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international / miscellaneous / other press Friday August 19, 2005 04:32 by Shall overcome
Doctor: Coretta Scott King Had Big Stroke By DANIEL YEE, Associated Press Writer ATLANTA - Coretta Scott King suffered a minor heart attack and a major stroke that impaired her ability to speak and affected her right side, but she is "completely aware," a doctor said Thursday. King's daughter said the family expected a full recovery. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Friday August 19, 2005 03:16 by Larry O'Hanlon
... from Saturn, caused by the interaction between the solar wind and the planet's magnetic field, have been captured by the electronic ears of the Cassini spacecraft. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday August 18, 2005 11:20 by dave
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The leaked statements from witnesses to the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes refute the account spun to a compliant press in the immediate aftermath of his killing. It was claimed he was wearing a heavy jacket, implying he could have been concealing bombs on his body, that he vaulted a barrier, ran from the police and refused to stop. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday August 18, 2005 02:38 by peace camper
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday August 17, 2005 18:46 by herewego
Important moment - the Democrats begin to lose their yellow streak: Ex-FBI Whistleblower to Join 'Peace Mom' By PATRICK CONDON, Associated Press Writer Wed Aug 17, 1:18 AM ET OAKDALE, Minn. - Former FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley, along with a state senator whose son died in Iraq, are headed to Texas this week to join a growing anti-war demonstration near President Bush's ranch. read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday August 17, 2005 16:52 by davitt fan
report by Stephen O’Grady: Mayo News read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday August 16, 2005 17:20 by Ignazio Alborč
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Is born the first great ideology of the millenium! Is born the anticompetitivist ideology of the "full effective and obligatory occupation (of all the families) for law", of the successive and innovative historical phase regarding the Socialism, of the anticycling of the economy, ("the second phase" of the democracy, that one "material") and of the peace. This new great ideology democratic and non-political, through the proposizione of a new and revolutionary economic model, succeeds to resolve problems definitively millenarians which unemployment, the poverty, the inflation, the discontinuity of the economic increase, the deficit of the public budget, the instability financial institution. Its greater objective is the peace. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Tuesday August 16, 2005 15:03 by an imcer
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Well Spotted By 'Stunned' read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / other press Tuesday August 16, 2005 12:58 by isnothingsacred
By Peter N. Spotts, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Mon Aug 15, 4:00 AM ET "It's the kind of breakthrough scientists often dream about." They have unraveled the complete genetic blueprint for rice - the staple for more than half of the world's population.... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Monday August 15, 2005 17:19 by Michael A. Lebowitz
This is a short exerpt from an article by Michael A. Lebowitz from the current edition of Monthly Review which has a series of articles on the theme "Socialism in the 21st century". The entire article and others can be found on the Monthly Review site. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / other press Monday August 15, 2005 12:21 by Breaking news
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15 August 2005 11:07 The five Mayo men jailed for contempt of court arising from their opposition to the Corrib gas pipeline have issued an open letter from prison. The men have called on Shell and the Government to lift the injunction which led to their imprisonment. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday August 13, 2005 23:57 by R.Isible
This is a short movie hosted on the Prelinger Archives. It contains footage of Irish workers commenting on the role of money and corporations in the 1976 presidential election. It also shows Ron Kovic being refused entry to the RollingStone fundraiser for Carter. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday August 13, 2005 13:51 by iosaf
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George Clinton, ex president of the USA, usually publishes opinion pieces in the Italian daily "la reppublica", but this week he launched his European opinion from the French "Le Monde" whence it has now been translated to spanish and is exciting the comment of big newspapers across the continent as being a heavy weight support of a "new theory". That theory to put it most basically, is "the US & UK have gone mad". Or to use Clinton's words "we can not hide behind a wall or kill all our enemies" [the implication being that is exactly the policy wish]. Or to use the phrase I used on imc uk after the july bombings, "they entered psychosis". read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Friday August 12, 2005 17:45 by 'I could never accept a treaty that would harm our economy'
international / consumer issues / other press Friday August 12, 2005 16:00 by Jerome a Paris
"The Financial Times publishes this morning the straight propaganda from the "voodoo" supply siders that fill up so many positions in the Bush administration. It is interesting to see their arguments so nakedly expressed." read full story / add a comment 
international / sci-tech / other press Friday August 12, 2005 13:23 by triffid protection eye wear.
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the Swift Tuttle comet's debris annually colides with the planet Earth in mid August giving us all shooting stars which are called the Perseids. You may approach this simple cosmic fact with awe and superstition, gasping and pointing and mkaing little wishes for world peace or higher wages or you may choose to be scientific about it and simply record time, brightness and suspected location of the drop. Its up to you. The last time the comet itself was visible was in 1992, someday that comet will collide with us but not yet. read full story / add a comment
monaghan / sci-tech / other press Thursday August 11, 2005 12:34 by Jedi master
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A humourous piece about Zidanes return to football read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday August 11, 2005 01:05 by Arthur McBride
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army, hard pressed to attract new soldiers amid the Iraq war, exceeded its July recruiting goal but seems doomed to miss its target for the year, while the Army Reserve and National Guard fell short of their goals again. See: read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday August 11, 2005 00:26 by feckoffmary
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RTE 10 August 2005 19:32 A legal expert has said she believes that the three Irishmen convicted of terrorism offences in Colombia may have no case to answer under Irish law. ...the director of the Council for Civil Liberties, Aisling Reidy, has said gardaí would have to have evidence that someone possessed a false document in Ireland before officers would want to talk to that person. Full story: read full story / add a comment 
international / sci-tech / other press Wednesday August 10, 2005 15:33 by o!
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Mr Bush is uneasy, Iran has only twice taken the headlines from him since he got the job of the great white chief of the USA. You remember, there were two earthquakes in Bam a little more than a year apart when he went on holidays. read full story / add a comment |
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