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international / miscellaneous / other press Sunday March 12, 2006 12:29 by rotfan
Run your own mcdonalds read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday March 11, 2006 17:34 by Eoin   text 1 comment (last - sunday march 12, 2006 04:13)

The twisted religion of Blair and Bush
Phillip Blond and Adrian Pabst International Herald Tribune

FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2006
Secular Britain was shocked last weekend when Prime Minister Tony Blair said that God would be his judge over the war in Iraq. Similarly, President George W. Bush has often used God to justify the war on terror as a religiously blessed and righteous campaign against "evil doers." Predictably, those who oppose the war view themselves as secular progressives untainted by religious fundamentalism and the madness it produces.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday March 11, 2006 12:05 by Conor.J.McGowan
PARIS - French riot police used teargas on Saturday to break up a protest at Paris's Sorbonne university, which students had occupied to press the government to abandon its youth jobs plan, local media reported. read full story / add a comment
Phoenix hones in on Jim Cusack's overworked imagination
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday March 10, 2006 21:35 by Tom O'Toole   image 1 image
The Sindo journo called Indymedia's Chekov Feeney a 'silly boy' on Newstalk 106 and didn't like the way interviewer Kathy Sheridan asked him for "evidence" of his abllity to spot Sinn Feiners at an event at which he was not present. Jim is given the Goldhawk treatment in The Phoenix (March 9 2006). read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday March 10, 2006 14:23 by cleaves   text 1 comment (last - friday march 10, 2006 16:07)
The prospect of Iran developing a nuclear capability (which would realistically entail at least a five-year time frame) did not prevent John Bolton, US representative to the UN, stating that a “painful” response would be inflicted on Iran if it failed to comply with UN (American) dictates! Questions of the UN’s independence aside, is the focus on Iran a distraction from the debacle that is Iraq or is the USA following their PNAC strategy with little regard for consequences? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday March 10, 2006 02:04 by Seán Ryan
Don't get excited though, it's got nothing to do with humanity. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday March 09, 2006 20:38 by anon   text 4 comments (last - saturday march 11, 2006 01:33)
Shannon District Court today threw out charges against four anti-war protestors who were arrested following a peace demonstration at Shannon Airport last September.

Niall Harnett of Dublin and Liscannor, and Conor Cregan of Cronin Lawns, Shannon had charges of failing to obey airport police officers withdrawn by the state.

The two had gained access to a balcony in the main airport terminal to display anti-war banners on September 17 last.

Another two protesters, Margaret Liddy and St. John O'Donnabhain had charges of failing to provide names and addresses to Shannon Airport Police withdrawn. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Thursday March 09, 2006 20:17 by anon   text 11 comments (last - saturday march 18, 2006 19:18)
McDowell accuses Green Party supporters of vandalism read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday March 09, 2006 10:35 by Mike Dobson   text 2 comments (last - thursday march 09, 2006 16:58)   image 2 images
Sorry about the short notice but

Democracy Now!, america's syndicated, community radio news &
current affairs show will be broadcasting from London for the next few
days. read full story / add a comment
how many will die because this image that i made?
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday March 08, 2006 22:44 by redjade   text 90 comments (last - tuesday september 26, 2006 08:04)   image 4 images
'When Voltaire wrote the play in 1741, Roman Catholic clergymen denounced it as a thinly veiled anti-Christian tract. Their protests forced the cancellation of a staging in Paris after three performances' read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday March 08, 2006 14:07 by nann
Bush and his ultra-right honchos are really pissed this time – in their efforts to track down a US loyalist, who spilt the beans on domestic spying, the Bush gestapo are now targeting journos and the free press. All the ‘security’ agencies at this megalomaniac’s disposal have been commandeered for the task. This attack on the free press is yet another devastating blow directed at the already battered body of American democracy and liberty. America, the home of the brave and the land of the free, has been relegated to the historical record. This new land is an abominable aberration of the original.

“..and we all shine on..” – in the dark!

[History does record that the American revolution was won by a brave and fearless people – they are without doubt in extremely short supply today!] read full story / add a comment
Jeff Monson
international / arts and media / other press Wednesday March 08, 2006 12:35 by Jeff ' The Snowman' Monson   text 3 comments (last - wednesday march 08, 2006 16:49)   image 1 image
Ground & Pound: To do away with any prejudices right at the beginning: What are you exactly Mr. Monson? Anarchist, communist, terrorist, vandalist?

Jeff Monson: I am an anarchist, someone who would like to do away with all class hierarchy in society and the institutions that promote this inequality. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday March 08, 2006 12:31 by Ron Arad
Another use for cartoons but these are ones which Islamists are very happy to see and propagate. But these are also cartoons which encourage attacks on Israelis so it will cause little discontent in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday March 07, 2006 12:01 by Niav   text 8 comments (last - thursday march 09, 2006 20:04)
On Monday 6th March 2006 anti-choice activists celebrated when South Dakota's governor signed into law one of the most restrictive abortion measures in the country, helping set up a court battle intended to challenge the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion.

The South Dakota law signed by Governor Mike Rounds makes it a crime for doctors to perform an abortion unless it is necessary to save the woman's life, with no exception in cases of rape or incest. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / other press Tuesday March 07, 2006 11:04 by Seán Ryan   text 6 comments (last - wednesday march 08, 2006 18:43)
Man dies in Garda custody after being arrested in connection with the murder of Donna Cleary. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday March 06, 2006 01:09 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
Speaking to a meeting of 76 ambassadors in Copenhagen on Friday 3 March, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen deplored the publication of twelve cartoons of Muhammad in a Danish newspaper last September and asserted that Danish freedom of expression is tempered with tolerance and respect for different religions.

Up to very recently, referring to freedom of expression as “the very foundation of Danish society”, Danish prime minister and minister for the press Anders Fogh Rasmussen had refused to meet with a group of Muslim ambassadors to discuss what they perceive as an “ongoing smear campaign” against Islam.

The ambassadors quote four instances where Danish politicians and media have expressed hatred for Muslims:
Speaking two months before the publication of the controversial Muhammad cartoons, radio host Kaj Vilhelmsen suggested that Islamic terrorism could only be combated by expelling or killing Muslims.
Writing on her website two weeks before the cartoons were published, member of parliament for the Danish People’s Party Louise Frevert compared “the Muslim menace” with “a tumour which we know will kill us, if we don’t find and annihilate it ...”
In a speech at the Conservative Party’s national conference six days before the Muhammad cartoons were published, Minister for Culture Brian Mikkelsen accused Muslims of developing a “parallel society” within Denmark, “where minorities practise their medieval norms and undemocratic ways of thinking.”
And, of course, there are the infamous cartoons themselves, published in Jyllands-Posten on 30 September last. The text of the accompanying article states explicitly that the cartoons were commissioned specifically to offend against the Islamic taboo on depicting the Prophet – and not, for example, to tackle the issue of terrorism.

Please read the excerpts from the website of the Danish national broadcasting station, DR, and from the centre-left daily, Politiken, in translation: read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Sunday March 05, 2006 01:53 by Newsnite   text 2 comments (last - monday march 06, 2006 19:01)
Two Respect Councillors resign read full story / add a comment
Racist, Sectarian and Unionist - Jim Dixon joins the dots
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday March 04, 2006 22:07 by James Reilly   text 5 comments (last - thursday march 09, 2006 01:24)   image 4 images
Un-FAIR face of Love Ulster

One of the Love Ulster campaign organisers praises old South African system

Ciarán Barnes Daily Ireland March 4 2006

Jim Dixon:

“Under apartheid, the black man was better paid, they had better jobs, better everything.”

“I couldn’t care less if people call me
a racist. I couldn’t care less what they think. Apartheid meant the black man was better treated and respected." read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday March 04, 2006 07:25 by peptide
Bush is not very good at anything, with that fact the world is fully acquainted, however, even the lowliest morons are usually good liars but recent video evidence has proven that Bush is not even skilled in the lowly art of lying. All doubts regarding Bush’s prior knowledge of the magnitude and destructive impact expected of Katrina have been dispelled by the release of video evidence clearly portraying Bush in full knowledge of the then pending emergency. We leave the pathological problem of Bush and the lying neo-cons in the incapable hands of the American people; the Bush regime is internationally known as the most deceitful and tawdry in American history. Good luck doodles, China and Russia could not hope for better! read full story / add a comment
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