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international / miscellaneous / other press Monday February 04, 2008 12:40 by Michelle Crawley
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Ryanair Profits Plummett amid market fears read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday February 03, 2008 19:29 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
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A Danish documentary crew working for the national TV channel DR1 has detailed the movements of CIA aircraft that have repeatedly transited in Greenland and flown through Danish airspace in connection with the covert agency's widely condemned programme of abduction and torture. Having gained access to flight plans, duty payments, hotel registrations, catering invoices and crew lists, the documentary shows that the Greenlandic airport Narsarsuaq has played a particularly prominent role in the so-called "extraordinary renditions" programme. In a related development, DR's news programme this evening reports us that the Icelandic customs authorities have begun to search all international flights, in response to media coverage of shady CIA transits. read full story / add a comment 
international / environment / other press Sunday February 03, 2008 13:33 by JM
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National Grid won't be allowed to build a gas plant in Corse [Gloucestershire]. Villagers who have been campaigning against the building of a Pressure Reduction Installation in Corse are over the moon after a planning inspector refused permission for it. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Saturday February 02, 2008 16:35 by ipsi
The NYPD whom you quite probably have seen on television have lobbied successfully to propose a municipal law "to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to permits for biological, chemical and radiological detectors." The Council Members proposing it are Vallone Jr., Addabbo Jr., Comrie, Fidler, Gentile, Nelson, Recchia Jr., Stewart and White Jr. (by request of the Mayor). You might have seen him on telly too, in fact you might have seen his telly station, his name is Bloomberg. Their argument is that allowing the general public to use geiger counters & other bio- chem- or general WMD detectors may, will, does or perhaps did cause PANIC. They don't like panic. They like orderly queues & heroic administrations who chose to HQ their emergency services on a 23rd floor of a building leased by a party donor slap bang next to the World Trade Centre despite that bit of Manhatten being considered a "target" & the idiocy of clambering up 23 floors of stairs in a power outage. read full story / add a comment
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday February 01, 2008 13:15 by Young Socialist
Last Wednesday (January 30th) was 75 years since Hitler came to power. To mark the occasion and remember those who died UL Socialist Youth organized a series of anti-racist activities during the week, as part of a national campaign. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Wednesday January 30, 2008 15:53 by pat c
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Democracy Iranian style: you are not allowed to stand for election if the Iranian Regime doesnt like your opinions! Under the Iranian political system, potential candidates are vetted twice, once by the interior ministry and the second time by the Guardian Council, which is made up of Islamic clerics. Full report at the link from the well known Pro US Propagandists Al Jazeera. The Iranian government has barred more than 2,000 prospective candidates from contesting in forthcoming parliamentary elections, in effect removing the biggest rival to hardliners in power. Most of those disqualified were seeking democratic changes within Iran's ruling Islamic government led by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday January 30, 2008 15:21 by Peter Manson
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One of the more bizarre claims made at the SWP UK Conference was that Lindsay German would be elected to the Greater London Assembly. The report below covers the conference and pre-conference discussions. More at the url. Respect is alive and well, and the politics we pursued proved to be correct. That is the pathetic message the SWP leaders want people, including their own members, to believe. Yes, John Rees, Lindsey German, Alex Callinicos, Chris Bambery and Martin Smith treat the working class with barely concealed contempt. Under their post-Tony Cliff regime the SWP has not only adopted Joseph’s Stalin’s popular front politics, but also the same utterly cynical attitude towards the truth. SWP conferences are run along Stalinist lines too. Socialist Worker boasts of the January 5-6 gathering: “An overwhelming majority supported the way the party had conducted itself during the Respect crisis” (January 12). read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality / other press Tuesday January 29, 2008 10:14 by ribbid
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"The licence of the magazine Zanan ('Women') managed by Shahla Sherkat has been cancelled as the monthly published articles undermining public confidence in law and order by leading people to believe that the Islamic republic was unsafe for women," the FARS news agency has reported citing an official it did not name. Shahla Sherkat author, directing editor & founder of "Zanan" (="women") has told a handful of western news organisations that she has not been contacted by the Iranian state & learnt of the news herself on the FARS website. FARS is not the official Iranian news service (that's IRNA) but it seems quite likely. Her last monthly offering published a feature on gender violence & included a monthly toll. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / other press Tuesday January 29, 2008 09:04 by Mariella Froster
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Posters on politics.ie will be familiar with the vitriol directed at Indymedia. Accusations of stasi style censorship are routine. For some time now, however, the fact that censorhip on politics.ie is more frequent, arbitrary and subjective than anything seen on many other sites has become pretty obvious. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday January 28, 2008 17:00 by pat c
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Here is an appeal from International Labour Solidarity Committee of the Worker-communist Party of Iran on behalf of imprisoned students, workers and political prisoners. Full text at link. The news on the condition of over 50 jailed students in Iran is very worrying. Last week Ebrahim Lotfollaahi died under torture in the city of Sanandaj. Nearly two months since their arrest and detention, many students continue to be held incommunicado. Reports from prisons speak of long and severe interrogation sessions by the feared Information Ministry officials, with many students being tort ured and kept in solitary confinement. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Sunday January 27, 2008 16:10 by tomeile
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The Dutch government is bracing itself for violent protests following the scheduled broadcast this week of a provocative anti-Muslim film by a radical right-wing politician who has threatened to broadcast images of the Koran being torn up and otherwise desecrated. Geert Wilders , one of nine members of the extreme right wing PVV party in the Dutch parliament , has described the Koran as a 'source of inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror'. Demonstrations from left wing and Muslim opponents of Wilders’ provocation are expected this week , while members of the Stop Islamisation of Europe group are planning to travel to Amsterdam in his support . read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections / other press Friday January 25, 2008 15:14 by C Murray
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The Taoiseach gets Friday off. Its a long-standing tradition that was facilitated by the Labour Party in exchange for speaking time in the Dail. The images on the Newswire of the Women's Protest in Belfast caught my eye, given the Health and social problems that are becoming evident in Dolphin's Barn, because someone gave Ms Harney 16 Billion Euros to continue to implement her Health Policy which is to close down hospitals in areas that have high populations of young children. Its called 'amalgamation'. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Thursday January 24, 2008 23:02 by staring at rats
Prodi has quit his job as prime minister of Italy tonight. Berlusconi will come back. Naples has spent all winter without rubbish collection. Padre Pio is half way out of his grave. The Tiger mosquito has brought tropical diseases. & that's about it. you know what Berlusconi's like. he's a hoot. up-front mafia billionaire right wing botox-jowled fascist. We're leaving the age of "sociopathic socialist governments" in the EU. It will happen to South America next. Ah! but you protest Prodi wasn't a socialist... You'd be right too. Everyone is. read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday January 23, 2008 11:42 by C Murray
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I have received over two years consistent appeals by Women's Writer's Unions for aid in advertising repressions of Women Writers , some of the appeals have gone on the Newswire; and some have been passed on to to groups where the campaign would be more effective. The plight of the writers has not in that period alleviated and some are in dire situations. This morning another one arrived, an archive update of the 2007 Women's Day attempt to highlight the cases of imprisoned Women Writers and activists. All their names are familiar, Amnesty, Human Right's Watch, Reporters Without Borders, International Women In Media Federation, Committee for the Protection of Journalists and PEN Women's Union have advocated on their cases. Links to the ongoing cases of Journalist and activist repression:-between Women's day 2007-2008. read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday January 22, 2008 21:56 by SP Online
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The January 2008 issue of The Socialist (#31) now online at the Socialist Party website. See below for contents. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / other press Tuesday January 22, 2008 14:40 by dom
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EU data retention based regulations will probably be implemented in Ireland "within a month" without debate read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday January 22, 2008 14:14 by tom eile
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Five of Nato’s top strategists have issued a” radical manifesto” urging the alliance’s member states to prepare for nuclear first strikes in order to counter fanatics who , they claim , are bent on destroying the West’s “way of life” . The vehement language of the manifesto has puzzled some commentators . Robert Cooper, an influential shaper of European foreign and security policy in Brussels is quoted in the Guardian article as saying "Maybe we are going to use nuclear weapons before anyone else, but I'd be wary of saying it out loud." The 150 page manifesto will be delivered to the Pentagon over the next ten days . It is issued at a time of crisis for NATO whose conventional forces face the prospect of defeat in Afghanistan . According to the Guardian, it was written following discussions with active NATO commanders and policymakers, many of whom are unable or unwilling to publicly air their views. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / other press Tuesday January 22, 2008 09:49 by phlegm
"Spiegel" the German magazine has published an interview conducted by Erich Follath and Susanne Koelbl in Islamabad with Musharref of Pakistan to mark his current visit to Europe. At the link you can read its english translation. The assassination of Bhutto, the nuclear arsenal get mentions whereas cricket don't. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Tuesday January 22, 2008 09:40 by David Manning & Miriam Cotton
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Dahr Jamail is scathing about Western media coverage of the war in Iraq. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Monday January 21, 2008 07:56 by reabhloid dearg
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