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international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday November 03, 2008 - 16:35 by Gruffalo
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The Guardian today published a review of Hunger, which not only spouts Anti-Irish Sentiment but also encourages the mistreatment of political prisoners. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday November 03, 2008 - 15:12 by pat c
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The Iraq Freed om Conference provide a report on how Iraqi workers are fighting back against Iraqs puppet givernment. Full text at link. US Troops and National Guards Surrounded the Event While the Labor Leaders Delivered Their Speeches In a series of demonstrations led by workers of the Ministry of Industry against the Minister of Finance and government decisions that intend workers salaries cut back under terms of the International Monetary Fund, a massive demonstration was organized on October 19, 2008 in Firdaus Square in Baghdad, where thousands of workers have participated. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 03, 2008 - 10:24 by Jim
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In a speech in July, Barack Obama stated that he wants to "re-deploy" American troops in Iraq "carefully" with their safety in mind and "responsibly" leaving behind a "sovereign" Iraqi government that can "take responsibility for its own future." In doublespeak that means Barack Obama is as committed as George W. Bush was to the imperialist American project in the Middle East - toppling anti-American elites and replacing them with pro-American elites to administer the American agenda. Obama is a wolf in sheeps clothing. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Saturday November 01, 2008 - 22:12 by Diet Simon
Anti-nuclear activists in Germany are gearing up for another transport of highly active nuclear waste to run through France and Germany from 7 to 9 November for dumping at the north German village of Gorleben. About 20,000 police will be deployed to guard the consignment against thousands of demonstrators. At http://www.castor.de/ticker/index_en.html is a newswire run by the protest movement. It already has some run-up stories on it. ... read full story / add a comment 
leitrim / anti-capitalism Saturday November 01, 2008 - 15:36 by Sandra F.
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"Unabashed leftist", Studs Terkel who was blacklisted during the McCarthy has died. Born in 1912 to Russian Jewish parents, he got the nickname Studs as a young man from the character Studs Lonigan, the protagonist of James T Farrell's trilogy of novels about an Irish-American youth from Chicago's south side ... Born in New York, Terkel became synonymous with Chicago, the city where he moved at age 10 and rarely left. His parents ran a boarding house and a men's hotel during the Great Depression, giving the young Terkel a steady diet of the struggles of ordinary people whose stories became his life's work" http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/1101/...3.htm ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday November 01, 2008 - 08:35 by Ciaron
Fr. Bill Bischel SJ has dropped by Ireland to accompany both the Pitstop Ploughshares to court in Dublin and the Raytheon 9 to court in Derry. Bill was ordained in Berlin before the wall went up, carries some of Joe Hill's ashes and has spent a number of years in jail for nonviolent resistance. One jail was in view of one of the seminaries he attended! ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday October 31, 2008 - 22:10 by joe
The decision of the government to guarantee the liabilities, the debt and deposits, of the Irish banks has been described by the Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore as the ‘biggest blank cheque in history’. The guarantee amounts to around €400bn and will be nearer €500bn if non-Irish owned banks such as the Ulster Bank are included. Beyond the nature of the decision and its suddenness, the sheer scale of this guarantee has been staggering. The US bail-out plan which was initially rejected by Congress was claimed to cost $700bn. In other words the Irish guarantee could grow almost to the size of the US bail out while the US economy is almost seventy times larger! ... read full story / add a comment |
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