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international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday October 26, 2010 - 18:32 by pat c
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While we hear of Wikileaks and Julian Assange, lets not forget about Private First Class Bradley E. Manning who made it all possible. He is the one who is suffering the consequences. Here is his story as told by Denver Nicks. Full text at link. Midnight, May 22nd, 2010. Army intelligence analyst Private First Class Bradley E. Manning is sitting at a computer at Contingency Operating Station Hammer, east of Baghdad. He is online, chatting with Adrian Lamo, an ex-hacker and sometimes-journalist based in San Francisco. “Hypothetical question,” he asks Lamo. “If you had free reign over classified networks for long periods of time… say, 8-9 months… and you saw incredible things, awful things… things that belonged in the public domain, and not on some server stored in a dark room in Washington DC… what would you do?” ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 25, 2010 - 16:50 by Avi Weinstein
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In an exclusive CounterPunch report, Professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley; Nancy Scheper-Hughes dishes the dirt on one of the many vile crimes of Israel. ... read full story / add a comment
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 |
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