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international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday October 21, 2008 - 18:42 by a-films
Bourj ash-Shamali Camp: "Harvesting Oranges" ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Tuesday October 21, 2008 - 17:58 by Duchamp
A Fianna Fail spokesperson has claimed that the former leader of the party, Bertie Ahern, broke his leg in what they are calling an accident. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday October 20, 2008 - 18:05 by Peter Sutherland's Nemesis
Good news for the Left and progressives in general today, when the FT revealed that 30% of people in Germany, Europe's biggest economy and the world's second* largest exporter, "attributed the financial market crisis to ... the 'failure of capitalism'" rather than "to 'abuses of capitalism'. Or, as the Financial Times newspaper themselves put it: "Majorities in the UK, France, Spain, Italy and the US attributed the financial market crisis to “abuses of capitalism” rather than the “failure of capitalism”. The Germans were more divided, with 46 per cent blaming abuses, and 30 per cent saying capitalism itself had failed." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday October 20, 2008 - 11:27 by pat c
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Yassamine Mather writes on the danger of a US/Israeli military strike on Iran over the next 3 months. She also criticises those on the "left" who criticise Iran but who fail to condemn US/Israeli Imperialism. Full text at link. Over the last few weeks French president Nicolas Sarkozy has publicly suggested on at least three occasions that an Israeli attack might be imminent - and acceptable - unless Iran quits enriching uranium, and implied that in such an event the international community should turn a blind eye. In early October French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner said Israel was expected to launch a military strike on Iran before Tehran acquires a nuclear bomb. ... read full story / add a comment
"Iraq Veterans Against the War" Attacked by "stay at home patriot" Cops on Horseback, Long Island, N
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday October 19, 2008 - 05:26 by Vets
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"Iraq Veterans Against the War" Attacked by "stay at home patriot" Cops on Horseback, Long Island, New York U.S.A. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-60628185897533...hl=en ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday October 18, 2008 - 17:09 by David Arthur Walters
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We want instant salvation: we want to be born anew from the injected liquidity. But it is difficult to make people have faith in anything, particularly in their fellow creatures if not in the supreme personality. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday October 17, 2008 - 12:00 by Raul
Riot police in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo have clashed with other police officers who are on strike. The confrontation happened when the striking officers tried to force their way past barriers to reach a building used by state governor Jose Serra. ... read full story / add a comment |
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