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national / crime and justice Wednesday January 09, 2008 - 19:14 by Concerned Group for Republican Prisoners
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I wish through your media outlet to bring attention to a grave injustice being perpetrated against an Irish Citizen by his own government, Noel Maguire is seeking repatriation back to Ireland from an English jail to serve the remainder of his sentence in the country of his birth and to be closer to his family. The refusal by the Irish government in accepting Noel’s application seems to be stripping him of his Irish Citizenship and the civil rights that are associated with it. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Wednesday January 09, 2008 - 14:40 by tomeile
2 comments (last - friday january 11, 2008 - 18:44)
Another black American is running for President . Cynthia McKinney, a former Democrat from Georgia, was one of only three members of Congress to vote "yes" on a House Resolution in 2005 calling for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. One of her last acts in office was introducing Articles of Impeachment naming George Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice. With thousands of Afro-Americans still refugees in their own country following Hurricane Kathrina three years ago , McKinney is running on a reconstruction programme . She is demanding that the billions currently being spent on war should be used to address " .......the conditions of poverty, racism, and neglect that have existed since America's first Reconstruction Period after the Civil War." ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Wednesday January 09, 2008 - 12:01 by staring at rats
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Really quite a miscellany of human interest stories this one. Naples is notorious throughout Europe for its rubbish problem, which for many is blamed on the intransigence of the Comora or Napolitan mafia who sabotage every attempt to provide the city with incineration facilities. Over the Christmas the Italian military were sent into the city to clean up mountains of household waste which quite simply has nowhere to go. Today the Italian state has appointed a "garbage czar" to sort it out. Meanwhile the Peoples' Republic of China is to ban plastic bags in an attempt to stop pollution in its land. Very thought provoking. & there is a spat in Italy between a bishop and family members over plans to exhume & display the body of Padre Pio the patron saint of "January blues". ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday January 04, 2008 - 17:49 by Johnny H
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In mid December, the Connolly Youth Movement sent out the following message to all members of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, to raise awareness and solidarity about the situation in Mayo. ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Friday January 04, 2008 - 13:52 by Laura Broxson
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NEW AR WEBSITE ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday January 04, 2008 - 01:44 by Guy
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The Interior Ministry of Saudi Arabia confirmed yesterday that blogger Fouad Al-Farhan(32) has been arrested for interrogation. Fouad, who is a father of two young children has been critical of the Saudi regime. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights Thursday January 03, 2008 - 23:11 by Siobhan Higgins
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In 2006 Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN), Ireland's national grassroots animal protection group organized the first ever national stop cruelty to animals rally in Dublin. We were joined by huge numbers of our own members and supporters and were supported by many national animal rescue and respected protection groups who took time out of their busy schedule to be with us on December 10th 2006 to make a statement that cruelty to animals is not wanted here in Ireland. Our event was actually so successful and so well organized that it received headlines on literally every news paper and radio station across the country. The Irish Gardai congratulated ARAN on such a wonderful, peaceful and well organized event! We thank them also for their cooperation in the run up to our event. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Wednesday January 02, 2008 - 23:48 by JM
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[M]ovement for the Survival of Ogoni People [MOSOP] has accused Shell Petroleum Development Company [SPDC] of sabotaging oil pipelines in Ogoniland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Sunday December 30, 2007 - 19:07 by phlegm
5 comments (last - monday january 07, 2008 - 15:10)
A recognised spokesperson for Al Qaeda has informed the global satelite TV network "GEO" that they were not involved in the assassination of Benazir Bhuttu which of course contradicts something or other which was like fact & brought lots of tippy toppy declarations with words in them until about one hour ago. gosh. Now that's Imran Aslam the president of GEO the telly most pakistanis watch once they leave Pakistan & can afford to share a telly with someone else or get a job with telly laid on. you'll want a link. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Friday December 28, 2007 - 22:02 by JM
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Just as top government officials are gathering in Bali for the UN Climate Change Conference comes news that carbon dioxide emissions at a new gas power plant in northern Norway are exceeding all limits. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday December 28, 2007 - 11:21 by Coilín
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In a discovery that sheds new light on the current conspicuous refusal of the Garda Síochána to search US military aircraft and CIA aircraft suspected of carrying victims of torture through Shannon Airport, the Irish Times today tells us that Taoiseach Seán Lemass personally authorised searches of aircraft at Shannon in 1962. The difference is that these were Cuban aircraft, that the searches were instigated at the request of the United States, and that data gleaned from these searches were passed to the US embassy for the next eight years. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Thursday December 27, 2007 - 19:28 by Obit the second
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Benazir Bhutto was shot in the neck and then in the head. The asassin then blew himself up and killed 16 people. President Musharraf has appealed for calm. He has not stated that the planned January 5th election will go ahead. George W Bush has condemned the attack, as has Gordon Brown. Both of these leaders are experiencing political difficulties at home with Brown embroiled in an Afghanistan scandal. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Wednesday December 26, 2007 - 18:27 by Ariko
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The Brazilian police are saying that the Image of Suzanne Bloch who died in 2002, stolen from the Sao Paulo Gallery in Brazil was 'a Professional Heist'. The painting in oil ,as exhibited on the second floor of the gallery the other theft was 'The Coffee Worker.' ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday December 24, 2007 - 08:00 by wageslave
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Watch this video and gain a new found appreciation for the good judgment of animals! ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday December 22, 2007 - 11:03 by C Murray
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The area of linguistic rights and access to education from grassroot mobile library services through to prisoner's rights has always been a concern of the International Pen Union. Often the media, expecially in Ireland, would tend to ignore many of the press releases which along with Reporter's Sans Frontieres, IFEX, and other NGO groups have consistently attempted to highlight the dangers to the lives of writers in War regions and to those who advocate basic human rights to dignity and right of access to education. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday December 21, 2007 - 13:31 by tomeile
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Sean Hoey was found not guilty yesterday of involvement in the bombings which claimed twenty nine lives in Omagh on August 15, 1998. Justice Weir at Belfast Crown Court said police were guilty of a "deliberate and calculated deception" in their handling of the investigation. Despite having been held in prison on remand for four years ,Hoey has received no apologies from the judiciary , police , politicians or press who have allowed the young electrician to be scapegoated to cover up for the role of intelligence agencies in the bombings . Relatives of the bombing victims have vowed to continue their fight to bring the truth about what happened on that tragic afternoon to light. Justice Weir’s indictment of the police and Hoey’s acquittal square with the findings of Police Ombudsman Nuala O'Loan whose report in 2002 said that the RUC deliberately ignored crucial intelligence that, if acted upon, could have averted the tragedy. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday December 20, 2007 - 16:49 by tomeile
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At the end of October, the influential Conservative-linked thinktank Policy Exchange published a report entitled The Hijacking of British Islam, which claimed that 26 out of nearly 100 mosques surveyed had been found to be selling "extremist material, some of it antisemitic, misogynistic, separatist and homophobic". Seamus Milne from the Guardian questions the veracity of the report and the motivation of its authors in light of statistics which show that Asian people are now twice as likely to be stabbed to death in Britain as a decade ago, and four out of five convictions for religiously aggravated offences last year involved attacks on Muslims. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday December 20, 2007 - 15:07 by pat c
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Coke is certainly the real thing, once again it is using Rightwing Death-squads to terrorise and murder workers. In the last fortnight, three Coca-Cola workers in Bucaramanga, Colombia have been told that before the end of December they will be killed and buried in a mass grave. The threat demands that their union cease all protest against Coca-Cola. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday December 20, 2007 - 14:25 by funderland on crack
3 comments (last - friday july 25, 2008 - 16:43)
Every year the NYT issues "quotes of the year", hardly newsworthy for us lot who generally ignore the list which is awash with Bush gaffes & gurglings. But this year is different because Bush hasn't even made the top ten & the number one quote goes to a story which excited our interest & in its own way became a milestone in extended policing issues. I refer of course to the taser-ing of a student who heckled John Kerry whose immortal line " Don't Tase me Bro! " not only gave us a new verb with which to enjoy the usual holiday season scrabble sessions but was watched on youtube by hundreds of thousands of people just like yourself. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 19, 2007 - 16:03 by Asqar Karimi
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Below is an appeal on behalf of imprisoned students. International Solidarity has forced the Iranian Regime to release trade union activists. Send your protest letters/emails to the addresses at the end of this piece. In the last two weeks more than 40 student leaders and activists have been rounded up by the Ministry of Information of the Islamic regime of Iran. We have been informed that at least 43 of the detainees are being held in the notorious Evin Prison, and the whereabouts of the rest is unknown. These students were arrested on or before 7 December 2007 in anticipation of protests on Student Day. ... read full story / add a comment |
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