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international / miscellaneous Tuesday July 08, 2008 - 23:50 by Bazooka Joe
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On Friday, Swiss public station Radio Suisse Romande quoted a reliable source as saying that $20 million had been paid to the FARC commander known as “Cesar” (real name, Gerardo Aguilar Ramirez). Ramirez delivered the hostages to Colombian soldiers posing as humanitarian aid workers. Geneva-based academic Jean Pierre Gontard is suspected of being the source of the leak but he denies this. Swiss Radio said the hostages “were in reality bought for a high price, and the whole operation afterwards was a set-up”. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday July 08, 2008 - 17:01 by Maureen
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US Army medic, Joseph Dwyer, famous for the photo that was ruthlessly employed for propaganda, feelgood, purposes has died at the age of thirty-one after overdosing on a computer cleaner aerosol. The Army Specialist had been struggling with post-traumatic stress syndrome. After his return from Iraq, his marriage fell apart, and he spiraled into substance abuse and depression. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Tuesday July 08, 2008 - 15:03 by polly tix
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'Skype or even Firefox might be declared illegal in Europe if they are not certified by an administrative authority', Foundation for a Free Internet Infrastructure (FFII) ... read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality Monday July 07, 2008 - 21:54 by pat c
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Peter Tatchell takes the mickey out of Iranian "President" Ahmadinejad but also makes it clear that he opposes any attack on Iran. Peter supports the Iranian people not the theocracy. Full text at link. Peter Tatchell marched in the Pride Parade holding a poster placard ridiculing the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It featured a doctored photo of Amhadinejad wearing blue eye shadow, red lipstick, a gold earring and pink nail varnish. The placard was emblazoned with the words: “President of Iran. Murderer.Homophobe.” “I don’t support a military-attack on Iran, but I do urge greater international solidarity with democratic, liberal and progressive Iranians who are struggling to overthrow the clerical dictatorship from within,” Peter Tatchell said. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Monday July 07, 2008 - 17:58 by TD
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John Pilger and the Democracy Now website are reporting that the youngest ever winner of the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, the 24 year old Palestinian journalist and photographer from Gaza, Mohammed Omer, was strip searched, beaten by 8 armed Shin Bet officials and hospitalized for a week after being detained at the Allenby Bridge crossing. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday July 07, 2008 - 03:31 by D. Fahey
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The rise of the BNP in Britain is linked to Labour's failure to address social and economic inequality. Fascism is on the rise across Europe. ... read full story / add a comment |
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