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Irish History Podcast
national / education Thursday May 06, 2010 - 15:42 by Irish History Podcast   image 1 image
The second episode of the Irish History Podcast has been released ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Thursday May 06, 2010 - 15:08 by David Miller & Claire Robinson (summary)
INTRO

SpinWatch (www.spinwatch.org), created in 2005, provides public interest reporting on spin and deception, and campaigns for lobbying transparency.

Spinwatch are co-founders of the Europe-wide Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation and the more recent UK campaign, the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency.

Spinwatch has come under sustained attack from a bizarre group of former left wing activists who switched to the pro-market right in the 1990s. Today, this 'LM Network' act as lobbyists for and defenders of multinational corporations. As such, the LM Network features on the associated SpinProfiles.org website (http://spinprofiles.org/index.php?title=LM_network). Because of that fact the LM network, that guards its origins and activities from prying eyes, has attempted to undermine Spinwatch's credibility. ... read full story / add a comment
Branko Marinkovic - Bolivian nazi, Dwyers money man, guilty of terrorism and on the run
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Monday May 03, 2010 - 16:37 by Opposed to Shell and their nazi friends   image 2 images
Just a year after Micheal Dwyer met his bloody end in Bolivia, we get a News update from Bolivia...

The news concerns our favourite LatAm fascist Branko Marinkovic, chickenshit multimillionaire and coupmonger who fled Bolivia after his racist plot failed... From inca kola news- Branko has left the building and is very unlikely to return (March 18 2010)
http://incakolanews.blogspot.com/2010/03/branko-has-lef....html

Ex-Aid Testifies that Marinkovic Financed Accused Terrorists

On March 17th, former Santa Cruz civic leader Branko Marinkovic’s longtime personal assistant and right-hand man for 14 years Juan Judelka confirmed that Marinkovic was financing a group called “La Torre” that is accused of terrorist conspiracy. Judelka declared under oath before prosec ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday April 30, 2010 - 10:50 by SIPTU Community
The latest edition of the SIPTU Community Newsletter is now available.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 29, 2010 - 10:37 by Mairead O'Shea   text 21 comments (last - friday may 21, 2010 - 06:42)
The latest recruit to the Labour Party is Mary Harneys buddy Mae Sexton. Sexton was the PD Dail Deputy for Longford up until she was defeated at the last General Election. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 29, 2010 - 02:12 by Larky   text 5 comments (last - friday april 30, 2010 - 01:16)
This is the text of the speech made by Michael O’Boyce the president of the Garda Representative Association to their annual conference. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 28, 2010 - 15:35 by lynn   text 2 comments (last - friday april 30, 2010 - 11:54)
The courts have recently become a very hotly contested arena in the conflict over Shell's imposition of their unsafe project on Erris. Charges and prosecutions have been coming thick and fast over the last year and a half, but they seem to be more about persecuting campaigners than any concept of justice, and recent weeks have shown a clear bias in the policing of protest. ... read full story / add a comment
BBC 'racially harassed' former GAA corr Jerome Quinn - Irish News 27 April 2010
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 27, 2010 - 14:15 by Bimpe Archer   text 17 comments (last - tuesday may 04, 2010 - 15:46)   image 3 images
The former face of the BBC Northern Ireland's GAA coverage has unleashed an extraordinary attack on the corporation for downgrading its coverage of Gaelic games and subjecting him to "racial harassment".

Self-proclaimed "Mr GAA" Jerome Quinn is representing himself in a case against the BBC in which he alleges unfair dismissal and discrimination.

He was sacked last year after his employer discovered he had been posting anonymous criticism of its coverage of Gaelic football and hurling on a GAA discussion board.

The award-winning presenter said they were an attempt to "inform fans of what was behind anti-GAA coverage in BBC NI". ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment Sunday April 25, 2010 - 13:31 by WMD   text 4 comments (last - monday april 26, 2010 - 19:54)   image 1 image
According to a notice issued by Eamon Ryan's Department of Transport, work is to re start shortly on the Corrib Pipeline. The notice gives a rough outline of plans to survey the estuary, but makes no mention of Shell/Garda security compounds, increased garda and navy presence, dodgy security guards with cameras, and articles in the O'Reily press saying "we need the gas".

Maybe that's a different department... ... read full story / add a comment
Israeli Tank Invading Palestinian Farms.
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday April 24, 2010 - 18:28 by pat c   image 1 image
Here are two articles by Eva Bartlett on the war that the Israeli Army wages against Palestinian farmers. full texts at links.

"Our sheep and goats would feed at the base of trees before the trees were all destroyed," she says. Over the years of Israeli air and land invasions, Israel's bulldozing and bombing trees and agricultural land, the environment in Gaza suffers almost as much as the people. With animal fodder only sparingly allowed into Gaza under the siege, that which enters through the tunnels from Egypt is unaffordable to herders like Um Mohammed.
http://www.countercurrents.org/bartlett230410A.htm
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Abu Michel watching the destruction of his children's playground
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 24, 2010 - 18:17 by pat c   image 1 image
Israel continues its war against Palestinian children by destroying a Strategic WMD - a childrens playground! 100 olive and fruit trees were also destroyed. Full text at link.

Israeli bulldozers today destroyed a garden and children’s playground in Beit Jala, and 100 fruit and olive trees in Al Walaja and Beit Jala, both in the Bethlehem district, to make way for the continued construction of their illegal apartheid wall. Soldiers present used violent force to remove Palestinian, Israeli and international activists who attempted to prevent the destruction. Two Israelis were arrested immediately, and six internationals were later arrested. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Saturday April 24, 2010 - 17:29 by Oswald Bastable   text 1 comment (last - friday april 30, 2010 - 13:35)
The Cochabamba Climate Summit in Bolivia has closed with a call for rich countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% and for the setting up of a court to punish climate crimes. President Evo Morales, who organised the gathering, also announced plans to mount a referendum of 2 billion people on solutions to the climate crisis within a year. Here are three articles about summit. Full text at links.

Cochabamba Summit Calls For International Climate Court
By Andres Schipani
Cochabamba conference closes with call for rich countries to halve greenhouse gas emissions and set up a court to punish climate crimes.
http://www.countercurrents.org/schipani230410.htm ... read full story / add a comment
Muhammad And Friends.
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 22, 2010 - 11:14 by People Before Prophets   text 11 comments (last - friday august 20, 2010 - 14:55)   image 2 images
Looks as if the South Park crew could have some problems angry islamic fundamentalists. Mocking buddha and christ is one thing but mocking the "prophet" of islam is a tad more dangerous.

Islamists have warned the creators of TV show South Park they could face violent retribution for depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit. A posting on the website of the US-based group, Revolution Muslim, told Matt Stone and Trey Parker they would "probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh". The Dutch film-maker was shot and stabbed to death in 2004 by an Islamist angered by his film about Muslim women. ... read full story / add a comment
international / health / disability issues Thursday April 22, 2010 - 02:09 by Robbie Sinnott   text 2 comments (last - thursday april 22, 2010 - 09:15)
Among other things, Richar Patterson says that Black liberation is more advanced than the liberation of Visually impaired [hear here]; that he was never ashamed of being black, but was ashamed of his visual impaierment. [interaction with the 'normal' people' is a strange nexus]

He also describes some of the practical difficulties in processing information with a visual impairement. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Tuesday April 20, 2010 - 13:23 by TalliBean   text 2 comments (last - thursday april 29, 2010 - 18:09)
Just when you thought thinks couldn't get any worse: now women are blamed for earthquakes!

A senior Iranian cleric says women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes.

Iran is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries, and the cleric's unusual explanation for why the earth shakes follows a prediction by the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that a quake is certain to hit Tehran and that many of its 12 million inhabitants should relocate. ... read full story / add a comment
Jerry Cowley at the Labour Party Conference
mayo / environment Saturday April 17, 2010 - 14:55 by Mubara   text 5 comments (last - tuesday april 20, 2010 - 11:40)   image 1 image

The Shell manager who accepted the latest load of letters from objectors to the Shell project just last week turns out to be the son of a (former) Labour politician. A politician who always campaigned hard on Corrib, but on behalf of the multi-national, not his constituents.

So it was a bit of a surprise to see Jerry Cowley, wealthy Barrister and GP, and once supposedly a supporter of the Shell to Sea campaign, sign up for Labour yesterday. ... read full story / add a comment
international / education Friday April 16, 2010 - 21:44 by D. Grant Haynes   text 3 comments (last - saturday april 17, 2010 - 06:34)   audio 1 audio file
A culture and educational system that permits a student like Irish teen Phoebe Prince to be bullied and harassed until driven to suicide needs to undergo vast systemic changes immediately.
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national / politics / elections Thursday April 15, 2010 - 01:34 by Craig McInerney
A change in the Irish economy can only occur with a dramatic change in our political landscape. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice Monday April 12, 2010 - 20:47 by Christine Murphy
Gary Leupp, Professor of History at Tufts University and Adjunct Professor of Religion reports in Counterpunch that: Ratzinger conducts a devious slight-of-hand, feigning transparency and legal cooperation to obscure a history of concealment of egregious sex abuse instances “for the good of the Universal Church.” That’s the real history here, now requiring him to insist on diplomatic immunity so as not to appear in U.S. courtrooms. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism Monday April 12, 2010 - 16:25 by pat c   text 3 comments (last - tuesday april 27, 2010 - 10:48)   image 1 image
Yassamine Mather writes about the ongoing Imperialist agenda to impose even stronger sanctions against Iran. Now Obama has the support of the Chinese regime. Yassamine makes it clear that this has got nothing to do with nuclear weapons. Full text at link.

For the last few months, every day - and at times more than once a day - media presentation of world news has been dominated by US attempts to impose sanctions on Iran. Sometimes it is the visit of a foreign head of state to Washington that is the occasion for the latest call; at other times it is Hillary Clinton’s world tour, or a phone call from Barack Obama to a Chinese leader. ... read full story / add a comment
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