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international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday February 08, 2007 - 04:39 by Kwang zi
China's President Hu Jintao re-establishes trade links with Africa vowing not to interfere with the sovereign rights of African nations. The net result of this soft approach is African nations clamouring to the Chinese whose trade links with Africa extend thousands of years into the past. Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of large African port cities containing artefacts and trade material from China and Africa. Large amounts of ceramics, ivory, gems, precious metals and a wealth of other artefacts reveal a long history of lively and thriving two-way trade between the two continents. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 07, 2007 - 19:18 by www.democracynow.org
In Florida, USA, Governor Charlie Crist has announced the state will abandon touch-screen voting machines in favor of paper ballots. The $30 million replacement would mark the nation’s biggest rejection of voting-machines to date. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday February 07, 2007 - 14:26 by Apparat
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The ISN have added 4 new publications to irishsocialist.net ☆ An article on Trotsky ☆ The latest issue of "The Finglas People" ☆ Reflections on the Anti War Movement in Ireland ☆ A review of "Socialism Made Easy", by James Connolly - first published in Red Banner ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Tuesday February 06, 2007 - 15:58 by R. Isible
The independent documentary Loose Change [1] is doing the rounds in screenings and downloads (over 4 million apparently for just this version on Google Videos) [2]. Despite overwhelming testimony from independent scientific experts as publicised by Counterpunch [3], Popular Mechanics [4] and South Park [5] the documentary is spreading a pall of confusion and misinformation about 9/11. George Monbiot takes it on in his latest column: ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Tuesday February 06, 2007 - 11:24 by Terence
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According to the latest statistics released by the European Wind Energy Association www.ewea.org, Ireland's wind power capacity increased by 50% last year bringing us from 495 MW (megawatts) to 745 MW. Meanwhile for Europe as a whole, new records were broken again and capacity installed for last year by 23% or 7,588 MW over the 2005 figure. Cumulatively total capacity increased by 19% with the total for Europe now over 48,000 MW. ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Tuesday February 06, 2007 - 11:23 by CAPS
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The UK-based Captive Animals' Protection Society and Dublin-based Alliance for Animal Rights have launched a website as part of their campaign to end the use of animals in circuses. The website includes reports, videos, information on animal circuses and encourages the public to get actively involved in the campaign. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday February 06, 2007 - 00:31 by Sean
An emergency appeal from human rights groups in Canada for individuals and groups internationally to show solidarity with three detainees in Canada's Guantanamo who are approaching their 75th day on hungerstrike on Wednesday 7th February. Please take a minute to email, phone or fax your protest to the Canadian Embassy in Dublin and copy to the campaign at the address given below. 65 St. Stephen's Green Dublin 2 Ireland Tel: 353 (1) 417-4100 Fax: 353 (1) 417-4101 email: [email protected] Please copy emails to: [email protected] and [email protected] ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism Monday February 05, 2007 - 18:25 by Revolt Video
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Chomsky came to a private meeting with anarchists and activts in Dublin during 2006. He spoke about anarchism, the Spanish Civil War and Vietnam among other topics. This is a 3 camera shoot, the audio of this will be availble through radio.indymedia.org for those who don ' t wish to download the full video file. For those who do we recommend videolan as your player regardless of what OS you are using. http://video.indymedia.org/en/2007/01/711.shtml http://www.videolan.org/ ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday February 05, 2007 - 15:51 by none
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Monsanto Ireland CEO Patrick O’Reilly is furious at RTE 2 for broacasting “The Future of Food” last Sunday. He has complained to RTE and to the chief scientists of the various agricultural research bodies. The Irish Farmers Journal printed the following article in its current issue: ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Monday February 05, 2007 - 09:49 by Groundhog
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The Dublin free-press which litters our buses has a headline this morning about the mundane : Minister Mc Dowell is under investigation for planning irregularities in relation to his constituency offices in Ranelagh. ... read full story / add a comment
offaly / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 05, 2007 - 02:47 by Nora G.
In today's UK Guardian, a letter signed by Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, John Pilger, Walden Bello, Michael Greger, Mike Davis, Caroline Lucas, Green MEP, Gabriel Carlyle, Pandemic Action, Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, Michael Albert, ZNet. Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel peace prize winner and Hans von Sponeck, former UN assistant secretary general warns that "Humanity faces a massive global threat from avian influenza" ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday February 03, 2007 - 16:06 by pat c
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Conscription never went away you know. It just became Economic Conscription. It is Working Class kids who will die in the war for oil. Sixteen-year-old Cara is particularly keen. "They told us about the pay, and it's way better than all my cousins are getting," she says. Don't forget : James Connolly first came to Ireland in the uniform of a British Soldier, he was an Economic Conscript. pat c Britain's child army Stricken by Iraq and low morale, the British army is on a desperate recruitment drive. Its new targets? Poorly educated teenagers and young schoolchildren On a winter day, 38 schoolchildren gather at Fulwood Barracks in Preston. They are aged between 14 and 16 they have been bussed over from a poorly performing comprehensive in a deprived area. The teachers who have come along with them seem apprehensive. Many of these kids can be unruly; others are quiet but don't perform well in class. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Friday February 02, 2007 - 19:17 by Terence
It has been revealed in a report in today's Guardian newspaper that Scientists have been recently offered bribes of $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / eu Friday February 02, 2007 - 14:02 by C Murray
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The whole light emission thing which was brought to our attention by 'bright spark' comes to mind. There is to be a photo-op , as part of the German Presidency of the EU- it comes under the heading 'Youth, Culture and education' The piece is called "More Light". All interesting EU German presidency stuff is oN:- http://www.eu2007.de. Today, a Press release on the Kosovo Situation, which was highlighted by the sad death of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskya. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Friday February 02, 2007 - 12:11 by E
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Two SWP pamphlets on the crisis in the Health Service and on the Sea to Shell campaign are now available on swp.ie ... read full story / add a comment |
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