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offsite link The Saker blog is now frozen Tue Feb 28, 2023 23:55 | The Saker
Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.? We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).?

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

offsite link Moveable Feast Cafe 2023/02/27 ? Open Thread Mon Feb 27, 2023 19:00 | cafe-uploader
2023/02/27 19:00:02Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of

offsite link The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
Pepe Escobar for the Saker blog A powerful feeling rhythms your skin and drums up your soul as you?re immersed in a long walk under persistent snow flurries, pinpointed by

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offsite link Panic Over Labour Wealth Tax to Fill ?30 Billion Black Hole as Millionaires Flee UK Mon Jul 07, 2025 13:22 | Will Jones
Alarm has set in as Labour grandees and union paymasters push Reeves to bring in a wealth tax to raise spending and plug a yawning ?30bn black hole in Government finances, despite millionaires already fleeing the country.
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offsite link Introducing POTS: The Next Social Contagion to Grip Miserable Teenage Girls Mon Jul 07, 2025 11:00 | Mary Gilleece
Walking sticks are taking off among teenage girls, and Mary Gilleece spies a social contagion taking hold. They're getting diagnosed with POTS ? which, naturally, leaves them in need of lots of attention and support.
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offsite link Terrorists Inside UK Prisons Teaching Inmates How to Make Bombs, Study Reveals Mon Jul 07, 2025 09:00 | Richard Eldred
Terrorists in UK prisons are teaching gangsters how to make bombs and picking up criminal skills in return ? fuelling a dangerous alliance that poses a serious national security threat.
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offsite link Another Oil Refinery Bites the Dust Mon Jul 07, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Britain's Net Zero zealotry, crippling taxes and political sabotage have driven another oil refinery to collapse ? yet Ed Miliband and the Guardian would rather blame mismanagement than face the truth, says Ben Pile.
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offsite link News Round-Up Mon Jul 07, 2025 01:55 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday February 06, 2012 05:31 by Cork Against Fascism
Visit organised by Cork Against Fascism, as part of its UCC No Platform for Fascists campaign, to include two talks on the dangers of far-right politics. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / environment / news report Sunday February 05, 2012 22:23 by Nico   image 5 images
Today (5/2/12), the Dublin Citizens Defence Committee (CDC) in co-operation with residents in Charlemont Street, participated in organising and carried out work on a communal garden for the area. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Saturday February 04, 2012 20:42 by Darren C   text 2 comments (last - thursday february 16, 2012 13:50)
Yes, it’s kicking off everywhere.

Over the last 18 months we have seen a sea change in resistance and popular consciousness. The Arab Spring has put revolution back on the agenda of global politics.

In Britain, we’ve seen the occupation of Millbank and student revolt, the huge TUC March and now the massive N30 strike.

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dublin / racism & migration related issues / event notice Saturday February 04, 2012 19:03 by Memet Uludag   text 1 comment (last - sunday february 05, 2012 11:01)
Public Meeting: The Crises of Multiculturalism.
Speaker: Dr. Gavan Titley
Lecturer in Media Studies, National University of Ireland Maynooth read full story / add a comment
The Political Interment Of Marian Price
international / crime and justice / news report Saturday February 04, 2012 11:35 by BrianClarkeNUJ   text 1 comment (last - saturday february 04, 2012 11:42)   image 1 image
A sectarian bigoted debate on the re-introduction of political internment without trial in the instance of Marian Price in British occupied Ireland with video. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday February 04, 2012 08:33 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 3 comments (last - monday february 20, 2012 12:48)   image 1 image
By the time I lived in community with Phil Berrigan, he was a wise old man. He had served many years in U.S. prisons for his nonviolent resistance to the Vietnam War and nuclear weapons - initiating the draft board raids and plowshares movements. After I moved on, he would serve many more years. He was in the very best sense disillusioned with popular American pretensions. He suffered from few illusions. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Friday February 03, 2012 11:00 by Indyjourno with Geri Timmons   text 1 comment (last - monday february 06, 2012 13:18)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist was born in 1944 in North Dakota on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. He is the 11th child of 13 children and from his early years suffered racism and brutal poverty at the hands of US government and its officials. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Friday February 03, 2012 09:31 by Declan Cullen   text 2 comments (last - saturday february 04, 2012 10:27)
The people of this nation are is fed up with the corruption, lies and theft that is ongoing in this country and carried out by our so - called leaders, and rightly so. But now with all the aforementioned becoming more apparent, the people of this nation should now understand WHY this really happened in .............. read full story / add a comment
Alan Shatter letter to William Irwin MLA
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday February 03, 2012 09:05 by Derek Leinster   image 3 images
Labour TD Robert Dowds is putting down a Dail question to the Justice Minister Alan Satter based on Alan Shatter's letter to WIlliam Irwin MLA - see graphic. The question will ask:

"What consideration is being given to issues relating to the former Bethany Home and the appropriateness and practicality of such issues being addressed in a satisfactory manner and would the Minister make a statement on the subject."

This is the second time that a member of the Northern Assembly has expressed concern about the government's neglect of this group of survivors. Minister Arlene Foster wrote to Martin McAleese asking him to include Bethany Home in in his investigation of Magdalen laundries. The government refused to allow this - see letters. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday February 02, 2012 21:37 by Frčres Goncourt
During an international meeting in December 2011 in Frankfurt am Main, several left wing organisations and grassroots unions from Greece, Spain, Poland, Austria and Germany decided to launch a joint effort against capitalist reforms under the current crisis. read full story / add a comment
Irish News front page 2nd February 2012 - full story here
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday February 02, 2012 19:38 by Theobald Wolfe Tone   image 1 image
The Irish News 2 February 2012
Exclusive - Full scale of abuse against Catholic worker revealed
Seanin Graham, Health Correspondent,

The full scale of the sectarian abuse against a Catholic social worker can be revealed today. Co Down woman Laurena Kane (43) was awarded a Ł60,000 payout from the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust at the High Court last week but The Irish News has now seen the result of an internal investigation which sets out the case in full.

While the trust did not admit liability until last month, the internal 2009 investigation concludes the "sustained" sectarian comments represented a "serious case of alleged harassment" which the trust failed to address.

The leaked document reveals the contents of interviews with the "chief protagonist" of the abuse - named in court as Barbara Lowry - and six other staff members.
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POlice outside the NAMA building - All rights reserved by Paul C Reynolds - used with permission
dublin / housing / news report Thursday February 02, 2012 16:28 by Andrew interviews Cat & Moira   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
On Saturday 28th January Unlock NAMA opened an occupied building in the center of Dublin for a day of lectures about NAMA, Ireland's 'Bad Bank.' The event was cut short by a large number of police who turned up and ordered them out of the building. In this 40 minute interview Andrew Flood interviews Cat & Moira from Unlock NAMA about the occupation, what NAMA is and what Unlock NAMA demands. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Thursday February 02, 2012 02:53 by Gary Guy   text 2 comments (last - tuesday february 07, 2012 12:22)
Predictable lamestream media reviewers had little to say about how The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is rife with current political, sociological, technological and religious implications. The movie is about a 24-year-old, gothic-punk-looking, cyberspace hacker, with an issue with men who have histories or sexual or violent predation. She is on a mission to right the world of a few rapists and killers. This is not a standard movie review. Plenty reviews already exist on the Internet for you to get the gist of the story and its characters. This critique is strictly in regards to the movie and is more about interesting political and social commentary in relation to the movie and some of its reviews.
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national / crime and justice / news report Thursday February 02, 2012 02:26 by Justin Morahan   text 59 comments (last - saturday february 11, 2012 11:36)   image 1 image
The website www.rate-your-solicitor.com. has been shut down without trace. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday February 01, 2012 21:59 by Prisoner solidarity group-Cork City.
Internment, Torture and Resistance!
Independent Public Protest in solidarity with all republican prisoners in Maghaberry! read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday February 01, 2012 12:38 by Geri Timmons   text 1 comment (last - wednesday february 01, 2012 14:47)
Our fight must continue, our voices must be heard in the case involving Leonard Peltier. Get involved, join the campaign to Free Leonard Peltier read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday February 01, 2012 09:23 by Film Qlub
A beautiful film about married life “in illness and in health”, based on the relationship between the poet Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday January 31, 2012 22:59 by RAG Dublin   text 16 comments (last - monday march 05, 2012 10:03)   image 1 image
A meeting in Dublin for anti-authoritarian groups and individuals read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday January 31, 2012 09:33 by Joe McIvor   text 2 comments (last - friday february 10, 2012 12:02)
"Left" groups of a similar stamp to the ULA are being integrated into the highest echelons of government in other parts of Europe to act as responsible oppositions to austerity measures . One such group is Germany's Die Link , the Left Party , whose representative Christine Buchholz sits on the country's Defence Committee, a body 'charged with defending “the security of the country and of Germany’s allies, as well as the interests of Bundeswehr [armed forces] personnel on active service.”'
Shilton argues that the ULA is seen by the Troika as “a useful safety valve for popular opposition to the austerity policies of the major parties, and a potential future collaborator in government to defend the capitalist system against the working class. “
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Picture shows: right to left: Minister Joe Costello, Deputy Clare Daly, Noel Gregory (brother of the late independent TD Tony Gregory), Roderick O' Gorman, Green Party Chairman, and Aideen Yourell, PRO of the Irish Council Against Blood Sports.
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 31, 2012 08:29 by Ban Hare Coursing Now!   text 3 comments (last - thursday february 02, 2012 11:14)   image 5 images
We hope politicians of all parties who oppose the savagery of hare coursing will support the Private Members Bill that Dail Deputies Maureen O’ Sullivan and Clare Daly intend to move shortly. read full story / add a comment
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