The West’s Favoured Chop-Chop Regime
As the world, particularly the so-called Western world, looks on in outrage at the activities of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)Continue Reading
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No Value In Welsh For Tory’s English Candidate
Over the last few decades our Celtic neighbours in Wales have seen the emergence of something approaching a national consensusContinue Reading
Ireland Of The Apes
Are we really so enslaved to our post-colonial neuroses, so malformed by centuries of external domination, that even after ninety years ofContinue Reading
Gamergate Or The Culture War By Other Means
If – like 99% of the planet – you have little knowledge of Western geek or gamer culture you’ll probablyContinue Reading
Maíria Cahill And Micheál Martin’s Cynical Opportunism
Maíria Cahill, a member of a respected Republican family from Belfast and a former youth activist with Sinn Féin, hasContinue Reading
Maíria Cahill And Gerry Adams
One of the rarely discussed facets of the generational war which disfigured the north-east of Ireland from the mid-1960s toContinue Reading
Kurdish Factionalism Gives Turkey And IS The Advantage
Western journalism loves to simplify things for readers and audiences at home which is why so much nonsense gets writtenContinue Reading
Catalan Politics Enters New Phase
As always one must treat news reports from Russia Today (RT) with a certain degree of scepticism given the avowedContinue Reading
Native American Day
Yesterday was Columbus Day in the United States, the latterly Italian-American festival commemorating the “discovery” of the Americas by theContinue Reading
Tuairisc
A busy weekend behind me and an even busier week ahead so I haven’t had much time to discuss Tuairisc,Continue Reading
Over 50,000 Protest Water Taxes
Last Wednesday I suggested that the imposition of water charges at the behest of the IMF-EU-ECB could do for theContinue Reading
John Redmond, From Gun-Running To Civil War
In recent years the historical figure of John Redmond MP, the head of the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) and self-declaredContinue Reading
Water Charges, The Irish Poll Tax
In 1989 the Conservative Party government in Britain, under the premiership of Margaret Thatcher, introduced the officially regarded “community charge”Continue Reading
The Scandal Of The 1916 Battlefield Quarter
As Dublin City Council continues to debate and prevaricate over saving what is left of the capital’s 1916 Battlefield QuarterContinue Reading
No Human Rights, No Belfast Agreement, No Peace Process
The Lallands Peat Worrier has written a lengthy post excoriating the Conservative Party in Britain following prime minister David Cameron’sContinue Reading
Iraq, The Graveyard Of Western Journalism
With all due caution given the source this recent Q&A with Andrew MacGregor Marshall, a former senior correspondent with Reuters, featured on RussiaContinue Reading
Right2Water Demonstration, Saturday 11th October 2014
Last week I touched upon the new Troika-imposed water-tax that it is being rolled out across the country by the FineContinue Reading
The Imposition Of Water Taxes Goes International
The imposition of the new Troika-dictated water tax on Irish households by the Fine Oibre coalition government has started toContinue Reading
The Irish Neo-Ascendancy: You Pay So We Don’t Have To
Just when you believe that resigned familiarity has made one desensitized to the arrogance of Ireland’s Neo-Ascendancy class along comesContinue Reading
Ominous Portents For The Baltic States?
Last week I had a quick look at the purchase by Latvia of surplus armoured vehicles from Britain as partContinue Reading
Scottish Democracy Meets X Factor
In the recent Scottish referendum 44% of voters said “Yes” to an independent Scotland. In contrast 56% of voters saidContinue Reading
Irish Politics Or Looking After Your Own
When the coalition government of Fine Gael and Labour took power in 2011 they did so on a waveContinue Reading
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