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national / miscellaneous Saturday August 09, 2008 - 16:00 by shane mc loughlin
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Michael Casey, a former chief economist today wrote an article in 'The Irish Times' entitled "Killing the myth that Ireland's wealth has poisoned its values" in which he attempting to dispel the 'myth' that wealth has poisoned Irish peoples values. In response, he is most certainly correct in believing that wealth cannot 'determine' a societies derision of values, but neglects to paint a clearer understanding of how wealth and values converge. In response, it could be argued that wealth opens the door to new 'negative' value thinking as it can close the door to others. Furthermore, as I will show, some of his own comments in the article require further careful consideration. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday August 09, 2008 - 10:25 by Ciaron
9 comments (last - friday october 17, 2008 - 06:51)
Walking through the streets of Dublin, Ireland, after the Paul Kelly's gig http://www.paulkelly.com.au/ last night, I thought I should write this reflection. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday August 09, 2008 - 00:49 by FactSeeker
32 comments (last - thursday august 14, 2008 - 17:58)  3 images  2 video files  1 audio file
Amidst the fog of war, and lack of media on the ground, it's anybody's guess as to what is actually going on there at the minute. It is claimed that Russian aircraft attacked military and other targets in Georgia (Russia denies any such attacks happened, and Georgia claims to have shot down some of the aircraft) and a large number of Russian tanks has crossed the border. Each side claims the other fired the first shot. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday August 07, 2008 - 23:41 by Mark C
10 comments (last - monday july 27, 2009 - 18:23) 1 video file
The mainstream media continues to broadcast sanitised images from embedded reporters that have passed through the official channels in order to lessen the effects of the brutality of the so-called "War on Terror". Below is a collection of images gleaned from the web that show the reality of the "War on Terror", the human cost. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 07, 2008 - 19:01 by Arnold Capp
Idealists and utopians would claim that this phenomenon is the beginning of the disentanglement of the public sphere and political debate from the traditional dominance of political parties, big business, corporate media and vested interests who dictate what can and cannot be discussed, what is relevant and what is news-worthy. The political participation of the ordinary citizen could eventually be conducted entirely through electronic means. Instead of representative government it is suggested in the future technology will enable all citizens to engage in the ongoing political debate. The pattern whereby citizens vote at the end of each government term with paper ballots could be replaced with a form of direct democracy. History would have turned full circle as a global village like the ancient Greek city states would decide its priorities bypassing the traditional power structure of wealth and power. But is this realistic? ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Thursday August 07, 2008 - 01:26 by Anthony Sheridan
5 comments (last - tuesday august 12, 2008 - 04:13)
The recent GAA controversy involving Kerry captain Paul Galvin and the ongoing DCC/Fyffes scandal are both indicative of how wrongdoing is dealt with in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 06, 2008 - 11:10 by brendan butler
1 comment (last - wednesday august 06, 2008 - 13:57)
The NGO Peace alliance is joined woth the International Committee of Human rights -Swiss section to encourage people who do not wish to be represented by their governmwent represenratives to use their own personal initiative and join up and register with with www.boycottceremony.com ... read full story / add a comment |
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