Friday, Feb 3rd 2012
A very valuable report called The Vicious Circle of Social Exclusion and Crime: Ireland’s Disproportionate Punishment of the Poor was launched today by the Irish Penal Reform Trust with Community Platform. The details of the report are outlined below, but there was a couple of examples of the uneven nature of the Irish justice system [...]
I have an article on Politico.ie about the Fiscal Compact Treaty, and how all the economic decisions made by the Irish government are not dictated to them by our “EU masters” but follow the usual power template of Ireland’s “comprador class”.
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The final draft of the Fiscal compact is now available, meaning Irish pundits can no [...]
Ireland has one of the most attractive tax rates for fracking companies in the world
Very important point made by Natural Gas Europe here (posted on Shell to Sea) about the licencing agreement around Shale Gas (Fracking) and needs to be understood in the context of the news today that Tamboran Resources initial exploration in north Leitrim [...]
Conflict of interest is so deeply embedded in Ireland, no one seems to notice
The cops were very swift to close down the demonstration in the NAMA building that Unlock NAMA occupied on Saturday the 28th. They haven’t been as swift though to investigate Anglo Irish Bank. A big blow to that investigation is due, apparently, [...]
Can We Still Write Big Question Sorts of Books? | David Graeber
David Graeber and the model of his ‘popular’ yet scholarly book Debt: The First 5000 Years
So: what was to be the model for a big questions sort of book, and how to write a book that would still be scholarly, but not academic?
This is [...]
Irish ‘SOPA law’ another under the radar attack on digital rights by a craven government pandering far too easily to corporate interests
Very strong and accurate piece from Karlin Lillington in the Irish Times today, making no bones about the motivations behind the changes in copyright law that Sean Sherlock and the Irish government are trying to [...]
Davos dilemma | Michael Roberts
The majority of those at Davos think that Capitalism isn’t working, but don’t feel there is a need to change anything because its working rather well for them. It’s up to those not in the 1% then to change it.
The strategists of capital are attending their annual jamboree in the [...]
There is much to dislike in the former IMF chief economists Peter Boone and Simon Johnson’s prognosis The European Crisis Deepens about the prospects for the Eurozone, particularly one of the three parts of their recommended solution being much deeper austerity for the next 10 years in countries like Ireland. Their assessment is inevitably a [...]
The Promissory Notes | Tom McDonnell
Economist Tom McDonnell of TASC provides a brief primer on IBRC promissory notes, which is available on Slideshare. Click here to view it in it’s own web page.
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Michael Taft talks to Doug Henwood of Left Business Observer about the Irish Economy| 7th of January
Michael Taft talks to Doug Henwood of Behind the News in a detailed 30 minute discussion about the Irish economy which was posted on the 7th of Jan. The second half of the show is given over to a [...]
