Ideas merchant & teacher. Post-growth economics & working class green politics. Democratise, decolonise and decarbonise. Views my own. RTs are not endorsements.
Béal Feirste, Ireland
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John Barry retweeted
The UK now supporting an absolute dictatorship militarily.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has agreed to give military support to Saudi Arabia in its conflict with Houthi rebels in Yemen
rte.ie/news/middle-east/2026…
US strikes on alleged drug boats may be ‘crimes against humanity’, UN says
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Kallas calls for continued EU sanctions against Russia…. But against Israel???? Nothing to see here…. rte.ie/news/world/2026/0922/…
John Barry retweeted
"Putting on the Irish jersey and representing your country means something. But the Ireland we want represented is the one that remembers its roots in anti-colonial and anti-imperial resistance, which Irish sport played a large part of."
Over 160 Irish sportspeople have signed an open letter to the Irish senior men's national football team, urging them to "act collectively with conscience" and refuse to participate in their upcoming games against Israel rte.ie/sport/soccer/2026/092…
John Barry retweeted
"Yet again you have the DUP telling people to live their lives by good Christian values but behind closed doors it's something different." The scoop by Steven Moore.
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"Acutely embarrassing for unionists."
@SuzyJourno tells @MarkCarruthers7 that the comments on Irish unity by @realDonaldTrump can't be dismissed by unionists...
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“Those who are against Fascism without being against capitalism, who lament over the barbarism that comes out of Fascism, are like people who wish to eat their veal without slaughtering the calf.”
-Bertolt Brecht, Writing the Truth: Five Difficulties (1935)
John Barry retweeted
SO WHAT DO WE CALL THIS?
"We are not like everyone else, and therefore all the laws that apply to everyone cannot apply to us"
-Hanoch Milwidsky, Likud lawmaker
John Barry retweeted
Mad as a marbles sandwich.
At a podium labelled “Rage Against The Hate”, Melanie Phillips treats the audience to a full pressurised sewage-pipe burst of that which lives in her head.
Just watch.
John Barry retweeted
*BOOK LAUNCH: The Law Relating to Ownership of Lough Neagh*
My new book will be launched 24th September, 18:00, @QUBelfast
All welcome!
To register:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-laun…
#LoughNeagh, the British Isles' biggest freshwater lake, is in trouble. Come join the conversation!
John Barry retweeted
Essential reading on the long contested Chichester-Shaftesbury territorial claim and ownership entitlements at Lough Neagh.
Great work from @LMuinzer
John Barry retweeted
Carbon shock therapy, we warned a few months ago, is coming.
We cannot manage it with neoliberal state institutions, with independent central banks and governments disciplined by bond vigilantes.
Europe needs a Big Green State now.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis…
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Want to know more about the Climate Majority Project (@CMP_voice)? Check out our book, which explores the thinking behind this urgent intiative and introduces our theory of change. This collaborative anthology is available as an e-book and in paperback.
indiepubs.co.uk/products/the…
John Barry retweeted
Nicolás Maduro is being kept in solitary confinement, locked in a 6ft by 10ft room for more than 23 hours a day
All because he wouldn't let Donald Trump steal Venezuela's oil
The silence from the international community is deafening
They don't care about US/Israeli War Crimes
