Thursday, Feb 9th 2012
Update: Twitter is a very fast way of getting updates on the situation today. You can follow ILR updates based on what we’re seeing on our twitter page @irishleftreview.
Advise from Raymond Deane, if you want to do something about the Israeli attack on the Gaza Flotilla.
I’d say ring Foreign Affairs and demand action - [...]
Book Review: Max Lane, Unfinished Nation: Indonesia before and after Suharto, Verso, 2008
There was a time when everyone seemed to be talking about Indonesia. Well, they were talking about it on Joe Duffy and Pat Kenny at least, and that’s as near as makes no difference in this country. As East Timor voted to extricate [...]
Danielle Sabai | Thailand: A point of No Return
In an article written on the 16th of May 2010, Danielle Sabai provides a comprehensive account of recent Thai political history, and a thorough and compelling analysis of the current trouble between the Abhisit government and the Red Shirt Movement, which are described as “a political movement [...]
Despite pledges on the part of donor countries in 1970 to spend 0.7% of GNP on official development assistance (ODA), this target is still proving elusive 40 years later. However, many would argue that ODA is not the best way to tackle poverty and its attendant ills - the solution is increased global trading. By [...]
Contra errores Graecorum, ad Urbanum IV Pontificem Maximum (Against the Errors of the Greeks, to Pope Urban IV) is a short treatise written in 1263 by Roman Catholic theologian Saint Thomas Aquinas as a contribution to Pope Urban’s efforts at reunion with the Eastern Church. This work engendered a whole series of responses and European [...]
A comment on the EU’s new strategy
Sometimes no news is not good news - and this is certainly the case as far as Europe 2020 - the European Union‘s proposal for a new overarching strategy is concerned. Most of it copies the Lisbon Strategy, adopted in March 2000, and if you think the past decade [...]
In 1975, the victorious Viet Minh entered Saigon, the capital of the South, following a 30 year struggle against a range of international forces. For the first time, since its occupation by France in the late 19th century, Viet Nam was independent and no longer subject to the dictates of foreign powers.
However, while the lengthy [...]
The following is my translation of an article by Tasos Iliadakis, first published on January 25 2010 in the daily paper ‘The Country’ in Crete.
- all those who forget the past cannot have a future
A. The background
During the early 1940s, Berlin, in order to have financial means of securing its strategic objectives in the Balkans, [...]
A European country that scapegoats a Semitic people, persecutes defenders of human rights by stripping them of employment, and denies freedom of speech to Jews: surely a description of Germany during the Third Reich?
Yes, but unfortunately also a description of Germany at the outset of the 21st century.
In the wake of German Chancellor Merkel’s craven speech [...]
In the aftermath of an earthquake that devastated the slum-cities of Haiti, there has been a strong influx of foreign money and troops, apparently to help rebuild the poverty-stricken country. However, we should note that many of the countries that have been to the fore in expressing their altruistic intentions are those which are most [...]
