Never Go Full Weiner
Seriously? The Irish Times reports that the Health Service Executive (HSE) recently hired two digital influencers – bleurgh! – to advise staffContinue Reading
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The Threat Of The Brexit Barrier In Ireland Hasn’t Gone Away You Know
With many observers focusing on the possibility of renewed instability stemming from the threatened “hardening” of the UK-imposed “border” between the north-east of IrelandContinue Reading
The Phantom Corporations Of Ireland’s Banshee Economy
Adam Davidson, a business journalist with the New Yorker magazine, has an all too accurate examination of Ireland’s phantom economy inContinue Reading
Ireland, Corporate America’s European Tax Haven
So the European Commission has concluded that successive Irish governments granted extraordinarily lenient tax benefits over the course of three decades to the American tech-company, AppleContinue Reading
Republican Sinn Féin, A Political Party That Became A Political Cult
I’ve discussed Republican Sinn Féin (RSF) several times before on ASF, a faction of (Provisional) Sinn Féin which broke away from the mainstream republicanContinue Reading
The United States Has Supplied 1.4 Million Guns To Iraq And Afghanistan
The commercial value of the so-called “War on Terror” to the arms industries of the United States and the UnitedContinue Reading
The US Army Fakes $6.5 Trillion Dollars To Make The Books Balance
One of the main talking points in the raucous US presidential election is the issue of defence spending, in particularContinue Reading
History Is Written By The Victors, Even When They Lose
The common maxim, “history is written by the victors“, is a favourite one among writers and journalists trying to elucidate the contested pasts of colonisedContinue Reading
Hillary Clinton And The Odour Of Mendacity
One of my favourite films is the 1958 release, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof“, based on a play of theContinue Reading
Britain’s Toxic Nationalism Threatens Peace In Ireland. And Europe
The Belfast or Good Friday Agreement of April 1998, which ended three decades of open conflict in the British-administrated north-east of Ireland, actually consistsContinue Reading
Ze’ev Jabotinsky: The Iron Wall – We and the Arabs
On the 4th of November 1923 the Jewish-Russian newspaper Rassvet (“Dawn”) published a short essay by the conservative Zionist writer Ze’ev JabotinskyContinue Reading
Two Women Travel, Illustrating The Moral Case For Repealing The Eight
On Saturday the 20th of August, two Irish woman, citizens of this Republic, travelled to the United Kingdom where one of them soughtContinue Reading
British Spies To Continue Mass Surveillance Operations In Ireland And Elsewhere
The United Kingdom’s state intelligence agencies have been given the green light to continue their mass spying operations around the world followingContinue Reading
Sinn Féin Acquiesces To The DUP’s Anti-Irish Agenda
Last May, during the elections for the regional assembly at Stormont, Arlene Foster’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) vowed to destroy the growth and development ofContinue Reading
Improvised Killer Drones In Syria
I’ve looked before at the phenomenon of improvised weapons in the Syrian civil war, in particular the use of Improvised RocketContinue Reading
Danny Healy-Rae, A Special Kind Of Stupid
Independent TD, Danny Healy-Rae, living proof if ever there was one that evolution is not always a forward moving process, has staged anotherContinue Reading
Big Rise In Students Opting To Take Higher Level Irish Examinations
With the announcement of this year’s results from the annual Leaving Certificate Examinations, the final examination in Ireland’s secondary school system, the Irish Examiner reports onContinue Reading
The Colonialist Ideology That Drives The DUP’s Anti-Irish Agenda
In the run-up to last May’s elections for the regional assembly at Stormont the leadership of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)Continue Reading
Invisible Comrades, Gays And Lesbians In The Irish Struggle
The first issue of the independent magazine An Glór Gafa, “The Captive Voice”, was published and distributed by Sinn Féin’s PrisonerContinue Reading
Opposition Factions Of The Syrian Civil War
The researchers Ryan O’Farrell and Cody Roche have compiled an incredibly useful list of Opposition Factions in the Syrian Civil War for theContinue Reading
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The Open Letter Attacking Warner Bros And Its “Mess” Of Recent Movies
When I published a short piece yesterday criticising the dramatic vacuousness of Hollywood’s big budget “superhero” movies I was unaware of an open letter publishedContinue Reading
Suicide Squad, An Empty Vessel Making The Most Noise
I’ve always been rather cool on the whole “superhero” genre of comics, graphic novels and movies, whether the characters were endowed with preternatural,Continue Reading
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