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JR Rowling has said she's thinking of setting up a prize for "the most craven, bootlicking capitulation to the gender Taliban", with the Polari Prize, the National Library of Scotland and the Edinburgh Fringe frontrunners.
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Gary Lineker, the disgraced Match of the Day presenter, has been nominated for a National Television Award, as has the state-funded anti-free speech propaganda series Adolescence.
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limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday March 22, 2008 15:01 by Cael   text 1 comment (last - saturday march 22, 2008 20:08)
ATTEMPTS by some members of Limerick City Council to place obstacles in the way of the new regeneration boards must be condemned, a spokesman for Republican Sinn Féin said this week. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday March 21, 2008 17:43 by KevinT. Walsh   text 1 comment (last - saturday march 22, 2008 00:16)
Contemporary Irish society is more divided than it has been for a long time - or so it was written last week. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday March 21, 2008 07:49 by James R
Army Sergeant Ronn Cantu is serving his second tour in Iraq. He's also a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. Last year, he rose to prominence as a rare outspoken troop against the war and occupation when he spoke live from his base in Iraq, to America's radical online radio network Democracy Now. Then he described how he was scared out of his mind during the interview for expressing opinions the military machine simply did not want the public to hear. This time round, in an interview for another radical media outlet, we chatted over Myspace, about how he is utilizing the internet to organise against the occupation from its front line, just as the Winter Soldier events were getting closer. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday March 20, 2008 11:29 by Jim
We've been here before.
In 1992 Bill Clinton who never served in the military or fired a shot in anger challenged President George H W Bush, who was one of the youngest US fighter pilots of World War 2 and who was shot down and rescued at a sea while others who participated in the same attack were captured and cannibalised by the Japanese.
In 1996 Bill Clinton challenged Bob Dole, a veteran of the the WW2 Italian campaign who was wounded by a German machine gun and waited for nine agonising months to be evacuated to an American hospital leaving his right arm paralyzed preventing him from shaking hands, a serious disability for a politician.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 19, 2008 09:59 by Mr Pipe from Yorkshire   text 10 comments (last - saturday march 22, 2008 10:50)   image 1 image
News coming from the Meath conference of AGSI says that the Gardai want murder trial televised for
General Public viewing, supposedly that would up the clothing allowances of the judge's bench and provide
a cannon fodder of violent and disturbing viewing for the General Public.

Maybe they will provide interactive buttons for people to get involved in the legal process.

The risible reason for this suggestion is to show 'us' the great people and public viewers what Gardai
must suffer in the courts. They seem well enough appraised of the rights of the individual and one
of those is the presumption of innocence.

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international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Monday March 17, 2008 19:34 by Brian   text 7 comments (last - tuesday march 23, 2010 12:04)   image 1 image
This article is just an attempt to speculate on how the Vatican intends to juggle the competing interests of the two streams of thought within the Catholic Church.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday March 16, 2008 23:20 by Fu Manchu   text 14 comments (last - wednesday march 19, 2008 21:32)
Firstly, I do not intend to exhonerate or belittle human rights abuses by the PRC in this piece. However, I feel it appropriate to provoke the thoughts of the readership & our horizontal media community on what exactly are the main issues & ethical social principles at the root of the recent violence in Tibet & other provinces of the PRC with ethnic Tibetan communities.
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national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Friday March 14, 2008 10:02 by C Murray   text 10 comments (last - friday april 04, 2008 18:37)   image 2 images
The Breast cancer unit at Mayo General Hospital is to be phased out under the HSE
policy of Professor Brendan Drumm, many who travelled to the Breast cancer protest
in buses and stood in the cold to highlight lack of services to the North-West will be heavily
disappointed in the decision for the scheduled phase-out. Mostly they will be disappointed
in the TD whom they elected who upholds the decision of the 'medical men' who know
best. http://www.indymedia.ie/article/85161
Ms Flynn was at that protest, she most purposefully strode across the road to listen
to the women speak and then she turned her back on them to support Mary Harney
and the HSE. read full story / add a comment
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday March 13, 2008 12:07 by Health Working Group   image 2 images
Radical health reform, in terms of creating equality and accessibility, and stopping the agenda of privatisation and for-profit medicine, is one of the great challenges facing Irish society. In this pamphlet, anarchists explain the reasons why such change is needed, give examples of important first steps in creating change, and describe the type of struggle that is necessary if we are going to win.

PDFs of this pamphlet can be downloaded:

A4 version - http://www.wsm.ie/attachments/mar2008/health_pamphlet_1...1.pdf
A5 booklet version (for double sided printing) - http://www.wsm.ie/attachments/mar2008/health_pamphlet_a...1.pdf read full story / add a comment
Pedro Iñaki Pérez Beotegui (alias "Wilson") 1948 - 2008
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 12, 2008 22:04 by iosaf .:. ipsiphi   text 9 comments (last - friday november 03, 2017 22:37)   image 1 image
Pedro Iñaki Pérez Beotegui (alias "Wilson") died yesterday, on the fourth anniversary of the Al Qaeda M11 bombing of Madrid, in Vitoria in the Basque Country at 60 years of age. As "Wilson" he led the group who in 1973 rented a flat on at Calle Claudio Coello 104, Madrid overlooking the road which Franco's prime minister & expected successor Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco used every morning to travel to work after mass in an armoured car. For several weeks the four members of the team, codenamed "Ogre" tunnelled under the street and then placed 80kg of explosives which they detonated on the 20th of December 1973. The car in which Carrero Blanco travelled was sent 20 metres into the air & over a five storey building in the blast. The assassination is cited in almost every account of how the Spanish state passed from an authoritiarian military dictatorship to the process of "transition" upon Franco's death without named successor to the European social democracy it is today. read full story / add a comment
Cathal O Searchaigh, Poet.
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 12, 2008 10:54 by C Murray   text 122 comments (last - thursday march 20, 2008 01:46)   image 1 image
The issue of the RTE 'Documentary'- 'Fairytale of Kathmandu', (which I must confess to
have not seen) is rolling on with questions in the Seanad , with fattening well-budgetted
disc-jockeys allowing hysterical women in rollers Tut! over homosexuality and the sexual
activity of a splendid poet. Interesting letter in the Times today by a regular contributor
to indymedia as well. I shall publish an extract in a minute. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 11, 2008 03:07 by Rob Henderson
Feel free to circulate this text at will. It might not mean much but if you think it could make a difference somewhere then post it there, or write your own version. Those in the most ideal positions of our national press are not investigating this issue. The people on the ground only have so much time to spread around each day. It is up to you to provide whatever you think we need, we'll accept all the help we can get. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday March 10, 2008 00:21 by ronan   text 15 comments (last - wednesday march 26, 2008 14:41)
Most people will be aware that Irish troops are being sent to Africa as part of an EU 'peace-keeping' mission to Chad and Central African Republic (CAR), but many will be relatively unaware of the background to the conflict and the reasons for the mission. This article looks at some of the realities behind the rhetoric and suggests some more plausible motivations for the intervention. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Sunday March 09, 2008 00:16 by Cliona Flanagan   text 4 comments (last - saturday april 12, 2008 17:05)   image 1 image
Every year we celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8th. This goes back to 1910, when an international conference of socialist women decided that 'women the world over set aside a particular day each year to remember women and their struggles.' read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday March 08, 2008 11:57 by Cael   text 16 comments (last - sunday march 23, 2008 15:30)
Personally, the biggest problem I see with private property is that western society has not been able to put any limit on it. It has become, or always was, psychotic.

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national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Friday March 07, 2008 17:51 by Tracy Donegan   text 3 comments (last - monday march 10, 2008 13:23)
Tokophobia is a debilitating fear of childbirth which in many cases is so profound that it can lead to a complete avoidance of pregnancy or a pregnancy filled with terror and anxiety. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday March 07, 2008 11:02 by Des   text 13 comments (last - sunday march 09, 2008 22:58)
Foreign kictchens bought instead oof our own. read full story / add a comment
Carbon Trading is Capitalist exploitation, and scientifically Bollox!!
international / environment / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 05, 2008 10:09 by Soundmigration   image 1 image   1 attached file
Carbon trading and offsets distract attention from the wider, systemic changes and collective political action that needs to be taken in the transition to a low-carbon economy. Promoting more effective and empowering approaches to climate change involves moving away from the blinkered reductionism of free-market dogma, the false-economy of supposed quick fixes, the short-term self interest of big business.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday March 02, 2008 13:42 by Gecoga   text 3 comments (last - monday march 03, 2008 17:49)
This articule makes an analisis of the current junture of multitudinary marchs in Colombia. It reviews the situation of human rights violations and the causes of the Colombian conflict to finally explore alternatives to achieve peace in the country. read full story / add a comment
European Commissioner Margot Wallstrom
international / eu / opinion/analysis Sunday March 02, 2008 08:40 by M Walshe   image 1 image
An analysis of EU Commissioner's Margot Wallstrom's involvement in two parallel but contradictory processes - as head of the Commission's 'Plan D for Dialogue, Deabte & Democracy' allegedly aimed at involving citizens in the defining of Europe's future, which was set up in the aftermath of the 2005 rejection of the EU Constitution in France and Holland - while at the same time she played a little reported but significant role in the Amato Group - a self-selected group of 16 of the EU's top political elite who met to to redraft - behind closed doors, and with funding from a leading European multinational - the rejected Constitution text and effectively re-packaged it as what was to become known as the Lisbon Treaty, a document which every member state in the EU, bar Ireland, is being denied a popular say on. Commissioner Wallstrom was in Dublin last Thursday to speak at the National Forum on Europe.

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