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Cash-for-Ash: a ‘green scheme’ that failed
PETER FROST looks at another whitewash in the North of Ireland scandal they call Cash-for-Ash
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
AT LAST the long-awaited 656 page report from Sir Patrick Coghlin on the Cash-for-Ash inquiry has arrived.
It delivers a damning indictment of Stormont incompetence and a multiplicity of errors and omissions behind a bungled green-energy scheme.
However, rather as expected, Coghlin absolved participants of actual corruption, saying: “Corrupt or malicious activity on the part of officials, ministers or special advisers was not the cause of what went wrong with the scheme.”
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