Thomas Pringle

TRUMP JUST TURNED OFF THE LIGHTS ON 11 MILLION PEOPLE Cuba has had zero oil shipments since January. No oil means no power. No power means hospitals go dark. Hospitals going dark means people die. The UN calls this a war crime. Trump calls it "making a deal." TRUMP JUST TURNED OFF THE LIGHTS ON 11 MILLION PEOPLE Cuba has had zero oil shipments since January. No oil means no power. No power means hospitals go dark. Hospitals going dark means people die. The UN calls this a war crime. Trump calls it "making a deal." This is the first blockade of Cuba since the Cuban Missile Crisis. And he said "I can do anything I want." That's not foreign policy. That's a siege.

I think it’s clear we need to radically increase our defensive capabilities. We can do this and debate this without going down the rabbit holes of neutrality, the military industrial complex or western imperialism. The security of our people and our economy matters.

Israel has killed at least 506 Palestinians and injured at least 1,405 in nearly daily attacks, continuing to violate the “ceasefire” that took effect on October 10.

This Irish government has consistently revealed it's disdain for the Palestinian people. The government must explain why it is facilitating this deeply disturbing and disgraceful action.

Why do people pay extra for "priority boarding" when they just end up in a queue for half an hour longer? It's the same plane. It's not getting you there any quicker.

The Holocaust they don’t teach you about: On this day in 1885, King Leopold II of Belgium declared Congo as his personal colonial possession and proceeded to commit horrific genocide upon the Congolese people. 8-10 million Congolese died during ‘personal rule’, with violence as a mechanism of organising production. Through mercenaries, prisons, forced starvation, and executions, Leopold II turned Congo into a concentration camp, using Congolese as the labour to extract vast profits from the rubber quotas imposed on the population. The profits were used to build Belgium’s grand buildings and landmarks, while Congolese were exterminated systematically through forced labour, mass killings, and famine. While the metropole of Belgium’s empire flourished, while Congo became an extraction machine. Workers who failed to meet the quotas were mutilated, having their hands cut off. These workers included children. Villages were punished collectively. Women were held hostage until men delivered rubber. Failure meant mutilation, flogging, or execution. Terror was the incentive structure. Pain replaced wages. The Congolese people never saw the profits, only the oppression of being used as slave labour. Belgium has still not offered a formal apology to the Congolese people for the genocidal atrocities committed against them… Because doing so would acknowledge a fundamental truth; that European capitalism was not born from ‘innovation’, ‘free trade’, or ‘liberal values’, but through barbaric destruction of global south nations and the looting of their resources for profit.