Max Ajl, “Venezuela: Local Reactions to the Re-Election Reform” Max Ajl looks at the analysis being provided within Venezuela on the national vote on the 15th of February, which will amend the constitution to allow…
Monthly Archives For January 2009
France Is Bring to a Standstill. How Could They Tell?!
Si. Is the Future King of Lyon! I am watching with disgust and pleasure the vaguely general striking in France yesterday. Did you see it? Was all most very amusing and also a big disgrace….
LRB · Ilan Pappe react to events in Gaza
LRB · Ilan Pappe react to events in Gaza “In 2004, the Israeli army began building a dummy Arab city in the Negev desert. It’s the size of a real city, with streets (all of…
How We Were Ruined & What We Can Do – The New York Review of Books
How We Were Ruined & What We Can Do – The New York Review of Books “This is, as many economists now concur, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Financial market participants created…
January 28th Afternoon: The Recession Diaries
I had intended to treat each of the offerings in the Irish Times ‘What is to be Done’ series individually, hoping that they would provide us with new, innovative ideas. Boy, did I call that…
Don’t tell the children… that public address to the nation… and… joy in heaven for ever sinner who repents (even just a little).
I like John Gormley, I genuinely do. He’s one of our more thoughtful and sensible politicians. That he sits at the Cabinet table, even in the current circumstances, is no bad thing, whatever about the…
January 27th Morning: The Recession Diaries
It really is surreal. Hundreds of jobs are going in the banking sector, Retail Excellence Ireland warns that 25,000 jobs could be lost in the first quarter. The economy is turning in on itself. And…
January 25th Evening: The Recession Diaries
So, the Irish Times is going to treat us to a series of articles from our leading economists over the next few days. They must be serious as they are using Lenin’s ‘What is to…
Talking Their Way Through a Recession
For the second podcast from Slugger O’Toole on the Irish Economy Mick Fealty has reconvened most of the panel from last week’s discussion on the economy. The topics include the call for wage cuts in…
Is The Art of War!
Is the perfect Christmas gift: A book of war posters! I was not having the space or the time last week to discuss another of my Christmas present which my inconsiderate brother Hornolo give for…
January 22nd Afternoon: The Recession Diaries
Finally, some good ol’ fashioned common sense is being spoken – and in the Irish Times, as well. Prionsias Breathnach of NUI Maynooth takes on calls for wage cuts head on. He does this through this time-tested process of…
Brenda Power writes about the funeral of Tony Gregory in the Sunday Times. She shouldn’t have.
Last weekend, the Sunday Times published an article by Brenda Power entitled: TD’s funeral shamed him about the recent funeral of Independent TD, Tony Gregory. The article has forced me to put together a few…
Op-Ed Columnist – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com
Op-Ed Columnist – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com Krugman on Spain’s economic crisis and the problem that arises out of not being able to devalue: “So what can Spain do? It needs to become more…
Israel admits troops may have used phosphorus shells in Gaza | World news | guardian.co.uk
Israel admits troops may have used phosphorus shells in Gaza | World news | guardian.co.uk According to [Israeli] army sources the brigade fired up to 20 phosphorus shells in a heavily built-up area around the…
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