Yesterday evening I was on Matt Cooper’s The Last Word (5:00 segment) with a representative from IBEC discussing wage levels. I quoted the numbers from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Eurostat and Destatis (German…
Monthly Archives For January 2010
Victor Grossman | Oskar Lafontaine and the Troubled German Left
Victor Grossman | Oskar Lafontaine and the Troubled German Left While German politicians stared at the calendar, wondering nervously what the May 9th elections will bring in the biggest state, North Rhine-Westphalia, with its 18…
Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism
Socialist Register 2010 – Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism (Merlin Press) Ed: Leo Panitch & Colin Leys. There’s been some excellent work published on the many faults of the Irish health service by campaigning journalists…
Henry A. Giroux's tribute to Howard Zinn | Howard Zinn: A Public Intellectual Who Mattered
Henry A. Giroux’s tribute to Howard Zinn | Howard Zinn: A Public Intellectual Who Mattered "I grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, and rarely met or read any working-class intellectuals. After reading James Baldwin, hearing…
ONE | Drop Haitian Debt
ONE | Drop Haitian Debt As Haiti rebuilds from this disaster, please work to secure the immediate cancellation of Haiti’s $1 billion debt and ensure that any emergency earthquake assistance is provided in the form…
Where is Fascist Aid?
Earthquakes Leave Us All in a Difficult Position Like everyone else in the world, I have been watching the earthquake coverage on the television from Haiti and making prayers morning noon and night that God…
CIA Man Retracts Claim on Waterboarding | Foreign Policy
CIA Man Retracts Claim on Waterboarding | Foreign Policy John Kiriakou, the former CIA operative who affirmed claims that waterboarding quickly unloosed the tongues of hard-core terrorists, says he didn't know what he was talking…
The Inexorable Political Rise…
It’s interesting reading the article by Harry McGee in the Irish Times about Sinn Féin and its current troubles. That topic, though, is for another day, albeit I find it hard to disagree with him…
Haiti – A Brief Overview
Today Haiti is most commonly known for being the poorest country in the ‘western’ hemisphere and a land wracked by destitution and despair. This picture has only been reinforced by the horrific consequences of the…
Heroin-Economic Detox
Comparisons between Ireland and Iceland abound, but as recent events there show, the public response has been more vociferous to the injustice of the Icesave bailout. However, as political activist, poet, editor and member of…
The Real News | Haiti and the ‘Devil’s Curse’
The Real News | Haiti and the ‘Devil’s Curse’ Excellent 12 minute news segment from the Real News on Haiti’s history of poverty, which includes a critical examination of how mainstream media is reporting this…
Speak, Memory
When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies, by Andy Beckett. Faber and Faber, 448 pp. About a quarter of the way into Guardian journalist Andy Beckett’s impressive account of Britain in the 1970s,…
Taking the Country & Western out of Pensions: The Recession Diaries – January 22nd
Life can sometimes be like an American country and western song: ‘My girl friend left me / my dawg bit me in the leg / my mamma joined the army / and my sister is…
The Significance of the Apostolides v Orams Case For Greek-Cypriots
The British Court of Appeal (Civil Division) with its judgement in the Apostolides v Orams case (Case No: A2/2006/2114) on 19 January 2010 has created an unexpected new legal situation in the ongoing struggle in…
Sins of the Father
Dublin Opinion
- In God’s Country May 12, 2013Working on the last few pages of a chapter for a book edited by Colin Coulter and Angela Nagle. I’ve just been rigid with anger over the last couple of weeks - more than usual - and I think the process of writing this chapter is the reason why. This little paragraph sums it up […]Conor McCabe
- Fishy Talks Galway, 13 May 2013 May 12, 2013Speaking tomorrow in Galway before Donal O’Kelly’s performance of Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son. The title of the talk is: All the Devils are Here - A Short History of the Irish Entrepreneur. All welcome. […]Conor McCabe
- The Indo: Think I Know The Choice I’d Make.. May 9, 2013[…]Conor McCabe
- Alan Ahearne, Johnny Boy May 6, 2013Alan Ahearne, Central Bank of Ireland & NUIG, writing in 2006 that Ireland’s property bubble was caused by condoms. […]Conor McCabe
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