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national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Sunday November 23, 2008 19:32 by Hilary
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Political Quiz: You were the Fianna Fáil Minister for Finance during the last few years. There is a massive economic crash landing happening because of your policies, which focused economic activity on selling houses to each other rather than building up things like education, culture, home grown industry etc. What do you do now? 1.Make the poor pay- strip funding from pensioners, students, schoolkids and the under-priviliged. 2.Blame the international situation. 3.Blame the people who voted against Lisbon. 4. Put your hands up, admit your mistakes, and invest in basic services which will make the recession a bit more bearable for everyone. (hint- this is Fianna Fáil remember...) Anyway, at least he's not Enda Kenny. read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday November 21, 2008 18:25 by Emilio de Lima (Ed.)
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He criticized the conduction of economic policy by Brazilian Central Bank. "The CB is throwing money in the market without taking a specific concern with the change in the economic model, with public investment." Our concern is to analyze the crisis from the perspective of individuals, of the nation, and not from the perspective of the market, because the market heralds want to read full story / add a comment
down / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday November 20, 2008 18:04 by Gerry Rice
The Northern Ireland Assembly was meant to be interdependent. After ten years there is no sign of its being interdependent. Why? read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 18, 2008 11:47 by Karen Jeffares
I recently attended a conference here in Managua, the subject was, among other things, the recent office raids and the threatened expulsions of several international NGOs by the Ortega-led Sandinista government. The attendees were a collection of both Nicaraguans and internationals and the discussion around reasons, reactions, and responses was both interesting and at times, quite inspiring. However, what struck me the most during the conference was something repeated over and over again by the meetings chairperson in her analysis – that if you know something, or learn something new then you have a responsibility to share it with those around you. She was talking specifically about the need to continue questioning the increasingly arbitrary actions of Nicaragua’s current Head of State, but I am sure she would agree that it can be applied to a much broader spectrum of experience. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday November 17, 2008 23:05 by Paul
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This is a talk given by Dick Bryan from the University of Sydney at the recent Historical Materialism 2008 conference in London the weekend before last. Bryan collaborated with Mike Rafferty to co-author the ground-breaking book "Capitalism and Derivatives" in 2006. One of the first books to properly examine the recent explosive developments in high finance from an anti-capitalist perspective, they have blazed a new path in investigating the hyper-evolution of current capitalist financial engineering that is at the root of the current crisis. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday November 14, 2008 23:39 by Fr. Raymond Murray
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The following is the diary of Fr. Raymond Murray, Chaplain of Armagh's Prison and human rights defender of the political prisoners during the Troubles. He is also author of the book "State Violence -Northern Ireland 1969/1997" and numerous reports on torture in Northern Ireland with Fr. Denis Faul, such as "The Hooded Men". He agreed to travell on behalf of Grupo Raíces (Grúpa Fréamhacha) to share his experiences in Northern Ireland with the popular movement in Colombia. He will be speaking at a public conference in Liberty Hall on November 24th, at 19:00 together with Michael Dowling (SIPTU) and a Colombian resident in Ireland who was also there at the conference (check event at http://www.indymedia.ie/article/89819) read full story / add a comment
national / education / opinion/analysis Friday November 14, 2008 23:31 by Oscar
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This article is an invitation for people that may know the answer to the following questions i have in relation to fee paying schools. I understand that the state pays the wages of teachers in fee paying schools while allowing them to also charge those parents who can afford it - fees. My understanding is that this is situation is an historical anomaly based on most fee paying schools being protestant at the creation of the state 90 odd years ago. I was wondering in these times of cut backs , is it true that the state continues with this situation..... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday November 14, 2008 15:57 by Vincent Devine
Rebuttal of ideas expressed by panel members. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 12, 2008 17:11 by Sean Matthews (PC)
Despite the collaboration between the British Government and the DUP preventing the extension of the 1967 Abortion Act to the north the struggle for women's right to choose continues….. read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday November 08, 2008 20:01 by Sean
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We urgently need a holistic approach to mental health and well being in Ireland. Recent research findings of the Health Research Board revealed that of the almost 2,500 drug related deaths in the past eight years, prescription tranquillisers such as benzodiazepines were involved in more deaths than any other drug, legal or illegal. read full story / add a comment 
national / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Saturday November 08, 2008 18:16 by 201
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There are 161 people in this country looking for a new political organisation. Sadly agressive little mobs have an ability to re-structure and re-group at enormous rates of rapidity. They will not be doing so in time for the next set of elections: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/89793 Before she left she destroyed the healthcare system , aided and abetted by centre-right party, The Greens. http://www.indymedia.ie/article/88159 http://www.indymedia.ie/article/85274 http://www.indymedia.ie/article/84946 The Sunday papers will busily eulogise on her contribution to Women's Politics, whilst it is evident that she has dealt women's health issues a cancerous body blow. She copper-fastened the most brutal econmic inequality and two-tier approach to women's health since the foundation of the state. read full story / add a comment 
national / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Saturday November 08, 2008 11:15 by doing it with élan.
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Let's be frank about it, Mary Harney's Genital Warts story is a shame crying out for a tongue wagging. As the most cultured amongst us know this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology was shared by scientists in that trade who have made inroads in the virus research lark. One laureate managed to link up the HPV group of viruses with cervical cancer & before you could say "love me warts and all" most European states decided to vaccinate young wans against only 3 of the near 100 strains of HPV or "genital warts" a virus which indeed doesn't always produce warts...........it being a sly killer and all. read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / opinion/analysis Friday November 07, 2008 15:39 by Oedipus at the National Theatre
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Before the lawyers get busy, let's have a look at what he said yesterday when he announced that the Fioanna Fáil/Geen Party government was setting up a talking shop to give the impression that they care what people think about the project (which will go ahead, it seems, regardless of whatever the "Corrib Gas Community Forum" says or concludes). In the Irish Independent today, the Minister is quoted as saying the following: "Mr Ryan said it would give the State greater energy security, help bring down gas prices and bring in €1.7bn in corporation taxes over the project's estimated 15-20 year lifespan." read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday November 06, 2008 19:35 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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"Democracy is Coming to the U.S.A." clip -Leonard Cohen http://noolmusic.com/yahoo_videos/leonard_cohen_-_democ...y.php I've been in Glasgow the past few daze catching to my godson Seanoidh and his parents Brian and Babs. I met B & B when I accompanied my friend Richard, who had just been deported from Genoa as he was trying to make his way to the G8 2001 demonstration, down to the Italian embassy in London to register our protest at the killing of Carlos, read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Thursday November 06, 2008 17:56 by john throne
"There is no one who represents the black inner city, who is rooted in the black community. It's the whole black Brahmin thing.: Vote for us because we're better than you." read full story / add a comment 
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday November 06, 2008 14:29 by Sean Matthews (Personal Capacity)
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Text of talk from Belfast WSM educational read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 05, 2008 22:07 by Bonnan buí
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Sinn Fein defend the Free State read full story / add a comment
limerick / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday October 30, 2008 20:31 by Vincent Devine
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Colin Fry will be appearing in the University of Limerick Concert Hall on the 3rd and 4th of November. Tickets are currently on sale for €35. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / opinion/analysis Thursday October 30, 2008 19:44 by Grattan Healy
A recent BBC TV programme called: "High Anxieties: The Mathematics of Chaos" documented how mathematics has come to better understand the instability in complex system, such as our economy and our climate. Our attempts to predict and control such unstable systems are unsuccessful, as illustrated by the ongoing finance and market crisis. We face much the same sort of unpredictable development with the climate, and for the same reason, a sudden, potentially irreversible, change cannot be ruled out. The unstable and unsustainable economy is now driving climate instability. Our first task is to stabilize our economy, change its purposes, move to sustainability and try to avert the worst effects of climate change. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 29, 2008 16:41 by John mcoy
In a recent press release on their website Mr Wills of the Union speaks about the “damning indictment of the attitude these contractors have towards their workers and employment standards generally, as laid down by the law”. read full story / add a comment |
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