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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday March 06, 2014 - 01:45 by Justin Morahan
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Three peace activists, Mairead Maguire Ann Patterson and Medea Benjamin were detained in Cairo and deported ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday March 04, 2014 - 07:09 by New Culture Magazine
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Interview with Jose Maria Sison, Founding Chairman, Communist Party of the Philippines by New Culture Magazine, Communist Reconstruction Union of Brazil ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 23, 2014 - 22:53 by Fracking watch
Attention Globalfrackdown family
Here is the last news from Zurawlow, Poland, please forward it, also to all the journalists you know directly:
Call for the direct support of in Zurawlow, Poland: Chevron plans to stop the protest by force on Monday February 24. The farmers have stood their ground for nearly 300 days! PROTEST SUPPORTERS AND VIDEO MAKERS ARE NEEDED!
After almost 300 days, the longest in the history of post-war Polish protest of residents and inhabitants of ?urawlow and other villages of the municipalitiy of Grabowiec need our support. On Monday February 24, against the law and without official permits, the company Chevron plans to step in with heavy equipment onto the concession's Grabowiec leased plot. As usually practiced in such cases, a security company should give a support. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday February 19, 2014 - 17:02 by Arielle Retrosi
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Argentina officially requested that the US Supreme Court hear an appeal in a debt case that will impact people living in extreme poverty around the world. The case dates back to Argentina's 2001 default, after which 92% of all Argentine bond holders restructured their defaulted debt. Predatory hedge fund, NML Capital leads a small group of holdouts who won judgments for payment in lower US Courts. NML Capital never invested in Argentina and bought the debt cheaply after Argentina's default. Because sovereign lending is contracted in the United States, the precedent the case sets impacts some of the poorest economies around the globe and allows these hedge funds to target assets that benefit poor people. The International Monetary Fund, the Paris Club, legitimate investors, the US and most governments oppose this predatory behavior because it cancels the benefits of debt relief, makes sovereign debt restructuring more difficult and limits credit to poor countries ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday February 14, 2014 - 20:06 by Arielle Retrosi
Argentina will file its final US Supreme Court appeal in the NML Capital hedge fund debt case before this Tuesday, February 18th. Legal observers, economists, investors, the United Nations, the Obama Administration, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the religious community have closely monitored the proceedings. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday February 13, 2014 - 01:50 by Transparency
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A look at 1 British, 1 Australian, and 29 American billionaire hedge fund managers and their behind the scenes manipulation of the world ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday February 11, 2014 - 01:10 by Justin Morahan
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Mairead Maguire has called on Pakistani Prime Minister to release Kareem Khan, whom she describes as a man of peace ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Monday February 10, 2014 - 15:58 by Grace L
Ireland's failure to protect Louisa O'Keefe & countless others is not about "human nature": The institutionalized abuse of children is a social ill, the holdover of a long dark age, from which society is only just awakening. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 03, 2014 - 11:51 by brionOcleirigh
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More than 5,000 March on Bloody Sunday Anniversary A crowd of more than 5 thousand people took part in the 42nd anniversary march of Bloody Sunday in Derry, where 14 people were shot dead and murdered by the British Army, on a civil rights march. ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Saturday January 25, 2014 - 19:25 by S Shriver
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Homocysteine, uric acid, animal fat or cholesterol, mercury, lead, and many other metals are some of the many compounds present in meat and fish which harm the brain. Aluminum compounds and alcohol consumption as well cause loss of brain function. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday January 24, 2014 - 19:28 by Arielle Retrosi
Washington, DC - Heads of state, financial ministers, celebrities and representatives from many of the worlds most powerful corporations are meeting in Davos, Switzerland for the 2014 World Economic Forum. This year's theme of the forum is "The Reshaping of the World: Consequences for Society, Politics and Business." The Forum has focused on income inequality, the impacts of low economic growth and climate change. In advance of this year's forum Oxfam International released a report that noted that the world's 85 richest individuals have as much wealth as 3.5 billion people or half the world's population. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Sunday January 19, 2014 - 18:55 by Stoneybatter & Smithfield People's History Project
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On Saturday 14th December 2013 the Stoneybatter & Smithfield People's History Project held a public talk. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday January 17, 2014 - 21:26 by WISE Up Wales
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Why should the Irish in particular care about Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning and want to offer their ongoing support and solidarity as she begins a 35 year jail term in a US military prison? For one, Manning has Irish roots on both sides of the family. Maternal grandfather Billy Fox was from Rathmines, Dublin and two paternal great-grandparents - both Mannings - were also Irish, from county Cork. An Irish grandfather gives Chelsea the right to claim Irish citizenship and an Irish passport if she so wishes. For another, Manning passed through Shannon Airport as a US military intelligence analyst en route to Iraq. We have been reminded this week about the ongoing US military use of Shannon (troops, weaponry, rendition flights etc.) by the jailing of 79 year old Margaretta d'Arcy in connection with her protest against these abominations. What's more, we know something about the impact of resistance at Shannon on both US and Irish governments thanks to US diplomatic cables released by Manning and published by WikiLeaks. One classified cable reveals how negative public perception of Shannon as a warport in the wake of the Pitstop Ploughshares acquittals led to the Irish government placing more restrictions on its military use and how this was forcing the US to reconsider its position. Then US Ambassador to Dublin, James Kenny, wrote: "we would appreciate Washington’s judgment as to whether the process of notification of almost everything of a military nature (including by contract carriers) through Shannon is becoming too difficult to make the airport a preferred transit stop." http://humanrights.ie/civil-liberties/wikileaks-the-sig...ions/ ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday January 16, 2014 - 12:17 by Brion O'Cleirigh
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Martin Corey a politically interned republican prisoner of conscience has been released on the condition, that he cannot speak to media, The Release Martin Corey Campaign has confirmed and welcomed his release with the following statement,. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday January 15, 2014 - 13:56 by NDFP International Information Office
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The international office of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) is set to celebrate Prof. Jose Maria Sison’s 55 years of service to the Filipino people’s struggle for national and social liberation, and his 75th birthday, with a cultural event on Sunday, 09 February 2014, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday January 15, 2014 - 10:58 by G Felongco
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Group justifies murder saying that the target committed ‘crimes and atrocities against the people’ ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday January 14, 2014 - 21:32 by newsmedia
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Greedy ISPs move to cash in on providing tiered Internet access Judges at a federal appeal court in Washington have dealt what could well be a mortal blow to the freedom of the Internet. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday January 13, 2014 - 19:05 by Arielle Retrosi
The Supreme Court will review a lower court's order for banks to give information on Argentine assets, including those assets held outside of US jurisdiction, to a group of hedge funds seeking to collect from Argentina's 2001 default. Additionally, the High Court will review if it is legal for these predatory hedge funds to target assets for collection outside of a US jurisdiction. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday January 11, 2014 - 17:59 by Justin Morahan
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Two outside the Embassy. Letter refused. !5 hunger strikers being force fed but US military has stopped disclosing information about the hunger strikes since December last "as it serves no operational purpose" ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Monday January 06, 2014 - 11:35 by Sue Anthony
The Steve Irwin’s helicopter first located the Nisshin Maru at 64°44' S, 162°34' W, in New Zealand’s sovereign waters in the Ross Dependency Antarctic region, and inside the internationally recognised Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. ... read full story / add a comment |
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