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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

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offsite link News Round-Up Sun Dec 15, 2024 01:02 | Will Jones
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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offsite link Trial of Migrant Murder Suspect Will Take Twice as Long Because of Language Barrier Sat Dec 14, 2024 15:00 | Will Jones
The murder trial of an asylum seeker believed to have arrived in the U.K. on a small boat could take twice as long because he does not speak English, a court heard.
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offsite link BBC Accused of ?Gross Historical Ignorance? in Syria Reporting Sat Dec 14, 2024 13:00 | Will Jones
The BBC has been accused of "gross historical ignorance" after it said that Syria's Jews "want to believe they have a space now" following the collapse of Assad's Government at the hands of an Islamist insurgency.
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offsite link Nutcracker Gets Woke Makeover With Suffragettes and Girl Boss Lead Sat Dec 14, 2024 11:00 | Will Jones
The Nutcracker has been given a woke makeover by the English National Ballet with the addition of Suffragettes and a girl boss lead character.
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offsite link IPCC U-Turn as it Prepares to Start Blaming Humans for Bad Weather Sat Dec 14, 2024 09:00 | Chris Morrison
Up to now the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has largely held the line on not blaming 'extreme' weather on humans. But its latest press release suggests that is about to change, says Chris Morrison.
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meath / environment Monday June 14, 2010 - 11:41 by Farrelly57   text 18 comments (last - friday september 03, 2010 - 11:19)   image 13 images
The proposed Tara/Skryne Landscape Conservation plan is an attempt to protect and preserve an old and sacred area but it may be scuppered by a small cabal of politicians who are again spreading scare storied and lies to keep the area open for all and any developement. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Friday June 11, 2010 - 13:59 by Speaker: Conor Kostick   text 1 comment (last - saturday june 12, 2010 - 15:11)   audio 1 audio file
Connor Kostick author of Revolution in Ireland: Popular militancy 1917 to 1923 spoke at the 2010 Dublin anarchist bookfair about the wave of workplace occupations and 'soviets' as well as the general strikes that are forgotten by conventional nationalist histories of this period. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Friday June 11, 2010 - 01:29 by Gerard   text 3 comments (last - sunday june 27, 2010 - 11:19)
The way the killings on board the MV Mavi Marmara have been reported in the mass media offers an interesting case study of one way in which the truth is often distorted by the mainstream, and it is a method that often involves not so much deception as obfuscation. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday June 08, 2010 - 20:34 by Paddy Hackett
Capital implies the political state. As capital develops the state is correspondingly developed. There obtains an internal unity between capital and state. Buried within capital is the state –state capital. As capital develops the state issues out of it. It is a mistaken abstraction to focus on capitalist development to the exclusion of the state.
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international / anti-capitalism Tuesday June 08, 2010 - 15:15 by Gavin Gleeson   text 1 comment (last - wednesday june 30, 2010 - 14:36)
The state is a central concept in the political philosophy of Anarchism. Anarchism is often defined as being an anti-state ideology. While this is sometimes a useful way to distinguish anarchists from other state socialists it also leads to a fair bit of confusion. We will look at the source of this confusion with the aim of showing that anarchism is in its essence opposed to rulers and is not a naive or idealistic form of anti-statism. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday June 06, 2010 - 20:15 by Sean Clinton   text 13 comments (last - sunday june 13, 2010 - 19:50)   image 2 images
At this critical juncture it is important that all who seek an end to Zionist hegemony focus on the critical structures underpinning the regime. Even a cursory examination of Israeli trade statistics reveals the importance of the diamond industry to the Israeli economy. Israel dominates the global diamond market and is, by a significant margin, its largest beneficiary with net diamond exports amounting to $10 billion in 2008. ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Saturday June 05, 2010 - 06:29 by children_of_lir   text 12 comments (last - saturday june 12, 2010 - 04:02)
With the recent news about child deaths while in care or in contact with services now at 188 and this figure is rising, it is time to bring down Mary Harney's Frankenstein, namely HSE. It was Harney who dissolved the ten regional Health Boards and created the disastrous and lethal HSE that came into operation on 1 January 2005. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Friday June 04, 2010 - 09:30 by donkylemore   text 1 comment (last - saturday june 05, 2010 - 17:09)
Obama , crippled with an unfortunate triple legacy must make reality of his Cairo Rhetoric to sustain any Arab credibility.
- Israel bites the Hand that Fed ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday June 03, 2010 - 23:16 by Raymond Deane   text 21 comments (last - wednesday june 09, 2010 - 16:09)
At a meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs on 3d June, über-Zionist Alan Shatter TD (Fine Gael) caused some jaws to drop when he expressed some unexpected opinions on Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 03, 2010 - 22:42 by Latif Serhildan   text 4 comments (last - friday june 04, 2010 - 21:19)   image 1 image
Both Turkey and Iran have accused Israel of state terror against the activists on the high seas. From a Kurdish point of view I salute the brave peace activists and I sympathize with the situation of the Palestinian people in the face of oppression by the Israeli state. Yet we cannot forget that both Turkey and Iran continue to commit atrocities against the Kurdish population. ... read full story / add a comment
Front cover of the irish Anarchist Review
dublin / anti-capitalism Thursday June 03, 2010 - 17:09 by Andrew, Dara, Ronan   text 1 comment (last - friday june 04, 2010 - 19:38)   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
The first copies were distributed as Gardai attacked the Anglo Irish bank occupation and then attempted to stop the anti-capitalist bloc march but this was the formal launch of the new WSM magazine Irish Anarchist Review much of the content of which looks at the fight against the capitalist crisis in the workplace. Authors & editors introduce the articles followed by some questions about the new format. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 03, 2010 - 00:56 by Michael   text 1 comment (last - thursday june 03, 2010 - 19:55)
Launching of International Aid Convoy for the humanitarian relief of Gaza. ... read full story / add a comment
The speaker with a megaphone on Monday following the flotilla massacre
national / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday June 02, 2010 - 16:24 by Freda   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
This is the audio of the 'Israeli Apartheid, BDS and Grassroots Resistance in Palestine' from Saturday's anarchist bookfair. The speaker is Freda Hughes from the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Monday May 31, 2010 - 18:06 by donkylemore   text 14 comments (last - thursday june 03, 2010 - 19:46)

Is this attack on an Aid ship Israel's taking advantage of an erstwhile preoccupied and unfortunate American President ? Or is it just more of Israel doing what Israel does best ..taking murderous and disproportionate action against civilians to further subjugate the Palestinian people - and doing all of this under the pre configured ideation imprinted on the Israeli mind that Europe 'owes' her because of the Holocaust - and therefore whatever would be deemed unacceptable by another country is Ok for Israel ? ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday May 24, 2010 - 13:23 by john throne   text 30 comments (last - friday august 13, 2010 - 20:37)
The death of Peter Hadden, leading member of the Socialist Party has generated many speeches and obituaries. Here is my general response. ... read full story / add a comment
Standing Stone
meath / environment Monday May 24, 2010 - 12:56 by farrelly57   text 21 comments (last - saturday may 29, 2010 - 16:50)   image 8 images
Here is the TSV on Sunday. We are told that destruction will not happen in this valley anymore, we are told that our heritage is safe but my walk yesterday shows that things have simply got worse.
Please become involved and stop the rape of our old green land. It is reaching appoint that soon it will be too late. We look set to lose all our old mysterious, wild and fallow places.
... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday May 23, 2010 - 13:17 by Lazy   text 27 comments (last - monday may 31, 2010 - 11:58)   image 1 image
This story was blacked-out by the media for a year and involves
two men whose lack of personal scruple has enriched them at
the cost of lives.

*Only* 7 million has been seized of a estimated 100 million
in profligacy which has destroyed lives, truly rats in sewers
comes to mind :

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/art...1.ece ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday May 20, 2010 - 20:48 by Thomas Janak   audio 1 audio file
In conversation with Sharon Valencik ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday May 20, 2010 - 19:51 by Gavin Gleeson   text 17 comments (last - sunday may 23, 2010 - 12:03)   image 1 image
Joe Duffy invited two protesters, Holly, and Leah, who were at the protest at the Dáil on Tuesday the 18th of May, on to his Radio show on RTE. These two protesters were contacted because they had been wearing fake blood, in an attempt to highlight that the Gardaí had taken quite violent action, including bludgeoning protesters with steel batons, against people who were fighting against public service cuts - indeed fighting against the very cuts that the Gardaí themselves will suffer. ... read full story / add a comment
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