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A damning new report has exposed how Gaza's Health Ministry inflated casualty figures by misclassifying victims and counting unrelated deaths, fuelling a false narrative that Israel is deliberately targeting civilians.
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Labour's promise of 1.5 million new homes is a pipe dream destined to fail, says Sallust, with no workers, no skills and no plan to back it up.
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offsite link Labour Gives Green Light for ?Activist? Councils to Rename Streets With Links to Empire Sun Dec 15, 2024 11:00 | Richard Eldred
Labour has given the green light for "activist" councils to rename streets tied to slavery and the Empire, quietly scrapping plans to let residents veto the changes.
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offsite link University ?Sacks? Economist Who Wrote Paper Criticising Mass Immigration Policy Sun Dec 15, 2024 09:00 | Will Jones
Economist Prof Steve Fothergill has said he was "sacked" by Sheffield Hallam University after writing a paper that criticised UK immigration policy for allowing large numbers of jobs to be taken by foreigners.
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offsite link Ed Miliband Triples Down on Energy Suicide Sun Dec 15, 2024 07:00 | Ben Pile
Rather than facing the facts, Ed Miliband has this week tripled-down on what everyone else can now see are terrible mistakes in energy policy more than two decades in the making, says Ben Pile.
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Picture shows: right to left: Minister Joe Costello, Deputy Clare Daly, Noel Gregory (brother of the late independent TD Tony Gregory), Roderick O' Gorman, Green Party Chairman, and Aideen Yourell, PRO of the Irish Council Against Blood Sports.
international / animal rights Tuesday January 31, 2012 - 08:29 by Ban Hare Coursing Now!   text 3 comments (last - thursday february 02, 2012 - 11:14)   image 5 images
We hope politicians of all parties who oppose the savagery of hare coursing will support the Private Members Bill that Dail Deputies Maureen O’ Sullivan and Clare Daly intend to move shortly. ... read full story / add a comment
Overhead view of Dublin City Council’s planned “public transport priority” bridge at Marlborough Street – Hawkins Street.
dublin / environment Tuesday January 24, 2012 - 11:32 by Vincent Byrne   text 1 comment (last - wednesday january 25, 2012 - 19:05)   image 1 image
Dublin is still reeling from its boom period and the cacophony of high-flown plans it threw up. Now that it's all over, how do the various projects stand up? ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday January 23, 2012 - 23:50 by Charlie Williams
The following open letter concerning hydraulic gas fracturing in Ireland was recently sent to the Pat Rabbitte, Minister for Communications, Energy & Natural Resources. Several other people have written to the minister and have received no reply.

This is an important issue because it concerns contaminating the land and water for the benefit of just a few over the rights and interests of many and protection of the environment. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday January 22, 2012 - 10:54 by Luke Eastwood   text 2 comments (last - sunday january 22, 2012 - 14:22)
Tracing the origins of the spread of a toxic and unsustainable ethos which is now global ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday January 21, 2012 - 17:01 by Rob Brotherton   text 3 comments (last - thursday february 02, 2012 - 16:01)
Hi all, I am a PhD researcher with the University of London, conducting research into the psychology of conspiracy theories. I have a short survey online at the moment, for which I am seeking participants. I need as wide a range of people to take part as possible. If you could spare around 15 minutes to fill in the survey I would be hugely appreciative.

... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Friday January 20, 2012 - 11:36 by Red Squirrel   text 33 comments (last - monday january 30, 2012 - 16:12)   image 1 image
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday January 19, 2012 - 19:19 by J. C. Phelan   text 3 comments (last - monday january 23, 2012 - 17:15)
The Biological Weapons Convention meets amidst allegations that the US has violated the treaty ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-war / imperialism Thursday January 19, 2012 - 18:31 by Pepe Escobar   text 5 comments (last - saturday june 22, 2024 - 08:55)
Let's start with red lines. Here it is, Washington’s ultimate red line, straight from the lion’s mouth. Only last week Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said of the Iranians, “Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No. But we know that they're trying to develop a nuclear capability. And that's what concerns us. And our red line to Iran is do not develop a nuclear weapon. That's a red line for us.”

How strange, the way those red lines continue to retreat. Once upon a time, the red line for Washington was “enrichment” of uranium. Now, it’s evidently an actual nuclear weapon that can be brandished. Keep in mind that, since 2005, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has stressed that his country is not seeking to build a nuclear weapon. The most recent National Intelligence Estimate on Iran from the U.S. Intelligence Community has similarly stressed that Iran is not, in fact, developing a nuclear weapon (as opposed to the breakout capacity to build one someday). ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday January 19, 2012 - 01:58 by Declan Cullen   text 4 comments (last - friday january 20, 2012 - 22:51)
The international banks are pushing for a war in Iran big time because they don't have a Central Bank in Iran,
in the same way as they didn't in Libya, .............. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Wednesday January 18, 2012 - 10:22 by Andrew
The idea that calling for a referendum is a good strategy for winning significant reforms often crops up in campaigns. It seems logical, as a referendum is a chance for the population to directly make a decision on the issue to hand. But the reality is that the demand for a referendum is seldom, if ever, the best way to build a struggle for a reform. Here are five reasons why: ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Wednesday January 18, 2012 - 05:59 by alf.co
Greed prompts ship owners to offer more daring and more spectacular voyages for their customers like the promise to view Venice at sunrise from the decks, a major promotional asset. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Tuesday January 17, 2012 - 15:42 by PAW
We Need To Be the Change that we want, we can complain all day long but that will achieve nothing, we need to take direct action against these bullies, these criminals, if we are too scared to do it for ourselves then we should do it for our children, any parent worth their salt would do whatever it takes to protect their child and that is exactly how we need to see this situation, what are we doing to protect our kids from what is being taken from them now and what will be increasingly taken from them as they grow up? ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Tuesday January 17, 2012 - 14:11 by Declan Cullen   text 2 comments (last - tuesday january 17, 2012 - 22:43)
Could someone please tell me who the present government serves? They have attacked people on social welfare, on low pay, the middle class, small businesses, the blind, the old and their pensions and carers, the disabled, children with special needs.................... ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday January 16, 2012 - 21:35 by JIm Travers   text 3 comments (last - friday january 20, 2012 - 20:23)
It would appear that new rules and regulations introduced by government are designed for the purpose of securing revenue for the state rather that resolve problems of law and order. Take for example RSA who-ha, who-ha that gets great press, lots of photo shots and then nothing. Within a short period of time all is forgotton and what was supposed to make a difference (regulations regarding learner drivers, taxi drivers ect, ect) is swept aside and left on the shelf to gather dust. And this applies right across all sections of Irish society where the band plays, colour lights flash in all their splendour, as suited gentlemen take the bows and then move on to more public eye catching events leaving everything as it was in the first place. ... read full story / add a comment
derry / rights, freedoms and repression Monday January 16, 2012 - 13:24 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh
Seeing 'Bloody Sunday' on UTV last night reminds us of one of the worst Crimes of The Troubles when 13 Civilians were killed and 14 injured by the British Army in Derry on January 30th, 1972. No British Officer or Soldier was ever charged over Bloody Sunday. 40 years on the fight for justice goes on. Bloody Sunday not forgotten. May all the victims of Bloody Sunday Rest In Peace. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday January 12, 2012 - 13:36 by Paddy Hackett
It is time for Kieran and other spokespeople for the SWP to publicly out themselves as left liberals. Both the Socialist Workers Party and the Socialist Party are going the way of Pat Rabitte and Pronsias de Rossa. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday January 05, 2012 - 22:50 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh
I'm shocked but not surprised to see yet another stealth tax by the Government this time on 115000 Pensioners who have their own as well as the State Pension. Many of them are now going to be up to €4400 per year for a single person or €8800 per year for a couple worse off because they'll now be paying tax on their Pensions which they worked hard for all their lives. Why don't the Revenue Commissioners go after all the big tax evaders instead of vulnerable and soft targets like the Pensioners? Not that the Pensioners will be a pushover as they showed a few years ago when they resisted the Government's attack on their Medical Cards. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday January 05, 2012 - 20:52 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh   text 4 comments (last - sunday january 15, 2012 - 20:46)
We Should All Support the Planned Protests by SIPTU for the Vita Cortex Workers at Kinsale Road in Cork City Including the National Mobilisations!! In fact I think Everyone Must Support these Mobilisations And Protests Whether Or Not you're SIPTU Members! I welcome the fact that the TEEU have also pledged their support for the Vita Cortex Workers. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday January 04, 2012 - 19:17 by Emmanuel Charles McCarthy
An issue that dwarfs in death and suffering the murders of 911 that you will not hear politicians debating or newspapers or news broadcasts covering is that one human being is dying every nine second from starvation in the world as it is presently spiritually, politically and economically organized. One person dies every nine seconds from starvation in a world that produces 3,500 calories per person per day and 4.2 pounds of food per person per day. That is premeditated, intentional, unjustified homicidal violence, murder. That is the warring of one group or class or cast of human beings against another. That is class warfare of the most hideous kind—class genocide. Yet, not a peep, let alone an impassioned daily outcry, from those who own the microphones and those who are granted access to them. Why? Do some human beings have worth, count, and others not? ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Saturday December 31, 2011 - 20:26 by RSF
The coming year will be a challenging one for working-class people in Ireland and across Europe. The threats facing us are manifold. Economically people are faced with the consequences of the austerity programme imposed on them by the EU political and financial elite. For Irish Republicans increasing repression highlights the reality of the old imperialism of British rule in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
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