february 2020
Misreading the British Elections . . No issue in U.S. politics, not even immigration or “the Wall,” will do for Republicans what Brexit did for the Tories. . . . ..…
Misreading the British Elections . . No issue in U.S. politics, not even immigration or “the Wall,” will do for Republicans what Brexit did for the Tories. . . . ..…
Bloody Sunday began as a peaceful demonstration by some 10,000 men, women and children, organized by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) in opposition to the British government’s policy of interning suspected Irish Republicans without trial. . ..…
Scotland has a strong nationalist movement, and if the British government pulls out of the EU, it would strengthen calls for independence. Similarly leftist Irish republicans in Northern Ireland favor staying in the EU. ..…
That's true of Trump's Republicans and, across Atlantic, Prime Minister's Boris Johnson's Conservatives, the solemn verdict of British June 2016, to leave European Union.. ..…
But after Civil War, Germans and Scandinavians, heavily Lutheran, voted Republican, as English Canadian and British immigrants did. ..…
Gene's American Socialist Party renounced dictatorship of any kind and sustained commitment to Bill of Rights than either Republicans or Democrats.. Then he jumped in to save British and French, who owed Morgan and Rockefeller huge sums of money.. ..…
Aristocratic-monarchic Prussia had crushed the republican revolutionaries of Germany. British aristocracy was resurgent. A Hapsburg was placed on a throne in Mexico. . ..…
Imagine what would happen if the Irish republicans again insisted (given the prospect of BREXIT) that we in Ulster are Irish and not British! ... We also know that it was the British Special Branch, MI5 and Phoenix-style units operating with covert support by the British..…
In eighteenth century British politics, the Whigs represented the interests of the big business class, somewhat like our own Republicans, and the Tories represented the interests of those with hereditary wealth who formed, to a large extent, the leisure class and the cultural elite, somewhat..…
And let us not forget that former MI6 officer Christopher Steele, namesake of the infamous Steele dossier, was a British agent. ... Top British spy officials are resisting a push by Republicans to declassify FBI documents related to the Russia investigation, according to a..…
Ernest Bevin, the British foreign secretary, later described it as “a lifeline to sinking men”. . ... Republicans in the US Congress balked at pumping so many tax dollars into the rescue of Europe. ..…
All three are wealthy, developed, first-world nations with strong economies, industrialized, republican, peaceful, and an English/British heritage. ..…
At the time there was ongoing manhunt for two Canadian, Bryer Schmegelsky and Kam McLeod, connection with the murder of three people British Columbia. Both Republicans and Democrats have pursued policies that have destabilised Middle East and Central America, leading to the displacement..…
By wringing their hands over the situation facing the army trying to keep apart two, Establishment commentators will mark the half-century'warring tribes - Catholic pro- Irish unity nationalists and republicans, and Protestant pro-UK unionists and loyalists. Following the bloody partition of..…
By wringing their hands over the situation facing the army trying to keep apart two, Establishment commentators will mark the half-century'warring tribes Catholic pro- Irish unity nationalists and republicans, and Protestant pro-UK unionists and loyalists. Following the bloody partition of Ireland..…
Republican president. . Tehran has responded with a series of moves, including seizing a British tanker in the Gulf and retreating from some of its commitments to limit its nuclear activity made under the deal. . ..…
Trump and Republicans have added $2 trillion to the debt, thus far.. In, British passed series of acts later known as Intolerable Acts, all designed to punish and reshape the governance system to make it easier for British to control the colonies. ..…
“It doesn’t sit comfortably with me as an Irish republican to ask the British government to legislate but if rights are going to continually be denied and the assembly can’t deliver, then that is the context in which Westminster can deliver the legislation,” she said. . ..…
Republicans have accused FBI of political bias for withholding information about the evidence they used to underpin those requests, British spy, in effort that was funded at time by Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.. ..…
Of course we backed what the Republicans were trying to do against the British war to maintain the blatantly untenable Six Counties entity. . ... It is to his credit that Jeremy Corbyn backed the Catholics, and did not indulge in typical British politicians' cant to denounce the..…
It was also common for anti-imperialist, anti-monarchical writers in the 18th century, including many of the American founders (such as New York governor, Anti-federalist campaigner, and later u.s. vice-president George Clinton – not the musician, alas), as well as British radical..…
Carson was a politician who fought against the unification of Ireland in the early 20th century and he was pivotal in creating the Ulster Volunteer Force, the paramilitary force that fought against Irish republicans. ... Inside Stormont, reminders of British and unionist Protestant rule..…
It was led by Irish Republican Brotherhood, Irish Volunteers, and Irish Citizen Army, when British were engaged in fighting World War I. Both Unionists and Republicans have united against 'New IRA paramilitaries because of the murder of Lyra McKee Derry during Easter Week. ..…
Slogans celebrating the IRA, an anti-British paramilitary group, are common in predominantly Catholic and republican neighborhoods in Derry. ... Brexit is believed to be fueling anti-British sentiment among dissident groups in Northern Ireland, who also call themselves..…
Holding, who is Republican of British American Parliamentary Group and co-chair of Congressional U.K. ..…
Republicans have long claimed that this evidence dossier of anti- Trump gossip collected by British spy working for Democratic Party operatives was flimsy and insufficient to warrant investigation.. ..…
Daniel Pipes of Middle East Forum warned that Democrats could be in the beginning pangs of anti-Semitism controversy similar to one that roiled British Labor Party in 2015. While Trump has yet to send the nomination to Senate, some Republicans signaling that Cain could face contentious..…
It was used under its old name shaped charge by French resistance against Germans and by Irish Republican Army against British armored vehicles and it has been used by both Hezbollah and Hamas against Israelis.. ..…
Marxists opposed the in of British troops and warned that they would not protect Catholic working class. Instead it was Republicans around Provisional IRA the only sizeable group who had guns and were prepared to use them. ..…
They believe that the FISA warrant to surveil Page should not have been approved because it came from what they consider a dubious source — the dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele. ... Numerous Republicans, including Judiciary Chairman Robert W. Goodlatte and..…
The Palestinian public no more believes the families should be abandoned for their sacrifices than Irish republicans turned their backs on those who fought British rule or black South Africans forsook those who battled apartheid. . ..…
Birds fly, British food is terrible and the media attacks Republicans for doing things Democrats did. . . . ..…
The term emerged during the 30-year conflict in Northern Ireland, referring to persons who reported on British troop movements to the Irish Republican Army. . The fact that the term continued to be used in Iraq and Afghanistan is symbolic, as the British failure to date to account..…
That's because without radicals, how could the nation be born based as it was on opposition to British kings.. Civil War, the radicals were Republicans, while Democrats were the party of Ku Klux Klan. ..…
Radical scholars generally agree that the events of the 1860s and 1870s constitute Second American Revolution — revolution during. ..…
In my book I draw attention to the fact that the alliance between France and the new Black Saint-Domingue lasted few years, with Thermidorean leadership playing quite role — even sanctioning war on in Caribbean, a quasi-war with United States, and republican uprising Ireland. But,..…
Six counties Ulster, in the corner of Ireland, were still part of United Kingdom, Loyalist state partitioned from the rest of the in 1920 in act of chicanery designed to protect Protestant and pro- British majority. Hounded north and south of the border for decades, Irish Republican Army..…
The Nixon tapes have the president calling Pierre Trudeau an asshole, which won Republican few fans north of the border. The British House of Commons is more raucous than American Congress, and the speaker does not say order, order you motherfuckers.. ..…
This is the case for Hungary's Fidesz or Poland's Law and Justice party, and similar concerns can be raised with regard to Belgian New Flemish Alliance, British Conservative Party, French The Republicans, German Christian Social Union, increasingly Spanish Popular Party. Similar concerns..…
The killing was particularly traumatic for unionists, because Graham was blatantly targeted due to his political beliefs and it hardened a perception that Belfast’s main university had become a hostile, potentially dangerous place for those who saw themselves as British. . For an inveterate ally of..…
Participation in the British military helped to widen the cracks between Irish loyalists and republicans. ..…
The nationalism of the British will produce more such responses across Europe. With the U.S. barreling toward an election where the Republicans will try to ride the same sentiment to the presidency, the idea that history will rear its ugly head again should make is all nervous. . ..…
But the British version of the Republican Party only won four million votes – a 12.6 percent share – which translated into one parliamentary seat. ..…
It is uncertain whether the British monarch would continue to reign over a free Scotland, but republicans seem presently to have the upper hand. . ..…
HSBC Holdings, one of the largest banks, is another UK to Republican Party, giving the lion's share of their $170,500 to GOP PACs. According to CRP, Patrick Durkin, Sr., lobbyist for British banking Barclays, has contributed $532,143 and bundled $1,111,790 from other donors for Romney's..…
In Northern Ireland there has been no shortage of republican heroism or of epic events with the power to overwhelm the sympathetic or even hostile imagination — the 1981 hunger strikes, for example, when ten men starved themselves to death. ... In 1934, the Republican Congress split, and..…
First published in An Phoblacht/Republican News, 19 August 1999 . . . ... Throughout those early years - against the background of the war, a bombing campaign in Britain, attacks on our demonstrations by the far right, state harassment and the anti-republican `Peace People' - TOM was to..…
BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher slipped into Northern Ireland Tuesday for a surprise Christmas visit with British security forces in a border area where Irish Republican Army guerrillas oprate. . . . Shrugging off Protestant protests and the threat of violence..…