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international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Thursday April 01, 2010 00:25 by Portia   text 1 comment (last - friday april 02, 2010 20:04)
The Catholic church has behaved like a cult in keeping women and children as second class human beings who were expected to obey the men of God without question.

The influence of this church has infiltrated most Government agencies especially the legal system where once again women and children were often made homeless for refusing to put up with abuse and play happy families. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 31, 2010 15:43 by Angry Green   text 26 comments (last - wednesday november 06, 2013 00:33)   image 1 image
It is now time to form a new more left of centre Green Party as Traditional Green policies such as Climate Change, emissions reduction and renewable energy, while I agree with them are no longer enough. We don’t just want to save the planet. We want to make life so much better for the people living on it. The current Green Party has not delivered ( with the notable exception of power points for non currently existent electric cars!) and has no new ideas of any note whatsoever. They are no different than the other parties out there at the moment. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 30, 2010 16:02 by Róisín Ní Maoileoin   text 8 comments (last - thursday april 01, 2010 16:44)
The Government have negotiated a tentative agreement with the public sector unions. Let us have a look at what the union representatives agreed to:

1. No restoration of pay cuts
2. Longer hours for the same wages
3. 7-day work weeks resulting in no overtime
4. Redeployment of workers at Government's discretion
5. Staff reduction
6. Outsourcing of public sector jobs at Government discretion read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday March 28, 2010 05:14 by Keith Reid   text 5 comments (last - sunday may 09, 2010 16:19)
Season two of The Wire, aired in 2003, explores working-class promises being broken in east-coast urban America. The series looks at the declining industry of Baltimore's docklands, and the implications for many working-class men, who are suffering the consequences of 21st capitalism. read full story / add a comment
galway / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday March 27, 2010 23:40 by donkylemore   text 1 comment (last - monday march 29, 2010 16:27)
What do the greens stand for anymore
They are Not about

1. Openness in government
2 not about reforming politics
3 not about accountability
4. Not about scaling the government down
5 not about protecting our revered sites and places of veneration
6 not about Honesty

A query and a reply illustrates something about a character type read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Friday March 26, 2010 21:17 by Paddy Hackett   text 2 comments (last - tuesday march 30, 2010 17:17)
A terse comment on the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. read full story / add a comment
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derry / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday March 26, 2010 19:00 by Eleanor   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 30, 2010 23:40)   image 3 images
The 14 Raytheon accused are 9 women and 5 men, based in Derry, in the north of Ireland, who are facing criminal charges after they used Non Violent Direct Action to access the Raytheon Software plant in Derry, in an attempt to disarm the mainframe computer.

Raytheon are the world's largest manufacturer of missiles and the world's fifth largest weapons manufacturer.

Until they left in February 2010 (thanks to all the action taken against them), Raytheon's Derry software plant developed the firmware for transponders, targeting software and other crucial guidance system-related work for weapons.

Their factories globally manufacture Tomahawk Cruise missiles, Sidewinder missiles, Hellfire missiles, the "Bunker Buster" bombs, the delivery systems for Cluster bombs, White Phosphate and Napalm.
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international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Thursday March 25, 2010 11:33 by Homer Hostage
Karl Rove, right-wing advocate of torture and government by assassination, broadcast on the air a detailed description of the floor plan of Air Force 1, during a radio interview. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Monday March 22, 2010 11:37 by TaraL
50 years ago an experiment was conducted by Stanley Milgram, measuring the willingness of participants to obey an authoritative figure dressed in white coat that instructed them to illicit shocks on another human being, called the learner. read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday March 19, 2010 14:12 by donkylemore   text 23 comments (last - thursday march 25, 2010 16:35)   image 1 image
Forget about Blair ..
As the baroness leads the EU team to negotiate in the region with the other members of the quartet
what can be achieved .
-Nothing unless sanctions are applied against Israel and the UN courts come out with less ambiguous deliberations .
The danger is that situation will escalate into another JIhad and open an opportunity for Iran to enter the fray.. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday March 18, 2010 22:05 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin
"Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience."
Rebecca West
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galway / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 16, 2010 13:25 by donkylemore
Both Shia communities In Iran and Iraq can see that ‘’ the enemy of my enemy is also my friend ‘’ and in this regard they will find common ground in their distrust of the West and Israel with possibly dreadful consequences .
So while it suited the US to have Iran and Iraq locked in a decade of war , the tables are perversely reversed now .
Mission Accomplished ?
The world is in a more parlous state after G.W Bush's military folly

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national / education / opinion/analysis Friday March 12, 2010 22:31 by Emily Smith   text 17 comments (last - tuesday march 23, 2010 14:56)   image 1 image
Articles about the shortcomings of recent graduates appeared in all of last weekend's papers. This is a response to those articles from one of those illiterate graduates. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday March 12, 2010 19:48 by Kieran McNulty   text 2 comments (last - saturday april 03, 2010 11:50)
In January 2006 the Government accepted the recommendations contained in an independent report that it had commissioned, Vision for Change (VFC), as the basis for its future mental health policy. In the four years since the report’s publication almost nothing has been done to realise its full implementation.
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galway / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Friday March 12, 2010 11:45 by donkylemore   text 43 comments (last - monday may 17, 2010 00:10)   image 4 images   video 7 video files
The UN mandate 424 demands that Israel return to it's pre '67 borders.
She has refused to do so in 40 years.
Israel 's hegemony in the region is manifest in her military and social expansionist policies .
She ignores the rest of the world , perpetrates whatever atrocities she chooses with impunity. When criticized by the Goldstein report she attacked Goldstein , then attacken the UN for having the timerity to criticize her invasion of Lebanon and killing of over 1400 civilians.
There is one bizarre and paradoxical for a recalibrating the balance of power in the Middle East.... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Thursday March 11, 2010 17:42 by Drew
The following excerpts are from an interview by the Iranian student’s newspaper Bazr (issue 45-February 2010) with Shahrzad Mojab. This long interview is on the current political and social situation in Iran. The section excerpted here concerns the woman question and the role of Iranian women in the recent struggle that we are reprinting on the occasion of 8th March, International Women’s Day. Shahrzad Mojab is an Iranian women activist and researcher who left Iran in 1983. She is the author of numerous papers and books on Iranian women, Kurdish women, and women in war zones. Mojab is currently a professor at the University of Toronto in Canada.

Translation by A WorldTo Win News Service.
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Ahmad Sa'di, Bashir Abu-Manneh (Chair), Issam Makhoul and Areen Hawari
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday March 06, 2010 18:26 by Freda Hughes   text 19 comments (last - monday april 12, 2010 16:35)   image 4 images   video 1 video file
The School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London organised a conference on the Left in Palestine through it's Palestine Society from February 27th-28th. As far as I know this is the first conference covering this specific area of the Palestinian question and, thus, it had the potential to open up much needed debate on the subject. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday March 06, 2010 15:54 by john throne   text 1 comment (last - saturday march 06, 2010 16:13)
Taking the movement forward in continued mass direct action confrontation with the capitalist offensive. Defending it against the pressures of its right wing to make it subservient to the union leadership and the Democratic Party. Helping it stand against the pressures of ultra leftism which would cut it off from the support and involvement of the hundreds of thousands and millions it needs to win. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday March 05, 2010 17:07 by john throne
The beginning of a new movement and hopefully a new era. read full story / add a comment
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national / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Friday March 05, 2010 15:21 by Fergal / Theresa (edited by Andrew Flood)   text 1 comment (last - monday march 08, 2010 15:12)   image 1 image   audio 3 audio files
An audio recording of the'Better Questions' seminar on Social Movements and Praxis' held in Seomra Spraoi Wed 3rd March 6.30pm. Speakers are Fergal Finnegan and Theresa O’Keefe. read full story / add a comment
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