US Army finally back down on Chelsea Manning surgery.
by Jamison Maeda Chelsea Manning has ended her hunger strike after the US Army finally agreed to provide her gender affirming surgery. “I am unendingly relieved that the military is finally doing the...
View ArticleFreedom of information denied on Shannon
Below, a press release from Shannonwatch following on from the Department of Foreign Affairs’s refusal to release information on US military flights through Shannon. So much for freedom of information…...
View ArticleInside the Invisible Government: War, Propaganda, Clinton & Trump by JOHN PILGER
Thanks to Counterpunch.org for this excellent article by John Pilger. The American journalist, Edward Bernays, is often described as the man who invented modern propaganda. The nephew of Sigmund Freud,...
View ArticleIreland Gives Peace Award to the US Secretary of State while Supporting his...
by John Lannon, article reproduced from www.counterpunch.org US Secretary of State John Kerry flew into Ireland to collect a peace award from the Tipperary Peace Convention. His airplane touched...
View ArticleChina Bans Ivory Trade
by Jamison Maeda Numbering as many as 5 million in the early 20th century, the population of the majestic African elephant has been reduced to only a few hundred thousand due to the demand for ivory by...
View ArticleExecutive Order Japanese-American Internment Camps
By Jamison Maeda Sunday 19 Feb marked 75 years since President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive order forcibly removing over 120,000 Japanese-Americans from their homes, and sending them...
View ArticleChelsea Manning, Legal Team on Manning’s Upcoming Release from Military Prison
Statement from Chelsea Manning, Legal Team. Next week, Chelsea Manning will be released from U.S. military prison after serving a seven-year sentence for disclosing classified information that raised...
View Article‘The current crisis didn’t begin in 2017, and can’t be viewed in separation...
Israeli non-profit Gisha and blogger, activist and independent cross-party consultant on Israel-Palestine Gary Spedding respond to a recent statement by the Minister for Foreign Affairs in regard to...
View ArticleLet Me Tell You About Them
The teenagers we shot yesterday were shot responsibly through the eye with plain-speaking dum-dum bullets, manufactured in Fife, or taken down with SR 25 sniper rifles flown heroically in from Orange...
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Students Demand Action on Climate Change
Students from schools across Ireland are joining the global Schools Strike for Climate Action next Friday 15th March. As well as marches in Dublin and Cork there will be strike events outside local...
View ArticleUS Veterans for Peace forced to remain in Ireland pending trial
Last March, two US military veterans – Ken Mayars and Tarak Kauff – were arrested at Shannon airport for attempting to inspect a US warplane present on the runway there. The aircraft was on its way to...
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