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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

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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

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offsite link The Daily Sceptic Christmas Appeal Mon Dec 23, 2024 07:00 | Toby Young
The Daily Sceptic's Christmas Appeal launches today ? an opportunity for readers to show their appreciation of the work we do. Remember, donating just ?5/month or ?50/year will give you access to a range of premium perks.
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offsite link News Round-Up Mon Dec 23, 2024 01:12 | 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 Staff at ?100 Million Alan Turing Institute Attack ?Chaotic? Management Amid Diversity Row Sun Dec 22, 2024 19:00 | Richard Eldred
Staff at the ?100 million Alan Turing Institute have erupted in protest over a diversity row, accusing leadership of "tokenistic" hiring and sparking fears that the organisation's credibility is at risk.
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offsite link ?Our Irish Leaders Have Contributed to Hatred Against Jews? Sun Dec 22, 2024 17:00 | Richard Eldred
Ireland's Chief Rabbi has blasted the country's leaders for fuelling antisemitism, leaving Jewish children hiding their identities and many others afraid to wear symbols of their faith.
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offsite link ?Grocery Tax? to Hike Britons? Shopping Bills by ?56 in Labour Net Zero ?Inflation Boost? Sun Dec 22, 2024 15:00 | Richard Eldred
Labour's "grocery tax" is set to punish British families, slapping an extra ?56 onto their shopping bills and driving up inflation, all in the name of Net Zero.
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Plans could make such street scenes a thing of the past?
dublin / anti-capitalism / feature Wednesday November 21, 2007 16:50 by G.McKnight   text 12 comments (last - tuesday december 04, 2007 16:51)   image 4 images
Dublin's much loved Moore St. market, one of the most organically diverse, culturally & historically layered streets remaining in Dublin city centre is under serious threat of extinction from a €500 million multi-story commercial development. Plans are soon due to be fully unveiled to the public. read full story / add a comment
national / indymedia ireland / feature Monday November 19, 2007 21:29 by 1 of Indymedia Collective   text 11 comments (last - tuesday december 11, 2007 01:49)
The Oscailt software running Indymedia Ireland has now been upgraded to allow YouTube video to be embedded in both stories and comments. The embedded Youtube video below is an example of how it will look. read full story / add a comment
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Wednesday November 14, 2007 23:41 by D. Freeman   text 11 comments (last - monday december 03, 2007 14:02)   image 4 images
As the grey misty rain fell throughout the day – you truly knew it was winter. The fact that over 300 bus workers were gathered in this dog of an afternoon outside Dublin Bus HQ would indicate that we all have entered the season of discontent. read full story / add a comment
Film projected on to wall of Shell HQ
international / environment / feature Tuesday November 13, 2007 23:50 by Tadhg McGrath   text 12 comments (last - wednesday november 28, 2007 16:14)   image 7 images
A large crowd braved the cold evening weather to attend the first Irish screening of the documentary on the trial of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni Eight - "Don't Let Shell Kill Again" , which was appropriately projected onto the outside wall of the Shell headquarters building at 52 Lower Leeson Street in Dublin, on the 12th anniversary of the executions.

Sister Majella McCarron, in what will probably be her last public appearance, made a short speech to provide a context for the film, remembering Saro-Wiwa and the others who were executed at the behest of Shell, after a series of events which shocked the world in 1995.

Sister Majella gave us an insight into the situation in Ogoniland today, and Senator David Norris read an excerpt from Saro-Wiwa's speech at his sentencing hearing in Port Harcourt, when he and his co-defendants heard that the special military tribunal had decreed that they were to be hanged.
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national / anti-capitalism / feature Thursday November 08, 2007 00:36 by Grassroots Dissent   text 14 comments (last - wednesday november 14, 2007 16:13)   image 7 images
The World Bank will visit Malahide, Co. Dublin on the 12th and 13th of November. The talks taking place in Malahide will not be attended by elected 'representatives'. The group meeting there is the financial arm of the World Bank - The International Development Agency (IDA). The people talking and making decisions that will affect the lives of millions will be unelected senior civil servants.

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national / arts and media / feature Tuesday November 06, 2007 16:48 by eamcnn crufden   text 68 comments (last - tuesday january 22, 2008 15:03)   image 19 images   1 attached file
'Route Irish' Documentary Debuts Dublin Nov 6th - Feature Length Documentary On Movement Against Use of Shannon By US Military 2002-2006 'Route Irish', a feature length verité/essay film on the campaign(s) against Irish facilitation of the US/UK Invasion of Iraq will be screened for the first time publicly on Wednesday 7th November in Seomra Spraoi.
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Mayo solidarity with the NIger Delta struggle
national / anti-capitalism / feature Tuesday October 30, 2007 20:44 by Sean Mallory (wsm pers cap) & Soundmigration (wsm pers cap)   text 24 comments (last - tuesday november 13, 2007 22:36)   image 11 images   audio 2 audio files
Looking back at Shells history of brutality and looking forward to the comemmeration actions in Mayo on November 9th read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Wednesday October 24, 2007 23:44 by Joe Carolan   text 25 comments (last - monday november 05, 2007 12:54)   image 2 images
17 comrades arrested in massive paramilitary operations by the New Zealand State. Huge Maori anger about to explode. One good friend of ours a 19 year old editor of Indymedia Aotearoa who cannot be named as yet because of name suppression. read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Wednesday October 24, 2007 23:37 by Jim O'Sullivan   text 16 comments (last - tuesday november 13, 2007 20:28)   image 1 image
Recent reports indicate that trade union activists are coming under increasing attack and in some cases these attacks are deadly. As globalisation and far right wing capitalism increases, so the attacks on trade unions and their members increase. Below is a ICFTU report which highlights the extent of the problem read full story / add a comment
Supt Gilligan & locals discuss the suitation
mayo / environment / feature Wednesday October 24, 2007 23:25 by Rudiger   text 31 comments (last - saturday june 12, 2010 18:54)   image 15 images
Shell to Sea protestors yesterday successfully stopped Shell and RPS drilling on an SAC. read full story / add a comment
Ruinaamelia; "We will continue to imagine resistance against the control of speculation logic and its accomplices."
international / housing / feature Wednesday October 17, 2007 23:53 by dunk   text 7 comments (last - tuesday january 15, 2008 16:33)   image 13 images
This morning at 8.30 the Mossos arrived and carried out the eviction of anohter of Barcelonas most important social centres, Ruina Amalia, one of the last few squatted spaces in the Raval nieghbourhood of the old city. The centre was another of the critical spaces and nodal points of BCN's social movements, about 20 people lived in the squatted space and its social centre hosted a wide range of services and support to the social movement: Okupa office, ASF (architects sans frontiers: arx without borders) support, free internet access, Carcoma the popular carpenter, costume workshop, free shop, kilombo library, theatre and dance space, flamenco patio with cheap bar and cafe.

This is another severe blow to critical nodal points of the cities social movement. It seems blow after blow has been dealt out with no real response from the movements..... Is it time for a change of thinking or acting? read full story / add a comment
"The Right to Choose About Our Own Bodies" Campaigners hold a sign during a recent protest in the Argentinian capital, Buenos Aires.
international / gender and sexuality / feature Wednesday October 10, 2007 17:23 by R.E. Silvera   text 38 comments (last - sunday october 28, 2007 11:27)   image 5 images
The Republic of Argentina shares many sociohistorical parallels with the Republic of Ireland. Both have been traditionally conservative, christian nations, with the Roman Catholic Church having a privileged position of power in all areas of public life. Even so, due to massive demonstrations and strong activist commitment, coupled with horrifying stories which came to the attention of the press, it became impossible for the government to stay impassive any longer. While abortion hasn't become legal in Argentina, this article will explore its history, the parallels with Ireland, and recent developments which may be opening the way for safe and legal abortion in the South American nation. read full story / add a comment
People in Offaly suspcious of RTE programme's approach
offaly / history and heritage / feature Monday October 08, 2007 10:13 by Pat Muldowney   text 307 comments (last - friday november 30, 2007 00:51)   image 15 images
RTÉ has announced a programme in its Hidden History series making controversial claims about IRA sectarianism during the War of independence. This is how RTE is currently publicising it:

Guns and Neighbours: The Killings at Coolacrease
“The bloody tale of a bitter land dispute, involving a family of Protestant farmers in County Offaly, which comes to a deadly conclusion during the War of Independence. Featuring interviews with descendants of the men who carried out the killings, this portrait of a forgotten atrocity features substantial newspaper archive research, IRA witness statements and military documents from the period.”

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The Photo Used For The Cover Of Dahr's Book
international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Thursday October 04, 2007 16:33 by d'other   text 16 comments (last - friday october 12, 2007 09:29)   image 1 image
It's a cliché that the media was the first casualty of the Iraqi occupation, but few reacted like Dahr Jamail. Made brazen by his travels off the beaten path between monotonous jobs, he packed a cheap digital camera along with a laptop and entered Iraq to go beyond the Green Zone and embedded reporting. The dispatches he circulated online, first through emails and then through his site, quickly grew into an essential resource for those in the west desperate for an alternative take on the war on terror. They remain today a vital channel for struggling voices inside occupied Iraq. A collection of Dahr's work called Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches From an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq is coming out this month on Haymarket Books, prior to its release he sat down with Indymedia Ireland to talk about his journalism and the situation in Iraq. read full story / add a comment
Eye Cinema strikers and youthful supporter
galway / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Friday September 28, 2007 00:08 by Tribe 14   text 6 comments (last - thursday october 30, 2008 15:52)   image 1 image
Workers at the Eye Cinema, Galway, members of SIPTU’s Galway No 1 branch, are in dispute with their employer. read full story / add a comment
......"We refuse to choose between Islamic fundamentalism and American imperialism".........
international / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Tuesday September 25, 2007 14:30 by moral fibre   text 77 comments (last - sunday december 02, 2007 10:10)   image 3 images
Under a storm of controversy Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was invited to speak at Columbia University in New York City. Ahmadinejad is in New York for the UN General Assembly meeting. The Iranian President had already caused controversy by seeking to visit the site of the Twin Towers disaster. The request was swiftly denied by the US authorities. The invitation to speak at Columbia was attacked by many across the political spectrum of the US despite many US citizens priding themselves on the right to free speech. The Iranian Presidents speech to the University has come at a time when the US establishment has increased its propaganda war against Iran in what appears to many as a precursor to war. read full story / add a comment
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meath / history and heritage / feature Monday September 24, 2007 00:32 by Paula Geraghty   text 61 comments (last - sunday october 24, 2010 19:32)   image 51 images
Over 1500 people from across Ireland and beyond, gathered at the Hill of Tara to take part in a living human sculpture to call for the rerouting of the M3 away from the Tara Valley. read full story / add a comment
A quiet afternoon (using WiFi and computers) at the new Seomra Spraoi social centre
dublin / miscellaneous / feature Thursday September 20, 2007 13:28 by Social Gaff   text 46 comments (last - saturday september 29, 2007 14:47)   image 29 images
As Seomra Spraoi prepares for the official launch of its big new social centre off Capel St in Dublin this weekend, we look at how far the project has come since the collective formed three years ago. read full story / add a comment
Postal van driven by manager (courtesy Indymedia UK)
national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Monday September 10, 2007 08:45 by Postman Pat   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 13, 2007 00:18)   image 1 image
From June to mid-August, postal workers in the North and in Britain were taking industrial action. Management are on the offensive, and the action was to protect existing conditions.

In a display of cross-border common purpose An Post bosses are also having a go, with conditions under attack as a prelude to selling off parts of the service to private companies. So, An Post workers have a special interest in how the Communications Workers Union dispute progresses
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Near Beit Hadassah settlement in Tel Rumeida, Hebron
international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Saturday September 08, 2007 20:56 by Damien Moran - Personal Capacity   text 14 comments (last - thursday september 20, 2007 14:22)   image 4 images
The following is not intended to be an attempt at a comprehensive analysis of the current situation in the Occupied Territories of Palestine. Instead, it is a reflection on the past few weeks I have spent with the International Solidarity Movement in the city of Hebron and its environs and what brought me here in the first place. It is completely subjective and deliberately intended to be so. It is merely a personal reflection, and therefore should not be taken as representative of the views of the ISM. read full story / add a comment
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