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Fintan O’Toole: ‘Adults in the room’ are not the resistance – they are Trump collaborators

September 11, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Yes, this is about Trump and the USA, but mainly in the title. O’Toole addresses a problem that plagues Europe, as many find excuses for being the henchmen and henchwomen of neo-liberalism (“It could be […]

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Fintan O’Toole: The slide into ‘post-truth’ is not inevitable

August 29, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Why is it surprising to find one of the great political writers of the 20th century so doleful about the state of political controversy in 1944? Read here

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EU politics

Fintan O’Toole: The long Irish 19th century is finally over

July 2, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

This provides a great deal of important information concerning developments in Ireland in recent decades. Read here  

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Fintan O’Toole: Trial runs for fascism are in full flow

June 27, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

What we are seeing cannot be ignored. At the same time, we have to ask the question: How did we get here? Read here

Austerity

Fintan O’Toole: Has Ireland had a lost decade?

January 7, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Did Ireland learn anything from its dramatic financial crash 10 years ago? Not much concludes Fintan O’Toole. Read here  

EU politics

Fintan O’Toole: The hard-won kinship between Britain and Ireland is threatened by Brexit idiocy

November 26, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Few understand, or care about for that matter, the existential question concerning the reintroduction of a hard border between Ireland the Northern Ireland. The Irish fear that the EU is selling them down the river […]

Austerity

Fintan O’Toole: Let’s imagine the homeless have foot-and-mouth

November 7, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Part of neo-liberalism system is to convince us that the abnormal is normal. What we yesterday condemned or found repelling is actually quite alright – normal. Fintan O’Toole iedentifies this process with regard to homelessness […]

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Fintan O’Toole: The corruption of Irish banking goes back 30 years

October 24, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Fintan O’toole is right. The problems with the banks, be it in the US, UK, and apparently in Ireland, started 30 years ago, which is when neo-liberlalism began its crusade. It marked the end of […]

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Fintan O’Toole: The lie that poverty is a moral failing was buried a century ago. Now it’s back 

October 18, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

We live again in a world of Victorian values risen from the graves in which Shaw and the other great anti-Victorians buried them. We live again in a world where the rich pleasure themselves with the […]

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The European Illusion – Why We Need New Strategies Towards the EU and Beyond by Attac Austria

January 7, 2019 0

Book review by Mathew D. Rose It takes courage these days to write a book critical of the EU, especially from a leftist perspective: to do so in Austria even more so. Austria, like Germany, […]

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A Happy Future is a Thing of the Past by Pavlos Roufos

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