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international / miscellaneous Tuesday June 02, 2009 - 16:28 by Susan Boyle
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Sandusky is a small city of about 70,000 citizens which is in the news because John Hamilton (48) tired of the unkempt grass in his local park decided to mow it himself & when he refuse to desist at the suggestion of the police, they arrested him and are charging him with obstruction of justice and disorderly conduct. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday June 02, 2009 - 13:02 by CWI
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Rosa Luxemburg's body found? ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday June 02, 2009 - 09:27 by supporter
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How the Elites have Squandered with our Health and Wealth Dr. Andy Storey and Michael McCaughan “We gave the Corrib gas away and now Éamon Ryan is intent on giving away the remaining choice areas of our offshore acreage at less than bargain basement prices”. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday May 31, 2009 - 15:05 by Maidhc Ó Cathail
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A recent book by Gavan McCormack documents how Japan has become a "client state" of the United States, an indispensable ally through its uncritical support of the global American empire. However, a closer examination of the forces driving recent US wars in the Middle East suggests that America may in fact be serving the interests of one tiny country in the region. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Sunday May 31, 2009 - 14:57 by Yassamine Mather
Yassamine Mather writes on the upcoming presidential election in Iran. She suggests that there is no real choice on offer and in any case tne Supreme Leader ayatollah Ali Khamenei holds the real reins of power. Full text at link Western governments are hoping for the election in Iran of a more ‘moderate’ president and the US has delayed any negotiations until after the poll. Obama, speaking on May 18, said he expected international talks with Iran to begin shortly after the elections. Inside Iran, however, there seems to be little enthusiasm for this farce beyond the ruling circles. Most Iranians are well aware that the president, like all other ‘elected officials’ in the Islamic Republic of Iran, wields limited power. Iran’s supreme religious leader - currently ayatollah Ali Khamenei - is not just a figurehead, but the head of state and ‘guardian of the nation’. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Saturday May 30, 2009 - 16:09 by prurience
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The rightwing (not leftwing) Italian dailies are reporting how Nicolò Ghedini (supposedly Silvio Berlusconi's straight lawyer) has got an injunction through the courts to stop a Sardinian "paparazzi" Antonello Zappadu's publication of 700 photos taken last christmas when Pappi Berlusconi entered like a comet into the orbit of sweet young Noemi and was proximate to her sets' parties. This was a bit back when the monsters were working out how to reduce the Italian EU election to a plebiscite on a septuagenerian's sex appeal. The most demographically honed and mass psychologically horific display of conflicts of interest between society's estates of executive, media, judiciary & of course mafia. We need to pay attention. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday May 30, 2009 - 15:33 by ronan gallagher
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Lebanon’s army has been put “on full alert” in response to the Israeli Home Front Command drill which is to begin this Sunday. Despite Israeli and UN assurances that the drill will be defensive in nature , Hezbollah has was warned of “possible aggression” along the Israel Lebanon border and stated that its fighters are prepared to respond ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday May 30, 2009 - 02:32 by Miriam O
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According to Reuters a massive bomb just rocked the South of Iran and many people have died. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Saturday May 30, 2009 - 00:38 by Socialist Party
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Irish Times and RTE say that Joe Higgins is now fighting with Eoin Ryan and Mary Lou McDonald for the last MEP seat in Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Friday May 29, 2009 - 11:17 by Joe Higgins.eu
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This is the second of a series of videos on what Joe Higgins stands for. Here Joe outlines why he stands for defending workers rights and public services. He argues the Trade Unions must be forced to take action to fight the attacks. More videos of his key demands will be put on the campaign's YouTube channel, available at http://www.youtube.com/VoteJoeHiggins so make sure to subscribe or check back regularly. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday May 28, 2009 - 13:39 by redjade
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Balazs Nagy: Can you tell a few words about yourself and how you got to the situation that you are in? Victor Agosto: Ok, I am Victor Agosto, I joined the Army of the United States in August of 2005. I was sent to Iraq in October of 2006. And I stayed there until November of 2007. And while I was in Iraq I turned against both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And now my unit is sending me to Afghanistan - or wants to send me to Afghanistan - but I have already told them that I am not going to go and that I am not going to obey any orders supporting my unit's deployment to Afghanistan. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday May 28, 2009 - 13:18 by Ronan Gallagher
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Alonzo Bodden arrived in Ireland this week for the Carlsberg Kilkenny Cat Laughs Festival. He’s back here after playing to US troops at Camp Liberty in Iraq. As a former Stealth Bomber mechanic, Alonzo was no stranger to the military world when he signed up to bring a bit of laughter to the lives of troops on active service. The zany comic told Jay Richardson wittily in an interview published in today’s Irish Times. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage Wednesday May 27, 2009 - 19:47 by iosaf
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June 2nd 1967 was a watershed in German postwar history so pivotal that the date would be used by a terrorist grouping as their name. Benno Ohnesorg was shot dead by a policeman. Ohnesorg had been peacefully protesting the visit of the then Shah of Iran to the then West Berlin. It has now emerged the policeman in question, Karl-Heinz Kurras had been a member of the STASI since 1955 though there is no evidence he was acting on their orders at the time of the shooting. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Monday May 25, 2009 - 20:22 by erudite type
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Reuters and other newswires are carrying an Iranian story in the last hour that the revolutionary guard have arrested 114 "devil worshippers" and seized drugs and alcohol during a party in a southern city. "Cutting (their own) skin and sucking up the blood was among the indecent behavior of the group," Mehr News Agency quoted Colonel Abbas Hamedi of Iran's Revolutionary Guards in the city of Shiraz as saying. He said a Guards intelligence unit launched an investigation into the all-male group about one year ago, leading to their arrest Sunday evening. "The group's aim was to promote irreligious behavior," Hamedi, adding they had posted footage of their parties on the Internet. The Islamic Republic, which bans alcohol and narcotics, last year said it would launch a crackdown on "indecent Western-inspired movements" such as rappers and satanists. Which all sounds dandy to the general public who probably don't know about the Melak Taus ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday May 25, 2009 - 09:06 by CWI
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Following the defeat of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka by the army, the govt is using this victory as an opportunity to remove all and any opposition to their hold on power and have drawn up a death list of people they want to get rid of.
One of those is the United Socialist Party leader who has been put on death list ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday May 24, 2009 - 23:09 by Terence
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This recent article is very interesting because of the facts and figures presented in it. It reviews the latest situation on the current global economic crisis and presents a brief history of the relative state and strength of the labour movement and the top wealthy elite. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Sunday May 24, 2009 - 15:21 by john throne
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Some years ago a group of Comrades were expelled from the Irish Socialist Party and the Socialist Party's international organization. I John throne was amongst these. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Saturday May 23, 2009 - 16:11 by spare the rod spoil the childer
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Branislav Peranovic is the "archpriest" (orthodox equivalent to dean's rank) who has run the "Novi Pazar" drug rehabilitation centre since 2003. Video footage shown on Thursday night on Serbian TV,& being widely picked up throughout European media, clearly shows inmates being beaten, a regular occurence which Peranovic justifies completely telling press that a "heavy hand" is needed and that anyone who has a "junkie in their home" would understand this. He further insists that parents of his "patients" approve the regime which is now to be investigated by the Serbian state who understandably consider the whole thing to be torture. One former inmate describes how patients put their trousers bottoms in their socks before their beatings knowing that they will lose bowel control & in common parlance "shit themselves" but at least it won't go over the carpet or tiles. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / politics / elections Friday May 22, 2009 - 17:22 by Dave
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A satirical look at one of the candidates in the upcoming elections in Ireland on June 5th. The performer is Paul Kelly from Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday May 21, 2009 - 03:48 by Ciaron
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For those who knew him and knew of him we are shocked and saddened by the killing of Larry in Guatamela. Larry served the poor in the streets of the U.S. and at the bloody edges of the empire.....El Salvador, Brazil, Guatamela. His nonviolent resistance was steadfast from the draft board raids of the Vietnam War to the School of the Americas at Ft. Benning and many places between. ... read full story / add a comment |
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