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This afternoon I am off to New York, where aside from visiting long lost friends, I will be attending tomorrow’s Index 30 luncheon on Wall St, hosted by The Irish Echo. Mary Louise Mallick, Deputy Comptroller of NY State, whom I had the good fortune to meet in Belfast last May, will receive the [...]

If you read any of the commentary on Obama’s administration picks, read “This is Change? 20 Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to Watch for in Obama’s White House,” by journalist Jeremy Scahill.  Scahill writes of the momentus opportunity that Obama has to create real change–how he was elected on a popular mandate to challenge the militaristic [...]

Check out this video from the Onion:

Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are

I heard about this recent article in the Progressive by one of my favorite writers, Eduardo Galeano, through an email list that I’ve long since been trying to get off of…funny how that works.  Anyway, I think Galeano is incredible, and I am in the process of reading Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries [...]

I’m not one to write too much about American electoral politics…and hadn’t really planned on posting anything beyond the photo you see below (those who know me well will get it). But then I read this post by woman of color blogger Brownfemipower and immediately knew I had to link to it.  We [...]

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Went to hear Jeremy Scahill speak at UM the day before Halloween.  I thought this would be a suitable post for the holiday, seeing as how *actually* terrifying the subject is, but I am only getting around to it now.  I have yet to read his book, Blackwater: The Rise of America’s Most Powerful Mercenary [...]

Here’s an article from last week’s Irish Voice (15 October) by Cahir O’Doherty.  The quotes from me are a combination of a phone interview and a press release.  You can really tell which ones are more put together–but I really think there were some phrases that were struck from some of the comments that I [...]

The following action alert was issued by the Pat Finucane Centre in remembrance of the anniversary of Peter McBride’s murder:
Peter Mc Bride Anniversary Action Alert-Lobby Barack Obama
Last year a supporter of the PFC in the US contacted Senator Barack Obama regarding the controversial Pentagon contract with LT Col Spicer, the former Scots Guards officer whose [...]

A friend of mine helped put together an ad hoc group of Irish American writers and actors who support Obama, which debuted this week with this ad and an article in the Irish Echo. The group formed partly in an effort to fight back against the mainstream media’s stereotype/generalization of the Irish American [...]