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national / miscellaneous Sunday February 28, 2010 - 18:47 by MediaScan
"Our parents were too frightened to challenge the status quo. A lot of that was because of the power of the church, but now that's tumbling then maybe this is our time. We can't keep on pointing the finger, we've been really, really placid, using pubs as health centres for self-medication. This is a huge opportunity. We are a young, well-educated people and this is our pivotal moment." http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/28/new-irish-d...apora ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Saturday February 27, 2010 - 23:02 by V. Calanan
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Minister John Gormley has agreed to publish two reports by Niamh Brennan into the operations of the DDDA. But he has not said that he will publish a third report. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Saturday February 27, 2010 - 14:54 by Bazooka Joe
Evidence that America is sponsoring terrorism against the Iranian people has been given by Abdolmalek Rigi who was captured in Iran on Tuesday when a private jet in which he was travelling was forced to land in southern Iran. Rigi revealed he met CIA agents who offered unlimited support to his organisation. He also claims the US Air Force base ‘Manas’ in Kyrgyzstan was used as a transport corridor for terrorists to attack the Iranian Government and people. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Thursday February 25, 2010 - 17:37 by Citizen X
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Former CIA man, Phillip Giraldi, reports on AntiWar.com about blowback from the Israeli operation - and confirms that visitors to Israel should now assume that they are at increased risk of identity theft for black-ops. Joseph Fitznakis of Intelligence News reports on the Irish angle - an Israeli Spy in Dublin is thought to have stolen the identities of Irish people, while using existing yet unused addresses - including that of a property belonging to Albert Reynold's brother. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Wednesday February 24, 2010 - 19:27 by maigh eo
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The Mayo News carries a report that Rose Conway Walsh has condemned the imprisonment of Pat O'Donnell. The Erris fisherman has been jailed for seven months for supposedly obstructing a garda during an incident in which over sixty other people were involved. Many people have speculated that the gardaí picked on him becasue of his long track record of opposition to the Corrib Gas project. The Sinn Féin Councillor also talks about the methods of documentary maker Gerry Gregg, calling his TV3 documentary she said had "done nothing but divide the community". ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 24, 2010 - 13:31 by Sean
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Cuba Dissident dies on hunger strike in Cuban jail. Amnesty prisoner of conscience Orlando Zapata Tamayo 'unrecognisable' after 85-day fast over beatings Full text att link ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday February 23, 2010 - 18:37 by Socialist
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In a new three part article, Paul Murphy examines the claim that the worst is over for the Irish economy, highlighting some of the key pitfalls that will face the Irish economy in the coming years ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 22, 2010 - 15:24 by OrangeCitadel
Text of Nationalist residents groups' submission to the Northern Ireland Assembly working party on parading issues. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Monday February 22, 2010 - 13:12 by Volunteer Team
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"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume." - Chomsky Interview with Prof. Noam Chomsky January 2010 Venue: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Video interviews online at http://www.spunout.ie/action/Be-inspired/SpunOut.ie-cha...omsky Transcript below ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday February 18, 2010 - 12:34 by P. Bowman
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Ireland faces the biggest crisis in world capitalism since the 1930’s and for that reason there’s never been more need for a socialist response to solve the problems workers face. With that in mind, how do the Labour leadership stand up to scrutiny? ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday February 17, 2010 - 19:02 by Ghurnet
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Press Statement from Joe Higgins MEP, Socialist Party ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday February 16, 2010 - 18:34 by reject
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After the recent expulsion of Lindsey German... further leading members have had enough!! ... read full story / add a comment
LASC and Age Action invite you to submit photos for the Latin America Week Photo Exhibition 2010 This is an opportunity for LASC and Age Action members, volunteers and friends to exhibit photos of Latin America and Ireland related to Food Sovereignty and Older People during Latin America Week 2010. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Friday February 12, 2010 - 16:14 by hydroponic john
Firefighters tackled a blaze at the Nirvana Head Shop on Capel Street in Dublin city centre which broke out around 6.30 this morning. Oblivious to risk from smoke installation , onlookers have apparantly been flocking to the area in large numbers all afternoon . Gardai have appealed for calm . Five units of the Dublin Fire Brigade (pictured in report) were involved in today's operation . ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Friday February 12, 2010 - 10:25 by Peter Sutherland's Nemesis
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national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday February 11, 2010 - 00:42 by P. Bowman
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Paul Holmes is standing for election as General Secretary of UNISON. Paul has been active in the union for 36 years, he’s branch secretary of Kirklees Branch in Yorkshire. The branch has over 10,000 members and an 80% membership density. Paul agreed to be interviewed for Fightback which is the Journal of the International Marxist Tendency in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 10, 2010 - 17:35 by Drew
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Below are excerpts translated from a leaflet by the Communist Party of Iran (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist) . Dated 5 February, it was put out on the occasion of the 31st anniversary of the people's uprising that toppled the Shah in 1979. Full article text at the link. As millions of Iranian people all over the country await 11 February their hearts are beating hard.. Brave women and men are planning to turn that date into a decisive day. The enemy is also planning to stay in the field and not lose its perilous balance. The chants of "Down with the Islamic Republic of Iran!" will come from the heart and find echo in other hearts. Over the last eight months the Iranian people's anti-regime movement has significantly inspired the people of the Middle East and other parts of the world. They too are enthusiastically looking forward to 11 February. The Western imperialists and Russia and China who are all as reactionary as the Islamic Republic are already speculating about "Iran after 11 February" and expressing their concern about the "future of the Middle East and Iran" – which means concern about their interests in Iran and the Middle East! ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Tuesday February 09, 2010 - 03:11 by Anti-Zionist
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Israeli use of 'third country' passports is widespread. They have been known to use Canadian, British, New Zealand, Austrailian and of course Irish, Passports in the course of carrying out their illegal murders around the world. What is the Irish Gov't doing to protect the reputation of it's citizens travelling abroad? ... read full story / add a comment
international / education Sunday February 07, 2010 - 19:08 by John Cornford
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Prof Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group really sticks the boot into Chomsky. He weighs Chomskys credentials in the balance and finds then wanting. Full text at link. Chomsky was about to deliver a lecture in Delhi. Setting aside the usual niceties, his host - a certain professor Agnihotri of Delhi University - introduced the visiting speaker with a challenge. He was bewildered that a person “so deeply touched by human suffering” could ignore the roots of both happiness and suffering in his scientific work. Noam Chomsky, continued the professor, insisted on viewing language as a “purely biological cognitive system” unconnected with “sociological power-games”. But isn’t language a key tool used by the powerful to deceive, exploit and oppress? How can Chomsky turn a blind eye to such things in his linguistic research?[8] ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday February 05, 2010 - 14:31 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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VID 58 minutes - Howard Zinn was an American historian, social critic, and activist. He is best known as author of the best-seller A People’s History of the United States. In one of his last lectures before his death last week, he spoke at Boston University on November 11 2009, on the subject of American “Holy Wars.” http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2010/1/8/howard_zinn_t..._wars ... read full story / add a comment |
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