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offsite link The Saker blog is now frozen Tue Feb 28, 2023 23:55 | The Saker
Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.? We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).?

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

offsite link Moveable Feast Cafe 2023/02/27 ? Open Thread Mon Feb 27, 2023 19:00 | cafe-uploader
2023/02/27 19:00:02Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of

offsite link The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
Pepe Escobar for the Saker blog A powerful feeling rhythms your skin and drums up your soul as you?re immersed in a long walk under persistent snow flurries, pinpointed by

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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

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offsite link News Round-Up Tue Dec 24, 2024 00:40 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Can Science Tell Us the Meaning of Life? Mon Dec 23, 2024 19:54 | Dr David Bell
At Christmas time, Dr David Bell reflects on what has true value in this world, the limits of science to tell us what that is and what a baby in a manger might have to say about it.
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offsite link Non-Crime Hate Incidents Surge in Half of Police Forces Despite Government Crackdown Mon Dec 23, 2024 17:46 | Will Jones
The number of?non-crime hate incidents?recorded by police has surged in half of Britain's forces despite attempts by the previous Government to crack down on the practice, official data show.
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offsite link Reeves?s Simplistic Thinking Spawned This Budget from Hell Mon Dec 23, 2024 15:44 | David Craig
Simplistic linear thinking by Rachel from Accounts and the Treasury spawned this Budget from hell, says David Craig. A systems thinker would have known it would send the economy into a doom loop of recession and decline.
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offsite link British Drivers Steering Away From New Cars In Their Droves Mon Dec 23, 2024 13:00 | Sallust
British car-buyers are turning away from new vehicles in their droves and keeping their reliable old petrol models going for far longer as Labour's Net Zero war on affordable motors heats up.
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dublin / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Saturday July 23, 2011 20:29 by Captain america
Forget so-called conspiracy theories. Instead look at reality. Dare ask yourselves who actually seems to have benefited from the 9-11 calamity. In light of the debt ceiling debates and continuous politics as usual of Washington D.C., it is time for the American people and individual states of this federation to look at a troubling set of facts. There seems to have been “several” beneficiaries of 9-11 that don’t exactly fit the story line we were constantly fed by the propaganda machine and mainstream media as to how to connect the dots (which we were rhetorically asked to do). read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday July 21, 2011 23:11 by Workers Solidarity Movement PRO   text 1 comment (last - saturday july 23, 2011 09:56)
Anarchist Organisation Workers Solidarity Movement has issued a statement supporting the demands of the Maghaberry prisoners for their Rights and Dignity to be respected read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 20, 2011 15:49 by Grupo Raices - the Irish Colombia Solidarity Group   text 1 comment (last - saturday july 30, 2011 13:25)   image 1 image
The Irish foreign minister Eamon Gilmore has given his support to US-EU policy on Colombia - even though that policy is based on complicity with gross human rights violations by the Colombian state and its paramilitary allies read full story / add a comment
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international / education / opinion/analysis Saturday July 16, 2011 15:00 by Sean Crudden   text 66 comments (last - thursday october 24, 2013 16:06)   image 10 images
“Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week; I give tithes of all that I get. But the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote his breast, saying, God, be thou merciful to me a sinner. I say unto you, This man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled; but he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.”

Luke Chapter 18

You probably know that a publican means a tax-collector. Such a person was generally hated reviled despised in biblical times. A publican was definitely not “politically correct.”
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday July 15, 2011 13:13 by Declan Cullen   text 9 comments (last - thursday july 21, 2011 11:07)
I remember a few years ago seeing, as eveyone else did, the signs on the road sides around Ireland stating that a particular road project was 'Funded by the EU' which everyone, including myself though was great. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 13, 2011 19:35 by Paddy Hackett
In contrast much of the radical Left falsely posit the source of the current capitalist contradictions as existing within the process of circulation of capital. This is why they persistently confine themselves to solutions that are grounded in the process of circulation of capital. They focus on money, credit, spending, taxation and commodities. Each one of these forgoing forms are necessarily confined to the sphere of circulation. Consequently they cannot provide the key to the solution of the the current world capitalist crises. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 12, 2011 23:22 by Michael Cross   video 1 video file
Are traits associated with psychopathic personality actually assets to an ambitious politician or highly driven member of the corporate world? read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday July 09, 2011 19:10 by Seán Ó Murchú
Geraldine McNamara PRO of Republican Sinn Fein said that Martin McGuinness has shown his true colours in his statement in the Belfast Telegraph in which he is seeking legislation to make it easier for Irish people to get British citizenship and passports. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday July 08, 2011 23:31 by Paddy Hackett   text 8 comments (last - friday july 15, 2011 11:09)
Throwing more debt, in the short or long run, at the problem will not solve
the problem. This is precisely because the source of the problem does not
lie within the process of circulation (i.e. money and credit spheres). It is
contained within the production process.

Forgive the publication of this second draft. The first draft was rough with some errors in it. This draft is a more presentable version. But still not perfect. The first draft may be discarded.

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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday July 07, 2011 21:52 by Paddy Hackett
Throwing more debt, in the short or long run, at the problem will not solve the problem. This is precisely because the source of the problem does not lie within the process of circulation (i.e. money and credit spheres). It is lodged within the production process.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday June 30, 2011 21:36 by GARC   image 1 image
Over the past few months, the Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective (GARC) have been involved in intensive meetings involving the Catholic Church, CARA, the Parades Commission, the SDLP and a number of other Youth, Community and Political groups. To give our analysis of yearly unwelcome Loyal Order parades through the greater Ardoyne community and the equally unwelcome violence and destruction which they leave in their wake.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 28, 2011 08:49 by Kathy Kelly   text 6 comments (last - sunday july 03, 2011 15:30)   image 2 images   video 4 video files

Last week, newly-arrived in Athens as part of the US Boat to Gaza project, our team of activists gathered for nonviolence training. We are here to sail to Gaza, in defiance of an Israeli naval blockade, in our ship, "The Audacity of Hope." Our team, and nine other ships' crews from countries around the world, want Israel to end its lethal blockade of Gaza by letting our crews through to shore to meet with Gazans. The US ship will bring over 3,000 letters of support to a population suffering its fifth continuous decade of de facto occupation, now in the form of a military blockade controlling Gaza's sea and sky, punctuated by frequent deadly military incursions, that has starved Gaza's economy and people to the exact level of cruelty considered acceptable to the domestic population of our own United States, Israel's staunchest ally.
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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday June 27, 2011 21:39 by Paddy Hackett
Financialisation is a universal scam dressed up as a sophisticated exercise designed to create the illusion that the economic system is faring well. But at the end of the day it is just a paper generator with no authentic exchange value. It just postpones the day when the law of the tendency of the general rate of profit manifests itself in the form of an economic crisis.

Marx's Capital has not lost its value as a means to a correct understanding of the nature of capitalism today. The law of value is every bit as relevant today as it was in the past. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Monday June 27, 2011 16:43 by SIPTUPR   video 1 video file
Renowned UK based Academic Eilis Lawlor explains why Cleaners are more valuable to society than Bankers! read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday June 24, 2011 14:39 by SIPTUPR   video 1 video file
Renowned UK based Academic Eilis Lawlor explains why Cleaners are valuable to society than Bankers! read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 21, 2011 14:47 by Brian Flannery   text 74 comments (last - sunday may 29, 2016 22:01)   1 attached file
In the last 10 years, numbers have risen drastically with people being incarcerated in prisons throughout Ireland.

We need a complete overhaul in the way our prisons are run. The latest report by Judge Reilly, Inspector of Prisons were shocking and indicated that many laws have been in fact been breached viz a viz basic human rights.

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Ruairí making the column inches by ignoring poverty issues.
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday June 20, 2011 10:58 by indignant person   text 4 comments (last - wednesday june 29, 2011 13:36)   image 1 image
I want to seperate out what is becoming problematic in terms of Irish Coalition Partnerships for a minute
and focus on how those people who attain power actually begin to use it. For instance , the Irish Dáil is
a place where ideology (of whatever flavour) is not an issue when entering into what we fondly term a junior
coalition partnership/ relationship with a majority party (JCP). it doesn't matter a bit, no political party , whatever
their stripe goes into poor areas and asks for votes , because they (and especially the Labour party) do not
care to know about poverty. It is invisible to them, and mostly at the moment in terms of access to education. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday June 19, 2011 18:58 by Paddy Hackett
Marx by producing the materialist conception of history was also producing the materialist conception of alienation. The materialist conception of history is the only genuine, comprehensive and consistent materialism. It laid the basis for identifying the real nature of capitalist alienation together with the historical process that dissolves it. Hegel never succeeded in finding the limits preventing humanity from transcending its alienation. Hegel shares this fundamental inability to understand both the nature of alienation and the means whereby it can be abolished with the Young Hegelians; Feuerbach; the philosophical materialism of the Enlightenment and the Classical School of Political Economy. read full story / add a comment
The "sport that the Greyhound Nuts site promoted...
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Sunday June 19, 2011 16:27 by Protecting Irish Hares from Coursing Cruelty   text 41 comments (last - friday june 24, 2011 13:36)   image 4 images
Hateful pro-hare coursing internet site shut down! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday June 19, 2011 07:33 by Paddy Hackett
Marx by producing the materialist conception of history was also producing the materialist conception of alienation. The materialist conception of history is the only genuine, comprehensive and consistent materialism. It laid the basis for identifying the real nature of capitalist alienation together with the historical process that dissolves it. Hegel never succeeded in finding the limits preventing humanity from transcending its alienation. Hegel shares this fundamental inability to understand both the nature of alienation and the means whereby it can be abolished with the Young Hegelians; Feuerbach; the philosophical materialism of the Enlightenment and the Classical School of Political Economy.
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