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international / public consultation / irish social forum Wednesday September 26, 2012 - 17:41 by BrianClarkeNUJ
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Irish writer Brendan Behan said that “other people have a nationality; the Irish and Jews have a psychosis”. The Neo-colonial free state and British Occupied Ireland are both run by liars telling obvious lies, still worse, almost everyone in Ireland chooses to believe them Israel too has similar problems with choosing corrupt leaders like Ireland. Bottom line this is insane and this form of insanity can best be summarized, as telling oneself lies and insanely choosing consciously to believe them. Perhaps, it was developed for survival in the face of the holocaust or abject adversity but both communities experienced it.The results today are Government liars portrayed in the heavily censored west-brit Irish media, as either behemoth buffoons like former Taoiseach Brian Cowen or as Blue blooded imported Brit leaders, above scrutiny or reproach, such as the contemporary Viceroyal Villiers. ... read full story / add a comment 
antrim / history and heritage Wednesday September 26, 2012 - 14:02 by J Keegan
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The 28th September 2012 will be the centenary of the Ulster Solemn League and Covenant against Home Rule. Far less well known is the ‘Alternative Ulster Covenant’, signed in October 1913 by some twelve thousand Protestants from County Antrim in support of Home Rule and against partition. The Alternative Covenant was written by Rev JB Armour and Roger Casement. A Public Talk on the Alternative Covenant will be held on 3rd October in the Belvedere Hotel, Denmark Street, Dublin, at 7pm. Speakers to include Rev David Frazer and Bill O'Brien. All Welcome. (See http://www.indymedia.ie/article/102491 ) A historical pamphlet discussing not only the Alternative Covenant but also what James Connolly predicted would be a ‘carnival of reaction’, north and south, will be launched on the night. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday September 25, 2012 - 17:31 by GALWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR
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GALWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR SEPTEMBER 2012 BULLETIN JOIN US ON OUR FACEBOOK GROUP PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/312442090965/ OR BEFRIEND US ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/#!/galway.antiwar GAAW SUPPORTED PEACE EVENT PEACE VIGIL SHANNON SUNDAY 14TH OCTOBER, 2-3PM AT THE ROUNDABOUT BEFORE THE ENTRANCE TO SHANNON AIRPORT ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 25, 2012 - 02:27 by Nathan Gilbert Quimpo
On September 21, forty years ago, President Ferdinand E. Marcos declared martial law. For almost 13-and-a-half years afterwards, the country suffered terribly from a brutal and corrupt dictatorship. Among the victims of the grave violations of human rights under martial law were the following: 3,257 “salvaged” (summarily executed), 35,000 tortured, and 70,000 incarcerated, as documented by historian Alfred McCoy. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Monday September 24, 2012 - 23:48 by T
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In an interview today on DriveTime on Radio 1 today (~6:30pm), author of "Boom Bust: House Prices, Banking and the Depression of 2010", Fred Harrison was discussing Site Value Tax which is a different form of Property Tax. He was actually speaking later at 7:30 pm in Trinity at a talk: "A FAIR PROPERTY TAX ? – A PUBLIC DEBATE" organised by the 'Smart Taxes Network'. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday September 22, 2012 - 03:40 by BrianClarke
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In May 2011, Marian Price was arrested after she held up a piece of paper on a windy day, at a traditional Easter commemoration from which a masked man read. She was taken to Maghaberry high security prison an all-male prison and was placed in solitary confinement, where Marian was accused of, ‘encouraging support for an illegal organisation’. Marian has now been in prison for 16 months, during which time neither her lawyers, or Marian have been allowed to see any of Britains ‘alleged’ evidence. Having been previously force fed 400 times by the British in an English prison and in considerable, ill health, distress with extreme pain as a result, she was taken ; ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Saturday September 22, 2012 - 01:18 by Amy Hall
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Amy Hall meets outspoken Filipino campaigner Lidy Nacpil, who shares her thoughts on floods, solidarity and ramming home the climate-change message. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 18, 2012 - 11:31 by Anthony Ravlich
Expresses the opinion that the choice between neoliberalism and an ethical approach to human rights, development and globalization is a choice between war and peace. And also a concern at the effects of neoliberalism on the rebuilding of Christchurch following massive earthquakes. Considers New Zealand should pursue an independent path from the IMF and its neoliberal economic policies. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday September 15, 2012 - 19:37 by Felix Quigley
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Main issue is defence of the right to publish The issue of the anti-Muslim film and the grizzly torture, rape and murder of Ambassador Stevens is all about the right to freedom of speech, freedom to speak about anything, criticise anything. Will people on the left, who think of themselves as left, such as on Indymedia Ireland and other groups in Ireland, now defend with everything they have got the maker of the film Nakoula Basseley Nakoula? ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Saturday September 15, 2012 - 01:16 by xxxxx
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One name has come up again and again during Hackgate is Alex Marunchak, who worked at the News of the World between 1981 and 2006, and who has yet to be arrested or charged in relation to any of the Hackgate police operations (Tuleta, Elvedon, et al). Marunchak rose through the ranks at the News of the World under editors including Piers Morgan, Phil Hall, Rebekah Brooks, and Andy Coulson. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights Friday September 07, 2012 - 12:26 by End Hare Coursing Cruelty
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Animal protection groups are calling on calling for an end to the staging of live hare coursing events at a town park frequented by toddlers and keep fit enthusiasts. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage Friday September 07, 2012 - 06:45 by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc
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Historian Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc examines the decision by former members of the Gardaí & RUC to hold a commemoration in Dublin for the members of the RIC / Black and Tan killed during the War of Independence. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Thursday September 06, 2012 - 19:08 by Diarmuid Breatnach
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Is such an alternative possible -- is it within our capacity, our resources? Would it be viable? This article takes the view that the answer to all those questions is YES and sets out some practical ideas to create the newspaper and to maintain it. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 04, 2012 - 14:42 by John McAnulty
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Observers of the north of Ireland are from time to time caught by surprise when the reality of life here contradicts their belief in a steady progress towards normality. Such a moment came outside a Catholic church in Belfast. A 12th July demonstration by one band playing a hate song went viral on Facebook and led to restrictions on further band processions outside the church. The decision of Orange order bands to break the Parades Commission ruling about marching and playing outside the Church was accompanied by unrestrained expressions of sectarian hatred more or less unlimited in the depths of bigotry that were unleashed. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 04, 2012 - 12:25 by LASC
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Social Movements Matter? Indigenous Social Movements in the Andes. Talk by Gemma Mc Nulty ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday September 01, 2012 - 21:25 by BrianClarkeNUJ
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"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands ... is the definition of tyranny." - James Madison The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist. Winston Churchill as, In The Highest Degree Odious : Detention Without Trial in Wartime Britain by A. W. B. Simpson ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday August 31, 2012 - 22:04 by Sudhama Ranganathan
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Often enough in the country I live in, America, the idea corporations are helmed by heartless people that don't care about the welfare of the workers underneath them, is attributed to propaganda from the political left. In fact, the only party in America (as we really have only 2 choices) that is associated with the left often marginalizes such talk, except when they are campaigning of course. We have been fed a steady diet laced with the idea all things favoring "workers are bad." This has been going on at least since the early 1980's, and, whether Republican administrations in talk backed up by action or Democratic administrations in actions that go against their rhetoric, workers have been labeled as bad guys while corporations are presented as victims. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 28, 2012 - 10:28 by BrianClarkeNUJ
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It is becoming more transparent, with each passing day, that the British Tory Government is working relentlessly to dismantle the Irish peace process and escape responsibility for decades of war crimes in Ireland including murder, corruption and human rights violations.Reports submitted by the Committee on the Administration of Justice, Relatives for Justice, British-Irish Rights Watch recently submitted to Congressmen Chris Smith and Senator Ben Cardin, Co-Chairs of the Committee on Security and Cooperation in Europe read like a Nazi war crime file. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday August 27, 2012 - 22:40 by pat c
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Its worthwhile having a look at who has what when it comes to nuclear weapons*. • United States: Approximately 5,000 total warheads: 1,737 deployed strategic warheads, approximately 500 operational tactical weapons (some 200 deployed in Europe), and approximately 2,700 reserve warheads (active and inactive) in storage. • Russia: Approximately 5,500 total warheads: 1,492 operational strategic warheads, approximately 2,000 operational tactical warheads (not deployed), and approximately 2,000 reserve warheads in storage. • China: About 240 total warheads. • France: Fewer than 300 operational warheads. • United Kingdom: Fewer than 160 deployed strategic warheads, total stockpile of up to 225. * http://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Nuclearweaponswho...swhat ... read full story / add a comment 
international / racism & migration related issues Saturday August 25, 2012 - 09:44 by Costas Avramidis
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Racism is definitely not a "new fruit" in Greek society and not a unique phenomenon to this country. I have witnessed it with my own eyes as it manifested throughout the years I was living there so I can share with you a little knowledge of how it ripens. In Greece being different is not a good thing, as you will suffer a lot if you are a minority! Your life will be a living hell, if you are a woman or find yourself in a minority like being a lesbian, gay, gypsy, Pakistani, Albanian, Egyptian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Nigerian... In other words it will take a lot of effort to escape being discriminated against and that's without mentioning the people that are prepared to stand up for all these people, the likes of socialists, autonomists, anarchists, people that volunteer in NGO's or anyone that cherishes humanism/altruism. For people to fit in, in a land the locals like to call Hellas (and of the sun) to survive within it is to stay silent and live life in a comatose state. ... read full story / add a comment |
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