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international / history and heritage Wednesday January 20, 2010 18:00 by Andrew Flood
As predictions for the death toll from the Haitian earthquakes rise over 200,000, ABC News have reported that planes carrying medical equipment and relief supplies are having to compete with soldiers for the valuable slots at Port-au-Prince airport which was taken over by the US military after the quake. Since the start of the great anti-slavery republican insurrection nearly 220 years ago, Haiti has been presented as a dangerous place incapable of running its own affairs and requiring foreign intervention. Yet the reality is its people were the first enslaved population to deliver themselves from slavery and also carried out what was only the third successful republican insurrection on the planet. The threat of this good example was rewarded with centuries of invasion, blackmail, the robbery of Haiti's natural resources and the impoverishment of its people. This articles summarizes that history of intervention and the resistance to it in order to put into context what is happening in Haiti after the quake
Podcast: "The Haitian Revolution"
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday January 07, 2010 04:21 by Fintan Lane
Siege is broken!
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) has received word from the Irish participants on the Viva Palestina aid convoy that they crossed the border at Rafah and arrived in Gaza shortly after 7pm (Irish time). This is exactly one month after the convoy set off on its journey and despite concerted efforts by Egypt to obstruct its progress.
Related Links:
Viva Palestina on Twitter |
Al Jazeera report |
Al Jazeera video report |
Press TV report |
Ireland to Gaza Facebook Page |
Official Viva Palestina webpage |
'Viva Palestina Cork’ Facebook page |
IPSC webpage |
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday December 26, 2009 22:55 by Fintan Lane
Following several months of fundraising, four teams from across Ireland departed on Saturday, 5 December, to travel 4,000 miles across land to Gaza in Palestine to deliver ambulances and humanitarian aid to the besieged people of that tiny region. Concerned Irish citizens from Cork, Derry, Dublin, Galway and Tyrone are bringing two ambulances, a mini-bus, and a truck filled with over 10 tonnes of humanitarian aid.
IPSC webpage |
Latest news from Jordan |
Ireland to Gaza Facebook Page |
Official Viva Palestina webpage |
'Viva Palestina Cork’ Facebook page |
Stranded in Jordan |
Willie O'Dea gives his support |
Noam Chomsky and Proinsias De Rossa give their support |
Egyptian government efforts to hinder march |
Youtube footage of convoy entering Turkey
international / miscellaneous Wednesday December 09, 2009 15:05 by Gerard Horgan
![]() Obama - Hope, No!
A critique of the Obama Presidency from taking office in January of this year to now.
Criticism of the Obama Administration in the United States (and around the world) is more noticeable as is the slide in the opinion polls for the young president. This may seem predictable given the unrealistic levels of global expectation that accompanied him as he swept into the Oval office with the words ‘hope and change’ ringing around America. However, just over nine months on, commentators and supporters alike are disappointed at Obama’s apparent inability to deliver on his campaign promises. The polemicist, Gore Vidal, in several recent interviews went as far as to say that Obama will be a ‘one term President’ who is ‘completely overwhelmed’ by the challenges that confront him.
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday December 02, 2009 23:02 by Gerard Horgan
After more than three months' deliberation, President Barack Obama has finally decided to commit more than 30,000 US troops to the Afghan war. The ‘Afghan surge’ is to be fast tracked over the next six months with a large bulk of the troops arriving before Christmas. The deployment will cost approximately $1 million dollars per soldier, per year, some $30 billion overall. This price tag is on top of the considerable costs (running into the hundreds of billions of dollars) of keeping over 100,000 US soldiers ‘in-country’, while maintaining other US global military operations as well as the on-going fiasco in Iraq. The combined deployment of US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan is close to 250,000 service personnel, which is augmented by the greatest number of private military contractors/mercenaries ever seen (some 100,000 in Iraq alone).
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