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national / crime and justice Monday June 27, 2011 - 03:20 by Skippy
It has now been revealed that the order of nuns who ran the notorious Magdalene laundry in Drumcondra were receiving thousands of pounds through wills and legacies during the period while hundreds of women and young girls were forced to work six days a week for no pay and no pension.
On a number of occasions they had radio appeals made on their behalf by several priests. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Friday June 24, 2011 - 13:25 by Dahr Jamail
How bad are the effects of Climate Change? Dahr Jamail supplies some answers. Full story at url.

The rate of ice loss in two of Greenland's largest glaciers has increased so much in the last 10 years that the amount of melted water would be enough to completely fill Lake Erie, one of the five Great Lakes in North America. West Texas is currently undergoing its worst drought since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, leaving wheat and cotton crops in the state in an extremely dire situation due to lack of soil moisture, as wildfires continue to burn.

Central China recently experienced its worst drought in more than 50 years. Regional authorities have declared more than 1,300 lakes "dead", meaning they are out of use for both irrigation and drinking water supply. Floods have struck Eastern and Southern China, killing at least 52 and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands, followed by severe flooding that again hit Eastern China, displacing or otherwise affecting five million people. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Friday June 24, 2011 - 02:32 by Transparencyfirst   text 1 comment (last - friday june 24, 2011 - 13:47)
After a three-year legal battle an Irish lawyer, Ciaran Toland, has forced the release of a 2008 internal report into MEP expenses. The European Court of Justice has ruled that there was an "overriding public interest in disclosure". ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday June 23, 2011 - 09:39 by Red Banner
Issue 44 of Red Banner is available now
€2 / £1.50 from bookshops or the address above ... read full story / add a comment
The MV Saoirse
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday June 21, 2011 - 17:36 by IPSC   text 2 comments (last - wednesday june 29, 2011 - 22:32)   image 1 image
Below is a letter sent by today – Tuesday 21st June – by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign to Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Eamon Gilmore TD, requesting that on behalf of the Irish State he demand safe passage for the Irish ship going to Gaza next week (the MV Saoirse) and for the whole of ‘Freedom Flotilla 2 – Stay Human.

For more on the Irish Ship To Gaza and/or to donate to the project – please click here: http://irishshiptogaza.org/ ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday June 21, 2011 - 16:49 by abu ali
- photos 19 de Junio Barcelona & Madrid
- New evidence: undercover police triggered Barcelona revolution
- The anti-Greece campaign of the international media ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday June 20, 2011 - 15:23 by abu ali
videos and text on spanishRevolution after 19J ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Sunday June 19, 2011 - 18:46 by Eochaidh   video 1 video file
Footage from demonstrations across Europe. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday June 15, 2011 - 16:08 by Jim   text 2 comments (last - tuesday june 21, 2011 - 08:12)
Below is a link to an excellent two minute coverage of early resistance to Talisman Saber military exercises due to start in July at Shoalwater Bay near Rockhampton, Queensland Australia ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Tuesday June 14, 2011 - 16:41 by Dr Gideon Polya
Gideon Polya analyses yhe growth GHG emissions and what needs to be fone to reduce the emissions to prevent a 2 degree C temperature rise.

An analysis of every country in the World reveals that for a high probability of avoiding a catastrophic 2 degree C temperature rise (EU policy), at current rates of greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution the World on average must achieve zero emissions in less than 20 years, Australia must cease GHG pollution within 5 years, and Bangladesh's low per capita pollution means that at current rates it has 139 years to use up its “fair share” allocation of atmospheric pollution. . ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Monday June 13, 2011 - 02:15 by Gavin R. Putland   text 17 comments (last - friday august 12, 2011 - 08:51)
The reversal of the onus of proof in drug-possession cases is incompatible with the rule of law and is therefore unconstitutional in all jurisdictions. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / crime and justice Friday June 10, 2011 - 11:56 by Anon   image 1 image
This report from the WSM highlights the deepending crisis in the Irish prison system. Over the years the number of people per capita going to prison has been steadily rising and there are huge dangers with disease and infection from the practice of slopping out. And now an outbreak of TB is reported in three of the prisons. As elsewhere an dangerous drug resistant and largely incurable form of TB is on the rise.

This might not seem of relevance to most people but it is not well known that in 2010 there were 520 people were imprisoned for non payment of fines like TV licences, parking fines etc. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday June 09, 2011 - 08:45 by abu ali
Spain in Revolution VIDEOS, TXT, AUDIO:
Eduardo Galeano, Police Brutality Fall and Winter: Green Anarchy, Santiago Lopez Petit ... read full story / add a comment
international / public consultation / irish social forum Wednesday June 08, 2011 - 21:21 by Speranza   text 26 comments (last - monday june 13, 2011 - 14:57)   image 1 image
Climate scientists lives are at risk. Why? Because they have produced evidence which shows the erxtent of Global Warming and the damage done to the environment. The deniers don't like this and neither do the big mining and oil companies. They go crazy at the idea of paying a carbon tax. These companies have deep pockets and it wouldn't be surprising if they slipped a few dollars to the nuttier deniers to threaten scientists and perhaps go further.

Most deniers are harmless folk, they rarely leave their computers and wouldn't have the nerve to counter protest at an environmental demo. But there is always the mad few, looks as if they may be at work in Autralia.

A number of Australia's leading climate scientists have been moved into safer accommodation after receiving death threats, in a further escalation of the country's increasingly febrile carbon price debate. The revelation of the death threats follows a week of bitter exchanges between the government and the opposition in the wake of a pro-carbon price TV advert featuring actor Cate Blanchet. Being a denier of GLOBAL warming and supporting the destruction of the Environment is easy. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday June 06, 2011 - 18:28 by By HARRY BROWNE   text 4 comments (last - wednesday september 05, 2012 - 08:47)
Ireland’s foreign-affairs minister assured the US ambassador in Dublin in 2006 that the Irish government was prepared to change the law that had allowed the acquittal of five anti-war activists for damaging a US Navy plane.

The revelation that a senior Irish official discussed possible amendments to domestic criminal law with the US ambassador is contained in a Wikileaks cable (see below) that has not been published or reported upon elsewhere, but which has been seen by Counterpunch.

At the time of the acquittal of the so-called Shannon Five, or Pitstop Ploughshares, in July 2006, the US embassy made a public statement expressing its disquiet about the verdict. The then foreign minister, Dermot Ahern, responded with what was seen as a firm public statement of his own, underlining the independence of the judicial system and stating that its verdicts were not a matter for discussion by government officials or between governments.
... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday June 05, 2011 - 18:49 by John Cornford   video 1 video file
On May 28, Hands Off the People of Iran organised a roundtable discussion to debate the question of the uprisings in the Middle East, the connection to the capitalist crisis and the impacts on Turkey and, crucially, Iran. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday June 05, 2011 - 18:31 by John Cornford   image 1 image
Supporters of Hands of the People of Iran have produced a bulletin on working class struggle in Iran for trade unionists and anti-war activists.

Articles include:

Trade union successes
“Selling your kidney has turned into a profession"
Unemployment rises by 1.6million each year ... read full story / add a comment
Godbusters!
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday June 04, 2011 - 21:23 by Hypatia   text 1 comment (last - monday july 04, 2011 - 17:43)   image 1 image
Roisin Ingle writes on the growing number atheists, agnostics, humanists in Ireland and their struggle for recognition.

A FEW WEEKS ago Brian Whiteside of the Humanist Association of Ireland addressed a gathering that included Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Minister for Justice Alan Shatter as well as various religious leaders. He used the opportunity to raise the issue of our religious presidential oath, which he says is just one example of State discrimination against the growing godless community. The oath, the wording of which is enshrined in the Constitution, is taken in “the presence of Almighty God” and is a non-negotiable promise that must be given by whoever is elected president. It concludes, “May God direct and sustain me.” ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Thursday June 02, 2011 - 12:41 by Chris Hedges   text 51 comments (last - monday june 13, 2011 - 15:09)   image 6 images
Those who concede that the planet is warming but insist we can learn to live with it are perhaps more dangerous than the buffoons who decide to shut their eyes.

This is the message from Chris Hedges as he writes on the weird weather and the danger to our planet. Full story at url.

The rapid and terrifying acceleration of global warming, which is disfiguring the ecosystem at a swifter pace than even the gloomiest scientific studies predicted a few years ago, has been confronted by the power elite with two kinds of self-delusion. There are those, many of whom hold elected office, who dismiss the science and empirical evidence as false. There are others who accept the science surrounding global warming but insist that the human species can adapt. Our only salvation—the rapid dismantling of the fossil fuel industry—is ignored by both groups. And we will be led, unless we build popular resistance movements and carry out sustained acts of civil disobedience, toward collective self-annihilation by dimwitted pied pipers and fools. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday May 30, 2011 - 09:42 by Ciaron   text 2 comments (last - monday june 06, 2011 - 11:15)
If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution (or even their "liberal democracy!")
Police Brutality at the Silent Flashmob at the Jefferson Memorial ... read full story / add a comment
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