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international / miscellaneous Tuesday August 26, 2008 - 12:22 by Bazooka Joe
Boats that last wednesday defied Israels inhuman blocade of the Gaza strip by sailing into Gaza from Cyprus are now planning to smuggle out two students which the State of Israel refers to as 'wanted terrorists'. Israel says it will not try to stop the boats ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Monday August 25, 2008 - 10:17 by pat c
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Amnesty International documents the 20th anniversary of the massacre of prisoners in Iran. It notes that no one has been held accountable for this atrocity. Full text at link. Twenty years after the then Iranian authorities began a wave of largely secret, summary and mass executions in September 1988, Amnesty International renews its call for those responsible for the “prison massacre” to be held accountable. There should be no impunity for such gross human rights violations, regardless of when they were committed. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday August 24, 2008 - 19:06 by pat c
The Iranian Regime has used riot police to attack telecom workers in Shiraz who were on strike due to unpaid wages. Full text at link. The workers of Iran Telecommunications Industry in Shiraz, in southern Iran, have not been paid for five months. The 1200 workers have gathered in front of the Fars province governor general's office many times but no officials have taken any steps to help them or responded to their demands.THings got so bad a worker hanged himself. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday August 24, 2008 - 18:24 by pat c
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The ex chief of Mossad gives his opinion of Ahmadinejad. And it aint pretty! Ahmadinejads very existence makes it more difficult to build solidarity against US aggression towards Iran. Full text at link. "Ahmadinejad is our greatest gift," Israel's Haaretz newspaper quoted ex-Mossad chief Ephraim Halevy as telling the US-sponsored Al-Hurra Arabic satellite channel on Tuesday. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Saturday August 23, 2008 - 19:57 by Kevin Pina
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According to a report delivered to the U.N. General Assembly on January 10, 2008 by the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), there were no reported instances of persons disappeared in Haiti during the year 2007. The WGEID is part of the U.N. High Commission on Human Rights and as such is in the loop to receive regular human rights reports filed by the U.N. mission in Haiti. More than five months after Mr. Pierre-Antoine’s disappearance and public acknowledgement of the case by U.N. authorities in Haiti, the WGEID completely omitted any reference to it in their report to the General Assembly. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 20, 2008 - 18:27 by Y
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Here is some good background from activists and writers on the left about the current situation in Georgia. Mark Almond is especially interesting as he is very knowledgeable on Georgian democracy. These speeches are from an SWP meeting held in Central London recently under the banner of the Stop the War Coalition. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday August 20, 2008 - 16:21 by pat c
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The great US liberators are facillitating union busting in Iraq. Military action is being used as a cover to attack workers rights. Full text at link. The administrations of some oil departments backed by the ministry of oil have clearly infringed on our rights.In fact, they have done more than that by excluding, relocating and issuing warrants for union leaders who defended the rights and entitlements of workers. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment Wednesday August 20, 2008 - 15:28 by evil gerald
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In today's Evening Herald, columnist Dan White plumbs new depths of idiocy. In a bizarre link, he tries to make out that the conflict in Georgia and South Ossetia should encourage the Irish government to help Shell bring the gas from the Corrib field onshore. What does he think they have been doing? Does the 11 million euro spent on Garda overtime not indicate (even to the slow witted Dan White) that maybe the government is already on Shell's side? read the full column here: http://www.herald.ie/opinion/columnists/dan-white/the-r....html ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 20, 2008 - 13:46 by TD
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Barak Ravid is reporting in today's edition of Haaretz newspaper that Israel would, according to PM Ehud Olmert, "unleash more massive firepower" and to "hit back harder than before," if Lebanon were to become a "terrorist state" under the domination of Hezbollah. Israel "did not use all means to respond then, but if Lebanon becomes a Hezbollah state, then we won't have any restrictions in this regard ... gone are the days when wars are fought on remote and hidden battlefields while life in the cities carries on as usual," he said. ... read full story / add a comment |
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