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international / miscellaneous / other press Friday April 27, 2012 10:23 by Ciaron
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On April 20 there’s a memorial for Christopher Hitchens at the Cooper Union in Manhattan. There’s a PEN tribute, also in Manhattan, on April 30. Here’s my own little envoi. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Wednesday April 25, 2012 16:37 by Cormac Mac Gall
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A political struggle in a European nation of less than three million, largely ignored by other socialists in Europe, has nevertheless come to the fore in the capitalist media repeatedly since the late 1960s. This has been largely as a result of the the Basque people’s struggle for socialism and independence from the Spanish and French states, a struggle led for decades by Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, the marxist armed organisation better known by its acronym, ETA. The organisation reawakened Basque national consciousness, has worked with others for the restoration of Euskara, the Basque language, organised Basque workers and faced the repression of the General Franco dictatorship in the Spanish state. Famously, in 1973 it assassinated the Prime Minister of the state, Admiral Carrero Blanco, Franco’s right-hand man, which hastened the fragmentation of the dictatorship and its passage to partial democracy. read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Sunday April 22, 2012 22:11 by Shelly Shale
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This is not a typical movie review describing the movie, plot, characters, and themes, as well as celebritizing each actor by naming every other movie appeared in, etc., and yet have very “little” to say about how the movie might relate to real life. We will refer to an American writer, namely Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize winning author of several important books, to help contextual this movie. Herein we visit a few major “themes” as related to social and political issues in the real life of the audience as drama of human history including that as compares to ancient Rome. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday April 22, 2012 15:16 by An Draighneán Donn
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Being Black in Libya, under the NTC régime, means being subjected to racially motivated torture and lynching. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday April 20, 2012 13:01 by pat c
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Police have arrested protesters outside a Moscow court during a custody hearing for three women accused of violating public order at a cathedral. At least 20 people were detained, both supporters and Russian Orthodox opponents of the women, said to be members of a punk band, Pussy Riot. The women were arrested last month after an obscene political song was played inside the cathedral in Moscow. Contact President Putin To Ask For Their Release. read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Thursday April 19, 2012 19:57 by BrianClarkeNUJ
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Brian Faulkner the last Prime Minster of Occupied Ireland like the present autocrat, the unelected English Tory, Owen Paterson was an committed foxhunter. Faulkner lived in Highlands Estate, near the village of Seaforde and surrounded himself and his family like Paterson today, with the heavy security presence of the disgraced Ulster Defence Regiment, while Paterson uses their renamed successors, the Royal Irish Rangers for whom he raised a huge sum of money riding in the worlds most horse cruel race of 1,000 kilometers over 10 days in the Mongolian Derby last Summer. Faulkner who was ultra security conscious had every room in his house leading to another, with panic buttons everywhere. Despite all of this his horse of fenian pedigree got him. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday April 17, 2012 20:15 by pat c
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Hezbollah leader Sayyid Nasrallah in his first interview in six years, on the world premiere of Julian Assange’s The World Tomorrow on RT confirmed that the Syrian opposition refused his offer to mediate. Nasrallah told Assange that Hezbollah supports Syrian president Bashar al-Assad as Syria supported resistance in Lebanon and “hasn't backed down in the face of Israeli and American pressure.” Nasrallah, a freedom fighter to millions though a terrorist to the ruling classes of US, Israel, Canada and the Netherlands, says Assad’s regime “served the Palestinian cause very well.” This is why Hezbollah supported the so-called Arab Spring in Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt and elsewhere, but ln Syria, Hezbollah urged the opposition to engage in dialogue with President Bashar al-Assad. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / event notice Tuesday April 17, 2012 19:05 by Eamonn Quinn
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Louth Contemporary Music Society in association with Drogheda Arts Festival presents Arabian Waltz with Rabih Abou Khalil , the EQ Ensemble and Elisaveta Blumina in St.Peter’s Church of Ireland Drogheda 4 May 2012 at 8pm. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Monday April 16, 2012 22:13 by pat c
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon of the Front de Gauche is now the third candidate in the French Presidential election, at 16% he is level with La Pen but his trajectory is upward. His standing is sending shivers up the spines of the French Bourgeoisie, fearful of what concessions Edwin will wring from Hollande for support in the second round of voting. Here are two articles regarding his candidacy. Full texts at links. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday April 08, 2012 07:50 by BrianClarkeNUJ
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Gunter Grass published a poem on Wednesday of this week in which he said that Israel's nuclear program and not Iran’s is a threat to world peace. The poem calls for Germany to stop supplying Israel with submarines, and warns against an Israeli strike on Iran. The following is a translation of it; read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday April 07, 2012 06:27 by BrianClarkeNUJ
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Mounties were apparently well-bred Englishmen defending the ideals of the British empire according to English writers. However. that's not exactly how writers from the rest of the world see them, with their history of shootouts and extra-judiciary killing and kidnapping. The Mountie according to Brit writers could ride into a hostile native American camp and arrest a chief 's son without raising his weapon, because of a violent reputation of power. residing not in himself but in the history of the British Empire he symbolized. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / news report Saturday April 07, 2012 03:31 by Gandalphi Scanussi
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The New Yorker Magazine has revealed that the dissident Iranian opposition group Mujahideen-e-Khalq (M.E.K.) has been trained by the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) since 2005 at a secret military site in Nevada. The author of the article, Seymour Hersh, recounts how Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency told him that information supplied by the M.E.K in regard to Irans commencing enrichment of uranium at a secret underground location was given to them by Mossad. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/04/....html read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / press release Friday April 06, 2012 10:22 by ARZone
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Animal Rights Zone (ARZone) officially launches their global Vegan Buddies programme and appeals for vegan buddy mentors to assist new and aspiring vegans. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday April 03, 2012 20:00 by Paul Gavan
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Join us on the Road to Recognition. Please view and share our video. read full story / add a comment
clare / arts and media / event notice Friday March 30, 2012 17:40 by PKMiltown
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Playing their first ever show in Co Clare, Ottawa natives Morgan Friend, Greg Langille, and Max Cossette are guaranteed to get the party started with their unique brand of "stipped-down, hillbilly punk-folk!" Come along and join the fun - it kicks off at 10pm shatp and there is no cover charge! All welcome! read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / event notice Tuesday March 27, 2012 22:25 by pat c
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Protest at the Fine Gael Ard Fheis, assemble 1pm, Saturday 31 March at Parnell Square. March to National Convention Centre, IFSC.. As the March 31 deadline approaches it is clear that huge numbers are refusing to pay. Mass non-payment of the household tax will not just be a massive blow to an unjust tax it will also be a massive blow to the Government’s entire austerity drive. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / news report Friday March 23, 2012 12:51 by Jim Thompson
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The Sunday independent is the paper that defended Bertie Ahern tooth and nail. This is the paper that helped him win the 2007 general election. This is the paper whose jaded star columnist, Eoghan Harris, denounced all and sundry who criticised Ahern and who Ahern appointed a Senator as a reward for his scribblings. This is the paper that today takes the high moral ground with RTE. This is the paper that covers acres of newsprint with hypocritical calls for the heads of RTE staff and for full disclosure. What about full disclosure of how the Sindo got it wrong on the death of Liam Lawlor, falsly accusing the corrupt politician of being in a car with a prostitute. It is the Sunday Independent that has prostituted itself to power in the name of its own power to destroy reputations. read full story / add a comment
dublin / gender and sexuality / event notice Monday March 19, 2012 22:41 by Pip O'Regan
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SATURDAY 24TH MARCH, 9 pm, in bohs (aka dalymount park) Phibsboro Dublin 7. ADM.€8 THE FREEBOOTERS EASPA MEASA DROPPIN BOMBS DISGUISE read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / event notice Thursday March 15, 2012 14:30 by Veganator
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Three dedicated meat eaters live vegan for six weeks. Will they die!? Will they transform into militant animal activists!? read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday March 15, 2012 06:49 by BrianClarkeNUJ
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When Boris Johnson cancelled the annual St Patrick’s Day dinner in 2009 there was widespread disbelief about his decision. His remarks this week reveal what lay behind that decision. Many Londoners will be disturbed by the mayor of London’s contemptuous remarks about a community which has given, and continues to give, so much to our capital city. read full story / add a comment |
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