Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine
By rights Henry McDonald, born and raised in the Catholic working class district of the Markets in Belfast, should have grown up Republican, Nationalist and Catholic. Instead he grew up an afficionado of punk rock, football, and international politics. McDonald, biographer of Ulster Unionist David Trimble, and the Observer's Ireland Editor, discusses with Three Monkeys Online the alternative narratives of identity in Ireland, and those increasingly outdated ones that dominated the last century.
Divided Kingdom, the latest novel from Rupert Thomson, presents a dystopian view of an immaginary, but current day Britain. Three Monkeys Online interviews the author Jim Crace defined as 'a risk taker'.
Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money can Busy started working in journalism through frustration. He switched from his career as a racketeering investigator, frustrated that the important stories were not finding their way into the media. Palast uncovered, amongst other stories, the voting irregularities in Florida during the 2000 Presidential election. In interview with Three Monkeys Online, Palast talks about the Apartheid voting system in the States and Media censorship.
Three years on from the Invasion of Iraq, and the human cost of this war is still unclear. While information on civilian deaths is still unforthcoming from the US & UK governments, the Iraq Body Count provides important figures.
One of the most mysterious murders of Italy's murky Cold War history was that of Roberto Calvi, the head of the Banco Ambrosiano, and the man dubbed 'God's Banker' because of his business relationship with the Vatican. A Rome jury has recently acquitted five men charged with his murder. Journalist Philip Willan discusses the Calvi case with Three Monkeys.
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One opinion poll puts the ruling regime ahead. Another, conducted a day ot two later puts rivals PO ahead by a good 8 points.
Posted by hgrodsk at September 7, 2007 12:50 PM