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international / anti-war / imperialism Monday August 10, 2009 - 02:06 by Plowshares
 13 comments (last - friday december 25, 2009 - 16:57)
Johnson: The priest, the clown and the life of protest By Bill Johnson Denver Post Columnist Posted: 08/07/2009 01:00:00 AM MDT Father Carl Kabat awoke early Thursday morning, put on his clerical collar, grabbed his clown suit and quietly strolled out of his longtime friend's Arvada home. William Strabala, who has known the Catholic priest since their days in the seminary more than 50 years ago and had hosted him since he arrived from St. Louis, simply sighed. It was pointless, he knew, to attempt to talk the 75-year-old priest out of what he was about to do. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday August 08, 2009 - 14:04 by Harvey Duff
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Who said that legendary rockers U2 have sold out ? This brilliant video of the band's 25 July Dublin performance on youtube gives the answer . Bono sings a U2 classic in tribute to the Iranian Green Movement for freedom and democracy. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday August 07, 2009 - 18:13 by Yassamine Mather
This article analyses the reasons behind the current show trials of dissidents in Iran and argues that no honest rational person should be taken in by the lies of Iranian Regimes. The show trial of August 1 when a number of prominent ‘reformists’ appeared on Iranian state TV to ‘thank their interrogators’ before repenting – was not the first such event in the Islamic republic’s history. Leaders of the ‘official communist’ Tudeh Party were similarly paraded on Iranian TV to denounce their own actions in the 1980s, while in the 1990s we had the trials of ‘rogue’ elements of the ministry of intelligence. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday August 06, 2009 - 23:48 by Niall Farrell
3 comments (last - sunday august 23, 2009 - 01:40)
So the Labour Party's conscience - Michael D Higgins = has an open mind to NAMA.. Read the learned man's thoughts in an interview with the Galway Independent: http://www.galwayindependent.com/local-news/local-news/...r-us/ ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 06, 2009 - 15:05 by Peter Tatchell
24 comments (last - monday july 16, 2012 - 22:53)
Iran Solidarity was launched in the House of Lords in London on 13 July 2009. The aim of the new organisation is to support the Iranian people’s struggle for freedom. Parliamentarians, human rights campaigners and exiled Iranians came together for the launch of the campaign . Baron Taverne, of Pimlico who hosted the event urged unity between the different Iranian factions to secure the common cause of ending tyranny . ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 05, 2009 - 16:34 by redjade
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Mary Robinson's 'long public record of hostility and one-sided bias against the Jewish state' ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday August 04, 2009 - 16:18 by Susan Boyle
4 comments (last - thursday august 06, 2009 - 16:55) 1 image
Those of us whose holidays or vacations are generally spent eating healthy salad, considering the holistic benefits of poverty which reduce alcohol consumption & welcome soft slumber - are often left with only two things to do. The sensible : decorate the gaff. The frustrating : read about other people's holidays. Oh, if I had enough for a decent roller and emulsion I'd have enough for a six pack & oriental massage on my local beach. So instead I offer to the reader a miscellany of links covering former President Clinton's surprise day trip to North Korea. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday August 04, 2009 - 12:25 by iosaf
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Mr Celerino Castillo, known as "Cele" to his friends, was once an agent of the DEA, that US secret service branch which supposedly fights the war to end production of drugs like cocaine and heroin from the jungles of Latin America to the dusty mountains of Afghanistan. Whilst working for the DEA he saw with his own little eyes how another chap working for the DEA & CIA, Mr Luis Posada Carriles, ran guns out of El Salvador's "llopango" base, he also casebooked murders by CIA "assets". "Cele" not only noted all the little details down : he did his best to tell the world. His testimony would form part of the backdrop to what is now known as the "Iran Contra" affair which as it name suggests spun a web from the mountains of central America, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua to Iran via the US covert military machine, SOA, Pentagon & of course the regime of Reagan, Bush senior, Rumsfeld, Cheney etc. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday August 04, 2009 - 12:05 by David L
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The results of a recent survey in Israel shows a jump in racism and intolerance, particularly among newer Jewish immigrants. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday August 04, 2009 - 08:56 by Ronoc
1 comment (last - tuesday august 04, 2009 - 09:34)
Its seems the vision that George Orwell had in 1984 is coming closer and closer for the English Public. There is already more CCTV cameras in the UK than there is in the rest of Europe, and now The Childrens Secretary has set out £400 million for plans to put 20,000 of the worst families under 24hour CCTV supervision in their own homes.... ... read full story / add a comment |
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