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offsite link Migrants Given Asylum Despite Being Accused of Sexual Offences, Whistleblower Says Wed Nov 05, 2025 17:23 | Will Jones
Migrants who have been accused of multiple sex offences and other crimes are being granted asylum anyway, a whistleblower has said, with targets incentivising caseworkers to approve claims.
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offsite link Fury as Algerian Migrant Sex Offender is Accidentally Released From Wandsworth Prison But Police Wer... Wed Nov 05, 2025 15:13 | Will Jones
Police have launched an urgent manhunt after an Algerian migrant prisoner was mistakenly freed from HMP Wandsworth amid fury that police weren't told for a week.
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offsite link Driver ?Shouting Allahu Akbar? Ploughs Into Crowd on French Holiday Island Wed Nov 05, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
A driver "shouting Allahu Akbar" has ploughed his car into a crowd of pedestrians on a French holiday island leaving four people critically injured. Authorities said the attacker's motive has not been confirmed.
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offsite link Socialist Zohran Mamdani Becomes First Muslim Mayor of New York Wed Nov 05, 2025 11:12 | Will Jones
Socialist Zohran Mamdani has been elected the first Muslim Mayor of?New York in a political?earthquake?that puts the far Left in charge of America's largest and wealthiest city.
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The ban on Ricky Gervais's billboard saying "Welcome to London, don?t forget your stab vest" shows we are no longer free, says Lee Taylor. It turns out you can be stabbed on your commute but not joke about it.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday May 31, 2009 15:05 by Maidhc Ó Cathail   text 1 comment (last - monday june 01, 2009 01:45)
A recent book by Gavan McCormack documents how Japan has become a "client state" of the United States, an indispensable ally through its uncritical support of the global American empire. However, a closer examination of the forces driving recent US wars in the Middle East suggests that America may in fact be serving the interests of one tiny country in the region. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Sunday May 31, 2009 14:57 by Yassamine Mather
Yassamine Mather writes on the upcoming presidential election in Iran. She suggests that there is no real choice on offer and in any case tne Supreme Leader ayatollah Ali Khamenei holds the real reins of power. Full text at link

Western governments are hoping for the election in Iran of a more ‘moderate’ president and the US has delayed any negotiations until after the poll. Obama, speaking on May 18, said he expected international talks with Iran to begin shortly after the elections. Inside Iran, however, there seems to be little enthusiasm for this farce beyond the ruling circles. Most Iranians are well aware that the president, like all other ‘elected officials’ in the Islamic Republic of Iran, wields limited power. Iran’s supreme religious leader - currently ayatollah Ali Khamenei - is not just a figurehead, but the head of state and ‘guardian of the nation’.

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international / crime and justice / other press Saturday May 30, 2009 16:09 by prurience   text 5 comments (last - friday june 05, 2009 15:52)   image 1 image
The rightwing (not leftwing) Italian dailies are reporting how Nicolò Ghedini (supposedly Silvio Berlusconi's straight lawyer) has got an injunction through the courts to stop a Sardinian "paparazzi" Antonello Zappadu's publication of 700 photos taken last christmas when Pappi Berlusconi entered like a comet into the orbit of sweet young Noemi and was proximate to her sets' parties.

This was a bit back when the monsters were working out how to reduce the Italian EU election to a plebiscite on a septuagenerian's sex appeal. The most demographically honed and mass psychologically horific display of conflicts of interest between society's estates of executive, media, judiciary & of course mafia. We need to pay attention. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday May 30, 2009 15:33 by ronan gallagher   text 1 comment (last - saturday may 30, 2009 15:46)
Lebanon’s army has been put “on full alert” in response to the Israeli Home Front Command drill which is to begin this Sunday. Despite Israeli and UN assurances that the drill will be defensive in nature , Hezbollah has was warned of “possible aggression” along the Israel Lebanon border and stated that its fighters are prepared to respond

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday May 30, 2009 02:32 by Miriam O   text 2 comments (last - sunday may 31, 2009 14:31)
According to Reuters a massive bomb just rocked the South of Iran and many people have died. read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections / other press Saturday May 30, 2009 00:38 by Socialist Party   text 5 comments (last - monday june 01, 2009 22:35)
Irish Times and RTE say that Joe Higgins is now fighting with Eoin Ryan and Mary Lou McDonald for the last MEP seat in Dublin. read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections / other press Friday May 29, 2009 11:17 by Joe Higgins.eu   text 1 comment (last - friday may 29, 2009 11:19)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
This is the second of a series of videos on what Joe Higgins stands for. Here Joe outlines why he stands for defending workers rights and public services. He argues the Trade Unions must be forced to take action to fight the attacks. More videos of his key demands will be put on the campaign's YouTube channel, available at http://www.youtube.com/VoteJoeHiggins so make sure to subscribe or check back regularly. read full story / add a comment
Victor M Agosto
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday May 28, 2009 13:39 by redjade   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
Balazs Nagy: Can you tell a few words about yourself and how you got to the situation that you are in?

Victor Agosto: Ok, I am Victor Agosto, I joined the Army of the United States in August of 2005. I was sent to Iraq in October of 2006. And I stayed there until November of 2007. And while I was in Iraq I turned against both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And now my unit is sending me to Afghanistan - or wants to send me to Afghanistan - but I have already told them that I am not going to go and that I am not going to obey any orders supporting my unit's deployment to Afghanistan. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday May 28, 2009 13:18 by Ronan Gallagher   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 28, 2009 13:45)
Alonzo Bodden arrived in Ireland this week for the Carlsberg Kilkenny Cat Laughs Festival. He’s back here after playing to US troops at Camp Liberty in Iraq. As a former Stealth Bomber mechanic, Alonzo was no stranger to the military world when he signed up to bring a bit of laughter to the lives of troops on active service. The zany comic told Jay Richardson wittily in an interview published in today’s Irish Times.
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was postwar Germany more fascistic before or after his death?
international / history and heritage / other press Wednesday May 27, 2009 19:47 by iosaf   text 2 comments (last - friday may 29, 2009 23:01)   image 3 images
June 2nd 1967 was a watershed in German postwar history so pivotal that the date would be used by a terrorist grouping as their name. Benno Ohnesorg was shot dead by a policeman. Ohnesorg had been peacefully protesting the visit of the then Shah of Iran to the then West Berlin. It has now emerged the policeman in question, Karl-Heinz Kurras had been a member of the STASI since 1955 though there is no evidence he was acting on their orders at the time of the shooting. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / other press Monday May 25, 2009 20:22 by erudite type   text 3 comments (last - wednesday may 27, 2009 14:53)
Reuters and other newswires are carrying an Iranian story in the last hour that the revolutionary guard have arrested 114 "devil worshippers" and seized drugs and alcohol during a party in a southern city.
"Cutting (their own) skin and sucking up the blood was among the indecent behavior of the group," Mehr News Agency quoted Colonel Abbas Hamedi of Iran's Revolutionary Guards in the city of Shiraz as saying. He said a Guards intelligence unit launched an investigation into the all-male group about one year ago, leading to their arrest Sunday evening. "The group's aim was to promote irreligious behavior," Hamedi, adding they had posted footage of their parties on the Internet. The Islamic Republic, which bans alcohol and narcotics, last year said it would launch a crackdown on "indecent Western-inspired movements" such as rappers and satanists.

Which all sounds dandy to the general public who probably don't know about the Melak Taus read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday May 25, 2009 09:06 by CWI   text 1 comment (last - monday may 25, 2009 11:18)
Following the defeat of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka by the army, the govt is using this victory as an opportunity to remove all and any opposition to their hold on power and have drawn up a death list of people they want to get rid of.

One of those is the United Socialist Party leader who has been put on death list read full story / add a comment

History of number of strike days from 1947 - 2008
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Sunday May 24, 2009 23:09 by Terence   image 2 images
This recent article is very interesting because of the facts and figures presented in it. It reviews the latest situation on the current global economic crisis and presents a brief history of the relative state and strength of the labour movement and the top wealthy elite. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Sunday May 24, 2009 15:21 by john throne   text 45 comments (last - wednesday may 27, 2009 10:25)
Some years ago a group of Comrades were expelled from the Irish Socialist Party and the Socialist Party's international organization. I John throne was amongst these. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Saturday May 23, 2009 16:11 by spare the rod spoil the childer   text 2 comments (last - sunday may 24, 2009 18:46)
Branislav Peranovic is the "archpriest" (orthodox equivalent to dean's rank) who has run the "Novi Pazar" drug rehabilitation centre since 2003. Video footage shown on Thursday night on Serbian TV,& being widely picked up throughout European media, clearly shows inmates being beaten, a regular occurence which Peranovic justifies completely telling press that a "heavy hand" is needed and that anyone who has a "junkie in their home" would understand this. He further insists that parents of his "patients" approve the regime which is now to be investigated by the Serbian state who understandably consider the whole thing to be torture.

One former inmate describes how patients put their trousers bottoms in their socks before their beatings knowing that they will lose bowel control & in common parlance "shit themselves" but at least it won't go over the carpet or tiles. read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections / other press Friday May 22, 2009 17:22 by Dave   text 2 comments (last - wednesday june 03, 2009 18:03)   video 1 video file
A satirical look at one of the candidates in the upcoming elections in Ireland on June 5th. The performer is Paul Kelly from Dublin. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday May 21, 2009 03:48 by Ciaron   text 5 comments (last - wednesday may 27, 2009 01:12)
For those who knew him and knew of him we are shocked and saddened by the killing of Larry in Guatamela. Larry served the poor in the streets of the U.S. and at the bloody edges of the empire.....El Salvador, Brazil, Guatamela. His nonviolent resistance was steadfast from the draft board raids of the Vietnam War to the School of the Americas at Ft. Benning and many places between. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday May 19, 2009 12:23 by Philip Ikurusi.   text 2 comments (last - sunday june 07, 2009 16:27)
Call For Immediate Action to Stop the Attacks on Niger Delta Civilians by Nigerian Military –
Statement From Sweet Crude, a Documentary Film About the Niger Delta Crisis
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mayo / environment / other press Monday May 18, 2009 00:56 by IT reader   text 13 comments (last - monday july 27, 2009 21:22)   image 1 image
Does Peter Murtagh have a relationship with the PR department of Shell? Do Conor Lally's "security cources" wear blue uniforms? Why has no one been charged with the break in on the Shell compound where someone supposedly started a digger and tore down a fence? Did anyone take a picture of this attack? Why did the security guards run away? How is that the security guard with the injured arm has never been named nor photographed? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday May 16, 2009 19:31 by pat c   text 31 comments (last - wednesday august 29, 2012 11:52)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
While the Taliban are certainly inficting misery on the people of Pakistan its important to remember that Obamas Drones are raining missiles on Northern Pakistan. Just like the missiles in Afghanistan these ones have a habit of hitting civilian targets. read full story / add a comment
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