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national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 14, 2006 23:59 by Liam Mullen
“Few have captured the spirit of the Enlightenment, its intellectual and social agenda, as has Mozart in his operas.”1 The Enlightenment was a period when a break away from the time we know as the Renaissance took place. It was driven by developments in the Natural Sciences, and especially the work of Newton and Galileo. The German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, had questioned: “What is Enlightenment?” From the Roman poet, Horace, he coined a phrase “Sapere aude” (‘dare to know’).2 Two important events conspired to bring about change. The Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 14, 2006 23:43 by james travers
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An essay that questions the problem associated with the publishing of a series of cartoons in a French newspaper that depicts Mohammad carrying a bomb on his head, Is there more to the backlask and is our country setting itself up for racial tension in the future. The question is asked for comment and opinion read full story / add a comment 
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / news report Tuesday February 14, 2006 23:37 by Binman
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Cabra residents are determined that Dublin City Council won't beat them on the Bin Tax after battling for over 5 years. The Cabra/Dunard/Navan Road Campaign against the Bin Tax have organised residents on any roads affected by non-collection to dump their own waste into the bin trucks. People are sick of the ever increasing stealth taxes being imposed on them and have chosen the double tax of the bin charges as an issue to take a stand. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 14, 2006 23:24 by Liam Mullen
INTRODUCTION Robert Pollin opens his book with an introduction that acknowledges how the book came about. He states that in examining the economic policies of the 1990’s under President Clinton, and Clinton’s “third way” approach to fiscal rectitude, that he became unconvinced by the rhetoric emerging from the Clinton administration in relation to US “Economic growth, living standards, and the fragility of the financial system.” His paper on the subject appeared in the June 2000 issue of New Left Review, and later in a volume edited by Professor Arestis and Sawyer, entitled: The Economics of the Third Way: Experiences from Around the World. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 14, 2006 23:16 by Liam Mullen
BRIEF INTRODUCTION In her book ‘The Face of War’, the American journalist, Martha Gellhorn, recognises the importance of “peacemakers”, and understands the importance of a man like Mikhail Gorbachev when he ushered in “glasnost”, and effectively ended the Cold War. (Gellhorn 1998, p365). Gellhorn is a journalist who has filed reports on a number of conflicts, including the Civil War in Spain, The War in Finland, the Japanese invasion of China, the Second World War, the War in Java, the Vietnam War, the Six Day War, and various conflicts in Central America and Panama. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 14, 2006 23:15 by Brian
Twenty-five years ago today, 48 young people lost their lives in the former Stardust Nightclub, Butterly Business Park, Kilmore Road, Artane, Dublin 5. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 14, 2006 23:09 by Liam Mullen
INTRODUCTION Eleven years after the conflict, which claimed an untold numbers of lives, it seems that it is only now seeping into the western consciousness the scale of the human genocide that occurred in this region with the shooting down of President Habyarimana’s airplane, and the death of Burundi's President Cyprien Ntaryamira. Writing for the Irish Times a year after he first reported on the conflict, Ed O’Loughlin, states that the unrest between the Hutu majority and the wealthier Tutsi minority runs deep and that massacres occurred here back in 1959, 1961, 1963 and 1972. In many ways O’Loughlin’s report sounds like a class struggle between rich and poor, uneducated and educated, and this kind of struggle has been replicated in many other arenas and trouble spots around the world. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 14, 2006 22:58 by Liam Mullen
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Philip Knightley wrote ‘The First Casualty’ in 1975, and the updated edition was published in 2003 by André Deutsch to take account of new conflicts. The New Yorker describes it as “Disturbing, even dismaying, yet also in its painful way, enormously entertaining.” The renowned journalist, John Pilger, describes the work as follows: “Philip Knightley’s clear-sighted and principled book throws down a challenge to journalists to examine their role in the promotion of war.” (Book Jacket) The title of the work is derived from what American Senator Hiram Johnson said in 1917: “The first casualty when war comes, is truth.” read full story / add a comment
international / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 14, 2006 22:28 by Liam Mullen
Introduction. When looking at the reasons why the NGO’s might be up in arms when facing the policies of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, I have decided to focus on Trócaire and Concern, two Irish organisations passionately involved in debt relief for the Third World. Concern has been in existence since the Biafra famine of 1968, and has become internationally recognised in the intervening years. Trócaire was set up by the Irish Catholic Church in 1973 as a response mechanism to combat disasters, famines, and to offer aid to the “world’s poorest and most oppressed peoples”. (http://www.trócaire.org). read full story / add a comment 
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / news report Tuesday February 14, 2006 20:08 by Paula Geraghty
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Residents are placing their rubbish at the end of their streets in the Coombe. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / news report Tuesday February 14, 2006 18:41 by Ringsend against the Bin Tax
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Locals met again this morning from 10am opposite Clan na Gael at the New Houses in Ringsend. read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / feature Tuesday February 14, 2006 16:11 by Miriam Cotton
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A portent of all that was to follow on the discovery of gas off the Mayo coast must surely have been that all of the local SIPTU and other workers who had been involved in the exploration were immediately dropped. Foreign workers from the Phillippines and elsewhere were flown in and out from that point onwards - without ever touching Irish soil. Clearly, there was a determination to keep matters out of Irish hands from before the find - itself only a confirmation of what had long been known/suspected about our resrouces off the west coast (despite propaganda to the contrary that had been circulating in the years preceding the find). read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / news report Tuesday February 14, 2006 16:04 by Jonah
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Report of Protest at EU Commission Offices read full story / add a comment
international / summit mobilisations / news report Tuesday February 14, 2006 10:19 by Aubonne Group
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Prosecuting the police involved in the Aubonne Case In June 2003, an affinity group of people from around Europe, including Irish, German, French, British, Dutch and Belgium blockaded the Aubonne Bridge with a climbing action in order to stop a G8 delegation from reaching the summit in Evian. The police cut the climbing rope and nearly killed two activists. Now the policeman who cut the rope and his senior officer are in court. They are charged with body harm with negligence… read full story / add a comment
international / bin tax / household tax / water tax / press release Tuesday February 14, 2006 04:21 by RFE
RFE goes on the road to celebrate 25 years of irish pragrammimg on WBAI read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday February 14, 2006 02:25 by Liam Mullen
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Cuba, Eritrea, Myanmar (formerly Burma), Iran, Nepal, Zimbabwe, and China. What do these countries have in common? They are all far apart, but they all share the same warped ideological front towards press freedoms. They are all in the process of denying press freedom, through the imprisonment of journalists, and by their actions, they are undermining the very fabric of society and basic democratic rights. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday February 14, 2006 01:56 by Liam Mullen
Calls were made recently for the arrest in Germany of Uzbekistan’s Interior Minister Zokirjon Almatov. Almatov was in Germany to receive medical aid following a diagnosis of cancer. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday February 14, 2006 01:31 by Liam Mullen
There are no “magic bullet” formulas to the corporatist culture prevalent among huge conglomerations with budgets that exceed that of certain countries in the southern hemisphere according to Minister of State of Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation, Conor Lenihan, speaking at the February Comhlámh debate in Bewley’s café theatre. He was speaking about the difficulties of changing the mindset of large corporations operating in third world countries read full story / add a comment |
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