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
Category: Economics
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
A Clear Majority Favours The Reunification Of Ireland
The British apologists of the Irish news media, led by a coterie of decrepit newspaper columnists, have claimed for decades that, “…no one wants aContinue Reading
Kenny And Martin Wrap The Green Flag Around A Finger Or Two
The post-referendum effects of the Brexit vote in the UK continue to ripple out across the European Union, lapping up onContinue Reading
How Brexit Paid For My Pentax!
The Pentax K-S2 DSLR camera was released by the Japanese manufacturer, Ricoh, at the start of 2015 and since then myContinue Reading
Brexit, The Disconnect Between London And Greater England
In the lead up to June’s Brexit referendum, the plebiscite on Britain’s membership of the European Union, there were several things which made me question justContinue Reading
Following On From Brexit Is It Now Time For UnityRef?
There is more than a little irony for Scotland in the negative outcome of the United Kingdom’s plebiscite on its continued membership ofContinue Reading
IMF Report Questions The Economics Of Neoliberalism
The publication of a study by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) criticising certain aspects of neoliberalism has led to a lotContinue Reading
High Rise Dublin Or Stupid Knows Stupid
Speaking of inferiority complexes or falsely equating anything “foreign” with modernity, here is more of the same in the Comments’ section under aContinue Reading
An Irish Argument For Brexit
Brexit, potentially bad for the Twenty-Six and Six Counties in the short term, potentially good for the Thirty-Two Counties inContinue Reading
Renua – The Independent News And Media Party
Here we go again! Ireland’s right-wing media cartel, Independent News and Media, is beating the drums for its pet cause with renewed vigour:Continue Reading
RTÉ’s Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous
During the height of the post-Celtic Tiger economic collapse I remember driving from Malahide to Howth, two middle-ranking suburbs in north countyContinue Reading
In Our Forests, Like Our Language, Lies Our True Wealth
When the first Neolithic families migrated to Ireland around 4000 BCE they found an island that was overwhelmingly forested, with at least 80% tree cover.Continue Reading
The New World Panama Order
Like some mad conspiracy theory from the outer reaches of the world wide web the revelations relating to the Panama-based law firm, Mossack Fonseca, have explodedContinue Reading
Fergus Crawford And Mary Lou McDonald, Or The 1% Attacks The 99%
On Friday morning the Sinn Féin vice-president, Mary Lou McDonald, was confronted by a self-styled “concerned citizen” on O’Connell Street inContinue Reading
The Demand For Self-Government In Cornwall
Last week the New Statesman magazine, an influential voice on the centre-left of British politics, featured an unusually sympathetic pieceContinue Reading
Feed The Rich, Eat The Poor
As many of you will be aware the would-be Democratic Party candidate for the US presidency, Bernie Sanders, has been hammering downContinue Reading
The Banking Inquiry Whitewash, Covering Up For The Party Tigers
With the death of Ireland’s so-called “Celtic Tiger” economy in 2008-2010 the country entered a period of severe recession, made worse byContinue Reading
Celtic-Speaking Communities Of Britain Denied Funding
While most eyes and ears were focused on the headline-grabbing announcements in the November budgetary review by the UK’s aristocratic finance minister, George Osborne, moreContinue Reading
Reunited Ireland Could Generate €35.6 Billion Boost For National GDP
Don’t expect the rest of the national or regional news media in Ireland to highlight this study on the positive economic implicationsContinue Reading
Peter Robinson To ‘Fine Fáil’ To A South-County Dublin Housewife
Interesting times in Irish politics. The north-east is to see the departure of veteran DUP leader Peter Robinson, the firstContinue Reading
Stormont’s Fresh Start Repackages Stale Goods
So the governments of Ireland and Britain, in consultation with the members of the cross-party regional administration in Belfast, have announced the ratherContinue Reading
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