Martina Devlin makes a strong call to vote only for parties that will repeal the 8th. If you want it gone, let your local prospective TD’s know what it’ll take to get your vote: Not in the interests of pregnant women, nor for women in general, but for everyone’s sake – men and women. Ireland […]
An interesting VICE UK interview with Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell from April of this year. Especially now, in the light of current events: The opportunity to have a real impact arguably vindicates their continued membership of a party that they have been politically at odds with since its “modernisation” and move to the right […]
Amanda Marcotte makes an link between GOP nominee hopeful Donald Trump and the ‘Sad/Rabid Puppies’ over on the Slate: As Jeet Heer at the New Republic notes in a piece about Donald Trump, this kind of reactionary rhetoric is often framed as populist, but it is in fact “the voice of aggrieved privilege—of those who already are doing […]
Has the EU been captured by the ECB, and is the financial sector, those most serious of people, now costing the EU it’s left-wing, socialist support? Yet the eurozone has become a scene of class war, and only Syriza has been bold enough to fight it almost full on. Even if Mr Tsipras and his […]
‘No’ posters in the same-sex marriage referendum campaign which say every child should have a mother and a father are homophobic, a senior Church of Ireland figure said at its General Synod in Armagh. […] Speaking as “a strong supporter of the Yes campaign” he admitted “it is not easy for me to be here […]
I thought I’d seen this type of headline once too often, and it turns out I had:. It’s what he does best these days, apparently. A sort of senior flag waver.
Later: Teehee. And more: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-15/meet-mario-draghis-attacker-her-own-words
Even more interesting — and depressing — was the resulting ‘controversy’ about the pledge, which seemed to revolve entirely around whether Miliband’s policy would result in more or less tax being gathered by the Inland Revenue. This is another illustration of the extent to which neoliberalist iron has entered the souls of the political elite. […]
GOP considered dangerous: Republican Assemblywoman Michele Fiore of Nevada recently told The New York Times: “If these young, hot little girls on campus have a firearm, I wonder how many men will want to assault them. The sexual assaults that are occurring would go down once these sexual predators get a bullet in their head.”
