In West Kerry this Christmas, weather systems succeeded each other with astounding rapidity. On Christmas Day, to facilitate visiting family and friends, we were spreading grit outside the old farmhouse to roughen the path over the compacted snow and treacherous ice left by the preceding weeks of Arctic conditions. Not twenty four hours later, as [...]
New Years Message: Let’s make 2011 the breakthrough year for the genuine left
On December - 31 - 2010
Anti-gay laws in Uganda
On December - 28 - 2010
When the European Parliament meets in Strasbourg for one week every month, the last session which takes place on Thursday afternoon is always devoted to debates on human rights issues in different parts of the world. Although most MEPs will have already left to get their transport connections to often far flung corners of Europe, [...]
Petition from The Woodland League – Save Ireland’s Forests
On December - 22 - 2010
Please follow link and sign the petition below. Sign the petition here Also please remember to forward and share. Thank you. In recession times – guard the forests, the trees and the soil in which it grows – which can be stripped / sold from around and under our feet- leaving us with a much [...]
Video: Permanent Crisis Mechanism means a permanent bailout for the banks and speculators
On December - 17 - 2010
Joe Higgins MEP explains that the establishment of a Permanent Crisis Mechanism for the eurozone will not benefit ordinary but instead will be used to bail out the financial speculators that caused this crisis and will institutionalise the idea that ordinary people must bear the cost of the financial crisis. Share on bebo Bookmark on [...]
Poll show Labour’s commitment to implementing cuts agenda forcing many to seek genuine alternative
On December - 16 - 2010
If today’s opinion poll proves anything it is both the historical annihilation in store for Fianna Fáil at the polls and the volatility in support for the other parties as people actively seek out an alternative to this disastrous government. Deputy Gilmore thought he could maintain both the illusion of Labour representing an alternative while [...]
OSCE Summit – Hypocrisy of world “leaders”
On December - 16 - 2010
On 1 and 2 December, a major Summit of the Organisation of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) was held in Astana the capital city of Kazakhstan. Some forty very senior international political representatives including many Heads of State attended this event, which at its heart was characterised by a massive hypocrisy. The OSCE was [...]
Lisbon Treaty Amendment must be submitted to Referendum
On December - 16 - 2010
Today in Brussels, the European Council will most likely agree to amend the Lisbon Treaty providing for the creation of a “permanent stability mechanism” which would involve the granting of financial assistance subject to strict conditionality. What this means is the institutionalisation of the doctrine that society must pay for the financial crisis. In Ireland [...]
