Wednesday, February 13, 2002

Nice  Treaty  on  the  way  to  a  second  defeat SEÁN McGoldrick, Ard Chomhairle, Republican Sinn Féin and spokesperson on matters relating to the Nice Treaty and membership of the EU said on January 30 that the latest opinion poll on attitudes to the Nice Treaty showed that the media and politicians need to reconsider their attitudes toward the Irish people. 6:55:02 AM     No War But the Class War From The Starry Plough Feb. 2002 The bourgeois media have refused to report on civilian casualties in the bombing of Afghanistan and have acknowledged that conscious editorial decisions were made to avoid reporting such figures. Meanwhile, the count of civilian deaths in the World Trade Centre bombing have been repeatedly revised downward, so it now appears that the deaths on September 11th-at the Pentagon, the downed aircraft in Pennsylvania, and New York's twin towers- probably don't exceed 3,000. 3,000 remains an unacceptably high number of innocent people killed, even considering that those killed at the Pentagon cannot be counted as civilians. 6:52:00 AM

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