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international / anti-war / imperialism Friday October 22, 2010 - 18:39 by pat c
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Fidel Castro speaks about the continuing Imperialist aggression towards Iran and vividly illustrates the consequences of such an attack. Full text of transcript at link. The use of nuclear weapons in a new war would mean the end of humanity. This was candidly foreseen by scientist Albert Einstein who was able to measure their destructive capability to generate millions of degrees of heat, which would vaporize everything within a wide radius of action. This brilliant researcher had promoted the development of this weapon so that it would not become available to the genocidal Nazi regime. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality Friday October 22, 2010 - 18:09 by Dorothy Gale
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Ari Up of The Slits has gone to the Great Gig in the Sky. Punks never die, they just pogo too high. Full text at link. THE DEATH of Ari Up aka Arianna Foster at 48 is a huge shock for her fans, not least because her musical career spanned 34 years until her death last Wednesday. The firebrand singer of UK punk band The Slits was an uncompromising innovator. At just 14, after meeting her fellow bandmates at a Clash gig in 1976, she set up an all-girl band and spearheaded the punk movement. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism Friday October 22, 2010 - 17:23 by V for vendetta
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As taxpayers are clenching up in anticipation of having wages cut and their basic services eviscerated and those on social welfare are expected to develop a taste for cheap baked beans on white bread, Here is a taste of how the corporate bloodsuckers are using our tax loopholes and playing countries off against each other to pay paltry amounts of tax. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday October 22, 2010 - 03:09 by Scanner
DEAGLÁN de BRÉADÚN, Political Correspondent SPIRITUAL AND political leader the Dalai Lama is expected to visit the Republic in April next year. During his visit, he is due to take part in a series of events being planned by three Irish-based non-governmental organisations – Children in Crossfire, Afri and SpunOut.ie. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday October 20, 2010 - 19:21 by pat c
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Here we have the truth about the freedom and democracy that the US brought to Iraq. From the very start they set out to crush independent trade unions. Full text at link. It is only in comic books and Hollywood movies that America's superheroes exist to defend the underdog. In practice, the armies of America have fanned out around the globe to show they are the willing servants of the corporate overdog. As Noam Chomsky writes in his book “Imperial Ambitions”(Metropolitan), “You can almost predict (U.S.) policy by that simple principle: Does it help rich people or does it help the general population? And from that you can virtually deduce what's going to happen.” There is no more disgraceful example than Iraq. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday October 20, 2010 - 17:58 by joe mcivor
Two articles from Indymedia UK on the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) protest at the Guardian Graduate Fair . The arms giant BAE had a presentation team at the fair in central London .Anti war protesters took over the stall yesterday (19 Oct) and staged a die-in . ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Tuesday October 19, 2010 - 16:46 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin
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As the current world economic crisis deepens, the role and meaning of art in society changes as more and more people are dragged down by the weight of personal debt, unemployment and poverty. Galleries close and less people can afford to buy art creating a new awareness among artists of the fragility of the art market and the economic system behind it that creates an increasingly alienated and elitist exclusivism. ... read full story / add a comment |
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