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On the Nail Literary evening
30 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Events, Ireland
Graham Allen and Joe Sweeney are the guest authors at the next The Limerick Writers' Centre 'On the Nail' Literary Gathering on Tuesday 2 Dec 2014 at The Loft Venue, The Locke Bar, Georges Quay, Limerick.
Is a Cartel of truck-builders killing cyclists and pedestrians?
29 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Ireland
Truck assembly companies acknowledge that building curved truck cabs will see fewer pedestrians and cyclists killed, when heavy goods vehicles strike people on foot and on bikes head on.
An Taisce questions Agriculture Minister's Claims on Dairy Herd Expansion
29 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Ireland
Claims made by Agriculture Minster Simon Coveney that the Irish dairy herd can be expanded by over 300,000 cows in the next five years "while maintaining the existing carbon footprint of the agriculture sector" are inaccurate and misleading because a major increase in herd size by will by any objective measure sharply increase dairy emissions, An Taisce has said..
Public consultation on burning and hedgecutting control
26 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Environment, Ireland
A public consultation process in relation to potential changes to Section 40 of the Wildlife Act, which governs burning and cutting of hedgerows has been launched by the Government.
Tags: Wildlife Act, hedgerow burningThere Goes Virginia's Climate
26 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Environment, United States
By David Swanson
A snowstorm is the ideal time to write about climate disruption, as it allows us to immediately set-aside the cartoonish claim that if any spot on earth isn't warmer than it was yesterday then all is well. The following things we know: There are giant snowflakes falling outside my window.Tags: Climate changeSecond in a series of public talks on Great Irish Writers
24 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Events, Ireland
The second in a series of public talks on Great Irish Writers organised by the Limerick Writers' Centre in association with the Department of English Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College takes place on Thursday 4 Dec 2014.
Ransom Payment for Beau Bergdahl
24 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Opinion, United States
By David Swanson
Bergdahl had a legal responsibility to walk away from an illegal war. It's not completely confirmed that he did so, but he's blamed for it, when he should be praised for it.Tags: Beau Bergdahl, ransom paymentsSurvival or Extinction: Part 11—Countries Are Prisons
24 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Features
Survival or Extinction: Part 11—Countries Are Prisons - summary
By Kevin Mugur Galalae
Borders don’t exist. As we serve the system, the system must serve us.The system, however, is no longer serving us. We have become subservient to the system. The system itself has become our master. To make the system subservient to human needs we must as individuals rise above the system and subdue it. A system that is out of human control is a monster, a beast. And that is the present state of the system for it has slipped out of human control. The system has slipped out of human control because no human being or body of human beings exists who has the authority to be in charge of the world and the world is, as a result, at the mercy of national authorities that are incapable of coordinating a global plan of action, which is why our civilization is spinning out of control.
Tags: Survival or ExtinctionMark Udall and the Unspeakable
22 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - United States
By David Swanson
President Obama, who is just now un-ending again the ending of the endless war on Afghanistan, has never made a secret of taking direction from the military, CIA, and NSA. He's escalated wars that generals had publicly insisted he escalate. He's committed to not prosecuting torturers after seven former heads of the CIA publicly told him not to. He's gone after whistleblowers with a vengeance and is struggling to keep this Bush-era torture report, or parts of it, secret in a manner that should confuse his partisan supporters.Ireland NOT required by EU to implement water charges on households
21 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Ireland
Kathy Sinnott, an MEP from 2004 to 2009 and member of the European Parliament’s environment, public health and food safety committee says Ireland is not required by the EU Water Framework Directive to apply a charge for domestic water supply.
Tags: water chargesAll-Out War in Ukraine: NATO’s ‘Final Offensive’
21 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Features
By James Petras
There are clear signs that a major war is about to break out in Ukraine: A war actively promoted by the NATO regimes and supported by their allies and clients in Asia (Japan) and the Middle East (Saudi Arabia). The war over Ukraine will essentially run along the lines of a full-scale military offensive against the southeast Donbas region, targeting the breakaway ethnic Ukraine- Russian Peoples Republic of Donetsk and Lugansk, with the intention of deposing the democratically elected government, disarming the popular militias, killing the guerrilla resistance partisans and their mass base, dismantling the popular representative organizations and engaging in ethnic cleansing of millions of bilingual Ukraino-Russian citizens. NATO’s forthcoming military seizure of the Donbas region is a continuation and extension of its original violent putsch in Kiev, which overthrew an elected Ukrainian government in February 2014.Prioritised Action Framework to improve status of Ireland's habitats and wildlife
20 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Environment, Ireland
Ireland's Prioritised Action Framework under the EU Habitats Directive, which has been approved by Government and now published, identifies a range of actions needed to help improve the status of Ireland's habitats and wildlife.
Tags: environment, EU Habitats DirectiveSweden refuses to rescind Assange warrant
20 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Human Rights, International
A Swedish appeals court rejected on Thursday an appeal by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to revoke a detention order issued by prosecutors in 2010 over allegations of sexual assault.
Tags: Julian AssangeTorturer on the Ballot
20 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - United States
By David Swanson
Michigan's First Congressional District is cold enough to freeze spit. Half of it is disconnected from the rest of Michigan and tacked onto the top of Wisconsin. A bit of it is further north than that, but rumored to be inhabited nonetheless.Tags: Guantanamo, tortureUncomplicated, in Afghanistan
20 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - United States, Afghanistan
By Kathy Kelly
On 7 November, 2014, while visiting Kabul, the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, noted that NATO will soon launch a new chapter, a new non-combat mission in Afghanistan. But it's difficult to spot new methods as NATO commits itself to sustaining combat on the part of Afghan forces.US Prepares to Sell Saudi Arabia Warships to Help Take Down Iran
20 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - United States, Iran, Saudi Arabia
By Bruce K. Gagnon
The American revolution was supposed to have happened because of the revulsion our 'founding fathers' had with the institution of 'divine right of kings' or monarchy. Supposedly the new American nation went to war with England because a revolutionary 'democracy' was the preferred way of organizing our new nation. (Of course the truth was that the American 'founding fathers' had their own dreams of empire which is just what has sadly turned out for this country. But the mythology of America is all about our rejection of monarchy.) Fast forward to today and we see the headlines on November 20 in the *Portland Press Herald* newspaper: Bath Iron Works may get Saudi ship contract worth billions.Tags: warships, Saudi ArabiaUS supplying ISIL with weaponry?
19 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - International
It is being reported that Iraqi forces have found out that the US aircraft usually airdrop arms and food cargoes for ISIL militants who collect them on the ground, Asia news agency quoted Iraqi army’s intelligence officers as saying.
24 in Best Young Entrepreneur final
19 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Ireland
Twenty-four finalists have been selected to compete for the title of Ireland's Best Young Entrepreneur in a national final to be held on 7 December.
Tags: Best Young EntrepreneurWho Says Ferguson Can't End Well
18 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - United States
By David Swanson
Just as a police officer in a heightened state of panic surrounded by the comfort of impunity will shoot an innocent person, the Governor of Missouri has declared a state of emergency preemptively, thus justifying violence in response to something that hasn't happened. Bombing Iraq in response to nonexistent weapons and Libya in response to nonexistent threats worked out so well, we may as well try it domestically, the Governor is perhaps thinking. "There Is No Way That This Ends Well" is a headline I actually just read about Ferguson.Tags: Ferguson, Michael BrownWatch Schooling the World, Stop Schooling the World
18 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Features, Environment
By David Swanson
It's becoming slightly more common in the Western industrialized world to propose radical cultural change away from consumerism and environmental destruction. It's not hard to find people making the case that in fact nothing else can save us.Survival or Extinction: Part Ten—Crisis of Leadership
17 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Features
Survival or Extinction: Part Ten—Crisis of Leadership - summary
By Kevin Mugur Galalae
If you cannot wage wars of aggression on weaker neighbors because the international community will not tolerate it and the risks of assured mutual destruction are too great, you are forced to wage war on your own people’s reproductive systems to ensure that your population does not outgrow the available resources and can live within the national means. This form of self-discipline and the political paradigm shift that goes along with it are the result of nuclear deterrence and, in equal measure, of America’s global leadership post-World War II.
Tags: Survival or ExtinctionVermilion's Luxembourg tax deal will further reduce revenue from Corrib
15 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Ireland
By Shell to Sea
By Shell to Sea has called on Minister for Energy and Natural Resources Alex White to clarify what impact Corrib Gas partner Vermilion's Luxembourg tax avoidance deal—revealed in the Irish Times—will have on the revenue the exchequer thinks it will earn from the Corrib gas field.The World Gets the Wars Americans Deserve
15 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Opinion
By David Swanson
Having been on the road, I have two brilliant insights to report.1. No matter what sort of fascist state were ever established in this part of the world, Amtrak would never get the trains to run on time.
2. Respecting people and giving them credit for being smarter than the television depicts them is vastly easier when you stay home.
Tags: US warsTime to Learn the Lessons of Failed U.S. Wars?
15 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Features, United States
By Gerry Condon
As a Vietnam era veteran, I paid close attention to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's Veterans Day speech, delivered at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. Secretary Hagel, a Vietnam combat veteran, declared that we must learn the lessons of past wars, and not commit U.S. troops to unpopular, unwinnable conflicts. He purportedly referred to the Vietnam War, but he could just as easily have been describing the U.S. occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.Tags: Veterans DayThe Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Multiplication of Western Walls
15 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Features
By James Petras
On November 9, 2014, Germany and its Western Allies, celebrated the ‘Fall of the Berlin Wall’ and the subsequent ‘re-unification’ of the ‘two Germanys’. Prime Minister Merkel described the ‘historic event’ as a “victory of freedom for all peoples in Europe and across the world”. The entire Western media and officialdom echoed Merkel’s rhetoric, as 300,000 Germans gathered at the Brandenburg Gate hailed their leader as she spoke of ‘one people, one nation and one state in freedom, peace and prosperity...’ But Merkel’s discourse is a self-serving chauvinist fabrication which distorts the real consequences of a united Germany. Moreover, the Western celebration of ‘fallen walls’ is very selective.Tags: Berlin WallHow Is a Prison Like a War?
14 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Features
By David Swanson
The similarities between mass incarceration and mass murder have been haunting me for a while, and I now find myself inspired by Maya Schenwar's excellent new book *Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better.* This is one of three books everyone should read right away. The others are *The New Jim Crow* and *Burning Down the House*, the former with a focus on racism in incarceration, the latter with a focus on the incarceration of youth. Schenwar's is an overview of incarceration in all its absurd and unfathomable evil—as well as being a spotlight leading away from this brutal institution.Ireland 2016 launched to commemorate centenary of 1916 rising
13 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Ireland
Ireland 2016, a national initiative which includes a programme of events to mark the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising was launched in Dublin on Wednesday by Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Minister Heather Humphreys, An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, An Tánaiste Joan Burton, and Minister of State at the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin.
Tags: 1916 Rising, Ireland 2016Children's Minister rejects request from Bethany survivors group
13 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Ireland
Children's Minister James Reilly has rejected a request from survivors of children's institutions to include the Westbank Orphanage and other Protestant institutions in the proposed Mother & Baby homes inquiry following a meeting with representatives of the survivors.
Tags: Bethany survivorsThe Con-man Cornered: Obama and the Democratic Debacle of 2014
12 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Features
By James Petras
The meteoric rise to power of Barack Obama in 2008 was propelled by one of the greatest demagogic US Presidential campaigns of all time: To millions of young Americans, he promised to end the US wars in the Middle East. To millions of working and middle class voters, he promised to end the economic crisis by confronting Wall Street. To women, he promised to protect and expand their social rights and end the gender gap in wages and salaries. To human rights and civil liberties activists, he promised to end police state surveillance and torture, and to close the Guantanamo concentration camp, which had denied political prisoners a fair and open trial. To blacks, he promised higher living standards and greater racial equality in income. To Latino-Americans, he promised immigration reform facilitating a path to citizenship for long-term residents. Overseas he spoke in Cairo of a “new chapter” in US policy toward the Muslim world. To Russia, he promised President Putin he would ‘reset relations’—toward greater co-operation.Survival or Extinction: Part Nine—Conceal and Deceive
11 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Features
Survival or Extinction: Part Nine—Conceal and Deceive - summary
By Kevin Mugur Galalae
Since global concerns are antithetical to national interests they will forever be outside the narrow focus of national assemblies. Matters of global concern fall under the purview of global governance and trump all national interests. Global autocracy trumps and often undermines national democracy.Tags: Survival or ExtinctionIsrael historian and Palestine academic to speak at Dublin meetings
11 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Events, Ireland
Israeli historian Prof. Ilan Pappé and Palestinian writer and academic Dr. Ghada Karmi are to speak at a series of college meetings on Wednesday and Thursday this week organised by Academics for Palestine (AfP) and which will examine the role of academics in the struggle for justice in Palestine.
War Is Not for Soldiers
11 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Features
By David Swanson
The following is excerpted and adapted from War Is A Lie
We learn a lot about the real motives for wars when whistleblowers leak the minutes of secret meetings, or when congressional committees publish the records of hearings decades later.War planners write books.They make movies. They face investigations. Eventually the beans tend to get spilled.But I have never ever, not even once, heard of a private meeting in which top war makers discussed the need to keep a war going in order to benefit the soldiers fighting in it.Tags: anti-war'No to Republibama Government'
10 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - United States
By David Swanson
A case can be made that democracy worked in this month's U.S. midterm elections, while representative democracy failed miserably.Peace Talks in Havana and Murder in Colombia: The Santos Regime’s Dual Strategy
09 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Features, Cuba, Columbia
By James Petras
There are many fabrications and false assumptions underlying the Colombia peace negotiations between the Santos regime and FARC—EP (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—Peoples Army). The first and most egregious is that Colombia is a democracy. The second is that the Santos regime pursues policies which enhance non-violent social and political activity conducive to integrating the armed insurgency into the political system.Tags: Santos regime, FARCRussia’s Vulnerability to EU—US Sanctions and Military Encroachments
09 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Features, United States, European Union, Russia, Ukraine
By James Petras
The US-EU sponsored coup in the Ukraine and its conversion from a stable Russian trading partner, to a devastated EU economic client and NATO launch pad, as well as the subsequent economic sanctions against Russia for supporting the Russian ethnic majority in the Donbas region and Crimea, illustrate the dangerous vulnerability of the Russian economy and state. The current effort to increase Russia’s national security and economic viability in the face of these challenges requires a critical analysis of the policies and structures emerging in the post-Soviet era.Ireland introduces whistle-blower legislation
08 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Ireland
As part of its programme of 'political reform', the Government has enacted new legislation designed to to protect whistleblowers.
Tags: whistle-blowersISIS Beheadings Work Well As Red Herring Hiding Away Israeli Summer War Crimes
06 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Features, International
By William Wraithwrite
It may very well be coincidence that just when Israel was starting to take some heat for its atrocious war crimes and policy in Gaza at the end of this summer of 2014 along comes a newly name-minted entity engaging in sensational beheadings for news-grabbing attention.Myth of the "English Speaking Peoples" a.k.a the UK-USA "Special Relationship"
05 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Features, International
By Nu'man Abd al-Wahid
Whether one is critical of the alliance between the United Kingdom and the United States or in favour of the so-called "Special Relationship" it is perceived to be an amicable, natural and trans-historical partnership between two nations who share the same language and whose global interests are more or less the same. Over the last fifteen years these two nations assumed the lead in their continuing support of the colonialist state of Israel and waging war on Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and calling for more military intervention in Syria and Iran. So it is no surprise that many find it hard to accept that this alliance is a recent advent rooted in geo-political exigencies of the historical moment at hand. British imperialism was animus, if not outright antithetical, in the first 150 years of the Republic.Climate change - time not on our side
03 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Environment, International
The world faces "severe, widespread and irreversible" effects if moves are not made to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new climate change report.
Tags: Climate Change, IPCCVisiting writers' 2014 Nov-Dec programme
03 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Events, Arts, Ireland
Below are details of the public readings taking place around Limerick in November and December as part of the Visiting Writers 2014 Programme.
Competition Authority and National Consumer Agency amalgamate
03 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Ireland
The Competition Authority and National Consumer Agency have now amalgamated to form the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, the new statutory body responsible for enforcing consumer protection and competition law in Ireland.
New science on carbon budgets shows we must act now to cut emissions
03 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Environment, Ireland
New science in the fifth IPCC assessment shows that the amount of future global warming is directly related to the total amount of accumulating human-caused emissions of greenhouse gase—past, present, and future, they all add up. If our emissions continue to rise then temperatures will continue to rise, extreme weather will be more frequent, sea level will rise ever faster, and more land and sea ice will be lost. Only sustained and substantial emission reductions by all nations, especially by wealthy ones like Ireland, can limit climate change and reduce future severe risks to our future.
Empire or Republic: Imperial Wars and Domestic Epidemics
03 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Features
"You Can't Have Wars and Public Health"
By James Petras
Washington escalates its military interventions abroad, launching simultaneous air and ground attacks in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan; multiplying drone attacks in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia; training, arming and financing proxy mercenaries in Jordan, the Gulf States and Iraq; and dispatching National Guard battalions to West Africa, ostensibly to combat the Ebola epidemic, though they lack the most elementary public health capabilities. All in all the US spent $3.5 trillion for military invasions over 6 years.Survival or Extinction: Part Eight—Burden Of Responsibility
03 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Features
Survival or Extinction: Part Eight—Burden Of Responsibility
By Kevin Mugur Galalae
In reading my previous seven articles in this series you have learned that the international community has pursued peace and prosperity since 1945 via three complementary and inseparable fronts: economic integration, political centralization, and population control.Tags: Survival or ExtinctionBallots or Bullets: Democracy and World Power
02 Nov 2014; posted by the editor - Features, International
By James Petras
The principal reason why Washington engages in military wars, sanctions and clandestine operations to secure power abroad is because its chosen clients cannot and do not win free and open elections.Tags: World Power, democracy
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