Upcoming Events

no events match your query!

New Events

no events posted in last week

Blog Feeds

Anti-Empire

Anti-Empire

offsite link North Korea Increases Aid to Russia, Mos... Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link Trump Assembles a War Cabinet Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link Slavgrinder Ramps Up Into Overdrive Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link ?Existential? Culling to Continue on Com... Mon Nov 11, 2024 10:28 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link US to Deploy Military Contractors to Ukr... Sun Nov 10, 2024 02:37 | Field Empty

Anti-Empire >>

The Saker
A bird's eye view of the vineyard

offsite link Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
Alternative site: https://thesaker.si/saker-a... Site was created using the downloads provided Regards Herb

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

The Saker >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link The Jobs Bloodbath is Only Just Beginning Wed Jan 08, 2025 15:18 | Sallust
If Rachel Reeves thought companies could easily absorb the extra ?24bn in NI charges she is about to see she was very much mistaken. As Next replaces till staff with self-scanners, the jobs bloodbath is just beginning.
The post The Jobs Bloodbath is Only Just Beginning appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Grooming Gangs Scandal is the Tip of the Iceberg of Public Sector Failure Wed Jan 08, 2025 13:00 | Dr Rowena Slope
The grooming gangs scandal has horrors all of its own. But it's also the tip of the iceberg when it comes to public sector failure, where managerial bureaucracy has killed compassion and common sense, says Dr Rowena Slope.
The post The Grooming Gangs Scandal is the Tip of the Iceberg of Public Sector Failure appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Keir Starmer Will Order Labour MPs to Block Grooming Gangs Inquiry in Parliament Today Wed Jan 08, 2025 11:11 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer is set to block a national inquiry into child grooming gangs in Parliament today, ordering his MPs to oppose an amendment tabled by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch that would trigger a new official inquiry.
The post Keir Starmer Will Order Labour MPs to Block Grooming Gangs Inquiry in Parliament Today appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Declined: Chapter Three: ?Papers, Please!? Wed Jan 08, 2025 09:00 | M. Zermansky
Chapter three of Declined ? a dystopian satire about the emergence of a social credit system in the U.K., serialised in?the Daily Sceptic ? is here. This week: the Government clamps down on "anti-health extremists".
The post Declined: Chapter Three: “Papers, Please!” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Psychoses of the Established Political Parties Wed Jan 08, 2025 07:00 | James Alexander
The Labour party suffers from a psychosis of not having any ideas of its own from later then 1890. The Conservative Party psychosis is the compulsion to 'dish the Whigs'. That's English politics, says Prof James Alexander.
The post The Psychoses of the Established Political Parties appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link After Iraq, Libya, Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, the Pentagon attacks Yemen, by Thier... Tue Jan 07, 2025 06:58 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?113 Fri Dec 20, 2024 10:42 | en

offsite link Pentagon could create a second Kurdish state Fri Dec 20, 2024 10:31 | en

offsite link Resolution condemning the glorification of Nazism Tue Dec 17, 2024 11:08 | en

offsite link How Washington and Ankara Changed the Regime in Damascus , by Thierry Meyssan Tue Dec 17, 2024 06:58 | en

Voltaire Network >>

international / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Sunday May 10, 2009 14:48 by Aaron Rhodes
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called for the release of all labor activists and six members of the One Million Signatures Campaign still in detention after their violent arrest on 1 May as they gathered to peacefully celebrate the International Workers’ Day, and called on the International Labor Organization (ILO) to condemn the arrests. read full story / add a comment
galway / environment / press release Thursday May 07, 2009 22:53 by Brian Guckian
The An Bord Pleanala Inspector's Report into the proposed M17 Rathmorrissy to Tuam motorway scheme is severely flawed and contravenes EU legislation on Environmental Impact Assessment, independent sustainable transport researcher and campaigner Brian Guckian has stated.
read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections / press release Thursday May 07, 2009 13:39 by Irish Socialist Network

Finglas / Ballymun socialist candidate John O'Neill calls for a major programme of social housing to create employment. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Thursday May 07, 2009 01:15 by Joe Higgins
The Irish Doctors' Environmental Association (IDEA) and the European network, Health and Environment Alliance have asked candidates in the Euro Election if they commit to a number of objectives related to improving people’s health and wellbeing through a better environoment. Having studied the issues, Joe Higgins informed these groups that their proposals were closely in line with his and the Socialist Party’s views.

Here is a copy of the commitment requested by the IDEA which Joe has signed: read full story / add a comment
louth / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday May 06, 2009 22:46 by Peter Fitzsimons
Republican Sinn Féin are pleased to announce that a new Cumann has been established in Drogheda Co.Louth.
read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday May 06, 2009 21:06 by Richard Walsh
RSF are to hold a day of action for Republican Prisoners of War in Counties Dublin and Armagh on Saturday, 9th May. read full story / add a comment
derry / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday May 06, 2009 16:39 by Richard Walsh   text 4 comments (last - saturday june 13, 2009 10:55)
A visit by the Queen of England – Elizabeth Windsor, and her husband Philip to Derry City has been condemned by Republican Sinn Féin.
read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Wednesday May 06, 2009 14:09 by KHC   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 06, 2009 16:02)
Workers and freedom loving people!

This is a follow up statement to the May Day Organizing Committee’s first report on the violent attack by police and intelligence forces at the May Day rally in Laleh Park, Tehran, May 1st, 2009, during which more than 150 workers and their families as well as activists of women’s and students’ movements were arrested. The updates for public information and appropriate actions, as of today, are as follows:
read full story / add a comment
limerick / animal rights / press release Wednesday May 06, 2009 13:38 by Bernie Wright   text 6 comments (last - sunday may 10, 2009 21:28)
The Alliance for Animal Rights (AFAR) is horrified that a CONVICTED serial animal abuser in County Limerick is apparently running for a Council seat in the Adare area elections. Richard Smith,(48) a dairy farmer and also owner of Company Richie Tryes on the Kilmallock Road* is hoping people will vote him in as a Councillor in Adare. He has repeatedly abused animals, this being his possible third conviction for abuse to animals on his farm. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Wednesday May 06, 2009 06:53 by MAOR   text 3 comments (last - wednesday may 06, 2009 13:27)
Donegal and Derry based lobby group MAOR have urged the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Eamon Ryan TD not to grant Frontier Exploration Licences for oil and gas exploration off the West Coast of Ireland. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Tuesday May 05, 2009 21:41 by Sean Matthews
A former Visteon worker will be speaking this Saturday 9th May in An Culturlann, in a public meeting organised by the Workers Solidarity Movement. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / press release Tuesday May 05, 2009 16:01 by Adherents to the sixth declaration of the Lacandon jungle   text 2 comments (last - tuesday may 05, 2009 17:55)
8 other campaign activists have been unjustly and illegally imprisoned, tortured, badly treated, stigmatized by the media, and are now awaiting possible incarceration for false accusations. read full story / add a comment
Joe Higgins, a fighter for working people
dublin / politics / elections / press release Monday May 04, 2009 13:41 by Joe Higgins.eu   image 3 images   video 1 video file
Former Socialist Party TD, and well known fighter for working people Joe Higgins has launched his online campaign for the 2009 European Elections. Currently this includes a campaign website and blog at Joe Higgins.eu and a Facebook page. Active profiles on have also been set up on YouTube , Twitter , Flickr , Bebo , Myspace and will go live in the next days.

Joe is standing in the Dublin Constituency for the Socialist Party “to give ordinary people all across Dublin the opportunity to strike a blow against the government’s attempt to make us pay for the crisis caused by them and their friends in the banks and property”. read full story / add a comment
kildare / miscellaneous / press release Sunday May 03, 2009 14:33 by Bazra B
Kildare Sinn Féin's local election candidate for Newbridge, Sean Downey,Highlights Lack of Facilities for Young People read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday May 03, 2009 12:58 by Aaron Rhodes
Delara Darabi, who was charged at the age of 17 with murder, was executed today in Rasht. Darabi was 22 years old. Authorities did not inform her lawyer, Abdolsamad Khorramshahi, that her execution was being carried out. According to Iranian law, lawyers must be given 48 hours notice of impending executions. “The execution of Delara Darabi is an affront to human rights values and is in bold violation of Iran’s obligations with respect to international rights standards and covenants,” said Aaron Rhodes, a spokesperson for the Campaign. “What is more, her rights were trampled in an unfair trial.” read full story / add a comment
logok.jpg
international / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Saturday May 02, 2009 16:45 by KHC   image 3 images
The May Day rally and celebration in Tehran, which was organized by independent Iranian labour organizations in Laleh Park, opn May 1st, 2009 at 5 PM, was attacked by security and intelligence forces at around 5:30 PM and many have been beaten and arrested. The security forces did not allow more than two thousands people who had come to the park to join the event and arrested tens of activists and organizers and shut down the event before it actually started. According to various reports, the arrested labour activists include: Ms. Maryam Mohseni, and Messrs Behrouz Khabaz, Jafar Azimzadeh,fayeq kayxosravi,Mansour Hayatqeybi,Maryam mohseni,Behzad Khabbaz,Gholamreza Khani,Fatemeh Shahnazari,Saeed Youzi,Mehdi Farahani shandiz,Laleh Mohammadi,Habib Sadeqi ,and Shahpour Ehsani-rad. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday May 01, 2009 11:13 by Jean-Marc Jacobs
The Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) on 1 May 2009 accepted the 2008 Tipperary International Peace Award in recognition of its successful five-year campaign to outlaw cluster bombs.
read full story / add a comment
fermanagh / miscellaneous / press release Thursday April 30, 2009 18:21 by Richard Walsh
Residents in the Roslea area of County Fermanagh received a questionnaire on Thursday morning, 30th April, asking for recipients to inform on who they have seen using a public telephone box in the village from the 2nd through to the 12th April. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Thursday April 30, 2009 16:11 by Susan Quirke
Live Register figures for under 25s up 100%, tensions growing*

“It’s time to harness the potential of our younger generation when it comes to tackling the current range of economic and social problems. Instead young people are being consigned to unemployment and emigration, leading to rising tensions” according to the SpunOut.ie National Youth Organisation.

read full story / add a comment
donegal / environment / press release Thursday April 30, 2009 12:47 by Buncrana Shell to Sea Meeting   text 2 comments (last - tuesday may 12, 2009 00:41)
Buncrana Shell to Sea Public Meeting in Plaza Buncrana at 7 PM on Thursday 30 April 2009 Further Info BuncranaShelltoSea@yahoo.ie read full story / add a comment
This page can be viewed in
English Gaeilge

IMC network

© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy