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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).?

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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday October 06, 2007 21:36 by PaddyK   text 17 comments (last - tuesday october 30, 2007 13:57)
The upcoming "OneMillion Voices" Music event by the One Voice Organisation violates the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) Boycott criteria and is a "Normalisation Project" that enables injustice and Human rights violations to become normalised to the mainstream, according to Electronic Intafada. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 03, 2007 05:59 by Con Carroll   text 6 comments (last - tuesday november 06, 2007 01:15)
ignorance only happens because we allow it. read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 02, 2007 10:16 by Domhain Sceadaman   text 28 comments (last - sunday march 30, 2008 18:20)
During the period September 1992 to February 1993 an estimated £IR2.5 Billion was made by currency speculators ofshore betting against and for the Punt read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday October 01, 2007 15:29 by Davy Carlin   text 3 comments (last - wednesday august 20, 2008 13:34)
This is Part 4 of an online series for Indymedia Ireland, in which I will write one final Part in the time ahead.

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Banners at a protest
kildare / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 26, 2007 23:15 by Gosimeon   text 1 comment (last - sunday september 30, 2007 22:16)   image 5 images
White Water Shopping Centre is at the centre of an ongoing drama in Newbridge, County Kildare. The developer's, Ballymore Properties, have reneged on their promise to build a 6-screen cinema as part of the massive White Water Shopping Centre. Instead they have tried for over a year to change the cinema space to retail space. They have tried every trick in the book to do so. Here's an outline. read full story / add a comment
Some day they will isolate the hormone which causes shock & sell it.
international / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Tuesday September 25, 2007 17:56 by ribbid   text 22 comments (last - saturday january 08, 2011 21:15)   image 2 images
This week saw a state wide campaign launched in Italy to stop anorexia nervosa the psychological eating condition which overwhelmingly but not exclusively is suffered by women. There have been many campaigns to stop anorexia since the condition first gained prominence just around post-war period when Europeans generally had enough to eat again. But the campaign launched by Oliviero Toscani of Benetton notoriety could just as easily be accused of body fascism & means something more. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday September 24, 2007 22:23 by Oisín Ó Conail   text 3 comments (last - thursday september 27, 2007 02:05)
Much of debate about Genetically-Modified Organisms (GMO's) focuses on arguing about possible health issues; but are there other problems associated with patenting food-supplies, such as political and economic control? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday September 24, 2007 11:26 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
In his column in the Irish Times, the Washington Post's opinionator Charles Krauthammer has said that General Petraeus can defeat Al-Qaeda in Iraq. I disagree!

Far from defeating Al-Qaeda, the US occupation provides Islamist fighters with ideal terrain on which to recruit and train to overthrow Mr Bush’s friends in the house of Al-Saud, and does nothing to prevent Al-Qaeda cells elsewhere from planning attacks elsewhere.

Krauthammer’s comments bear no resemblance to the realities of fighting Al-Qaeda, and every resemblance to a propagandum formulated by the White House to justify a military strategy whose chances of success are next to nil. Krauthammer tells us nothing about Iraq, and everything about Washington.

Whte House staff are sure to go on vigorously propagating this implausible "We can defeat Al-Qaeda in Iraq" message in the media in coming months. My counter-analysis provides a copyright-free debunker for reuse as needs arise. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday September 23, 2007 00:15 by Rafael Uzcategui   text 5 comments (last - tuesday september 25, 2007 01:42)
* A member of the editorial collective of El Libertario (www.nodo50.org/ellibertario; in Spanish & English) prepared this article for the 6th edition of the Costa Rican (A) journal La Libertad [September 2007; http://revistalalibertad.blogspot.com] in response to an inconsistent effort to establish impossible affinities between Chavism and Anarchism. read full story / add a comment
Scargill- A BBC Image
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Saturday September 22, 2007 14:14 by C Murray   text 4 comments (last - saturday september 22, 2007 20:18)   image 2 images

The preamble to 'V':-

"My Father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to Master
words" Arthur Scargill, Sunday Times, 10th January 1982.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Scargill

'V', by Tony Harrison is no means his definite statement on or deconstruction of the systems
of power that mitigate against people, that would involve a look at his entire work, which include
his use of the Leeds vernacular in 'The Mysteries', his Translations of Seneca, which informed
the 'Theatre Works', his defence of ordinary people in Bosnia, Bradford, northern ireland
and his television collaborations which are collected in 'The Shadow of Hiroshima and
other film poems'

But in the last week the bogeys of the Thatcherite era have been re-surfacing in photo and
press and contemporarising for the neo-cons.. The Brown regime.
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national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Friday September 21, 2007 23:58 by Gwen   text 5 comments (last - sunday september 23, 2007 12:55)   image 2 images
Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan T.D. drastically cut subsidies for energy efficient homes on September 3rd and today Minister Gormley introduces regulations requiring the use of renewable energy systems in new buildings at the expense of the buyers. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday September 20, 2007 22:09 by Kevin T. Walsh   text 3 comments (last - sunday march 15, 2009 19:22)
The circus continues in relation to Bertie's cash lodgements and handouts - I will return to this in a minute....

But first I would like to point out the cutbacks in Sligo Hospital as reported today and as Drumm, the new God to Health said 'there are new limits now'. read full story / add a comment
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday September 20, 2007 13:23 by Adrian Nally   text 5 comments (last - sunday october 07, 2007 12:50)
Open letter to Minister John Gormley TD. The letter outlines how Limerick County Council's motor tax office have forced me off the road and are now failing to take responsibility for my plight. It is a complaint to the Minister, in the hopes that he may help to resolve the situation. I have not had an acknowledgement from the Minister's department yet in relation to my email. I have circulated my letter to a number of newspapers and it remains to be seen if they publish its contents. read full story / add a comment
Oops
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday September 18, 2007 13:17 by Seán Ryan   text 51 comments (last - tuesday october 09, 2007 11:48)   image 1 image
Bush's puppet exposed and incinerated.

Al Qaeda not in Iraq. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday September 18, 2007 12:55 by PaddyK   text 10 comments (last - saturday february 02, 2008 23:11)   image 1 image
25 years on and the world simply forgets the Sabra and Shatila Massacres. read full story / add a comment
cork / environment / opinion/analysis Tuesday September 18, 2007 11:39 by John Baker   text 5 comments (last - friday september 28, 2007 14:33)
This conference was organised by the Irish branch of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil to bring together people from government and the industry as well as some of those working to alleviate the problems. Unfortunately for a variety of reasons Cork Shell to Sea has so far been unable to gain entry but stimulated by the ideas presented on the ASPO website and our own experinces we put this leaflet together that we think raises points that anyone working in this area would do well to consider. This is the text, we plan to distribute this leaflet outside the conference later today and to write a further article in the next day or two. read full story / add a comment
by 2007 man will have harnessed the power of the Gerbil
international / environment / opinion/analysis Sunday September 16, 2007 15:43 by Fu Manchu   text 1 comment (last - saturday april 05, 2008 08:55)   image 1 image
Each year the average Italian eats 28kg of Pasta which is derived from wheat. This week Italians were urged to go on "pasta strike" to protest rising wheat costs which has seen their daily staple increase 20% in the last year. Elsewhere in Europe shoppers and eaters have found the price of bread rising in similar fashion. For their part farmers blame changing climatic conditions which increase voracious vermin (who doth eat the wheat) and stricter measures by governments to combat climate related problems (the hot sun doth prepare the land for fires thus seeing its chaff & voles burnt increases forest fires) and of course the war on Iraq (for increasing the cost of all oil including red diesel). All pretty convincing reasoning in a passing casual interest slice of toast sort of way.
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Sunday September 16, 2007 14:04 by john throne
The Service Employees Internation Union in the USA has led the way in the policy of co-operation with management. It is now facing increased opposition from within its own ranks to this policy. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday September 15, 2007 11:26 by Davy Carlin   text 3 comments (last - wednesday november 04, 2009 12:15)
This is part three of four parts in this series

A Legacy
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A Pyrrhic dance
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday September 14, 2007 16:46 by Seán Ryan   text 2 comments (last - sunday september 16, 2007 14:15)   image 6 images
Bush no longer looking for victory.

30,000 American troops to be pulled.

The future of Shannon?

Will we help to bomb and subdue Iran too? read full story / add a comment
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