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international / arts and media Monday October 26, 2009 - 15:13 by The Hat
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Superhero/Austere Fiscal Enforcement Officer The Hat tackles Healthcare. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Monday October 26, 2009 - 00:13 by fitwatcher
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Ever notice how the police on demonstrations seem to know your name and use it? How they take pictures and video of specific individuals but not others? This report from London might explain things. Of course, the gardaí don't use similar tactics and systems for catagorizing "trouble-makers" and people "who may instigate offences". Oh no. That could never happen here. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Sunday October 25, 2009 - 00:55 by FL
An interesting short film about the revolt in Athens Greece December 2008. you can download from indymedia athens: http://www.black-tracker.gr/details.php?id=311 (Subtitles in engish included) ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Saturday October 24, 2009 - 11:02 by Volunteer
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In his forthcoming book - Hopes and Prospects, Noam Chomsky predicts hope for the future through grassroots activism as a mechanism for progressive change. “Activism is growing all over the world and ordinary people are realising that they can be agents for change”, he says. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 23, 2009 - 15:44 by Peter Sutherland's Nemesis
The vote at the European Parliament was on a "motion condemning interference in the media and calling for legislation banning media monopolies in EU countries was defeated" thanks to Fianna Fail and Fine Gael. The majority of the sycophantic media in Ireland will no doubt ignore this story - and fair play and thank you to The Irish Examiner for printing it. So ... there's no fear for Tony & Gavin O'Reilly's "Independent News and Media" or for Denis O'Brien's "Comunicorp" semi--and-growing-monopolies of Irish newspaper and radio respectively, when we see the cringing support given from Ireland's FF and FG Members of the European Parliament to Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi. Gobshite right winger Thatcherite embarrassements that they are. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 23, 2009 - 15:34 by Yassamine Mather
Yassamine Mather analyses the development of the struggle in Iran following the rigged presidential elections. She critiques the Green Movement and points to the for support of the Iranian Left and the struggles of the Iranian Working class. Yassamine also illustrates how ordinary Iranians suffer most from Sanctions. Full text at link. Every day for the last few weeks Iranian workers have been protesting, at times in their thousands - at their workplaces, outside government offices and provincial offices complaining about job losses, non-payment of wages, privatisation ... Universities have been the scene of daily protests and ordinary people have used every opportunity, even football matches, to express their opposition to the regime. At the same time a new wave of exiles, including reporters, writers, professors of literature, are leaving the country, despairing of continued repression and the ineffective ‘reformist’ leaders. ... read full story / add a comment |
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