globalisation

Future Ireland / Nation-States Are Yesterday’s Politics – Let’s Review Our Terms and Conditions

Donal O'Hanlon on October 20, 2018, 8:32 am

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Global trends indicate that we are graduating from ideological party politics to voting based on personal priorities such as financial security. Trump’s America is the prime example. But, like their hurricanes, everything from the US eventually crosses the water and laps our shores. Unstoppable cultural homogeneity adds to this. With lightning speed our young people adopt the same fashion, music and patois globally. The extent to which this is manipulated by media giants, arms of government and lizard overlords is …

Brexit, Schmexit, it’s globalisation rather than Brussels that squeezes national sovereignty…

Mick Fealty on June 22, 2015, 4:54 pm

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Caroline de Gruyter is the correspondent for NRC Handelsblad in Vienna, and she makes an important point about the rather faux character of the debate on the EU Referendum, thus far… A former village mayor conceded to me that Swiss locals had become rich by selling vineyards to multinational companies and by renting out houses to the new globalized middle class. Life was good, he said; the well-off immigrants Switzerland had managed to attract made other nationals green with envy. …