Friday, Jan 27th 2012
Howard Zinn | Three Holy Wars
On May 2nd last year Howard Zinn delivered a speech as part of the 100th Anniversary of the Progressive Magazine. It’s one that he has been delivering all over the US since, most recently in Boston University last November and filmed by Democracy Now. Below is the original speech presented [...]
BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: YEMEN - THE RETURN OF OLD GHOSTS
Adam Curtis, the BBC documentary film maker responsible for The Century of Self & The Mayfair Set is writing in his blog about Yemen in the wake of the Underpants bomber story. As he points out in this piece, much of what is happening [...]
Raytheon to close its plant in Derry | The Irish Times
THE US defence software company Raytheon confirmed yesterday that it is to close its plant at Springtown in Derry following several years of anti-war protests inside and outside its premises.
A representative for the Derry Anti-War Coalition, which organised the protests claiming the Derry plant was [...]
As you are probly know if you are a funky culture vulture with your fingers in the pulses, peoples everywhere are rave about the new blue movie Atavar, by Irish director James Cameron, mostly because it is in three dimensions, going not only up and down the screen and both ways across the screen but [...]
Europe’s OK; the euro isn’t - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com
Paul Krugman on why the Euro was a bad idea:
Europe lacks both the centralized fiscal system and the high labor mobility. (Yes, some workers move, but not nearly on the US scale).
To be sure, America has at least minor-league versions of the same problems: we [...]
The Theory Strikes Back | afoe | A Fistful of Euros | European Opinion
P.O'Neill quotes FT's Martin Wolf on that bad Euro idea and the trouble for Ireland (and other less powerful EU economies):
But instead of belaboring this point, take a look at another superb Martin Wolf column in the FT and his bracing conclusion [...]
New Statesman | David Blanchflower | Hold on tight, it’s the double-dip
But why has the UK labour market outperformed the US, where unemployment has risen to over 10 per cent? Wages are not more flexible in the UK and the shock has been greater over here, because of the relatively large size of the financial [...]
The half-page, feature length article by Peter Sherwell about the current situation in Venezuela that appeared in The Sunday Telegraph on 29th November follows an established pattern of unsympathetic and negative reporting in European and North American media, some of it touched on in my book Chávez: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. While this [...]
In the last post, I suggested that some of the arguments regarding the relative poverty measurement were starting to be answered. Now let’s start some new arguments - but, as always, in a positive way; namely, how much tax do those on high incomes pay and is it enough or too much.
For some time, many [...]
In the immediate aftermath of World War Two, as awareness of the horrific atrocities inflicted by the Nazi regime on Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and the disabled filtered out, there was widespread international agreement that systems and structures should be put in place to prevent future recurrence of such barbarity. One pillar of these efforts was [...]
