|
Upcoming Eventsno events match your query! New Eventsno events posted in last week
Blog Feeds
Anti-Empire
The SakerA bird's eye view of the vineyard
Public InquiryInterested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
Voltaire NetworkVoltaire, international edition
|
international / anti-capitalism Thursday October 04, 2007 - 14:30 by pat c
 31 comments (last - monday october 15, 2007 - 08:30)  7 images
The Iranian Junta attempted to use the daughter and son of Che to whip up support for the Islamists and to do down Socialism. This backfired spectacularly when Aleida Guevara made it clear that Che was a Communist and an Atheist. An attempt to rope in the son and daughter of the Argentine revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara to forge a parallel between Iran’s Islamist revolution and the socialist revolution in Latin America through a four-day conference has ended in fiasco. After Aleida Guevara protested from the podium against perceived distortions of her father’s ideology by the first Iranian speaker, Haj Saeed Ghasemi, the four-day ‘Che Like Chamran’ conference, that started Sep. 25, was aborted and the Latin American guests whisked away. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Wednesday October 03, 2007 - 23:55 by guild of assassins
4 comments (last - thursday october 11, 2007 - 13:21) 2 images
Last week the out of the way website "Damn Data" picked up on the latest buzz amongst those for whom fear of hermetic or allegorical secret societies on the Western model has waned in recent years perhaps due to unsurmountable silliness or maybe just solving all the secrets. For in truth not even 911 or the current legal attemps by Mohamed Fayed to bring Philip Mountabatten to an unlawful death verdict relating to the death of his (fayed who prefers to be known as alFayed) son's lover Diance Spencer [who was the ex-wife of course of Mountabatten's son (who prefers to be known as the prince of Cymru & Wales)] can really get us SEEING THE TRUTH ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday October 03, 2007 - 11:11 by C Murray
2 comments (last - thursday october 04, 2007 - 10:37) 4 images
On the Third of October 2006 there was a alert here and on the IMC Networks that there was going to be a suppression and violent putdown of the APPO and the Popular movement in Oaxaca. Narconews had been sending out alerts since the 30th of September, reporting troop gathering of up to 5,000 men and reporting that only one radio station was working. http://www.indymedia.ie/article/78757 http://narcosphere.narconews.com/ ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday October 02, 2007 - 20:14 by Maluka
1 comment (last - saturday october 06, 2007 - 14:02)
Democracy Now is reporting that : "In his latest article in the New Yorker magazine, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/10/08/071008fa_...=true investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reports there has been a significant increase in the tempo of planning for war with Iran inside the Bush administration. Hersh says the White House recently requested the Joint Chiefs of Staff redraw longstanding plans for a possible attack. Hersh also reports the Bush administration's rationale for bombing Iran has shifted from Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program to Iran's role in Iraq". ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday October 02, 2007 - 19:19 by Chris Murray
1 comment (last - sunday february 17, 2008 - 11:05) 2 images
The monthly Isis Women e- newsletter is just released with its focus on International Women's Rights and Issues. Generally these are related to trade and its effects on indigenous communities as well as journalism that encompasses huge regions around the Pacific Basin and further afield. This Month's blog section is studying the Japan-Chile, Japan-Thailand FTAS (Free Trade Agreements) and how Japanese corps are buying legal rights over biodiversity in developing nations- or 'biopiracy" ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday October 02, 2007 - 15:21 by Indyjourno
In this essay on the anniversary of Gandhi's birth (Oct. 2, 1869), writer Pablo Ouziel recalls Gandhi's enduring message about the evils of violence and the hope for human redemption ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday October 02, 2007 - 12:28 by Headser54
2 comments (last - saturday october 13, 2007 - 18:18)
In an amazing redefinition of 'GM free' and contrary to Green Party policy, Green Junior Minister Trevor Sargent has now stated GM free is 'not about banning imported GM feed' according to the Irish Independent (Oct 2, 2007) (see below). ... read full story / add a comment
meath / history and heritage Tuesday October 02, 2007 - 05:20 by Susan Isabella Sheehan-Repasky
13 comments (last - saturday october 20, 2007 - 18:13)
Minister Gormley Stays Destruction ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Monday October 01, 2007 - 20:24 by o as if
2 comments (last - tuesday october 02, 2007 - 20:03)
Catalan independence news these days seems to be focussed on a prison sentance passed on a protester who burnt a photo of the King of Spain last September 13th whilst Juan Carlos Bourbo y Bourbo was in Girona to open the science park there. A crowd of protesters had attended the event as part of the wider "300 years" movement which aims to raise independence hopes on the anniversaries of the beginning and end of the war of Bourbon succession between 1707 and the 11th of September 1714. That of course was the war which saw the European alliance supporting the Catalans (& British by they way) lose to the Bourbon dynasty (& the Basques by the way) which still holds the crown today. & that was when they lost their powers to raise tax & sundry other privelages. Yesterday a bomb was difused in the headquarters of the Catalan Green party ICV-EUA which is a sister party of the Spanish state's IU or reformed marxists (who are linked to the SWP by the way) ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 01, 2007 - 11:56 by pat c
1 image
Robert Tait reports on the latest crackdown on dissidents in Iran, in particular on students who oppose the regime. He also illustrates the warm welcome Ahmadinejad received from students who physically drove him out of a University. Mansouri, a student activist, was arrested due to the circulation of campus commentaries on Iran's Islamic system. Includeing the "incendiary "statement that neither Mohammad nor Imam Ali who is the most revered figure in the Shi'ite branch of Islam, were 'innocent'. It also argued that no figure in today's Iran should be considered 'sacred'. One publication said the highest number of prostitutes in Iran could be found in Qom, which is home to the country's religious establishment. In the cloying religious atmosphere of Iran's ruling theocracy, making such statements can be almost suicidal. Mansouri was one of eight students arrested. Five were released. He remains in custody along with Majid Tavakoli and Ahmad Ghasaban. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Sunday September 30, 2007 - 13:53 by quang duc
Great news for people who like Youtube, which I suppose are those who never actually become dismayed by reading the comments or want to wander out of their macro-cultural or sub-cultural niche. Start again - If you go to Youtube today, you can watch or upload vids of Police Brutality on the brand spanking new "police brutality channel"..........."oh but it's not snuff!" they complain. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday September 29, 2007 - 08:53 by Miriam Cotton & David Manning
2 comments (last - saturday september 29, 2007 - 16:41) 1 image
All the collapses in US democracy that have occurred over the last fifty years well summed up by Sheehan. ... read full story / add a comment |
|
|
