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Manchester City is one of the richest football clubs in the world: the Abu Dhabi United Group, controlled by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of the ruling royal family of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), owns a majority stake. The club has won numerous trophies in recent
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Millions watched the World Cup but behind the scenes are governing bodies who engage in shady deals. As opposition grows to the Ireland-Israel match, Andy Storey looks at the corruption of some governing bodies and how fans are resisting. “This has not just been… the greatest… World Cup of
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On 28 February 2026 the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Iran was hit at least twice by American missiles – over 175 people were killed, the majority of them schoolgirls aged between 7 and 12 years old. The school was targeted by an AI-based system called Maven, which is supplied
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Brian O’Boyle, writing in Rebel, states that “Trump’s MAGA project is designed to reassert the power of a declining hegemon. It is an attempt to make the world ‘great again’ for the US ruling class.” Vis-à-vis the US attack on Venezuela, the US ruling class, O’
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Paschal Donohoe has landed a plum job as no. 2 at the World Bank in Washington DC. He is in line to receive a salary and expenses of over $600,000 per annum, tax-free. Much attention has focused on what this means for Irish politics, but what does it
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In the opening scene of the TV series Deadwood, a US Marshall in Montana is confronted by a lynch mob determined to hang his prisoner, an alleged horse thief. The lawman’s response is to fashion a makeshift gallows and hang the man himself, thereby allowing him claim that some
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While the US and Russia try to grab Ukrainian resources, the EU and China have their eyes on natural resources in other parts of the world. Andy Storey argues that the current imperial tensions have parallels with those in the late 19th century, which is why Irish people need to
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As the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues unabated, Andy Storey uncovers the EU’s imperial fingerprints all over the economic and political relations in the region. In Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novel Heart of Darkness, set amidst the horrific world of the Belgian Congo as