Dublin Opinion

Cheers to Becky for this one.
Unbelievable stuff.

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In case anyone hasn’t seen the original interview, check it out here.

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From today’s New York Times:-
Congressional leaders and the Bush administration reached a tentative agreement early Sunday on what may become the largest financial bailout in American history, authorizing the Treasury to purchase $700 billion in troubled debt from ailing firms in an extraordinary intervention to prevent widespread economic collapse. Officials said that Congressional staff members […]

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We’ve run with this before, but given the USA’s embrace of socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor, I thought I’d post it up again. From the always wonderful Tom Tomorrow.

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The video below is taken from a stop the war coalition meeting in London, 14 August 2008. Mark Almond gives his analysis of the ongoing conflict. (and before anyone makes the joke, no, it’s not THAT Mark Almond.) This is from stopwar.org.uk:
MARK ALMOND, lecturer in History, Oxford University and expert on the Caucasus, provided the […]

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Usually I don’t bother my arse reading Nick Cohen, but the freaky picture above on today’s Guardian website caught my attention and so like the dummy I am, I clicked on the link. Inside, Cohen is berating the liberal left for a fuckload of crimes, including the inability to laugh at Barack Obama.
If you search […]

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Barack is the front runner in the race for the Democratic Party’s Presidential nomination, so the radio said this morning, yet last night’s debate in Pennsylvania had him on the back-foot. According to today’s Guardian
“Barack Obama was forced on the defensive about his core beliefs in a debate with Hillary Clinton that touched on […]

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The race for the White House, in particular the race for the Democratic nomination, is proving once again that in American politics, it’s the economy, stupid.
For the rest of the world, American foreign policy looms large. The American economy is also an issue, but our coverage and analysis tends to focus on Iraq, the […]

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Thanks to Splintered Sunrise I discovered, to my dismay, that there are those on the American left who think that left wing anti-war campaigners should join forces with supporters of anti-abortion obstetrician and Republican Senator Ron Paul in the upcoming US Elections. As Sherry Wolf tells us in a December Counter Punch article - linked […]

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