‘Sometimes you just have to do the right thing’
“We have no interest in oppressing other people. We are not moved by hatred against any other nation. The … maintenance of a tremendous military arsenal can only be regarded as a focus of danger....
View ArticleInterview with Harry Browne
An interview by Miriam Cotton of Media Bite with the journalist, activist and lecturer Harry Browne, who is also the author of the recently published book ‘Hammered by the Irish’ (Counterpunch and AK...
View ArticleDrowning the Good Guys and Gals
This analysis of our interview with Harry Browne is not a critique of his journalism but rather of the coercive effect on him of the professional, corporate media environment as it seemed evident...
View ArticleRight turn ahead: Ireland, the Lisbon Treaty and the New World Order
This is an analysis of the background to the forthcoming Lisbon Treaty referendum which was originally written for Znet. Here we go again These days in Ireland, people are mostly either a ’Yes’ or a...
View ArticleIrish Examiner Has Made Itself the Sworn Enemy of Public Sector Workers
Everyone knows the Irish Examiner is a Fine Gael newspaper and everyone equally knows that even if Fianna Fail is being obnoxious about public sector workers, Fine Gael would be even worse. The...
View ArticleDid his voters freeze George Lee out?
There’s another angle on the George Lee saga that is as interesting to media watchers as any consideration of whether he was ‘frozen out’ of Fine Gael or a victim of his own ego. Let’s put aside...
View ArticleDenying Parental Rights is a Big Mistake
Reproduced by permission of the Irish Examiner. Ashley Balbirnie of the ISPCC is the latest in a line of people, including Jillian Van Turnhout of the Children’s Rights Alliance (CRA) and Fergus Finlay...
View ArticleHarney Remaining in Dept. of Health Illustrates the Priorities of the Government
Mary Harney has returned from New Zealand where she evidently gave some thought to coming up with another of her straw-man arguments for facing down criticism of her management of the health service....
View ArticleA Curse on the Zombie Establishment
An interview with filmmaker Eamonn Crudden This interview is was originally published on media bite. You can watch the three parts of the Wallets Full of Blood trilogy here: Houses on the Moon , Zombie...
View ArticleStrikes Now!
Does anybody else want to scream in frustration at the intellectually-rationalised paralysis that has the Irish Left by its vitals when it comes to the subject of strikes? Richard McAleavey has written...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....