Si. Is the Future King of Lyon! I am watching with disgust and pleasure the vaguely general striking in France yesterday. Did you see it? Was all most very amusing and also a big disgrace….
Monthly Archives For January 2009
January 28th Afternoon: The Recession Diaries
I had intended to treat each of the offerings in the Irish Times ‘What is to be Done’ series individually, hoping that they would provide us with new, innovative ideas. Boy, did I call that…
Don’t tell the children… that public address to the nation… and… joy in heaven for ever sinner who repents (even just a little).
I like John Gormley, I genuinely do. He’s one of our more thoughtful and sensible politicians. That he sits at the Cabinet table, even in the current circumstances, is no bad thing, whatever about the…
January 27th Morning: The Recession Diaries
It really is surreal. Hundreds of jobs are going in the banking sector, Retail Excellence Ireland warns that 25,000 jobs could be lost in the first quarter. The economy is turning in on itself. And…
January 25th Evening: The Recession Diaries
So, the Irish Times is going to treat us to a series of articles from our leading economists over the next few days. They must be serious as they are using Lenin’s ‘What is to…
Is The Art of War!
Is the perfect Christmas gift: A book of war posters! I was not having the space or the time last week to discuss another of my Christmas present which my inconsiderate brother Hornolo give for…
January 22nd Afternoon: The Recession Diaries
Finally, some good ol’ fashioned common sense is being spoken – and in the Irish Times, as well. Prionsias Breathnach of NUI Maynooth takes on calls for wage cuts head on. He does this through this time-tested process of…
Brenda Power writes about the funeral of Tony Gregory in the Sunday Times. She shouldn’t have.
Last weekend, the Sunday Times published an article by Brenda Power entitled: TD’s funeral shamed him about the recent funeral of Independent TD, Tony Gregory. The article has forced me to put together a few…
January 20th Lunchtime: The Recession Diaries
Enough is enough. Nationalise the banks. Nationalise them now. A midnight strike. Put us and the economy out of our miseries. And start the long road back, if not to recovery, then at least to…
The American Conservative — Another War, Another Defeat
The American Conservative — Another War, Another Defeat John Mearsheimer, author of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, on the motives behind Israel’s mobilisation in Gaza. He correctly observes that Israel is locking itself…
January 19th Morning: The Recession Diaries
My oh my. My assertion that Ireland is a low-waged economy and that public sector wage cuts will have little impact has generated a lot of comments, some of them challenging my contention and the…
The Crisis in Gaza: An Interview with Gilbert Achcar
Gilbert Achcar lived in Lebanon for many years. He is now Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. He is the author of many books analysing politics and society in…
Will Palestine Always Be The Issue?
Last week, in interview with a More 4 journalist, Mark Regev, one of Ehud Olmert’s spokespeople, admitted that Israel knew and had officially recorded the fact that Hamas had not broken the ceasefire between the…
En Busca del Tiempo Perdido
Those were the days, my friend! There is a well-known story in the apocryphal Gospel According to Saint Shaznay, which tell how, one day, when Our Lord Jesus was just 12 years old, Our Lady…
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- Notes for a Book on Money and the Irish State - The Marshall Aid Program April 2, 2016Ireland’s Economy: Radio Eireann talks on Ireland’s part in the Marshall Plan. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1949 [official/government publication] NLI: OPIE X 26.A Forward by the Taoiseach Mr. John A. Costello S.C., T.D. (pp.1-2) Since its inception European Economic Co-operation has done much towards restoring European economic solvency and has challenged the forces which have been […]Conor McCabe
- The Financial Crisis:What Have We Learnt? August 29, 2015I start teaching a level one (introduction level) module in UCD Monday Week on the Financial Crisis. As always, I’ll post what I can here to share it with activists and progressives. This is a short audio I’m putting up for the students to give them a sense of where the module is coming from. […]Conor McCabe
- Money in 35,000 Words or Less August 22, 2015I’ve been asked to write a short book on money. The manuscript is due in the end of April 2016. As with most things I do with political economy and education I’ll be posting stuff here as I go along. I just find it an interesting way of working through ideas, concepts and analysis. Anyway, […]Conor McCabe
- THE WRATH OF KANE: BANKING CRISES AND POLITICAL POWER January 30, 2015I’ll be writing more about this at the weekend but I think this is a good standalone clip from evidence to the banking inquiry given by Prof. Ed Kane on Wednesday 28 Jan 2015. He was asked by Deputy Pearse Doherty to elaborate on the statement below which was made in a paper that […]Conor McCabe