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As he entered Downing Street, Keir Starmer told us he would "tread more lightly" on our lives. In 18 months Labour has gone from merely lying to bullshitting, losing all attachment to reality, says Sean Walsh.
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dublin / crime and justice / other press Monday April 12, 2010 20:47 by Christine Murphy
Gary Leupp, Professor of History at Tufts University and Adjunct Professor of Religion reports in Counterpunch that: Ratzinger conducts a devious slight-of-hand, feigning transparency and legal cooperation to obscure a history of concealment of egregious sex abuse instances “for the good of the Universal Church.” That’s the real history here, now requiring him to insist on diplomatic immunity so as not to appear in U.S. courtrooms. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday April 12, 2010 16:25 by pat c   text 3 comments (last - tuesday april 27, 2010 10:48)   image 1 image
Yassamine Mather writes about the ongoing Imperialist agenda to impose even stronger sanctions against Iran. Now Obama has the support of the Chinese regime. Yassamine makes it clear that this has got nothing to do with nuclear weapons. Full text at link.

For the last few months, every day - and at times more than once a day - media presentation of world news has been dominated by US attempts to impose sanctions on Iran. Sometimes it is the visit of a foreign head of state to Washington that is the occasion for the latest call; at other times it is Hillary Clinton’s world tour, or a phone call from Barack Obama to a Chinese leader. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday April 12, 2010 16:08 by pat c   image 1 image
Tony Greenstein writes on how the Zionists are continuing to cleanse the Occupied Territories, making parts of the West Banks permanent no go areas for Palestinians. But the Zionist State is also moving against Israeli Jews who oppose Zionism. Full text at link.

In the past two weeks there has been an increase in Israeli attacks on Gaza, culminating with the bombing by Israel of a factory and civilian areas on April 1. Presumably some form of April fool’s joke - with a vengeance.

However, the sporadic firing and shelling does not tell the whole story or even part of it. Israel continues to maintain its starvation blockade, which has in itself resulted in hundreds of silent deaths - ie, medical emergencies, the elderly and very young without nutrition, people living outdoors in the cold (concrete is barred from the list of imports). read full story / add a comment
Israeli soldier uses Palestinian boy as Human Shield.
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday April 12, 2010 15:43 by pat c   text 4 comments (last - monday may 17, 2010 14:49)   image 5 images
Stephen Lendman writes about the ongoing Zionist campaign against Palestinian Youth. Every year, approx 700 West Bank children, are arrested, detained, interrogated, and prosecuted in Israeli military "courts". About 6,500 since 2000. Full text at link.

In June 2009, Defence for Children International (DCI)/Palestine Section published a report titled, "Palestine Child Prisoners: The systematic and institutionalized ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities."

DCI/Palestine "is a national section of the international non-government child rights organisation and movement (dedicated) to promoting and protecting the rights of Palestinian children," according to international law principles. read full story / add a comment
national / education / other press Monday April 12, 2010 09:31 by MediaBite   text 1 comment (last - monday april 12, 2010 11:11)
Dr Gavan Titley of NUI Maynooth has written a guest article for MediaBite in which he analyses media coverage of the teaching union conferences last week. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday April 07, 2010 12:43 by Danny Kaplan   text 9 comments (last - friday april 09, 2010 18:03)   image 1 image
Democracy Now reports: Massacre Caught on Tape: US Military Confirms Authenticity of Their Own Chilling Video Showing Killing of Journalists.

The US military has confirmed the authenticity of newly released video showing US forces indiscriminately firing on Iraqi civilians. On Monday, the website WikiLeaks.org posted footage taken from a US military helicopter in July 2007 as it killed twelve people and wounded two children. The dead included two employees of the Reuters news agency, photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and driver Saeed Chmagh read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday April 06, 2010 15:19 by Darren C   text 1 comment (last - thursday april 15, 2010 20:56)
The English Defence League (EDL) wrought havoc on the streets of the Black Country Town of Dudley on Easter Saturday, attacking antifascists with firecrackers and laying siege to Dudley Central Mosque.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday April 05, 2010 15:02 by orangecitadel   text 1 comment (last - friday april 09, 2010 14:13)
Lebanese man, Ali Hussain Sabat, was arrested in Saudi Arabia for sorcery and is facing execution. Amnesty International is campaigning for him. You can write a letter in his defence or sign the Facebook petition. read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / other press Sunday April 04, 2010 20:10 by John Farrell   text 5 comments (last - wednesday april 07, 2010 08:58)
The IT is reporting that: Easter Sunday Mass at Dublin’s Pro Cathedral was briefly interrupted as protesters placed children’s shoes on the altar to represent the victims of clerical sex abuse.

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international / crime and justice / other press Saturday April 03, 2010 23:00 by no platform
Eugène Terre Blanche the horseriding Boer leader of the South African neo nazi movement who wanted to carve a seccessionist "homeland" for whites out of post apartheid South Africa has been murdered in his sleep on his farm just outside of Ventersdorp on April 3, 2010. It is alleged that he was beaten to death with pipes and pangas by two men ages 16 and 21 who apparently were upset over a wage dispute. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday April 02, 2010 15:19 by Anon   text 1 comment (last - monday june 13, 2011 02:06)
An Australian court finds that the existing drug laws, by reversing the onus of proof, violate the presumption of innocence. But all convictions stand. To any legislator who willingly allows the reverse onus of proof to continue, I say: May it please God that you become a victim of it. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday April 01, 2010 14:10 by John Cornford   image 1 image
Yassamine Mather interviews Mohammad Reza Shalgouni in the article below. Mohammad is a founder-member of the Organisation of Revolutionary Workers of Iran (Rahe Kargar) and has been a leader of the organisation for many years. Mohammad spent nine years as a political prisoner in Iran under the shah and today is an active supporter of Hands Off the People of Iran. In this interview he sstresses the need to oppose Imperialism as well as opposing Ahmadinejads regime. Full text at link.

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The office of Iran’s supreme leader is not only in total confrontation with the people, but at the same time most of the Shia ayatollahs who are accepted as sources of religious guidance are trying to distance themselves from him. The truth is that the traditional Shia religious governance is a form of republic (in the way Engels refers to the Protestant church as the ‘republican church’ and the Catholic church as the ‘Royalist church’), but now vali faghih is trying to change it into a royalist system, making the independence of centres of guidance impossible. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Monday March 29, 2010 16:34 by Citizen X
Below, in the public interest, is extracted approx. 495 words from Phoenix Magazine March 26, 2010 edition, page 9 (under the 500 word fair-use tradition). It suggests "The DFA will continue to get whatever secret overseas information it needs from the State Department and the Foreign Office on a nod and wink and whisper basis, while no one in Dublin notices that Irish passports are being misused." read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday March 28, 2010 19:35 by Ken Kelley   text 1 comment (last - sunday march 28, 2010 20:49)
-A high-level United Nations group has said it ‘‘regrets’’ that the Irish government did not reply to claims that it facilitated the illegal rendition of suspected Islamic activists through airports here.- read full story / add a comment
Orange Order linked to Fascist British National Party (BNP) - CLICK to READ
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday March 28, 2010 12:08 by Barry McCaffrey   text 8 comments (last - wednesday april 14, 2010 23:39)   image 3 images
Top Orangeman will contest poll for BNP
Irish News, 26 March 2010

by Barry McCaffrey

The Orange Order has refused to disassociate itself from a leading member who is due to stand as a BNP candidate in the Westminster election.

Yesterday the order was widely criticised after calling on members to protest against Pope Benedict's visit to England in September.

Last night it emerged that Nick Blake, a district master of the Orange Order in Devon, had been selected to stand for the far-right British National Party.

The order's leaderships in Northern Ireland and in England yesterday rejected calls from Alliance MLA Anna Lo to disassociate itself from Mr Blake, who will contest the poll in the constituency of Torridge and West Devon. read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday March 27, 2010 15:27 by Nora
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes the increasing American war front across the world: from Afghanistan to Africa and Latin America. This is the Third World War in all but name, waged by the only aggressive "ism" that denies it is an ideology and threatened not by introverted tribesmen in faraway places but by the anti-war instincts of its own citizens. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday March 25, 2010 16:43 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - tuesday april 06, 2010 14:38)   image 2 images
Nour Odeh writes about the funerals of four Palestinian teenagers who were murdered by the Israeli "Defence" Forces. Full story at url below.

Reporting on the death of children is never an easy task. It challenges your sense of professionalism and puts you face to face with the strongest of emotions; a mother’s inconsolable grief at the loss of her child.

On Sunday, I went through this unforgettable experience - four times. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday March 25, 2010 16:26 by Darren C   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 25, 2010 18:58)
In October 2009 a conference in Prague took important steps to form a new anticapitalist organisation. Several dozens activists met to discuss what should be it's basis and what methods should it use. The conference agreed a programmatic platform and the outlined the proceedings which will lead to the launch of a new organisation.

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Pat Walsh Irish Examiner 23 March 2010 - Irish Soldiers in British uniform fight and die for British interests
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday March 25, 2010 12:52 by Pat Walsh   text 1 comment (last - sunday march 28, 2010 15:40)   image 2 images
Gallipoli cost us more than soldiers

Irish Examiner 23 march 2010

As President Mary McAleese prepares to commemorate the Irish who died during the brutal Gallipoli campaign, Dr Patrick Walsh says it is time to reflect on the full significance of this terrible and costly battle

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese will deliver a speech tomorrow at the site of the famous 1915 Battle of Gallipoli at which nearly 4,000 Irishmen were killed.

She will speak of Irish nationalists and unionists who fought and died side by side in a campaign which left over 150,000 allied service men and an estimated 80,000 of the Ottoman force dead.

But while commemorating all those brave men, how many will realise or question the cause for which they fought or the consequences at the time for Ireland itself? read full story / add a comment
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