Wednesday, May 16th 2012
red mum | Facebook organised vigil tomorrow: Wednesday, Dec 10
If you are in Dublin on Wednesday, December 10th at 6.30pm please come along to Dail Eireann where a candlelit vigil (part of the ongoing campaign calling on Harney to reinstate the HPV vaccine) is taking place. If you are in Cork on Wednesday at 6.30pm [...]
The Real News Network - Bailouts and stimulus are not enough
Leo Panitch says that the banks should be a public utility. As it is they can only function in the long term with the mechanism of government as a lender of last resort. Asked why banks haven't been allowed to go to the wall, Panitch [...]
Recession Is Shaping Up to Be the Worst Since the 1940s - NYTimes.com
Oh merde: "This recession, which officially began in December 2007, now appears virtually certain to be the longest downturn — and possibly most severe — since the end of World War II, as evidenced last week by a demoralizing rat-a-tat of grim reports [...]
The War We Don’t Want to See - The New York Review of Books
There is a lot about the current wars in Iraq and Afganistan that people do not want to face: "In late October, about a week before the presidential election, a young man named Kris Goldsmith, who had served two tours of duty [...]
A system in crisis
There were two remarkable things about the Lisbon Treaty referendum that have been almost completely ignored by the men and women whose job it is to chew over Irish politics on a daily basis. First of all, the result showed that Irish citizens have no confidence in the people they vote for. [...]
Following on from the publication of “Towards a New Economic Narrative“, we interviewed Michael Taft about his ideas for the Irish economy. We started off by asking Michael what was actually wrong with the Irish economy, and what was his strategy for getting the economy working in the short-term, with plans for growth in the [...]
For ILR’s second podcast, we interviewed INTO General Secretary John Carr. The interview focused initially on the recent cuts in the education as announced in Budget 2009 and how the INTO and other unions should react to such cuts. Mr. Carr puts repeated emphasis on the point that the world of deregulation and neo-liberal economics [...]
I’m Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq - washingtonpost.com
Article by former US army interrogator:
'It's no exaggeration to say that at least half of our losses and casualties in that country have come at the hands of foreigners who joined the fray because of our program of detainee abuse. The number of U.S. soldiers [...]
Recently on South Belfast Diary I leaked the draft Section 8 of Labour’s 21st Century Commission, dealing with Party organisation in Northern Ireland. Since 2002, the Irish Labour Party has allowed membership in the North. We have actively participated in conferences and have had an NEC co-opted member, Mark Langhammer. More to the [...]
Since we have not reached the level of commercialism in our schools that pervade an education system such as the American one, perhaps now is the time to begin the fight against the commercialism that is present, before it becomes too much to be countered.
During the last academic year, I responded to Tesco’s “Computers for [...]
