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The study, published in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal the Lancet, made headlines everywhere from the Irish Times to the Washington Post, especially in media platforms anxious to strike a blow against PresidentTrump, which, let’s face it, is almost all of them. Hydroxychloroquine – the drug hailed by President Trump as a ‘game-changer’ in the coronavirus […]
US President Donald Trump has announced on Twitter that Antifa will be labelled a terrorist organisation, following their involvement in the nationwide riots and vandalism seen in America. One Social Democrats TD responded in an interesting way. Ben Scallan reacts. #gript
In recent nights, long-standing tensions between America’s black community and America’s police force have finally erupted into a full blown conflict across the United States. The death of George Floyd, a 46 year old black man, at the hands of Minneapolis police last week, was the spark that ignited the flames. Though the background to […]
Donald Trump has several times referred to the possibility of using the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a preventative against coronavirus. Despite not being the only person to do so, and despite the fact that the use of the drug is being subject to many clinical trials, Trump’s statement, and his May 18 reference to taking […]
While US President Trump threatens to pull the US pharma industry out of Ireland, tanking the economy, Leo Varadkar thinks it’s a good time to needlessly insult him. Ben Scallan comments. #gript
It’s a relatively slow news day, so it might be worthwhile to attempt an explainer at something that’s probably going to feature a lot in American news over the next few months as we barrel towards the quadrennial carnival of stupidity that is an American Presidential Election: OBAMAGATE makes Watergate look small time! https://t.co/vW19NbYXw6 — […]
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has been accused of sexual assault by a former staffer named Tara Reade. Such a serious allegation against a presidential candidate would normally be a loud, leading, global story. Instead, America’s biggest mainstream news outlets such as the New York Times, the Washington Post and CNN have remained eerily quiet about the Tara Reade accusations. […]
Because reactions to the President of the United States are so polarised along culture war lines, the reaction to his announcement the day before yesterday that he would seek to suspend US funding of the world health organisation has broadly been about exactly what you might expect. “Global Fury”, reports the Irish Times: “Although the […]
Sanders – The ‘anti-establishment’ candidate sells out to the establishment. Are we surprised? #gript
In fairness, there’s not a lot the international community can do about this. The Moon, as we all know, is sovereign American territory, boldly claimed by the late Neal Armstrong, who planted the American flag in it. It’s theirs, by right of conquest. And now, finally, an American President is going to make some money […]
Nobody’s talking about it, but the biggest problem with “getting back to normal” once the Coronavirus crisis has passed its peak here in Ireland will be the simple fact that it’s a global illness, and it’s progressing around the world at a varying pace. Imagine for a moment that we arrive in early June (being […]
The U.S. Ambassador to the Britain, Woody Johnson, has blamed China for the spread of the coronavirus, saying it ‘tried to suppress’ the emergence of the bug and accusing the Chinese government of seeking to “stonewall international health authorities that were offering assistance, requesting access and seeking more information”. “[T]he People’s Republic of China has […]
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