DUP leader Ian Paisley responded to and made comments directed at Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams across the Belfast Assembly chamber this week in what is being seen as a possible shift in his party's refusal to talk directly to Sinn Fein.
By Norman Solomon, AlterNet
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The lead-up to the invasion of Iraq has become notorious in the annals of American journalism. Even many reporters, editors and commentators who fueled the drive to war in 2002 and early 2003 now acknowledge that major media routinely tossed real journalism out the window in favor of boosting war.
But it's happening again.
Vesna Peric Zimonjic BELGRADE, Dec. 6 (Inter Press Service News Agency) - The Bulgarian parliament finally adopted a much delayed law Wednesday to open most of the country's archives of former communist secret services.
Fianna Fáil TDs are some suckers if they buy into the trade-off of libel reform in exchange for the press council. The libel reform will be exploited by newspapers to engage in further recklessness, while the press council will be treated by many papers with the contempt it deserves.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the would-be owner of Liverpool FC, prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, ruler of Dubai, the 23rd richest person in the world with a fortune of €12bn, husband of two wives – one of whom is the half-sister of the king of Jordan – father of 16 children, seven sons and nine daughters, is affectionately known as “Sheikh Mo”.
A collection of essays about the late Douglas Gageby reveals how the loan to secure the independence of the Irish Times may have been used to undermine that independence. By Vincent Browne
Politics is no more now than a game show. Personality and style with an agenda stacked against fairness and democracy. By Vincent Browne
At least 12,000 people from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have entered neighbouring Uganda after fleeing fighting in the volatile eastern province of North Kivu, Ugandan officials said on Wednesday.
Mary Harney is to blame for the failure of the health regulatory system to monitor what was going on in Leas Cross and other nursing homes over the last several years. Her predecessors, Micheál Martin and Brian Cowen, are also to blame for these egregious failures, but for now it is Mary Harney's head that should be on the block.
It was reported over a week ago that Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness and Gerry Kelly had all intensified their personal security for two reasons: an apprehension they might be assassinated in the run-up to the recognition of the police service in Northern Ireland and a renewed participation in the institutions of the "six-county" state.