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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

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offsite link Starmer Hands Prisoners 6.6% Pay Rise at Cost of ?4.4 Million Tue Feb 04, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer has handed prisoners a 6.6% pay rise at a cost of ?4.4 million despite depriving 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel allowance because money is so tight.
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offsite link EU Plans to Let States Deport Failed Asylum Seekers and Criminals in Reform to Refugee Convention Tue Feb 04, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
The EU is drawing up a plan to overhaul its 1951 Refugee Convention that prevents countries from rejecting asylum seekers at their borders in a belated effort to address Europe's exploding migrant crisis.
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offsite link How Afraid Should we be About the Government?s Plan to Come up With a Legal Definition of ?Islamopho... Tue Feb 04, 2025 15:00 | Sam Bidwell
The prosecution of a man for burning the Qur'an shows how Islamic blasphemy codes are becoming embedded in criminal law. Coming up with a legal definition of 'Islamophobia' will accelerate this process, says Sam Bidwell.
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offsite link US to Stop UNRWA Funding and Withdraw from UN Human Rights Council Tue Feb 04, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order today withdrawing the US from the UN Human Rights Council and removing all US funding for the Gaza agency UNRWA.
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All the babies that Lucy Letby was convicted of killing actually died of natural causes, often due to poor medical care, and were not murdered, a panel of 14 medical experts has concluded.
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international / miscellaneous Monday October 18, 2004 - 12:15 by Michael Hennigan   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 19, 2004 - 07:59)
Last week the Guardian launched Operation Clark County to help readers have a say in the American election by writing to undecided voters in the crucial state of Ohio. In the first three days, more than 11,000 people requested addresses. Here is some of the reaction to the project that it received from the US ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Saturday October 16, 2004 - 21:53 by Migratory Bird
Check out the corp watch link for more war profiteers. All of these links, amnesty international etc are extremely important for reviewing. In America our impartial unbiased news is actually the war machine "driving" us towards our own destruction. But maybe we can break the silence of media monoploies and bring the humane back! ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday October 16, 2004 - 10:33 by Michael Hennigan
Roderick Johnson, a gay man and former inmate, said he was bought, sold and treated as a sex slave in his time in prison.

-Article from today's New York Times. Full content provided as site registration is required. ... read full story / add a comment
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
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