Friday, Jan 27th 2012
What the Arab peoples signify to us | Jean-Luc Nancy
As William Wall mentions on the facebook link for this article by Jean-Luc Nancy, on what the Arab revolutions mean for everyone across the world….
A beautiful piece of writing, beautifully translated…
It was published in in Libération on the 28th March, 2011. Translated by Gilbert [...]
Paul Mason at the Left Forum 2011 Opening Plenary
You might know him as the ‘mainstream’ public service journalist from Newsnight, but Mason, author Meltdown, also calls himself a Labour Historian. He wrote Live Working or Die Fighting: How The Working Class Went Global , and in this talk, informed by his work at the coalface [...]
DebtIreland.org | Development Organisations Challenge Ireland on Tax Justice
Poor countries are being robbed of tax revenue and Ireland is not doing enough to stop the theft, according to 6 leading global development organisations. At a Dublin launch of a new book on the issue, ‘Driving the Getaway Car? Ireland, Tax and Development’, written on [...]
New rules needed to curb power of corporate lobbyists in the European Parliament
Unleashing one of the biggest lobbying scandals in EU history, the Sunday Times has in the last two weeks exposed four MEPs who had agreed to table amendments to change an EU law in return for promised payments. In a sting operation, undercover [...]
Thanks to Helga Thordardottir for sending a copy of a letter sent to Dominique Strauss-Kahn and José Manuel Barroso ahead of the national referendum in Iceland on April 9th.
This letter is being sent on the initiative of Gunnar Tómasson, IMF Advisor (ret.), and several other Icelanders to Mr. Dominique Strauss-Khan, Managing Director of the International [...]
UK holding back progress on global financial stability, says nef | the new economics foundation
The report, Subverting Safer Finance by think-tank nef (the new economics foundation), reveals that compared with other major financial centres, including the US, the UK is part of the problem in key areas of financial reform, rather than leading the search [...]
BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: GOODIES AND BADDIES
Adam Curtis has a story to tell about humanitarian intervention. Now its Libya, but the story has come to dominate modern ‘power’ politics. Each chapter is well known, Biafra, Bosnia, Afganistan, Iraq… read on….and watch as he includes lots of great clips from old BBC documentaries. Remember though, [...]
March for the Alternative | Dan Hind | The Return of the Public
In this piece on the March for the Alternative Dan Hind points out that there’s not much of an alternative provided in the Trade Union led campaign.
“The Labour party the unions created now believes that there is no alternative to a financialised economy [...]
Economist Debates: Arab revolutions: This house believes that the West should keep out of the Arab world’s revolutions
Debate between As'ad AbuKhalil, Professor of political science, California State University, Stanislaus who is defending the motion, and Menzies Campbell, of the UK's Liberal Democrats who is opposing it.
From As'ad AbuKhalil
"Sir Campbell wants Western governments to "nurture [...]
Irish house prices – the story so far and the near term outlook « NAMA Wine Lake
NAMA Wine Lake looks at the drops in house prices and the likelihood that the Central Bank of Ireland's Baseline Scenario, which is intended to model the worst possible anticipated outcome, of a final drop of 60% from peak [...]
