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The Socialist #31 - January 2008
national / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday January 22, 2008 21:56 by SP Online   image 1 image
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   text 16 comments (last - friday january 25, 2008 21:45)
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   text 12 comments (last - thursday january 24, 2008 12:33)   image 1 image
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.
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international / arts and media / other press Tuesday January 22, 2008 09:40 by David Manning & Miriam Cotton   text 1 comment (last - tuesday january 22, 2008 09:58)
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
An Glor Issue 9
News sheet of the Republican Socialist Youth Movement read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Sunday January 20, 2008 21:12 by spoor   text 10 comments (last - friday march 07, 2008 22:29)   image 2 images
A certain hysteria has it certain sectors of Spanish & Catalan public opinion following the arrests of 14 suspected Islamist terrorists in the city of Barcelona between Friday night & Saturday morning. In an operation involving the Spanish secret service (the CNI) the Guardia Civil & local regional Catalan police (Mossos d'esquadra) co-ordinated raids made on a bakery, mosque & several flats in the Raval district of central Barcelona. Immediately news services both in the Spanish state & abroad cited further co-operation with amongst others the intelligence services of France & the UK.
The Spanish state will celebrate a general election on the 9th of March almost 4 years after the M11 massacre which was falsely attributed to ETA by the then right wing regime. Nobody wants to talk about bombs now - but we should all the same. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Sunday January 20, 2008 16:15 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 1 comment (last - wednesday january 23, 2008 04:58)
Following our recent efforts to stage solidarity vigils with the NVDA in D.C. to Shutdown Guantanamo, I received the sad news that Peter McGregor died on the J11 day of actions.I had been in regular email contact with Peter leading up to the J11 actions - the 6th.anniversary of Guantanamo's opening. Peter was organising in his hometown of Newcastle, Australia.
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national / eu / other press Sunday January 20, 2008 13:56 by Cedar1   text 1 comment (last - sunday january 20, 2008 15:36)   image 1 image
Analysis of the Green Party's decision yesterday on Lisbon published on the Cedar Lounge Revolution. read full story / add a comment
Shell To Sea newsletter
international / environment / other press Saturday January 19, 2008 00:40 by JM   image 1 image   1 attached file
Environmental activists filed a federal lawsuit today against Shell Oil on behalf of citizens, saying state and federal environmental officials have failed to enforce the Clean Air Act at the company's Deer Park plant. read full story / add a comment
A woman is taken away for execution after being sentenced to death in Beijing in 2001
international / miscellaneous / other press Friday January 18, 2008 20:49 by Joe   text 7 comments (last - monday march 16, 2009 21:16)   image 2 images
The US puppet government in Iraq, headed by Nouri al-Maliki reinstituted the death penalty in 2004. Since then, they have carried out executions under the watchful eye of the United States, itself a country which kills its own citizens every year. This state sponsored murder in Iraq and the United States is however dwarfed by Communist China, where thousands are killed every year. read full story / add a comment
filling your heads with citations, proofs, ideas & no trivia!
international / arts and media / other press Friday January 18, 2008 12:32 by Fu manchu   text 2 comments (last - monday march 17, 2008 00:00)   image 1 image
Tara Brabazon is Professor of Media Studies a the University of Brighton and Director of the Popular Culture Collective. She's an author of a few bits & bobs on internet use, media culture & is building quite a profile for herself for attacking Google & Wikipedia claiming that they undermine educational & didactic processes & more than Harry Potter actively contribute to turning our kids brains (& minds) to utter mushy shite.

Thing is, her arguments are proving to interest & influence far beyond the generally airified chitchat discussions of Media Studies university departments. Today's "Liberation" the French leftwing daily reports how the "Just say No to Wikipedia!" stickers are appearing across the USA in high schools as well as public amenity libraries. The cultural link with Nancy Reagan's "Just say no to Drugs!" ought be obvious.
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Friday January 18, 2008 10:37 by Fu manchu   text 3 comments (last - saturday january 19, 2008 21:11)
2 years ago before Sarah Green worked in education, she accepted a job offer from a model & casting agency in Manchester (UK). The resulting video to promote "Hardwear" durable clothing for building sites & other intensive labour work garnered a few prizes on the film circuit. & then most likely Ms Green forgot all about it. That is till her teenage students at the Stockport Grammar School (an independent or private school in England) not only discovered the video clip whilst trawling Youtube for erotica, but let their parents know about it too.

She's now been suspended from her work & 21,000p.a. salary. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday January 17, 2008 14:53 by Joe   text 7 comments (last - friday february 29, 2008 14:25)
Last year more than 40 people in the United States were killed by the barbaric Lethal Injection and one by the even more barbaric electrocution.

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antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday January 17, 2008 13:20 by Davy Carlin   text 48 comments (last - tuesday november 09, 2010 14:30)
Now - ‘Arise from your slumber. read full story / add a comment
a gnostic heretical elite driven by ambition & magic.
international / arts and media / other press Thursday January 17, 2008 13:07 by + "ora pro nobis"   image 1 image
This week's Vatican Observatory newspaper has fielded two articles on Harry Potter explaining to whomever bothers that the popular kids' series of novels & movies is really doing what the mad sicko fundamentalist Americans already said it is. Yep. Sending your kids to Satan.

....."J.K. Rowling's successful character Harry Potter is the wrong model of a hero, says the Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano in its Monday-Tuesday edition. In an article signed by Edoardo Rialti, L'Osservatore says that many have tried to establish a parallel between Rowling's main character and "the great fantasy masterpieces of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and Clive Staples Lewis, the Christian authors of the most beloved fables of the 20th Century............"

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international / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday January 16, 2008 17:18 by Joe   text 1 comment (last - friday january 18, 2008 00:16)
Pentagon Officials spun the 6th January incident between US warships and small Iranian boats in the Strait of Hormuz in order to create the illusion of Iranian military aggressiveness. A short video with added audio warning US warships would "explode in a few seconds" was fed to the media. Deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs in charge of media operations Bryan Whitman was responsible for the initial fabrication, which has since been denied by Navy Officer who were involved. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday January 16, 2008 16:12 by Miriam Cotton   text 6 comments (last - friday january 18, 2008 11:31)
Eleven people are currently on death row in Iran sentenced to death by stoning, nine of them women convicted of adultery. Amnesty says that many of their trials were conducted in very unfair circumstances. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday January 15, 2008 22:28 by Cathal Lalor   text 16 comments (last - tuesday january 29, 2008 18:46)   image 1 image
The Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation today released their so-called 'Index of Economic Freedom' for 2008. This index ranks countries according to how their institutions and policies facilitate the power of capital. Ireland is third, beaten only by the dictatorships of Hong Kong and Singapore. The dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and its rationalizing ideology,-neo-liberal economics-, has triumphed in Ireland. The developing societal breakdown is a measure of its success.
The other side of the coin is the dismal failure of the left. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday January 15, 2008 18:35 by pat c
This is an open letter from from Iranian Worker & Student activists to President Chavez. They are asking him to intervene on behalf of imprisoned students and workers. Full text at the link.

Dear Mr President:

We hear the news of the release of two of the FARC's hostages with renewed hope for the future of Colombia. The release of Clara Rojas and Consuela Gonzalez is not only a joyous event for their families but a development with great potentials for Colombian society.

We believe that your negotiation and persuasion skills can be put to further use in the release of captives in other parts of the globe. In particular, as you have developed very close relations with successive Iranian presidents, we hope that you can use your influence to help free the genuine trade unionists, democrats and socialists locked up in Iran. read full story / add a comment
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