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offsite link Merz Warns of End of NATO as Incoming Chancellor Set to Defy Washington by Forming Coalition With Ge... Mon Feb 24, 2025 11:38 | Will Jones
Friedrich Merz has warned of the end of NATO as the incoming German Chancellor is set to defy Washington by teaming up with the losing Left-wing parties, including the extreme Greens, and freezing out surging AfD.
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offsite link Trump?s Cuts to USAID May Force Stonewall to Make Half its Staff Redundant, LGBT Organisation Claims... Mon Feb 24, 2025 09:00 | Toby Young
Trump's freeze on foreign aid has left Stonewall in the lurch, with US funding for its LGBTQ+ projects drying up, and up to half of its "shell-shocked" staff facing the chop.
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offsite link Energy Geopolitics in a Putin-Trump World Mon Feb 24, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
In a world reshaped by Putin and Trump, the Daily Sceptic's Energy Editor explains how a thaw between Russia and the US could change the global energy game, sidelining Europe and lifting the Global South.
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offsite link News Round-Up Mon Feb 24, 2025 01:15 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link BP Faces ?Existential Crisis? After Ruinous Attempt to Go Green Sun Feb 23, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
BP's big green energy gamble has backfired, leaving profits in freefall and activist investors circling like sharks ? now, desperate to stay afloat, it's making a frantic dash back to oil and gas.
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offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?121 Sat Feb 22, 2025 05:50 | en

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international / arts and media Monday November 28, 2005 - 21:29 by Upstart Radio America
Al-Jazeera must be doing something right for Dictator Bush to want to bomb them. That is, if he hadn't bombed them in 2001 and 2003 already. George McGovern talks about Poppy Bush's opposition to the war. Jody Paulson compares GWB to Tricky Dick. An awesome speech by NBA Star Eaton Thomas of the Washington Wizzards and finally, Ward Churchill brings it home. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday November 28, 2005 - 18:31 by yahoo
By PAUL AMES, Associated Press Writer
"Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Franco Frattini also warned that that any of the 25 bloc nations found to have operated secret CIA prisons could have their EU voting rights suspended." ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Sunday November 27, 2005 - 23:41 by regular joe
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 14th May 2002

Persuasion works best when it’s invisible. The most effective marketing worms its way into our consciousness, leaving intact the perception that we have reached our opinions and made our choices independently. As old as humankind itself, over the past few years this approach has been refined, with the help of the internet, into a technique called “viral marketing”. Last month, the viruses appear to have murdered their host. One of the world’s foremost scientific journals was persuaded to do something it has never done before, and retract a paper it had published. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday November 27, 2005 - 00:10 by R. Isible   text 4 comments (last - tuesday december 06, 2005 - 09:32)
Irish Independent reports that a previous occupation of the MV Normandy led to the consideration of using teargas. Plainclothes security personnel are rumoured to have boarded the vessel prepared and equipped to use teargas. This report by Gerald Flynn paints the taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, in a positive light and refrains from pointing out that the oul bollocks hasn't done anything except talk bollocks. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday November 25, 2005 - 20:36 by Sean Crudden   text 2 comments (last - friday november 25, 2005 - 22:16)
Best - the boy wonder of 1960's football - is dead. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday November 24, 2005 - 18:01 by SP Member   text 35 comments (last - tuesday november 29, 2005 - 11:59)   image 2 images
In the aftermath of the Labour Court recommendation on the Irish Ferries, and the confrontation between Joe Higgins and Mary Harney in the Dail this morning, Irish Ferries have escalated the dispute at Pembroke and workers have blockaded themselves into the engine room of the ship. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 24, 2005 - 17:46 by Allen   text 2 comments (last - thursday november 24, 2005 - 18:45)
A LABOUR Party decision to reject a complaint against its party leader, Mr Pat Rabbitte, has been described as "appalling" by Clr. Declan Bree, who made the complaint. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday November 24, 2005 - 02:22 by Update   text 8 comments (last - saturday november 26, 2005 - 05:12)
As the war on Iraq escalates daily and loses any semblence of popular support in the imperial heartland - nonviolent resistance grows. In England Milan Rai is imprisoned, in the U.S. folks are arrested attempting to re-establish the peace camp outisde Bush's Crawford Texas Ranch on Thanksgiving. In Australia dissidents arrested this past June blockading Operation Talisman Sabre front court in Rckhampton this Monday. Check link below for an update on the Operation Talisman Sabre Crew....... ... read full story / add a comment
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