Symbols are what unite and divide people. Symbols give us our identity, our self-image,our way of explaining ourselves to others. Symbols in turn determine the kinds of stories we tell; and the stories we tell determine the kind of history we make and remake.
— Mary Robinson, Inauguration speech as President of Ireland, December 3, 1990
Justin Trudeau is campaigning aggressively for a seat on the UN Security Council. Over the past month he has called about two dozen world leaders and recently organized calls with groupings of UN ambassadors from the Americas, Africa, Arab states and Asia. Just prior to the pandemic the PM attended the African Union Summit in Ethiopia and met with all African ambassadors in Ottawa to make his pitch for Canada’s Security Council bid.
RT | March 18, 2020
The British government has said it will not fund probes into unsolved killings dating from the period of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, backtracking on an earlier agreement with the Irish government and NI political parties.
London said Tuesday that a new independent body would be formed to investigate the killings, saying that this would put an “end to the cycle of reinvestigations.”
According to a White House announcement made this afternoon, the United Kingdom and Ireland will join the rest of European ban on traveling to the United States, as Washington doubles-down in its efforts to try and halt the spread of the deadly COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.
“The president has decided to suspend all travel from the UK and Ireland midnight, Monday night, Eastern Standard Time,” said Vice President Mike Pence at a White House press conference.
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Henrik and Lana cover the latest stories and important events of the week in episode 65 of Flashback Friday.
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The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the 2020 election surge of Sinn Fein, which has collapsed the decades long, centrist status quo in Ireland.
As disgruntled Irish voters sent a clear message to the ruling center parties, Sinn Fein will now be challenged to form a left government coalition, while managing to deliver on ambitious economic policies that won it much of the vote.
Pro-Irish unity party Sinn Fein is ramping up calls for a referendum on the reunification of Ireland following its stunning election victory this week. This bangs another nail in the constitutional coffin of the United Kingdom following its divisive Brexit departure from the European Union.
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the stunning election results in Ireland, where Sinn Fein shocked the EU globalist order with a big win and a promise to deliver social change and economic hope.
Positioning itself as a left, nationalist party, with an international vision and a eurosketpic core, Sinn Fein is a party like no other in Europe, and is sending a message to Brussels, that the neoliberal days of dominance are over.
