A selection of testimony from non-survivors I held my son’s head under the water until he drowned, so that he wouldn’t die alone out there. Also, the screaming is not something you would want a…
Monthly Archives For July 2012
Hundreds of Garda deployed to protect Shell’s machine from the people of Ireland
Hundreds of Garda deployed to protect Shell’s machine from the people of Ireland Shell to Sea were out last night filming the massive police presence protecting what no doubt the Irish state and Shell would…
Merkel’s Risky Weapons Exports
Merkel’s Risky Weapons Exports Although it escaped public notice, the German government was also trying within NATO to compile a list of non-member states with whom arms deals should be allowed for strategic reasons. Having…
ANGLO IRISH BANK: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SHOW
[This opinion piece originally appeared in the Cork Evening Echo print edition, Thursday 26 July 2012.] There is a €2,000 penalty for the false use of an emergency button on a Dublin Luas tram. Press…
The ruins of empire: Asia’s emergence from western imperialism | Pankaj Mishra
The ruins of empire: Asia’s emergence from western imperialism | Pankaj Mishra Clearly, it would help if no Asian or African voices interrupt this intellectual and moral onanism. Astonishing as it may seem, there is…
The negative yield danger
The negative yield danger | Chris Dillow Which brings us to a paradox. Although it’s widely thought that the world has too much debt, in one sense our problems are the result of too little…
Adieu to Alexander Cockburn
It has been sad, though not altogether surprising, to find no reportage in the mainstream Irish media of the death of the brilliant Scottish/Irish/American journalist, Alexander Cockburn, who died of cancer last weekend at the…
It’s the People’s Oil, Not the Corporations’
The announcement of a significant oil find in the Barryroe field off the Cork coast, along with the many other discoveries of oil, gas, and precious metals, emphasises once again the case for these and…
No vacation for the euro | Michael Roberts
No vacation for the euro | Michael Roberts Michael Roberts on the continuing sweating of the Euro, the trouble in Spain and Italy and the signal now that support for Greece is going to be…
Another Day in the Spin Factory
It is hard work tracking the real impact of a Government announcement, rather than relying on press handouts, Departmental briefing notes and Ministerial statements. Take the Government’s Infrastructure Stimulus announcement last week: €2.25 billion, 13,000 jobs,…
A Few Words about the 2012 Summer Edition of The Stinging Fly
In the editorial of the 2012 summer edition of the Irish literary magazine The Stinging Fly guest editor Dave Lordan reminds us of writing’s inglorious history – its bureaucratic origins in the formation of empire…
Coca-Cola to pay tax shock, but big questions remain about Olympic tax swindle
Coca-Cola to pay tax shock, but big questions remain about Olympic tax swindle According to Britain’s New Statesman magazine: “On Wednesday McDonald’s bowed to furious online petitioners, saying that the revenue from the games would only…
Spain’s MoU Dealing with the Symptom and Not the Cause
The Spanish newspaper El Pais has a story today on a version of Spain’s rescue package for the banks which has only been made available in Germany and the Netherlands but not in Spain. In…
How Delaware Thrives as a Corporate Tax Haven
How Delaware Thrives as a Corporate Tax Haven When it comes to massive tax avoidance by cash rich mega corporations (currently US non-financial corporations hold $4.8 trillion in liquid assets according to the IRS), all…
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