Pirooz Daneshmandi interviews Tom McDonnell, economic policy analyst with TASC on the state of the economy, how we got here and what alternatives are available to the Government.
In the interview Tom talks about the TASC discussion paper ‘The Debt and Banking Crisis: Progressive Approaches for Europe and Ireland’, which he wrote and about possible solutions [...]

Gideon Levy is a veteran journalist and columnist with the liberal Israeli daily, Ha’aretz. Along with Amira Hass, he is one of the few Israeli journalists - one of the few Western journalists - to take a long term interest in the Gaza Strip. His book The Punishment of Gaza is a valuable collection [...]

Pirooz Daneshmandi talks to Denis Halliday, the Irish peace activists and former UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq (September 1, 1997 to 1998). A 34-year veteran of the UN, Halliday resigned in 1998 over the economic sanctions imposed on Iraq, characterizing them as “genocide”.
In the interview Halliday discusses his reasons for resigning as Humanitarian Coordinator in [...]

Pirooz Daneshmandi talks to Kathleen Lynch, Professor of Equality Studies at U.C.D in an interview which was originally broadcast on Near FM on the 20th of April.
Pirooz discusses the topic of Professor Lynch’s book Equality: From Theory to Action, as well as broader issues of equality in a neoliberal society, the marketisation of education and [...]

Here’s Pirooz Daneshmandi’s Near FM interview with Noam Chomsky, which aired on the 1st of March 2011. In it Chomsky explains his analysis of the causes of the current economic crisis and how to avoid a future one as well as the recent uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, the wars in Iraq [...]

Following the Tsunami that hit the Irish economy, Professor Leo Panitch provides an analysis of the causes and consequences from a Marxist perspective.
Leo Panitch is the author of many books, including the recent In and Out of Crisis and Renewing Socialism and is a Distinguished Research Professor at York University. He also co-edits the Socialist [...]

At least since late 18th century, equality has been formally one of the social, political and economic objectives on the agenda of any society that has any claim to “civilisation”. This has, of course, not been without difficulty.
After all, those who are at the top of an unequal society don’t give up their wealth and [...]

There is no doubt that the current crisis in Ireland, and internationally, has major implications not just for the economy but socially and politically as well. However, in Ireland at least, there are no signs that policy makers have grasped the full extent of the problem yet.
It appears that the main pre-occupation is still how [...]