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national / arts and media Friday October 03, 2008 - 21:34 by David Manning
As the banking sector celebrates the government bailout the mainstream media have sought to capitalise on their readers formerly dormant anti-capitalist sentiment, with those journalists and editors that still retain an inkling of their activist youth revealing in the opportunity to indulge in some populist rhetoric, MediaBite takes a look at the media's performance over the boom years and asks whether the media, not just the bankers and developers, should be held to account for their part in bringing on this economic crisis. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday October 03, 2008 - 12:24 by tomeile
In the interview conducted last month , Professor Chomsky discussed India , the importance of the non-aligned movement and Latin America's growing independence . Addressing the West's hypocrisy over Iran's nuclear program Chomsky said : “The fact of the matter is that the majority of the world supports Iran. The non-aligned movement supports Iran.” ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Friday October 03, 2008 - 10:16 by Eugene Mc Cartan
This article has just been published in Trybuna Robotnicza (Workers' Tribune) weekly. Please colport it wherever you can, international solidarity is needed! Also in appendix: photo of Piotr, the photo from the picket near Auchan west of Poznan, and the graphic made by TR artist especially for this article. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / politics / elections Friday October 03, 2008 - 02:46 by Advertiser
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Harry Barrett, Labour Party Rep in Mayo, writes glowingly about Sarah Palin in the current issue of the Mayo Advertiser. "One of her first acts as newly elected governor of Alaska was to renegotiate a taxation deal with the Alaskan oil companies", he points out. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Wednesday October 01, 2008 - 13:00 by tomeile
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Islamophobia has replaced anti-semitism as the unifying ideology for the extreme right in Austria where neo-fascist rivals Heinz-Christian Strache and Jorg Haider utilised slogans such as “Homeland instead of Islam” and “Vienna must not become Istanbul” to make huge gains in last week’s national elections at the expense of the Conservative OeVP and Social Democrats SPOe parties . As the elections were taking place more than 90 Muslim graves were severely damaged at the cemetery in Traun, near Linz in what police believe was an organised action. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday September 30, 2008 - 15:04 by Raymond D
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Under pressure from the US and other nuclear powers, Micheál Martin has agreed to a proposal allowing India - a non-signatory of the NPT - to engage in nuclear trade. This constitutes a shredding of Ireland's historic commitment to the NPT and shows that there is not a principle on earth on which our government isn't prepared to capitulate - presumably for the right price. ... read full story / add a comment |
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