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offsite link Is the Death of Reading Inevitable? Sun Sep 14, 2025 15:00 | Dr Nicholas Tate
Reading is slipping away from children and adults alike, with serious literature pushed to the margins; Dr Nicholas Tate argues we need schools, universities and classics to bring it back.
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offsite link Higher Taxes Will Not Raise More Money, Arthur Laffer Warns Reeves Sun Sep 14, 2025 13:00 | Richard Eldred
Top US economist Arthur Laffer, the man behind the Laffer curve and once an adviser to Reagan and Thatcher, says Rachel Reeves is pushing Britain past the critical point where higher taxes actually bring in less money.
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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 Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

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national / housing / other press Thursday September 15, 2005 02:54 by Build a hut
Daft.ie have today published a report into the price of rental accomodation. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Wednesday September 14, 2005 19:38 by Ruairi
Shell's crimes elsewhere? Might be interesting read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday September 14, 2005 18:46 by Mea Culpa! Tua culpa!
Everyone must share blame for riots: Empey
RTE 14 September 2005 17:23
The Ulster Unionist leader, Sir Reg Empey, has said everyone should accept responsibility for the recent loyalist violence in Northern Ireland. read full story / add a comment
pretty cool eh? but very noisy.
international / sci-tech / other press Wednesday September 14, 2005 17:24 by hector grays   text 4 comments (last - saturday february 02, 2008 01:09)   image 2 images
The state of Pakistan has reported succesful military action in the border provinces against Islamic militants.

These islamic militants are being described as Al Qaeda for some readers and Taliban for others.

t Gen Safdar Hussain, who commands Pakistani forces in North Waziristan, speaking at a press conference said in the largest operation by his forces to date, missiles, heavy artillery and a chinese pilotless spy plane drone had been seized. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday September 14, 2005 13:38 by OZ   text 2 comments (last - wednesday september 14, 2005 13:43)
The Australian Labor Party's support of the Australian Government's detention in solitary confinement of U.S. nonviolent activist Scott Parkin is informative and a matter for concern for the movement globally. The trial of four Catholic Workers on four felony charges In Binghamton New York, this Monday, is part of the pattern. There is an offensive against nonviolent actvists remaining proactive against the war. Following is the story of Scott..... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday September 14, 2005 05:52 by Rodriguez McGruter   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 14, 2005 13:29)
international / politics / elections / other press Wednesday September 14, 2005 01:17 by ribbid ribbid   text 1 comment (last - sunday october 02, 2005 12:46)
If both elections in Japan and Egypt proved the rule that the government wins, Norway just about proves it.

Its a tripartite, 3 party coalition which is described as red-green. In much the same ways that commentators described the german coalitions of the past, but little of the analytic substance needed to make the description fit.

What the norwegians who voted wanted and not wanted, and what they sought is... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday September 14, 2005 00:32 by anon
The 17th street levee was bombed by the Army Corps of Engineers to save the more valuable real estate in the city... to keep the French Quarter protected, the ninth ward was sacrificed

Also Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy in New Orleans. See the DemocracyNow report below read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday September 13, 2005 19:03 by rock n roll nigger
Lively Conversating. One might almost believe these people were Irish! read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday September 13, 2005 18:21 by Jessica
By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee John Roberts said Tuesday that the landmark 1973 ruling legalizing abortion was "settled as a precedent." He declined to answer specific questions about abortion and voting rights, citing cases he could face on the high court. read full story / add a comment
Victims of criminal neglect, not nature
international / anti-capitalism / other press Monday September 12, 2005 19:45 by reader   text 1 comment (last - monday september 12, 2005 19:46)   image 2 images
Reaping the whirlwind

The catastrophe along the southern coast of the US was as much a product of the capitalist system as it was an act of nature, writes Martin Schreader



http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/591/index.htm read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Monday September 12, 2005 17:26 by Mary J
Delays in treating women's heart attacks
RTE 12 September 2005 15:21
Women who suffer heart attacks have to wait longer to be assessed, admitted and treated in hospital than men with the same condition, according to a new study. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Sunday September 11, 2005 17:29 by /.@
EFE (electronic frontier foundation) (represent indymedia at global legal level)
are asking you to join in the Blue Ribbon campaign and set up a local national chapter.
http://www.eff.org/br/ read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / other press Sunday September 11, 2005 06:21 by JAD MOUAWAD
SUBMIT TO REPUBLISH.

-from nyt.com 9/11/2005-

Analysis from The New York Times with hardly veiled implications for SHELL in Mayo. Attention to remarks on Health and Safety, time projectionswith regard to permits and H&S, energy policy, etc.

See also, as folllow-up, story on Houston Indymedia on corporate greed in NOLA-
Kellogg Brown Root, Cheney. Real implications in US disaster for Shell in
Ireland. - See same players, connects, etc. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday September 11, 2005 03:28 by cleaves
From bad to worse is the new sub-text slogan for Bush and his administration. Appearing on US media, flanked by Cheney, Rumsfeld and numerous other (wooden) neo-cons, Bush repeated his rehearsed lines – “we are problem solvers”. This statement met with numerous reporters clearing their throats; the problem is Bush and his inept administration. The emperor is not only without clothes but is also devoid of ability. The corporate driven Bush government is learning that managing a nation has little in common with running an oil company. [Those best suited for government are dedicated to the selfless service of others – a concept totally alien to conservative ideology.] read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday September 11, 2005 03:00 by Jackson Thoreau   text 2 comments (last - sunday september 11, 2005 03:17)
"So we grabbed my Canon digital rebel and my Sony videocamera and started walking down the street," Marble wrote. "And then right in front of the destroyed tennis court I used to play on Dick Cheney was giving a pep rally, talking to the press. The Secret Service guys patted us down and waved the wands over us, and then let us pass."

As he stood about 10 feet away from Cheney and his friend and some camera operators from CNN and other media filmed the scene, Marble suddenly yelled, "Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney! Go fuck yourself, you asshole!" read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Saturday September 10, 2005 20:58 by ribbid
Another story of "the government won the elections". What was once a joke, is increasingly true, one doesn't need to count the ink thumbs, or even trust the polls, all you need to ask is - "who is the current government and do the west like them?"
Answer "yes" they won.
Answer "no" they lost. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday September 10, 2005 14:44 by benjamin franklin   text 1 comment (last - saturday september 10, 2005 17:46)
Check your calendar. Tomorrow is a big day.
Its marks the date that modern history began.
Michael Moore got his oscar, Iraqis got their freedom, and Haliburton made over a billion because of that day.
And just in time, "the ones you keep your eye on" next door in Engurland have flown the big kite. read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues / other press Friday September 09, 2005 17:04 by very spooked smurf
Yet another disaster, yet another display of Mother Nature's awesome power.

the Pacific island of New Ireland registered an earthquake today at 7.3 on the richter scale, the epicentre was 96 kilometres under the seabed.

The focus of the quake was 96km (60 miles) underground in the New Ireland region, 40 km (25 miles) east-south-east of Taron, New Ireland, and 870km (540 miles) north-east of the capital, Port Moresby, the USGS reported.

It occurred at 1626 local time (0726 GMT), USGS said. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Friday September 09, 2005 13:07 by SP   text 20 comments (last - friday september 16, 2005 10:35)   image 2 images
The latest issue of The Socialist is now online at www.socialistparty.net dealing with a wide range of issues including a feature article analysing the aftermath and affects of Hurricane Katrina read full story / add a comment
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