Friday, Jan 27th 2012
Below is Hugh Green’s penultimate post on The Punishment of Sloth. Here’s the final one. We look forward to more words and translations from him where ever, and how ever they may appear. Many thanks for allowing us to publish this post here.
On his excellent blog La pupila insomne, Cuban blogger Iroel Sánchez Espinosa collected [...]
This piece was written by Alison Spillane and Adam Larragy and appeared originally on Politico.ie today.
Today, EBS will pay €42,305,476 to senior unsecured bondholders - most probably large financial institutions. These bonds, one €40,000,000 and one €2,305,476, are not covered by any of the guarantee schemes introduced by the Irish government. It is [...]
Book Review:Diary of an Escape - Antonio Negri (Polity Press, 2010)
“The recent days have shown the enormous gap that exists between our capacity to produce truth and the court’s inert expression of its unbelievable desire to repress it.”
Antonio Negri.
A discussion of truth in any situation may well be defined as a paradox. Truth - [...]
Serge Halimi in Le Monde Diplomatique | Europe’s wakeup call
The economic, and democratic, crisis in Europe raises questions. Why were policies that were bound to fail adopted and applied with exceptional ferocity in Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Greece? Are those responsible for pursuing these policies mad, doubling the dose every time their medicine predictably fails [...]
It is time to draw a line under my 30 year membership of the Labour Party. It is past time actually, as I have not been active at branch or constituency level for the past 15 years. There were many reasons for this, including the demands of my academic job. I did remain active politically, [...]
Emerging markets warn IMF over fresh Greek loan plan
Michael Burke points to this FT article, and argues “As the BRIC representatives say, the cuts are too harsh and the losses for bondholders too small. Politically, as well as economically, the rise of the BRICs is a major benefit. Progressive forces in Europe (including Britain) and [...]
Anders Behring Breivik had no legitimate grievance | Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin
In a Comment is Free post in the Guardian Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin explore the rhetoric being generated since Anders Behring Breivik’s Norway massacre which seeks to explain the violence of the attacks as a result of the “corrosion of Europe by [...]
Questions that should be put to the Minister | Michael Taft
Michael Taft on progressive-economy.ie has some questions that Phil Hogan should answer on the universal 100 euro a year household charge, which the minister says he can’t even promise will remain at that figure over the next two years it will be imposed.
One question [...]
How to judge the nth European agreement ”to save Greece” stipulated on Thursday 21st July? The financial markets have already provided their verdict: on Friday 22 the spread between the Italian ten-years Treasury Bonds and the German Bunds was still 258 basic points (2,58%), a level unsustainable for the Italian public finances. The next week begun [...]
Shell to Sea have called a Day of Action for Friday 29th July to protest against Shell commencing work on the Corrib site.
Dublin Shell to Sea have organised a bus to Mayo, leaving Dublin at 6PM on Thursday 28th July from the Writers Museum on Parnell Sq and returning on Friday evening (early). A seat will cost [...]
