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national / anti-war / imperialism / press release Thursday January 11, 2024 21:10 by PANA
Following the defeat of the Nice Treaty referendum, Ireland committed that our Defence Forces would only be sent overseas where approved by (i) the Government (ii) the Dáil and (iii) the United Nations. Known as the “Triple Lock”, this commitment made in Seville, Spain, was a key argument in favour of accepting the Nice Treaty in the second referendum. (It also reaffirmed the position set out in the Defence Act 1960.) read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Sunday March 13, 2022 01:25 by 1 of Indy
This is the address of of former Vatican Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Carlo Viganò, in his declaration on Monday. Wh is it published here. Because it matters that even the official church denounces the tactics of Biden and NATO who provoke this war and are doing everything possible to give moral support to the Neo Nazis so as to prolong the war as long as possible for their own objectives. read full story / add a comment
national / indymedia ireland / news report Wednesday October 27, 2021 23:22 by 1 of Indy
Indymedia Ireland was 20 years old this month, on Oct 10th in fact. It has been a long road to here and at times debateable whether it would survive in the latter years. This short article gives a quick overview of its history and where it is now. Back in 2001 the big anti-globalisation demonstrations of Seattle 1999 were still fresh in people's minds when the first Indymedia centers were setup and the network was still rapidly growing. In Ireland back then there was a great need for an alternative voice and there was no central site that could been considered Left leaning. read full story / add a comment
international / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Monday June 28, 2021 22:50 by Gavin Phillips
Our world, once thriving with energy and life, has now become a dystopian landscape of barren streets and masked people with a Governments around the world have enforced unprecedented restrictions on people’s lives, imposing lockdowns that closed down most of society for months at a time—stopping people from visiting their families, isolating the elderly in care homes, and destroying millions of people’s livelihoods. These draconian laws were brought in to control an alleged pandemic created by a new virus called SARS-CoV-2 that creates the respiratory illness of Covid 19. The numbers of so-called ‘cases’ and deaths ‘attributed to Covid’ are churned out daily by the media fanning the fear. The hurricane force driving this pandemic is the reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction test (RT-PCR). So, it’s vitally important that we understand exactly how the RT-PCR test works and its limitations.look of foreboding in their eyes. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / press release Monday June 22, 2020 18:46 by icsh
The Programme for Government produced by Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and the Green Party promises a lot that is encouraging, but on the issue of US military use of Shannon Airport - which the majority of Irish people oppose - it is disappointing.
The change of government provided an opportunity to end Irish complicity in the ongoing cycles of war and occupation that have been responsible for the loss of millions of lives this century. The military industrial complex is also the single biggest polluter on the planet (see recent study from Brown University’s Costs of War project). The US. Department of Defense has a larger annual carbon footprint than most countries on earth, and with its global network of bases and logistics networks the US military is the single biggest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world outside of nation-states themselves. [1] read full story / add a comment 
The European elections are this Friday on May 24th and there are good reasons to consider your vote very carefully because it does make a difference because practically every bit of law passed in the EU has to be adopted by Ireland at some point. It is a great way for politicans here to say the "EU forced us to..." They said that one about the attempt to privatise water during that campaign. It can be safely assumed that most people are for internet freedom, protection of the environment and in particular to live in places with unpolluted water, clean air and safe from exposure to toxic chemicals. These are all no brainers. In the area of military we have seen how years of bringing democracy to the Middle East by bombing them has resulted in devastation and huge waves of human refugees and immigration and time and time again the nefarious activities of the intellegence agencies of the big powers like USA, UK, France and NATO show them to be heavily linked to the various terrorist groups, via training, funding and weapons supply through third party countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar in order to disrupt and overthrown regimes they don't like. So do people really want Ireland to drop it's neutrality and get aboard these very costly military adventures and volunteer it's soldiers for basically ordained mass murder? At a guess, the answer is probably no. read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-war / imperialism / feature Wednesday December 13, 2017 23:01 by 1 of indy
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We are publishing this piece by PANA explaining what PESCO is about and how it means the loss of our neutrality. Unfortunately since then on Dec 7th the Dail voted by 75 to 42 to join PESCO. Some key points are: 1) PESCO is a binding agreement because it says so. The government claims it is not. It is. 2) PESCO commits us to spending 2% of GDP on military spending by 2022. This is a figure of € 5.5 billion. We currently spend 1/10th of that on defense. This makes a mockery of "fiscal space" 3) PESCO in the event of crisis places under NATO's command. Therefore we are no longer neutral. 4) PESCO is the side door to Ireland joining a EU Army / NATO and would have us involved in "humanitarian" bombing and "peace making" -in other words imposing the demands of the corporate interests that rule above all else. The Irish Government is considering joining PESCO. This will be one of the most important decisions this FG/Independeny Alliance will ever make. There needs at the very least a serious debate on the issue, and in any genuine debate form all sides in the corporate media. On the evidence so far this is highly improbable, as is their total lack of coverage of the use of Shannon Airport by US troops read full story / add a comment 
international / economics and finance / press release Thursday April 13, 2017 17:29 by 1 of indy
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Yet another issue of the bi-monthly People's News has been published just last week and it carries an important story reproduced here on how the banks are avoiding paying tax, some at low rates comparable to the Apple deal at 2%. There are other important articles carried too including a look inside NATO and how it's creeping influence over the EU is growing. Yet another bank rip-off—facilitated by the Irish government and A look at NATO’s web site read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 23, 2016 11:43 by Robert J. Long
The hidden agenda behind the migrant crisis. - Destroy "National hegemony" -European super-state -Cultural Marxism / Kalergi-Coudenhove read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / press release Tuesday February 02, 2016 23:33 by Shannonwatch
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Press Release - 2nd Feb 2016 - Election Candidates Asked to Pledge Themselves to Peace Five organisations have come together to call on general election candidates to commit to ending the US military use of Shannon Airport. In a joint initiative, Shannonwatch, the Peace and Neutrality Alliance (PANA), the Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM), Galway Alliance Against War (GAAW) and Veterans for Peace (VfP) Ireland are all calling for candidates and parties to bar military traffic from any country involved in war from landing on Irish soil or from using Irish airspace. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday June 10, 2015 23:27 by SF
Liadh Ní Riada MEP has strongly criticised the call of Fine Gael MEP Sean Kelly to have a potential international court for TTIPs Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanism (ISDS) located in Ireland. She said that Kelly has completely betrayed his responsibility to defend the interests of the Irish people. The mechanism of the International State Dispute Settlement court is part of the highly controversial TTIP agreement which has been met with widespread public opposition across the European Union read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 03, 2014 14:54 by Mick MacThomais
The Irish emblem of stste and the 13 string the infamous "hang mans string" and why after the total abolishment of the death penalty that it has not been removed from the emblem that represents our unarmed peaceful state built from the humanitarian resistance of "unarmed resistance",which our Nation is famous. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday December 20, 2013 06:02 by Socialist International (SI)
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The Socialist International is deeply moved by the passing of Nelson Mandela, the man who, representing the struggle for freedom of an entire nation, became a symbol for justice, reconciliation and peace for the entire world. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday June 08, 2013 00:26 by Void Network
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INTERNATIONAL CALL-OUT FROM GREECE for all people in Turkey and everybody in the world fighting against contemporary Totalitarianism: read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday March 22, 2013 16:01 by GALWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR
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CONTENTS 1. CAUSES FOR CONCERN: STOP EXTRADITION TO THE USA! GUANTANAMO HUNGER STRIKE 2. PEACE IN THE NORTH 3. 10 YEARS SINCE IRAQ AND ANOTHER MILITARY INTERVENTION ON THE OFFING 4. I AM BRADLEY MANNING 5. MAKE WAR NOT LOVE 6. RTE – NOTHING BUT THE SAME OLD STORY 7. CHINA – THE BOGEYMAN read full story / add a comment 
international / eu / feature Wednesday January 16, 2013 20:28 by OO'C
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Where we are on the 40th anniversary of joining the EEC. This is part one of a two part series and the second article can be found here read full story / add a comment 
national / eu / feature Wednesday January 16, 2013 20:25 by OO'C
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Irish Referendum Practice from McKenna (1995) to McCrystal (2012).
This is part two of a two part series. To read the first article in the series you can find it here read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / feature Monday December 31, 2012 18:28 by various
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As the year draws to a close, we highlight some of the news stories that made it to the pages of Indymedia during the year. We are certainly living in "interesting times" as old the Chinese curse goes! Events in north Africa and the middle east related to the "fake arab spring" remained in the headlines and also as we head into 2013 the Irish economy is still saddled with enormous burden of debt by a criminal layer of developers, bankers, politicians and an international financial elite dictating to government and the promise of many more austerity budgets to come which will have the effect of stripping away all the social safety nets.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday November 22, 2012 15:41 by Anthony Coughlan
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This memo details aspects of the McKenna judgement, the Coughlan case, two key legal battles waged by private citizens in the ongoing war for fairness in our media and by our government during Referenda and other government campaigns read full story / add a comment 
galway / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday November 10, 2012 21:56 by GALWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR
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CONTENTS 1. GAAW CAMPAIGN AGAINST KILLER DRONES 2. OBAMA – NO CHANGE 3. GAAW DEATH CALLERS UNCOVERED 4. THAT NOBEL PEACE PRIZE & THE EU 5. AN END TO THE SYRIAN BLOODBATH? 6. PRESIDENT HIGGINS ON HOW TO ACHIEVE PEACE 7. CIA BOSS RESIGNS! read full story / add a comment |
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