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Articles from April 2009

Politics and Culture | An interview with Michael Perelman

An article by Donagh of Dublin Opinion • April 17th 2009

Politics and Culture | An interview with Michael Perelman
Michael Perelman (MP): The relationship between the financial crisis and the food shortage is not coincidental at all, although I do not believe that the ongoing crisis is merely a financial crisis. Instead, crises like these are endemic to a capitalist economy. A decades-long [...]

Video of police assault on Ian Tomlinson, who died at G20 protest | UK news | guardian.co.uk

An article by Donagh of Dublin Opinion • April 17th 2009

Video of police assault on Ian Tomlinson, who died at G20 protest | UK news | guardian.co.uk
The Guardian obtained this footage of Ian Tomlinson at a G20 protest in London shortly before he died. It shows Tomlinson, who was not part of the demonstration, being assaulted from behind and pushed to the ground by baton-wielding [...]

Read Yourself Fitter

Our favourite magazine here at Khmer Mansions is Seventeen, every issue of which is passed around the office and down the ranks so each staff member can individually savour its consistently fun, informative, and sticky pages in the privacy of his/her own cubicle. One particular cause for delight is that it takes its readers’ health [...]

April 16th Evening: The Recession Diaries

In time, the acronym NAMA may enter into everyday language, much like Catch-22. But we don’t know,yet, with what inflection it will be used. It could end up something like this:
‘Go NAMA off, you low-down, double-dealing, good for nothing son of a NAMA!’
Only time, Peter Bacon and Brian Lenihan will tell. Early indications aren’t encouraging. [...]

Fame Is My Cruel Mistress and I Love Her

I am never being so popular before! Is like being John F. Kennedy. I only hope it doesn’t go to my head like it did to his!!
I am all in a kerfuffle this week because of all the esciting attention I am being receiving from new peoples who have just found my blog, [...]

LENIN'S TOMB | Everybody knows except the BBC

An article by Donagh of Dublin Opinion • April 15th 2009

LENIN’S TOMB | Everybody knows except the BBC
The BBC does not quibble in their account of the woman swearing at the police officer during G20 protests recently - caught here on YouTube - but claim that it only ‘appears’ that the police officer slapped her, and then, “apparently”, struck her on the leg with his [...]

Building a Platform for Change: An Interview with Robin Wilson

Robin Wilson is an independent policy analyst based in Belfast. He is co-leader of the Northern Ireland devolution monitoring team-part of a UK-wide project co-ordinated by the Constitution Unit in London-which provided the Northern Ireland input to the democratic assessment of the two jurisdictions in Ireland conducted by the think tank TASC. He was part [...]

April 14th Afternoon: The Recession Diaries

That wild and whacky outrider of neo-liberalism, Constantin Gurdgiev, has taken a scalpel to the Government’s budget numbers and I find myself . . . agreeing with him. No surprise there. People from wildly varying perspectives can still agree the sky is blue. Even if the great Fianna Fail sky-gods are doing everything possible to [...]

Do Not Panic: Kill All Orang-utans!!

Is for stuffing the bird of paradise, but you could be next!
As a devout and pious Christian, I am never cease to be amaze by the wonders of Our Lord’s Creation and what he come up with next. I am think sometimes that when He make the universe all those years ago, long before you [...]

Letter from Tehran: Can Iran Change?: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

An article by Seanachie of Pleasures of Underachievement • April 14th 2009

Letter from Tehran: Can Iran Change?: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
A lengthy and thorough profile of Iran and its leader. Excellent stuff.
Ahmadinejad is a Twelver Shiite and a fervent Mahdist, which means that, in the modern Iranian context, he is the equivalent of a born-again Christian. In the Shia tradition, the Twelfth Imam, or [...]

Sins of the Father

Sins of the Father:

Tracing the Decisions

That Shaped the Irish Economy,

by Conor McCabe

from The History Press

Now Available as an e-Book.

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