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I4C Trouble with Daly and Wallace

Clare Daly, Mick Wallace

A brand new political podcast from Ireland"s two best-known independent left wing MEPs, straight from the belly of the EU beast. Unfiltered by mainstream media they grapple with the problems at the very heart of the European project.

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EP 113 - COP: We won't fix the climate crisis with...

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2022/11/21

Clare kicks things off this week with a rundown of recent events in the parliament, most notably, the recent visit by Guatemalan peasant and indigenous movement CODECA. Then Mick joins her, straight from the COP climate conference in Egypt. He fills us in on what he saw there, the geopolitical machinations driving the talks, and the question of loss and damage - whether the Global North is prepared to pay for climate damage it has caused in countries of the Global South.

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00:41:57

EP 112 - Cuba's Life Task: Combatting Climate Change

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2022/11/11

This week on the podcast Mick and Clare are joined by Dr. Helen Yaffe, coproducer of the documentary "Cuba's Life Task: Combatting Climate Change." They discuss Cuba's climate change adaptation and mitigation plan "tarea vida" and how Cuba is dealing with climate change despite the US sanctions regime and blockade. Find out more about the campaign to defeat the extraterritorial effects of the US blockade at 1C4Cuba.eu

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00:44:04

EP 111 - Mick and Clare go to Pakistan

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2022/11/08

Mick and Clare are just back from a trip to Pakistan. The country is still grappling with the effects of the devastating floods that happened during the summer. Our I4C MEPs met with various government ministers, political groups and industry representatives to hear about how they were dealing with the floods and Pakistan’s place on the world stage.

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00:36:43

EP 110 - Creating migrant flows with our policies

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2022/10/28

This week, Clare and Mick are joined by Damien again. They discuss increasing calls for peace coming from the political mainstream, EU double standards around migrants and asylum seekers, unrest in Haiti, debt trap disaster capitalism in action in Tunisia, the proposal for a windfall tax on excess profits of energy companies and finally the question of tracing arms being sent to Ukraine.

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00:33:52

EP 109 - The state of this “garden”

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2022/10/21

This week we’re in Strasbourg and the parliament has been debating the war in Ukraine from every angle imaginable - from the idea of state-sponsored terrorism, to the impact of the war on culture, on research, and migration. We also chat about the Sakharov price, changes in European states’ laws on sex work, the climate impact of the military sector and Josep Borrell’s disgusting comments comparing Europe to a garden and the rest of the world to a jungle.

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01:57:06

EP 108 - Sanctions and international law, event...

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2022/10/14

This week we’ve got something a little different for you. It’s the recording of the event we held at the parliament to launch our report on sanctions and their status under international law. It’s a long one but there’s lots of good stuff in here from the report’s authors Alina Miron and Antonios Tzanakopoulos, as well as from Alena Douhan, the UN Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of sanctions on human rights. Find the report here:

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00:32:47

EP 107 - The parliament debates “Putin’s cronies”

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2022/10/07

This week Mick, Clare and Damien wonder what people talked about in the European Parliament before the war. They discuss a debate on “Putins cronies” in Europe, an excuse to bash any voices for peace, and the explosion of the Nord stream pipelines. They also discuss the release of a report on sanctions (read the report at https://mickwallace.net/study-unilateral-coercive-measures-and-eu-law/), EU presence in Africa and finally the ongoing floods in Pakistan.

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00:42:16

EP 106 - EU ulterior motives in Africa

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2022/09/30

This week on the podcast: Mick’s trip to Mozambique, Clare’s trip to Ireland and the question of Irish data protection laws, a new film on the Assange case, and the parliament doubling down on the disinformation narrative.

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00:42:02

EP 105 - If hypocrisy has a name, it’s the European...

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2022/09/19

This week Mick, Clare and Damien are in Strasbourg discussing Commission President Von der Leyen's speech on the "State of the Union" - though it was really more of a rant on behalf of US imperialism.

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00:36:29

EP 104 - Sanctions: EU cuts off its nose to spite its...

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2022/09/09

We’re back as the parliament swings into action after the summer break. We discuss sanctions and why the Russians economy is doing better than ever despite them. We also touch on energy prices and inflation and the hard winter ahead for many in Europe. Finally we run through a recent discussion Mick had with the EU head of delegation for China and Taiwan about Nancy Pelosi’s recent ill-advised visit to Taiwan.

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01:03:36

Interview: Useful Idiots podcast

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2022/09/01

Mick and Clare were interviewed by Katie Halper and Aaron Maté for the Useful Idiots podcast back in July. On the podcast they discuss: war in Ukraine, Julian Assange, and Syria. To hear more from Useful Idiots follow @UsefulIdiotpod on Twitter or watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/usefulidiots

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00:35:58

EP 103 - Last of the summer podcasts

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2022/07/15

This week is our last episode before the Parliament goes on break for the summer. Mick, Clare and Kate talk about the increase in Irish defence spend, a recent exchange of views with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, what is happing to the arms flooding in to Ukraine, and finally, the protests in Macedonia against the EU accession process which has come with some hard-to-swallow conditions.

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00:37:35

EP 102 - Bought and sold by the fossil fuel lobby

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2022/07/08

This week Clare, Mick and Damien are in Strasbourg, where the Parliament has just voted to classify gas and nuclear as “sustainable” - a huge win for interests in those industries and a huge loss for the planet. They also discuss the question of the rising cost of living and how the EU political establishment is reframing dissent on any issue as “support for Russia”.

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00:43:06

EP 101 - Shocking Anti-Europeanism

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2022/07/01

This week on the podcast we talked about the wider implications of the war in Ukraine - particularly how it is affecting the cost of living and recent geopolitical shifts that it has occasioned. We also discuss the massacre of migrants in the Spanish enclave of Melilla in Morocco and the shocking reaction of the Taoiseach when asked about this in the Dáil. Finally we discuss how accusations of spreading disinformation are being used to silence dissenting voices

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00:35:21

EP 100 - Better late than never

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2022/06/28

We’re coming to you little late with some updates from last week. We discuss the recent vote on Ukrainian accession to the EU, the US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the EU Emissions Trading System, and finally, inflation and spiralling inequality.

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00:48:29

EP 99 - The people of Europe want peace

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2022/06/18

This week Mick, Clare, Damien and special guest Aoife are discussing: food and fuel scarcity resulting from the war, a recent survey on opinions in Europe which found that a majority of European citizens favour peace over punishing Russia, this week's vote on the sustainable finance taxonomy and the reconvening of the EU- Catalunya dialogue.

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EP 98 - Afghanistan, keeping food from the hungry to...

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2022/06/10

It’s been a busy week in Strasbourg. Mick, Clare and Damien discuss a vote on an important climate change file - Fit for ’55 which collapsed this week after it was watered down beyond recognition by some of the far-right groups in the EP. We also discuss the war in Ukraine and the fact that the most right-wing elements in the Parliament are shaping EU policy in that area. We also chat about Michael Martin’s visit to Strasbourg and his address to the Parliament. Finally, the World Food Program in

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00:46:57

EP 97 - Reverberations of the war

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2022/06/03

This week on the podcast we're discussing the latest in the European Parliament. First the EU Taxonomy for sustainable investments and the repercussions of classifying gas and nuclear as "sustainable". We also discuss increasing militarism with Denmark's decision to become involved in European Defence and moves by Sweden and Finland towards NATO membership; migration and the decision to give FRONTEX, the EU Border and Coast Guard Agency lethal weapons for the first time; Irish fishers' visit to

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00:47:52

EP 96 - Information war

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2022/05/28

3 months into the war in Ukraine nothing has changed and everything has. This week we’re discussing media coverage of the war and access for journalists, global increases in military spending, the war being fought on the level of narrative and information, NATO expansion, and the International Criminal Court.

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00:58:34

EP 95 - Guest appearance: Think For Yourself

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2022/05/23

A few weeks back Mick and Clare were interviewed on Think For Yourself with Ewan MacKenna. They discuss the war in Ukraine and the debunk some of the accusations that have been levelled at them by the Irish media.

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