The Remembrance season is approaching. We will be called upon yet again to show maturity, to support reconciliation, to advance peace --- by participating in ceremonies which celebrate aggression, violence and war crimes!. read full story / add a comment

More than two years have passed since these two cases began. On Thursday last, Conor was at a special sitting of Ennis District Court for the finale. read full story / add a comment

Ciaron O'Reilly discusses all your hardware needs in this three minute rough cut from a forthcoming film on activism in Ireland.

Hammers, mattocks and other pieces of equipment are all weighed up by this seasoned activist. A shears (or even a scissors) does not make it out of the bag, so perhaps the film will act as a timely reminder of the need to raise funds for anti-war causes (in ways other than sponsored haircuts). read full story / add a comment

A Gulfstream V executive jet came under suspicion today at Shannon airport when local activists Edward Horgan and Tim Hourigan along with others in Shannon for today's monthly Torture Watch exercise spotted the aircraft with no markings other than its registration number read full story / add a comment

At the elaborately staged 60th anniversary celebration of the establishment of the North Korean Stalinist State, the "Dear Leader", Kim Jong IL was conspicious by his absence.
It is believed that he may have suffered a stroke (Kim is alleged to enjoy cigars, booze and teenage girls while his devoted subjects make do eating grass). At the edge of 66, Kim, like 72 year old John McCain, is no spring chicken and the demise of his personal brand of socialism is sure to end relatively soon if the rumours of his ill-health are unfounded.

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Four French military vessels will tie up at Cork city's North Custom House Quay next Friday morning (12th September) around 7.30am. read full story / add a comment

A Danish military intelligence whistleblower has complained that the Danish prison service has been unfair in imprisoning him at a distance from his 15-year-old daughter.
Frank Grevil has been imprisoned at Horserød Prison since June this year, as punishment for leaking documents which showed that the Danish Defence Intelligence Service did not share the government's conviction that Saddam Hussein's Iraq was in possession of weapons of mass destruction at the time of Denmark's invasion of Iraq in March 2003. read full story / add a comment

A 60 mintue audio recording of a talk and discussion on the Chinese revolution and the Chinese anarchist movement. read full story / add a comment

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Irish Anti War Movement statement – Press Release

August 21st 2008 read full story / add a comment

My wife was pregnant with twins this time last year and it got me thinking about Avril Monaghan, the woman who died, pregnant with twins, in the Omagh bombing. This is a short piece that I wrote at the time, remembering that tragic day in general, and those hugely unfortunate twins in particular. I'm sharing it here to commerorate these people on the tenth anniversary of their deaths. read full story / add a comment

The US puppet regime in Georgia thought it could retake S. Ossetia and Abkhazia. It underestimated the revival of Russian power. Now its US and Israeli military has been crushed and the regime is in tatters. This represents a change in world relations. Russia has now shown it is prepared to intervene militarily beyond its borders. This will mean that the russian minorities in the former Soviet republics will become much more assertive. this in turn will mean that the governments of these countries will have to pay more heed to Russia. And the sige of Bush only able to wring his hands in china while his boy was getting whipped in Georgia will strengthen all Anti uS forces worldwide. read full story / add a comment

Kathy Kelly founder of the sanctions busting group "Voices in the Wilderness" has been lifted on an old warrant during the 450 mile peace walk from her hometown of Chicago to St. Paul site of the forthcoming Republican Convention (where John McCain will be nominated as the party's Presidential candidate for November's U.S. Presidential elections).

Kathy Kelly was a regular visitor to sanctions strangled Iraq and present in Baghdad during the U.S. "Shock & Awe" campaign 03. She had spoken at Afri's 03 Brigid Festival in Kildare en route to Baghdad and gave the PItstop Ploughshares photos of Iraq victims which were taken into the Shannon Airport hangar during their disarmament action the following weekend. Kathy returned to Dublin for the 3 Pitstop trials to testify as a witness and address public meetings. read full story / add a comment

RSF has ridiculed Provo councillor Monica Digney's claims that she opposed a Brit parade in Ballymena. read full story / add a comment

Jim Keys, a member of the Foyle Ethical Investment Campaign (FEIC), was arrested on Friday after their monthly peace vigil outside Raytheon’s Derry software facility. His crime? He touched up a three year old spray drawing of The Black Shamrock on the public pavement outside Raytheon! The charge? Criminal Damage? read full story / add a comment

Walking through the streets of Dublin, Ireland, after the Paul Kelly's gig http://www.paulkelly.com.au/ last night, I thought I should write this reflection. read full story / add a comment

Amidst the fog of war, and lack of media on the ground, it's anybody's guess as to what is actually going on there at the minute. It is claimed that Russian aircraft attacked military and other targets in Georgia (Russia denies any such attacks happened, and Georgia claims to have shot down some of the aircraft) and a large number of Russian tanks has crossed the border. Each side claims the other fired the first shot. read full story / add a comment

The mainstream media continues to broadcast sanitised images from embedded reporters that have passed through the official channels in order to lessen the effects of the brutality of the so-called "War on Terror". Below is a collection of images gleaned from the web that show the reality of the "War on Terror", the human cost. read full story / add a comment

A Royal Navy ship, HMS Enterprise is due in the port of Cork tomorrow morning (Wednesday) where she will tie up at the city's North Custom House Quay.

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Members of the Derry Anti War Coalition marked the second anniversary of the massacre at Qana in Lebanon with a vigil at the Derry Raytheon plant on Wednesday. read full story / add a comment