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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday March 27, 2006 17:32 by WS
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Mary Harney has banned the sale of magic mushrooms!! In a decision taken in record-quick time, Harney and her government colleagues decided that they couldn’t have us all going around sampling mind-altering fungi and maybe even enjoying them. More importantly the decision was made that we couldn’t be trusted to decide for ourselves what was safe/unsafe for each of us to try. We need such decisions to be made for us because apparently we are incapable of deciding for ourselves. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday March 27, 2006 16:23 by Mick
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The film opens as a platoon of US Special Forces is dropped off by Chinook into the snowbound Tora Bora mountains in a sweep for Taliban and Al-Qaida fighters. Instead they come across the horribly mutilated corpses of the tribesmen and jihadists apparently torn to shreds by some kind of beast. The platoon proceeds to a cave where they discover a vast network of tunnels which house an Al-Qaida HQ but again find evidence of a fierce struggle and blood splattered human remains. A survivor is found but he babbles nothing but verses from the Koran before leaping to his death over percipe. Needless to say the platoon are themselves ripped apart in appallingly graphic attacks by a legion of Yetis. The dying Lieutenant calls in an airstrike and the sole surviving Yeti is captured and taken to Kabul. Roll opening credits. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday March 27, 2006 13:56 by U McBride
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Most people find it hard to believe that the US and Britain could be planning another war - on Iran this time - after the disastars of Afghanistan and Iraq. Read on please. read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Monday March 27, 2006 00:23 by Iosaf mac D .:. "the ipsiphi"
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It has been long observed that people for some reason on their non-banking days readily absorb shite about Dangerous Places, Famous People, Sensible Saving Options, Holidays, Interesting facts, Sport results, Media, gardening and health as well looking ahead at “democratic evolution” and looking back at "how history was made". Music will carry us through all tyranny. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday March 26, 2006 21:15 by Topper
Three years after the invasion of Iraq, the mainstream media has consistently failed to report the truth about Iraq. This article looks at some of the most striking failures, and asks why read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Sunday March 26, 2006 14:36 by Seán Ryan
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Short article that examines murder in Ireland read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday March 26, 2006 03:06 by Jim Travers
Before we jump do we really need to stand back and see exactly what we are doing. We all have our concerns and arguements about public transport but are we really sure that our political leaders are carrying out their objectives in the interest of the Irish people. When one of your parents is gasping on their last breath and cannot recieve or are refused the tretament they need to survive , just think about it, your hard paid taxes built a Luas or a defunct computer voting system or a,or a, or a, and need I go on. If you believe the private sector will solve all your woes then I'm afraid you deserve all you get. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday March 25, 2006 00:33 by MLC
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James Petras’ Photographs of Cuba Before and After Developing: An anarchist commentary on his declarations about Cuba * The Cuban Libertarian Movement (MLC – Movimiento Libertario Cubano) makes some pertinent observations about certain declarations by somebody who was until recently an unconditional defender of the Cuban revolution. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday March 24, 2006 12:27 by PR
The victory of Evo Morales in the presidential elections in Bolivia in December has underlined once more that across Latin America there is a demand for change. The first significant victory came back in 2002 when Lulu, the leader of the Brazilian Workers Party was elected to power after a long and arduous campaign that stretched back almost two decade. It is claimed that Lulu’s victory and his pronouncements about making Brazil a fairer society sent ‘shivers’ through world stock markets. read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues / opinion/analysis Thursday March 23, 2006 13:26 by WS
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Labour leader pat Rabbitte showed his opportunism when he called for a look at work visas for EU nationals. He raised the spectre of 40 million poles chasing “Irish Jobs”. It was a thoroughly disappointing turn by Labour but hardly surprising. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday March 23, 2006 13:23 by Ted Bagg
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Framing vs Money: Don't blame the public. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday March 23, 2006 03:30 by hackwatch
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To see the ideological bias of the Irish media, the treatment of the trade unions by our tribe of opinion writers is probably as good a place as any to start. If one was so foolish as to believe that the national media's commentators presented a reasonably accurate range of the opinions held by the population then you would probably come to the conclusion that trade unions were some sort of masonic conspiracy, made up of "pampered dinosaurs" who regularly "hold the country to ransom" and never cease to threaten our poor down-trodden consumers with their refusal to "embrace change". read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 22, 2006 20:25 by Gaz B
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Unless you're dead you've probably all heard about how shittty Irelands health service is. Our minister for health has her own 'Mary Harney Suite' (it's a corridor full of trolleys) in Tallaght hospital. A decade of unprecedented economic growth has proved that throwing money at a problem won't make it go away. So what’s the answer I hear you say? Well.....a doctors strike if we are to believe the evidence. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 22, 2006 19:41 by Seán Ryan
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A look at racism in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 22, 2006 12:57 by Alan McSimion
A small band of fringe nationalists decided to stop the Love Ulster parade. There is no question but that crowd of loyalists are sectarian bigots. During a protest against the release of republican prisoners as part of the Good Friday agreement, their leader, Willie Frazer, was asked about loyalist murder gang prisoners. “They should never have been locked up in the first place,” he replied. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 21, 2006 19:20 by David Manning
The Bloody Shoe Shines RTE distorts the level of deaths inflicted upon ordinary Iraqis. Senator Brendan Daly likens Shannon protestors to Saddam's minions. John Waters okays an illegal war and lays the blame at the feet of the 'perverse' public. It is not just Bertie Ahern that shines the shoes of those in power. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 21, 2006 14:43 by Hilda
Holyland residents can let out a sigh of relief, as St Patricks day, passed by. Most families evacuated their children out of the Holylands in an effort to preserve the magic of St Patricks day, but those that remained again had to endure the depraved behaviour of our future professionals, middle classes and SDLP voters. Only 1.2% of the student population is from a poor or working class background, you've only to look at the top range model cars the students of the Holylands drive, to see they're all from money backgrounds, with the bad manners and disassociated aloofness of the snooty rich. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 21, 2006 12:19 by Jack White
Just as the cartoons simplified and obscured the reality of Muslim attitudes, the media coverage caricatured and simplified the debate. The real world was much less black and white then the media portrayal. Jllands-Posten was eventually revealed not to be a brave defier of censorship but a source of anti immigrant rhetoric, whose owner had campaigned for Muslims to be expelled from Denmark and who had, in 2003, refused to publish cartoons depicting Christ on the grounds that they were offensive! On the other side it emerged that hardline Danish imams had toured the cartoons around the Muslim world for months, and even added their own! read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 21, 2006 04:07 by RSF
"Those who failed to have a loyalist march forced through the centre of Dublin at the end of February claimed a near-monopoly of suffering for themselves and ignored the sacrifices of the nationalist community over the past few decades," said Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, President of Republican Sinn Féin when he spoke at a 30th anniversary commemoration of the deaths of Fian James Francis McCaughey (13), Fian Patrick Bernard (13), Joseph Kelly (57) and Andrew Small (62) in Edendork Cemetery, Co Tyrone. saoirse@iol.ie read full story / add a comment 
antrim / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday March 20, 2006 20:29 by Brian Kelly
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Announcement of Meeting on Danish Cartoons 'controversy' and steents form local activist and organizations condemning The Blanket's decision to republish the cartoons. read full story / add a comment |
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