Green Party, Ireland
Northern Irish Greens 2011 – Election Review
Posted on August 28, 2011 by Adam McGibbon | No Comments
After reading Peter and Sam’s post-election thoughts on Green performance in Scotland and Wales, I thought I’d complete the regional picture. Less than a week after the Assembly elections in May, new Green MLA Steven Agnew was standing in the chamber making his maiden speech. Despite the sudden shift from count centre to Assembly floor, [...]
No shock doctrine for Libya
Posted on August 22, 2011 by Adam Ramsay | 3 Comments
To say that the West’s involvement in Libya was all about oil was always far too simplistic. For any country to commit military force, a number of people must conclude that this is necessary. Each will have their own reasons, each a number of justifications. No war has one cause, no bombing a single explanation. [...]
Call in the army? Remember Northern Ireland…
Posted on August 9, 2011 by Lorcan Mullen | 4 Comments
At the time of writing, it’s difficult to comprehend the scale of the trouble in London, not to mention Birmingham, Leeds or Liverpool. One thing is for sure though: the notable impotence of the Metropolitan police in tackling a roving, leaderless wave of theft, intimidation, assault and petty vandalism. With much of the grand expanse [...]
Bernie Sanders on the US debt debacle.
Posted on July 31, 2011 by Alasdair Thompson | 3 Comments
As the US Congress debates whether to accept a plan to cut $2.8trillion in spending over 10 years, and raise not one cent in taxes on the rich, let’s hear from the one* decent man in the Senate. * this may be a slight exaggeration – Franken’s not bad – but it’s sadly not far [...]
Love in a time of Anguish
Posted on July 29, 2011 by Ruth Cape | 5 Comments
Ruth lives in Tromsø, and writes from Oslo. “Kjærligheten vil vinner over hatet” ”Love will win over hate” So were the words of a young Utøya survivor. The Mayor followed on to assure that this small city in this small country would not give in to fear and prejudice but would respond with even more [...]
Obama: Debt, Default and Betrayal
Posted on July 27, 2011 by Alasdair Thompson | 6 Comments
Last week Sunny told us that he was frustrated with people like Glenn Greenwald who think Obama is giving away too much in the current negotiations over the US debt ceiling. He thinks that Republicans are in a bind “if they agree to increase taxes, they break their own pledges and annoy the hell out [...]
Breivik, Blogging and How Not to Study Terrorism
Posted on July 26, 2011 by Gilbert Ramsay | 5 Comments
Claims in early editions of newspapers following the appalling attacks in Norway last Friday that an Islamic group had claimed responsibility have led onto a flurry of accusations regarding the Islamophobia of the media and the experts on which it depends. I have to admit to a measure of sympathy in this case for the [...]
What’s happening in Somalia is no natural disaster.
Posted on July 24, 2011 by Adam Ramsay | 15 Comments
Last month I asked a Kenyan farmer what the impact of food speculation was on her community. “Food is getting more and more expensive” she told me. She talked too about how climate change was already hitting her community, how it was getting harder and harder to grow crops. It is all too easy to [...]
Internationale in Norwegian – with love and solidarity
Posted on July 23, 2011 by Adam Ramsay | No Comments
Jewish National Fund: Zionism, ethnic cleansing and environmental racism
Posted on July 17, 2011 by Peter McColl | 6 Comments
by Eurig Scandrett At its Annual General Meeting in May, Friends of the Earth Scotland members unanimously voted to endorse a campaign against the Jewish National Fund (JNF). It was the first environmental organisation outside of Palestine to do so. This is a major step with significant international implications. The JNF is an international ‘environmental’ [...]
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