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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 25, 2008 12:57 by P O'Brien
 19 comments (last - saturday march 29, 2008 08:18)
The old adage ‘You can fool some people some times, but you can’t fool all the people all the time’ comes to mind when summing up Provisional Sinn Fein’s ‘grass roots’. At what point will they stop being fooled and maybe step back and question the honesty and integrity of their party leader Gerry Adams ? Having once been a supporter and admirer of Adams I now find it difficult to listen to him. He was interviewed by Ursula Halligan on TV3’s The Political Party on Sunday, March 2nd . I have not read any comments regarding this interview on any of the usual sites where this might be debated or discussed. The first part of the interview was taken up with how Sinn Fein got it so wrong in the 26 counties Elections and what direction they where now taking etc etc. Ursula then went on to ask Adams………… read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 25, 2008 10:21 by Jim
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Two intellectually lazy revisionist views have gained ground in the popular Irish historical mythology in relation to the Easter Rising. 1) That the Easter Rising was a a deliberate romantic blood sacrifice by rebels who knew in advance that they would fail. 2) That the Easter Rising was a terrorist act. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday March 24, 2008 16:29 by Ed W
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Right-wing paramilitaries in Colombia killed four more civilians this month. If the western media had done its job during the recent border confrontation between the government of Alvaro Uribe and its neighbours, the death squads might have thought twice before adding to their bloody hit-list read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday March 23, 2008 18:04 by Kevin T. Walsh
20 comments (last - sunday october 21, 2012 14:45)
As you read the posting below, I would suggest you check Inydymedia coverage on two topics: Brain Injury writtten Michelle Clarke and the posting of Mr. Justice Barr's Report and the shooting dead of John Carthy...... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday March 23, 2008 12:58 by Irish Basque Committees
1916 Dublin. Irish republicans rise up in arms against the British Empire and proclaim the Irish Republic. Young Basque nationalists send telegrams to congratulate the brave rebels. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday March 22, 2008 19:07 by Cael
26 comments (last - monday april 14, 2008 22:11)
In Athens, election of officials was not practiced because it was thought to favor the wealthy and powerful. Giving decision-making power to elected officials was thought to take away the power of the people and effectively make the state an oligarchy, that is government by an elite group read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday March 22, 2008 15:23 by Cael
20 comments (last - thursday may 08, 2008 22:48)
It seems to me that we have well and truly returned to the days of Michael Davitt and the Land League. Where huge numbers of people are being bled dry by a small group of Landlords. And what do these latterday Landlords do with their ill gotten gains? Like the Landlords of old, they take the money out of the country. The Landlord class in Ireland have bought overseas land and buildings to the sum of 1.2 trillion euro - that right 1200 billion euro. read full story / add a comment
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday March 22, 2008 15:01 by Cael
1 comment (last - saturday march 22, 2008 20:08)
ATTEMPTS by some members of Limerick City Council to place obstacles in the way of the new regeneration boards must be condemned, a spokesman for Republican Sinn Féin said this week. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday March 21, 2008 17:43 by KevinT. Walsh
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Contemporary Irish society is more divided than it has been for a long time - or so it was written last week. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday March 21, 2008 07:49 by James R
Army Sergeant Ronn Cantu is serving his second tour in Iraq. He's also a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. Last year, he rose to prominence as a rare outspoken troop against the war and occupation when he spoke live from his base in Iraq, to America's radical online radio network Democracy Now. Then he described how he was scared out of his mind during the interview for expressing opinions the military machine simply did not want the public to hear. This time round, in an interview for another radical media outlet, we chatted over Myspace, about how he is utilizing the internet to organise against the occupation from its front line, just as the Winter Soldier events were getting closer. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday March 20, 2008 11:29 by Jim
We've been here before. In 1992 Bill Clinton who never served in the military or fired a shot in anger challenged President George H W Bush, who was one of the youngest US fighter pilots of World War 2 and who was shot down and rescued at a sea while others who participated in the same attack were captured and cannibalised by the Japanese. In 1996 Bill Clinton challenged Bob Dole, a veteran of the the WW2 Italian campaign who was wounded by a German machine gun and waited for nine agonising months to be evacuated to an American hospital leaving his right arm paralyzed preventing him from shaking hands, a serious disability for a politician. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 19, 2008 09:59 by Mr Pipe from Yorkshire
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News coming from the Meath conference of AGSI says that the Gardai want murder trial televised for General Public viewing, supposedly that would up the clothing allowances of the judge's bench and provide a cannon fodder of violent and disturbing viewing for the General Public. Maybe they will provide interactive buttons for people to get involved in the legal process. The risible reason for this suggestion is to show 'us' the great people and public viewers what Gardai must suffer in the courts. They seem well enough appraised of the rights of the individual and one of those is the presumption of innocence. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Monday March 17, 2008 19:34 by Brian
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This article is just an attempt to speculate on how the Vatican intends to juggle the competing interests of the two streams of thought within the Catholic Church. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday March 16, 2008 23:20 by Fu Manchu
14 comments (last - wednesday march 19, 2008 21:32)
Firstly, I do not intend to exhonerate or belittle human rights abuses by the PRC in this piece. However, I feel it appropriate to provoke the thoughts of the readership & our horizontal media community on what exactly are the main issues & ethical social principles at the root of the recent violence in Tibet & other provinces of the PRC with ethnic Tibetan communities. read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Friday March 14, 2008 10:02 by C Murray
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The Breast cancer unit at Mayo General Hospital is to be phased out under the HSE policy of Professor Brendan Drumm, many who travelled to the Breast cancer protest in buses and stood in the cold to highlight lack of services to the North-West will be heavily disappointed in the decision for the scheduled phase-out. Mostly they will be disappointed in the TD whom they elected who upholds the decision of the 'medical men' who know best. http://www.indymedia.ie/article/85161 Ms Flynn was at that protest, she most purposefully strode across the road to listen to the women speak and then she turned her back on them to support Mary Harney and the HSE. read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday March 13, 2008 12:07 by Health Working Group
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Radical health reform, in terms of creating equality and accessibility, and stopping the agenda of privatisation and for-profit medicine, is one of the great challenges facing Irish society. In this pamphlet, anarchists explain the reasons why such change is needed, give examples of important first steps in creating change, and describe the type of struggle that is necessary if we are going to win. PDFs of this pamphlet can be downloaded: A4 version - http://www.wsm.ie/attachments/mar2008/health_pamphlet_1...1.pdf A5 booklet version (for double sided printing) - http://www.wsm.ie/attachments/mar2008/health_pamphlet_a...1.pdf read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 12, 2008 22:04 by iosaf .:. ipsiphi
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Pedro Iñaki Pérez Beotegui (alias "Wilson") died yesterday, on the fourth anniversary of the Al Qaeda M11 bombing of Madrid, in Vitoria in the Basque Country at 60 years of age. As "Wilson" he led the group who in 1973 rented a flat on at Calle Claudio Coello 104, Madrid overlooking the road which Franco's prime minister & expected successor Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco used every morning to travel to work after mass in an armoured car. For several weeks the four members of the team, codenamed "Ogre" tunnelled under the street and then placed 80kg of explosives which they detonated on the 20th of December 1973. The car in which Carrero Blanco travelled was sent 20 metres into the air & over a five storey building in the blast. The assassination is cited in almost every account of how the Spanish state passed from an authoritiarian military dictatorship to the process of "transition" upon Franco's death without named successor to the European social democracy it is today. read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 12, 2008 10:54 by C Murray
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The issue of the RTE 'Documentary'- 'Fairytale of Kathmandu', (which I must confess to have not seen) is rolling on with questions in the Seanad , with fattening well-budgetted disc-jockeys allowing hysterical women in rollers Tut! over homosexuality and the sexual activity of a splendid poet. Interesting letter in the Times today by a regular contributor to indymedia as well. I shall publish an extract in a minute. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 11, 2008 03:07 by Rob Henderson
Feel free to circulate this text at will. It might not mean much but if you think it could make a difference somewhere then post it there, or write your own version. Those in the most ideal positions of our national press are not investigating this issue. The people on the ground only have so much time to spread around each day. It is up to you to provide whatever you think we need, we'll accept all the help we can get. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday March 10, 2008 00:21 by ronan
15 comments (last - wednesday march 26, 2008 14:41)
Most people will be aware that Irish troops are being sent to Africa as part of an EU 'peace-keeping' mission to Chad and Central African Republic (CAR), but many will be relatively unaware of the background to the conflict and the reasons for the mission. This article looks at some of the realities behind the rhetoric and suggests some more plausible motivations for the intervention. read full story / add a comment |
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