The Shelbourne’s Moving Statues
Editor’s Note: On Monday 26th of July the luxury 5-star Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin removed…
Browsing: Current Affairs
Multiculturalism in an Age of Extremes
I feel that Europe, in its state of degeneracy has passed its own death sentence.…
Corporate Media Bias Against the Cuban Revolution
Since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the United States has inflicted various…
Confronting Ireland’s Drug Epidemic
The use of opioid-based drugs (heroin, codeine, oxycontin), increased access to opioid synthetics (fentanyl, carfentanyl)…
Covid-19: Young Lives Count Too
Doctors save lives today. It’s part of their oath and ethics. Unsurprisingly, most doctors faced…
World Refugee Day: the Importance of Storytelling
Twenty years ago the UN General Assembly made the 20th of June World Refugee Day…
Covid-19: A Simple Moral Calculus
Introduction There are still many unresolved questions regarding the pathogenesis of this disease and especially…
Repression and Covid-19
The long march of the locked-down migrants[i] (Aadesh Ravi – composer, lyric writer and singer)…
Photo Desk: Black Lives Matter Dublin Protest June 1st 2020
Photography by Frank Armstrong
Traditional way of life protects Amazonian People from Covid-19
The pandemic of the new coronavirus Covid-19 is forcing indigenous populations of the Amazon to…
TEXTILE MOUNTAIN: The Hidden Burden of our Fashion Waste
Tomorrow, Wednesday, May 20th, 2020 from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM (IST), Documentary Filmmaker Fellipe…
Fear and Loathing in the Time of Covid-19
Fear plays a major role in influencing the decisions we make and the actions we…
The End of American Leadership
First there was: ‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.’ Then there…
Covid-19: Dispatch from Atlanta
What the hell? Most people in the U.S. appear to be freaking out about Georgia…
Reflections on Covid-19
Déjà Vu As Covid-19 sweeps through Ireland, I can’t help experiencing a feeling of déjà…
Covid-19: A View from Sweden
Editor’s Note: In avoiding a lockdown, and allowing most schools, restaurants and other businesses to…
The Final Frontier: Post-Capitalism and the Economics of the Future
I have always loved Star Trek. The utopian future was at odds with most other…
Do Not Resuscitate
Holy Gawd, we’re back to Charles Darwin and his interpreters. In the mid-19th century Darwin…
China Under Lockdown: Another Cultural Revolution?
Editor’s Note: A long-term Western resident in China responds to conspiracy theories about the country…