demonstrations from left wing and Muslim opponents of Wilders’ provocation are expected this week , while members of the Stop Islamisation of Europe group are planning to travel to Amsterdam in his support . ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Friday January 25, 2008 - 15:14 by C Murray
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The Taoiseach gets Friday off. Its a long-standing tradition that was facilitated by the Labour Party in exchange for speaking time in the Dail. The images on the Newswire of the Women's Protest in Belfast caught my eye, given the Health and social problems that are becoming evident in Dolphin's Barn, because someone gave Ms Harney 16 Billion Euros to continue to implement her Health Policy which is to close down hospitals in areas that have high populations of young children. Its called 'amalgamation'. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Thursday January 24, 2008 - 23:02 by staring at rats
Prodi has quit his job as prime minister of Italy tonight. Berlusconi will come back. Naples has spent all winter without rubbish collection. Padre Pio is half way out of his grave. The Tiger mosquito has brought tropical diseases. & that's about it. you know what Berlusconi's like. he's a hoot. up-front mafia billionaire right wing botox-jowled fascist. We're leaving the age of "sociopathic socialist governments" in the EU. It will happen to South America next. Ah! but you protest Prodi wasn't a socialist... You'd be right too. Everyone is. ... read full story / add a comment |
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