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carlow / consumer issues Sunday September 17, 2006 - 23:29 by Paddy Murphy
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Today, The UK Independent newspaper reveals that "Britain's official food safety watchdog has privately told supermarkets that it will not stop them selling an illegal GM rice to the public". Documents seen by the newspaper show that the Food Standards Agency assured major manufacturers and retailers 10 days ago that it would not make them withdraw the rice - at the same time as it was telling the public it should not be allowed to go on sale. ... read full story / add a comment
Chief prosecutor of Nazi crimes at Nuremberg, B. Ferencz, calls for Bush and Blair to be prosecuted.
leitrim / anti-war / imperialism Sunday September 17, 2006 - 21:09 by Naoimi
In his latest, 14 Sept 2006, column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes how the obvious becomes invisible in today's mainstream news agenda and such powerful denunciations of Israeli policy against the Palestinians and war criminals; Bush and Blair goes relatively unreported, e.g. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday September 16, 2006 - 17:20 by peptide
Not to be backgrounded in world events, the new Hitler youth Pope of Rome, Ratzinger (by any other name) spouted his ultra-right-wing divisionist diatribes to the world today – are there any Muslims out there? Ratzinger’s highly inflammatory references to a previous crusading Pope’s diatribes against Islam were intended to inform the world that he has not forgotten his Nazi past, Ratzinger has left little doubt as to what he really represents – there is no cause for concern, however, as he is in ‘good’ company; neo-cons, Zionists and other ultra-conservative groups welcomed confirmation from the Pope that he is one of them. However, Ratzinger’s credentials as a representative of his God and saviour, the Prince of Peace Jesus Christ, took a severe battering today. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Saturday September 16, 2006 - 14:52 by Irish Times Reader
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Cut and Paste from the Times website - cut and paste as it is a subscription site. Norway monarchs to visit here early next week. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday September 16, 2006 - 14:06 by Political Hostage
The Michael McKevitt Justice campaign asks for your support; send a letter to the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday September 16, 2006 - 02:22 by linker
A new book documents the US government practice of extraordinary rendition. The authors of the book, A.C. Thompson and Trevor Paglen were interviewed by Amy Goodman. The link is to a page containing a "rush transcript" of the interview, and there are links there to mp3, a 128k stream and a 256k stream of the interview. Included is an excerpt from an interview Amy Goodman recorded with Tim Hourigan last year. ... read full story / add a comment |
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