Cillian Doyle
@cilliandoyle87
Thus spake Zarathustra
I will accelerate and intensify the erosion of Irish sovereignty to let foreign private companies sue future Irish Governments to stop them doing good things for our people. It is essential I roll over for corporations while my pal EPP buddy Ursula rolls over for the US. #Vassal
I will accelerate and intensify efforts to secure every opportunity for Irish businesses and Irish jobs. In these uncertain times this is essential. I will now fast track the ratification of CETA, the free trade agreement with Canada. My statement here: gov.ie/en/department-…
I actually think that ideology — an ideology that comes with actual solutions to an affordability crisis — has something to do with Zohran Mamdani’s success
If Dems want lessons from Mamdani applicable across the country “it’s less about the ideology, and more about the message discipline of focusing on what people care about and the tactical wisdom of getting out there and talking to everybody,” Pete Buttigieg says on NPR.
Personal news: I've decided to leave my job as Deputy Editor-in-Chief at the Thomson Reuters Foundation to go independent. It's a scary move but I want to concentrate on amplifying under-reported stories.
Is he actually going to permit the Irish government to be sued by corporations in corporate kangaroo courts? No wonder he’s party of the same European Parliamentary group as Von der Leyen - cut from the same cloth
I will accelerate and intensify efforts to secure every opportunity for Irish businesses and Irish jobs. In these uncertain times this is essential. I will now fast track the ratification of CETA, the free trade agreement with Canada. My statement here: gov.ie/en/department-…
Tomorrow, 12.15pm. The Four Courts Dr Ahmed El Mokhallalati, The Ditch and Uplift bring our legal challenge against government over illegal weapons flights through Irish territory and the export of dual use goods to Israel during its genocide in Gaza. Truth is on our side.
New blog on new earnings data: 'in the context of high-income European economies, Ireland continues to be an outlier in earnings inequality. The gap between top earners and bottom earners has widened significantly since the last round of data in 2018 ' nerinstitute.net/blog/ireland-o…
Brussels 28 July. EU press officers are sending out press releases, but then when you email them back you get an out-of-office that says "I will be back on 26 August."
This is absolutely extraordinary and beyond parody: A reporter rightly asks Von Der Leyen "What are the US concessions? What is the US giving up in the deal" VDL's reply is that there was none because "the starting point was an imbalance, a surplus on…
The biggest impediment to success of the Corbyn project was the Labour Party itself This is the role it performs for the UK oligarchy - and has done for generations Unleashed from that reactionary institution, we could see something historic with the new left party AMLO in…
"The best we could get was nothing"
The EU's top negotiator has defended the trade agreement with the US as "the best deal we could get under very difficult circumstances" | Follow live updates rte.ie/news/world/202…
A reminder that that's the way the EU was sold to us: This is a 1987 ad by France's foreign ministry, with the message that the EU will enable us to be stronger and to better stand up to the US. As is now painfully obvious, the exact opposite happened:…
Episode #201: Heterodox Economists: Karl Polyani @adam_tooze and @CameronAbadi discuss the life and work of Karl Polyani, best known for his book The Great Transformation: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/het…
When the Commission has lost Guy Verhofstadt you know its really fucked up
The EU - US deal is scandalous… a disaster…with not one concession from the American side…badly negotiated…
French PM Bayrou declares 'war' on Commission President von der Leyen, saying the Von der Leyen-Trump agreement represents an alliance of free peoples 'resolving to submission.' Can't recall a previous example of such messaging from a major EU PM about the Commission President.
Accord Van der Leyen-Trump : c'est un jour sombre que celui où une alliance de peuples libres, rassemblés pour affirmer leurs valeurs et défendre leurs intérêts, se résout à la soumission.
The cynic in me thinks that this 15% deal had been in the pipeline for some time With the Commission waiting until the European Parliament and most national parliaments had gone on summer recess, to try minimise the backlash
No it’s the price of being a willing vassal of the US, whether in federated or non federated form
The EU just accepted a trade deal where the US imposes 15% tariffs on most EU goods, keeps 50% on steel and aluminium — while Europe commits to buying $750B in US gas and investing $600B in the US. This isn’t a deal. It’s the cost of not being a federal Europe.
Empires turn away from free trade when they start to decline Hence the US’ tariff policy Accepting the one way 15% tariff means the Commission wants the EU to strengthen the US, by weakening itself
The punitive conditions (for Europe) of the EU-US trade deal are the ultimate example of the fact that the European Union, from making Europe “stronger together”, has delivered a structural subordination to the US unseen in the postwar era. My latest: unherd.com/newsroom/eu-tr…
One of the lines of those trying to gaslight the Irish into further militarism through EU integration is that the EU and NATO have nothing to do with each other and act as completely independent institutions Here they explicitly show that that is not true.