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international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday July 05, 2011 - 12:23 by Solidarity
 7 comments (last - tuesday july 19, 2011 - 12:07)
Every two years, 20,000 U.S. miitary arrive for live fire joint exercises "Operation Talisman Sabre" with approx 7,000 Australian troops, primarily based in central Queensland but also involving bases throughoout Australia and the U.S. Australia has a long history of seeking peace and security in the service of empire - British & U.S.. This has taken Australians to Aotearoa, Sudan, South Africa, Gallipoi, Malaysia, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan to kill and die in imperial wars that hav nothing to do with the defense of Australia. OperatiOn Talisman Sabre has become a time of focus for nonviolent resistance to U.S./Australian War on Afghanistan. Some folks have travelled to Rockhampton, central Quensland to take action, while others are focused on an SAS Base at Swan sland near Melbourne. Here are some images and reports of resistance to OTS 09...... http://www.indymedia.ie/article/93100?search_text=talis...sabre Followed by reports on resistance during OTS 11 ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Monday July 04, 2011 - 23:59 by Nortsider
3 comments (last - friday july 08, 2011 - 12:15)
In March 2002, while police were investigating the disappearance of thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Millie Dowler, the "News Of The World" hacked into Millie's phone messages with the help of its own full-time private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire. ... read full story / add a comment 
Irish Ship to Gaza: Turkish investigation of sabotage of MV Saoirse shouldn't be taken at face value
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday July 04, 2011 - 17:50 by Kev
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Initial reports suggest that the official Turkish investigation into the sabotage of the Irish ship MV Saoirse that was due to take part in the now Greek-impounded Freedom Flotilla Two will find that “the breakdown of the ship might not be a result of sabotage” and that even if it was sabotaged, it “was damaged before it entered Turkish waters”.[1] However, the Irish Ship To Gaza (ISTG)[2] campaign view such conclusions with deep suspicion. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / crime and justice Monday July 04, 2011 - 01:38 by Seán Ryan
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On the 15th of May last year, Éirígí staged a protest on and outside the Anglo Irish Bank. The gardaí, led by Superintendent Joe Gannon (of Shell To Sea fame), were brutal in their response. The final trial has been heard. Get an inside look at the whole scandal. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / sci-tech Sunday July 03, 2011 - 20:22 by Wringer
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Get the full story at the url. Maybe mobiles are safe after all. Evidence from a growing number of studies does not support the theory that cellphones raise the risk of brain cancer, an independent international panel of experts has found after carrying out a thorough analysis of all published research. The analysis was carried out by the ICNIRP (International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection) Standing Committee on Epidemiology. ... read full story / add a comment
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
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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 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday June 21, 2011 - 17:36 by IPSC
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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
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Footage from demonstrations across Europe. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday June 15, 2011 - 16:08 by Jim
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
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 
national / crime and justice Friday June 10, 2011 - 11:56 by Anon
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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
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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
What Do Governments Fear Most? They Fear Us Dublin WikileaksCables Reveal IrishGovt. Groveling to US
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday June 06, 2011 - 18:28 by By HARRY BROWNE
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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 |
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