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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday April 05, 2013 13:55 by Turing Test
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Eddie Ford doesn't like Kim or the bizarre North Korean regime but he looks behind the headlines to examine how the US is stirring things up. Full story at url. Over the last week there has been a considerable escalation of tensions between North and South Korea. To some degree, of course, this is ‘business as usual’ rhetoric, eg, Pyongyang on March 31 declared that it was in a “state of war” with Seoul (actually that has been the case since the 1953 armistice). But there is more going on than heightened rhetoric - though so far, thankfully, not a single missile has been fired. Now, I am no admirer of the North Korean regime. It is a brutal and very odd Stalinist dictatorship, which quite literally deifies its leaders - whether the current tyrant, the Great Successor, Kim Jong-un, or his grandfather and Great Leader, Kim Il-sung, the “eternal president” who died in 1994 and presumably still guides the nation, albeit in his new, other-worldly form. To think that such a repressive system could be a workers’ state of any kind, deformed or otherwise, is a grotesque abnegation of genuine socialist politics. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Friday April 05, 2013 10:50 by wsm
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The Dublin anarchist bookfair returns to Liberty Hall on the 6th of April for our 8th annual edition, and the theme 1913-2013 - Rebuilding a Movement from Below. There will be a social in Seomra Spraoi on the 5th and a radical walking tour around Dublin on the 7th. read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights / event notice Friday April 05, 2013 09:35 by Roger Yates
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Vegan Ireland: the Vegan Society of Ireland launch their new Supporter Card, t-shirt, and tote bag, at a movie and food event, Saturday 6th April, 2013, at The Exchange, Exchange Street Upper, Dublin. Time: 2pm – 4pm. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday April 05, 2013 04:14 by fred
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A lot of hype in the MSM lately about North Korea. These two clips from the RT show "breaking the set" with commentators from answercoalition.org give some much needed context and background from which to interpret the current media spin. Instead of a seemingly irrational belligerent nihilism, the North Korean statements in context, become more like a rational defensive response to a systematic aggressor bent on harming and undermining their country and it's tendency to socialism. You may find some of the facts that emerge about North Korea rather surprising. read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice / news report Thursday April 04, 2013 22:37 by RoyalDutchShellPlc.com
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OSSL claim that their company was a supplier to Shell in respect of the Corrib Gas Project. They allege that acting on Shell’s instructions, OSSL has distributed bribes on Shell’s behalf to parties connected with the project, including the Irish police force (the Garda) who have been the subject of serious accusations of wrong doing by environmental activists protesting against the project. The main accusation being that the Garda has acted as an offshoot of Shell security. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Thursday April 04, 2013 03:41 by DubAltG8
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Dublin Alternative G8 Committee will be meeting at the Pearse Center, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin, at 8pm next Tuesday. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday April 03, 2013 19:13 by IPSC
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The IRELAND-PALESTINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN presents: MIKO PELED, Israeli activist and author of The General’s Son on 7.30pm, Thur 11th April, Gresham Hotel, O’Connell St, Dublin 1 Don’t miss this unique oppurtunity to hear firsthand from an Israeli activist for freedom, justice and equality in Palestine and Israel. Copies of his book will be avaialble for purchase and signing on the night. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday April 03, 2013 13:03 by RSC
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On Good Friday the community opposing Shell's Corrib gas project in county Mayo held the 8th annual Good Friday walk to remember the campaigners in Nigeria who were murdered for opposing Shell's destruction of their homeland in 1995. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / eu / event notice Tuesday April 02, 2013 00:28 by No Nos Vamos, Nos Echan
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The Spanish platform JSF (Juventud Sin Futuro – Youth With No Future) has called for demonstrations around the world on the 7th of April under the theme “No nos vamos, nos echan” – “We don’t leave, they make us leave”. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday March 31, 2013 14:01 by Brian Clarke
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British human rights group Amnesty International and legal charity Reprieve have condemned the British government's secret courts passed in the House of Lords as a “terrible day for British justice” read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday March 31, 2013 04:00 by NineCoronas
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RT have been running stories following developments regarding the discovery of a new SARS like coronavirus which has a mortality rate of 50% and is transmissable between humans. Is this the one that kills off most of the great unwashed and lets the elites roam free to spend their ill gotten loot in a fascist marshal law paradise? read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Saturday March 30, 2013 20:45 by T. Fagan
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THE ROLE OF WOMEN who fought in the 1916 Rising, the War of Independence and the Civil War is to be highlighted on Easter Monday as part of the ceremonies organised by the Dublin North Inner City Folklore Project at Liberty Hall and the GPO. read full story / add a comment 
cork / arts and media / event notice Saturday March 30, 2013 10:08 by Eric
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Join us in Solidarity Books on Wednesday April 3rd 8pm for a showing of 'Blue Gold - World Water Wars' (2008) Dir. Sam Bozzo 90mins. "Blue Gold - World Water Wars (2008) Dir. Sam Bozzo 90mins. Wars of the future will be fought over water as they are over oil today. As the source of human survival enters the global marketplace and political arena, corporate giants private investors and corrupt governments vie for control of our dwindling supply, promoting protests, lawsuits and revolutions from citizens fighting for the right to survive. This film examines environmental and political implications of the planets diminishing water supply and highlights success stories of water activists from around the world. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday March 29, 2013 18:19 by Brian Clarke
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A Complete List of Ireland's Easter Republican Commemorations 2013 read full story / add a comment 
international / environment / opinion/analysis Friday March 29, 2013 15:44 by Ban animal cruelty posing as "sport"
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Members of several animal welfare and animal rights groups and sympathetic TDs held a peaceful protest outside Dail Eireann on Thursday, March28th, to express their abhorence of the "exemptions"for the barbaric "sports" of hare coursing and fox hunting that the government has inserted into the Animal Health and Welfare Bill. read full story / add a comment 
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday March 28, 2013 21:35 by IPSC
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The Monthly Palestine Street Awareness Campaign and march for Boycotting Israeli products is happening this coming Saturday 30th March, Daunt Square, Cork City at 1pm. The action takes place on Palestinian Land. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday March 28, 2013 21:13 by IPSC
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On 30th March 1976 Israeli military forces shot and killed six young Palestinian citizens of Israel. These young men were among thousands protesting the Israeli government’s expropriation of Palestinian land. read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous / news report Thursday March 28, 2013 18:32 by An Drighneán Donn
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CPIR Statement on the Meaning of the British Legion Poppy Once again, we have come to that time of year when we see our TV screens saturated with the blood red Poppy of the British Legion. Programmes aimed at young people, such as The X-Factor, are particularly targeted. Contestants, regardless of their origin, are forced to wear the symbol of the British Legion. And, because of the abject dependence of RTÉ on programming of British origin, Irish youths are just as subjected to this symbol as are their British contemporaries. And every year, we see, in the streets of Ireland, the results of this media saturation of young minds. More and more young Irish people think it is “cool” to wear a British Legion Poppy. So, what is the British Legion? What is it’s poppy symbol? Is it a harmless fashion statement? A benign badge of belonging to the dominant tribe, a harmless mark of British nationalism? Is it a harmless remembrance of soldiers, fallen in long past wars? read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday March 28, 2013 01:13 by Turing Test
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The US and the far right of thee opposition are trying to undermine and discredit the Venezuelan electoral system. Jimmy Carter described that system as the best in the World. Full Text at link. The presidential candidate of the Bolivarian Revolution, Nicolas Maduro, yesterday counter-attacked the opposition’s campaign to discredit Venezuela’s electoral system ahead of the 14 April presidential election. In recent days the Venezuelan opposition and allied media have been criticising the 14 April presidential election as not being held in “fair and transparent” conditions, in an apparent effort to discredit the Venezuelan electoral system ahead of the vote. This campaign appears to have intensified following comments made on Friday 15 March by the US’s Assistant Secretary of State Roberta Jacobson, who said that it would be “a little difficult” for “open, fair, and transparent elections” to be held on 14 April. read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 27, 2013 05:36 by AKBAYAN (Citizens Action Party)
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Akbayan Partylist would like to express its extreme disappointment over the Supreme Court's decision to issue a status quo ante order against the Reproductive Health (RH) Law for a period of four months. read full story / add a comment |
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