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Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

offsite link Army Sergeant Travis Decker Murdered His Three Children After Being Denied Mental Health Care at JBL... Sat Jun 07, 2025 04:52 | JBLM Whistleblowers
A corrupt military police force and incompetent Commander who denied emergency mental health care and crisis counseling to an American service member resulted in the murder of the sergeant's three young daughters

offsite link Gaza doctor grieves her nine children killed in Israeli strike Sun May 25, 2025 20:00 | imc
Israeli regime continues it's slaughter
'The children were completely charred'

Paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar was treating victims of Israeli attacks when her children were killed by an Israeli strike on their home

offsite link British doctors working in Gaza describe territory as a ?slaughterhouse? Sat May 24, 2025 00:23 | imc
There?s no food getting in so people are starving,? surgeon Tom Potokar says
British doctors working in Gaza have described the territory as a ?slaughterhouse,? where the patients they are treating are severely malnourished.

Plastic surgeons and orthopedic specialists from the UK are based at the Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis in the south of the territory.

Dr. Tom Potokar, a plastic surgeon specializing in burn injuries, has worked in Gaza 16 times but said this mission had revealed a level of destruction far greater than his last visit in 2023,

offsite link It is time to talk about the Out of Control Immigration. Mon Mar 31, 2025 22:12 | imc
For the last few years since the CV19 scamdemic undocumented immigration into Ireland has surged. No one is allowed discuss it because they do not want any rational debate about it. If you do you are labelled an extremist. However this out of control immigration is fully facilitated by the Irish government and the EU and the shady figure behind the Neo Con movement pushing for endless war, wokeism and globalist agenda.

offsite link [Dublin] National Demonstration for Palestine: End Israeli Apartheid & Genocide Thu Mar 06, 2025 22:35 | ipsc
Sat, 22 March 2025, 13:00 Assemble at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin 1
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by over 150 Irish civil society organisations, has called another National Demonstration for Palestine on Saturday 22nd March.

The march will begin at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm and finish outside the D?il on Molesworth Street/Kildare Street to bring our demands to the Irish government?s doorstep.

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offsite link The Court of Appeal?s Decision to Keep Epping?s Migrant Hotel Open Has Made Civil Disorder More Like... Sat Aug 30, 2025 09:00 | Dr David McGrogan
The Court of Appeal's decision to keep Epping's migrant hotel open hinged in part on wanting to avoid violent protests. But in truth it's made civil disorder more likely, not less, says Dr David McGrogan.
The post The Court of Appeal’s Decision to Keep Epping’s Migrant Hotel Open Has Made Civil Disorder More Likely, Not Less appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Stop Smearing the White Working Class as Thick Sat Aug 30, 2025 07:00 | Joanna Gray
During exam result season you'll have read headlines about what thickos the white working classes are. But this smear is based on the results of those on free school meals, i.e., the non-working classes, says Joanna Gray.
The post Stop Smearing the White Working Class as Thick appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sat Aug 30, 2025 00:35 | Toby Young
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Things Have Never Been Better? Don?t Make Me Laugh Fri Aug 29, 2025 17:00 | Austin Williams
Things have never been better, proclaim the optimists despite the evidence of spiralling crime and social decay. Who are you going to believe, asks Austin Williams: Lewis Goodall and Fraser Nelson or your own lying eyes?
The post Things Have Never Been Better? Don’t Make Me Laugh appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link BREAKING: Court of Appeal Rules Epping Migrant Hotel Must Stay Open Fri Aug 29, 2025 14:37 | Will Jones
The Court of Appeal has ruled that the Bell Hotel in Epping must remain open to migrants despite the apparent violation of planning law in a victory for the Government and blow to campaigners.
The post BREAKING: Court of Appeal Rules Epping Migrant Hotel Must Stay Open appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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British SAS veteran of Iraq War "I Will Not Fight For Queen and Country"

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Tuesday March 12, 2013 16:37author by ! Report this post to the editors

..... speech given by Ben Griffin at Oxford Union Debate 3.2.13

On 7th February 2013 The Oxford Union held the debate “This House Would Not Fight for Queen and Country”. it was the 80th anniversary of the original debate in 1933 in which The Oxford Union voted in favor of the motion.
Speaking for the motion were Ben Sullivan (Christ Church College), Ben Griffin (Former SAS soldier) and Gareth Porter ( US Historian).
Speaking against were Rory Stewart (Conservative MP), Nikolai Tolstoy (International Monarchist League) and Malcolm Rifkind (Former Foreign Secretary).
On the night the motion was defeated as it has been on every occasion that it has been held since 1937.
Below a transcript of the speech given by Ben Griffin of Veterans for Peace.
I Will Not Fight for Queen and Country

Fight for Queen and Country, what does that mean? It is a jingoistic phrase dream’t up by some propaganda merchant intent on stoking the fire of that false religion patriotism.

The idea of fighting for Queen and Country is held tight by those who never have and never will actually fight.
It is held by those who long to bask in the reflected glory of war.
It is held by those who have no experience of the suffering that war inflicts.
It is an idea held up by those who gain the most from war, Politicians, Generals, The Arms Industry and The Media.
It is a phrase that is dredged up again and again to stifle dissent and build unquestioning support for the aggression we choose to unleash.

We must look at what lies behind this decrepit phrase.
Who is it doing the fighting?
A well-trained and professional force that’s highest collective desire is to go to war, any war.
This force does not fight for Queen and Country. it fights when it is told to fight.
Even when the Generals believe that a certain war is illegal or un-winnable or detrimental to the long-term security of these isles, when it comes to the crunch they always want war.
What does the fighting involve?
SPEECH CONTINUED......
http://tinyurl.com/bc6wn25

Related Link: http://veteransforpeace.org.uk/
author by PHOTO Veterans for Peace at Shannonpublication date Tue Mar 12, 2013 16:47author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Iraq War veteran Ben Griffin and 4 other "Veterans for Peace" staged an anti-war protest in terminal of Shannon Airport Sat March 9th.
Shannon Airport is a hub for U.S. military.
The five escorted out of the terminal by Gardai included military veterans from Britain, Ireland and the U.S.

PHOTO - http://tinyurl.com/d9p3fdp

Editor: Photo retrieved and attached here

Ex British SAS veterans say Stop Irelands Collusion in War
Ex British SAS veterans say Stop Irelands Collusion in War

author by @publication date Mon Apr 08, 2013 09:33author address author phone Report this post to the editors

VID (8 mins 40 secs) - Ben Griffin SAS Iraq/Afghanistan War veteran at the Oxford Union debate......
"I Will Not Fight For Queen and Country"
http://tinyurl.com/bc6wn25

An attempt to restage the famous 1933 Oxford Union debate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_and_Country_debate

 
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