Friday, Jan 27th 2012
The new edition of Look Left is available in all good bookshops now -well, those willing to stock it - including an article by me, no less. An important edition to read I think, as Ireland’s corporate neo-liberal foot soldiers frog march us towards economic oblivion. Friend them on Facebook.
The editorial of the new edition [...]
The Reykjavik Grapevine | Information Without Borders?
Excellent article on Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (IMMI) which is designed to make Iceland a safe-haven for whistleblowers. One organiser Smári McCarthy, a former Wikileaks volunteer describes Wikileaks as the crowbar that has opened the floodgates. "Now I don’t have to explain that anymore. Now I just have to [...]
Egypt’s Autocrats Exploited Internet’s Weaknesses - NYTimes.com
Interesting level of detail on how the Egyptian government cut off the internet….
"The attack in Egypt relied on a double knockout, the engineers say. As in many authoritarian countries, Egypt’s Internet must connect to the outside world through a tiny number of international portals that are tightly in the [...]
Book Review: Sarah Clancy: Stacey and the Mechanical Bull. Lapwing Press, Belfast 2010.
Sarah Clancy is interviewed by Dave Lordan below
It’s rare enough to go come across a volume of poetry that wouldn’t render you catatonic with boredom, but Sarah Clancy’s isn’t one of those. It pokes you in the eye repeatedly and kicks you in [...]
This weekend I read the Sunday Business Post with some eagerness. Here would be the answers I required, that many require, about the bailouts, both the banking one and the ECB/IMF one - which aren’t quite the same thing as is all too apparent, and what is and isn’t possible.
Let’s start with the analysis.
In a [...]
Olivier Roy - This is not an Islamic revolution
An excellent piece on Islam and the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions by Olivier Roy, one of Europe's foremost thinkers on Islam. He affirms that political Islam will have a role to play in the development of both countries but also argues that it is by now defanged [...]
Juan Cole: Fear Not the Muslim Brotherhood Boogeyman - Juan Cole’s Columns - Truthdig
The United States has actively promoted Muslim Brotherhood branches in other countries when it suited its purposes, including in Afghanistan and Iraq. Moreover, the Turkish and Indonesian cases of democratic transition in the Muslim world should have taught us something about how [...]
Key Trends in the World Economy: The central date for China’s GDP to overtake the US at market exchange rates is 2019 - a study of growth assumptions and analyses
When Goldman Sachs first suggested that China’s GDP would exceed that of the US by 2041 this caused surprise (Wilson & Purushothaman, 2003). When Goldman Sachs [...]
Dean Baker: Finance Myths
Clearly there is more to the story of the current worldwide economic slump than the flame out of Bear Stearns, Lehman, and AIG. But the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC), tasked by Congress with determining the causes of that slump, isn't giving us the more complete picture.
The problems with the FCIC's report, [...]
Commission sued for privileged access | Corporate Europe Observatory
A fuller article from Corporate Europe Observer about their case against the EU Commission. They accuse the EU of a lack of transparency with regard to the disclosers they made to Corporate lobby groups such as Business Europe when negotiating how the EU would trade with India.
What [...]
