What the Arab peoples signify to us | Jean-Luc Nancy As William Wall mentions on the facebook link for this article by Jean-Luc Nancy, on what the Arab revolutions mean for everyone across the world…….
Monthly Archives For March 2011
Paul Mason at the Left Forum 2011 Opening Plenary
Paul Mason at the Left Forum 2011 Opening Plenary You might know him as the ‘mainstream’ public service journalist from Newsnight, but Mason, author Meltdown, also calls himself a Labour Historian. He wrote Live Working…
DebtIreland.org | Development Organisations Challenge Ireland on Tax Justice
DebtIreland.org | Development Organisations Challenge Ireland on Tax Justice Poor countries are being robbed of tax revenue and Ireland is not doing enough to stop the theft, according to 6 leading global development organisations. At…
Cash-for-amendments scandal just the tip of the iceberg
New rules needed to curb power of corporate lobbyists in the European Parliament Unleashing one of the biggest lobbying scandals in EU history, the Sunday Times has in the last two weeks exposed four MEPs…
Letter to Dominique Strauss-Kahn and José Manuel Barroso ahead of Iceland national referendum
Thanks to Helga Thordardottir for sending a copy of a letter sent to Dominique Strauss-Kahn and José Manuel Barroso ahead of the national referendum in Iceland on April 9th. This letter is being sent on…
UK holding back progress on global financial stability, says nef | the new economics foundation
UK holding back progress on global financial stability, says nef | the new economics foundation The report, Subverting Safer Finance by think-tank nef (the new economics foundation), reveals that compared with other major financial centres,…
BBC – Adam Curtis Blog: GOODIES AND BADDIES
BBC – Adam Curtis Blog: GOODIES AND BADDIES Adam Curtis has a story to tell about humanitarian intervention. Now its Libya, but the story has come to dominate modern ‘power’ politics. Each chapter is well…
March for the Alternative | Dan Hind | The Return of the Public
March for the Alternative | Dan Hind | The Return of the Public In this piece on the March for the Alternative Dan Hind points out that there’s not much of an alternative provided in…
Economist Debates: Arab revolutions: This house believes that the West should keep out of the Arab world's revolutions
Economist Debates: Arab revolutions: This house believes that the West should keep out of the Arab world’s revolutions Debate between As'ad AbuKhalil, Professor of political science, California State University, Stanislaus who is defending the motion,…
Irish house prices – the story so far and the near term outlook « NAMA Wine Lake
Irish house prices – the story so far and the near term outlook « NAMA Wine Lake NAMA Wine Lake looks at the drops in house prices and the likelihood that the Central Bank of…
Irish bank AIB now landlord of Stuyvesant Town in New York | Kelly's Corner | IrishCentral
Irish bank AIB now landlord of Stuyvesant Town in New York | Kelly’s Corner | IrishCentral BlackRock, the company employed by the Central Bank of Ireland to conduct the stress tests to be announced today,…
Thoughts on Libya and liberal interventionism | Mike Marqusee
Thoughts on Libya and liberal interventionism | Mike Marqusee The incompatibility between democratic development and great power intervention may seem obvious but it seems to escape the liberal interventionists. Their approach is ahistorical, as if…
The European Workers’ Movement: Dangers and Challenges
With the onset of the world economic crisis, the European workers’ movement finds itself in a new phase, one that is replete with dangers and challenges. It is important to underline that we are in…
Tesco and the Stitch-Up Called Competition
Tesco admits to price manipulation – increasing the price of products before reducing them again as part of a price promotion. I’m shocked. Checkout magazine claimed that Tesco, rather than engaging in ‘price-cutting competition’, actually…