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international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Saturday July 21, 2012 21:51 by lefty
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Abstract: For most progressive activists, it is a given that the military-industrial
complex is a clear and highly visible barrier to progressive social change. So it is particularly interesting to note that a number of groups involved in progressive activist education – which are held in high regard by activists – maintain strong links to military and political elites. One of the best known of these organisations is the US-based Albert Einstein Institution. This paper will provide a systematic analysis of the history of this Institution, and the key people associated with it, and demonstrate how their work is intimately linked to the international democracy-manipulating community – whose work is exemplified by the US-based National Endowment for Democracy, a group which is well-known for its support of the failed 2002 coup in Venezuela. This analysis will expose the crucial role such activist educators play in catalysing revolutions in countries deemed appropriative for regime change by transnational elites. In the light of the dubious nature of these educational activities, this paper will conclude by offering a number of suggestions for how concerned citizens and educators may counter the cynical (ab)use of activist education by political elites as a new and powerful tool of imperialism. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday July 20, 2012 12:36 by Psycho Punk.
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In Moscow a court has begun hearing the case of three feminist punk rockers who sang a protest song in Moscow's main Orthodox church.The trio are charged with hooliganism and could get seven years in prison. The hearing, expected to set a trial start date, is being held behind closed doors while supporters and opponents of Pussy Riot demonstrate outside.The women were arrested in February after performing in Christ the Saviour Cathedral. They have now spent 5 months in prison, and have been refused bail. Other band members who took part in the incident were not arrested. read full story / add a comment 
cork / miscellaneous / event notice Friday July 20, 2012 12:28 by Eric
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On Thursday 26 July Solidarity Books will host "Ireland and the Shadow Banking System", a talk by Dr. Conor McCabe author of "Sins of the Father: Tracing the Decisions that Shaped the Irish Economy (2011)". Start time is 7pm. Hope to see you there. Conor McCabe is a journalist and writer with the online publications Dublin Opinion and Irish Left Review. His specialities are economics and Irish politics. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday July 20, 2012 05:25 by BrianClarkeNUJ
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The Magna Carta, the charter of English liberties was imposed on King John in 1215 but it will be dead on its anniversary. It has been shredded in Ireland by the Secret Services and their front man the unelected English autocrat Paterson,who re-introduced the wartime instrument of internment without trial in total disdain of a supposed peace process. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday July 20, 2012 00:33 by pat c
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Bill Van Auken reports on the suicide bombing in Damascus which killed leading members of Assads Cabinet. The bombing may have been carried out by fundamentalists but it was inspired by Israel or the US. Full text at link. A suicide bomber's attack on a meeting of cabinet ministers and senior security officials claimed the lives of at least three senior members of the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday. Syrian state media confirmed Wednesday that Defense Minister Dawould Rajha, his deputy, Assef Shawkat, the brother-in-law of the president, and Hasan Turkmani, Assad's security adviser, were killed in the morning blast, which occurred during a top-level meeting held in the tightly secured National Security Building in the Rawda district of central Damascus read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Thursday July 19, 2012 13:54 by ALiberation
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ALiberation have held demonstrations to ban the use of animals in circuses and to highlight that Dublin City Council land is used since last Saturday and will continue to do so till the circus leaves on the 22nd July. read full story / add a comment 
cork / arts and media / event notice Thursday July 19, 2012 11:00 by Eric
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Join us this Thursday, July 19, 8pm, for a showing of 'The Time That Remains' ( 2009 dir. Elia Suleiman 109mins ) Presented by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Group read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday July 16, 2012 18:06 by pat c
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The media are quick report massacres in Syria. However when real State massacres of civilians take place in India you rarely hear anything. Full text at link. When we entered the village there was a solemn air about it. The only humans we saw there were some heavily armed paramilitary forces inside the bushes - they might have been from CoBRA force or CRPF. The men in arms averted our gaze. They couldn't meet our eye with the shadow of the dastardly act of a few days ago looming large over them. read full story / add a comment |
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