Posted in Irish Society, Iraq, Ireland on May 5th, 2009 No Comments »
Another embed video from DCTV, this time an interview with Eamonn Crudden on his film, Route Irish. Eamonn is also the man behind the Wormhole video posted here last week.
for those with torrent software installed, Route Irish can be downloaded by clicking here.
Enjoy.
Interview with Filmmaker Eamonn Crudden (Route Irish) from DCTV on Vimeo.
Posted in Iran, Iraq, politics/world on Apr 25th, 2008 2 Comments »
Patrick Cockburn who has recently published Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq being interviewed by Pepe Escobar on the Real News Network.
Posted in Iraq on Feb 29th, 2008 8 Comments »
In our modern, Western, enlightened and post-feminist world referring to entities such as cars, warships, aeroplanes or countries as female is, if not frowned up, at least is considered no longer the done thing.
I’m sure we all remember those old World War 2 films in which it was perfectly acceptable for a fighter pilot […]
Posted in UK Politics, Iraq, Middle East on Dec 6th, 2007 11 Comments »
So said Judge Peter Beaumont.
His words were to Samina Malik, a former Heathrow shop assistant, who was found guilty last month of writing poetry of such danger as to constitute a threat to the British state. Samina was a teenager when she wrote the poetry. The legislation fell under the British 2000 Terrorism Act. Here […]
Posted in Iraq, politics/world on Sep 26th, 2007 5 Comments »
Taxi drivers get a lot of stick, mainly because they’ve a tendency to pontificate about things that they don’t fully understand yet still try to make out that they are the ‘world’s foremost authority’, to quote Tony Soprano. They’re a bit like Desmond Fennell actually.
Whenever I find myself in a taxi with an opinioned […]
Posted in Bush, Iraq on Sep 12th, 2007 4 Comments »
What is it about September the 11th that has the unhinged unfurling their mangled thoughts with a panache normally associated with the wildly drunken? Martin Amis, to celebrate the day, has taken his mutton fists to the keyboard again and slammed out this:
“September 11 entrained a moral crash, planet-wide; it also loosened the ground […]
Posted in US Politics, Iraq, politics/world on Aug 23rd, 2007 3 Comments »
So George Bush says that Iraq is like Vietnam, despite denying the link before. That he should make the speech yesterday, which the New York Times says is the beginning of an ‘initiative to shape the debate on Capitol Hill in September’, before a bunch of hoary Army veterans is interesting.
Interesting not because it’s […]
Posted in Iraq on May 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Currently, the most read article on the Guardian Unlimited site is this one about the US allegation that Iran has a secret plan for a summer offence designed to oust the US from Iraq. The very experienced reporter Simon Tisdall cites an unnamed US official as saying:
“Tehran’s strategy to discredit the US surge and foment […]
Posted in Iraq, Politics on Mar 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Writing in the Guardian last week about the fourth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, Simon Jenkins was in no mood to celebrate what the last four years have left us with.
“We are bid to celebrate the fourth birthday of a lie. In 2003, they lied about Iraq’s weapons arsenal. They lied about Saddam Hussein’s […]
Posted in Iraq, politics/world on Feb 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
In the print edition of The Irish Times today there was a Reuters report about Dick Cheney’s visit to Japan, where he said that the US has to succeed in Iraq to prevent terrorists attacking the US. It’s not on the site so I can’t link to it.
It was an eventful morning and I lost […]