Thursday, May 24th 2012
Michael Perelman | Occupy Chico State
Good interview with Michael Perleman for his local NPR station which he would have given to a Occupied Chico State teach-in broadcast if the location for the talk hadn’t been locked down due to a ‘bomb scare’. Perelman, who’s the author of the highly recommended Invisible Handcuffs talks about [...]
Justice for Magdalenes group | It’s wrong to appoint Seán Aylward to the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Letter from the Justice for Magdalenes group in the Irish Times about the inappropriateness of appointing former secretary general of the Department of Justice, Seán Aylward to the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of [...]
Martin Wolf | ‘Merkozy’ Failed to Save the Eurozone
Martin Wolf in the Financial Times argues that the Merkozy solution won’t work, as it is doesn’t address the cause of the crisis or the problems within the Eurozone.
Now consider average current account deficits over 1999-2007. On this measure, the most vulnerable countries were Estonia, Portugal, Greece, [...]
Dean Baker provides a simple truth…..
The NYT had a good piece on Ireland’s effort to get back on a solid growth path. At one point it refers to a 5.4 percent rise in exports as an encouraging sign:
“driven by gains from Pfizer, Intel, SAP and other multinational companies that were drawn to Ireland in the 1990s [...]
As we are forced to look at the budget over two days, a particular unnecessary cruelty, it’s worth emphasising, as those in the ULA and Sinn Fein have done, that this is a budget based on political choices. It is depressing to watch seasoned politicans like Pat Rabbitte claim pathetically that if they didn’t make [...]
Gary Younge | Indifferent elites, poverty and police brutality – all reasons to riot in the UK
Four months later the absurdity of the official response to the riots is painfully clear. It took a while. Given the spontaneous, geographically diverse and inchoate nature of these disturbances, there was never a credible single cause. Even if there had been, [...]
It’s Official - Austerity isn’t Working
Michael Burke has some interesting things to say about the 2012 Estimates published over the weekend. Ultimately, the real indicator is not the Estimates, but the General Government Balance which shows that the deficit will be higher next year. Considering that the effect of last year’s austerity budget can be [...]
The vote yesterday to extend the bank guarantee for another year, combined with the reassuring statement from Michael Noonan that its impossible to forecast when the bank guarantee scheme will end, confirms Jim Stewart’s prognosis that the main problem in the EU at the moment is:
“…the prevailing consensus (held for example by the President of the [...]
Update: The Irish Times has apologised….to the Communications Clinic.
And the courage of Broadsheet.ie
The Irish Times publishes an article by Kate Fitzgerald, published anonymously, which they obviously are perfectly happy with. The editor is experienced enough to know which articles or statements need to be vetted by their legal team in order to avoid putting [...]
Block the revolving door: why we need to stop EU officials becoming lobbyists | Alter-eu.org
John Bruton, former Irish Prime Minister and EU ambassador to Washington DC until November 2009 went through the revolving door to become the president of the Dublin-based International Financial Services Centre in September 2010 and later the same year became [...]
