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Ten years on from freedom (Free article)
4 November 2004
Having recently agreed to contribute to An Phoblacht, I asked myself, what is of interest to the readership that we don't normally hear about weekly? Speaking recently to a friend, Khona Dhama, from South Africa, about current issues there, the Peace Process here, and pretty much everything else, it occurred to me that other readers who share a…
Guns, tulips and Enya at EU Treaty launch - Ahern kicks off Fianna Fáil referendum campaign (Free article)
4 November 2004
What does it take to sign a new EU Constitution these days? Well, apparently for host Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi the vital ingredients are €9 million, a lavish setting, thousands of Dutch tulips, along with 7,000 heavily-armed police officers, hovering helicopter gunships, a circling fighter squadron of F-16s enforcing a no-fly zone,…
Cormac (Free article)
4 November 2004
Cormac, An Phoblacht's satirical cartoonist, is taking a break
Multinational terror in Colombia (Free article)
4 November 2004
Colombia is a beautiful country better known for its ugly statistics. Nearly 50 trade unionists have been killed so far this year, and that is only a small part of the final figures of those whose lives end violently in a country where unemployment rates are upwards of 80%. Edgar Paez, responsible for the international department of the trade…
Oil and water: Soviet Communism and the Irish Revolution (Free article)
4 November 2004
Ireland is surely fortunate in having escaped most of the horrors of the 20th Century. Chief of those was Soviet Communism and this book serves as an interesting insight into the links between the Communist International and Ireland through O'Connor's research in the Comintern archives held in Moscow.
Coalition's Eircom blunder (Free article)
4 November 2004
Ever get the feeling you have been completely had? Well if you're an Eircom customer or were one of the first batch of shareholders back in 1999, this must be the feeling you have this week, after it was disclosed that last year the Eircom board knocked back coalition government proposals for a €1.8 billion deal to finally build an islandwide…
European nuclear offer to Iran's mullahs slammed (Free article)
4 November 2004
Iranian opposition group, the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI), has slammed a European offer of incentives aimed at getting the Tehran regime to stop uranium enrichment, saying it included a promise that the EU would continue viewing the guerrilla Mujahedin-E-Khalq or MEK (the People's Mujahedin) as a terrorist organisation.
Smachtbhannaí ar Airm (Free article)
4 November 2004
"Having seen the cost in human suffering by conflicts wrought on innocent men, women and children, in Africa and around the world, I believe that it is time the world had an international framework on arms control." Desmond Tutu
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