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international / environment Thursday July 29, 2010 - 14:15 by Oswald Bastable
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New Scient interviews Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, UK. Full text at url. Do you feel that climate science and policy should be separate? PJ I think there should be some separation. What we say about the science should be treated separately from what's happening with the policy. There should be an acceptance that the climate has warmed since measurements began. OK, there's then debate about what caused that warming. But I do find it difficult engaging with people who deny the evidence and say the world has not warmed. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday July 28, 2010 - 14:59 by pat c
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Tariq Ali has written the commentary for Oliver Stones new documentary about Hugo Chavez. Here he writes on how the film was made. Full story at link. Almost a year and a half ago I received a phone call from Paraguay. It was Oliver Stone. He had been reading Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope, my collection of essays on the changing politics of Latin America, and asked if I was familiar with his work. I was, especially the political films in which he challenged the fraudulent accounts of the Vietnam war that had gained currency during the B-movie years of Reagan's presidency. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday July 26, 2010 - 12:48 by Anne McShane
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This article looks at the reality behind the demonstrations and riots on July 12 in Northern Ireland. It looks at the changed role of Sinn Fein. Sinn Fein used to play a miltiant role in protests against Orange Order marches. Now it calls the Northern Ireland Police Force in against the marchers. Sinn Fein has become firmly part of the bourgeois state. The implications are clear for those who wish to challenge it. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday July 26, 2010 - 09:46 by indyjourno
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The Nato coalition in Afghanistan has been using an undisclosed "black" unit of special forces, Task Force 373, to hunt down targets for death or detention without trial. Details of more than 2,000 senior figures from the Taliban and al-Qaida are held on a "kill or capture" list, known as Jpel, the joint prioritised effects list. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Sunday July 25, 2010 - 22:27 by Timgos
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A recently published study of long term health problems in the population of the town of Fallujah in Iraq, which underwent heavy bombardment by US forces in 2004, reveal uncanny similarities with the horrors experienced in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the years following the atom bombings. However, in Fallujah, the current rates of occurance for cancers, birth defects and other abnormalities are higher than those experienced in the two Japanese cities in the wake of the A-bombs. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday July 25, 2010 - 15:48 by Dorothy Gale
Mona Alami writes on how The Maryam is waiting to sail to Occupied Gaza. This all female group comprises 50 aid workers including US Nuns. Full story at link. The Maryam, an all-female Lebanese aid ship, currently docked in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli, is getting ready to set sail for Gaza in the next few days. The ship, which aims to break Israel's siege on the Palestinian territory, will carry about fifty aid workers, including some US nuns keen to deliver aid to the long-suffering women and children of Gaza. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Thursday July 22, 2010 - 13:26 by Clara Zetkin
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The ban on the wearing of the burqa is wrong. Just as it it is wrong to force women to wear the veil. The French Left have been found wanting. Full story at link. The fact that only one French MP - a member of the rightwing UMP - voted against the ban on the burqa says it all. On July 13, the bill prohibiting the “covering of the face in public” received the votes of 335 deputies. The bill does not specify Muslims or women, but everyone knows who the targets are - the less than 2,000 women in France who normally dress in the full-length burqa or niqab. After the law comes into force next year - it has yet to pass through the senate and may face a challenge in the constitutional court - those who continue to cover up will face a €150 fine and/or compulsory citizenship classes. Those who “force” a person to wear such attire could be looking at a €30,000 fine and a one-year jail sentence (the penalties will be even stiffer if a minor is made to cover their face). ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 22, 2010 - 13:15 by John Cornford
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Yassamine Mather writes on how the US is stepping up Sanctions against Iran in its attempts to impose Regime Change From Above and on the paraalysing effect thgis is having on the Regime. She also comments on problems among the opposition forces. Full text at url. New sanctions imposed by the United States government last week were the most significant hostile moves against Iran’s Islamic Republic since 1979. They marked a period of unprecedented coordination led by the US to obtain the support of the United Nations and European Union. After months of denying their significance, the government of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was forced to react by setting up an emergency counter-sanctions unit, whilst Iranian aviation officials accused the UK, Germany and the United Arab Emirates of refusing to supply fuel for civilian Iranian airplanes. As it turned out, this was not true. However, the EU banned most of Iran Air’s jets from flying over its territory, because of safety concerns directly related to previous sanctions. It is said that most of the national airline’s fleet, including Boeing 727s and 747s and its Airbus A320s, are unsafe because the company has not been able to replace faulty components. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Wednesday July 21, 2010 - 18:16 by Dorothy Gale
Right-wing think tanks that deny climate change is even happening are advocating climate engineering to fix it. Don't listen to them. Full text of article by Clive Hamilton at link. IN 1892 Edvard Munch witnessed a blood-red sunset over Oslo, Norway. Shaken by it, he wrote in his diary that he felt "a great, unending scream piercing through nature". The incident inspired him to create his most famous painting, The Scream. The striking sunset was probably caused by the eruption of Krakatoa, which sent a massive plume of ash and gas into the upper atmosphere, turning sunsets red around the globe and cooling the Earth by more than a degree. Now a powerful group of scientists, venture capitalists and conservative think tanks is coalescing around the idea of reproducing this cooling effect by injecting sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere to counter climate change. Despite the enormity of what is being proposed - nothing less than seizing control of the climate - the public has been almost entirely excluded from the planning. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / consumer issues Sunday July 18, 2010 - 14:31 by gníomhaí
If you're based in Galway come and get good local food from the veg garden in Woodlands, Renmore (beside Brothers of Charity and Gaelscoil Dara) ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 15, 2010 - 11:10 by Peter Mulholland
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http://www.facebook.com/posted.php#!/group.php?gid=104617472916202&v=info&ref=ts ... read full story / add a comment
international / education Wednesday July 14, 2010 - 10:29 by Gillian Browne
The Global Women’s Studies Programme at National University of Ireland, Galway offers an exciting MA programme focused on gender, globalisation and rights. The MA in Gender, Globalisation and Rights is still accepting applications for 2010-11 to fill the last few remaining places. The final closing date for all applications is July 30th. “ ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday July 13, 2010 - 20:14 by pat c
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Palestinian homes are bulldozed in Occupied Al Quds but the Zionists continue build homes for the colonists. Full story at link. Israeli bulldozers destroyed at least three Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem today, breaking an unofficial moratorium on house demolitions since the end of 2009. At least one of the homes was occupied by a family of seven, who removed their belongings shortly before the building was razed. "They can build hundreds of settlements but I'm not entitled to live in a shack?" Linda al-Rajabi was quoted in the Israeli media as saying. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Monday July 12, 2010 - 17:10 by Ahaztuak
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Memory news from the Basque Country ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Sunday July 11, 2010 - 22:03 by Bill Henderson
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Bill Henderson writes about those who deny climate change and he also touchs on some other hot topics. There are people who deny that climate change is happening, that it is caused by increasing greenhouse gases (GHG) from burning fossil fuels, or that it is potentially so serious as to be civilization even humanity threatening. There are worldview and monetary reasons for such denial, but since 97 percent to 98 percent of the climate researchers most actively publishing in the field support the tenet that combustion of fossil fuels is the source of global climate change their denial costs valuable time now but is ultimately untenable. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Friday July 09, 2010 - 22:37 by GALSIC
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* We present the no. 16 issue (July 2010) of CUBA LIBERTARIA, edited by GALSIC (Grupo de Apoyo a los Libertarios y Sindicalistas Independientes en Cuba). You may obtain a .pdf file of this edition in Spanish at [email protected] ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Thursday July 08, 2010 - 16:02 by Monty Burns
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Yet another report has cleared scientists at the University of East Anglia’s (UEA) Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of dishonesty in the presentation of data on global warming. However it has stated that: “We do find that there has been a consistent pattern of failing to display the proper degree of openness, both on the part of CRU scientists and on the part of the UEA.” But the inquiry found that the scientists “honesty and rigour” were “not in doubt” and there was “no evidence” of behaviour that would undermine assessments by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Thursday July 08, 2010 - 12:41 by Leeside News
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Councillor Chris O'Leary has announced his decision to join Sinn Fein ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Wednesday July 07, 2010 - 14:39 by Auntie Oil
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Micheal Martin gets upset by some questioning on ireland's interest in Uganda, talks to Tullow and the government while in Uganda and today Tullow Oil get their contract! An almight convenient coincidence. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday July 06, 2010 - 11:54 by non-voter
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In 1990, America’s President George H. W. Bush awarded William C. Rogers III, the Legion of Merit for his service as a commanding officer in the US navy. Two years previously Rogers had been the commander of the USS Vincennes when the warship shot down an Iranian civilian aircraft over the Persian Gulf killing all 290 people aboard . On the twenty-second anniversary of the atrocity last Saturday, relatives of the victims sailed to the spot where Iran Air A300 Airbus came down. In a message read out at the ceremony, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked : "In which culture ... can that Legion of Merit be awarded to the criminal USS Vincennes commander." ... read full story / add a comment |
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