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international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday August 27, 2009 - 00:05 by gurgle-tweet iosaf mac diarmada
The Anglo-American world order's media industrial complex has followed some key leaks to the "New York Times" in this August with shallow expressions of shock. It appears that Cheney authorised the CIA to outsource intelligence profiling with the purpose of arranging murder to a number of the usual suspect "private security consultancies". We've long known the name of one very prominent US company, Blackwater, and recently even in Ireland, we on the left, came to consider the activities of IRMS after on this site ample evidence was presented linking Michael Dwyer to both it and the same far-right Hungarian paramilitary group whose summer induction of new members was broken up last Saturday(*). But honestly, to understand our world today, be it the middle east, mid Asia or more to my point Latin America - it is essential we examine the "privatisation of war". ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday August 25, 2009 - 21:29 by Gregor Kerr
An interview with a Thomas Cook worker on the recent occupation of the Dublin office. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Tuesday August 25, 2009 - 14:35 by F Anderson E Russo
International companies and foundations are pushing for a "Green Revolution" in Africa - promoting a model which is heavily dependent on fossil fuels and represents the kind of "same box thinking" which has left up to 1 billion people in the world hungry. It is time for us to recognise that the system some believed in so blindly through the Celtic Tiger years is in fact causing increasing poverty, hunger and desperation at its “other end”. Around the world, countries and peoples are looking at ways to fight back. ... read full story / add a comment
Newspaper opinion pieces are naturally partisan in content and often aim for controversialism, but such is the display of imposture in one from Tony Kinsella in the Irish Times of the 24th of August 2009 that it takes a whole plateful of biscuits. 'I don't have to imagine myself back in some dark age in order to be subjected to fact-free arguments. Tony Kinsella is doing it to people right here and now in the early 21st Century. He's wrong if he thinks it's going to go unchallenged or be accepted unquestioningly, though.' ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Monday August 24, 2009 - 13:56 by Davy Carlin
Giving succour to the racists.
The DUP’S Sammy Wilson has recently accused anti racism groups of exaggerating the scale of racism to access public funding. Mr Wilson stated that ‘these charges of racism were always coincided with the holding out of the hand for more money for the organisations which were dealing with the issue’ and referred to the situation as ‘an anti racism industry’. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday August 23, 2009 - 15:26 by Andrew
An interview with Shane, a member of the Berlin anarchist media group about conditions in the city and the anarchist movement there. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday August 21, 2009 - 04:44 by Ordinary Joe Soap
This is a call-out to organise an Anti-NAMA March to the front gates of the Dáil on Kildare Street on the day that they will be discussing it; Wednesday, September 16th. ... read full story / add a comment |
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