Month: February 2014
16 posts
Review: The Lego Movie
When anti-capitalism sells.
Joan Burton sends homeless family ‘Marie Antoinette’ reply
Lectures family to make "difficult choices" and "think anew" about their housing needs.
Government’s strategy on bank debt is in tatters and will not deliver
Troika report being cynically used by pro austerity MEPs to give false hope of a retrospective bank deal.
Ukraine: Yanukovich deposed
Pro-western, right wing regime consolidates power.
Pete Seeger: Sound of US protest music
The death of American folk singer Pete Seeger will be keenly felt by those who lived through the social and political convulsions of the 1960s.
South Africa: The end of Cosatu?
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) is convulsing in its death throes as the once mighty federation’s long drawn out death agony nears its conclusion.
Paul Williams’ latest story exposes him as mouthpiece of Garda Commissioner
Paul Williams in the Irish Independent has been playing defence for the Gardai and in particular Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan, since the GSOC bugging scandal broke. The Irish Independent has published article after article designed to deflect attention from the bugging of GSOC and to put pressure on the GSOC Chairman, Simon O’Brien. This transparent attempt to shield the Gardai from scrutiny reached laughable proportions this morning with the story on the front page of the Irish Independent by Paul Williams.
Review: The Square – bravery, determination and disappointment in Egypt
Cairo's Tahrir Square has gripped world headlines since 2011. Twice it was occupied by mass uprisings that brought down a president - Hosni Mubarak after 30 years of brutal dictatorship, and Mohammed Morsi after just 12 months of increasingly dictatorial powers.
Bentley Nightclub – Young workers in Galway fight for unpaid wages
There's no shortage of work-place horror stories from young employed people in Ireland today. From JobBridge to zero hour contracts, it's clear that young workers are easy pickings for exploitation. In Galway, a recently closed night-club, the Bentley, has been added to this growing list of abuses
Review: The Wolf of Wall Street
Great art doesn’t have to be anti-capitalist, but you’d have to be living in a cave not to know that in the intervening years since the days of Belfort’s scams, the entire world economy was tipped overboard by the government deregulation of even riskier financial behavior.