Friday, Jan 27th 2012
IPSC Open Letter to Bob Geldof: Do not choose the side of the Israeli oppressor
Issued: Wednesday 23rd March 2011
Dear Bob Geldof,
Your decision to accept an honorary doctorate from Israel’s Ben-Gurion University (BGU) has come as a shock to many of those who respect your humanitarian activities. Before you travel to Israel, there are a number [...]
I’m updating this article which was first published on November 22nd 2008 and reposting it after the publishing of the final report of the Moriarty Tribunal. I felt it was necessary to complete Denis O’Brien’s story as related here, particularly as this article is getting a bit of attention today due to google searches for [...]
Branko Milanovic | Inequality and the Global Crisis
To go to the origins of the crisis, one needs to go to rising income inequality within practically all countries in the world, and the United States in particular, over the last thirty years. In the United States, the top 1 percent of the population doubled its share [...]
A copy of the following letter has been sent by a small Icelandic group campaigning in advance of the forthcoming referendum on the terms of the Icesave deal with Britain and the Netherlands to several officials within the EU and EFTA as well as to the ministeries of Britain, Holland and Iceland to whom this [...]
Tax Research UK » The big issue in the Budget is growth
Richard Murphy tells us that George Osborne’s budget will be an attack on growth…
“The real deal is that tax revenues in the year will be as much as £4 billion more than expected - 75% of it income tax. In other words, Labour’s policy [...]
It’s open season on public sector workers again. The Sunday Independent has a front-page shock-horror headline - €1bn pay rise bonanza for public sector. Other commentators and employers’ spokespersons have been having their go’s as well. But then there’s Stephen Collins. Stephen has a statistic. You’ve been warned:
‘Average earnings in the British [...]
Aristide Returns | Dan Coughlin | The Nation
Dan Coughlin who covered Haiti for Inter Press Service from the UN and Port-au-Prince from 1992 to 1996 discusses the significance of Aristide's return
Aristide’s return, which threatens the resurgent neo-Duvalierist movement and represents a victory for the popular movement, changes the political equation, according to many grassroots activists.
The [...]
Progressive Tax Blog - Why Ireland is an EU corporate tax haven
In 2009, investment in the IFSC rose to approximately €1,800 billion. The report says: “much of the inward IFSC investment involves the movement of capital by multinational companies to subsidiaries in the IFSC that is re-invested overseas”
The amount of IFSC investment and the [...]
The Economic Costs of Health
The swingeing cuts in health funding that have been - and continue to be - implemented over the past couple of years have seriously debilitated the public health service. Its overall prognosis continues to decline as does the outlook for those of us obliged to avail of its failing facilities. Even [...]
stopwar.org.uk | Arguments against the Libyian airstrikes
"Western bombs are now raining down on Libya. The stated aim is to prevent Gaddafi from massacring his own people. We all want Gaddafi overthrown, dead or alive. In both his anti-Western and pro-Western incarnations, his record is that of a brutal and unquestionably slightly unhinged dictator. But even [...]
