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The colonisation, decolonisation, and recolonisation of Ireland
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European Spinelessness & Subservience Reaches New Depths
It's a brave new world, say goodbye to the old...
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The Grand Chessboard: A cold and unemotional look at the US proxy war in Ukraine
War is a game.
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Big Pharma: A Big List of Crimes
Putting profits over people
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Rishi Sunak, Fascism & the Destruction of Gaza
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of the state and corporate power.”
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Israel as a Terrorist State
The settler state and the monopoly on language and terror
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On the Eternal Munificence of Earth and the Gross Perversion of Money
In the beginning all was formless and void, and darkness covered the face of the deep, and the spirit of the Master Poet hovered over the abyss.
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Politics and Playing Pirates
A final solution...
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The fall of Israel will be the fall of the West
How the US, Britain and the rest will go down with the sinking Israeli ship
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A Meditation on Death
I’ve seen a dead body once in my life outside of a funereal context.
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Torches and pitchforks: Are 'antivaxxers' still the bogeymen par excellence?
What to say about this time last year, huh?
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Mass Media Anti-Russian Hysteria: A Conscientious Objection
As an Irish citizen, the scenes outside the Russian embassy in Dublin this week caused me a good deal of shame and even anger.
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