February 2012
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Feb 26th
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Feb 25th
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Collapse of the Celtic Tiger - People & Power - Al... →
Collapse of the Celtic Tiger This documentary aired on Al Jazeera a little while ago. It covers how Ireland went from boom to bust in a few short years, and how the economic crash is impacting the people. Worth watching, and makes one question why the Irish taxpayers are continuing to pay the Anglo bondholders.
Feb 25th
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Feb 22nd
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What War on Religion? →
Good piece from Mother Jones on why, despite recent rather loud protestations, Obama has NOT declared war on religion.
Feb 15th
January 2012
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Piss on War: Death, Desecration, and Afghanistan →
Jan 18th
Jan 1st
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Jan 1st
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December 2011
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Dec 22nd
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How Fox News is helping Barack Obama's re-election... →
Excellent piece in The Guardian last week, showing how Fox News is skewing the GOP Primary to its liking, and in the process creating a highly beatable candidate for the General Election, unattractive to the centre.
Dec 22nd
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“Either we have hope within us or we don’t; it is a dimension of the soul, and it...”
– Václav Havel (1936-2011) This is one of my favourite inspirational quotes, and the man who spoke these words has now passed. Rest in peace.
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr: Two quotes on... →
motherjones: From WaPo’s obituary of dead dictator Kim Jong Il: The leader, reputed to have had a taste for cigars, cognac and gourmet cuisine, was believed to have had diabetes and heart disease. From PBS’s report last week on famine in North Korea: About 60 percent of North Korea’s 24.5…
Dec 18th
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Classified documents reveal US military mindset at... →
This is shocking stuff. When the fog of war descends, during the chaos, these kind of atrocities are going to happen. Although he didn’t leak this specific incident, that fact that Bradley Manning is looking like he will end up in jail, and George W. Bush, who facilitated what happened in Iraq, is free is a travesty.  This massacre, at Haditha, Iraq, in 2005, is described in today’s...
Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Obama to sign indefinite detention bill into law →
I can’t believe Obama is going to sign the indefinite detention bill into law. So much for the “change” we had “hope” for.
Dec 16th
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Dec 8th
November 2011
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Nov 29th
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Nov 27th
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Nov 26th
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Nov 25th
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Nov 24th
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“She (Amira Hass) describes her mother’s memory of people watching her being...”
– Guernica interview Israeli journalist Amira Hass in their online magazine this month. Hass works for Haaretz, and is the only Israeli journalist who actually lives in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.  As she lives in the Occupied Palestinian Territories she experiences first hand on a regular...
Nov 23rd
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Nov 23rd
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Nov 22nd
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Nov 21st
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Nov 21st
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Nov 20th
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Nov 1st
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October 2011
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Oct 24th
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Oct 23rd
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Oct 22nd
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The grim reality of life under Alabama's brutal... →
Oct 20th
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Oct 17th
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Oct 17th
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27 Somalis killed in US drone strike →
newsflick: A US drone attack has claimed the lives of 27 civilians, including children, in the famine-stricken Somalia, Press TV reports. Dozens of civilians were also injured after an American strike on the port town of Kismayo, about 500 kilometers south of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday, witnesses told Press TV.  A similar airstrike killed over a dozen people in another southern...
Oct 17th
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“Barack Obama’s decision to order a “surge” of American troops...”
– The war in Afghanistan is ten years old this month. After billions of dollars and countless lives, the US is no closer to a satisfactory endgame. In his weekly OpenDemocracy column, Paul Rogers looks back at ten years of war in Afghanistan, and while he does not offer any magic solutions, he argues...
Oct 9th
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Oct 8th
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Oct 5th
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Oct 5th
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Why I'm Buying an iPhone5 - Maxwell Wessel -... →
On the eve of the announcement of the new iPhone (be it an iPhone 4S or an iPhone 5), this piece from Maxwell Wessel in the Harvard Business Review examines how Apple seems to get it so right.
Oct 4th
September 2011
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Sep 24th
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“Cheney’s memoir ought to come with a health warning that readers should seek the...”
–  One of my favourite journalists, Lara Marlowe, the Washington correspondent for The Irish Times, reviews Dick Cheney’s new memoir in today’s paper. Marlowe is suitably ruthless of her assessment of Cheney’s actions while Vice President of the US. Photo: Wikipedia
Sep 24th
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Sep 23rd
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Troy Davis - A Grievous Wrong →
Like many others, I was horrified that the Georgia Parole Board decided yesterday to proceed ahead with the execution of Troy Davis. Davis is due to be executed later today, US time.  This op-ed in The New York times succinctly sums up the wrongs of the death penalty. It beggars belif that a modern, developed nation can continue to execute people in spite of overwhelming evidence that the system...
Sep 20th
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Sep 17th
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Sep 16th
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New Web app for 'Read It Later' →
Pretty much since I started using an iPhone, I’ve been an avid user of the ‘Read It Later’ app. It allows users to queue up internet articles they don’t have time to read there and then, and presents them for offline reading on the iPhone (or other platform) later on. It you have used ‘Instapaper’, ‘Read It Later’ does a similar job. I always...
Sep 16th