Tag: NGOs
Stop the Seminars! Maynooth Takes on Populism
Another day, another seminar on the far right, or so the phrase goes. “StopFarRight” (kudos on the name) is a series of seminars designed to bring about “discussion and debate between academics and civil society groups on how best to...
TENI in Tatters? Trans NGO Sees Mass Resignations Amid Harassment and Financial Woes
The Burkean has taken inordinate interest in TENI Ireland the past year, the nation's premier trans advocacy group noted for their rather sloppy accounts and links to the corridors of power. They have been essential in giving Ireland arguably the...
Has the Irish Government Been Funding Terrorists in the Middle-East?
Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has asked for clarification from Israeli officials after the Jewish state designated six NGOs operating within Israel as being terrorist organisations, some of which receive funding from the Irish Government. In a statement made...
UK: Women Prisoners Potentially Face Extra Jail Time For Refusing to Call Transgender Inmates Preferred Pronouns
Women behind bars in the United Kingdom are at risk of bumping up their prison sentence bigly should they dare to refer to their fellow male ‘transgender’ inmates by he/him. Lord David Wolfson, minister within the UK justice ministry, stated...
Moonshot’s Millions: Who is the British Government Backed Surveillance Firm Monitoring Irish Nationalism?
Good tidings it appears have reached Moonshot, a tech startup geared towards counter-extremism, which announced this week the hiring of 37 analysts as it seeks to open a Dublin office. Making a name for itself for its role combating and...
Far Right Observatory — How Did An Anonymous Antifascist Organisation Receive €225,000 in Charity Funding?
Early last week Gript sleuthy reported on the apparent receipt of €112,500 in state funding by a rather opaque organisation named ‘The Far Right Observatory’. While the group has been earmarked for €112,500 worth of state funds, this figure at...
INAR’s New Vacancies: How Much Are Activists Being Paid to Replicate BLM Tactics in Ireland?
It would appear that despite the recent downturn, the nation’s NGO complex looks set to expand at pace with the announcement by the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR) of notice to fill two positions, both involved in community activism. With...
Irish Government Siphons 400k of Foreign Aid into Open Borders Propaganda
Alongside facemask manufacturers, it's been a rather halcyon year for so-called opponents of 'misinformation', as a cottage industry of experts have emerged onto the scene. From the entirely astroturfed ISD organisation, never quite off our airwaves, to battalions of perfunctory...
Institute For Strategic Dialogue: Case Study in Media Astroturfing
The Institute for Strategic Dialogue released a report this week detailing their intelligence-gathering on what they call the Irish "far-right". There is nothing new in this document, and it seems more like a compendium of their greatest hits already released...
How Much is Ebun Joseph Charging for Diversity Seminars?
"Do you ask a white-skinned person, when will you let the privilege associated with being white stop? Then again whiteness studies tell us that whiteness is a supplier of privilege that many Caucasians take for granted and are not even...