How To Repudiate The Debt?

Invitation to a citizens’ think-in
The ongoing crisis in this country over the socialising of the banks’ debts and the imposition of the EU/IMF package have engendered widespread popular indignation and anger - but so far no concerted popular opposition from citizens has emerged.
However, recent examples - from the UKUncut movement to [...]

A Land Fit for Falangists!
“This is our country. This is our journey. Yes, we are in times without precedent but I believe that for Ireland this current crisis is the darkest hour before the dawn, that we have a generational lightness of soul, that in the long Hibernian nights on the western edge of Europe [...]

It is often said that a definition of insanity is to do the same action over and over again, each time expecting a different result. In that case, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), Ireland’s single-largest creditor, is a 21st century Bedlam.
Originally set up as a temporary measure, the EFSF was created in June 2010 [...]

IPSC Open Letter to Bob Geldof: Do not choose the side of the Israeli oppressor
Issued: Wednesday 23rd March 2011
Dear Bob Geldof,
Your decision to accept an honorary doctorate from Israel’s Ben-Gurion University (BGU) has come as a shock to many of those who respect your humanitarian activities. Before you travel to Israel, there are a number [...]

I’m updating this article which was first published on November 22nd 2008 and reposting it after the publishing of the final report of the Moriarty Tribunal. I felt it was necessary to complete Denis O’Brien’s story as related here, particularly as this article is getting a bit of attention today due to google searches for [...]

A copy of the following letter has been sent by a small Icelandic group campaigning in advance of the forthcoming referendum on the terms of  the Icesave deal with Britain and the Netherlands to several officials within the EU and EFTA as well as to the ministeries of Britain, Holland and Iceland to whom this [...]

It’s open season on public sector workers again. The Sunday Independent has a front-page shock-horror headline - €1bn pay rise bonanza for public sector. Other commentators and employers’ spokespersons have been having their go’s as well.  But then there’s Stephen Collins. Stephen has a statistic. You’ve been warned:
‘Average earnings in the British [...]

The Economic Costs of Health
The swingeing cuts in health funding that have been - and continue to be - implemented over the past couple of years have seriously debilitated the public health service. Its overall prognosis continues to decline as does the outlook for those of us obliged to avail of its failing facilities. Even [...]

Book Review: Damming the Flood - Haiti and the Politics of Containment, Peter Hallward (Verso, 2nd Edition, Jan 2011).
Haiti is a country largely ignored by the world’s media and public opinion. It needs a catastrophe, whether a hurricane, cholera outbreak or an earthquake, to bring it to the world’s attention. Thus, an image has been [...]

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 [...]