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international / crime and justice Tuesday August 30, 2005 - 19:33 by knowing my duty
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The public disquiet raised by the presence of arms in society might lay behind the media interest in Catalonia in an incident this last week which saw young recently recruited police officers fire 4 shots at 1.75m described as "warning shots fired in the air" in response to an incident involving persistent graffiti taggers. The incident occured at a public metro city during an annual street festival which figures on the August itinerary for many tourists including Irish men and women, boys and girls. ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Tuesday August 30, 2005 - 17:23 by plato
A series of demonstrations in the cities of Xanthi and Komotini, followed by a march towards the "refugees reception center" in Vena, took place in the frame of the "Actions Against the Borders". Outside the detention center, the protestors had a violent conflict with the police while trying to get in. Finally, a group entered the place and managed to write down the names of the refugees, in order to submit asylum requests on behalf of them, while video-taping the place and the awful living conditions. At the first day, during a demonstration across the Greek-Bulgarian borders, two vans were temporarily blocked on Bulgarian side. Finally, given the pressure by the demonstrators on the Greek side, they were allowed to cross the borders. Video 1 - http://athens.indymedia.org/media_file.php?id=190&type=video Video 2 - http://athens.indymedia.org/media_file.php?id=192&type=video Solidarity! ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday August 30, 2005 - 17:18 by Jonah
10 comments (last - wednesday august 31, 2005 - 18:31)
Rabbitte calls on Rossport Five to apologise. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday August 30, 2005 - 14:44 by Fintan O' Toole
One of the myths propagated by left-wing agitators is that the development of the Corrib gas field off the Mayo coast will not benefit the ordinary citizen. This is wildly inaccurate, argues Fintan O'Toole. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday August 30, 2005 - 01:49 by very persistent.
Raytheon, best-known globally for military electronics and weapons systems, saw sales rise 8 % in the first half of the year to US$10.4 billion. But Raytheon (with an Irish operation) are small compared to Boeing (a partner to Ryanair) who had At the end of June, military orders of USS$85.7 billion. Only 2 Arms companies of the US big ten of defence contractors presently engaged in the offence of Iraq. Of the "10" -- Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Litton, General Electric, United Technologies, TRW and Textron -- six are among the world’s top 10 arms-producing companies. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday August 27, 2005 - 17:15 by Emma
5 comments (last - friday march 21, 2008 - 21:04)
The Irish government is currently trying to deport women and children under the threat of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), which frequently results in death. Asylum in Ireland can be sought on grounds of religious or political persecution. However the government refuse to acknowlege FGM as a political act and therefore women and children cannot apply for asylum on the basis they have suffered or will suffer FGM if deported. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday August 27, 2005 - 01:26 by Muireann Ni Bhrolchain
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This is part of the text of an article that appeared in the Meath Chronicle on Tue, Jun 21st 2005 in an article by John O Donohoe. (In response to this attack I sent him this letter and a copy to both the Taoiseach and the new CEO of the NRA. Needless to say I have received no response from any of them. As the mainstream media failed to cover a press release on my reply I’m including it here after the article.) The Minister for the Environment and Local Government Dick Roche launched a stinging attack on opponents of the M3 route at a Fianna Fail business briefing in Athboy last week. On his first visit to the county since giving the go-ahead for the controversial archaeological excavations on the motorway route, which began last week, he condemned the untruths campaigners aired against the motorway and accused them of a lack of open-mindedness. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Saturday August 27, 2005 - 00:03 by One down...
By CHRIS WILLIAMS, Associated Press Writer. Wed Aug 24,11:42 PM ET MINNEAPOLIS - A Minnesota man considered one of the world's most prolific e-mail spammers was indicted on more than a dozen federal charges related to the operation of his business, Xpress Pharmacy Direct. ... read full story / add a comment
international / housing Friday August 26, 2005 - 15:16 by iosaf
7 comments (last - sunday september 04, 2005 - 20:36)
Last nights fire in Paris which killed 17 people most of whom were children is just one in a series of incidents which bring attention to the appaling conditions mostly african migrants are being housed in. The group "DAL (droit au logement)" estimates 50,000 people in the "migrants, illegal migrants, asylum seekers, refugee" category are housed dangerously in the city. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday August 26, 2005 - 15:11 by Brian Covert / Independent Journalist
On the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, an appeal for international action for peace through Article 9, the war-renouncing clause of the Constitution of Japan.... ... read full story / add a comment 
international / racism & migration related issues Friday August 26, 2005 - 14:17 by speedy gonzales
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In what seems an extra-ordinary incident in the daily david and goliath struggle by third world workers to enter or return from the exploitation fields of US labor, a US Border Patrol helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing today after migrants threw stones at it. One stone hit the rotor blades and the pilot made an emergency landing just north of the All American Canal on the border between the U.S. and Mexico ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday August 25, 2005 - 14:26 by getting very religious
4 comments (last - saturday august 27, 2005 - 13:14)
Spanish police are investigating two faxes written in arabic signed on behalf of Al Qaeda which threaten an imminent attack on the Vatican. There has been one arrest. The lengthy faxes warned of that the Vatican would be attacked for playing its part in the war on Iraq and Afghanistan and supporting Hitler. The faxes cited newspaper reports from the 1940s. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday August 23, 2005 - 22:11 by + sticks and stones
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US Christian TV broadcaster Pat Robertson has called on the US authorities to assasinate President Chávez of Venezuela for exporting islamic fundamentalists and communists globally. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday August 23, 2005 - 01:03 by iosaf
Eric Rudolph was sentenced in Atlanta today to four consecutive life sentences as well as 120 years in prison for three bombings in Atlanta and one in Birmingham, Alabama between 1996 and 1998. Rudolph, a right wing extremist bombed the Atlanta Olympic games in 1996, killing 1 and injuring 111 with a nail bomb. Today reading from a prepared statement appeared to show remorse for the first time. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday August 23, 2005 - 00:02 by hs
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"It's us, the workers", he says, "who decide on questions of production and technology, and it's us who elect who will be our managers." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4155936.stm ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday August 21, 2005 - 21:53 by James
3 comments (last - wednesday august 24, 2005 - 11:23)
Wayne Price has a thoughtful and ethically aware article on why opposing the unethical actions of one's own government should be a priority rather than moaning about some far away one. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday August 20, 2005 - 21:42 by stewart
2 comments (last - tuesday august 23, 2005 - 16:18)
What Does Democracy Really Mean In The Middle East? ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday August 20, 2005 - 21:40 by Man ray
Racism is the terrorists' greatest recruitment tool ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday August 20, 2005 - 13:44 by JOhn
12 comments (last - wednesday august 24, 2005 - 01:01)
Details from the post-mortem examination of the innocent Brazilian shot dead by police suggest Scotland Yard officers lied about the circumstances of the death. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday August 20, 2005 - 13:38 by Martin
With the longest working week in Europe, experts say Britain's health and productivity will decline ... read full story / add a comment |
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