Response to Refugee Crisis
Always money to fund wars but never the resources to fund peace. Clare speaking on the EU’s response to the refugee crisis points out Ireland’s culpability in this humanitarian disaster and the need...
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More Questions for the Irish Government – this Time about Yemen
by Shannonwatch Map from CommonDreams article (April 2015) The Collapse of the Obama Doctrine: Yemen War as an Opportunity? Over the years there have been regular movements of US military refuelling...
View ArticleNot like father, like son…Kevin Higgins Tribute to the war-monger Hilary Benn
Premature Elegy for Hilary Benn A chandelier accent comes galloping to the aid of things as they must remain. A perfect bag of air, with a mouth that can sound out the word fascism. He heroically...
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Happy Birthday Chelsea Manning: An Icon of Bravery and Integrity
by Daniel Kavanagh Today, Chelsea Manning turns 28 years old. Chelsea is an MTF trans woman who was born Bradley Manning in Oklahoma 28 years ago today, in 1987. On the 21st of August 2013, Chelsea...
View ArticleFracking: The Threat to Human Health
by Jamison Maeda For those who have never experienced an earthquake, let me describe what it’s like. It’s loud. When the building you’re in, and everything inside of it moves, it is loud. There is no...
View ArticleShannonwatch’s Review of US Military Traffic Through Shannon in 2015
Shannonwatch have posted a review of military traffie passing through Shannon in 2015 over on their website – the brilliant monitoring work that they do ensures that the Irish public is kept informed...
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Edward Horgan’s court diary
Edward Horgan was in court yesterday, 13 January, in order to have a date set for his trial for attempting to inspect US military aircraft at Shannon on 18 April 2015. Edward is a champion peace...
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Flint Water Crisis
by Jamison Maeda In 1936, auto workers at the General Motors Fisher Body Plant Number One staged the now famous Flint Sit Down Strike. This was a dangerous time to stage a strike in the auto industry....
View ArticlePeople’s Movement respond to fear campaign around Brexit
British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has threatened that a “Leave” vote on 23rd June would lead to a “profound economic shock” for NI, “an inevitable hardening of the border” and a”...
View ArticleNative American activist Leonard Peltier
by Jamison Maeda Native American activist and six-time Nobel Prize nominee, Leonard Peltier, has been in prison in the US for 40 years for a crime he claims he didn’t commit. And thousands of people...
View ArticleIs Ireland supporting NATO exercises in Eastern Europe?
Press Release Shannonwatch 15th June 2016 Shannonwatch have recorded an unusual number of US military aircraft at and overflying Shannon Airport since June 4th. This time period coincides with the...
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