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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday July 22, 2010 13:15 by John Cornford   image 1 image
Yassamine Mather writes on how the US is stepping up Sanctions against Iran in its attempts to impose Regime Change From Above and on the paraalysing effect thgis is having on the Regime. She also comments on problems among the opposition forces. Full text at url.

New sanctions imposed by the United States government last week were the most significant hostile moves against Iran’s Islamic Republic since 1979. They marked a period of unprecedented coordination led by the US to obtain the support of the United Nations and European Union.

After months of denying their significance, the government of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was forced to react by setting up an emergency counter-sanctions unit, whilst Iranian aviation officials accused the UK, Germany and the United Arab Emirates of refusing to supply fuel for civilian Iranian airplanes. As it turned out, this was not true. However, the EU banned most of Iran Air’s jets from flying over its territory, because of safety concerns directly related to previous sanctions. It is said that most of the national airline’s fleet, including Boeing 727s and 747s and its Airbus A320s, are unsafe because the company has not been able to replace faulty components. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Wednesday July 21, 2010 18:16 by Dorothy Gale
Right-wing think tanks that deny climate change is even happening are advocating climate engineering to fix it. Don't listen to them. Full text of article by Clive Hamilton at link.

IN 1892 Edvard Munch witnessed a blood-red sunset over Oslo, Norway. Shaken by it, he wrote in his diary that he felt "a great, unending scream piercing through nature". The incident inspired him to create his most famous painting, The Scream. The striking sunset was probably caused by the eruption of Krakatoa, which sent a massive plume of ash and gas into the upper atmosphere, turning sunsets red around the globe and cooling the Earth by more than a degree.

Now a powerful group of scientists, venture capitalists and conservative think tanks is coalescing around the idea of reproducing this cooling effect by injecting sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere to counter climate change. Despite the enormity of what is being proposed - nothing less than seizing control of the climate - the public has been almost entirely excluded from the planning. read full story / add a comment
galway / consumer issues / other press Sunday July 18, 2010 14:31 by gníomhaí
If you're based in Galway come and get good local food from the veg garden in Woodlands, Renmore
(beside Brothers of Charity and Gaelscoil Dara) read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday July 15, 2010 11:10 by Peter Mulholland   text 1 comment (last - thursday july 15, 2010 11:26)   image 2 images
international / education / other press Wednesday July 14, 2010 10:29 by Gillian Browne
The Global Women’s Studies Programme at National University of Ireland, Galway offers an exciting MA programme focused on gender, globalisation and rights. The MA in Gender, Globalisation and Rights is still accepting applications for 2010-11 to fill the last few remaining places. The final closing date for all applications is July 30th. “
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Palestinian home in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Isawiyya being bulldozed by Israelis today
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday July 13, 2010 20:14 by pat c   image 1 image
Palestinian homes are bulldozed in Occupied Al Quds but the Zionists continue build homes for the colonists. Full story at link.

Israeli bulldozers destroyed at least three Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem today, breaking an unofficial moratorium on house demolitions since the end of 2009. At least one of the homes was occupied by a family of seven, who removed their belongings shortly before the building was razed.

"They can build hundreds of settlements but I'm not entitled to live in a shack?" Linda al-Rajabi was quoted in the Israeli media as saying. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / other press Monday July 12, 2010 17:10 by Ahaztuak   text 4 comments (last - thursday july 22, 2010 20:36)   1 attached file
Memory news from the Basque Country read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Sunday July 11, 2010 22:03 by Bill Henderson   text 3 comments (last - thursday july 15, 2010 14:00)
Bill Henderson writes about those who deny climate change and he also touchs on some other hot topics.

There are people who deny that climate change is happening, that it is caused by increasing greenhouse gases (GHG) from burning fossil fuels, or that it is potentially so serious as to be civilization even humanity threatening. There are worldview and monetary reasons for such denial, but since 97 percent to 98 percent of the climate researchers most actively publishing in the field support the tenet that combustion of fossil fuels is the source of global climate change their denial costs valuable time now but is ultimately untenable. read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous / other press Friday July 09, 2010 22:37 by GALSIC   image 1 image
* We present the no. 16 issue (July 2010) of CUBA LIBERTARIA, edited by GALSIC (Grupo de Apoyo a los Libertarios y Sindicalistas Independientes en Cuba). You may obtain a .pdf file of this edition in Spanish at cubalibertaria@gmail.com read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Thursday July 08, 2010 16:02 by Monty Burns   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 13, 2010 03:47)
Yet another report has cleared scientists at the University of East Anglia’s (UEA) Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of dishonesty in the presentation of data on global warming. However it has stated that: “We do find that there has been a consistent pattern of failing to display the proper degree of openness, both on the part of CRU scientists and on the part of the UEA.”

But the inquiry found that the scientists “honesty and rigour” were “not in doubt” and there was “no evidence” of behaviour that would undermine assessments by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / other press Thursday July 08, 2010 12:41 by Leeside News   text 2 comments (last - thursday july 08, 2010 14:58)
Councillor Chris O'Leary has announced his decision to join Sinn Fein read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Wednesday July 07, 2010 14:39 by Auntie Oil   text 1 comment (last - friday july 09, 2010 09:33)
Micheal Martin gets upset by some questioning on ireland's interest in Uganda, talks to Tullow and the government while in Uganda and today Tullow Oil get their contract! An almight convenient coincidence. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Tuesday July 06, 2010 11:54 by non-voter   text 5 comments (last - friday july 09, 2010 18:00)

In 1990, America’s President George H. W. Bush awarded William C. Rogers III, the Legion of Merit for his service as a commanding officer in the US navy. Two years previously Rogers had been the commander of the USS Vincennes when the warship shot down an Iranian civilian aircraft over the Persian Gulf killing all 290 people aboard . On the twenty-second anniversary of the atrocity last Saturday, relatives of the victims sailed to the spot where Iran Air A300 Airbus came down. In a message read out at the ceremony, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked :
"In which culture ... can that Legion of Merit be awarded to the criminal USS Vincennes commander." read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday July 06, 2010 00:46 by eh man   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 06, 2010 10:04)
It has come to light that Gerry Adams hand-picked the members of a committee which have oversight of the spending of £8 million on Irish language projects. read full story / add a comment
Mohammed Oudeh was buried in Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday July 05, 2010 14:16 by Jerry Cornelius   image 1 image
Abu Daoud is dead but his memory lives on in the struggle for a free Palestine.

The mastermind behind the 1972 Munich Olympics attacjk in which 11 Israeli athletes (who were IDF Reservists) were killed, has died, his daughter and Palestinian officials say. Mohammed Oudeh died of kidney failure a day after he was taken to hospital in Syria, his daughter said. He was 73.

Oudeh - also known under his guerrilla name Abu Daoud - did not directly take part in the attack. He later said he had no regrets because he considered the athletes, as military reservists, to be legitimate targets.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday July 05, 2010 13:22 by Metr0   image 1 image   1 attached file
On 2nd July 2010 tens of thousands of copies of a spoof newspaper that looked very similar to The Metro, a free daily, were distributed at 20 busy tube stations around the London during rush hour. Thousands more were distributed in other cities around the UK. http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/07/454790.html read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday July 04, 2010 13:56 by Sean Steele   text 20 comments (last - saturday july 31, 2010 13:37)
A 43-year-old Iranian woman is facing death by stoning unless an international campaign launched by her children forces the authorities to quash what her lawyer calls a bogus conviction. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday July 01, 2010 13:48 by pat c   text 3 comments (last - sunday july 11, 2010 22:34)   image 1 image
The Turkish humanitarian group IHH has released an assessment of the flotilla mission last month in which nine activists died when Israeli forces raided the vessel in international waters.

"This operation was hostile from the very beginning, directed towards killing and killing as many as possible. Israeli soldiers did not open fire on the ships as a warning. They opened fire to kill," the report stated. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday June 28, 2010 16:54 by Godot   text 5 comments (last - saturday december 04, 2010 12:43)
In a statement released today the union announced that it was entering the implementation process to avoid "victimisation of its members". read full story / add a comment
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international / arts and media / other press Monday June 28, 2010 10:53 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin   image 1 image

‘We have been poor for hundreds of years, even thousands of years, and they are living in their fancy resorts and mansions"

This quote from one of the ‘Red Shirt’ protestors in the recent demonstrations in Thailand was an example of the process known there “as ta sawang, or a ‘brightening of the eyes’ – an awakening, a realization of a truth they had not recognized” (International Herald Tribune 21 May 2010).
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