Barack Obama, who pledged to restore ethical honor to the White House after the Bush years, is now burying himself under an active volcano of…
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Americans were offered closure Wednesday to one of among the multifarious strands of our national dementias. It took the drab guise of the “long-form” birth…
Back in Ireland when I grew up, Easter was a very serious affair. In my hometown of Youghal many shops closed for the entire week,…
It looks as though eastern Libya will slide into the Mediterranean under the sheer weight of western journalists assembled in Benghazi and Misrata. A tsunami…
The war on Libya now being waged by the US, Britain and France must surely rank as one of the stupidest martial enterprises, smaller in…
Americans read the increasingly panic-stricken reports of deepening catastrophe at Fukushima Daiichi, speed to the pharmacy to look for iodine and ask, “It’s happened there;…
Here on the West Coast of the United States the Japanese earthquake was swiftly domesticated in the early dawn hours of Friday as the possible…
None other than the US Secretary of State herself, Hillary Clinton, paid fulsome tribute to Al Jazeera last Wednesday, March 2. Appearing before a US…
From Washington DC we hear brave talk about Uncle Sam leading the charge for democracy across the Arab world, and thus restoring himself to high…