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international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 23, 2012 - 12:57 by Eamonn Sheehy
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As the Gaza conflict rages on, the Palestinians demand for human rights and return to their homeland continues for many outside of the occupied territories. Millions of refugees scattered throughout the Middle East live in refugee camps rife with violence, extreme poverty and no support or assistance. This twinned with getting stuck in the crossfire of many host-country conflicts such as Syria, Lebanon and Iraq make their situation even more intractable. When the opportunity to work does open up, the same people are greeted with more exploitation in trying to make a livelihood. We widen the lens away from Gaza to see what life is like for Palestinian youths growing up in Beirut, Lebanon. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 22, 2012 - 15:41 by Anthony Coughlan
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This memo details aspects of the McKenna judgement, the Coughlan case, two key legal battles waged by private citizens in the ongoing war for fairness in our media and by our government during Referenda and other government campaigns ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday November 18, 2012 - 03:04 by An Draighneán Donn
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A truly magnificent address, which explains the reality of today's world. When one listens to these words of truth, one realizes why the Zionist banksters could not allow such a man to live. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Saturday November 17, 2012 - 20:37 by john throne
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Savita would be alive now if it was not for the all male dictatorship of the Catholic hierarchy and their cowardly politicians. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday November 16, 2012 - 14:28 by john throne
Irish laws and Catholic church and political cowardice kill women in Ireland ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice Friday November 16, 2012 - 07:08 by Carolyn Lambert
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This is the memoir of an Ordinary Person. A memoir that: spans from December 2006 to May 2011; describes the author's struggle against an "alleged" constructive dismissal by one of Ireland's leading law firms; tells of the author's challenge to the Employment Appeals Tribunal to remain impartial; outlines the author's application to the Legal Aid Board to provide assistance; questions the validity of the Courts' Customer Service Strategic Plan, the internal systems and the treatment of people who cannot afford legal counsel; and gives an account of the author's challenge to the Law Courts when she self-represented agains the Firm. It is the story of a system that is protected by self-regulation and the separation of powers and which has thrived because of the unwritten Code of Practice. It is the story of The Judiciary - An Ordinary Person's Perspective. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday November 15, 2012 - 13:41 by Mark Fischer
When is a political tribunal ‘non-political’? Hands Off the People of Iran national secretary Mark Fischer responds to the latest salvo of pro-imperialist apologetics Hands Off the People of Iran and the Weekly Worker have been sent a document authored by Dariosh Afshar, associate member of the Iran Tribunal’s International Communications Work Group. The Iran Tribunal, set up by exiled anti-regime Iranians, was convened to investigate Tehran’s massacre of some 15,000 political prisoners in the 1980s, but has been shown by Hopi and this paper to be a body that objectively aids the US-led drive to impose - by military or other means - regime change from above on Iran. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday November 13, 2012 - 15:06 by Brian Nugent
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Just a look at all the hype involving the 2012 date to see is there anything behind it. This article also describes the general prophecies of the various Churches with regard to the 'End Times' or a time of Divine 'Chastisement' which comes into this question. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday November 11, 2012 - 10:48 by I. Greene
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On Tuesday 16th October 2012 lawyers for Michael McKevitt applied to the Court of Criminal Appeal (CCA) for a hearing to have his conviction quashed under Section 2(1) of the Criminal Procedures Act, ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / anti-war / imperialism Saturday November 10, 2012 - 21:56 by GALWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR
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CONTENTS 1. GAAW CAMPAIGN AGAINST KILLER DRONES 2. OBAMA – NO CHANGE 3. GAAW DEATH CALLERS UNCOVERED 4. THAT NOBEL PEACE PRIZE & THE EU 5. AN END TO THE SYRIAN BLOODBATH? 6. PRESIDENT HIGGINS ON HOW TO ACHIEVE PEACE 7. CIA BOSS RESIGNS! ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday November 10, 2012 - 00:11 by BrianClarke
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Britain has a shameful track record of exporting arms, along with crowd control equipment, to torture regimes in countries such as Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. These arms, equipment, counter insurgency techniques, are to be tested again in the laboratory of British Occupied Ireland, something that came to halt during the peace process. Britain cannot claim to be on the side of peace and democracy while their Tory PM, sponsored in the last election by Britain's industrial war complex, acts as a travelling salesman for the arms industry. Sponsored too it appears, are certain elements of Britain's secret services who are responsible for ending the peace process in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 09, 2012 - 17:34 by Nick Folley
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Some of the ideological reasons why am voting no and asking others to do so, tomorrow. ... read full story / add a comment 
wicklow / animal rights Friday November 09, 2012 - 09:54 by Bernie Wright
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WICKLOW County Council / ISPCA REFUSE RESCUE GROUPS ACCESS to SAVE ‘POUND DOGS’ LIVES - DEMAND THAT WICKLOW COUNCIL MEMBERS ALLOW THESE DOGS TO BE SAVED/rehomed BY REPUTABLE RESCUES The ISPCA run the WICKLOW pound on behalf of Wicklow county council. There are 2 dog wardens employed who have been doing the job for years and obviously by their stance they obviously think killing is perfectly acceptable. They are obstructing all efforts to allow rescues in to help the dogs and have the backing of the council, the ISPCA do not intervene. According to sources there has been no effective governance of the pound by the council at all - they just sign a cheque for them every year and don't want to know. The council don’t appear to care or have a clue about the pound and insist all the dogs they kill are unsuitable for rehoming (44% in 2010 and 28% last year) Dogs Trust can take some dogs as does Wicklow spca but there are lots of other dogs that need help. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Friday November 02, 2012 - 03:49 by BrianClarkeNUJ
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The shooting dead yesterday, at 7.30 a.m of a senior prison officer of Maghaberry jail while a major security alert was in progress, just a little further along the motorway, at a shopping centre in Sprucefield, near Lisburn, as bomb disposal experts were checking a car, confirms that MI5 have succeeded in finishing the Peace Process in Ireland with their return to internment. While politicians on all sides went through the synthetic motions of condemning the killing, most of them ignored in the last couple of years, the underlying work needed to address justice, to bring real peace. ... read full story / add a comment
international / public consultation / irish social forum Thursday November 01, 2012 - 14:35 by Nuala
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I don't read much but as far as I know, commentators and historians have been avoiding the obvious truth about Bloody Sunday 1972 ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday November 01, 2012 - 12:12 by Luke Eastwood
People who have asked me about Neo-Luddism often assume that I am completely anti technology, but that is not the case. Like the original Luddites, I am opposed to the use of technology to dis-empower and impoverish people and I am also opposed to the abuse of technology simply to make profit or to kill (sometimes it’s both). ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 29, 2012 - 21:05 by Spartacist
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Following two years under house arrest in Britain, in mid-June Julian Assange, the founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, sought refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Assange is facing extradition to Sweden on trumped-up allegations of “sexual molestation” and “rape” — which boil down to charges of unprotected sex in what were by all accounts consensual relations — but he rightly fears that this is simply a pretext to facilitate his extradition to the US. By granting him political asylum, Ecuador threw a monkey wrench into the process of handing Assange over to the US imperialists, who are intent on exacting retribution against Assange and WikiLeaks for having lifted the lid, however slightly, on the hideous crimes of US and British imperialism. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 29, 2012 - 19:33 by dole_drums
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The government are currently implementing some rather disgusting changes to the way social welfare recipients are treated. The changes involve orwellian tracking and harassment of people through their mobile phones. These changes need to be resisted, as they are the thin edge of the wedge. Just because you have had no choice but to avail of your legal rights to a social welfare payment to put food on the table, does not make you a criminal and you should not be tracked like one. This is not a police state. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday October 26, 2012 - 22:11 by Emmanuel Charles McCarthy
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“You assist an evil system most efficiently by obeying its order and decrees. An evil system never deserves such an allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.” Mohandas Gandhi ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Friday October 26, 2012 - 19:39 by ACHUSLA
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The former head of the civil service, Lord O’Donnell has said recently, that it was wrong for Tory ministers to shift the blame onto their officials. This follows high profile cases of Tory ministers making "fall guys" of the civil service in two rather odious matters. Lord O'Donnell said, "What I think is self defeating, is attacking their own staff," he told the BBC Today Programme. ... read full story / add a comment |
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