Eoin Butler: writer, journalist and Mayoman of the Year
Tripping Along The Ledge
saddam hussein
“That’s shit. They could at least remember you as the ‘anti-war activist’ who dressed in a cat suit…”
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Introduction to the ‘Revenge’ issue
“An eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind”
Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments With Truth (1929)
“Somewhere… somehow… someone’s gonna pay!”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Commando (1985)
ON JULY 12, Hizbollah ambushed an Israeli army unit on the Israeli-Lebanese border. Three I.D.F. soldiers were killed and two captured. In retaliation, the Israelis launched a devastating month-long assault on southern Lebanon that killed hundreds and left much of the country’s infrastructure in ruins. As the region knuckled down for yet another bloody round of reprisal and counter-reprisal, the New York Times asked Harvard Professor Daniel Gilbert to explain the psychology that fuels such protracted strife. (He Who Cast The First Stone Probably Didn’t, July 24.) Read the rest of this entry »
HUSSEIN IN THE MEMBRANE [UPDATED]
Recently, I received an interesting email concerning my interview with Dr Latif Yahia, a.k.a. “Saddam’s son”, the controversial, Irish-based Iraqi exile fêted by RTE, BBC, CNN and Fox News. It comes from his ex-wife. “Hi Eoin, just had a read of your blog – very funny!” she writes. “I read your article with ‘Dr’ Latif Yahia and I’d just like to say fair play to you for seeing right through him. Let me point out a couple of things…” Read the rest of this entry »
THIS IS FUNNY
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The Colbert Report has just begun a week of shows from one of Saddam Hussein’s former palaces in Iraq. To celebrate, here’s a random pick from the archives: Colbert quizzing Wyoming congresswoman Cynthia Lummis about the Equality State’s burgeoning cougar population.
Published: Irish Times, August 28 2010“That’s shit. They could at least remember you as the ‘anti-war activist’ who dressed in a cat suit…”
GEORGE GALLOWAY
The left-wing firebrand explains why Saddam was a better company than Bertie Ahern
Throughout your career, you’ve been closely associated with Arab and Middle Eastern issues. What initially inspired you to engage with the politics of this region?
In 1975, when I was 21 years old, a Palestinian student leader named Sa’ad Jabaji came to the door of the Labour party office in Dundee. He spoke to me for two hours in a mesmerising fashion about the catastrophe the Palestinian people have suffered. I became a signed-up member of the Palestinian resistance that day and have remained so ever since. Read the rest of this entry »