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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday November 17, 2008 23:05 by Paul
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This is a talk given by Dick Bryan from the University of Sydney at the recent Historical Materialism 2008 conference in London the weekend before last. Bryan collaborated with Mike Rafferty to co-author the ground-breaking book "Capitalism and Derivatives" in 2006. One of the first books to properly examine the recent explosive developments in high finance from an anti-capitalist perspective, they have blazed a new path in investigating the hyper-evolution of current capitalist financial engineering that is at the root of the current crisis. read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday November 17, 2008 19:26 by TD
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Last Saturday's information stall in Shop Street was again focused on EU complicity with Israeli war crimes against Palestinians, particularly Gazans; it's almost a year ago now since Commissioner-General for United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, Karen Koning AbuZayd, warned: “Gaza is on the threshold of becoming the first territory to be intentionally reduced to a state of abject destitution,” citing the EU and international community as accomplices in the barbaric siege of Gaza . Despite the fact that the Fourth Geneva Convention defines collective punishment as a war crime, the EU runs empathetically with the hare in condemning such a crime whilst, at the same time hunting, cheek by jowl, with the hounds who perpetrate such criminality. read full story / add a comment 
cork / arts and media / news report Monday November 17, 2008 18:30 by sheelaghnagig
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Last Saturday, Baltimore-based artist, Sheelagh Broderick, teamed up with lighting designer, Chantelle Stewart, and a band of volunteer torchbearers, photographers and videographers to light an abandoned fishing boat at Church Strand. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Monday November 17, 2008 16:49 by MSF Ireland
On Thursday, 20 November, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), will launch Condition: Critical – Voices from the war in eastern Congo, a year-long multimedia campaign focusing on the conflict raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo. read full story / add a comment |
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