As it exhales its last few breaths the curtain cannot be allowed to lower on the year 2012 without acknowledgment of a great radical artist who died back in February at the age of 70. His friends knew him as Bernie Boyle but to our readers he was simply Brian Mór.
John Murphy reviews Daniel Dennett's Breaking the Spell. It first featured on his own blog on 19 October 2012.
Ex-Republican prisoners who are aligned to the Belfast Committee of the Free Marian Price Campaign are running a ballot to aid them to aid the campaign.
The figure of a woman prisoner was made by Jim McIlmurray and ballots are for sale.
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Her 'Internment' by Government constitutes corruption of Law, Denial of Justice, avoidance of trust, and absence of compassion for a very ill woman.
Mgr. Raymond Murray, former chaplain Armagh Prison.
Marian's health has continued to deteriorate as a consequence of many months of solitary confinement and neglect. She is being treated for several chronic illnesses and despite six months of medical intervention Marian remains gravely ill under guard in an isolated hospital unit.
Medical experts have stressed that her condition will not improve in an environment that is not conducive to recovery.
BLIND SHOTS AT A HIDDEN TARGET
Marian McGlinchey's health deteriorates whilst held in isolation even though not convicted of any offence.British officials rely upon an alleged breach of licence conditions. Those conditions were removed by a Royal Pardon. She is unable to challenge the legitimacy of her detention as government officials assert that in 2010 they destroyed the only known copy of the Pardon. Marian was adamant that the RPM covered all offences BEFORE it was discovered that the document was missing from Buckingham Palace and Government archives.
As long ago as April 1980 she was released from prison as she was suffering from anorexia and mental health issues and freedom was granted to save her life.
The police rely upon secret information to justify her detention. The Defence will never have this evidence and she cannot make effective representations in respect of it.
Government officials revoked her licence after the Courts had deemed her fit for release.
This cannot continue.
Marian's Solicitor Peter Corrigan
'True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice'
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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Taoiseach in Grave Dispute with the Minister for the Disappeared.
Yesterday in the Dail there was a lot of accusations, heated exchanges, angry finger wagging and gesticulating as the Minister for the Disappeared continues to insist on leading with his chin.
Yesterday in the Dail there was a lot of accusations, heated exchanges, angry finger wagging and gesticulating as the Minister for the Disappeared continues to insist on leading with his chin.
Regular reviewer John Murphy with a review of Religion For Atheists which TPQ reproduces from his own blog.
As with his previous books for the "educated reader" looking for a light but worthwhile introduction to philosophical and moral issues, Alain de Botton relies upon a mix of photos and illustrations with witty or profound captions to lighten the heavier lessons of his text.
An address by regular contributor Sean Doyle at the graveside of Seamus Costello. Sean, a former comrade and confidant of Seamus Costello, was invited to speak by the IRSP at a commemoration for the party’s late leader on Sunday, 7 October 2012. Photos are from the commemoration. This completes the trilogy of tributes to a great visionary and republican socialist in the mould of the Connolly, Mellows, Tone and Lalor.
Comrades it is always a great honour and privilege to speak about Seamus Costello; however I must concede to my inadequacy to encapsulate his life, and his comprehensive vision of a 32 county socialist republic.
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Maryam Namazie with a piece that originally featured on her own blog on 20 November 2012
The bad news is that a Pakistani court has sentenced 25 year old Hazrat Ali Shah to death for blaspheming against Mohammed and the Koran during a quarrel in his village in northern Pakistan in March 2011. Mother of five Asia Bibi also remains in prison whilst appealing her death sentence for ‘derogatory’ comments about Mohammad.
The bad news is that a Pakistani court has sentenced 25 year old Hazrat Ali Shah to death for blaspheming against Mohammed and the Koran during a quarrel in his village in northern Pakistan in March 2011. Mother of five Asia Bibi also remains in prison whilst appealing her death sentence for ‘derogatory’ comments about Mohammad.
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