In a crisis, pretence at balance in the media diminishes and the population become subject to more repeated propaganda.

David Harvey, radical academic, looks at the crisis of capitalism and argues for the need to replace it.

This RSA Animate, is based on a lecture at the RSA (www.theRSA.org).

A number of organisations across Europe have issue the following statement today

The economic crisis is causing a dramatic
increase in suicides in Ireland. After the crash of 2008, figures for the first
three months of 2009 showed a 43 per cent increase in the suicide rate. Mark
Walshe reports.

Speaker: Kieran Allen, Thursday 22 October, 8pm, Wynns Hotel, Lwr Abbey St, (beside LUAS stop)