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Four Million Refugees From a Liberation
30 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - United States, United Kingdom, Iraq


By David Swanson
Of all the 95% of humans who live outside the United States, or any of those within it for that matter, who do you think is most invisible? Whose existence, did we come to hear about it, would be the most incomprehensible and therefore inaudible?

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Tags: Iraq, refugees
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How Obama and Trump Imprison Voters - and How To Break Out
30 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - United States


By Sam Husseini
A group of demonstrators recently got into an Obama fundraiser to protest the imprisonment of Bradley Manning, the alleged source of the WikiLeaks cables.

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Tags: Obama, Donald Trump, Bradley Manning
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Why a Dog Is More Qualified for Congress Than Robert Hurt
30 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - United States


By David Swanson
The Charlottesville Daily Progress, to its credit, did something that I don't think it or most small-town newspapers have done before, and certainly have not done often: it wrote about the local congress member's position on military spending. Sure it's where half of our income taxes go, but it's hardly ever mentioned.

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British 'Freedom' ? - let me show it to your royal rectum
30 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - United Kingdom


I refer to an article by Reporters Without Borders : Australia - Clarence House block Australian satire of wedding – 29/04/2011 18:15:34 – For correct edification I include above a link to the source.

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Tags: censorship, press, Royal Family
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Ian Tomlinson inquest - coroner sums up, allows jury to consider unlawful killing verdict
28 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - United Kingdom


Judge Peter Thornton QC, sitting as HM Assistant Deputy Coroner for the City of London, today summed up in the inquest into the death of 47 year old Ian Tomlinson.

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An Taisce calls on ESRI to focus more on Research
28 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Ireland


Charles Stanley-Smith Chair of An Taisce, the National Trust for Ireland asys he is deeply critical of calls by the ESRI's John FitzGerald for Corrib gas to come on-stream in order to address energy security for Ireland. He indicated that the ESRI's John FitzGerald acknowledged lack of familiarity with the Corrib gas controversy (as stated on an interview this morning on RTE radio's Morning Ireland) was evidenced in the naivety of his 'research' paper's proposition that Corrib gas would contribute to Ireland's energy security. The ESRI paper propounds that price rises abroad were the most probable supply issue and Corrib gas would supposedly enable Ireland hedge against this!

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Tags: Corrib, gas
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How Americans Can Get Up and Stand Up
27 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Features, United States


By David Swanson
In December 2009, psychologist Bruce Levine published an article at Alternet called "Are Americans a Broken People?". His timing couldn't have been better. Americans of good will and bad analysis were suffering a severe fit of Obamanation withdrawal. The article was reposted everywhere, commented on endlessly, and responded to voluminously. Levine has now developed his article into an important book called "Get Up, Stand Up."

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Tags: Bruce Levine, Get Up, Stand Up
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Is Israel's Right Wing in Eric Cantor's District?
27 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - United States


By David Swanson
In May 2009, Congressmen Eric Cantor (R., Va.) and Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) wrote to President Barack Obama about U.S. policy toward Israel. Their staff sent the letter as a PDF but forgot to change the name of the file to something other than "AIPAC Letter Hoyer Cantor May 2009.pdf".

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Tags: Israel
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Capital punishment: America's worst crime
27 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - United States


by Amy Goodman  
Mumia Abu-Jamal has been on death row for 29 years. Now, a court rules his sentencing unconstitutional. When will we learn?  Mumia Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther party member, has spent 29 years on death row, convicted for the 1981 killing of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.

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Tags: capital punishment, Mumia Abu-Jamal
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Prisoners Advice Service–Extend and defend
27 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - United Kingdom


By Matthew Evans, Solicitors Journal, 26 April 2011
The Prisoners Advice Service is turning 20 at a time when penal reform is back on the front pages. Matthew Evans reminds the government of why the long struggle to forge prison rights must not get lost in the shake up.

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In Defence Of PAS
27 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - United Kingdom


by Charles Hanson, re-settled prisoner
I would urge all those involved in prison and prisoner reform to support the continuance of the Prisoner's Advice Service (PAS) which has come under threat of closure because of the cut backs in legal aid and to fully support the PAS aims and objectives.

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Tags: Prisons
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MacCionnaith Addresses Milltown Commemoration
25 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Northern Ireland, Ireland


éirígí general secretary Breandán MacCionnaith today addressed a crowd of 500 people at the socialist republican party’s annual Easter commemoration at the republican plot in Milltown Cemetery, Belfast and urged those present to rededicate themselves to the struggle for a socialist republic in Ireland and said that both states in Ireland were engaged in a war against working people.

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Tags: 1916 Rising, Milltown Cemetery
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Your Local Military Industrial Complex
25 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - United States


As in any other U.S. city, things are looking up for Charlottesville, Va., job seekers who don't mind helping to kill tons of people for no good reason. This week's "community job fair"  features some prominent members of the Charlottesville community whom we don't usually think of as such.

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Tags: Military Industrial Complex
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Irish Unity makes economic and political sense – Adams
24 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Northern Ireland, Ireland


Speaking at republican commemorations in Drogheda and Dundalk, Sinn Féin President and TD for Louth and East Meath Gerry Adams today: "The Sinn Féin leader said that the leaders of 1916 would be appalled by the policies of this and previous Dublin governments. Never was there greater need for republican politics on this island than today. The republic which was proclaimed in 1916 has been set aside by those in the political establishment, and the limited freedom won after the Rising has been squandered.

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Tags: Irish unity, Gerry Adams
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One Cup of Tea
23 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Afghanistan


By Jean Athey
“Some questions cannot be answered,” my new friend says, when I press him as to what he would advocate as the way forward in Afghanistan. “I am bewildered, dismayed,” he says, “in that things are not going in the right direction for the people of Afghanistan now.”

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A Unified Theory of War and Taxes
23 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Features


By David Swanson
If you hate taxes but dutifully cheer for wars, it's lucky you also oppose school funding sufficient to produce historical literacy. Taxes are a byproduct of wars. Were it not for wars and war propaganda, this country would have never begun paying taxes. If we were to end wars, and only if we were to end wars, we could consider ending taxes too.

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Tags: war, taxes
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Britain's political policing
23 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - United Kingdom


Two Anti-Cuts Protestors Arrested on Police Evidence
Police in Newcastle have stepped up repression against anti-cuts protestors, as two of the three activists arrested on UKUncut day of action last December have been found guilty and fined. The importance of a high profile political defence campaign cannot be underestimated, as the police increasingly encroach upon our democratic rights.

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Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill 2010-11 may end police accountability
22 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - United Kingdom


By Sophie Khan
The police reform bill threatens the future of an accountable and transparent police complaints procedure, argues Sophie Khan. The recent wave of demonstrations has renewed focus on the importance of the Independent Police Complaints Commission's role. The current structure for recording these complaints requires that all are recorded so that grievances can be identified and lessons learned. But will that be the case in the future once the police reform and social responsibility bill is brought into force on 3 May 2012?

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Tags: Police Reform Act 2002
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Libya and hindsight
22 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Libya, United States, United Kingdom


By BiteBack Publishing
Hindsight can be a troublesome thing. I distinctly remember ranting on this very blog about Gaddafi’s barbaric treatment of his own people. I never went so far as to suggest that we should send in the gunboats, so to speak, but rest assured, I thought it. When I read David Cameron’s words to the Kuwaiti Parliament and then again in the UK Parliament, I felt reasurred that we should back the uprising on humanitarian grounds. A popular uprising against four decades of Gaddafi rule being violently quashed by a bloke who, to be frank, I never really liked.

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Tags: Libya, David Swanson
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Brothers released after serving eight years for murder
22 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - United Kingdom


By Craig Burnett
Two brothers freed after serving almost a decade in prison for murder were "over the moon" after their convictions were overturned. Prabu and Jathies Santharatnam are considering legal action after both served eight years in jail as part of a group of five men found guilty of killing or plotting to attack laundry worker Sellathurai Balasingham in 2001.

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Tags: Prabu Santharatnam, Jathies Santharatnam
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North Inner City community commemorate 100th anniversary of Patrick Heeney death
21 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Ireland


Irish men and women around the world stand in reverence to their National Anthem, Amhrán na bhFiann (The Soldier’s Song) but do they know that Patrick Heaney composed the music in 1907 at his home Mecklenburgh Street (now Railway Street) in the heart of ‘Monto’, what was the infamous red-light district in Dublin’s North Inner City?

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Tags: The Soldier's Song, Irish national anthem, Patrick Heaney
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Ireland joins EU Enterprise Exchange scheme
20 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - European Union, Ireland


From 20 April 2011 Ireland joins other E.U. countries, such as Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium in offering an Enterprise Exchange Programme for new entrepreneurs.

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Tags: Enterprise Exchange Programme, European Union
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Irish company EMPGI to build 40 children's learning centres across India
20 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Ireland, India


EMPGI, the Irish education services and e-learning company, has announced that its New Delhi-based joint venture, S. Chand Harcourt, is to invest €5m in 38 pre-kindergarten and after-school children’s learning centres across India. The news by education services and e-learning company comes as part of second full day of trade mission.

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Tags: kindergartens, after-school learning, EMPGI
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The Cure for Plutocracy: Strike!
20 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - United States


By David Swanson
How do you get politicians living off legalized bribery to criminalize bribery? How do you persuade the corporate media to report on the interests of flesh-and-blood, non-corporate people? How do you take over a political party when the only other one allowed to compete is worse? These are not koans, but actual problems with a single solution.

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Tags: strike action, non-violence
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Privacy and paedophilia: who should get to know?
19 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - United Kingdom


H and L v A City Council EWCA Civ 403
In a decision bound to stir up strong feelings, the Court of Appeal has found that disclosures made by a local authority to other organisations of a person's conviction for a sex offence against a child and future disclosures proposed by the authority were unlawful. The Court considered that the "blanket" approach to disclosure, even though the person with the conviction and his partner did not work directly with children, was not proportionate to the risk posed. Further, making disclosures without first giving the persons concerned the opportunity to make representations on the matter was unfair.

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Tags: Child Sex Offender Disclosure, paedophilia, Sarah Payne
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It Would Be an Honor
19 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Features, United States


By David Swanson
Review of "Honor For Us: A Philosophical Analysis, Interpretation, and Defense" By William Lad Sessions, Continuum.
William Lad Sessions is a philosophy professor at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. I was once a philosophy student at the University of Virginia. Both schools have honor codes for their students. I experienced UVA's honor code as one of the most thrilling discoveries of my life. W&L's has inspired Sessions to write a book. 

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If Cairo Came to Kabul
19 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Egypt, United States, Afghanistan


By David Swanson
Before Tahrir Square happened almost nobody predicted that President Hosni Mubarak would be forced out of office by a movement that didn't pick up a gun. Had President Barack Obama expected that outcome, he might have publicly backed Mubarak's departure before, rather than after, Mubarak stepped down.

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Tags: Afghanistan, Taliban, Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers
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TV, Newspapers, Congress Apologize for Claiming War Not About Oil
19 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Journalism, United States, Iraq


By David Swanson
In the wake of the latest revelations of what everyone always knew,  the largest press conference in the history of the United States has been planned for tomorrow in the Nationals Park baseball stadium in Washington, D.C. The powerful people lining up to apologize for having claimed the ongoing War on Iraq has had nothing to do with oil were deemed too numerous to gather in any indoor facility.

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Tags: Iraq war, Oil
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BP Is Messing With the Wrong Woman
19 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Environment, United States, United Kingdom


By David Swanson
A year ago BP began filling the Gulf of Mexico with oil. Last week BP blocked a woman from entering its annual meeting. Which will prove the bigger mistake?

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Tags: British Petroleum, Diane Wilson
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Did You Just Call Me a Socialist?
17 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Features, United States


By David Swanson
On Friday on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, congress members spoke in defense of Medicare, Social Security, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other programs that by almost anyone's definition are socialist, programs that were denounced as socialist by opponents of their passage in decades past, programs that would not have been created without the efforts of socialists and the Socialist Party.

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Tags: socialism, capitalism
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The Inquiries Act 2005 - A Sham
16 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - United Kingdom, Northern Ireland


Finucane family still refusing and Inquiry under 2005 Act
"By proposing to hold an inquiry into the Finucane case under The Inquiries Act 2005, the UK government is trying to eliminate independent scrutiny of the actions of its agents. Any judge sitting on such an inquiry would be presiding over a sham."

By Amnesty International
Patrick Finucane, an outspoken human rights lawyer, was shot dead in his home in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on 12 February 1989 by Loyalist paramilitaries. In the aftermath of his killing, prima facie evidence of criminal conduct by police and military intelligence agents, acting in collusion with Loyalist paramilitaries in his murder, emerged. In addition, allegations have emerged of a subsequent cover-up by different government agencies and authorities.

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The Peatlands Council and why An Taisce is bothered about bogs
16 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Environment, Ireland


An Taisce has welcomed the Government's initiative of setting up a Peatland Council to try and resolve ongoing rows over the management of peat bogs in Ireland. Ian Lumley, Heritage Officer of An Taisce, attended the first meeting of the Peatlands Council yesterday. Mr Lumley is representing the Irish Environmental Network on the Peatlands Council, which includes representation from the IFA, the Turf Cutters and Contractors Association, Irish Rural Link, and the Irish Peatlands Conservation Council.

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Tags: Peatlands Council, Habitats Directive, peat bogs
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US State Department's review of UK Human Rights
14 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Human Rights, United States, United Kingdom


by Catriona Murdoch 
The US State department has released its 35th annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, including an in-depth analysis of human rights in the UK.

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Tags: Human rights, social justice
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Justice for Smiley Culture campaign
14 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - United Kingdom


The Campaign for Justice for Smiley Culture has called a demonstration to New Scotland Yard on Saturday, 16 April. Organisers say it has received massive support from communities around the country and "has the potential to be very big".

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Tags: Smiley Culture
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Case Against Anglo Irish Accused Collapses
14 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Ireland


Four of the éirígí activists who were arrested for their part in a protest at the Anglo Irish Bank headquarters in Dublin in May last year were cleared of all charges today after the Garda case against them collapsed.

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Tags: Anglo Irish Bank
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Justice Department Asks Spain Not to Prosecute U.S. Torturers
13 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - United States, Spain


By David Swanson
Spain is pursuing a case against former top U.S. officials who authorized the use of torture, including David Addington, Jay Bybee, Douglas Feith, William Haynes, John Yoo, and Alberto Gonzales. U.S. activist groups have been encouraging Spain in this endeavor.

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Tags: Spain, torture
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Why Am I A Peace Activist? Why Aren't You?
13 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Features, United States, Afghanistan


By David Swanson
Written for the forthcoming collection, "Why Peace?"

More than any other description, except for perhaps husband and father, I have been for the past six years a peace activist. Yet, I hesitate on the question of how to tell my personal story of experience with war. I recently visited Afghanistan briefly, in order to speak with people who have experienced war. I've spoken with many U.S. soldiers and non-U.S. victims of war. But I have no experience of war. Being in Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2001, doesn't change that; by the time a crime had been transformed into a war, the war had been moved elsewhere.

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Tags: David Swanson, Afghanistan
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UK loses final prisoner voting rights appeal in European court
13 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - European Union, United Kingdom


The European court of human rights has ruled that the UK must draw up proposals to end ban on prisoners voting within six months. MPs voted overwhelmingly in February to maintain Britain's blanket ban on prisoner voting.

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Tags: prisoner voting rights
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A Twelve Year Plan From a Guy With Two Left
13 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - United States


Obama's speech on the deficit on Wednesday was a flop. He proposed to end no wars, make no serious cuts to the military, REDUCE corporate taxes, tax no estates or investments, raise no taxes on any billionaires, and give an unelected commission the power to slash Medicare.

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Freedom Plaza Has the Same Name as Tahrir Square
12 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - United States


Lesser-Evil Math Doesn't Compute
By David Swanson
In an electoral system corrupted by money, media, and parties, the U.S. people are offered a choice every four years between two hideously awful candidates for an office that increasingly resembles an imperial throne. And increasingly the primary motivation of voters is to oppose the candidate they believe is the greater evil.

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Tags: US elections
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Lies About the US Civil War 150 Years Later
12 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - United States


By David Swanson
Tuesday marks 150 years since the start of the U.S. Civil War. Newspapers everywhere are proclaiming it the deadliest war in U.S. history, the costliest U.S. war in terms of the loss of human life. That claim, like most things we say about the Civil War, is false.

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Ireland on target to access €600 million research funding by 2013
12 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Science, Technology, European Union, Ireland


Minister for Research and Innovation Seán Sherlock, today said that Ireland is well on track to reach the €600m research funbding target, with some €269m already awarded by end 2010. He was speraking at a meeting of Research Ministers at an informal meeting of the Competitiveness Council in Budapest under the Hungarian Presidency of the European Union.

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Tags: research, Enterprise Ireland
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Pentagon Police Violence Against Peaceful Anti-War & Environmental Protesters
10 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Environment, United States


by Joy First
Pentagon, Washington, DC

On April 8, 2011 at approximately noon, 25 civilian activists organized by the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance arrived at the Pentagon to deliver a letter asking for a meeting with Secretary of War Robert Gates in order to discuss bringing an end to U.S. wars and the destruction of the environment resulting from military policies.

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Tags: David Barrows, Joy First, Alice Gerard, Malachy Kilbride, Max Obuszewski, Ned Smith, Eve Tetaz, Paki Weiland
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An Afghan Peace Movement, Not a US Peace Jirga
10 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - United States, Afghanistan, Arabian States


by David Swanson, Truthout
Kabul, Afghanistan

The United States, on the verge of shutting down its own government for lack of funds, just forked over another $50 million for a peace jirga (or council) to negotiate peace in Afghanistan or at least sponsor an upcoming conference in the United Arab Emirates and—perhaps more so—bribe Taliban fighters to temporarily stop fighting.

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Tags: NATO, Taliban
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Justice Dept Doesn't 'Legalize' War With Secret Memos Anymore: Now They're Public
10 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Libya, United States


By David Swanson
In the good old days of Bybee and Yoo, before we let them get away with it, thereby guaranteeing worse things to come, Justice Department memos "legalizing" the crime of aggressive war were secret. Now they're published quickly, and there's a new one out on Libya (PDF). It begins: "The President had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force in Libya because he could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest. Prior congressional approval was not constitutionally required to use military force in the limited operations under consideration. April 1, 2011."

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Tags: legalizing war, US Justice Department
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An Bord Pleanála decision in Waterford highlights excessive National Land Zoning
10 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Ireland


A significant planning decision made by An Bord Pleanála outside Tramore in County Waterford highlights the national issue of excess national land rezoning, said An Taisce in a statement release on Saturday.

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Three Short Takes on Afghanistan
07 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Afghanistan


Afghan Women Behind the Wheel
By David Swanson
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN 
I've been fortunate to meet some very talented photographers and film-makers here in Afghanistan. We're planning an Afghan Film Festival for the United States this fall.

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Tags: Afghanistan
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Your 1040 Tax Form Lies to You
06 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - United States


By David Swanson
Pick up a copy of a 1040EZ US income tax form with all the instructions, particularly pages 36-37. You'll discover that the U.S. government only spends 22% of its money on "National defense, veterans, and foreign affairs." The form admits that you could leave out the "foreign affairs" part and still be at 21%.

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Non-jury Trials (Diplock courts) to be extended
06 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Human Rights, United Kingdom, Northern Ireland


House of Lords, London / 5 Apr 2011
Statement
Lord Shutt of Greetland: My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Owen Paterson) has made the following Ministerial Statement.

"The Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Act 2007, which provides for trial on indictment without a jury is temporary and renewal and will expire at the end of the period of two years unless extended."

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David Swanson writes from Afghanistan
05 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - United States, Afghanistan


KABUL, AFGHANISTAN 
In honor of 4 April, 1967, and 4 April, 1968, when Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke out against war and when he was killed, I spent my first full day in Afghanistan on 4 April, 2011, avoiding violence and discussing nonviolent activism with those practicing it here.

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Tags: Afghanistan, Taliban, Karzai
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America - you have become an insult
03 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Opinion


America you have become an insult to me. I was born in the UK, as was my father. My mother was born in the Greek isle of Chios, my bother was born in Eritrea. It used to be part of Eygpt—where is it now?

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Libya and Obama's Defense of the 'Rebel Uprising'
03 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Libya, United States


By James Petras
Over the past two weeks Libya has been subjected to the most brutal imperial air, sea and land assault in its modern history. Thousands of bombs and missiles, launched from American and European submarines, warships and fighter planes, are destroying Libyan military bases, airports, roads, ports, oil depots, artillery emplacements, tanks, armored carriers, planes and troop concentrations. Dozens of CIA and SAS special forces have been training, advising and mapping targets for the so-called Libyan ‘rebels’ engaged in a civil war against the Gaddafi government, its armed forces, popular militias and civilian supporters (NY Times 3/30/11).

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Tags: Libyan uprising
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Please Stop Burning Korans
02 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - United States, Afghanistan, Dubai


By David Swanson
DUBAI, UAE
I was on my way to Afghanistan and have delayed the final leg of the trip a day to see whether being American is compatible with not getting blown up. The problem seems to be that, in addition to the U.S. military occupying the country for almost a decade and routinely murdering random innocent people, some bigoted jerk in Florida is creating a big stink about how much he hates Islam and enjoys burning copies of the Koran.

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Tags: Afghanistan, Koran, Dubai
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Please Stop Killing Us - Afghan youth write letter
02 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Afghanistan


From the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers Reconciliation of Civil Hearts: The ordinary voice of peace from Afghanistan Salam, ‘aleikum! — We welcome you and the possibility of peace to this forgotten but gorgeous place. We thank you for your hearts of peace in joining us today.

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University of Virginia: Import Asian Workers & Pay Less Than $1 Hour
01 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - United States


By David Swanson
The University of Virginia is reviewing a proposal to import hundreds of Asian workers for various campus services, pay them less than a dollar per hour, and possibly deny them egress from their campus housing outside of work hours.

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Tags: slave labor
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Our Billion Dollar Turd Sandwich
01 Apr 2011; posted by the editor - Libya, United States


By David Swanson
So President Obama has been quoted calling his war in Libya a turd sandwich, while Juan Cole calls it philanthropy, and Ed Schultz praises it as vengeance against this month's Adolph Hitler. The last time we bombed this particular Hitler we took out his daughter, among other people. 

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