WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
The hollowing-out of Irish Independence: How the Irish people were made citizens of an EU federation
Cogent case for Ireland quitting a federal Europe
THE WRITING'S ON THE BILLBOARD: Roadside exhortation by Sinn Fein in Ireland
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
IN THIS pamphlet, Anthony Coughlan examines the political and economic roots of Eurofederalism and asks who loses and who wins from it, given that Ireland is now a net contributor to the EU.
“The EU is … a supranational anti-democratic system that deprives Europe’s diverse peoples of their democracy,” he writes, “while serving the interests of its big states, in particular Germany and France … through their ruling politico-economic elites, interacting with the Brussels bureaucracy … on the economic side it serves the interests of EU-based transnational finance and corporate capital.
“Free movement of labour and capital provides cheap labour and freedom from democratic control to the European and American transnational firms that are the principal economic backers of the EU ‘project’.”
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