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The pro-EU&NATO propagandists never explain just what EU-led military missions look like. Mali is a textbook case - rife with corruption, lack of transparency, war crimes - a racist, neo-colonial resource war. My recent piece in @Rundale_Media rundale.org/2025/07/31/the…

'Instead of turning its back on the need for UN approval to participate in peacekeeping, Ireland should now try to muster other members of the General Assembly to defend the UN and keep peace operations going.' Professor Ray Murphy, former UN peacekeeper irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/0…

Over 400 academics have signed a letter calling on Taoiseach Micheál Martin to reconsider plans to scrap the Triple Lock. The Triple Lock sets out the conditions under which more than 12 Irish troops can participate in overseas peacekeeping operations. jrnl.ie/7000026

'The fight against Militarisation + War, and the fight to save the Planet is the same fight'. Abby Martin's Documentary film 'Earth's Greatest Enemy' is Powerful and frightening, it is a must see for anyone that cares about the future of the planet...

The talk of NATO's demise is wildly overstated. NATO has always been a shakedown. And when Europe has nothing left to give, it will be the US that lights the match.

This is where FF and FG have brought us with their hollowing out of Irish neutrality. And a reminder that the Triple Lock is one of the last guardrails protecting us from full participation in EU/NATO military missions at a time of intensifying conflict and war.

The Geopolitical Paradox of the Gulf War A crucial misunderstanding of the current Middle East crisis is the belief that the US is "failing" because its military is overextended. And in this sense, both the symbolic and the material military picture for the US is deteriorating. At the same time, energy consolidation is happening, as well. The military depletion and energy consolidation are happening through each other. The war itself is the instrument. The US ruling strata’s strategy is fragmenting competitors' energy sovereignty, deepening allied dependency, and extracting monopoly rents from engineered scarcity. (On a broader level, weakening BRICS connectivity, and Iran, itself is another goal without a doubt.) European Capture is unfolding in real-time now: With Qatari LNG under force majeure and Russian gas banned, Europe is structurally locked into expensive US LNG. The $750 billion energy purchasing agreement Europe recently signed means continued subordination. A deindustrialized Europe, hollowed out and entirely dependent on American energy, is a much more compliant vassal than a prosperous Europe with cheap pipeline gas. The potential rival order of Eurasia through a cooperation between Europe and Russia is out of the way. The US energy weapon works on allies and adversaries simultaneously, just through different mechanisms: forced dependency for allies (Europe), forced deprivation for adversaries (China, Russia, Iran), and pricing out the Global South. But how does a state justify degrading its own military and economy to achieve this? To understand it, you have to separate the US as a territory from the US as a class structure. Iran’s military resistance, closing the Strait of Hormuz, hitting bases, demonstrating air defense superiority, is precisely what creates the global energy disruption that US LNG and defense monopolies need to lock in these new dependency structures. The US doesn't need to "win" the war in the conventional sense. They just need the chaos to persist long enough to lock in the contracts. (Not to say that Iran capitulating would make anything better in any way.) The US military as a forward-deployed force is being degraded. But the US rentier class, energy companies, and defense contractors are extracting maximum profit from this temporal window. Stock are surging while Marines take casualties. They are the exact same fact viewed from different positions in the class structure. The war is the instrument through which the strategy (fragmenting competitors' energy sovereignty, deepening allied dependency, and extracting monopoly rents from engineered scarcity) is executed. At the end, the temporal window of consolidation enriches the US ruling strata while depleting the state's material capacity, which is itself a form of the self-defeating logic.

A @businessposthq article written by an 'independent researcher', who works for a UK arms consultancy, calling for Ireland to develop a defence industry. The Minister for Enterprise pledging to 'cut red tape' that prevents state companies from working with the defence sector.

Ireland, the transatlantic bridge. 'Asked by Baier if he is “considered a whisperer between the US and the EU sometimes”, Martin said that has been a “bit of a bridge” and an “access point for many, many US companies” into the European market.' thejournal.ie/micheal-martin…

This is shocking reporting. We are led to believe that data centres building their own massive, fossil fuelled energy plants is a positive step. How is increasing dependency on gas, higher emissions and privately owned energy infrastructure positive? rte.ie/news/business/…

Look at Govt-backed RTE which stacks its flagship weekend current affairs show Brendan O'Connor with 'panelists' who are outspoken supporters of spending on weapons, and ditching the Triple Lock. Not even a half-hearted attempt at balance (or representing majority opinion).

The woman who created International Women's Day, Clara Zetkin, was a loud, proud and fierce anti-militarist activist. She would absolutely demolish you clowns for perverting feminism into this grotesque tank-riding Barbie montage. You can't take March 8 from us.

Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi (@Helyeh_Doutaghi), Iranian lawyer and VPol contributor, interviewed some of the millions of Iranians rallying in the streets against the US-Israeli war on Iran. “What we witness here is not merely a public gathering, but a collective assertion of belonging,” Dr. Doutaghi said. ￭ She observed how their presence in the streets despite the bombardment shows “A clear distinction emerges between the psychology of a settler colony and that of an indigenous nation defending its homeland.” ￭ “Settler societies, historically constituted through displacement and colonial domination, often experience moments of crisis through fear and retreat, taking to shelters, running away, leaving. By contrast, a people rooted in their land — whose political identity, memory, and sovereignty are inseparable from that territory — confront such moments differently.”

Today is International Women's Day. It was established by women in the international labour movement in the early 20th century who saw the struggles for women, for workers and for peace as one and the same, a source of hope for a better world, full of joy and life and potential.

President Pezeshkian expressed openness to de-escalation within our region-provided that our neighbors' airspace, territory, and waters are not used to attack the Iranian People. Gesture to our neighbors was almost immediately killed by President Trump. My statement:

The care and deliberation put in to avoiding any mention of Israel, the agent of this attack on UNIFIL, illustrates just how cowardly this Govnt is, and how scared they are of the US.

Ireland's international obligations as regards the US/Israeli attack on Iran are clear. Among them are: a) not to recognise as lawful a situation created by a serious breach of international law. A war of aggression is the paramount example of a serious breach. b) not to render aid or assistance in maintaining that situation. Spain has denied the US military any use of its territory to carry out unlawful acts of aggression against Iran. Yesterday @shannonwatch documented two US Air Force Hercules C-130H aircraft landing at Shannon Airport. Is the government going to do anything to uphold Ireland's international responsibilities?

Indeed, except it goes far beyond embarrassment. It is disgraceful and dangerous, and our government should be clearly stating to the international community its outright dissent from this moral and legal morass. The degree of EU collusion in breaches of international law is itself a breach of international law. These "leaders" are aiding an act of aggression, and they are accountable for that. Moreover, it is multiplying the harm already done to international law by the EU's shameful role in the Gaza genocide, accelerating our slide into a much more violent and unsafe world, and undermining the security of every country and billions of people. They will never be forgiven for their role in this, and it is unlikely the EU will ever recover from the damage they are doing to it.

European gas prices were up by 25% this morning after 48 hours of the US and Israel's demonic, idiotic war on Iran - a war @MichealMartinTD and @HMcEntee can't bring themselves to condemn. In only the last few hours, that spike has rocketed up to 45%. There are predictions in the financial press that gas prices may rise by as much as 130%. 320,000 Irish households can't afford to pay their energy bills as it is. You'd be hard pressed to find a more flagrant example of the fact FFG don't see their role as working for the Irish people or looking out for our interests. We're just meat for them to offer up to the billionaire predator class in exchange for attaboys and post-politics career opportunities.

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