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AP Photographer Charlie Riedel has filed the following images of seabirds caught in the oil slick on a beach on Louisiana’s East Grand Terre Island. More images can be found here. Whilst the financial suffering that will be bourne by the residents of the Gulf will be harrowing it is images like these that will [...]

Spokesperson for the People Before Profit Alliance and the Irish Anti-war Movement, Richard Boyd Barrett gave me a short interview today on Israel’s actions against the Peace flotilla. You can listen to the full interview here. The protest will take place on Thursday 3 June – assembling 6pm, at the Central Bank plaza, Dame St. [...]

Well it’s that time of year again, when all us bloggers gaze into the mystic ball and predict what the future holds for us all in 2010. Just a note on my 2009 predictions, most of them were right, some of them were also contradictory but hey! On to 2010: Irish Politics and economy The [...]

This is something that I thought was worth highlighting. At least 68 journalists worldwide were killed for their work in 2009, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) annual census. The highest ever number recorded by the yearly report, the number of deaths in 2009 rose steeply after 31 media workers, including 29 journalists, were killed [...]

Jim Geraghty, a conservative activist and regular contributor to National Review Online and National Review remembers his story of 9/11. Worth reading. Everybody Has Their Story From Eight Years Ago; Here’s Mine I don’t think I ever planned on this, but after reading AllahPundit and Brian Faughnan’s memories of eight years ago today, I felt compelled to write out how [...]