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offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

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offsite link News Round-Up Thu Dec 05, 2024 01:18 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link What?s the Difference Between Scepticism and Cynicism? Wed Dec 04, 2024 19:00 | James Alexander
What's the difference between scepticism and cynicism? Cynicism is especially necessary for assessing politics, says Prof James Alexander, as it sits below scepticism, making us question the motives of those who rule us.
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offsite link Manchester United Drops LGBT Rainbow Jacket After Muslim Star Player Refuses to Wear It Wed Dec 04, 2024 17:30 | Will Jones
Manchester United dropped an LGBT rainbow jacket that the team was planning to wear on Sunday after a Muslim star player refused to wear it, in the third LGBT Pride controversy to hit the Premier League this week.
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offsite link More Than 50 Experts Ready to Defend Letby, Says Her Lawyer Wed Dec 04, 2024 15:14 | Will Jones
More than 50 experts stand ready to defend?Lucy Letby, her barrister has said, as the police confirm they have questioned her in prison over more deaths and collapses.
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offsite link AI is a Misnomer Wed Dec 04, 2024 13:00 | Joanna Gray
AI is a misnomer, says Joanna Gray. It's not and will never be 'intelligent'. The fact that human 'super recognisers' are needed to spot the mistakes that AI makes at least 25% of the time should be proof enough.
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international / miscellaneous Wednesday December 19, 2007 - 15:03 by Joe   text 9 comments (last - saturday december 29, 2007 - 19:37)
The Israeli Attorney General says that if Civilians are killed as part of a military operation where an intelligence 'mistake' has been made, then it is legal ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Wednesday December 19, 2007 - 15:00 by funderland on crack   text 2 comments (last - friday december 21, 2007 - 12:06)   image 1 image
46 of 52 of the individuals who have faced trial this last year for links to ETA have received sentances today totaling 527 years in prison. The trial saw leaders of groups engaged in media support & internalisation of support for the Basque armed struggle independence tradition sit together in the dock in a process described by some as a "macro-trial". In the statement read to the court at sentancing the presiding judge Angela Murillo commented ......"KAS and EKIN are "much more than satellite organizations"; KAS "was ETA's media organization" and "EKIN is not any other thing than KAS in an apparent legal disguise..." ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Wednesday December 19, 2007 - 12:48 by Mariella F   text 8 comments (last - friday april 11, 2008 - 14:37)   image 1 image
An entirely innocent business man on his way home from work is tazered eight times. Guess what? He's black. These weapons are cleary designed to intimidate ordinary people. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday December 19, 2007 - 02:33 by D. Fitzharris
Jeppersen Dataplan, a subsidiary of Boeing, is being sued by a Yemeni man who was kidnapped, subjected to rendition and tortured. CTL, a Galway company, that is subsidized by the Irish Government does research for Boeing.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/05/31/18423221.php
http://www.democracynow.org/ ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday December 18, 2007 - 23:08 by red n black
Last year a Belfast anarchist travelled to the West Bank to work with the International Solidarity Movement and Palestinians and wrote this report on his impressions of the Palestinian struggle.
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Ebrahim Madadi celebrates his release with his family and union members.
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday December 18, 2007 - 14:47 by pat c   text 12 comments (last - thursday march 06, 2008 - 15:31)   image 2 images
A statement below from the ITF regarding the release of Ebrahim Madadi; however the ITF are concerned regarding the continuing detention of Mahmoud Salehi who is seriously ill.

In response to the release yesterday of Ebrahim Madadi, the Vice President of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, David Cockroft, ITF General Secretary said: "This is very good news - Madadi had committed no crime. Let us hope that the Iranian authorities have finally understood that trade union activities are a vital part of any strong society."
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international / gender and sexuality Tuesday December 18, 2007 - 13:59 by pat c   text 4 comments (last - wednesday january 09, 2008 - 17:48)
A report below by the Iraq Freedom Congress on the continuing attacks on women by Islamist gangs. But IFC point out that the occupation forces bear full responsibility for the practices of these gangs.

Unidentified gangs began to commit a series of organized crimes and killing many women in various cities in Iraq, particularly in Basra where more than 40 women are said to have been killed in the last 5 months. In addition to those crimes, these gangs threatened unveiled women to follow Islamic law and start wearing head scarf otherwise facing the severe consequences. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday December 18, 2007 - 13:26 by Joe   text 1 comment (last - tuesday december 25, 2007 - 12:50)
Israel is to build more homes in built up areas of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Israeli officials said on Monday.
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international / miscellaneous Tuesday December 18, 2007 - 13:14 by tomeile
During the festive season a lot of drink is consumed ; party-goers can get careless and forget about the dangers of fire . Danger is ever present , particularly in unregulated premises with ineffective fire prevention procedures in place. The Scottish Fire Brigade has issued a call for vigilance . ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday December 18, 2007 - 12:53 by tomeile
Domingo Reyes who ran an unlicensed drinking den in New York has been charged with six counts of manslaughter . The charges relate to a fire that swept through the “social club” Reyes ran in the city’s Bronx district .Police and local residents say that the club had been a “ gathering spot for prostitutes and drug dealers” .
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 18, 2007 - 10:14 by antifascista
The sentence of the trial against the 25 demonstrators for the Genoa g8 riots has fixed the price to pay for expressing our own ideas and going against the actual state of things: 110 years of jail. ... read full story / add a comment
an arranged marriage in Afghanistan unites a 40 year old man & an 11 year old girl - their wedding photo gets UNICEF 1st prize 2007
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 18, 2007 - 00:03 by -   image 2 images
- Stephanie Clare's photo of 11 year old Ghulam a girl in Afghanistan sitting next to her 40 year old husband on their arranged wedding day ( as in the marriage was arranged against her wishes - not that they should really come into it anyway - your 11 year old wants to get married to anyone - you say no ) won the 2007 UNICEF photo award today at a ceremony in Berlin (Europe).

Many people will remember that one of the most admired & thought provoking photographs in the late 20th century was also of an Afghani girl Sharbat Gula who at 12 years of age was photographed by Steve Mc Curry and made th egfront cover of "National Geographic" to celebrate the end of the Taliban in 1995. It moved us all to take action. The americans went into to sort it out. The rest is the history of how the Taliban came back. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Monday December 17, 2007 - 10:44 by Maryjane O'Leary   text 2 comments (last - friday december 21, 2007 - 11:23)
Here is a report on the continuing detention of womens rights activists in Iran and a call for action on their behalf.

Human rights groups and journalists across the globe have condemned the arrest of cyber feminists, Jelve Javaheri and Maryam Hossienkhah in Iran earlier this month. Both of these women are activists and members of the One Million Signatures campaign. They are currently in Evin Prison on charges related to their writings in support of women’s rights. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Sunday December 16, 2007 - 23:43 by wageslave
New Jersey's state assembly yesterday voted 44-36 to abolish the death penalty - the first state to do so since Iowa and West Virginia scrapped the punishment in 1965. ... read full story / add a comment
Remembering murdered Colombian Coca Cola trade unionists
international / anti-capitalism Sunday December 16, 2007 - 19:10 by Damien Moran   text 5 comments (last - thursday december 20, 2007 - 14:39)   image 1 image
"Ho, ho, ho - have some bloody Coke"

Murder, torture, kidnapping and illegal detention by violent paramilitaries, frequently aided by bottling plant management, has been the tragic reality for Coca-Cola's Colombian employees for 2 decades now. Members of the SINALTRAINAL trade union ordinary employees carry a death sentence around their necks. Yet an appeal from Javier Correra, president of their union - “We want justice. We want people to know the truth about what is going on in Colombia against Coke workers. Now that you know, will you please help us?” - has not fallen on deaf ears.

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100 Hundred Aspects of the Moon.
national / arts and media Sunday December 16, 2007 - 15:53 by Ariko   text 4 comments (last - monday december 17, 2007 - 19:10)   image 7 images
The Rites of Passage religious exhibit is currently closed, which was mesmeric in it's
disection of the hypnosis of world religion, if one could avoid the big screens the bits of
the Nag Hammadi Gospel and huge Buddhist Mandalas were worth a visit.
'100 aspects of the Moon' is the current exhibition and every single print has a bit of moon
in it- on Helmets, behind women (!) and accomnpanying dark and scary warriors.
You could say there are many moons. The Chester Beatty is located in the Grounds of Dublin
Castle and is far better than the auction house that comprises the State apartments, where
Sarkozy will be welcomed to persuade the unsuae celts about his Reform Treaty.[2008] ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Sunday December 16, 2007 - 15:40 by KAREN FALLON   text 6 comments (last - monday january 31, 2011 - 20:20)   image 3 images
I know its old news but it is actually interesting that this story was not screaming at us when it occured.
I guess this plane came through Shannon Airport a few times..............

A Florida based Gulfstream II jet aircraft # N987SA crash landed on September 24, 2007 after it ran out of fuel over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula it had a cargo of several tons of Cocaine on board now documents have turned up on both sides of the Atlantic that link this Cocaine Smuggling Gulfstream II jet aircraft # N987SA that crashed in Mexico to the CIA who used it on at least 3 rendition flights from Europe and the USA to Guantanamo's infamous torture chambers between 2003 to 2005. ... read full story / add a comment
Bilal Hussein
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday December 15, 2007 - 11:35 by Michael Gallagher   text 6 comments (last - thursday april 10, 2008 - 08:12)   image 1 image
I was a bit taken aback to find that their is no coverage of this case on indymedia. Well here are the basics with some links, make of it what you will.

Bilal Hussein was employed by Associated Press to photograph events in Iraq. With no previous experience of photography, he went on to win a Pulitzer Prize for his efforts.

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Earthlings
international / animal rights Friday December 14, 2007 - 23:33 by wageslave   text 2 comments (last - saturday december 15, 2007 - 12:49)   image 1 image
Pause for a while to contemplate our one sided abusive relationship with all the other inhabitants of this large spinning rock that we all live on. The other "Earthlings" ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 13, 2007 - 19:56 by Counterpunch   text 2 comments (last - sunday december 16, 2007 - 06:01)
Blocking the Strykers
By SANDY MAYES
The US military will have to think twice before it ever again tries to use Olympia, WA as a launching point for war.

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