Wednesday, Feb 8th 2012
t r u t h o u t | Zombie Politics and Other Late Modern Monstrosities in the Age of Disposability
With the cruelest of ironies, zombie politics and culture invoke life as they promote death and human suffering. For example, zombie politicians who oppose the welfare state, health care reforms, investing in a quality education [...]
Zombie Zeitgeist | Why Undead Corpses Are Dominating at the Box Office
"In fact, I'll go out on a severed limb and take it further: If zombies specifically represent the apocalyptic downsides of immortalized mindlessness, then today's zombie zeitgeist is not merely a result of scary quandaries created by stupidity. It is a reaction to both [...]
Bad science | Climate change? Well, we’ll be dead by then
"Among all these, reigning supreme, is the "zombie argument": arguments which survive to be raised again, for eternity, no matter how many times they are shot down. "Homeopathy worked for me," and the rest.
Zombie arguments survive, immortal and resistant to all refutation, because they do [...]
Trade Union TV from Budget day at the Dail
Protests took place all day on December 9th 2009 outside the Dail while the Fianna Fail / Green / Independents’ voted to savage public services and the pay of Public sector workers while letting the rich off. Hundreds took part in rolling protests through the day and [...]
Sinead Pentony | Why no standard-rating pension tax relief in Budget 2010?
TASC Statement on the failure of the government to bring in standard-rating pension tax relief in Budget 2010.
“TASC has proposed standard-rating pension tax relief – which disproportionately benefits higher earners – and using the resulting savings of around €1 billion per annum to universalise [...]
It’s budget day and all Irish eyes will be focused on Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan’s Dail speech to find out exactly what is being cut, by how much and to what extent living standards will be reduced. The Irish government is playing a long game, they say, by putting the pain up front and [...]
Irish Election » Tell Them to Expel the Papal Nuncio!
We want you to tell the Minister and your local TD exactly how you feel about the behaviour of the Vatican toward the investigation.
Fill out the form below either leaving our template letter (which will look like this in the email) or drafting your own comments. [...]
The Real News | Honduran Elections Exposed
Honduran coup regime’s claims of more than 60% participation in free and fair election revealed as fraud
Padraig Yeats | Dublin Review of Books | The Lost Revolution
This book is the best so far on Irish paramilitaries and radical republicanism. It is essential reading for everyone on the Irish left, a small constituency granted, but one that is growing once more in the current crisis.
The book’s main practical value is as a [...]
RealClimate: Unsettled Science
“The reason why no scientist has said [that climate science is settled] is because they know full well that knowledge about science is not binary – science isn’t either settled or not settled. This is a false and misleading dichotomy. Instead, we know things with varying degrees of confidence – for instance, conservation [...]
