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national / arts and media Thursday April 24, 2008 - 17:22 by David Manning and Miriam Cotton
 6 comments (last - thursday may 01, 2008 - 18:17)
"Above all, perhaps, the story [of the Irish Hospital's Sweepstake] underlines what journalism must continue to combat: censorship, state secrecy and the unwarranted power of an influential few." [Stephen Dodd writing in 2003 in the Sunday Independent, one of only a handful of mainstream articles on the issue] [1] Journalist Joe MacAnthony details his experiences of working within the Irish mainstream media. From the early heady days in his time with the Irish Times, where 'scandal thrived in house', to the wage cuts and ostracism following his exposure of Ray Burke's dealings. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday April 23, 2008 - 14:11 by tomeile
19 comments (last - thursday may 01, 2008 - 13:08)
Hillary Clinton ratcheted up the threats to Iran on Monday ahead of the Democrat Party’s decisive primary election in the state of of Pennsylvania. Delivering a well-prepared response on ABC's Good Morning America program to a loaded question about what she would do in the event of Iranian nuclear attack on Israel, Clinton warned , "In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them. That's a terrible thing to say but those people who run Iran need to understand that because that perhaps will deter them from doing something that would be reckless, foolish and tragic." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday April 22, 2008 - 13:48 by David L
4 comments (last - thursday april 24, 2008 - 16:22)
A pro-Israel pressure group is orchestrating a secret, long-term campaign to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian history, pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia administrative structures to ensure these changes go either undetected or unchallenged. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday April 21, 2008 - 21:35 by Catholic Worker
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Bishop Thomas Gumbleton is a Catholic Bishop from Detroit. He attended the first trial of the Pitstop Ploughshares www.peaceontrial.com in Dublin in March 05 walking to court with the five defendants. He was the youngest Bishop ever appointed in the American church and the longest serving Bishop in the United States. He visited Iraq a number of times in the 1990's breaking the sanctions. The Catholic Worker founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in New York City in 1933 is an anarcho pacifist faith based movement of 180 communities ... read full story / add a comment 
international / housing Monday April 21, 2008 - 14:57 by redjade
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Download it, Print it, Distribute it ... ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Sunday April 20, 2008 - 21:37 by Laura Broxson
BAN ANIMAL CIRCUSES NOW! ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Sunday April 20, 2008 - 20:14 by ec
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In one of the most well known political interventions by an artist in Irish political affairs, Brian O'Doherty, in 1972 in the aftermath of Bloody Sunday, vowed to use the pseudonym 'Patrick Ireland' until ' the British military presence is removed from Northern Ireland and all citizens are granted their civil rights." He has continued to use the pseudonym since but is about to lay it to rest in IMMA. Details of the 'burial', which will take palce at IMMA on 20th May and the full press release for the event are available here: http://recirca.com/artnews/592.shtml Brian O'Doherty AKA Patrick Ireland and Robert Ballagh were interviewed in this documentary film about his 1972 gesture. It includes still images of the original 'ceremony'. Art / Conflict : 2 X Zones http://www.indymedia.ie/article/77220 ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday April 20, 2008 - 13:14 by TD
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In today's UK, Independent on Sunday, Donald Macintyre illuminates the routine brutality, thievery and knavery of the Israeli Occupation Forces in the West Bank city of Hebron, but, thanks to the lord bejaysus, some of them have conscience and regrets and speak out: "In a confessional interview with the Israeli Channel Two investigative programme Uvda, Gigi, who had previously been in many ways a model soldier, talked of "losing the human condition" in Hebron. Asked what he meant, he replied: "To lose the human condition is to become an animal" ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Friday April 18, 2008 - 17:23 by Tech1.0
12 comments (last - friday march 13, 2009 - 13:00)
Not to mention a reference to David Cochrane's (of Politics.ie and Libertas), scrubbing of any reference to Ganley's Iraqi connections from his website. I publish the article here in the national interest. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday April 18, 2008 - 15:30 by Kurt Jurgens
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Today we witness the international media reporting on the fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. Few of the journalists have ever served in the military and few of them can understand the overwhelming fear, terror and daily brutality that turns men into merciless killers. In our nice sanitised view of war, soldier kill other soldiers and do not gun down prisoners with their hands up. The intensely savage battle for Fallujah, an American soldier was filmed shooting an apparently unarmed and wounded insurgent. In Haditha, a squad of American soldiers ran amok and cut down men women and children with automatic weapons and grenades. Such behaviour is nothing new in war. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Friday April 18, 2008 - 10:38 by Stephen O' Regan
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Coverage of the Farmers Protest on Dame Street, Thursday 17/04/2008. ... read full story / add a comment |
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