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national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday January 20, 2009 - 07:14 by Miriam
 5 comments (last - tuesday january 20, 2009 - 10:06)
Morgan Kelly, Professor of Economics at UCD has delivered a scathing criticism of Cowen's decision to rescue Anglo Irish Bank - and describes how Cowen and Lenihan went against advice of the Central Bank and their own experts in the Department of Finance - fully aware of what it would do to the citizens of the state. The reality is that Anglo has no importance in the Irish financial system. It existed purely as a vehicle for a few politically connected individuals to place reckless bets on the commercial property market. These property speculators may be of systemic importance to the finances of Fianna Fáil, but their significance ends there. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 19, 2009 - 17:30 by TD
In a powerful Counterpunch article, human rights activist, Caoimhe Butterly, working in Jabaliya and Gaza City as a volunteer with ambulance services and as co-coordinator for the Free Gaza Movement vividly describes the abattoir and war crime scene that is now Gaza: The bodies in their blood-soaked white shrouds cover the entire floor space of the Shifa hospital morgue. Some are intact, most horribly deformed, limbs twisted into unnatural positions, chest cavities exposed, heads blown off, skulls crushed in. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 19, 2009 - 11:35 by John Mearsheimer
John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, co-author of the paper (available online) and subsequent book (with Stephen Walt) _The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy_, presents a concise timeline description and absolutely the clearest account of the true reason behind Israel's wanton atrocities in Gaza. Mearsheimer argues that diminishing Hamas or stopping their rockets are subsidiary goals for Israel, to Israel's more central goal of controlling all of historical Palestine via an "Iron Wall" policy that would permanently subjugate the Palestinian people Mearsheimer points out that this goal cannot be achieved, and certainly not by the brutal method of a total war on the Palestinian people. The likely outcome even in the case of relative Israeli success is a permanent Apartheid, which itself will [thankfully] doom Israel as a chauvinistically and exclusionary "Jewish State" [and its racist state ideology of Zionism]. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 19, 2009 - 02:46 by Miriam
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According to the blogs and press releases below, a city of tents has been set up near an Egyptian city to house thousands of people from Gaza. The fear is that this is a way of completing the intended ethnic cleansing of the Strip. Once removed will they be able to get back? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday January 18, 2009 - 15:59 by Solidarity
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Anti-militarist activists entered the ITT/EDO MBM arms factory in Moulescombe, Brighton, England in the early hours of Saturda morning, January 17th. 09, where they are believed to have caused extensive damage to the offices, and to equipment used to make arms, including the 'zero retention force arming units' and 'ejector release unit 151' which the Smash EDO/ITT campaign says are supplied to the Israeli Air Force. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday January 17, 2009 - 10:37 by redjade
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Israel's Achilles’ heel.... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday January 17, 2009 - 00:21 by gazasympathiser
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On January 11, an estimated 10,000 people rallied in front of the Israeli consulate in midtown New York in support of Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip. The rally, which was organized by UJA-Federation of New York and the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York in cooperation with the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, featured speeches by New York’s most senior lawmakers. While the crowd was riled to righteous anger by speeches about Hamas evildoers, the event was a festive affair that began and ended with singing and joyous dancing. His video has to be seen to be believed! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQJOX4sUq30 ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday January 16, 2009 - 15:35 by Miriam
"But this is only the tip of the ice berg. The Israeli forces have begun to use civilians as human shields. According to Amnesty International Israeli forces occupy civilian houses and keep the civilians as hostages on the first floor, while they position their soldiers on the second floor; ensuring that any fire on the house (especially with anti-tank or RPG missiles) kills the civilians as well." ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday January 16, 2009 - 13:20 by Miriam
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Israel's communist party looks set to benefit from the government's decision to ban the Arab parties from the upcoming elections. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday January 15, 2009 - 17:06 by RTÉ
The public inquiry into the killing of Robert Hamill in Co Armagh 12 years ago has heard that shortly after the murder, police had evidence that one of their own officers had tried to protect one of the killers from prosecution. 25-year-old Catholic, Robert Hamill, was beaten to death by a loyalist mob in Portadown in April 1997. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Thursday January 15, 2009 - 15:18 by Miriam
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Al Jazeera have a creative commons repository which permits people reuse their their footage of their Gaza related coverage in an attempt to help get the truth of the situation out - a tacit criticism of other mainstream media. "Let us know! You can send us a message through our contact form. According the license, you must attribute the footage to Al Jazeera (but not in any way that suggests that we endorse you or your use of our work). You are required to leave our logos intact, reference this website and the license itself." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday January 15, 2009 - 14:23 by Al Jazeera
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Gaza Protests, as Seen on Al Jazeera . . . and unseen on American TV http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/gaza110109.html ... read full story / add a comment
international / housing Wednesday January 14, 2009 - 22:55 by Mary Kelly
Caoimhe available for interview from Jabaliya. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Wednesday January 14, 2009 - 22:40 by Piufiu
This is a callout for a day of global actions against first nuclear power plant in Belarus, the people of which suffered the most after chernobyls nuclear disaster. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Wednesday January 14, 2009 - 12:34 by Miriam Cotton
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This interview was held the day after Israel broke the ceasefire though it was as yet unclear what the reports from Gaza on the 5th November would lead to. It has been edited to include a response from RD to the latest round of violence against the Palestinians and sad to say it seems the media are incapable of reflecting accurately on the causes and ongoing atrocities inflicted on Palestinians by Israel. The taboo about criticising Israel is still largely intact. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday January 14, 2009 - 11:59 by Shane
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It's easy to forget, when watching the news or reading the papers, that no all of the people in the Israeli state support the state's actions, indeed there are many who actively oppose it. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday January 14, 2009 - 02:17 by tagger
This article appears on the Al-Jazeera website and it is very interesting, as it tells the lies that the Zionist rouge state has been peddling. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday January 13, 2009 - 06:24 by SP-USA
Messages From Palestinian Trade Unions ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday January 13, 2009 - 02:07 by Miriam
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A massive cache of weaponry is on its way to Israel - via the Greek port of Astakos. Efforts are being made internationally to stop the shipment at the port. The report below will hopefully be up on Indymedia Athens soon, but if anybody has any contacts in Greece please ask them to do what they can to alert people and organise some effective but peaceful attempt to stop this shipment - which may well be used to kill more Palestinainas and possibly to assist in a further assault on Lebanon. Global Research article here - essential reading: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11743 ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 12, 2009 - 23:05 by Miriam
7 comments (last - wednesday january 14, 2009 - 15:43)
It set sail from Cyprus today. Report below. Word of this mission needs to be spread around the world and its progress monitored very carefully. These people are really vulnerable. Given what we have just witnessed in Gaza we know Israel is capable of violent defiance of world opinion, of law and of even basic humanitarian considerations and that it thinks nothing of murdering innocent people intent only on providing humanitarian aid. John Ging of UNWRA has reported how he had to withdraw UN aid workers because they were being deliberately, and repeatedly targetted by the very IDF units they had negotiated with for safe passage into Gaza to help relieve suffering. He called a halt to the effort when the IDF murdered one of them and has given explicit interviews with Al Jazeera English since. Let's hope this boat doesnt suffer the same fate. ... read full story / add a comment |
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