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international / miscellaneous Friday February 04, 2011 - 18:44 by Chris Knight
Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group continues his examination of Chomsky's life and work. In particular he analyses an early work by Chomsky: Cartesian linguistics. He also looks at some sources Chomsky tapped for funding in his early days. Full text at link. In 1966, Noam Chomsky (pictured) published his Cartesian linguistics. The book was a survey of rationalist conceptions of language and mind, focusing heavily on the French mathematician and philosopher, Réné Descartes (1596-1650). In his early years, Chomsky had been working within the structuralist tradition of Ferdinand de Saussure, Roman Jakobson, Leonard Bloomfield and his own teacher, Zellig Harris. Chomsky wrote Cartesian linguistics in order to signal to the world his change of mind. His distinctively 'Cartesian' approach, he now clarified, was a rebellion against the entire 20th century tradition of structural linguistics. ... ... read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage Friday February 04, 2011 - 09:47 by Fin Dwyer
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Episode 6 is the start of a fascinating story, full of twists and turns. Over the next three shows we will see the O Neill kingdom who have dominated the first five shows see their power challenged by the Dal Cais (the family of Brian Boru). This will see many challengers rise and fall as these two families battle it out for supremacy in medieval Irelan ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday January 29, 2011 - 16:24 by Yassamine Mather
Yassamine Mather analyses recent events in Iran and looks at the growing tensions in the Islamic regime . Full text at link. Last week's stalemate in nuclear talks between Iran and the so-called 'five plus one' countries (US, China, France, Russia, Britain and Germany) came at a time when a number of events had already promised a turbulent start to the new year for Iranians: a plane crash for which sanctions must have been partly responsible; the execution of 53 prisoners, including four political prisoners, in less than three weeks; accusations by the 'principlist' faction of the regime that president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's closest ally, chief of staff Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, is an "agent of foreign powers" (Israel); that vice-president Rahimi is corrupt; stories that Ahmadinejad was slapped in the face by a revolutionary guard commander; confirmation that Israel and US jointly sponsored the Stuxnet computer worm; the escalation of US sanctions against Iranian shipping companies; Afghan protests over Iran's month-long near blockade of cross-border fuel shipments; the passing of harsh sentences against film maker Jafar Panahi, 'human rights' lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and journalist Shiva Nazar Ahari; and a wave of workers' strikes demanding the release of all political prisoners. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday January 26, 2011 - 16:57 by pat c
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Tariq Ali believes that the documents are genuine and that they expose the abject treachery of sections of the PLO leadership. Full text at link. The ‘Palestine Papers’ being published this week by al-Jazeera confirm in every detail what many Palestinians have suspected for a long time: their leaders have been collaborating in the most shameful fashion with Israel and the United States. Their grovelling is described in grim detail. The process, though few accepted it at the time, began with the much-trumpeted Oslo Accords, described by Edward Said in the LRB at the time as a ‘Palestinian Versailles’. Even he would have been taken aback by the sheer scale of what the PLO leadership agreed to surrender: virtually everything except their own salaries. Their weaknesses, inadequacies and cravenness are now in the public domain. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday January 22, 2011 - 03:34 by Phier
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State department cable reveals possible use of Irish IT infrastructure to pilot unmanned drones in Afghanistan. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday January 13, 2011 - 18:04 by pat c
Julian Assange and WikiLeaks staff codemn the Tucson shooting and hope for the recovery of Gabrielle Giffords and the other wounded. They point out that Sarah Palin and other US reactionaries have also incited violence against Wikileaks staff and contributers. Full text at link. Sarah Palin urged the US administration to “Hunt down the WikiLeaks chief like the Taliban”. US politician Mike Huckabee called for the execution of WikiLeaks spokesman Julian Assange on his Fox News program, and Fox News commentator Bob Beckel, referring to Assange, publicly called for people to "illegally shoot the son of a bitch." US radio personality Rush Limbaugh has called for pressure to "Give [Fox News President Roger] Ailes the order and [then] there is no Assange, I'll guarantee you, and there will be no fingerprints on it.", while the Washington Times columnist Jeffery T. Kuhner titled his column “Assassinate Assange” captioned with a picture Julian Assange overlayed with a gun site, blood spatters, and “WANTED DEAD or ALIVE” with the alive crossed out. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday January 13, 2011 - 17:27 by Red Banner
Issue 42 of Red Banner: a magazine of socialist ideas out now in bookshops and the address above, €2 / £1.50 ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday January 13, 2011 - 05:09 by R.I.P.
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This thread marks the passing in 2011 of folks who have spent their lives struggling for peace and justice (and others). ... read full story / add a comment 
Carbon Capture And Sequestration (CCS) Dead? You Betcha! World's Largest CCS Project Weyburn, Saskat
international / environment Wednesday January 12, 2011 - 08:10 by Anonymous Zero
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CARBON CAPTURE AND SEQUESTRATION (CCS) DEAD? YOU BETCHA! World's Largest CCS Project Weyburn, Saskatchewan Leaking like Soda Killing Birds, Cats, Goats.. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 30, 2010 - 20:49 by Rebels YELL
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A monument to Fergal O'Hanlon and Sean South lies at the crossroads where they died, six miles from the nearest town every direction.The crossroads is bordered by local woodlands with signposts to Fivemiletown, Brookeborough, Roslea telling which are all six miles away. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 30, 2010 - 19:40 by David Walsh with General Joe
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“Feminist opinion—as the Assange case and the Polanski affair before it have demonstrated—has become one of the means of legitimizing the suppression of nonconformists and political dissidents, and of changing the subject from the great social issues, above all, class oppression and social inequality, to stale and self-pitying concerns. Those supervising the attack against Assange are no doubt congratulating themselves on its clever design. Mounting it in the guise of a campaign against the sexual molestation of women… how else could such a filthy operation, with its threat of a sweeping assault on democratic rights, be mounted and even legitimized today? The powers that be know the Pollitts of this world, and the Nation. The magazine’s editor, Katrina vanden Heuvel, is, after all, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a leading ruling class think tank whose membership has included numerous CIA directors, along with dozens of US generals and admirals.” ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 30, 2010 - 03:04 by Rebels YELL
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In contemporary British Occupied Ireland, there is much revision and censorship of traditional Irish republicanism. Indeed there are ex-republicans such as Anthony McIntyre from Belfast who spent years imprisoned in Long Kesh concentration camp, who co-authored a book titled, Good Friday, The Death of Irish Republicanism, ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Wednesday December 29, 2010 - 19:10 by Jane Ruby
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Ten Days of Intensive Training in Central Mexico: Video Production, Investigative & Online Reporting, and Movement Strategies for Journalists ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday December 29, 2010 - 04:39 by r.i.p.
R.I.P Thomas (Tomi) Schwaetzer. alias "Max Watts" 1928 - 2010 ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Tuesday December 28, 2010 - 22:57 by Bryan Wall
"The ongoing economic destruction of Ireland is not surprising when one looks at the history of collusion between bankers and politicians, at the highest levels, in Irish politics. Over the years, some of this has been revealed by insiders and tribunals. " ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday December 28, 2010 - 16:56 by nmn
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Today Michael Noonan TD, Fine Gael Spokesman on Finance, released a press statement that his ministerial pension was being paid in full to two "well known charities". ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Friday December 24, 2010 - 11:00 by CEO - (former Cabin Crew)
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http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1207/presswatch-business.html PILOT WHO CROSSED O'LEARY RESIGNS - The Ryanair pilot who said the airline should replace Michael O'Leary, the low-cost airline's chief executive, with a junior flight attendant to save money has quit after being reassigned from southern France to the "Siberia" of a base in Lithuania, says the Financial Times. Captain Morgan Fischer was one of almost 30 Ryanair pilots working at Marseilles who had to move after the airline announced in October that it was closing the base following a disagreement with French authorities. The pilots were asked to bid for new bases. Most did so and were offered work at bases in Spain, Italy, Portugal and elsewhere, including some a few hours' drive from Marseilles, where many live with their families. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday December 24, 2010 - 07:03 by LCW
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Photos/Report - "Merry Christmas-War is Over" - Catholic Workers "close" Dalston "Arcade of Death" A merry band of London Catholic Workers and friends, fresh from shooting remakes of videos for John Lennon's anti-war classics "Merry Christmas (War is Over)" and "Give Peace a Chance" (watch this space for the finished videos), took themselves along to their favourite local army showroom, or "arcade of death", inside Dalston Kingsland shopping centre to bring their seasonal message of peace to the happy festive shoppers of east London. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Thursday December 23, 2010 - 23:10 by .:. iosaf
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Hortefeux the minister of the interior (= to minister of justice or home secretary) has found a new enemy now that Romanians, women in veils & Africans are old hat. Yep. Paris indymedia is according to him an anti-police website which facilitates the indentification of serving police officers thus leading to their general ostracisation & probably unpopularity. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday December 21, 2010 - 23:22 by Rebels Yell
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If incompetent rulers are a pre-requisite for revolution in Ireland, well this most certainly is that time, as we watch the bankruptcy of both finance and Irish leadership dailyunfold. It is somewhat paradoxical for Irish republicans to politically agree with a British proponent of population control such as Huxley but few will deny, these last quotes below, again from Huxley, would be an apt summary of the motivation of a large segment of Irish republicanism. ... read full story / add a comment |
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