Aidan Regan
@Aidan_Regan
Professor of Political Economy @ucddublin | Public Policy | Capitalism | Democracy | Alumnus @EUI_EU @mpifg_cologne @UvA_amsterdam | Columnist @businessposthq
A lot of Americans in Ireland, particularly those in business, can’t seem to comprehend why Ireland is so aghast at watching one country starve another. Read a history book.
Live now. Focused on US media, but also applies to European publications and Irish ones too.
Join us Thursday at 12pm for a panel with @AssalRad, @SanaSaeed, @prem_thakker, moderated by @SMArikat, to explore why Western media continues to whitewash a genocide. Is it culpability or is it ignorance? 📍The Jerusalem Fund, Washington DC thejerusalemfund.org/2025/07/wester…
93% of US corporate profits flow to just 1% of firms. Big Tech & Big Pharma pay less tax, hoard power, and crush competition. Corporate oligarchy is replacing democracy. democracychallenged.com/2025/07/24/win…
Which Irish minister today has the ambition, independence, and political vision to turn a big pot of money into real, large-scale structural change? Honestly, I can’t think of one.
Our latest blog, based on our latest @ERC_Research Winner Takes All: How the Top 1% of Firms Capture the Profits democracychallenged.com/2025/07/24/win…
"I am an emergency doctor. I have worked and supported colleagues in many countries affected by conflict and forced displacement. But the extreme nature of Israel’s violence and systematic destruction in Gaza far overshadows anything I have ever seen". euobserver.com/EU%20&%20the%2…
Did most journalists take a vow of silence on Gaza? Internalised self-censorship, or top down direction from dependence on advertisers?
Israel’s actions are becoming the greatest threat to Europe’s peace and security. Western complicity in its brutal genocidal violence is fuelling a politics of anger - anger that will turn into hate. No one should be surprised if Islamic militancy rises in response.
Nobody in government dares say it: Ireland is built on a Dublin-centric growth model. But Dublin itself is run like a parish council with no fiscal or governing powers to get shit done. That’s the core problem.
At the French-Saudi conference on Palestine, no more platitudes about a two-state solution or "peace process." We need immediate targeted sanctions, arms embargoes, suspending trade benefits, and enforcement of International Criminal Court arrest warrants. hrw.org/news/2025/07/2…
The Daily Express is the most right-wing mainstream newspaper in Britain. It now has a better position on Gaza than the Labour government.
The EU’s international reputation is in ruins. Any pretence of being a liberal, human-rights–driven, law-respecting body is now laughable. History will be unforgiving to those who enabled Israel's brutal genocide. euobserver.com/EU%20&%20the%2…
