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Journalists and online activists, did GCHQ or NSA spy on you?
27 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Journalism, Internet news
By Reporters Without Borders
A recent historic ruling by an independent British tribunal that handles complaints about surveillance has made it possible for individuals to ask the British signals intelligence agency GCHQ if it spied on them. Reporters Without Borders is inviting journalists, bloggers and online activists to participate in a campaign that will help them to discover whether they were the victims of illegal spying.EU report finds Ireland will fail to meet Climate Targets
26 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Environment, Ireland
The European Commission 'Country Report Ireland 2015', published today states: “Ireland is not on track to reach its greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets. It is committed to reducing its GHG emissions in the non emissions trading system sector by 20% between 2005 and 2020. According to the latest national projections it is likely to miss this target by a wide margin, with the authorities expecting emissions to decrease only by 3% in 2020 compared with 2005.”
Tags: climate change, greenhouse gasesUN report on copyright - is the EU really a beacon of human rights?
26 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - European Union
By Julian Hauser, EDRi intern
Copyright has seen a spectacular rise in importance, both politically and legally, in recent decades. The digitisation of cultural and scientific goods has led many rights holders to see strengthened copyright protection as the only means of ensuring the survival of the cultural industry. To a large extent the rights holders' quest for more legal protection has succeeded - today's copyright protections are as strong and broad as never before.Tags: Copyright, European UnionUnder the shadow of nuclear war
25 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - International
By David Swanson
No Weapons to Ukraine—An Open Letter to the U.S. Senate
The United States is the leading provider of weapons to the world, and the practice of providing weapons to countries in crisis has proven disastrous, including Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Expanding NATO to Russia’s border and arming Russia's neighbors threatens something worse than disaster. The United States is toying with nuclear war.UK & Switzerland 'leading charge' against human rights
25 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Human Rights, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the UK and Switzerland are now 'leading the charge' in the erosion of human rights with the governments of both countries attacking the European Court of Human Rights and discussing withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights, Amnesty International states in its State of the World’s Human Rights Annual Report.
U.S. Army Claims to Be Full of Liars
23 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - United States
By David Swanson
Lying to Ourselves: Dishonesty in the Army Profession is the title of a new paper by Leonard Wong and Stephen Gerras of the U.S. Army’s Strategic Studies Institute. Its thesis: the U.S. Army is full of liars who habitually lie as part of a lying culture that has internalized and normalized lying to the point of unrecognizability.
Tags: US army liesKilkenny Central Access Scheme "a travesty"
23 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Ireland
Kilkenny County Council is destroying what it has a duty to preserve by continuing with its Kilkenny Central Access Scheme, An Taisce said in a statement today.
Tags: Kilkenny, Vicar StreetProjected need of up to 15,500 extra skilled Transport industry workers by 2020
23 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Business, Ireland
An Expert Group on Future Skills Needs says an estimated up to 15,500 extra skilled workers will be needed within the Freight Transport, Distribution and Logistics by 2020.
Great Yeats Birthday Party at Lissadell House
23 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Events, Arts, Ireland
The Great Yeats Birthday Party is to take place at Lissadell House in County Sligo on 13 June 2015 to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of WB Yeats.
A Call to Action on Manufacturing in Northern Ireland
23 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Northern Ireland
Manufacturing Northern Ireland has launched "Manufacturing Make Northern Ireland Strong"—A Call to Action to Reindustrialise Northern Ireland.
Call for Britain's withdrawal from NATO
22 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - United Kingdom
Anti-war activists in the UK have launched a public petition calling on Prime Minister David Cameron to announce a full and immediate withdrawal of the UK from NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
Not Very Funny
21 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - United States
By David Swanson
Remarks prepared for event with comedian Lee Camp, Charlottesville, Va., February 21, 2015, event postponed by snow storm. When it's rescheduled I'll say something completely unrelated.
This is the serious part of tonight's event, except that Lee often deals with very serious topics. So what I mean is: this is the unfunny part of tonight's event, except that I'm going to talk about the United States government. One of my favorite things that Mark Twain didn't really say but definitely should have said was "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." He left out the possibility of imbeciles who are putting us on.Tags: anti-warThe Assassination of Greece
21 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - European Union, Greece
By James Petras
The Greek government is currently locked in a life and death struggle with the elite which dominate the banks and political decision-making centers of the European Union. What are at stake are the livelihoods of 11 million Greek workers, employees and small business people and the viability of the European Union. If the ruling Syriza government capitulates to the demands of the EU bankers and agrees to continue the austerity programs, Greece will be condemned to decades of regression, destitution and colonial rule. If Greece decides to resist, and is forced to exit the EU, it will need to repudiate its 270 billion Euro foreign debts, sending the international financial markets crashing and causing the EU to collapse.Tags: Greece, European UnionThe new 'War on Terror' - is there a clash of Civilizations?
20 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Ireland
The Irish Anti-War Movement is holding a public meeting 'War on Terror' - is there a clash of Civilizations? in Dublin on Saturday, 20 March 2015.
Tags: anti-war, Irish Anti-War-MovementWhere Do U.S. War Dead Come From?
20 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - United States
By David Swanson
Evan Knappenberger, veteran turned peace activist, put together the following data and map.Donal de Buitléir to chair Low Pay Commission
19 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Ireland
Dr Donal de Buitléir has been appointed as Chairperson of the Low Pay Commission. The new body will advise the Government on an annual basis on what is the appropriate rate for the National Minimum Wage.
Tags: Low Pay CommissionIncreased Traffic - Has Government's Smarter Travel Policy failed?
16 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Ireland
By An Taisce
20% increase in traffic on tolled roads is Government policy failure not success—Greenhouse Gas levels, air pollution and congestion all rising.
The report today that traffic on tolled roads has increased by 20% was presented as a good news story by a government spokesperson: ‘The Government says new figures on the use of motorway tolls show a real and tangible indication of growth in the economy’.Dublin Astrophysicist in 100 Round Three Mars One Candidates
16 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - International, Ireland
Amersfoort, 16th February 2015
A 29-year-old Dublin astrophysicist is among the 100 shortlisted candidates selected for the planned one-way trip to Mars with Mars One. From the initial 202,586 applicants, 100 hopefuls have now been selected to proceed to the next round of the Mars One Astronaut Selection Process. These candidates are one step closer to becoming the first humans on Mars.
Tags: Mars OneBenjamin Netanyahu "an Existential Threat to Too Much of the World"
15 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Features, International
By William Wraithwrite
Benjamin Netanyahu is an Existential Threat to Too Much of the World: And now he wants to speak to his war crime corroborators: U.S Congress! Baby-bib Bibi is brazen as are his blatant war crimes that were carried out this summer in Palestine—as many people already know.Tags: Benjamin NetanyahuCuba: Land of Opportunity
15 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Cuba, United States
By David Swanson
15 February 2015
What can I be sure of after only one week in Havana? Very little. There are exceptions to every pattern, and sometimes more exceptions than patterns.Tags: CubaEurope proposes €4.1million to support former Airmotive workers
15 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - European Union, Ireland
The European Commission in consultation with the EU Parliament, is proposing to provide €2.5 million of European Globalisation Adjustment Funding (EGF) to help 250 former workers in Lufthansa Technik Airmotive, two of its suppliers and an additional 200 young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs) to find jobs, with the balance coming from the Irish Exchequer.
Cuba Through the Looking Glass
14 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Cuba, United States
By David Swanson
Today in Havana, Mariela Castro Espin, director of the national center for sexual education and daughter of the president of Cuba, gave us a truly enlightened talk and question-and-answer session on LGBT rights, sex education, pornography (and why young people should avoid it if they want to have good sex)—plus her view of what the Cuban government is doing and should be doing on these issues. She advocates equal rights for same-sex couples and a ban on discrimination, for example.Tags: CubaAn Taisce challenges Ireland's mushroom industry
14 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Ireland
An Taisce and Friends of the Irish Environment have challenged the Irish mushroom industry over what they say is its unsustainable use of peat.
Tags: Peat, mushroom industryAn Taisce challenges reallocation of €400 million in CAP funds
12 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Ireland
By An Taisce
Abrupt reallocation of funds by the Department of Agriculture has hit farmers and Ireland’s most treasured wildlife, including the hen harrier, says An Taisce.Cuba Is Our Family
12 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Cuba, United States
By David Swanson
12 February 2015
Cuba and the Estados Unidos have been family for so long that relationships have been reversed, forgotten, turned inside out, and repeated.Tags: CubaCuba Is Good for Your Health
11 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Cuba, United States
By David Swanson
11 February 2015
“It's behind us,” Fernando Gonzales of the Cuban Five said with a smile when I told him just a few moments ago that I was sorry for the U.S. government having locked him in a cage for 15 years. It was nice of the New York Times to editorialize in favor of negotiations to release the remaining three, he said, especially since that paper had never reported on the story at all.Tags: CubaDigital Rights orgs call on world leaders to uphold human rights in wake of Hebdo
11 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Human Rights, Internet news, International
by Raegan MacDonald, EDRi-member
Over 30 digital and civil liberties organisations from around the world have endorsed a joint statement calling on the world’s governments not to expand surveillance measures in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks. In addition to European Digital Rights (EDRi), signatories include Article19, digitalcourage, IT-pol, Vrijschrift, La Quadrature du Net, Panoptykon, Initiative für Netzfreiheit, FITUG e.V., Alternative Informatics Association, ORG, EFF, Effi, APTi, and Access.Tags: Charlie Hebdo, surveillanceUK court finds secret spying docs made surveillance illegal
11 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Human Rights, Australia, Canada, United States, European Union, United Kingdom, New Zealand
By Eric King, Privacy International
Several human rights groups are celebrating a major victory against the Five Eyes, an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US, as the UK surveillance tribunal ruled on 6 February that the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) acted unlawfully in accessing millions of private communications collected by the National Security Agency (NSA) up until December 2014."Ammended" internet "preventative" blocking law set to be passed in Turkey
11 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Internet news, Turkey
By EDRi
In recent years, online censorship and the deteriorating situation regarding the freedom of speech has raised serious concerns in Turkey. The large majority of the traditional mainstream media is either directly or indirectly under the government control, and the Internet remains one of the few channels for free speech. However, the government is repeatedly taking measures to control also the Internet. On 2 October 2014, the Turkish Constitutional Court overturned an amendment to the Internet law that would have given additional censorship powers to the Turkish Telecommunications Authority (TIB).Tags: Turkey, internet censorshipCuba Uncensored
10 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Features, Cuba, United States
By David Swanson
February 9, 2015
This evening a handful of visitors from the land to the north asked an assistant (or “instructional” which I take to be a step below “assistant”) professor of philosophy about his studies and his teaching experiences here in Cuba. One of our group made the mistake of asking whether this philosopher thought of Fidel as a philosopher. The result was an almost Fidel-length response that had little to do with philosophy and everything to do with criticizing the president.Tags: Cuba, peace activists€40 million investment in new manufacturing facility in Monaghan
09 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Northern Ireland, Ireland
Combilift, the fork-lift manufacturer has announced plans to develop a €40 million purpose-built, 40,000 square meter, greenfield global HQ and manufacturing facility with a devoted Research & Development building and adjoining back office facilities on 40 hectares of industrial zoned land on the Monaghan by-pass.
€624,000 in funding to upgrade and protect heritage buildings
09 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Ireland
A further €624,000 for the protection and upgrading of heritage buildings under the Structures at Risk Fund 2015 has been announced by the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys.
US peace and justice actvists in Cuba
09 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Cuba, United States
By David Swanson
8 February 2015
We arrived in Havana tonight, or year 56 of the revolution, 150 of us filling an entire airplane, a group of U.S. peace and justice activists organized by CODEPINK. The place is hot and beautiful despite the rain.
Scott Masterson arrest 'politically motivated'
09 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Ireland
Cathaoirleach éirígí Brian Leeson has slammed the arrest of his party colleague, Scott Masterson, and a number of others on charges of 'false imprisonment' of Joan Burton. Mr Leeson said the arrests were politically motivated and vindictive.
Tags: Scott Masterson arrestLimerick University to carry out study on Zero Hours Contracts
08 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Business, Ireland
A team from the Department of Personnel and Employment Relations in the Kemmy School of Business at the University of Limerick is to carry out a study into the prevalence and impact of zero hour and low hours contracts.
Upgrade of scenic N86 Dingle Route challenge draws protest
07 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Ireland
An Taisce has challenged the proposed upgrade of the scenic N86 Dingle development in the courts because the charity believes that An Board Pleanála did not correctly comply with and carry out the legal requirements laid down in Irish and EU Law for an Environmental Impact Assessment on the whole project. The legal challenge has met stiff opposition from locals.
Tags: Dingle, N86 upgradeThe Key That Is the Saudi Kingdom
06 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - United States, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia
By David Swanson
Was the United States compelled to attack Afghanistan and Iraq by the events of 11 September 2001? A key to answering that rather enormous question may lie in the secrets that the U.S. government is keeping about Saudi Arabia.Hypermasculinity and World-Ending Weapons
06 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Russia, Ukraine
By Winslow Myers
Escalating tensions in the Ukraine raise the concern that the ‘firebreak’ between conventional and the tactical nuclear weapons potentially available to all parties in the conflict could be breached, with unforeseen consequences.Rory Gallagher Festival 2015 acts announced
06 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Events, Music, Ireland
Legendary Guitarist Wilko Johnson (Dr. Feelgood), Norman Watt-Roy (The Blockheads) and drummer Dylan Howe have been added to the line-up for this year’s Rory Gallagher International Tribute Festival that will take place in Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal between Thursday and Sunday 28-31 May 2015.
Tags: Rory GallagherA Tale of Two Movies
05 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Features, Entertainment, United States
By John Reuwer, MD, Adjunct Professor, Conflict Resolution, Saint Michael’s College
As a student and teacher of nonviolent action, I was disheartened last week to wake up and read of the box office success of what I thought was yet another shoot-em-up action film, American Sniper, while the same day noting that a film about my field, Selma, though successful, was not even in the same ballpark with the money. It made me wonder why, so I went to see them.Addiction Is Not Addictive
05 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Features, United States
By David Swanson
Whether someone becomes addicted to drugs has much more to do with their childhood and their quality of life than with the drug they use or with anything in their genes. This is one of the more startling of the many revelations in the best book I've read yet this year: Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari.Tags: War on DrugsWorking Group to consider burning and hedgecutting controls
04 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Environment, Ireland
A Working Group has been established to evaluate over 180 submissions received in response to a public consultation process on Section 40 of the Wildlife Act, which deals with controls on hedgecutting and burning for the protection of biodiversity.
Tags: biodiversity, hedgecuttingIt's the Blind Partisanship
03 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Features, United States
By David Swanson
Why did the peace movement grow large around 2003-2006 and shrink around 2008-2010? Military spending, troop levels abroad, and number of wars engaged in can explain the growth but not the shrinkage. Those factors hardly changed between the high point and the low point of peace activism.Tags: Peace Movement, anti-war€35M innovation investment in Irish dairy processing industry
02 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Ireland
As the Irish dairy processing sector prepares for the end of milk quotas, the Government has announcement an innovation investment of €35 million in the dairy industry, aimed at positioning Ireland as a world leader in dairy innovation and helping maximise long term growth opportunities created by an anticipated increase of 50% in the Irish milk pool by 2020.
Tags: dairy farming, milk productionWhen Veterans Try to End Wars
02 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Features, United States
By David Swanson
Nan Levinson's new book is called War Is Not a Game: The New Antiwar Soldiers and the Movement They Built, but it left me wishing there were a "Where Are They Now" chapter, because it ends around 2008. The book is focused on Iraq Veterans Against the War, but includes Veterans For Peace, Military Families Speak Out, Cindy Sheehan, and others. It's a story that has been told many times during the past several years, but this version seems particularly well done; perhaps the distance helps.Investigation launched after hen harrier shot
01 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Ireland
The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) of the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, has launched an investigation after a hen harrier was found shot dead in Co. Kerry.
Tags: harrierExporting Sherman's March
01 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Features, United States
By David Swanson
Sherman statue anchors one southern corner of Central Park (with Columbus on a stick anchoring the other): Matthew Carr's new book, Sherman's Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War, is presented as "an antimilitarist military history"—that is, half of it is a history of General William Tecumseh Sherman's conduct during the U.S. Civil War, and half of it is an attempt to trace echoes of Sherman through major U.S. wars up to the present, but without any romance or glorification of murder or any infatuation with technology or tactics. Just as histories of slavery are written nowadays without any particular love for slavery, histories of war ought to be written, like this one, from a perspective that has outgrown it, even if U.S. public policy is not conducted from that perspective yet.Tags: anti-warPentagon Silent on Current Use of DU in Iraq
30 Jan 2015; posted by the editor - United States
By David Swanson
Back in October, I reported that, "A type of airplane, the A-10, deployed this month to the Middle East by the U.S. Air National Guard's 122nd Fighter Wing, is responsible for more Depleted Uranium (DU) contamination than any other platform, according to the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons (ICBUW). . . . Pentagon spokesman Mark Wright told me, 'There is no prohibition against the use of Depleted Uranium rounds, and the does make use of them. The use of DU in armor-piercing munitions allows enemy tanks to be more easily destroyed.'"Tags: depleted uraniumCIA Tried to Give Iraq Nuclear Plans, Just Like Iran
30 Jan 2015; posted by the editor - United States, Iraq, Iran
By David Swanson
(Article updated 31 Jan 2015)
This cable https://www.emptywheel.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/GX44-47.pdf was submitted as evidence by the prosecution in the trial of Jeffrey Sterling, a trial in which Sterling was convicted on entirely circumstantial evidence of leaking to a reporter that the CIA had given nuclear weapons part plans (with flaws added) to Iran. The cable makes crystal clear that the CIA proposed to do the same with Iraq.Open letter to Judiciary-judge faces citizen's arrest
30 Jan 2015; posted by the editor - Ireland
By Stephen Manning
Today we are publishing a copy of an open letter sent to the Judges of Ireland by Integrity Ireland relating to corruption in the legal system.Students Save Palestine
30 Jan 2015; posted by the editor - Features, International
By David Swanson
In proposing that Congress Members boycott or walk out on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's planned speech to Congress, expected to push for sanctions if not war on Iran, activists are drawing on actions engaged in by college students in recent years, as they have boycotted or walked out on or disrupted speeches by Israeli soldiers and officials on U.S. campuses. Netanyahu's noodle-headed move—oblivious, apparently, to the U.S. government's effective evolution into a term-limited monarchy—may provide a boost to both the movement to free Palestine and the movement to prevent a war on Iran.Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, anti-warEU calls for counter-terrorism efforts to be reinforced
29 Jan 2015; posted by the editor - European Union
Following the informal meeting of Justice and Home Affairs Ministers in Riga on 29 and 30 January, the following statement has been released by the EU.
“Profoundly shocked by the terrible terrorist attacks in Paris in early January which have endangered the core values of EU, the Latvian Presidency adjusted the agenda of the informal meeting of Justice and Home Affairs Ministers in Riga to dedicate the whole session for discussions by Ministers of Home affairs to the EU's fight against terrorism and to add an information point for Ministers of Justice on judicial aspects of fighting terrorism.Tags: counter terrorism, European UnionWhen Shock and Awe Turns 12
29 Jan 2015; posted by the editor - United States
By David Swanson
Shock and Awe is having a troubled adolescence. The U.S. government is killing children with flying robot death planes, keeping troops in 175 countries, actively using "special" forces in 150 countries, asking us to ignore what it's done to Libya so that we'll support more wars, going silent on Yemen as the supposed model of a country that U.S. warmaking improved rather than ruined, turning down an offer from North Korea to halt nuclear tests, continuing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with no end in sight and no longer any pretense of Congressional or United Nations approval, oscillating on the question of starting a war on Iran (and inviting a foreign leader to give Congress its marching orders), actively antagonizing Russia and sending troops to Ukraine, building new nukes, proposing to enlarge the world's largest military budget next year, and avoiding all accountability for such horrors as human experimentation at Guantanamo.Tags: Shock and Awe, anti-warAction Plan for Jobs 2015 published
29 Jan 2015; posted by the editor - Ireland
The Government today (Thursday) published the Action Plan for Jobs 2015 in what it says is the next step in the multi-annual process aimed at delivering full employment by 2018. The Plan is the fourth annual plan in a multi-year process which started in early 2012, and sets out in detail the 382 actions to be taken by 16 Government Departments and over 60 State Agencies during 2015 to support job-creation, with deadlines and lead responsibility assigned. Building on the success of previous plans, the 2015 plan includes six new Disruptive Reforms.
The man who doesn't exist...
28 Jan 2015; posted by the editor - Northern Ireland, Ireland
By James Ward
Paul Graham's 75 year fight for his identity after birth in Bethany Home left him a "citizen of nowhere."
The 75-year-old was born in Dublin mother and baby home and raised in Belfast but governments on both sides of border refuse to acknowledge he existsTags: Bethany survivors, Paul GrahamFrench Patriot Act: Do we really need more surveillance?
28 Jan 2015; posted by the editor - International
On 21 January, only two weeks after the attacks in Paris, the French government announced a big bundle of new security measures, a “general mobilisation against terrorism”. But does the country need more surveillance?
Galway passes anti-fluoridation motion
27 Jan 2015; posted by the editor - Health, Ireland
Galway Councillors have passed a motion of opposition to compulsory water fluoridation in Ireland.
Tags: water flouridationTurkey's human rights activity to be examined by UN
26 Jan 2015; posted by the editor - Human Rights, Turkey
The United Nations Human Rights Council will begin reviewing Turkey’s respect for fundamental freedoms on Tuesday, 27 January. Reporters Without Borders, which has consultative status with the UN, provided the council with a written contribution on freedom of information in Turkey last July. The situation has continued to worsen since then.
Tags: Turkey, fundamental freedomsNew visitor centre approved for Ros Muc, Co. Galway
26 Jan 2015; posted by the editor - Ireland
Galway County Council has granted full planning permission for a new visitor centre adjacent to Teach an Phiarsaigh in Ros Muc.
Tags: 2016 commemorationsPeter Clinch named new Chair of National Competitiveness Council
26 Jan 2015; posted by the editor - Ireland
Professor Peter Clinch has been named as the new Chair of the National Competitiveness Council. A member of the Council since 2013, Prof. Clinch replaces Dr Don Thornhill upon the completion of his term of office as Chair of the Council.
Survival or Extinction: Part Twenty—Free The Truth
26 Jan 2015; posted by the editor - Features
Survival or Extinction: Part Twenty—Free The Truth - summary - the final chapter
By Kevin Mugur Galalae
Unless and until this distorted and perverse view of man’s nature as fundamentally evil is discredited and discarded once and for all the world will not be able to reach out to the enlightened and healthy view of man as a fundamentally good being and design the social construct accordingly.Tags: Survival or ExtinctionNo Pardon–Young Woman To Serve 30 Years For Miscarriage
25 Jan 2015; posted by the editor - United States, El Salvador
By Leslie Salzillo
With some stories, I'm not sure where to begin, because the news has me stunned and almost speechless. I want to turn away, block it out and find something happy to do, or something else to think about, or write about. But I can't. And so I begin.
Tags: fetal homicide"We murdered some folks" in Guantanamo
25 Jan 2015; posted by the editor - United States
By David Swanson
Murder at Camp Delta is a new book by Joseph Hickman, a former guard at Guantanamo. It's neither fiction nor speculation. When President Obama says "We tortured some folks," Hickman provides at least three cases—in addition to many others we know about from secret sites around the world—in which the statement needs to be modified to "We murdered some folks."Distrust But Verify
24 Jan 2015; posted by the editor - Features, United States
By David Swanson
What the U.S. government does openly is many times worse than anything it can be doing secretly, and yet the secrets fascinate us.Tags: Operation Merlin, Jeffrey SterlingNew Heritage Council Community Grants Scheme for 2015
23 Jan 2015; posted by the editor - Local, Ireland
A new Community Grants Scheme for 2015 to be administered by the Heritage Council has been announced by Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Minister Heather Humphreys during a visit to the Heritage Council's offices in Kilkenny this afternoon. It is expected the scheme will generate total investment of €1 million.
Growth potential of Irish animation sector highlighted
23 Jan 2015; posted by the editor - Entertainment, Arts, Ireland
Recent improvements to the Section 481 Film Tax Relief offer significant potential for further growth in the Irish animation sector in 2015, Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Minister Heather Humphreys said today during a visit to the Oscar-nominated animation studio, Cartoon Saloon, in Kilkenny.
Climate Change Bill is 'designed to fail'
23 Jan 2015; posted by the editor - Environment, Ireland
By An Taisce
An Taisce, The National Trust for Ireland, fully supports efforts to enshrine a framework for an effective Irish response to the vast threats posed by climate change in strong, unambiguous legislation. Unfortunately, the current Bill fails utterly to deliver on this ambition. Instead, in our view, the Bill endorses wishful thinking and climate inaction.Tags: Climate ChangeMilitarism in the Air We Breathe
22 Jan 2015; posted by the editor - Environment, Health, United States
By David Swanson
If there is a group of Americans to whom Iraqis struggling with the health effects of depleted uranium, cluster bombs, white phosphorous, and all the various poisons of war can relate, it might be the mostly black and largely poor residents of Gibsland, in northern Louisiana.Tags: M6 propellants, Camp MindenPatricia King new ICTU General Secretary
22 Jan 2015; posted by the editor - Ireland
SIPTU vice president Patricia King has been appointed as the new general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), the umbrella body for the trade union movement in Ireland. She takes over from David Begg who has retired after 14 years in the position.
Police label controversial film maker's family deaths 'apparent murder-suicide'
21 Jan 2015; posted by the editor - Showbiz, United States
APPLE VALLEY, MN — The project leader of the controversial film, “Gray State,” along with his wife and daughter, were found dead in their home in what authorities have labeled an “apparent murder-suicide.” The bodies of David Crowley, 29, his wife Komel, 28, and their 5-year-old daughter were discovered lying in their home by a neighbor.
Tags: David Crowley, Gray State
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