Boris Johnson Moves From Dismissing A Hard Border In Ireland To Threatening It
One has to wonder if Boris Johnson, the United Kingdom’s tone-deaf Foreign Secretary, realised what he was implying when heContinue Reading
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Dana Loesch Illustrates The Duplicity Of The NRA And The US Gun Lobby
Speaking of ideological lunacy, Dana Loesch, the hard-right commentator and disingenuous spokesperson for the National Rifle Association (NRA) in the UnitedContinue Reading
The Brexit Fantasists Long For The UK’s Hegemony Over All Of Ireland
A perfect example of the delusional thinking gripping the Brexit movement in the United Kingdom can be found in thisContinue Reading
Desperate Brexiteers Attack The Good Friday Agreement
Many commentators are expressing surprise and dismay that a number of Brexit-supporting politicians and journalists in the United Kingdom areContinue Reading
Whether Irish Rights Or Gay Rights, No Equality, No Stormont.
Thanks to the Trojan work of the veteran journalists Eamonn Mallie and Brian Rowan, we now know the sequence ofContinue Reading
Russian Mercenaries Suffer Losses In Syria, As US And Russia Clashes
The latest reports of Russian casualties in the Syrian war serve to underline the international character of the conflict. ItContinue Reading
Unionist Opposition To Irish Is Base Colonialism. Stop Pretending Otherwise
Since the United Kingdom’s violent imposition of partition in the early 1920s, the pro-union leaders of the Six Counties haveContinue Reading
Spiked Magazine Gets It Wrong On Brexit And Ireland
The origins of the internet magazine, Spiked, lie in the demise of the United Kingdom’s controversial – and latterly, oddballContinue Reading
The Stormont Talks Failure. Britain Swaps EU Rule For DUP Rule?
She came, she saw, she fucked off home. That summed up yesterday’s visit by Theresa May, the United Kingdom’s crisis-proneContinue Reading
Europe Lays Down The Law To Britain Over Future Peace And Prosperity In Ireland
It seems that the patience of the European Union with the prevarications of the United Kingdom over the post-Brexit futureContinue Reading
The Public Services Card Has Cost €60 Million And Saved Less Than €2 Million
The Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, which was established in the Oireachtas late last year, has held itsContinue Reading
DUP MP Ian Paisley Jr. Urges No Surrender To The EU In The UK Parliament
For over a century the rallying cry of “No Surrender!” has been a feature of British separatist politics and violenceContinue Reading
London’s Brexit Chaos Will Create A “Cold Split” Between The UK And The EU
It’s difficult to escape the conclusion that whatever agreements are made between now and the 29th of March 2019, theContinue Reading
Ex-UUP MP Danny Kinahan Has The Most Enthusiastic Wikipedia Entry Of Any Irish Politician
Like many observers, I was less than impressed with the mediocre leadership record of Alasdair McDonnell, the former South Belfast MPContinue Reading
Targeting Civilians: Settlers, Human Shields, And The Wars In Algeria And Ireland
The Nation has published a review of Zohra Drif’s acclaimed autobiography, Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a WomanContinue Reading
The Threatened Gerrymandering Of Elections In The North Of Ireland
In September 2016, the United Kingdom’s local non-partisan Boundary Commission released its preliminary proposals for the creation of seventeen newContinue Reading
The Vietnam War And The War On Terror
An article for the current affairs website TomDispatch by Danny Sjursen, a serving officer in the United States Armed Forces andContinue Reading
Éistigí, The Youth Wing Of Saoradh
Éistigí or “Listen”*, is the teenage wing of the minor Irish republican party, Saoradh. It sometimes uses the sobriquet RepublicanContinue Reading
Michael Wolff Discusses The Trump Administration With Jonathan Capehart
Michael Wolff ‘s detailed exposé of the US presidency, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, has received plentyContinue Reading
Sue Gray, Powerful But Highly Secretive British Civil Servant Transfers From London To Belfast
Who runs the United Kingdom? Is it the country’s democratically elected government or is it the nation’s labyrinthine civil service,Continue Reading
Óglaigh na hÉireann Suspends Armed Actions
A radical change in strategy by Óglaigh na hÉireann (ÓnaÉ), the small insurgent group active in the United Kingdom’s legacyContinue Reading
Turkish Military Helicopter Dodges Kurdish ATGW Missile Attack
A very narrow escape for a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during recent border clashes between the interventionist Turkish military andContinue Reading
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