Canada Requests Return Of Indigenous Peoples Remains From Scottish Museum

August 29, 2016

Canadian broadcaster CBC has revealed that the Canadian Federal government is backing efforts to get the remains of two Indigenous people taken from a Newfoundland gravesite in 1828 that are now at a museum in Scotland. Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly has taken the

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Celtic League At Frongoch 1916 Commemoration

August 27, 2016

Local residents in Frongoch (near Y Bala, North Wales) organised a series of events over the weekend of June 10th and 11th 2016 to commemorate the Frongoch Interment camp and the 1,800 Irish men who were interned there after the Easter Rising in

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An Unusual Visitor

August 27, 2016

BBC Wales (appropriately) reports here on the appearance in the South Irish Sea of numbers of Long Finned Pilot Whales (link): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-37198843 The species is quite prevalent in the Atlantic but less usually spotted in these waters. With whale watching now a major

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Fifty Years Later One Of The Last Vile Acts Of Colonialism Is Still Not Righted

August 27, 2016

Nationalists are often accused of being introverted and caring little for that which goes on in the wider world. In terms of Celtic nationalism over the years in the Celtic League we have confounded that stereotypical description by periodically at AGMs speaking out

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Australia: Africa: Latin America – Scottish Estate Owning Multi National Exploit The Globe

August 27, 2016

Worker exploitation, human rights abuses and disregard for the environment around the world welcome to the families and corporations that own a fair bit of Scotland. Global Justice Now have produced a report on a range of multinationals involved in abuses of indigenous

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NAMA And The Manx Money The Plot Thickens

August 27, 2016

‘Ironic that the first political casualty was not one of those with his greasy paws in the pot’ The Northern Portfolio NAMA deal continues to make political waves. You may have forgotten it the allegations centred on over £7 million that turned up

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‘Nauseating and Utterly Corrupt’ Police Officers

August 27, 2016

Open Democracy UK has an article on ‘spycops’ i.e. Officers who worked undercover and who themselves were the subject of an exposé because of their scurrilous practices. The article says their activities in Scotland cannot be ignored not least because the majority of

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Srebrenica and Jadotville Two Similar Scenarios Two Very Different Outcomes

August 26, 2016

As the terrible events of the murder of 7000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica are remembered it is important to remember that in addition to the atrocity perpetrated by the Serb military the refugees in the enclave were let down by the

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‘Empires Warriors’

August 26, 2016

I read recently that British ex-servicemen started a campaign to get a medal for those who served after 1945. They want the National Defence Medal to reward their service many of course were conscripted but not all because conscription ended in 1960. However

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As Volunteers Clean Beaches Multi-Nationals Lose Thousands Of Containers In Our Seas

August 26, 2016

NEWS FROM THE MANNIN BRANCH CELTIC LEAGUE ‘Every year thousands of containers are lost overboard from container ships. On this one Maersk vessel alone over 500 containers were lost’. Eddie Power who runs the Crown Dependency News site is back of its hols

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