North Korea Increases Aid to Russia, Mos... Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:29 | Marko Marjanovi?
Trump Assembles a War Cabinet Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?
Slavgrinder Ramps Up Into Overdrive Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?
?Existential? Culling to Continue on Com... Mon Nov 11, 2024 10:28 | Marko Marjanovi?
US to Deploy Military Contractors to Ukr... Sun Nov 10, 2024 02:37 | Field Empty
Anti-Empire >>
Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.
Army Sergeant Travis Decker Murdered His Three Children After Being Denied Mental Health Care at JBL... Sat Jun 07, 2025 04:52 | JBLM Whistleblowers
A corrupt military police force and incompetent Commander who denied emergency mental health care and crisis counseling to an American service member resulted in the murder of the sergeant's three young daughters
Gaza doctor grieves her nine children killed in Israeli strike Sun May 25, 2025 20:00 | imc
Israeli regime continues it's slaughter
'The children were completely charred'
Paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar was treating victims of Israeli attacks when her children were killed by an Israeli strike on their home
British doctors working in Gaza describe territory as a ?slaughterhouse? Sat May 24, 2025 00:23 | imc
There?s no food getting in so people are starving,? surgeon Tom Potokar says
British doctors working in Gaza have described the territory as a ?slaughterhouse,? where the patients they are treating are severely malnourished.
Plastic surgeons and orthopedic specialists from the UK are based at the Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis in the south of the territory.
Dr. Tom Potokar, a plastic surgeon specializing in burn injuries, has worked in Gaza 16 times but said this mission had revealed a level of destruction far greater than his last visit in 2023,
It is time to talk about the Out of Control Immigration. Mon Mar 31, 2025 22:12 | imc
For the last few years since the CV19 scamdemic undocumented immigration into Ireland has surged. No one is allowed discuss it because they do not want any rational debate about it. If you do you are labelled an extremist. However this out of control immigration is fully facilitated by the Irish government and the EU and the shady figure behind the Neo Con movement pushing for endless war, wokeism and globalist agenda.
[Dublin] National Demonstration for Palestine: End Israeli Apartheid & Genocide Thu Mar 06, 2025 22:35 | ipsc
Sat, 22 March 2025, 13:00 Assemble at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin 1
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by over 150 Irish civil society organisations, has called another National Demonstration for Palestine on Saturday 22nd March.
The march will begin at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm and finish outside the D?il on Molesworth Street/Kildare Street to bring our demands to the Irish government?s doorstep.
The Saker >>
Energy Price Cap Goes Up Again ? and No, it?s Not Because of the Price of Gas Thu Aug 28, 2025 07:00 | Paul Homewood
UK energy costs are set to rise again. Labour ministers claim it's due to the price of gas, but that's nonsense, says Paul Homewood: gas prices are flat in real terms. It's all green subsidies.
The post Energy Price Cap Goes Up Again ? and No, it’s Not Because of the Price of Gas appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Thu Aug 28, 2025 00:43 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
US Companies Take Ofcom to Court Over ?Unlawful? Censorship Under Online Safety Act Wed Aug 27, 2025 20:30 | Laurie Wastell
The transatlantic battle for free speech is heating up, says Laurie Wastell, as two US companies ? 4chan and Kiwi Farms ? take Ofcom to court over its "unlawful" censorship under the UK's notorious Online Safety Act.
The post US Companies Take Ofcom to Court Over “Unlawful” Censorship Under Online Safety Act appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Unemployed Young People ? Is Millennial Parenting to Blame? Wed Aug 27, 2025 19:00 | Guy de la B?doy?re
The young adults of 'Generation Snowflake' are notorious for their inability to cope with life and employment. Could this have anything to do with the 'gentle parenting' they received, wonders Guy de la B?doy?re.
The post Unemployed Young People ? Is Millennial Parenting to Blame? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Wind Farms Are Driving Up Electricity Bills, Admits Ofgem Wed Aug 27, 2025 17:36 | Will Jones
Energy bills are rising to help fund the extra costs of wind farms, Ofgem admitted today as it announced gas and electricity costs will go up by double the expected amount from October.
The post Wind Farms Are Driving Up Electricity Bills, Admits Ofgem appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Lockdown Skeptics >>
Voltaire, international edition
Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en
Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en
Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en
Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en
The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en
Voltaire Network >>
international |
anti-war / imperialism |
other press
Saturday March 12, 2005 15:00
by cleaves
printable version
Digg this
del.icio.us
Furl
Reddit
Technorati
Facebook
Gab
Twitter
View Comments Titles Only
save preference
Comments (1 of 1)
Jump To Comment: 1which was held this week in Madrid. Its closing ceremony saw a memorial garden of trees opened by the King and Queen, President of the government Zapatero, Kofi Anan the King of Morocco, and all the leaders of opposition and many other international government from North africa to Afghanistan to the USA in the form of Madaleine Albright and Bill Clinton.
The so-called "madrid agenda" seeks unity in the fact of terror by understanding its multiple causes, and the absolute neccesity to not endanger democracy or emergent democracy by any means deemed to be in the interest of "counter terror". After many submissions, many opinions were expressed on the very complex problems faced the states both of the developed world, and the under-developed world, by those whose citizens favour in majority forms of religious authoritarian society and those who have clearly chosen secular options. One conclusion which was drawn was the futility of attempting to "imposing democracy" of the occidental model. States and peoples move to democratic values more often than not through trauma, but also by consistent development of human and civil rights, and social and cultural education. The states of the more developed democracies must assist the peoples of non democratic states in their legitimate wishes for democracy, but can not impose such.
Security covers many differing areas of concern in our globalised world, but can not only be thought of as meaning increased military or police acitivity alone. It must have a cultural dimension and the potential for occidental culture to provoke confrontational responses in other societies which under certain conditions provide the ground conditions for the emergence of those who commit terrorist acts must be further explored and considered. At no stage may the security forces of a democratic state be allowed to consider that they and they alone are responsible for the security of their nation or people.
Terrorism as a means of achieving political aims by use of terror or paramilitary activity against either a state structure or a civilian population has clearly changed in mass psychological effect at both ends of the spectrum the communities attacked and the communities blamed with providing attackers. Terror begets terror, and we can never underestimate the gravity of the error of responding beligerently to any community or nation in response to a terrorist attack. However neither can we underestimate the good will from all communities to consider cultural and democratic responses to acts of terror or attempts to recruit to terrorist entities. There has consistently been a clear link between terrorist organisational structures in a globalised or trans-national context and the perpetuation of criminal activity which is itself trans-national.
Communality of purpose in ending terrorism must neccesitate communality of purpose in ending the conditions that allow for terrorism to emerge as either viable options of acheiving political change, or in effecting mass psychological damage on communities _at either end of the perceived spectrum_ . Such communality means a renewed and unceasing determination to foster the values at root of democratic traditions (not only those of the occident) and consistent upholding of the international Human Rights charters and standards and the re-affirmation of the proper institutions of arbitration and conflict resolution and due criminal process against the authors of terror.
In short, -
terrorism is organised crime.
"Together we can crack it".
The conference will be held again in 2006 in Madrid at the same time.