In 1961, Dwight Eisenhower warned us of the rise of the military-industrial-complex and its potential to have an overbearing influence on government.

Caomhan Keane decides it’s time to look after his skin, but he doesn’t know his serums from his scrubs. He talks to the experts

Politicians, rights campaigners, and commentators have joined forces to raise concern about the so-called Jobstown trial, claiming the court case is the “criminalising of political protest”.

US domestic and economic policy are likely to change utterly now Donald Trump is in power, but his foreign policy remains a mystery, writes TP O’Mahony.

FINANCE Minister Michael Noonan yesterday defended the decision to phase out the €4bn-a-year USC between now and 2021. 

The American president is more moderate on foreign policy, and more sceptical of intervention, than the hawkish woman who may succeed him this year, says TP O’Mahony

Ted Cruz, who knew all the election rules of the GOP, failed to top Trump, while Hillary Clinton was almost toppled by a socialist. The rules are changing and so are the voters, writes Ross Barkan

Cormac Ó hEadhra is from An Cheathrú Rua in the Conamara Gaeltacht. He broadcasts on current affairs programmes on RTE Radio 1, including Late Debate and Drivetime, and on RTE Raidió na Gaeltachta.

A global event celebrating whistleblowers and freedom of expression will be held to mark the fourth anniversary of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's stay in the Ecuadorean Embassy.

With the rise of Islamic militancy in the shape of the Islamic State, it is important to remember that the causes of this extremism are both internal and external, writes TP O’Mahony

JARED Diamond, in his 1991 book The Third Chimpanzee, compared chimp biology with our own. Sharing 98.4% of their DNA with humans, chimps are more closely related to us than they are to the other great apes.

PRESENTER Eoghan McDermott knows how to make a big entrance.

The artist Anthony Haughey has taken an interesting tack to commemorate the centenary of the 1913 Dublin Lockout, as part of a strand at this year’s Cork Film Festival. He’s put together a programme of films that celebrate workers’ rights from around the world.

Prof Noam Chomsky recently referred to abortion “rights”. Abortion statistics should be reported to balance the one-sided calls for “rights”.

The Vita Cortex protestors are hitting the big screen.

Ireland’s path out of economic turmoil will be reliant on the harnessing of entrepreneurship and innovative ideas, according to one of the world’s leading economists.

Making the Future:Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance

The workers who spent more than five months occupying a factory in pursuit of redundancy payments have been invited to dine with the President.

One of the longest-running industrial relations protests in the history of the State ended in Cork today.

With no media or PR advice, Vita Cortex built up an 9,000-strong support base in 20 countries — because people believed in their cause, writes Eoin English

The long-awaited deal to secure the Vita Cortex workers ex-gratia redundancy was finally signed off on yesterday.

Joya Kuin

Siptu last night said it had rejected what it described as, a “derisory offer” made to the Vita Cortex workers staging a sit-in at their former employer’s Cork plant.

The employers’ union Ibec has accused Siptu of “a pattern of misrepresentation” of the facts of the bitter Vita Cortex dispute.

City officials have ruled out a proposal to allow the Vita Cortex workers lead Cork’s St Patrick’s Day parade.

Thirty-two workers on sit-in at the closed Vita Cortex factory in Cork have earned a massive morale boost after Alex Ferguson joined a growing line of supporters.

CRUCIAL talks are taking place between Vita Cortex joint owner Jack Ronan and the National Asset Management Agency (Nama).

The shorts and documentary strands again produced the main highlights of the Corona Cork Film Festival, says Carl Dixon

TWO films, in which chimpanzees are the main characters, are being shown in Irish cinemas.

An Irish Nobel peace laureate called Israel an "apartheid" state during a deportation hearing before the country's Supreme Court today, prompting a rebuke from a justice who told her to keep her "propaganda" to herself.

Hopes and Propects

I WISH to congratulate you for the fine Innovations specials last week, and indeed for other endeavours like the full-page interview with Noam Chomsky (February 27).

America divides opinion, but we all have an opinion. For most of the world it is, in some sense, their second home even if they have never been there, so great is its impact on our lives. But is America in decline, finished even? Many respected intellectuals and most of the media elite seem to think so.

America divides opinion, but we all have an opinion. For most of the world it is, in some sense, their second home even if they have never been there, so great is its impact on our lives. But is America in decline, finished even? Many respected intellectuals and most of the media elite seem to think so.

World famous philosopher Noam Chomsky is to visit Belfast later this year to deliver a lecture on human rights, Amnesty international announced today.

The Who frontman Roger Daltrey is to receive a prestigious award from UCD, it emerged today.

IRISH people should count their blessings and put their economic woes in perspective, according to Nobel Laureate and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

One of Hollywood’s top comic actors, Will Ferrell, will be honoured by an Irish university tonight.

LAST Tuesday will surely be remembered as a day when what passes for democracy in Ireland was once more revealed as a web of corruption.

A liberal intellectual has been arrested in Iran, the first detention of a prominent academic since the election of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last year, a Cabinet minister said tonight.

I AM surprised at Tom Carew's remarks about Noam Chomsky (Irish Examiner letters, January 24).