Upcoming Events

no events match your query!

Blog Feeds

Anti-Empire

Anti-Empire

offsite link North Korea Increases Aid to Russia, Mos... Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link Trump Assembles a War Cabinet Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link Slavgrinder Ramps Up Into Overdrive Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link ?Existential? Culling to Continue on Com... Mon Nov 11, 2024 10:28 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link US to Deploy Military Contractors to Ukr... Sun Nov 10, 2024 02:37 | Field Empty

Anti-Empire >>

Human Rights in Ireland
Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

Human Rights in Ireland >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Trans Activists at London Demo Called for TERFs to be Hanged and Defaced Seven Statues, Including Ne... Sun Apr 20, 2025 19:00 | Toby Young
Trans rights activists held a demo in London yesterday to protest Wednesday's Supreme Court decision and defaced seven statues, including Nelson Mandela's and Millicent Fawcett's.
The post Trans Activists at London Demo Called for TERFs to be Hanged and Defaced Seven Statues, Including Nelson Mandela?s appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Guardian Ditches ?Settled Science? for ?Climate Justice? in Effort to Avoid Reality Sun Apr 20, 2025 17:00 | Charles Rotter
In the Guardian's latest climate gobbledegook, Friederike Otto redefines climate change as a "crisis of justice", focusing on moralising and social justice rather than the science, argues Charles Rotter.
The post Guardian Ditches ?Settled Science? for ?Climate Justice? in Effort to Avoid Reality appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Banks and Business are Talking Sense on Climate at Last. But it Must not be Just Talk Sun Apr 20, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
Corporations and banks are shifting from "green-washing" to "green-hushing", but unless this marks real change, it's just more empty promises, warns Bjorn Lomborg.
The post Banks and Business are Talking Sense on Climate at Last. But it Must not be Just Talk appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?Final Proof That the Labour Party I Once Loved is Hopelessly out of Touch? Sun Apr 20, 2025 13:00 | Richard Eldred
The Labour Party's failure to align with legal and public sentiment on women's rights and trans issues, has rendered it hopelessly out of touch, says women's rights advocate Professor Jo Phoenix in the Mail.
The post ?Final Proof That the Labour Party I Once Loved is Hopelessly out of Touch? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Leaked Messages Show Labour?s Fury at Transgender Supreme Court Ruling Sun Apr 20, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
Leaked WhatsApp messages show Labour ministers are secretly plotting to defy a Supreme Court ruling affirming biological sex in single-sex spaces ? despite publicly pretending to back it.
The post Leaked Messages Show Labour?s Fury at Transgender Supreme Court Ruling appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

Voltaire Network >>

where is all the money gone??
dublin / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 20, 2010 17:18 by Gregor Kerr   text 1 comment (last - friday october 22, 2010 15:17)   image 1 image
Zombie developers….. Vampire bankers….. Ghost estate creators….. Black holes that swallow tens of billions of Euros…..

They sound like characters from a particularly eerie Hallowe’en tale of horrors. However while they might be spooky, there’s nothing fictional about this array of characters
read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 20, 2010 16:05 by Paddy Hackett
"Why not freeze all mortgage payments for two years? Nobody makes any payment on their mortgage until November 2012. If we assume a conservative multiplier of only 1.4, Ireland would get € 20 bn worth of stimulus without upsetting our EU leaders rules at all." read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 20, 2010 00:09 by LATIF SERHILDAN
UK Delegation in Diyarbakir to observe the trial of 151 Kurdish political activists and human rights defenders.
Press Statement as read out to the Turkish media - 19 October 2010
read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday October 18, 2010 16:03 by Robert Long   text 52 comments (last - monday november 01, 2010 00:05)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Artficialy Flouridating water a peoples supply was first propsed in the Soviet gulags as way to induce a docile state and eventually kill of the prisoners it was then usedin Nazi concentration camps.
Its effects are extremly damaging and it is considered a medince under EU law.
Therefore the Irish government is practicing medicine without a license and without the consent of the Irish people at their expenense !
This is also a breach of our constitutional as well as human rights ! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday October 18, 2010 12:08 by José Antonio Gutiérrez D.
Like millions of others, I was absolutely delighted to see the trapped miners in the San José mine in Chile getting out alive from their stressful, claustrophobic confinement which they'd been in for almost 70 days as a result of negligence on the part of the mining companies. I could only be thrilled to see this terrible story of grief and suffering come to a happy ending and see tears exchanged for bursts of laughter. But at the same time, mixed with my joy at seeing these 33 condemned men return to life, I still had a feeling that was a mixture of revulsion and anger at the show put on by the very people who had dug what could have been these men's graves. I have no wish to be a killjoy, but when the natural euphoria that has engulfed the country calms down, a great many questions will need to be asked. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Sunday October 17, 2010 18:36 by Anne Mc Shane   text 24 comments (last - tuesday november 02, 2010 15:36)
Working class people throughout Ireland are suffering deep anxiety. With poverty, homelessness and unemployment escalating, the feeling is that we are on the edge of a phenomenal disaster.

That sense of dread has been exploited by a government bent on even more savage attacks on public spending. We had been told previously that we were facing €3 billion in cuts this December. Now it is certain to be much more. A new four year economic plan is to be imposed aimed at reducing the economic deficit to 3% by 2014. So there could be up to €7 billion in cuts this December, with more to follow. This will mean increases in taxes, in particular the introduction of taxes on the low-paid. It will also mean unprecedented attacks on health-care, social welfare, child benefit, pensions, education and just about every area of social provision. read full story / add a comment
galway / environment / opinion/analysis Sunday October 17, 2010 01:26 by donkylemore
Having written 6 times to sen o brolochan and not having had one response i wrote this letter and had it published in a local paper read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Saturday October 16, 2010 21:22 by Luke Eastwood   text 2 comments (last - monday october 25, 2010 15:21)
Typical short-sightedness on the part of the government is leading to Ireland falling behind rather than making positive developments for our future... read full story / add a comment
dublin_09.jpg
dublin / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Saturday October 16, 2010 18:11 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora   image 2 images
Gael-Taca: www.gael-taca.com
Forbairt Feirste: www.forbairtfeirste.com
Gaillimh Le Gaeilge: www.gleg.ie read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Saturday October 16, 2010 15:48 by john throne
In 1973 the democratically elected Allende government which was trying to improve conditions for the Chilean workers and peasants was overthrown by a US backed dictatorship. The thug Pinochet was put in power. It slaughtered tens of thousands of workers and peasants. Pinera the President of Chile we see with his phony grin and his brother were backers of the dictatorship. We need to reach out to the miners to help them use their worldwide fame and strength to organize an international tour to organize the organized and to build solidarity with all workers. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday October 14, 2010 17:40 by john throne   text 3 comments (last - friday october 15, 2010 20:32)   video 1 video file
Now is the time for the international workers movement to build a world tour for the Chilean miners. this should have as objectives. Organize the unorganized. explaining that capitalism does not work. Promoting the alternative of democratic socialism world wide. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday October 08, 2010 19:50 by Paddy Healy   text 1 comment (last - saturday october 09, 2010 16:32)
Among the taxation proposals being mooted by government for the next and subsequent budgets is an extension of tax to the lower paid. This is to be accompanied by continued draconian reductions in the provision of health, education and other services required by the population generally and particularly by the poor. Government cuts and impositions on the poor and those on middle incomes who spend most of their income in Ireland will flatten the economy and increase the disastrous levels of unemployment and emigration. read full story / add a comment
lisbon_poster.jpg
international / eu / opinion/analysis Thursday October 07, 2010 17:03 by Barry McColgan   image 2 images
We all remember the slogan's so well, 'Yes for Jobs and Investment', from the soldiers of misfortune, 'Yes it's that important' from the latte supping continental sophisticated lot, and even got exposed to a pair of melons and a tight pair of EU branded Speedos in a sexed up poster campaign from the blue shirts, all in promotion and pursuit of a yes vote for the Lisbon Treaty this time last year. read full story / add a comment
 Horses are not protected from abuse at the fair or afterwards.
dublin / animal rights / opinion/analysis Thursday October 07, 2010 00:15 by Bernie Wright   text 3 comments (last - monday march 07, 2011 18:38)   image 1 image
Smithfield HORSE market in Dublin 7 is held on the first Sunday of every month. It has been held every month for almost 280 years. Last Sunday the scene there was akin to a scene from Mad Max the movie. A tiny foal was abandoned in a sad neglected condition, two punch ups broke out with crowds charging dangerously to get a closer look. A man was spotted carrying a sword and Sulkies and 4-wheeled carts were raced around the roads despite the best efforts by Gardai to stop this. The incidents of two wheeled carts being ridden with distressed horses and at immense speed around the city roads are increasing at an alarming rate.

read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday October 03, 2010 07:16 by Michael Hudson with General Joe   text 8 comments (last - tuesday october 05, 2010 16:14)
"The neoliberals are fully in control of the bureaucracy, and they are reviving Margaret Thatcher's slogan, TINA: There Is No Alternative. But there is, of course. In the small Baltic economies, pro-labor parties have made it clear that the alternative to government shrinkage is to simply repeal the debts, withdraw from the Euro and break the banks. It is either the banks or labor - and Europe has just realized that this is truly a fight to the economic death. And the first test will come this Saturday, when Latvia holds its national parliamentary elections." read full story / add a comment
rnu.png
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday September 30, 2010 11:29 by RNU PRO   image 1 image
On behalf of the Republican Network for Unity (RNU), I’d like to claim victory as the draft Public Assemblies Parades and Protest Bill surpassed its dead line and fell flat on its face. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Monday September 27, 2010 16:57 by Declan Cullen   text 1 comment (last - tuesday september 28, 2010 12:21)
With all the talk of who should govern the country, and how much Brian Cowen drank.
There is still the fact that the Irish people are being led around like hapless sheep.
It would not matter a damn who got into power, because the banks, EU and the IMF
(in the near future) would be the ones calling all the shots. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Monday September 27, 2010 16:12 by David   text 2 comments (last - tuesday september 28, 2010 11:37)
We have spent billions on the LUAS tram rail which only stretches a couple of miles,in the city of dublin,and now we are having to spend a further couple of billion for a project that is over budget and already late for the schedule date!There is a market in ireland for a national connected rail,not just an over budget rail that only stretches a few miles from dublin to killiney..Bus services and train services in ireland are infamous for being uncordinated.There are places in ireland you still cannot get to,and in order to get anwhere in ireland you need a car,to travel,maybe it could even clean up road deaths.
read full story / add a comment
search engine of the sick and twisted..?
international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Friday September 24, 2010 22:45 by Clodagh   text 15 comments (last - thursday october 07, 2010 18:11)   image 1 image
In the decade of widespread access to information technology and all the sucess, it has brought few, there are still an abundance of laws that need to be amended. While the business elites were re packaging the internet which later became known as the user friendly World Wide Web. There are a lot of unresolved problems that have yet to be dealt with such as criminality on the internet, the buying and selling of stolen goods, weapons, human trafficing, snuff video's and of course,peadophilia. In some countries for instance it is not illegal to view naked images of young girls and boys. If European citizens are law abiding and have nothing to hide, they should have no problem with declaration 29.

A proposal to retain all Internet search traffic, known as "Written Declaration 29," was adopted by the European Parliament last week. Framed as a measure to crack down on paedophiles, the controversial Declaration calls on the EU to require that search engines store all search traffic for up to two year read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday September 24, 2010 12:58 by Paddy Hackett   text 3 comments (last - tuesday september 28, 2010 18:08)
The forces of production determine the character of the relations of production. read full story / add a comment
This page can be viewed in
English Gaeilge

IMC network

© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy