OK, so according to the Sunday Times Behavioural and attitudes Survey on the 22nd April 50% of the electorate/those intending to vote (not sure which) in the upcoming Fiscal Compact referendum apparently do not fully…
Monthly Archives For April 2012
The ECB and the Fiscal Compact Treaty Referendum
Jim Stewart has an excellent post on Progressive Economy which suggests that inadvertently the recent talk given by the Executive Director of the ECB, Jörg Asmussen to the IIEA in Dublin provided plenty of grounds for voting…
The “Stability Treaty” Video | A CounterSpin Collective Remix
The “Stability Treaty” Video | A CounterSpin Collective Remix A CounterSpin Collective remix of the Irish Government’s information video on the upcoming referendum on the so called “Stability Treaty”. We reject the idea that any…
It’s a No vote until Ireland starts to support the development of the indigenous sector
It’s a No vote until Ireland starts to support the development of the indigenous sector Commenter on the Irish Times website, leaves this below the article where Barry O’Leary, chief executive of IDA Ireland calls…
Without state spending there’d be no Google or GlaxoSmithKline | Mariana Mazzucato
Without state spending there’d be no Google or GlaxoSmithKline | Mariana Mazzucato Where would Google be today without the state-funded investments in the internet, and without the US National Science Foundation (NSF) grant that funded…
The Household Charge – How They Failed to Shape Our Perspectives
“The media…is by far the most powerful agency in shaping people’s perspectives on social and political issues” [Vincent Browne, Irish Times, 18/04/12] Discussing the highly concentrated ownership of Irish media on the eve of Gavin O’Reilly’s…
Yes vote to fiscal compact could well prove fatal | Eamon Devoy
Yes vote to fiscal compact could well prove fatal | Eamon Devoy Strong piece here from Eamon Devoy, general secretary of the Technical, Engineering and Electrical Union advocating a No vote in the Austerity Treaty. Once…
Class and Culture: Public Talk, Connolly Books, Sat 28th of April
Fiscal Treaty Files: Where Will We Get the Money If We Vote No?
This following was written with Tom McDonnell, Policy Analyst and Economist with TASC. It originally appeared on Progressive-Economy.ie In our first post, we outlined some of Ireland’s financing alternatives; namely through the IMF and the European…
Acceptable Racism
Apparently the 84-year-old American novelist Cynthia Ozick is favourite to win the “Orange Prize for excellence in fiction written by women” for her novel Foreign Bodies. In an article in the UK Guardian’s series My…
Paul Krugman, Steve Keen and the mysticism of Keynesian economics
Paul Krugman, Steve Keen and the mysticism of Keynesian economics Michael Roberts has a good series of posts on the Austerity debate (here and here), which is basically between the Ricardian Equivalence dudes aka “neoliberals”…
The Minister Speaks from Fantasy Island
Even when presented with cold hard reality, Government ministers refuse to acknowledge it, preferring to live in a fantasy island. Spin is one thing, denial is another. Take Lucinda Creighton on RTE’s This Week programme. She…
The crisis of multiculturalism: Europe’s imaginary friend
The live coverage of Anders Breivik’s trial in Oslo may be highly structured and subject to restrictions, but there is currently significant debate as to whether it nevertheless provides him with a political platform. Breivik…
Austerity To Crush The Labour Movement
The crisis that has brought us to the dire economic situation we face today is not one caused by a few rogue bankers or reckless policy decisions made by successive Finance Ministers. The Elephant in…
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