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Parliament and Congress Have No Power to Legalize War
27 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Opinion, United States
By David Swanson
Congress has fled town to avoid voting for or against a new war. Many of the big donors to Congressional campaigns would want Yes votes. Many voters would want No votes, if not immediately, then as soon as the panic induced by the beheading videos wears off, which could be within the next month.ISIS and the USA: Expansion and Resistance by Decapitation
26 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Features, International
By James Petras
In order to overcome massive US and world public opposition to new wars in the Middle East, Obama relied on the horrific internet broadcasts of ISIS slaughtering two American hostages, the journalists James Foley and Steve Sotloff, by decapitation. These brutal murders were Obama’s main propaganda tool to set a new Middle East war agenda—his own casus belli bonanza! This explains the US Administration’s threats of criminal prosecution against the families of Foley and Stoloff when they sought to ransom their captive sons from ISIS.Thematic Session on Climate Science
25 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Environment, International
The UN Climate Summit brought together a hundred Heads of Governments, alongside the financial world, business and civil societies to give new momentum to the search for answers to the challenges posed by climate change.
The Conquest Of Europe
25 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Features, International
By John Chuckman
Russia’s President Putin is reported to have said in a conversation a while back that he could be in Kiev in two weeks. In our press, this was reported as yet more evidence of aggressive intentions, but, given even a moment’s thought, that is a patently false interpretation. It is also further evidence, as if more were needed, of the level of desperation American propaganda around events in Ukraine has reached. It is almost as though America’s intelligence/news media alliance started mimicking the almost forgotten Soviet apparatchiks of decades ago.Sports clubs to gain partial exemption from commercial rates
24 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Sport, Ireland
An amendment to the Valuation Bill which will see sports clubs with bars, or other commercial facilities, receiving a partial exemption on their rates is being put before the Dail by Finance Minister Simon Harris.
Tags: Valuation Bill, sports clubsKinsale students triumph at global science competition
23 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Science, Technology, Ireland
Three students from Kinsale were last night named theoverall winners of Google's Science Fair Grand Prize as well as winners of the 15-16 age category at this prestigious global science competition.
ISIS: Bush Was Right
22 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - International
By David Swanson
Finally, somebody commenting on the state of Iraq thinks George W. Bush got something right. Turns out it's ISIS. In the new hour-long ISIS-produced film about how nice it is to die for ISIS—*Flames of War: Fighting Has Just Begun—Bush is quoted: "You are with us or against us." Video shows him saying "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists." A graphic in the upper corner of the screen reads: "Bush spoke the truth, although he's a liar.”Activists call on Obama to end war, poverty & address climate change
22 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - United States
By Joy First
Washington, DC - On 23 September 2014, hundreds of people are expected to gather at 10 am in front of the White House on Pennsylvania Ave. for a rally to protest war, poverty and environmental destruction. This demonstration is being organized by the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance (NCNR) and is part of Campaign Nonviolence with over 220 demonstrations occurring in every state in the country during the week of 21-27 September.Turn Left for Earth
21 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Environment, International, United States
By David Swanson
I appreciate that there's more happening than just a march for the climate today on the International Day of Peace and I get the idea that keeping the safe and obedient march-to-nowhere separate from protests actually at the United Nations where our corporate overlords are determining the rate of the earth's demise is intended to please all of the people some of the time, but I can't help wishing that the march would just turn left instead of right when it reaches 42nd Street, in order to march to the United Nations rather than to nowhere.€54,500 funding for Cork and Wexford heritage buildings
20 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Local, Ireland
Urgent conservation works at Vernon Mount House in Frankfield, Cork, the College Garden Boundary Wall at St Mary's College, Youghal, Cork and at Ballysampson House in Wexford have been granted funding of €54,500 by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
House Bans War Powers Resolution Actions
20 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - United States
David Swanson
The U.S. House of Representatives has not just left town, but prior to leaving passed a rule preventing any member from using the War Powers Resolution to force Congress to return and vote on war.Tags: War Powers ResolutionKilled by Congressional Cowardice
20 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - United States
By David Swanson
We tend to think of war as resultiung from an excess of aggression or disorderliness or rebellion. Western academics hunt in the genes of foreigners and study chimpanzees to find the root of the nastiness.WMO: Still Time to Act on Climate Change
19 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Environment, International
Need for Action on Greenhouse Gases Backed by Scientific Evidence
Geneva, 19 September 2014 (WMO)
There is still a window of opportunity to prevent dangerous climate change and preserve the planet for future generations. But it is closing fast, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which says that the urgent need to cut greenhouse gases is based on overwhelming scientific evidence.Scotland : independence
19 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - International
Tags: Scotland, independenceCurrent greenhouse gas control insufficient
18 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Environment, International, Ireland
An Taisce is calling on the world’s leaders to agree and enforce a cap on global Cumulative Total Emissions at the UN summit in New York next week. Climate science is now clear that Cumulative Total Emissions (CTE) is the essential measure that must be used when calculating the needed reductions—not delayed percentage targets as presently used. Cumulative Total Emissions (CTE) are critical to climate action that ensures local and national efforts are not undermined anywhere now or in the future.
43 Million People Kicked Out of Their Homes
17 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - International
By David Swanson
War, our leaders tell us, is needed to make the world a better place. Well, maybe not so much for the 43 million people who’ve been driven out of their homes and remain in a precarious state as internally displaced persons (24 million), refugees (12 million), and those struggling to return to their homes.Tags: war refugeesDrone Protester Found Not-Guilty
17 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - United States
Report by droneaction.org
Eve Tetaz, 83, was found not guilty last night in De Witt town court for opposing Reaper Drone War Crime at 174th Attack Wing at Hancock Air Base near Syracuse, NY Immediately after Onondaga County prosecutor Jordan McNamara rested his case against DC peace and justice activist Eve Tetaz, DeWitt town judge David Gideon granted Ms Tetaz’ motion to dismiss. Ms Tetaz represented herself pro se with the support of DC attorney Mark Goldstone.Laughing Our Way to Destruction
16 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - International, United States
By David Swanson
If members of the U.S. public were ever to wonder what the other 95% of humanity thinks about them, would it be better to break that harsh truth to them gently or just to blurt it out? I'm going to go with the latter.Tags: anti-war, US foreign policyNation of Cowards
16 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - United States, Palestine, Israel
By John Chuckman
What else can you fairly call a people who attack a population of refugees confined to a small space surrounded on every side by fences and machine-gun towers, a population with nowhere to run? No, that is not put strongly enough. Not just attack, but use the latest and most ferocious weapons from the American arsenal to slaughter more than 2100 people, including more than 500 children, destroying along the way a major portion of the housing, businesses, and institutions of a poor people.9/11 After 13 years
15 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Features, International
By Paul Craig Roberts
The tragedy of September 11, 2001, goes far beyond the deaths of those who died in the towers and the deaths of firefighters and first responders who succumbed to illnesses caused by inhalation of toxic dust. For thirteen years a new generation of Americans has been born into the 9/11 myth that has been used to create the American warfare/police state. The corrupt Bush and Obama regimes used 9/11 to kill, maim, dispossess and displace millions of Muslims in seven countries, none of whom had anything whatsoever to do with 9/11.Tags: 9/11Ireland supports Demarche to Icelandic Government on Whaling
15 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Environment, International
The EU's Ambassador to Iceland, Matthias Brinkmann, today delivered a demarche to the Government of Iceland expressing strong opposition to Iceland's continuing and increased commercial harvest of whales, particularly fin whales, and to its on-going international trade in whale products. Ireland supported the Demarche, which was made on behalf of the EU, its 28 Member States and the governments of the United States, Australia, Brazil, Israel, New Zealand, Mexico and Monaco.
€5m Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Technology Centre launched in Limerick
14 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Technology, Ireland
The latest of 15 state-supported Technology Centres established jointly by Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland has now been opened at the University of Limerick. The centre brings together 24 industry partners and nine Higher Education Institutes which will collaborate to deliver the research.
Laragh Heritage Group gains recognition
14 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Ireland
The Laragh Heritage Community Group has been praised for its successful restoration project at St Peter's Tin Tabernacle in Laragh, which Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Heather Humphreys officially opening today.
Ukraine—Truce or Trojan Horse: Retreat, Re-Armament and Relaunch
14 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Features, International, Ukraine
By James Petras
The NATO proxy war in the Ukraine started with the violent US-EU-sponsored overthrow of the elected government via a mob putsch in February 2014. This was well financed at $5 billion, according to President Obama’s Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Victoria Nuland.Tags: UkraineCarbon Bomb Blows Up Near West Point
14 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - United States
On Tuesday morning, a 30-foot carbon bomb blew up in the airspace over the Hudson River in front of West Point Military Academy.
James Foley Is Not a War Ad
14 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - International
By David Swanson
To the extent that the U.S. public is newly, and probably momentarily, accepting of war—an extent that is wildly exaggerated, but still real—it is because of videos of beheadings of James Foley and Steven Sotloff.Tags: James FoleyA Paradigm for Peace
14 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Features
By David Swanson
Raise your hand if you weren't surprised when fancy films of beheadings resulted in bombings? Keep your hand up if you weren't shocked when bombings resulted in more brutality and beheadings? Is it possible we need a radically different way of thinking about how to solve violence? Listen to this quote: "Neither governments nor terrorists analyze the Defensive and Aggressive Roots of Violence within their enemies and themselves. Consequently, their policy solutions are imbalanced, hostile, and impractical. The habit of antagonistic debate further impedes the development of solutions, while threat-oriented psychological patterns and assumptions buttress a belief in war.”Tags: New order, paradigms of peaceEuropean Commission puts Ireland in first rank of EU countries for competitiveness
11 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - European Union, Ireland
The World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report has placed Ireland at 25 in the world, the country's best ranking series since 2009, and up three places from last year.
Reform of goods vehicle taxation & new pesticides and aggregates levies proposed
11 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Environment, Ireland
At today’s Environment Ireland conference (Thur 11 Sept), An Taisce outlined proposals to reform the taxation of goods vehicles and also said that a compelling case exists to introduce new levies to reduce the use of pesticides and aggregates.
Turkey imposes yet more Internet censorship and surveillance
11 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Internet news, Turkey
By Reporters Without Borders
Turkey’s national assembly passed two last-minute amendments today expanding the grounds under which the High Council for Telecommunications (TIB) can temporarily block websites without a court order, and allowing it to gather Internet user connection data independently of any ongoing investigation.Greenhouse gas levels at all-time high despite warnings
11 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Environment, International
The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record high in 2013, propelled by a surge in levels of carbon dioxide. This is according to the World Meteorological Organization’s annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, which injected even greater urgency into the need for concerted international action against accelerating and potentially devastating climate change.
The BRICS: Challengers to the Global Status Quo
10 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Features, South Africa, Brazil, Russia, India, China
by Walden Bello
Can the BRICS wrest control of the global economy from the United States and Europe, or will their internal contradictions tear them apart?
The term “BRICS”—which refers to the bloc of emerging economies in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—was coined years ago by Goldman Sachs analyst Jim O’Neill, who saw the countries as promising markets for finance capital in the 21st century. But even if O’Neill had not invented the name, the BRICS would have emerged as a conscious formation of big, rapidly developing countries with an ambivalent relationship to the traditional center economies of Europe and the United States.
Tags: BRICSThe US and Global Wars: Empire or Vampire?
10 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Features
By James Petras
To the growing army of critics of US military intervention, who also reject the mendacious claims by American officials and their apologists of 'world leadership', Washington is engaged in 'empire-building". But the notion that the US is building an empire, by engaging in wars to exploit and plunder countries' markets, resources and labor, defies the realities of the past two decades. US wars, including invasions, bombings, occupations, sanctions, coups and clandestine operations have not resulted in the expansion of markets, greater control and exploitation of resources or the ability to exploit cheap labor. Instead US wars have destroyed enterprises, reduced access to raw materials, killed, wounded or displaced productive workers around the world, and limited access to lucrative investment sites and markets via sanctions.Tags: US warsCall to stop Israel from hosting major football tournament
10 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Sport, Palestine, Israel
As Israel bids to host matches for the UEFA European Football Championship tournament in 2020 in Jerusalem. the Palestinian BDS National Committee (PBDSNC)is calling on UEFA to 'show Israel the red flag'.
Warning to War Supporters
10 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Features, Opinion
By David Swanson
I know you mean well. I know you think you've found a bargain that nobody else noticed hidden in a back corner of the used car lot. Let me warn you: it's a clunker. Here, I'll list the defects. You can have your own mechanic check them out below.Tags: world beyond war, US warsGreyhound workers suspend picket
09 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Ireland
Greyhound workers, at a mass meeting on the picket line in Dublin, have agreed to suspend their blockade currently under way at the Crag Avenue depot in Clondalkin after Greyhound director Michael Buckley agreed to meaningful direct negotiations with the workers.
Tags: Greyhound picketBuckley's counter protest at High Court shows 'contempt for staff'
09 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Ireland
Speaking this morning on hearing the news from the Greyhound picket line at Crag Avenue that Michael Buckely is loading staff members onto coaches in order to bring them down to the courts for a counter protest, People Before Profit councillor Tina MacVeigh said: "This is a display of utter contempt on Buckely's part for all of his workers, the striking workers in particular, but also the other 400 who he is now manipulating in a sick manouevre."
Tags: Greyhound picketSpanish Civil War Poets Workshop
08 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Events, Local, Ireland
Limerick Writers' Centre is holding a workshop with poet John Liddy on the poets of the Spanish Civil War this Saturday, 13 September, from 10.30 to 12.30pm.
Survival or Extinction: Follow The Money
08 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Features
By Kevin Mugur Galalae
Survival or Extinction: Part 2—Follow The Money—Summary
Monetary coercion has replaced military force as the means by which to move the world towards global unity and maintain international peace. This shift from military to monetary coercion took place at the end of World War II and is the result of the Bretton Woods system, more specifically the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).Locked Out Greyhound Workers 'Prepared To Go To Jail'
07 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Ireland
Anticipating a rejection of the latest offer presented by the Buckleys and ahead of Tuesday's committal hearing, the locked out Greyhound Workers have stated that they are prepared to go to jail.
Tags: Greyhound WorkersAustralia trade mission nets €10m in contracts
07 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Australia, Ireland
Contracts worth almost €10million for Irish companies and rthe creation of 26 local jobs were among the initial, immediate results of the trade and investment mission to Australia, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton said at the conclusion of the mission this weekend.
HSE front-line staff Embargo requires urgent review
07 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Health, Ireland
An embargo which applies within the HSE for the employment of frontline nursing and medical staff requires urgent review, said Fine Gael Seanad Spokesperson on Health Colm Burke.
Parent of Ashya King to travel to Czech Republic
06 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - United Kingdom, Czech/Slovakia
The parents of sick five-year-old Ashya King who hit the headlines after taking the youngster from a hospital without doctors’ permission, have been given the go-ahead to take their son to the Czech Republic for proton beam treatment.
Tags: Ashya KingPeace Ecology
06 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Features, Environment
By David Swanson
With serendipitous timing, as a big march for the climate, and various related events, are planned on and around the International Day of Peace, Randall Amster has just published an important book called Peace Ecology.Tags: environment, Randall AmsterUK Referendum on EU membership 'no bad thing'
06 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - United Kingdom, Ireland
"Ireland could become a bridge of interpretation between Britain and the EU"
Unlike most other countries in Europe, the UK has been a model of political stability. But that may be changing. British party politics and British institutions and constitutional arrangements are now in a state of flux. Literally anything could happen over the next few years as the course of British history could dramatically change because of Scotland and Europe, or both.'On The Nail' Literary Cabaret
04 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Events, Arts, Ireland
The Limerick Writers' Centre brings to the Lime Tree Theatre for the first time an exciting literary live review featuring guests, expected and otherwise, for a night of music, readings, poetry and sometimes the weird and wonderful - an evening of mellow musings at the cutting edge of performance.
Tags: Limerick Writers' CentreWater fluoridation could damage food & drinks exports Minister told
04 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Business, Health, Ireland
Irish flouridation of water could have a detrrimental effect on food and drinks exports, the Director of West Cork Fluoride Free Campaign and Fluoride Free Towns project has said in a letter to Minister for Agriculture, Marine and Food Simon Coveney.
Tags: Water fluoridationUS judge rules in favour of corporate interest
03 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - United States
by Rebekah Wilce
U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Kurren has overturned Kaua'i County's law regulating the use of pesticides and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) this week. He ruled that it was preempted by Hawai'i state law, although not by federal law.
Is there still hope for peace in Ukraine?
03 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Features, International
By Patrick Boylan
The Ukrainian government, like Israel in Gaza, relentlessly goes on bombing residential areas in the eastern regions “to kill the terrorists hiding out there” (but also the civilians living there). The separatists, called “terrorists”, are in a siege; to break it, they have launched a bloody counteroffensive to the South, with civilian casualties there, too. Tension has spiked with rumors (later debunked) of a full-scale Russian invasion underway. And yet, in spite of it all, a glimmer of hope for peace has finally appeared. Or is it just an illusion?Latin America and the Paradoxes of Anti-Imperialism and Class Struggle
03 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Features, Central America
By James Petras
The complexities of the new political relations in Latin America require that we breakdown what previously was the unified components of anti-imperialist politics.Tags: anti-imperialism, neo-liberalismIraq Has WMDs and Russia Has Invaded!
02 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - United States, Iraq, Russia
By David Swanson
How did they imagine they'd get away with it, claiming that Iraq had vast stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and even nuclear weapons? Defectors had made clear the chemical and biological weapons (some of them provided by the United States) had been destroyed. Inspectors had searched almost every inch of Iraq and said they'd get to the last few inches if given a few more days. Iraq was screaming that it had no such weapons.Israel announces land 'appropriation' in occupied West Bank
01 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Palestine, Israel
Israel has announced a land 'appropriation' (illegal seizure—editor's italics) in the occupied West Bank that an anti-settlement group termed the biggest in 30 years, it has been reported
World Beyond War alternative Peace Holiday Calendar
01 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - International
Worldbeyondwar.org has published an alternative calendar promoting the furtherance of peace and the abolition of war and the military industrial complex.
Survival or Extinction: Life or Death?
01 Sep 2014; posted by the editor - Features
This is the first of a 20-part series from Kevin Galalae's book Survival of Extinction. A chapter from the book will be published every Monday for 20 weeks.
By Kevin Mugur Galalae
Your genetic line will die out and with it the world as you know it is about to come to an end. This is no idle threat, but tragic reality; as certain as tomorrow’s sunrise.
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