Archive for the ‘International Affairs’ Category
Monday, January 2nd, 2006
Just before I came home for Christmas I was Paul's guest on MediaGeek on WEFT. We had intended, originally, to talk about the state of community media in Ireland and Europe generally, but ended up spending most of the show talking about the Data Retention compromise that had just passed ...
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
Terrorism. Organised crime. File sharing. Just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? That's what the music industry seems to think in Europe, where they are lobbying for the proposed data retention directive to beextended to cover all criminal offences, including piracy, and not just "serious" crimes, as the original proposal ...
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2005
Word is that the Irish government may tomorrow (once again) announce a date for meeting the 0.7% target for overseas development aid. It looks like the date will be 2012, though the (essentially neo-liberal) PDs claim to want the target to be 2010. Lovely pre-election posturing - the best of ...
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Monday, August 29th, 2005
More journalists have been killed in Iraq than in 20 years of conflict in Vietnam, the fighting in the former Yugoslavia, or in in the Algerian civil war in the 1990s (though the killing of 'media assistants' in that last conflict brings the total past that in iraq, for now).
When ...
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Thursday, July 28th, 2005
I've spent most of the past week or two travelling and entertaining visitors, so I've fallen a little behind in posting various items that I would generally try to cover on this blog, so it's time for a bumper compendium:The website for Radio Research Ireland, a new network of individuals ...
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Thursday, July 7th, 2005
I just woke up to news of the terrible attacks on the London Underground. Listening to a short excerpt from Blair on the news a distinct tremor in his voice, obviously shaken by the news.
The BBC is reporting an eye-witness as saying that the bus [that was also attacked] was ...
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
Not much fun for the American workers concerned, but beautifully symbolic - the Voice of America is outsourcing overnight news operations to Hong Kong.
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Sunday, June 26th, 2005
From today's ZNet commentary:Now, however, I get confused looks, pained questions, and heads shaking quietly in disbelief and disappointment. Don't the American people know, I am asked, again and again. Explain please, they persist, how, after the publication of pictures from Abu Ghraib, Bush got re-elected? Don't the American people ...
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Saturday, June 25th, 2005
The Italian case against U.S. agents who carried out an 'extraordinary rendition' of an Eygptian man from that country (to Eygpt) is receiving a lot of coverage today (including earlier on NPR's All Things Considered Weekend Edition). The essence of the story, from Jeanne d'Arc at This Modern World, is ...
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005
The Red Alert issued by the EZLN on Sunday was somewhat perplexing to those of us not well versed in the minutia of Zapatista developments. Thankfully Jacobito has produced a comprehensive and accessible analysis of recent developments.
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