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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

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A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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Independent Guide
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Friday March 22, 2013 - 14:46 by Seamus Mc Goldrick   text 2 comments (last - friday march 22, 2013 - 15:43)   image 5 images
The Yes Vote in last year's Children's Rights Referendum began proceedings to change Children's Rights in Ireland. However, a legal challenge to the referendum has suspended the referendum process and, for now, prevents the Irish president signing this amendment into the constitution.

Ever wanted to know more about the Children's Rights Referendum and amendment 42a? Read on to find out.
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national / anti-capitalism Thursday March 21, 2013 - 23:47 by Ardoyne Republican   image 2 images
The Republican Network for Unity (RNU) launched it's new Constitution and radical Policy Paper; 'Revolutionary Republicanism' on Tuesday 19th, March 2013 in central Belfast. The publication sets out the Revolutionary Party's alternative proposals to the failure of constitutional Nationalism and suggests a clear and viable way forward for those who still propose National Liberation & Socialism as the real cure for Ireland’s ills ... read full story / add a comment
Wanted for Murder
national / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday March 19, 2013 - 17:04 by Brian Clarke   image 1 image
As a dozen car bombs exploded in Shia districts around Baghdad today, another 50 people are dead and many more injured, on the tenth anniversary of the US-UK invasion of Iraq. Britain's international legacy of hate continues, as yet another result of its poisonous, divide and conquer policies around the world it invaded, with the exception of just 10 countries. Sunni factions linked to al-Qaeda, continue attacks on Shias. A wing of al-Qaeda, has vowed to regain ground lost to the invading US/UK armies.A decade after US and British invaded, Iraq still struggles with fostered sectarian feuding among Shia, Sunni and Kurdish tribes..The cabinet has postponed elections in two provinces, Anbar and Nineve for six months because of violence there, further proof of absurdity of the invasion. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday March 17, 2013 - 21:34 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin   text 7 comments (last - wednesday march 20, 2013 - 12:54)
We are living in a society where the combination of fractional-reserve banking (lending out multiples of deposits) helped along by quantitative easing (printing almost unlimited quantities of money) based on fiat currencies (money without intrinsic value) has created exponential growth for the world’s financial elites. This led to unprecedented bubbles in the property market as banks made it easy for people to borrow more money than they would have been allowed in the past when a conservative banker guideline for a home buyer was to have a two to two and a half times mortgage-to-salary ratio.
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international / anti-capitalism Sunday March 17, 2013 - 15:14 by anon   text 4 comments (last - monday march 25, 2013 - 23:13)
lets not get weak knees lets have open debate without censorship and respect there has been a lot of media analysis about the election of the recent Pope
Do we need to get excited should he come clean and tell us about the truth of the political reality of the Military Junta of Argentina. cozy ties with the institutional church. who remained silent about the junta complicity of the disappearance of people also murder of political activists opposed to the junta ... read full story / add a comment
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international / environment Friday March 15, 2013 - 19:04 by Ban Hare Coursing in Ireland   text 19 comments (last - thursday april 18, 2013 - 09:49)   image 8 images
Another Saint Patrick's Day...A Great Day for the Irish...what a pity that the Irish Hare, part of our wonderful wildlife heritage, is still at the mercy of coursing gangs backed by our government... ... read full story / add a comment
Internment Without Trial
international / crime and justice Tuesday March 12, 2013 - 18:40 by Brian Clarke   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 13, 2013 - 10:56)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
"IMAGINE! THEY DID NOT WANT TO KNOW! THEY LOOKED THE OTHER WAY!". Not many British commoners or citizens of the Irish scum states, want to think about secret courts, secret trials or internment without trial, these days. How often were the German people accused, of reacting to the rise of Hitler and his persecutions in these precise terms. "IMAGINE! THEY DID NOT WANT TO KNOW! THEY LOOKED THE OTHER WAY!" ... read full story / add a comment
Animal welfare campaigners are also pressing for a coursing ban in Pakistan
international / environment Monday March 11, 2013 - 21:55 by End hare coursing shame   image 3 images
Ireland is one of the last bastions of hare coursing...an "honour it shares with Pakistan. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday March 11, 2013 - 08:39 by hj foley
What follows is a short history of Tibet and the role which the current Dali Lama has played.
Some of the facts may surprise you ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism Sunday March 10, 2013 - 01:51 by Walden Bello   image 1 image
I’ll miss Hugo. When I first was introduced to him in Porto Alegre in 2003, he greeted me, “Mi padre,” and said he learned a lot from me. I was dubious about this and thought he was simply buttering me up, like any two-bit politician. Then he started telling me what he learned from Development Debacle, Deglobalization, and Dark Victory. I was stupefied; the guy actually read my stuff!
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday March 09, 2013 - 00:55 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin   text 1 comment (last - monday march 11, 2013 - 23:15)
A new nationwide opinion poll in Ireland has shown that people are becoming more and more disillusioned with the political process leading one to wonder if democracy (people rule) has simply become demopsefia (people vote). This type of disillusionment is becoming widespread across Europe in general. While no one is naive enough to believe all the promises of politicians, in recent years the desires of the electorate seem to be ever more blatantly subsumed to the financial interests/problems of recent governments. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Friday March 08, 2013 - 18:29 by one of NFI   text 7 comments (last - friday april 26, 2013 - 21:47)
Statement from participants in the No Fracking Ireland Network on the EPA ‘public consultation’ process with regard to ‘Proposed terms of reference for EPA/DCENR/NIEA Research Programme on Environmental Impacts of Unconventional Gas Exploration & Extraction (UGEE)’
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national / environment Friday March 08, 2013 - 18:20 by One of NFI
This was originally published by Gluaiseacht in a publication released at the time of the 2012 Grassroots Gathering in Galway. ... read full story / add a comment
International Women's Day Queen of Ireland
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday March 06, 2013 - 08:32 by Brian Clarke   text 3 comments (last - saturday march 09, 2013 - 03:53)   image 4 images   video 3 video files
The time has come to elect a Queen of the Claddagh on International Women's Day . I propose Marian Price as our first Irish Republican Queen, who represents love, loyalty and honour. Who does not permit the perversion of the course of justice allowing Royal Prerogatives to be shredded by minions that usurp or pervert the law, with theft, wanton destruction and kidnap. ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Tuesday March 05, 2013 - 17:34 by Ban Coursing   video 1 video file
Niall Quinn on his shameful involvement in hare coursing. ... read full story / add a comment
A fox untroubled by human predators...
international / animal rights Monday March 04, 2013 - 12:21 by End Bloodsports in Ireland   text 13 comments (last - wednesday march 06, 2013 - 19:48)   image 11 images
Hare coursing and foxhunt clubs crave good PR. In recent days they've got the opposite: Mega pop star Paoblo Nutini denounced bloodsports after attending a hunt ball in Westmeath without realising its connection to foxhunting...and then members of the Irish Council Against Blood Sports captured horrific footage of hare maulings at the so-called "Irish Cup" coursing festival at Limerick racecourse. Now one of the most important Irish cultural iniatives of recent decades has effectively disowned the cruel baiting of live animals for "sport"...
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 25, 2013 - 22:30 by Anthony Ravlich
Video available: discusses the Captured UN's 'permanent' rebalancing of global power from the West to Developing Asia (including China and India), the 'grassroots-up rather than Beehive-down' approach to rebuilding Christchurch and the cowardice of the domestic and global establishments in refusing to discuss the ethical approach to human rights, development and globalization for World Peace - to replace neoliberalism. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday February 24, 2013 - 10:52 by Luke Eastwood
Despite the continued 'green shoots' talk, recovery seems increasingly far away.

It does not take a genius or even an economist to realise that we are in fact in the depths of a major depression, which is continuing to worsen. The mainstream media, especially the USA media 90% of which is owned by just 6 corporations, continues to talk up a recovery but this is pure hyperbole that an intelligent person should be able to see through.
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Dilma Rousseff studies the case under the new Brazilian industrial policy.
international / arts and media Friday February 22, 2013 - 19:22 by Emilio José Lemos de Lima   image 1 image
Produced at millions of copies, costing pennies each, distributed throughout the country by the Brazilian Film Company and commercialized by legions of heroic fighters of the streets called Street Vendors, these copies are the biggest deterrent to piracy, will enhance the income and dignity of this micro-marketers, will take the national cinema to innumerable Brazilians and to other people, and, sold at popular prices, will make billionaire the Brazilian Film Industry and turn it in a sector able to fulfill its strategic role of consolidating a democratic and plural national identity and of compromising our population with a well-argued and well-supported national project.
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dublin / history and heritage Wednesday February 20, 2013 - 10:07 by Matt Treacy   text 48 comments (last - tuesday march 05, 2013 - 07:46)   video 1 video file
Regarding Anthony Coughlan’s latest attempt to denigrate my books.

The books stand on their merits and I have no need to repeat what is in them. They stand or fall on their own merits. However a number of points in Coughlan’s ‘review’ do need to be addressed.

First of all, the production issues relate to a small number of books sold at the time of the launch. All of these have been corrected and the index is now fully accurate.

He claims the book is ‘thoroughly nasty’. I take it that is a reference to it’s critical analysis of the pro-Soviet Communist movement. I make no more apology for being anti-Stalinist than I do for being anti-Nazi. It is also clear that one of the features of the CP book most upsetting to the inheritors of Irish Stalinism is its exposé of the dishonesty and intellectual gymnastics that were employed to justify the Stalin/Hitler Pact between 1939 and 1941. ... read full story / add a comment
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