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international / education Sunday February 07, 2010 - 19:08 by John Cornford
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Prof Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group really sticks the boot into Chomsky. He weighs Chomskys credentials in the balance and finds then wanting. Full text at link. Chomsky was about to deliver a lecture in Delhi. Setting aside the usual niceties, his host - a certain professor Agnihotri of Delhi University - introduced the visiting speaker with a challenge. He was bewildered that a person “so deeply touched by human suffering” could ignore the roots of both happiness and suffering in his scientific work. Noam Chomsky, continued the professor, insisted on viewing language as a “purely biological cognitive system” unconnected with “sociological power-games”. But isn’t language a key tool used by the powerful to deceive, exploit and oppress? How can Chomsky turn a blind eye to such things in his linguistic research?[8] ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday February 05, 2010 - 14:31 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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VID 58 minutes - Howard Zinn was an American historian, social critic, and activist. He is best known as author of the best-seller A People’s History of the United States. In one of his last lectures before his death last week, he spoke at Boston University on November 11 2009, on the subject of American “Holy Wars.” http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2010/1/8/howard_zinn_t..._wars ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday January 31, 2010 - 11:21 by Henk Ruyssenaars fwd. The Telegraph
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Not one word too much: those creatures are a living shame to humanity in which they not any longer take part. They are not the solution: they are the problem! ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday January 30, 2010 - 15:09 by Catholic Worker
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The Catholic Worker is 70+ year old radical anarcho-pacifist movement of some 180 autonomous communities (mostly in North America) combining the practise of the acts of mercy and nonviolent resistance. The CW houses and projects refuse all state funding. The Philadelphia Catholic Worker operates a free clinic and has a longstanding relationship with the "Mathew 25 -House of Hospitality" free clinic in Haiti. The Catholic Worker delegation presently in Haiti includes CW nurse Joanna Berrigan, radical Detroit Bishop Thomas Gumbleton who has a long anti-war history and sanctios breaking in Iraq in the '90's and radical lawyer Bill Quigley who has longstanding involvement in Haitian human rights cases. Background on the CW dlegation and Mathew 25 project (including a television news report) can be found on this link..... http://www.indymedia.ie/article/95531&comment_limit=0&c...64761 ... read full story / add a comment 
antrim / arts and media Friday January 29, 2010 - 21:17 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora
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www.myspace.com/armuinnamuice www.bebo.com/armuinnamuice www.nearpodcast.org www.near.ie ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Friday January 29, 2010 - 12:27 by Dr Doom
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At last Wakefield has been exposed as the crook that he is. He spread scare stories about the MNR Vaccine knowing that his claims were false. The doctor who sparked a worldwide panic over the MMR vaccine could be struck off after being found guilty yesterday of a series of misconduct charges related to his “unethical” research. Andrew Wakefield, who in 1998 claimed an unfounded link between the vaccination and autism, “showed a callous disregard” for the suffering of children, subjecting them to unnecessary, invasive tests, a hearing found. The General Medical Council (GMC) ruled that he abused his position of trust as he researched a possible link between the MMR vaccine, bowel disease and autism in children. It found that Wakefield and two colleagues acted dishonestly and irresponsibly in carrying out research on children against their best interests and without official permission. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment Friday January 29, 2010 - 11:21 by WMD
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Natural Resources Minister Eamon Ryan today presented the Petroleum (Exploration and Extraction) Safety Bill 2010 to the Oireachtas The Bill confers responsibility on the Commission for Energy Regulation for the regulatory function for the safety of oil and gas infrastructure in Ireland. It also sets the framework for the development and implementation of a risk-based safety assessment for upstream petroleum activities and associated infrastructure. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday January 25, 2010 - 21:33 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin
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Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977 ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday January 25, 2010 - 10:28 by Margaretta D'Arcy
A Feminist International Solidarity Camp to help mobilize and transfer resources, and to open channels of communications directly with Haitian women will open next week on the frontier Jemaní between the Dominican Republic & Haiti. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday January 22, 2010 - 18:36 by Chicherin
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As unrest continues in Iran, Yassamine Mather writes on the divisions within the ruling Theocracy and how the "Reformists" fear that that the revolt will result in genuine revolution. Full text at link. More than two weeks after the demonstrations of December 27 2009, the political repercussions of these events, and the reaction to the anger and radicalism of the protesters, continue. Clearly now no-one, from the government to the ‘reformists’, to the revolutionary opposition, has any doubt that the current protests are no longer about who should be the ‘president’ of the Islamic Republic, but represent a serious challenge to the very existence of the religious state. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday January 22, 2010 - 16:39 by Andy Kershaw
Haitians have faced their tragedy with dignity and stoicism – not that you would know it from the way the disaster has been reported Thursday, 21 January 2010 - The Independent ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday January 22, 2010 - 03:13 by campaigner
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Couple of links highlighting the extent of repressive legislation in the North and the disparity with recent official reports ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday January 17, 2010 - 18:27 by I. Stone
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A PUBLIC inquiry has begun in the U.S. into the financial crisis. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday January 13, 2010 - 16:32 by Eugene Mc Cartan
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Influenza A: They Organized a Psychosis Bruno Odent, L'Humanité Wednesday 06 January 2010 Exposé: the president of the Council of Europe's Health Commission, German Wolfgang Wodarg, accuses pharmaceutical lobbies and governments. He has obtained the launch of an investigation by the official body he heads on the role played by laboratories in the campaign of panic around the virus. A no-holds-barred interview. Former member of the German Socialist Party, Wolfgang Wodarg is a physician and epidemiologist. He garnered the Council of Europe's Health Commission members' unanimous consent for a commission of inquiry into the role of pharmaceutical firms in the management of H1N1 flu by the WHO and by governments ... ... read full story / add a comment
derry / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday January 13, 2010 - 11:35 by doopa
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The BBC is reporting that Raytheon is to close its Derry Plant. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/foy...5.stm ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday January 12, 2010 - 17:53 by Campaigner
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Spotted this on the eirigi website and it could have some possible and very welcome repercussions right across Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday January 10, 2010 - 19:04 by Oswald Bastable
12 comments (last - tuesday january 12, 2010 - 21:38)
John Gormley may be striving to secure salt supplies from abroad but meanwhile salt is being exported from Ireland! ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Saturday January 09, 2010 - 01:36 by Ronnie
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The only place he is going is out of Sinn Fein. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday January 07, 2010 - 17:12 by pat c
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Chris Strafford writes on how the Iranian people face a double danger: the possibility of a Bloodbath being launched by the Theocracy and threats of War and Sanctions from US Imperialism. Full article at link. Further sanctions are being put in place, and Obama is holding back Israel for the time being, but has been promising “decisive action” if Iran does not halt all uranium enrichment. One Israeli diplomat was quoted in The Guardian as saying, “Obama has convinced us that it’s worth trying the sanctions, at least for a few months” (January 3). The imperialists seem to be moving towards military aggression this year - Washington has now dismissed the validity of the intelligence estimate which concluded that Iran was no longer trying to acquire nuclear weapons. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday January 05, 2010 - 13:34 by Geri Timmons
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The case of Leonard Peltier ... read full story / add a comment |
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