Olivier Roy – This is not an Islamic revolution An excellent piece on Islam and the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions by Olivier Roy, one of Europe's foremost thinkers on Islam. He affirms that political Islam…
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Religioscope: Tunisia: the advent of liberal Islamism – an interview with Rashid Al-Ghannouchi
Religioscope: Tunisia: the advent of liberal Islamism – an interview with Rashid Al-Ghannouchi Rashid Al-Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisia's Islamist party Ennahdha, returned home from his 22-year exile on Sunday. In this interview he lays…
Cosmopolitan citizenship in the Middle East | openDemocracy
Cosmopolitan citizenship in the Middle East | openDemocracy Superb piece by Sami Zubaida on Ottoman Cosmopolitanism and its sad decline. 'In the popular mind, international relations were conceived in communalist terms: European powers are Christian…
Endgame – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Endgame – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News Noam Sheizaf on the burgeoning support among the Israeli right and settlers for a one-state solution in the West Bank (though not Gaza). Though it doesn't quite…
CIA Man Retracts Claim on Waterboarding | Foreign Policy
CIA Man Retracts Claim on Waterboarding | Foreign Policy John Kiriakou, the former CIA operative who affirmed claims that waterboarding quickly unloosed the tongues of hard-core terrorists, says he didn't know what he was talking…
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www.Syberberg.de Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's work, including his masterpiece Hitler: A Film from Germany, available free to stream or download. A superb collection.
Is aviation security mostly for show?
Is aviation security mostly for show? Bruce Schneier is the United States' foremost security expert and also a voice of sanity and reason in the debate on anti-terrorism measures. Here he correctly argues that terrorism…
Book Review: Le Monde Selon K. by Pierre Péan
When newly elected French president Nicolas Sarkozy named Bernard Kouchner Minister for Foreign Affairs in May 2007 there were few eyebrows raised. It had been an open secret in French political circles for weeks beforehand…
Distorting the Anti-Israeli Protests in Toronto
John Greyson’s entirely reasonable decision to protest the Toronto International Film Festival’s City-to-City spotlight on Tel-Aviv (and the supporting letter from a group of activists, artists and intellectuals such as Naomi Klein, Jane Fonda and…
Count Me Out – Take a stand for church/state separation
Count Me Out – Take a stand for church/state separation Cormac Flynn, Gráinne O’Sullivan and Paul Dunbar have set up this site, which helps lapsed Irish Catholics who want nothing more to do with the…
Letter from Tehran: Can Iran Change?: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Letter from Tehran: Can Iran Change?: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker A lengthy and thorough profile of Iran and its leader. Excellent stuff. Ahmadinejad is a Twelver Shiite and a fervent Mahdist, which means…
Israeli Arabs fear a Gaza backlash as far right prepares for power role | World news | The Observer
Israeli Arabs fear a Gaza backlash as far right prepares for power role | World news | The Observer “The difference between Lieberman and [Austria’s] Jörg Haider and Jean-Marie Le Pen, to whom he has…
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…
YouTube – Rocky Road To Dublin Peter Lennon Documentary
YouTube – Rocky Road To Dublin Peter Lennon Documentary Peter Lennon's 1967 documentary that was effectively banned for decades from RTE. An angry exposé of the stifling de facto theocracy then in place, it competed…
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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