Do Americans know or care that they could stop the Gaza slaughter by turning off the financial and military tap that flows so generously in Israel? Will people remember the horror of what is still happening? Will the Arab world seek its own revenge over coming years in a world which failed to help Gaza […]
December, 2023
THE 1916 RISING SAVED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF IRISH AND FOREIGN LIVES -DENY THIS IF YOU CAN, YOU CADS IN ACADEMIA – by Donal Kennedy
The 1916 Insurgents ensured that no inhabitants of any of the 32 counties of Ireland would not be subject to conscription into an armed institution. Nearly one hundred and eight years later the inhabitants remain free of such an imposition. Not only hundreds of thousands of Irish lives have thus been […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT U.S. AND ISRAEL, THE COST OF BREXIT, SHANE MCGOWAN’S FUNERAL AND LOOOOTS MORE…
The US and the UK were just about the only countries at the UN yesterday which didn’t call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Is this blind support of Israel making sense to most people? It looks as if the UK is paying a heavy price for that Brexit flight from the EU. […]
Compare and Contrast
Britain lost a great man today : the poet Benjamin Zephaniah. He was funny, he was upright, he was compassionate, he could spot a phoney from half a mile away. When he was offered an Order of the British Empire (OBE), his response (unlike,oh, who, oh yes, you in the corner, blushing – Fergal Keane) […]
Joint First Ministers and digging
Chris Donnelly has noted how the First Minister/Deputy First Minister titles were fine and dandy until the First Minister-in-waiting turned out to be a republican, at which point a Westminster committee hastily urged joint First Ministers. If I recall correctly, Martin McGuinness argued for that change and the DUP wouldn’t hear of it. Do […]
Israel and oppression – by Fra Hughes
While humanity calls for a permanent ceasefire in Israel’s war on the innocent in Gaza , what we must call for is an end not just to the violence but an end to the underlying causes of that violence, which is the apartheid Zionist state. Even before the state of Israel was established […]
PAT+JUDE TALK ABOUT HAVING 2 FIRST MINISTERS, WHAT BRITAIN THINKS OF UNIONISTS, TRUMP, AND IMMIGRATION
A Westminster committee has recommended that we stop having a First Minister and a Deputy First Minister, and have simply two joint First Ministers. Now why would they make a suggestion like that, and make it now? And should we go along with it? The good Lord John Alderdice did an interview with the […]
Biden became ‘Genocide Joe’ by Philip Weiss (Part II)
To understand what Joe Biden is thinking, it is worth reviewing presidentialhistory, to remind ourselves how significant the Israel lobby is as a force. Afew key moments:–Truman overrode his own State Department and his own opposition to theidea of a religious state to back Israel’s establishment and then turn a blindeye to its expansions. John […]
Biden became ‘Genocide Joe’ thanks to the Israel lobby
by Philip Weiss Nov 30, 2023 (Part I) from Mondoweiss
At Thanksgiving, a friend took me aside and said, “How does Israel get awaywith this? They are wiping these people out, you can see it before your eyes.But people here are losing their jobs if they say anything against it on socialmedia. Health care workers have lost their jobs at hospitals.”My friend is not alone. The upside […]
Hildegarde and Martin and a politics-free matter
It’s amazing the things you hear if you watch TV. I’ve just come from watching the first part of RTÉ’s The Week in Politics. There were a number of politicians in the Dublin studio with Aine Lawlor, among them Martin Kenny the Sinn Féin TD, and on the wall there was a big-screen link-up […]