Regional Autonomy For North-East Ulster, A United Ireland For Slow Learners
As the negative effects of the successful Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom continue to ripple across this island nationContinue Reading
Category: Politics
PSNI Chief Criticises Exaggerated Press Reports On IRA Criminality
The Assistant Chief Constable of the PSNI, the UK paramilitary police force in the north-east of Ireland, has rebuked the Irish and BritishContinue Reading
Beating The English Language Into The Irish, Quite Literally
Following on from reports that an Irish-speaking employee was forced from his job at a business in Cork because of management demands thatContinue Reading
That Hillary Clinton Collapse In New York City
It was a disastrous weekend for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party nominee to the White House, as she visibly fell ill atContinue Reading
Fianna Fáil Says No To Water Charges, Yes To Northern Elections
Despite the electoral trauma of the last decade Fianna Fáil has clawed its way back into second place behind its historic rivalsContinue Reading
What Is Aleppo?
One doubts that Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party presidential candidate in the United States, is going to get over this on-airContinue Reading
Fired For Speaking Irish In Ireland’s English Only Pub
So in the space of three years we’ve gone from Irish-speaking citizens being arrested by the Gardaí for conversing in Irish to Irish-speakingContinue Reading
Ní Saoirse Go Saoirse Na mBan, A Message From Syria On The 8th Amendment
The International Freedom Battalion (IFB) is one of the more unusual armed groups participating in the Syrian civil war. Primarily composed of left-wingContinue Reading
The Apple Tax Scandal, Business As Usual On Charlie Haughey Island
Staggering. That is the only way to describe the rush of revelations emerging from last week’s decision by the European Commission toContinue Reading
Hillary Clinton, Not Crooked But Definitely Suspect
The decision by the FBI in the United States to release fifty-eight pages of notes from its investigation into Hillary Clinton’sContinue Reading
Native American Protesters Gather In North Dakota To Defend Sovereignty Rights
In an unprecedented move thousands of activists from some 200 Native American nations are assembling in an isolated region of NorthContinue Reading
Personality Clashes Push Stephen Donnelly Out Of The Social Democrats?
So the Wicklow TD, Stephen Donnelly, has walked away from the party he helped found, confirming rumours of dissension in theContinue Reading
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
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