Below is a list of publications on various news sites and blogs:
| October 7th 2011 |
"Occupying Wall Street...A Movement too Big to Fail" - Huffington Post
Much has been said about whether "Occupy Wall Street" will finally be the spark that brings the impetus for economic and social reform. I believe that it will, for one simple reason: had the super-wealthy stuck to the social contract and let highly-skilled and intelligent people rise up in the world, then frankly everyone else would be screwed ... Read the full article here |
| September 23rd 2011 |
"Palestinian Statehood - The Pros and Cons" - Huffington Post
As the showdown at UN Headquarters continues this week with Abbas's bid to have a Palestinian State within its 1967 borders and with East Jerusalem as its capital admitted to the United Nations, the idea has been circulating that such a move is "futile" as it "would change nothing on the ground" ... Read the full article here |
| September 8th 2011 |
"Democracy 2: The First Problem with Elections - The Money Angle" - Huffington Post
Now that open conflict is more or less a matter of mopping up, the focus in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya will now turn to elections, just as it did in Iraq and Afghanistan in years past. As a civilization we are fixated on elections and they (their freedom, their fairness, their numbers of participants, their having happened at all) have become the one all-powerful litmus test of whether or not a nation is a democracy ... Read the full article here |
| August 31st 2011 |
"Democracy 1: Why Libya Won't be Getting Democracy" - Huffington Post
This is really quite simple, and incidentally applies to every other nation in the Middle East, and indeed, the world (that's right - I'm not one for the small issues). The reason no one in Libya will be getting democracy any time soon is that even most people in Western nations have no idea whatsoever what democracy is ... Read the full article here |
| May 15th 2011 |
"Visited Upon Us" - The Queen's visit to Ireland - Z-Net
However her May 17th-20th sojourn in the Republic ultimately shakes out for Queen Elizabeth II, this visit is bound to be one of the most stage-managed and carefully spun in history ... Read the full article here |
| February 14th 2011 |
"German Decision may have Major Ramifications for Ireland" - Irish Times
A pending decision of the German constitutional court could have implications for the EU bailout for Ireland, writes ROSLYN FULLER ACCORDING TO the EU-IMF memorandum of understanding, Ireland is set to receive €22.5 billion from the International Monetary Fund; €4.8 billion in bilateral loans from the United Kingdom, Sweden and Denmark; and a massive €40.2 billion from the newly minted European Financial Stability Mechanism and European Financial Stability Facility ... Read the full article here |