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international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 06, 2013 - 04:20 by NFI
 4 comments (last - monday april 28, 2014 - 12:21)
People all over the world are fighting fracking you just won't hear that much about it in Irish media. This week after violent attacks from the police a few weeks ago, First Nations tribes people of New Brunswick, Canada, continue their battle to protect their children's health, water and land against fracking. http://lastrealindians.com/for-immediate-release-sacred...ov-4/ ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday October 24, 2013 - 13:36 by José Antonio Gutiérrez D.
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Over the last couple of days we have witnessed massive media hysteria about the case of Maria, a young girl supposedly abducted by a Roma couple in Greece. DNA tests and Lombroso-style racial profiling [1] have come into action in a case that has stirred the irrational anxiety that feeds racism and bigotry. Beyond the fact that child abduction is a serious issue, the "whiteness" and "blondeness" of the alleged victim have been emphasised together with the "Roma" condition of the alleged culprits. Let us remember that this is taking place in Greece, a country where blatant racism (as expressed by Golden Dawn) is on the rise, so there are good reasons to be cautious about this whole case. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Monday September 09, 2013 - 20:25 by one of NFI
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Protest taking place on Wednesday September 11th from 11.30am at the Radisson Blu St. Helen's Hotel, Stillorgan Road Blackrock / Gathering for public awareness raising at 3.30pm at the Central Bank Plaza, Dame Street ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday September 07, 2013 - 19:36 by SHAC - Social Housing Action Co-op
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On wednesday last a squat in galway was evicted.One young woman arrested for "trespass likely to cause fear in another person", after she had been woken from her bed to the sound of 3 burley men attempting to kick in the door. Meanwhile, to every 1 homeless person are 67 deralict houses in Ireland ... read full story / add a comment
roscommon / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday August 21, 2013 - 12:54 by Paul Laverty
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Are we really supposed to cut off our critical faculties and forget what the CIA has done? On the 16th of August Ken Loach and Paul Laverty spoke at a meeting in Effernagh, Co Leitrim, to commemmorate the 80th anniversary of the deportation of Jimmy Gralton, while across the river Shannon, the same evening, Mr John Brennan, head of the CIA attended a homecoming "Gathering" event in Kilteenan, Roscommon. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday August 20, 2013 - 04:33 by brionOcleirigh
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The detention of David Miranda, partner of Glenn Greenwald, a Guardian journalist, at London’s Heathrow airport, coupled with death threats relayed by agents aligned with Britain's secret services, to an Irish Human Rights activist and journalist, covering the internment of Martin Corey in British Occupied Ireland, marks a new low in Britain's brutish abuse of Human Rights. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday August 16, 2013 - 20:43 by Galway Alliance Against War
Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/galway.antiwar Or join our group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/312442090965/ The August GAAW Bulletin will be a rather truncated edition as we bring to your attention forthcoming activities by Galway’s local peace group. The U.S. military hub at Shannon airport remains our principal focus. It is through here that Washington ferries its soldiers and its weaponry to kill innocent people in far off lands. This makes us direct accomplices to mass murder. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 31, 2013 - 11:48 by fred
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Government is currently rolling out a national biometric ID card scheme ostensibly to help stamp out welfare fraud. It currently holds facial data and signature data. However the card is extensible and designed to hold other data in the future. (No doubt they started with the least offensive biometric measurement! ) It has been stated that these cards may act as driving licences etc in the future. It is a national ID card by the back door. Expect it to be issued to everyone. How can government justify such expensive schemes in times of recession without a murmur from the MSM?? And where are the protests against this attack on our civi8l liberties in the wake of the NSA / UK mass surveillance scandals? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 24, 2013 - 22:11 by Padddy Hackett
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Neither public nor private debt is the problem. Instead public/private debt is a product of the problem of profitability. Because of the lack of profitability debt has ballooned thereby reinforcing the problem. For capitalism to economically recover a very deep depression involving massive reductions in the value of labour power and social welfare spending is a necessity. The only other (authentic) option is global communist revolution. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 16, 2013 - 16:14 by Towards A Socialist Republic
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The question on the lips of many people who have attended the recent anti- austerity protests in Ireland is ‘where are the masses?’ Some who have taken to the streets have been disappointed by the numbers turning out, comparing Irish protests to those in Greece or Turkey and have begun to ask ‘why aren’t the Irish people fighting back?’ ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Sunday July 07, 2013 - 20:28 by fred
3 comments (last - friday july 12, 2013 - 09:27) 1 video file
David Norris has recently been diagnosed with cancer which he speculated appears to be related to the initial incidence of viral hepatitis which he contracted from tainted drinking water while he was on unpaid Government business in Eastern Europe in 1994.
There is much discussion about this online, but this personal situation may have added fire and urgency to his impassioned breathless speech in defence of the Seanad. Here it is. Share it widely. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 02, 2013 - 13:36 by VM
In an interview with The Vast Minority, writer Paul Cudenec calls for anarchists to unite in "total opposition" to the global capitalist system. He says he is trying to unearth the primal force behind the philosophy and argues that anarchism has the potential to become a new "religion" for the current age. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Sunday June 30, 2013 - 21:50 by I. Greene
Despite the multiple cover-ups between the Garda Commissioner and the Justice Minister there still lingers an undercurrent of malpractice and deceit, which could only be resolved with an independent investigation. Lurking beneath the surface there appears to be dishonesty and cover-up and some within the Garda organisation are of the view that the Garda Commissioner should stand aside rather than be pushed later. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / racism & migration related issues / opinion/analysis Friday June 14, 2013 - 21:33 by Eamonn Sheehy & Asylum Archive
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Ireland, asylum and the institutionalization of the young, old and innocent. Direct Provision anyone? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday June 14, 2013 - 14:43 by KGÖ
Between 17th and 18th of June it’s starting again: The representatives of the eight strongest economic imperialist states meet for their yearly G8 summit. Since 1975, this meeting is organized every year, where head of states of Germany, the USA, Great Britain, Canada, Italy, France, Japan and Russia come together. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 04, 2013 - 14:08 by An Draigneán Donn
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Answering the claim, by a certain Liberal, that Muammar al-Gaddafi wasted Libya's oil wealth. ... read full story / add a comment
national / housing / opinion/analysis Friday May 17, 2013 - 19:07 by Joe Mc
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From Justice Minister Alan Shatter's statement on mortgage default and repossessions ,Dec 2012 "All mortgages contain remedies that may be exercised by lending institutions in cases of mortgage default. Repossession in the event of such default is, therefore, an existing contractual right. In a well-known 2011 case (Start Mortgages), the High Court found that enactment of reforming legislation in 2009 may have had the unintended consequence in certain cases of restricting lending institutions from asserting their repossession rights. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday May 16, 2013 - 20:04 by T
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In the last week or so it was announced by the government that they were seriously considering extending the current free Pre-School year to a second free pre-school year. The government has been giving it a positive spin but also on the table as part of the deal is the suggestion that child benefit would be reduced by €20 per month. A lot of figures have been bandied about but the real question is: are the government trying to pull a fast one yet again and how do the numbers stack up? We attempt to look at the figures here. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / sci-tech / opinion/analysis Wednesday May 01, 2013 - 18:35 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin
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Just as we are seeing climate chaos change to climate catastrophe, we may also see job chaos change to job catastrophe. We are entering an era of technological change which has the potential to create havoc in an already seriously undermined world of employment. It has become a well-worn cliché to declare that the robots are coming but it is necessary to consider seriously how the creeping technologisation of production and services is going to affect many areas of employment considered today to be relatively safe from the machines. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment / opinion/analysis Saturday April 27, 2013 - 13:49 by Against Cruelty to Irish Greyhounds
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Animal welfare groups and greyhound protection organizations are appalled at the deliberate cruelty to greyhounds in Ireland revealed in the course of a recent court case, where a man admitted getting someone to shot two greyhounds that refused to chase hares (link to item on case below) ... read full story / add a comment |
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