“The Irish fishing industry has reached breaking point.”
The EU has reportedly been buying natural gas from China at a premium, which has in turn been buying its gas from Russia. According to Hong Kong-based news outlet the South China Morning Post, the Chinese government bought 2.35 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas in the first half of 2022 – 28.7% more than […]
Henry Kissinger famously applied the dictum that “information is power” to a theory of global economic and political systems. His understanding of geopolitics and global economies and the interconnected global world can be summarized with the triad: Control food, you control the populations; control energy, you control whole continents; control currency, you control the world. […]
Wants 9 new member states on Russia’s doorstep.
A fascinating tidbit from earlier this week that I didn’t see picked up in the rest of the Irish media. From Tom Friedman, in the New York Times: The timing [of Pelosi’s visit] could not be worse. Dear reader: The Ukraine war is not over. And privately, U.S. officials are a lot more concerned about […]
€80M to scrap vessels
Have all the adults left the room?
As Russia hits back on sanctions
Keeping up with inflation.
If there’s a lesson to learn from Putin, it is in the value of governing in your national self interest.
Had led democracy into a ‘dead-end’
“We can’t prevent it now.”