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offsite link The Saker blog is now frozen Tue Feb 28, 2023 23:55 | The Saker
Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.? We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).?

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

offsite link Moveable Feast Cafe 2023/02/27 ? Open Thread Mon Feb 27, 2023 19:00 | cafe-uploader
2023/02/27 19:00:02Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of

offsite link The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
Pepe Escobar for the Saker blog A powerful feeling rhythms your skin and drums up your soul as you?re immersed in a long walk under persistent snow flurries, pinpointed by

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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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Human Rights in Ireland
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offsite link Who is Wei Cai, the Scientist from Wuhan Concealed in Leaked Documents? Fri Dec 13, 2024 15:25 | Robert Kogon
When minutes of Germany's "COVID-19 Crisis Group" leaked, they were oddly redacted. The name of a Wuhan scientist working for the German Government, Wei Cai, was concealed. Robert Kogon asks why.
The post Who is Wei Cai, the Scientist from Wuhan Concealed in Leaked Documents? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Streeting Attacks Miliband for Failing to Stop Assad in 2013 Fri Dec 13, 2024 13:20 | Will Jones
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has?criticised Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary,?over his failure to back military action against?Assad?in 2013, saying the "hesitation" created a "vacuum" that Russia filled.
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offsite link Covid Dissident Doctor William Bay Exonerated as Suspension Overturned Fri Dec 13, 2024 11:29 | Rebekah Barnett
Covid dissident doctor William Bray has won back his right to practise medicine after the Supreme Court in Australia overturned his suspension, slamming the health board's "animus" and "profoundly unsatisfactory" conduct.
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offsite link Labour?s Soviet-Style Plan to Shoehorn Climate Alarmism into Every School Subject Fri Dec 13, 2024 09:00 | Steven Tucker
Labour plans to shoehorn climate alarmism into every subject on the school syllabus. This indoctrination in dubious official 'science' is grimly reminiscent of the Soviet Union, says Steven Tucker.
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offsite link In Episode 23 of the Sceptic: David Shipley on Starmer?s Political Prisoners, Anti-ULEZ Campaigner N... Fri Dec 13, 2024 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In episode 23 of the sceptic: David Shipley on Starmer?s political prisoners, anti-ULEZ campaigner Nick Arlett on his unjust arrest and David Turver on Net Zero subsidies.
The post In Episode 23 of the Sceptic: David Shipley on Starmer?s Political Prisoners, Anti-ULEZ Campaigner Nick Arlett on His Unjust Arrest and David Turver on Net Zero Subsidies appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / public consultation / irish social forum Thursday November 01, 2012 - 14:35 by Nuala   text 5 comments (last - saturday november 03, 2012 - 19:51)
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   text 2 comments (last - monday october 29, 2012 - 23:15)   video 1 video file
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
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 29, 2012 - 19:33 by dole_drums   text 10 comments (last - saturday december 09, 2017 - 15:25)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
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
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international / anti-war / imperialism Friday October 26, 2012 - 22:11 by Emmanuel Charles McCarthy   text 1 comment (last - sunday october 28, 2012 - 02:23)   image 4 images
“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
BBC Groomers
international / arts and media Friday October 26, 2012 - 19:39 by ACHUSLA   text 3 comments (last - sunday october 28, 2012 - 09:56)   image 3 images   video 2 video files
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
international / eu Friday October 26, 2012 - 06:27 by Astrid Essed

With the approval of the European Parliament of the ACCA trade agreement with Israel,
the EU sets further steps in supporting Israel, despite its occupation, illegal
settlements policy and warcrimes
This and the EU international role of political, economical and military domination and exploitation of the Thirld World, the inhuman asylumpolicy, the wars in Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Trojka starvation of the Greeks, makes the Nobelprize for Peace to the EU a mockery of Justice ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Thursday October 25, 2012 - 23:43 by William Wraithwrite
On Oct. 3rd, 2012 Wired.Com’s (or Wired Magazine’s) Danger Room came out with Spencer Ackerman’s story of a leaked although unclassified U.S. Army “chart” that lists indicators and behaviors for identifying people who are supposedly becoming radicalized to terrorist potential. But what is so startling about this Army’s presumptively rational analysis (more like propagandic analysis) is its broad categorization of symptoms for identifying those thought alienated enough to become potential terrorist material.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday October 23, 2012 - 22:57 by Maryam Namazie   text 1 comment (last - wednesday october 24, 2012 - 00:05)   video 1 video file
Someone always has some statistics about the West’s failings whenever I speak of Iran or Islam or sharia and wants to know what I’m doing about it…

Next time I meet someone protesting against the welfare cuts in Britain, I’ll be sure to ask what s/he is doing about the Iranian regime’s cut in subsidies or the brutal economic sanctions!?

And this happens to me all the time and it’s usually from people who do – well – nothing. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Friday October 19, 2012 - 18:37 by Diarmuid Breatnach   text 1 comment (last - sunday october 21, 2012 - 00:01)
We don't have them, not because of any flaw in the Irish character or because the people are supine, or have a high tolerance of distress. We don't have them because revolutionary socialists have not provided the necessary requirements. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday October 19, 2012 - 13:16 by Yassamine Mather
Hopi’s principled opposition to the Iran Tribunal is not because we are soft on the Islamic republic, as our opponents have alleged. On the contrary, we are committed to the revolutionary overthrow of the Islamic regime and all its factions. However, we believe alliances pretending to pursue a ‘non-political’, ‘human rights’ (read rightwing, pro-imperialist) agenda are a serious threat to the future of the revolutionary movement of workers in Iran. Those sections of the left who cannot see (or who pretend they cannot see) the serious risks posed by their collaboration with those involved in regime change from above, such as the Iran Tribunal, will become mere pawns in a game where the winner is international capital (and that inevitably includes Iranian capital). ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday October 19, 2012 - 12:40 by Gale Vogel   text 7 comments (last - sunday november 04, 2012 - 17:50)
Children have been protected in our constitution. Protecting our young is reflected in how our laws are enforced and not only in our legislation. The topic is symptomatic of our society today and is reflected in other areas too and how we all consider one another. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Wednesday October 17, 2012 - 18:04 by Socialist Democracy   text 12 comments (last - wednesday october 24, 2012 - 22:43)
One can only look on in amazement as sections of the Irish Socialist movement self-destruct over its attitude to one individual, independent TD Mick Wallace. As with many other things, the appearance is not the reality. The frantic denunciation of Wallace, and the equally frantic adulation of him only a few months ago, represent very deep and systemic weaknesses that must be overcome if a working class resistance is to be built. ... read full story / add a comment
Trans Murders - for more go to www.transrespect-transphobia.org
national / gender and sexuality Tuesday October 16, 2012 - 13:03 by Aoife   image 1 image
There’s a lot of ways to advertise data plans, I’m sure. Advertising is plainly not my thing, but I’ve seen enough of it to be well aware that there are many creative ways to sell just about anything. Which is why I’m not certain why Meteor decided to do what they did. When you’ve a world of possibilities to choose from, why would it seem like a good idea to mock marginalised groups of people? I can’t say I get it. ... read full story / add a comment
Arise! Sir James
international / public consultation / irish social forum Tuesday October 16, 2012 - 09:08 by BrianClarkeNUJ   text 3 comments (last - wednesday october 17, 2012 - 14:48)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
The BBC dominates the airwaves in Ireland, with Irish national broadcaster RTE still unavailable in most parts of British Occupied Ireland. Despite a peace process, the propaganda of the BBC still pollutes Irish politics and life. With the leader of the British Labour party, Ed Miliband calling for an independent inquiry into "horrific allegations" rather than a planned BBC internal cover-up of allegations on a BBC culture, of enabling child rape for decades. Many believe that the BBC's influence on the rape of children, to be of an even greater scale, than the Catholic Church. ... read full story / add a comment
EU Criminal Elites and lackeys
international / eu Monday October 15, 2012 - 18:14 by The International Network of Inclusive Democracy   text 4 comments (last - thursday october 18, 2012 - 23:34)   image 1 image
A statement and poster about the real role of the European Union in the criminal Wars of the Transnational Elite, as well as in the Economic Wars launched against the European Peoples today. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday October 13, 2012 - 00:38 by jim travers   text 5 comments (last - saturday october 20, 2012 - 21:23)   image 3 images
We were praying for a miracle but it never materialised. Germany came to Ireland thinking a 1-0 win would be enough to secure its place at the top of the group but found an Irish team just not up for the challenge. After nearly twenty minutes of two touch football all the tell tale signs where there for all to see, we were heading for a complete wipe out. Trap was lost for ideas and the players were just lost. Fifteen minutes before the end of the match I witnessed something I have never seen in an Irish team, they looked lost, dejected and void of any belief in themselves. Has Trap managed his last Irish match or will the FAI continue to whip a dead donkey in hope that the miracle everybody prayed for will will finally come true. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday October 12, 2012 - 21:27 by Luke Eastwood
A look at what really going on in global politics behind the facade.

Everyone is aware of a multitude of problems that besets our world, however the nature of these problems and why they exist is distorted by the media and by governments all over the world. Our leaders, corporate heads, military top-brass etc. all have a fairly good idea of what is really happening, they just don’t want us – the ignorant masses known as the general public to know what they know. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 12, 2012 - 13:07 by Sudhama Ranganathan
So much good happens by way of the tax dollars the people of my home country, America, pay. We pay for emergency services that can keep us and our love ones safe, secure and healthy. We pay for our military which is there to protect the nation and guard against attack, invasion and military aggression against our nation and they also help out in emergency situations. We have social safety nets set up that ensure people still have the ability to get on their feet when and if they fall. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday October 09, 2012 - 14:50 by Irish Anti-Imperialist   text 5 comments (last - wednesday october 09, 2013 - 18:58)
Ireland and Libya: Two Sides of the Rentier State

Paper presented at the 2nd James Connolly Day School, 12th November, 2011, Connolly Books, Dublin.

Karl Marx first used the term “rentier state” to describe Britain as a state that lives off the rents on exported capital. Britain exported capital to its empire, and lived off the revenues or rents on this capital. Marx noted that the Working Class in England was very reluctant to seriously oppose the British state, as the rents on capital allowed the state to give the skilled Working Class just enough to make them feel they have something to lose if they rose up against the bourgeoisie. This could not have been the case, if the British state was dependent on revenues from domestic production only.

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