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Mark Zuckerberg's repudiation of Covid-era censorship is welcome. But it's not enough, say Josh Stylman and Jeffrey Tucker. Without a public reckoning they will just do it all again when a cause seems urgent enough.
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Labour is engaged in an all-out assault on the past. From schools to immigration, inheritance tax to the House of Lords, this radical Left-wing Government is waging war on British culture, says Dr Nicholas Tate.
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Britain came "within a whisker of blackouts" on Wednesday after plunging temperatures and?low wind power generation?left electricity grid operators struggling to keep the lights on.
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Bond yields are soaring to their highest levels in 30 years and sterling is sliding, but the Chancellor is nowhere to be seen. Where is Rachel Reeves and why won't she address the markets her failed Budget has spooked?
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Thousands of civil servants are to strike "indefinitely" following an order to return to the office for three days a week, a move described by a trade union as "Victorian".
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Irish physiotherapist in Iraq - RTE report

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Saturday November 03, 2007 17:28author by Damien Moran Report this post to the editors

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Pearse Stokes in Baghdad - Image from RTE.ie website
Pearse Stokes in Baghdad - Image from RTE.ie website

I remember meeting Dublin physiotherapist Pearse Stokes at an anti-war demonstration in 2003. I vaguely recall a conversation starting up after I handed him a leaflet about our Ploughshares action at Shannon, the resulting trial, etc. (http://www.indymedia.ie/article/77460). Pearse is one of those rare humanitarians who embody modesty. He reminds me of the way Tony Galvin, the former Irish soccer player, used to play: 'Head down, socks down, corner flag here I come.' This analogy is merely to denote the 110% focus and commitment Pearse seems to go about in achieving his humanitarian goals - one can safely guess he is a better physiotherapist than Tony was a soccer player.

I had often wondered where Pearse ended up after our brief chat on the demo. I kept an eye out for him at subsequent political marches and debates, one of which I remember he articulately made a contribution from the floor about the Iraq and Iraqis he knew - it was the best input of the night.

His story about working in Iraq in the 80's and 90's in Baghdad's Irish medical staff run Ibn al-Bitar, the city's main cardiac hospital, has been an inspiration for many, so I was pleasantly surprised to see Mark Little's recent RTE report from Iraq about two Irishmen in Baghdad: one a soldier with the U.S. army, and the other - Pearse Stokes.

Full report here:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1102/irishinbaghdad.html

War in Iraq - Women have the Power by Pearse Stokes - February 10, 2003
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/28262

The St. Patrick's Day Peace Group
http://ireland.indymedia.org/article/34060

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