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international / crime and justice Monday May 19, 2008 - 15:03 by tomeile
 17 comments (last - saturday may 24, 2008 - 12:13)
Iran has broken up a network of CIA backed spies and saboteurs .The Iranian authorities believe that the group was behind the bombing of the religious centre in Shiraz last month which killed thirteen people. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday May 18, 2008 - 15:15 by Ciaron
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In May 1968, during the Vietnam War ine people walked into a Selective Service Office, in Catonsville Maryland U.S.A., took hundreds of draft files from a cabinet, took them outside, doused them with homemade napalm and burned them in the name of peace. It raised serious questions about nonviolent resistance to the U.S. war in Vietnam and initiated a praxis that today engages U.S. wars in Iraq & Afghanistan Footage of action.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3SHRc-NTrk ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Friday May 16, 2008 - 18:46 by Jean B
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Carlos Andrade. Santiago Cadena. Diana Cabascango Francisco Jaramillo. The Colombian Citizen whom was picked up by Interpol has not been named (as yet) ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday May 16, 2008 - 18:44 by pat c
Hamid Dabashi, Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York writes on Hillary Clintons outburst regarding Iran in the 8 may issue of al-Ahram. Hamid writes: The only legitimate manner in which the Islamic Republic can be prevented from becoming a nuclear power is by ensuring that all the other nuclear powers in its neighbourhood engage in regional disarmament, first and foremost the mirror image of the Islamic Republic, the Jewish apartheid state of Israel. The latter is fully supported and sustained by the American Christian Empire, and will be after Senator Golda Clinton Meir possibly becomes its Commander-in-Chief. Full text at link. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 16, 2008 - 14:55 by Ciaron
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Pauline Campbell, who was found dead yesterday morning, put the deaths of women in prison on the map. A formidable and tireless campaigner, she had personal experience of deaths in custody. Just over five years ago, her much-loved daughter Sarah, 18, died of a drug overdose at Styal prison. Campbell's body was discovered close to her daughter's grave in Oakhills cemetery in Malpas, Cheshire. As we went to press, it was not clear whether she had killed herself or died of other causes, but it looks bleak. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Friday May 16, 2008 - 12:08 by Jean B
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The European Union has criticised the mass expulsion of Romani from four provinces in the Italian state. 12,000 families including children are moving north through italy and facing summary expulsion. it's called hate crime. For three days in Naples, Shanties and encampments have been subject to mob violence. This is after the media-owning Mr Burlusconi and his friends decided to abuse citizen rights in an act of expulsion that has no precedent in Post WW2 European History. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Tuesday May 13, 2008 - 19:15 by Terence
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This article from the LA Times by Bill McKibben presents the case that the situation with the Earth's environment is far worse than has been admitted so far and he reports on the latest scientific paper from climate scientist James Hansen which in the opening paragraph he says: "if humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday May 13, 2008 - 13:13 by tomeile
3 comments (last - friday may 16, 2008 - 01:47)
GARY LEUPP in Counterpunch argues that a US attack on Iran seems now to be unstoppable . He warns that the US National Security Council has agreed in principle to launch missile strikes on al-Qods sites located close to Tehran , and that the US will use the inevitable reaction from Iran to launch a wider scale war. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday May 13, 2008 - 12:34 by éirígí
4 comments (last - friday june 06, 2008 - 09:31)
Second éirígí Ard Fheis ... read full story / add a comment |
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