Friday, Jan 27th 2012
Cathal O’Loghlin has done the readers of my Notes on the Front blog a favour by putting up his Irish Independent article in the comment section yesterday (I’m assuming the poster ‘Honest Cathal‘ is the author). Whichever Cathal it is, he is certainly in feisty form. He manages to call ICTU and CORI liars - [...]
Is Very Beautiful. And Not a Peasant to be Seen Anywhere
Everyboth of my readers is knowing by now that the main reason for fighting the Civil War in Spain was being to save Christian civilization for golf. Have a trip along the south coast of my fine country (if we let you in) and [...]
Can you feel it? Brian has dinner with Sean and Co. Was one of the Anglo-Irish 10 there breaking bread with the Taoiseach-elect? And Senator Dan Boyle signals a wobble on the part of the junior coalition partner. Low-paid civil servants are demonstrating; as are the Guards; Dublin Bus is facing into an all-out strike. The National [...]
George Orwell once said something along the lines of just because the news about the Gulags appeared in the Daily Telegraph, it didn’t mean it wasn’t true. The blurb on the front of Marcus Rediker’s The Slave Ship describes it as “A truly magnificent book.” That quote comes from the Sunday Telegraph. Conceivably, then, the Telegraph stable [...]
“An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.”
Nancy Mitford
Amidst the collapse of the Irish economy, the inhabitants of a rural hinterland begin to feel the touch of the dead hand of the housing market.
This [...]
Ex-envoy recalls doubting Uribe
A former U.S. ambassador to Colombia says he once asked President Alvaro Uribe about his alleged ties to drug-trafficking when he was governor of Antioquia province in the mid-1990s — and was not satisfied with the answer.
”I returned disappointed [with the answers] . . . that is, he washed his hands of [...]
Is there corrupt relations between African dictators and Bernard Kouchner?
Allegedly there is:
“The possibility that French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner might have misused his public position in France to boost his profitable private business with prominent African dictators arises at a time when the local authorities are dealing with numerous corruption affairs.
The accusations against Kouchner are [...]
Senior US soldiers investigated over missing Iraq reconstruction billions | Patrick Cockburn
More corruption:
“In what could turn out to be the greatest fraud in US history, American authorities have started to investigate the alleged role of senior military officers in the misuse of $125bn (£88bn) in a US -directed effort to reconstruct Iraq after the fall [...]
There will be a variety of slogans on placards on the National Demonstration this Saturday:
There is a Better Way • Bail Out People, Not Banks • Punish the Corrupt, Not the Victims • Workers Unite
All catchy in their own way. But here’s the text for a placard that should be carried by thousands and memorised [...]
Zionism/EU eviscereted in TCD lecture by Prof. Ilan Pappe | Indymedia Ireland
Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian and human right campaigner and the author of several books including The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oneworld), A History of Modern Palestine (Cambridge), and The Israel/Palestine Question (Routledge). Speaking in Trinity College about the recent attacks on Gaza [...]
