Gerry Adams And The Problem Of Surviving The Cause
A different take on the post-conflict career of Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams, guerilla-turned-politician, from the journalist Michael Brendan Dougherty writingContinue Reading
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Jean McConville, Gerry Adams And The Truth
The New Yorker magazine has a long, if occasionally flawed, investigation into the 1972 detention and execution – which one can alternativelyContinue Reading
Bill O’Reilly And America’s Reporting Of The Troubles
Do you remember the days when editors and producers working in the newsrooms of New York, Washington or Los AngelesContinue Reading
Terror Breeds Terror
Following on from my brief post criticising the agenda-loaded commentary by certain media-friendly “experts” on matters military and intelligence-related, in particular theContinue Reading
People Are Made Radical, Not Born Radical
Paul Beaver is a veteran British defence journalist and member of the ultra-conservative Henry Jackson Society who has been regularly sought outContinue Reading
Kincora Boys Home, The Scandal Britain Can’t Bury
The Kincora Boys’ Home scandal represents one of the darker aspects of Britain’s counter-insurgency war in Ireland during the lateContinue Reading
Leo Dowling 08.01.1923
The background to the execution by firing squad of Leo Dowling, carried out by the Irish Free State regime inContinue Reading
Partition Is Wrong In Ukraine But Right In Ireland?
Apparently ethno-religious separatists carving off regions of clearly defined national territories through violence and the threat of violence, withContinue Reading
The United States’ Perpetual Groundhog Day
The team at Tom’s Dispatch have done another excellent job of highlighting the seemingly perpetual nature of the United States’ military misadventures in theContinue Reading
6000 Islamic State Fighters Killed In US-Led Attacks?
Back in October of 2014 the CIA estimated that the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq had a militaryContinue Reading
Special Forces, Special Operations, Special Rules
In a similar vein to yesterday’s post on James Fallows’ controversial critique of the United States’ military in the Atlantic magazine comes this articleContinue Reading
Military Secrets And Scandals
For those of you interested in the performance of the United States Armed Forces over the last two decades, especiallyContinue Reading
Condemning Rebellion In Occupied France And Ireland
Today’s Irish Times newspaper carries a deeply offensive article examining the period of 1939-45 in France and what the authorContinue Reading
An Online Fenian Archive From ASF
I’ve discussed my interest in utilising online resources for researching various historical topics a number of times on ASF, as can be seenContinue Reading
Those Leaked Al Jazeera Emails On Charlie Hebdo
The National Review Online, the web-version of the right-wing American current affairs magazine, has published a series of “leaked” emailsContinue Reading
Some Irish Stories
A few quick links to articles and posts that I have enjoyed over the last week or so. First upContinue Reading
Improvised Weapons Of The New IRA Modernise Old Designs
On the 16th of November 2014 an armoured jeep of the PSNI, the paramilitary police force in the British-administrated north-east of Ireland,Continue Reading
Secrets Of The NSA And GCHQ War On Internet Security
Just before Christmas the German news and current affairs magazine Der Spiegel published a detailed article examining the covert campaign by the UnitedContinue Reading
Celebrating The Irish Who Fought Against Slavery
As Ireland’s plutocratic old guard grinds its teeth in anxiety at the approaching 2016 centenary of the Easter Rising, the insurrection that heralded the Irish RevolutionContinue Reading
The CIA’s 2009 High-Value Targeting Report From Wikileaks
“Making High-Value Targeting Operations an Effective Counterinsurgency Tool (C//NF)” is the latest confidential government document to be released through Wikileaks,Continue Reading
Inside The Islamic State
Martin Chulov in the Guardian newspaper presents a fascinating insider analysis of the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) throughContinue Reading
Ireland Facilitated CIA’s Torture Porn Program
For several centuries the physical and psychological abuse of captives, male and female, old and young was something experienced by almost every generationContinue Reading
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