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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday August 30, 2012 04:15 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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After attending a workshop last Saturday by U.S. Iraq war veteran Logan Mehl-Laituri at the Greenbelt Festival/ England, I was informed that Joshua Casteel was in a very bad way with the cancer with which he has been struggling. On Sunday we learnt that Joshua had passed away. OBITUARY: Joshua Casteel – Presente! Posted on August 25, 2012 - Pax Christi USA http://tinyurl.com/93cgonz read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday August 29, 2012 22:45 by Dublin Basque
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Arturo/ benat villanueva, a basque political activist, has been living in belfast from 2003 until this year when he went to live in the northern (french-controlled) basque country. He was arrested under the same warrant that a british court rejected previously. Saoirse do Arturo Benat Villanueva! protest this Monday 3 September 5.30 pm at Alliance Francaise, the French Embassy's cultural centre at the corner of Nassau Street and Kildare Street. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday August 29, 2012 17:58 by Irish Anti-Imperialist
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This Saturday, the 1st September 2012, anti-imperialists in Ireland will be staging a protest in solidarity with Irish Republican prisoners and also the 10,000 political prisoners held captive throughout Libya The protest will commence at 2pm outside the main branch of Amnesty International, 48 Fleet Street in Dublin (beside Hard Rock Café). read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday August 29, 2012 12:24 by pat c
Its not just the WMD excuse that the Imperialists are using to advance their cause of War on Syria and the threat of war against Iran: the US et al are using the reactionary Sunni regimes and their co-thinkers throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Full text at link. In citing “weapons of mass destruction” as a pretext for waging war against Syria, the Obama administration is treading a well-worn path. When President Barack Obama threatened August 21 that the movement of chemical weapons inside Syria was a “red line” that could trigger US military intervention, he did nothing that was not pioneered by George W. Bush before the 2003 war against Iraq. Obama now has the backing of British Prime Minister David Cameron and, this week, France’s François Hollande. The French president said his government was already working with Turkey to establish no-fly zones “in co-ordination with our closest partners.” read full story / add a comment ![]()
national / animal rights / news report Tuesday August 28, 2012 18:13 by Bernie Wright
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This month we gladly announce a decline in Greyhound Racing. Straight from the pages of the infamous online forum ‘Greyhound nuts’ an urgent appeal has gone out for entries to fill races. There were calls for help last week from both Curraheen Park and Limerick Track as the respective Racing Offices bid to fill the following weekend’s competitions. read full story / add a comment ![]()
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday August 28, 2012 10:28 by BrianClarkeNUJ
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It is becoming more transparent, with each passing day, that the British Tory Government is working relentlessly to dismantle the Irish peace process and escape responsibility for decades of war crimes in Ireland including murder, corruption and human rights violations.Reports submitted by the Committee on the Administration of Justice, Relatives for Justice, British-Irish Rights Watch recently submitted to Congressmen Chris Smith and Senator Ben Cardin, Co-Chairs of the Committee on Security and Cooperation in Europe read like a Nazi war crime file. read full story / add a comment ![]()
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday August 27, 2012 22:40 by pat c
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Its worthwhile having a look at who has what when it comes to nuclear weapons*. • United States: Approximately 5,000 total warheads: 1,737 deployed strategic warheads, approximately 500 operational tactical weapons (some 200 deployed in Europe), and approximately 2,700 reserve warheads (active and inactive) in storage. • Russia: Approximately 5,500 total warheads: 1,492 operational strategic warheads, approximately 2,000 operational tactical warheads (not deployed), and approximately 2,000 reserve warheads in storage. • China: About 240 total warheads. • France: Fewer than 300 operational warheads. • United Kingdom: Fewer than 160 deployed strategic warheads, total stockpile of up to 225. * http://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Nuclearweaponswho...swhat read full story / add a comment ![]()
national / animal rights / event notice Monday August 27, 2012 22:13 by Martin O'Sullivan
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The Vegetarian Society of Ireland are holding a festival to mark World Vegetarian Day 2012 and we hope you will come along for the celebration. We'll have plenty of stalls in the main hall with a focus on: food, animal rights, environmental, booksellers, etc. There shall also be plenty talks lined up too. read full story / add a comment ![]()
cork / history and heritage / other press Monday August 27, 2012 14:03 by Justine McCarthy
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A SON of a war of independence veteran has accused a historian of publishing "untrue and unchecked claims" relating to a disputed IRA ambush in which his father participated 92 years ago. Edward "Ned" Young was the last known survivor of the Kilmichael ambush, when the IRA killed 17 police auxiliaries on November 28, 1920. His son John Young has described as "palpably untrue" assertions made by Dr Eve Morrison about a phone conversation he had with her last month. Morrison's claims appear to contradict an affidavit Young signed five years ago, in which he denied that his father co-operated with a controversial book about the ambush. read full story / add a comment ![]()
mayo / miscellaneous / news report Monday August 27, 2012 13:07 by Volunteer support
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The community in Erris, Co. Mayo is under siege. Here Betty Schult, a local resident, speaks about what life is like under Shell occupation. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday August 26, 2012 16:56 by lefty
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BBC are up to their tricks again, censoring video which shows syrian rebels in a bad light, i.e. guilty of war crimes against geneva convention. This is not the first time they have monkeyed with reality of course. Back in May the BBC used a years-old photo of dead Iraqi children to depict victims of an alleged government assault in the town of Houla. Also in Libya remember the fake photos of a crowd of "Anti Gadaffi protesters", many of whom carried Indian flags. (photo was just an unrelated gathering in india). You can't trust the MSM or al jazeera to give you the truth about Syria period. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday August 26, 2012 11:31 by pat c
John Pilger writes on the latest British bluster about storming the Ecuadorian Embass in London to arrest Julian Asange and on the craven role played by the media. Pilger also reveals that: Four years ago, a barely noticed Pentagon document, leaked by WikiLeaks, described how WikiLeaks and Assange would be destroyed with a smear campaign leading to "criminal prosecution". Full text at link. The British government's threat to invade the Ecuadorean embassy in London and seize Julian Assange is of historic significance. David Cameron, the former PR man to a television industry huckster and arms salesman to sheikdoms, is well placed to dishonour international conventions that have protected Britons in places of upheaval. Just as Tony Blair's invasion of Iraq led directly to the acts of terrorismin London on 7 July 2005, so Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague have compromised the safety of British representatives across the world. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Saturday August 25, 2012 20:27 by Spartacist
Join the London protest on 31 August against Lonmin massacre of South African miners! The Partisan Defence Committee and the Spartacist League are joining a protest against the 16 August massacre of 34 striking South African miners at the Lonmin Platinum-run Marikana mine northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa. We say: Protest massacre of South African strikers! Free jailed miners – drop all charges! Victory to the striking miners! The protest is taking place on Friday 31 August at 10.00am outside the Oval in Kennington, London, where the England v South Africa cricket match is taking place. read full story / add a comment ![]()
international / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Saturday August 25, 2012 20:07 by Spartacist
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Protest massacre of South African strikers! Free jailed miners – drop all charges! Victory to the striking miners! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday August 25, 2012 16:24 by pat c
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The US have turned down a Syrian offer of negotiations. Meanwhile France has joined with the US in threats to impose a No Fly Zone within Syria. Full text at link. Fighting is intensifying in Syria and throughout the Near East, as US and NATO officials escalate threats against Syria after US President Barack Obama’s statement Monday night that Washington is planning for a US invasion of Syria. US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland dismissed Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil’s subsequent offer of talks, even though Jamil offered to discuss Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s resignation. Jamil said that Assad’s resignation could be discussed during a “national dialogue,” as an external attempt to force a president’s ouster on the Syrian people would set a “very dangerous precedent.” It is hardly clear that the outcome of a “national dialogue” would be favorable to Washington, however, even assuming it could somehow be held in a country torn apart by a US proxy war. A January poll found 55 percent of Syrians support keeping Assad in office. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Saturday August 25, 2012 13:08 by Jordan Shilton
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The Oslo District Court returned a verdict this week finding Anders Behring Breivik guilty of murder over the twin July 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway that led to 77 deaths . The Islamophobe killer was found to be sane at the time of the attacks and sentenced to twenty-one years in prison . Jordan Shilton argues in WSWS today that the political establishment’s attempt to portray the killer as an insane “lone wolf” was part of a cover-up that started on the day the fascist was arrested. read full story / add a comment ![]()
international / racism & migration related issues / opinion/analysis Saturday August 25, 2012 09:44 by Costas Avramidis
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Racism is definitely not a "new fruit" in Greek society and not a unique phenomenon to this country. I have witnessed it with my own eyes as it manifested throughout the years I was living there so I can share with you a little knowledge of how it ripens. In Greece being different is not a good thing, as you will suffer a lot if you are a minority! Your life will be a living hell, if you are a woman or find yourself in a minority like being a lesbian, gay, gypsy, Pakistani, Albanian, Egyptian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Nigerian... In other words it will take a lot of effort to escape being discriminated against and that's without mentioning the people that are prepared to stand up for all these people, the likes of socialists, autonomists, anarchists, people that volunteer in NGO's or anyone that cherishes humanism/altruism. For people to fit in, in a land the locals like to call Hellas (and of the sun) to survive within it is to stay silent and live life in a comatose state. read full story / add a comment ![]()
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Saturday August 25, 2012 07:20 by Adrian Boutureira
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The story that needs to be told about the massacre at the Lonmin mine in South Africa, will not come from the capitalist mainstream media, nor be told by the South African government. The story must come from those of us who wont allow for the critical questions behind the death of so many compañeros go unanswered. This is but a humble contribution towards that aim. read full story / add a comment ![]()
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Friday August 24, 2012 13:20 by Friend of the Irish Hare
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Live hare coursing apologists claim that their “sport” is thriving in Ireland. In fact, it has been in decline for many years... read full story / add a comment ![]()
dublin / animal rights / event notice Friday August 24, 2012 12:22 by ARAN
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There is no mistaking the fact that cruelty to animals in Ireland is on the rise. Irish laws to protect animals have failed animals and the work to end animal abuse is down to caring individuals and groups like ARAN. People across the nation are against the cruelty but doing something about is often where the buck stops for many people. On August 26 we are giving people from across the nation and beyond, a chance to take action. Don't miss ARAN's big, peaceful march and rally in Dublin. We'll gather at the Garden of Remembrance on O' Connell Street for speeches and awards before setting off on a special route through Dublin's busiest streets for a peaceful, lively and upbeat march to call for tougher laws to stamp out animal abuse, and to raise awareness of what's happening to animals in this country. read full story / add a comment |
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