Lisbon Treaty Whup-Ass
The problem with the various campaigns around the Lisbon Treaty is that in order to get a simple message across to a wide audience you have to reduce a complicated topic to a simple black and white argument. However, simplification does not mean basic distortion, like using a dodgy doctored photo originally used [...]

A Doubtful Egg: One Of Those “No Way” Moments (III)
A friend of mine recommended that I should visit the parish church in Ballymurn if I wanted to see something rather surprising. So off I went one fine day, and while wandering about the inside of the church I noticed a modern stained-glass window behind the [...]

Morgan Kelly to Appear for ACC in Zoe High Court Hearing
According to the Irish Times the UCD economist Morgan Kelly has provided an affidavit for ACC in their case against Zoe Development’s second attempt in the High Court to appoint an examiner.
However, it is the evidence being provided by the Zoe side that [...]

Oliver Miles | Playing politics with Libya and Lockerbie
Miles has a well reasoned post on CIF, saying that politicians are using the Megrahi release scandal to suit their own ends. He argue that there was no quid pro quo behind Jack Straw’s decision to drop the paragraph excluding Megrahi from the Prisioner Transfer Agreement with [...]

Christopher Hayes | The Secret Government
"It is now clear that we are facing an implacable enemy whose avowed objective is world domination by whatever means and at whatever cost. There are no rules in such a game. Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply. If the United States is to survive, long-standing American [...]

Patrick Cockburn | The Truth About The Afghan Election
President Hamid Karzai is not particularly popular, but as the incumbent he in a strong position, through networks of patronage, to get the support of local and regional king-makers such as warlords, chiefs of police, shuras (local councils), religious, tribal and ethnic leaders. What foreign reporting of [...]

Compass | Iceland Will Pay What It Can Afford
Recent events in Iceland may have completed that countries transformation from free market, credit-fuelled billionaire playground to champion underdog. The Icelandic Parliament’s offer to the UK and Dutch governments earlier this week that it will pay back its debts but only at a level it can afford, [...]

Real News | The Afghan Chessboard
Pepe Escobar says that the Afghan presidential election is largely designed to legitimize the US and NATO occupation of parts of the country not controlled by the Taliban. But in order to establish an energy corridor from the Caspian to South Asia, bypassing Russia, Escobar argues, the grand American strategy [...]