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international / eu Wednesday February 06, 2008 - 18:39 by C Murray
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/feb2008/spai-f06.shtml The first abortion rights issue that I was involved in was a press-statement forwarded by some polish activists who asked for dissemination of a petition to do with an amalgamation of three far right parties which included the LPR, PiS and another group. They had hoped to change the Polish constitution (article 38) to 'protect life from the moment of conception'. During the ensuing parliamentary debate and rucus, the tri-partite union who had attempted to force the issue down throats split ;and Poland was found in breach of Human Rights Articles in relation to the Alicia Tysiac case. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday February 06, 2008 - 01:14 by +
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The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has long been on of the most trustworthy & respected research resources for people who like to count Scud missiles & stuff like that. In addition to "stuff like that", they do pretty good analysis too & not for nothing have they been ranked in the top 30 most influential think-tank entities on the planet. But most people who use this site don't pay attention to think-tanks & probably wouldn't even notice if they were floating like Tom Cruise in a tank having a think about how bad & evil the arms trade is for the good reason they didn't get the right degrees or recruited by the appropriate sort of shadowy agencies in their youth. Thankfully SIPRI has now decided to offer a lot of its information not only for free, but in a format & language. In short - (for I know no other way) I introduce you to the website " Armsflow ". ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Tuesday February 05, 2008 - 12:24 by C Murray
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Ronald Brooke Kitaj, Painter and Writer born in Cleveland 1932- died 2007. RB Kitaj- Diasporist Artist and Magician. He wrote in 1989 a book which was entitled 'The First Diasporist Manifesto', it was sold along with catalogues that accompanied his Retrospective at the Tate Gallery. A further book entitled :- The Second Diasporist Manifesto' was later published by Yale. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday February 04, 2008 - 12:40 by Michelle Crawley
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Ryanair Profits Plummett amid market fears ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 03, 2008 - 19:29 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
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A Danish documentary crew working for the national TV channel DR1 has detailed the movements of CIA aircraft that have repeatedly transited in Greenland and flown through Danish airspace in connection with the covert agency's widely condemned programme of abduction and torture. Having gained access to flight plans, duty payments, hotel registrations, catering invoices and crew lists, the documentary shows that the Greenlandic airport Narsarsuaq has played a particularly prominent role in the so-called "extraordinary renditions" programme. In a related development, DR's news programme this evening reports us that the Icelandic customs authorities have begun to search all international flights, in response to media coverage of shady CIA transits. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Sunday February 03, 2008 - 13:33 by JM
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National Grid won't be allowed to build a gas plant in Corse [Gloucestershire]. Villagers who have been campaigning against the building of a Pressure Reduction Installation in Corse are over the moon after a planning inspector refused permission for it. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Saturday February 02, 2008 - 16:35 by ipsi
The NYPD whom you quite probably have seen on television have lobbied successfully to propose a municipal law "to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to permits for biological, chemical and radiological detectors." The Council Members proposing it are Vallone Jr., Addabbo Jr., Comrie, Fidler, Gentile, Nelson, Recchia Jr., Stewart and White Jr. (by request of the Mayor). You might have seen him on telly too, in fact you might have seen his telly station, his name is Bloomberg. Their argument is that allowing the general public to use geiger counters & other bio- chem- or general WMD detectors may, will, does or perhaps did cause PANIC. They don't like panic. They like orderly queues & heroic administrations who chose to HQ their emergency services on a 23rd floor of a building leased by a party donor slap bang next to the World Trade Centre despite that bit of Manhatten being considered a "target" & the idiocy of clambering up 23 floors of stairs in a power outage. ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 01, 2008 - 13:15 by Young Socialist
Last Wednesday (January 30th) was 75 years since Hitler came to power. To mark the occasion and remember those who died UL Socialist Youth organized a series of anti-racist activities during the week, as part of a national campaign. ... read full story / add a comment |
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