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international / environment Wednesday May 04, 2011 - 13:37 by Boris
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It may already be too late to stop climate change. Full paper at url. Global climate change is anticipated to bring more extreme weather phenomena such as heat waves that could impact human health in the coming decades. An analysis led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health calculated that the city of Chicago could experience between 166 and 2,217 excess deaths per year attributable to heat waves using three different climate change scenarios for the final decades of the 21st century. The study was published May 1 edition of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday May 04, 2011 - 08:43 by Prison Solidarity
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* PHOTO - Frank & Steve outside G.P.O Dublin for Bradley Manning http://www.flickr.com/photos/frank_cordaro_and_the_dm_c...8005/ **LONDON YOUTUBE Frank & Steve blockading Downing St. on Good Friday http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pFCQthlxgg ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Monday May 02, 2011 - 13:52 by Mark Fischer
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Mark Fischer interviews Clive Bloom on his new book 'Restless revolutionaries'. A book which examines the legacy of Republicanism in British history. Full text at url. You talk about the history of republicanism’s “crushing failures” in the book. One way that these struggles are crushed, of course, is that the victor writes the histories ... Exactly. You have to unearth these histories, the documentation. You have to search for the graves where these people are buried - there are no monuments to guide you. More than that, you have to reconstruct the politics of the time to understand these rebellions in their context. In the case of William Courtney and the 1838 rebellion in Dover, for example, there is a plaque on the church wall commemorating the dead. But why, when this guy turned up preaching as he did, were people prepared to believe it and to die for it? When we understand that, then history comes alive for us and speaks directly to how we live now, the struggles that surround us in today’s world. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday May 02, 2011 - 13:27 by Eddie Ford
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Eddie Ford writes why it is in workers interests not just to get rid of the monarchy but also the whole system attached to it. Full article at url below. Apparently the marriage of William Arthur Philip Louis Windsor and Catherine Elizabeth Middleton represents a “lovely fairy tale” - a “beautiful love story” of ideal romance and courtship. Or so Johnny Rotten, former fake anarchist turned monarchist propagandist, dribbled in the pages of The Sun when the royal couple’s engagement was officially announced.[1] The same sort of things were said about Charles Windsor and Diana Spencer - who were supposedly wafting about on cloud nine, when in reality they were miserable participants in a nightmarish charade, with the then naive Diana finding herself the victim of a cruel deception. ... read full story / add a comment |
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