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offsite link New Peter Mandelson revelations Pile Pressure on Starmer Sun Sep 14, 2025 11:00 | Toby Young
Starmer is under increasing pressure as the Sunday Times reveals he knew about Mandelson's links with Epstein and his business dealing with China before he appointed him. How much longer can the Prime Minister survive?
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offsite link Sadiq Khan Racks Up Enough Air Miles to Fly to the Moon and Back Sun Sep 14, 2025 09:00 | Will Jones
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been accused of "preaching Net Zero from the comfort of his many plane journeys" after racking up enough air miles to fly to the Moon and back in?attending climate summits?and events abroad.
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offsite link How the West Snookered Itself in Energy Geopolitics Sun Sep 14, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
The recent Tianjin summit, where a smiling Putin, Xi and Modi clasped hands, marks a profound shift in global energy geopolitics, one that underscores Europe's slide into irrelevance, says Tilak Doshi.
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offsite link News Round-Up Sun Sep 14, 2025 00:14 | Will Jones
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Home Office Hiring Religious Adviser to Help Detained Illegal Migrants Get Married Sat Sep 13, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
The Home Office has advertised for a full-time religious affairs manager to advise?detained illegal migrants?on how to get married and organise weddings, despite the risk of 'sham' marriages as a way to avoid deportation.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday October 26, 2005 01:08 by Anthony   text 6 comments (last - sunday august 12, 2007 07:19)
Rosa Parks died at the age of 93 on October 24, 2005. It was 50 years ago that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man aboard a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was arrested and convicted of violating the state’s segregation laws.

Her act of civil disobedience was the spark that lit the flames of the American civil rights movement - a long struggle for freedom which inspired others around the world to do the same - including our fellow countrymen north of the border. read full story / add a comment
Rossport 5 Free
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday October 25, 2005 19:53 by Michael R.   image 1 image
Please see here the article and picture from the Irish Times website today.

Judgment reserved in Rossport Five case
Last updated: 25-10-05, 11:47

The 'Rossport Five' pictured after their release from Cloverhill Prison last month

The five Mayo men who spent 94 days in prison for their contempt of court over protests against a controversial gas pipeline will have to wait to learn whether they face further penalties.

The High Court today reserved judgment on the case of the five, who spent more than three months in Cloverhill Prison for failing to abide by an injunction preventing them from protesting against the high-pressure pipeline.

The 70-kilometre pipe runs through some of men's land, only metres from their homes, from the Corrib gas field in the Atlantic to an onshore refinery at Bellanaboy.

Micheal O'Seighin, Wille Corduff, Philip McGrath, Vincent McGrath and Brendan Philbin were read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / other press Tuesday October 25, 2005 19:49 by Anti-Fascist
"As consumers we do not want our money used to fuel wars, environmental destruction and human rights violations." read full story / add a comment
"Zarqawi, I don't even know if he exists,"
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday October 25, 2005 15:59 by Starstruck   text 2 comments (last - wednesday october 26, 2005 16:34)   image 1 image
An Article by Dahr Jamail,with thanks to Hytham in Dublin read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Tuesday October 25, 2005 14:34 by Tom Flocco
Bush administration suit against its own Justice Department, attempting to block the issuance of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald’s indictments read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday October 25, 2005 11:07 by mms   text 2 comments (last - tuesday october 25, 2005 14:59)
Sue is going to be in Dublin tomorrow at Trinity College at the launch of the
THE CHEMICAL WARFARE IN COLOMBIA: THE COSTS OF COCA FUMIGATION'
By Sue Branford and Hugh O'Shaughnessy read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday October 23, 2005 04:29 by R. Isible   text 3 comments (last - tuesday october 25, 2005 21:07)
An appallingly confused piece by Paul Melia (and our old friend Tom "Security Correspondent as long as it doesn't involve foreign war planes at Shannon" Brady calls members of the Iraqi resistance "terrorists" and fails to mention the allegations of torture of an Irish citizen held in Algeria. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday October 23, 2005 01:57 by Seamas Connolly
Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is looking for evidence that Karl Rove, 'Bush's Brain', launched a covert operation to create forged documents to foment war and then conspired to out Valerie Plame when he learned the fraud was being uncovered by Plame's husband. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday October 22, 2005 05:55 by cleaves   text 1 comment (last - saturday october 22, 2005 12:58)
Australian federal government expenditure on media consultants and market analysts exceeds three hundred million dollars per annum. For all the Taxpayer’s money that is spent, only a proportion of the population adopts Howard’s cringe mentality and succumbs to the contractionist politics of fear. Announce the (remote) possibility of ‘chicken’ fever (avian flu) mutating and a percentage of the population rushes pharmacies and exhausts the supply of an anti-viral drug reputed to alleviate some of the ill effects (but not prevent) this disease. [Remember the Y2K scare and associated hysteria?] In answer to the tiniest ‘army’ in the history of warfare (a few dozen ‘terrorists’) we turn our whole existence upside down running in fear and loathing at every little alarm that our lying politicians would sound. read full story / add a comment
This shows welded sections of  pipeline and adjoining access road for which no ministerial consent exists, and as such is an illegal development
international / miscellaneous / other press Friday October 21, 2005 21:06 by bong   text 1 comment (last - saturday october 22, 2005 12:04)   image 1 image
international / crime and justice / other press Friday October 21, 2005 14:49 by Craig Murray   text 1 comment (last - friday october 21, 2005 19:48)
As Britain's outspoken Ambassador to the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan, Craig Murray helped expose vicious human rights abuses by the US-funded regime of Islam Karimov. He is now a prominent critic of Western policy in the region. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Friday October 21, 2005 14:12 by non tali auxilio nec defensoribus istis tempus eget
"The UN probe led by German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis named as suspects in the February 14 killing members in the inner circle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, including his brother-in-law.
The report said Foreign Minister Farouq al-Shara gave investigators false information and accused top pro-Syrian Lebanese officials of a major role in the killing, with suspicion cast even on President Emile Lahoud.
Syria dismissed the charges as "far from the truth", while Lahoud denied them and indicated he would not be driven from office despite calls for him to resign. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Friday October 21, 2005 11:49 by Terry
In Sydney Australia the politicians have clearly being take a leaf out of the politicians books here as a 30 year deal was done with a private company for a toll on a tunnel in the city.

Likewise our toll bridges, especially the one over the Liffey on the M50 -the West Link. Except that the Austrialian govt. hadn't expected the motorists to boycott it.

This is a lesson for us here and Irish motorists too should likewise boycott our toll bridges and roads if they want to get the parasites off their backs. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday October 21, 2005 03:31 by kwang zi
Analysts and historians would recall the last time ’bogeyman’ hysteria gripped an unwary public; USA of the nineteen fifties and McCarthyism with the ‘red under the bed threat’ is now one of history's embarrassing moments. Joe McCarthy, puppet of ultra-right forces in the US, ruined numerous careers and lives – for nothing! The degree of 'threat’ attributed to the 'reds' proved to be wildly exaggerated, more a product of excited 'judgement' or shared delusion than accurate assessment. US intelligence agencies and ultra-right militarists fell victim to their own propaganda and the (dis)information warfare waged at the time. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday October 20, 2005 18:31 by Blue Rinse   image 1 image
At least 18 grandmothers opposed to the war in Iraq were arrested today at the Times Square Armed Forces Recruiting Station. The women were attempting to enlist at the station but found the door locked. Supporters gathered around the station while those trying to enlist sat down in front of the door and were soon arrested.

Joan Wile, founder of the group "Grandmothers Against the War," and one of those arrested, said via a statement; "people are dying in this awful war every day. If someone has to die, I would rather it be somebody like me - who has had the opportunity to live a long life - instead of some young person." read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday October 20, 2005 18:29 by Starstruck   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 25, 2005 10:39)
Here are questions that are not being asked about the latest twist of a cynical war. Were explosives and a remote-control detonator found in the car of the two SAS special forces men "rescued" from prison in Basra on 19 September? If true, what were they planning to do with them? Why did the British military authorities in Iraq put out an unbelievable version of the circumstances that led up to armoured vehicles smashing down the wall of a prison? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday October 20, 2005 14:27 by pat c
Heres some of the latest thoughts of President Chavez on the attempts by the US to destabalise Venezeula. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Thursday October 20, 2005 12:39 by freepress human interest
"Unhappy Birthday is a grassroots project run by citizens who are outraged by rampant copyright infringement in today's society — particularly in relation to the song Happy Birthday."

"Did you know Happy Birthday is copyrighted and the copyright is currently owned and actively enforced by Time Warner?

Did you know that if you sing any copyrighted song:
...at a place open to the public
...or among a substantial number of people who are not family or friends
You are involved in a public performance of that work?

Did you know an unauthorized public performance is a form of copyright infringement?" read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday October 19, 2005 16:05 by cleaves
Should we mention how concerned media magnates are in the age of free information? Blogs, free presses and numerous other independent media groups, all have ultra-right regimes jumpin'. They cannot tolerate real free speech and the 'voices' of protest and dissent. Congratulations to all the people of the world who cherish their rights and freedoms – we salute you! All your combined small voices have become a deafening roar – the new sedition laws in Australia are an indication that you have been heard to the extent that you require silencing – the nefarious forces are on the run! read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday October 19, 2005 14:11 by iosaf   text 3 comments (last - friday october 21, 2005 12:57)
Marc Henzelin a legal expert from Geneva University has explained why he declined to defend Saddam Hussein saying the special tribunal is not compatible with international law and is little more than a soap opera.

Iraqi Saddam Hussein is charged with ordering the deaths of 143 Shi'ite Muslim men following a 1982 assassination attempt against him.
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He might also face trial for genocide and war crimes for the killing of Kurds in the 1980s, as well as the suppression of uprisings by Shi'ites and Kurds in 1991.

The organisation Human Rights Watch said 200,000 potential opponents were killed during Saddam's regime between 1979 and 2003.

It would seem like the man ought be put to trial where the international community recognise the process, penalty and court. Does it not?
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