AGGRESSOR : in plain English a country or organisation(s) that begins hostilities provoking reaction
(In the text below I will try to develop and share some of the thoughts and ideas generated by the podium presentations and the discussion that followed during the ULA meeting in Dublin’s Wynns Hotel last Tuesday night).
It is becoming abundantly clear [...]

The new transitional government in Greece was cobbled together for one and only objective:  to attempt to put into operation the October 26th Brussels Agreement. It was assembled  by those political forces that subscribe to that Agreement and want to put into operation a whole series of austerity measures by its European architects. The above [...]

As every Radio, TV and social media outfit in Europe, including here in Ireland,  is talking about Greece, the 50% haircut etc, I thought it would be useful for those of us who read the ILR to revisit the issue from another angle. To take note of some of the comments made, verbatim, by the [...]

“Foreign ministers have endorsed the basic outlines of an EU ‘military-humanitarian’ mission to Libya, amid concern about putting ground soldiers into a volatile situation.
The meeting in Luxembourg on Tuesday (12 March) saw ministers approve the so-called concept of operations (Conops) for the Eufor Libya mission, the first step in the planning of any mission which [...]

As the election campaign in the 26 Counties gathers speed, and TV debates show clearly how weak the politicians who aspire to be leaders are, a number of important events likely to have very serious consequences for Ireland are taking place internationally - with scant attention paid to them by either the media or the [...]

The international network No to War - No to NATO was founded in Stuttgart in October 2008. More than 650 organizations from over 30 countries signed the establishing call, the “Stuttgart Appeal”.
Our network conducted international protests (with international congress, demonstration, village camps and actions of Civil Disobedience) against NATO at the Strasbourg / Kehl Summit in [...]

The new proposed budget for 2011 is the final bullet or the coup de grace for the already weakened social Greek State. It projects cut backs of €2.2 billion in health and education, € 700 million of which will hit hospitals, €1.4 billion welfare expenditure and €107 million third level institutions. Hard pressed hospital [...]

The countdown to our anti-war /anti-NATO activities has begun
five weeks before the NATO summit
Dear colleagues, dear friends, dear ILR readers
Following a very eventful and productive peace-weekend in Lisbon, with the participation of activists from 11 European countries, we have entered the last stage of preparations of our protests against the new NATO [...]

Peace activists called Bombspotters who campaign against nuclear weapons have filmed the nuclear weapon shelters on the military base of Kleine Brogel in Belgium. They visited most solid concrete aircraft shelters on the base and located  8 of the 11 nuclear weapon storage shelters. They also succeeded in taking pictures inside one of the nuclear [...]

An anti-immigration party in Sweden has won seats in parliament for the first time, in the latest sign that far-right parties are gaining ground in Europe.
The Sweden Democrats (SD), which has described growth of the country’s Muslim minority as the biggest foreign threat since the Second World War, won 20 seats in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, [...]