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international / anti-capitalism / other press Saturday October 09, 2010 - 20:44 by T
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This report outlines how the currency wars now taking place represent another phase in the breakdown of the capitalist system. Since the huge jolt to the capitalist system back in late 2008, nothing has been fixed and the internal contradictions and conflicts still exist and now the system stumbles forward into new crisis. As Leon Trotsky in the founding program of the Fourth International written in 1938: “The bourgeoisie itself,” he wrote, “sees no way out … it now toboggans with closed eyes toward an economic and military catastrophe.” ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / crime and justice / other press Thursday October 07, 2010 - 10:15 by anarchaeologist
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According to this week's Mayo News, former Garda Superintendent Pat Doyle has joined IRMS, the Kildare security firm with central European paramilitary links. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday September 10, 2010 - 13:29 by pat c
More sickening crimes exposed on the part of US forces in Afghanistan. Full story at link. Twelve US soldiers have been charged with crimes in Afghanistan ranging from murdering civilians to keeping body parts as war trophies. The soldiers from the 5th Stryker Brigade, based in Washington State, were deployed to Kandahar province a year ago, and the murders occurred between January and March, according to charges by army prosecutors made public this week. "Allegations like this are . . . very serious," Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell told a news briefing."Clearly, even if these allegations are proved to be untrue, it is unhelpful. It does not help the perceptions of our forces around the world." (Morrell is a master of understatement) ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Saturday September 04, 2010 - 16:14 by Red Banner
Issue 41 of Red Banner: A magazine of socialist ideas is now available from bookshops or the above address €2 / £1.50 ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / other press Saturday September 04, 2010 - 15:14 by Julian and Andrew
At 9:30 this morning, people gathered on O'Connell Street In Dublin to protest against the presence of war criminal and ex British prime-minister Tony Blair. Blair arrived at Easons at around 10am for the book-signing of his recent autobiography, escorted and protected by a sizable gardai presence. Despite the heavy rain, hundreds of protestors took part. At least one protester managed to get past the heavy security to try to make a citizens arrest of Blair for his war crimes. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday August 21, 2010 - 14:21 by pat c
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This convoy will leave from New Delhi mid-September and will travel across Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and ultimately through the Rafah Crossing into Gaza-Palestine. The Asian convoy will be joined by delegations and vehicles in each of the nine countries through which it passes. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / other press Wednesday August 18, 2010 - 10:10 by Irish history Podcast
Episode 4 released ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday July 30, 2010 - 13:10 by pat c
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While media attention has bee heaped upon Wiki-Leaks, one person has been largely forgotten: Bradley Manning. Private Bradley Manning has been accused of previously supplying information to Wikileaks and is under suspicion of providing the documents which have been released. Bradley is now held in isolation from the outside world, in military detention in Kuwait. Bradley faces, for his alleged actions, up to 52 years imprisonment. Here are two articles regarding Bradley. Full texts at link ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday June 06, 2010 - 07:13 by Bazooka Joe
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According to a Lebanese newspaper report on Saturday Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is considering travelling to Gaza in order to "break the Israeli blockade.” ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday May 28, 2010 - 15:03 by pat c
Jim Moody writes on the release of Iranian film maker Jafar Panahi and uses it to illustrate how international solidarity works. Rest of story at link below. On Tuesday last (May 25), the Iranian regime bowed to growing worldwide pressure over its imprisonment of film director Jafar Panahi and released him on 200 million rials (£14,000) bail. However, he still faces serious charges brought by the regime following gigantic, militant protests over last year’s rigged presidential elections. But at least Iran’s vicious clerics were forced to let Panahi out of the vile Evin prison where he has languished alongside other political prisoners since his arrest in March. Panahi’s release is an encouragement to all those campaigning for democratic rights in Iran in solidarity with its people.... ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday May 19, 2010 - 12:57 by WSM Newsroom
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The WSM and Semora Spraoi callout for the anti-capitalist bloc was reasonably successful - what looked like over 200 people showed up - including banners from the Revolutionary Anarcha-Feminist Group, Seomra Spraoi, Eirigi, the IRSP, the 32 County Sovereignty Movement and a student solidarity group. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday May 14, 2010 - 19:52 by pat c
Seymour Hersh reveals how US troops are executing pows in Afghanistan. He also speaks about thhow the Bush Adminstration had developed detailed plans for a military attack on Iran. Full text and vid at link. "I'll tell you right now, one of the great tragedies of my country is that Mr. Obama is looking the other way, because equally horrible things are happening to prisoners, to those we capture in Afghanistan," Hersh said. "They're being executed on the battlefield. It's unbelievable stuff going on there that doesn't necessarily get reported. Things don't change." ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday April 29, 2010 - 10:37 by Mairead O'Shea
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The latest recruit to the Labour Party is Mary Harneys buddy Mae Sexton. Sexton was the PD Dail Deputy for Longford up until she was defeated at the last General Election. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday April 28, 2010 - 15:35 by lynn
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The courts have recently become a very hotly contested arena in the conflict over Shell's imposition of their unsafe project on Erris. Charges and prosecutions have been coming thick and fast over the last year and a half, but they seem to be more about persecuting campaigners than any concept of justice, and recent weeks have shown a clear bias in the policing of protest. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / other press Sunday April 25, 2010 - 13:31 by WMD
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According to a notice issued by Eamon Ryan's Department of Transport, work is to re start shortly on the Corrib Pipeline. The notice gives a rough outline of plans to survey the estuary, but makes no mention of Shell/Garda security compounds, increased garda and navy presence, dodgy security guards with cameras, and articles in the O'Reily press saying "we need the gas". Maybe that's a different department... ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Saturday April 10, 2010 - 17:26 by postman
An alternative proposal to Chavez's "5th international" ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday April 07, 2010 - 12:43 by Danny Kaplan
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Democracy Now reports: Massacre Caught on Tape: US Military Confirms Authenticity of Their Own Chilling Video Showing Killing of Journalists. The US military has confirmed the authenticity of newly released video showing US forces indiscriminately firing on Iraqi civilians. On Monday, the website WikiLeaks.org posted footage taken from a US military helicopter in July 2007 as it killed twelve people and wounded two children. The dead included two employees of the Reuters news agency, photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and driver Saeed Chmagh ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press 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
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday December 18, 2009 - 11:42 by pat c
Professors Mario Barbieri, Maurizio Barbieri & Paola Manduca have prepared a a report which shows that the 2006 and 2009 Israeli bombing has left Gaza in a dangerous copndition for its inhabitants. Not just from unexploded bombs but also from toxic metals in the soils. Full text at link. The 2006 and 2009 Israeli bombings in Gaza Strip have left a high concentration of toxic metals in the soil. Those metals can cause tumours and problems with fertility, and they can have serious effects on newly born babies, like deformities and genetic pathologies. The metals are in particular tungsten, mercury, molybdenum, cadmium and cobalt. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice / other press Monday December 07, 2009 - 17:27 by Buck Owen
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A court has upheld the right of a private citizen to film gardaí. A judge found the person filming to acting lawfully and within his rights, and fined the two members of the Garda Siochána who assaulted him to prevent him filming to have acted illegally. They were given small fines, even though they pleaded not guilty and lied to the court about the nature of the assault. There is no law against filming anyone in a public place in Ireland, and that includes the police. If they don't want to be caught on camera doing something, then they shouldn't be doing it. Lastly, can you imagine what the sentence would be for a protester who grabbed a garda and assaulted him to stop him filming? ... read full story / add a comment |
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