Doug Ireland
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Doug Ireland is an American
journalist
and blogger who writes about politics, power, media, and also about gay issues. He is the U.S. correspondent for the French political-investigative weekly Bakchich, for which he also writes a weekly column, and he is also the Contributing Editor for International Affairs of Gay City News, the largest LGBT weekly newspaper in New York City and in the U.S.
Ireland began his journalism career at the New York Post
when it was still owned by Dorothy Schiff and considered the most liberal daily newspaper in the U.S. He lived for ten years in France
, writing on European politics and culture for various publications; and he has continued to write frequently about French and European politics and foreign affairs. Ireland has been an assiduous promoter in the United States of the work of the prolific young French philosopher Michel Onfray
.
Ireland has been a columnist for the Village Voice, the New York Observer
New York magazine, and the Paris daily Libération
, among other publications He is also a contributing editor of POZ, the monthly for the HIV-positive community, of the magazine In These Times
and the French satirical news website Bakchich
.
A severe critic from the left of Bill Clinton's presidency, Ireland for three years wrote a syndicated Clinton Watch column. He wrote extensively in opposition to the two invasions of Iraq by Bush pere and fils, and against the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.
Ireland was part of the early 1960s American new left. He was a member of Students for a Democratic Society
, and was elected to its National Council in 1963 at the age of 17. He also spent a year on the SDS national staff, as Assistant National Secretary, in 1963-64. Ireland dropped out of SDS in 1966 to devote his time to electoral organizing against the Vietnam war. As a staff member of the New Jersey Industrial Union Council AFL-CIO and the United Auto Workers Region 9-A, in 1967 he helped to organize the National Labor Leaderhip Assembly for Peace to oppose the Vietnam war.
An early member of the Dump Johnson movement
, Ireland was recruited for the staff of the presidential campaign of the man who became the anti-war candidate of the Dump Johnson movement, Senator Eugene McCarthy, for whom Ireland coordinated the Mid-Atlantic region of states. Following the 1968 Democratic National Convention (at which he coordinated McCarthy's labor support and helped organize demonstrations by Convention delegates against police brutality targeting anti-war demonstrators) Ireland went to Long Island to help run the successful campaign for Congress by Allard Lowenstein, considered the principal founder of the Dump Johnson movement. After a stint as a journalist on the New York Post
and then on the Community News Service (a short-lived wire service providing news of the black, Latino, and other minority racial communuities), he resigned to manage the successful 1970 anti-Vietnam war campaign for Congress by Bella Abzug
, making her the first left radical to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives since Vito Marcantonio
. He also managed Abzug's 1976 campaign for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from New York, which Abzug narrowly lost by 0.10 per cent of the vote to Daniel Patrick Moynihan
. After that, Ireland returned full-time to journalism in 1977, and has remained a journalist since.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
and blogger who writes about politics, power, media, and also about gay issues. He is the U.S. correspondent for the French political-investigative weekly Bakchich, for which he also writes a weekly column, and he is also the Contributing Editor for International Affairs of Gay City News, the largest LGBT weekly newspaper in New York City and in the U.S.
Ireland began his journalism career at the New York Post
New York Post
The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although – as is the case with most other papers – its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions...
when it was still owned by Dorothy Schiff and considered the most liberal daily newspaper in the U.S. He lived for ten years in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, writing on European politics and culture for various publications; and he has continued to write frequently about French and European politics and foreign affairs. Ireland has been an assiduous promoter in the United States of the work of the prolific young French philosopher Michel Onfray
Michel Onfray
Michel Onfray is a contemporary French philosopher who adheres to hedonism, atheism and anarchism...
.
Ireland has been a columnist for the Village Voice, the New York Observer
New York Observer
The New York Observer is a weekly newspaper first published in New York City on September 22, 1987, by Arthur L. Carter, a very successful former investment banker with publishing interests. The Observer focuses on the city's culture, real estate, the media, politics and the entertainment and...
New York magazine, and the Paris daily Libération
Libération
Libération is a French daily newspaper founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. Originally a leftist newspaper, it has undergone a number of shifts during the 1980s and 1990s...
, among other publications He is also a contributing editor of POZ, the monthly for the HIV-positive community, of the magazine In These Times
In These Times
In These Times is a politically progressive monthly magazine of news and opinion published by the Institute for Public Affairs in Chicago...
and the French satirical news website Bakchich
Bakchich
Bakchich is a French news website founded in May 2006.It has some articles .The chief editor is Nicolas Beau, a former reporter at the satirical weekly Le Canard enchaîné....
.
A severe critic from the left of Bill Clinton's presidency, Ireland for three years wrote a syndicated Clinton Watch column. He wrote extensively in opposition to the two invasions of Iraq by Bush pere and fils, and against the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.
Ireland was part of the early 1960s American new left. He was a member of Students for a Democratic Society
Students for a Democratic Society (1960 organization)
Students for a Democratic Society was a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations of the country's New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960s before dissolving at its last convention in 1969...
, and was elected to its National Council in 1963 at the age of 17. He also spent a year on the SDS national staff, as Assistant National Secretary, in 1963-64. Ireland dropped out of SDS in 1966 to devote his time to electoral organizing against the Vietnam war. As a staff member of the New Jersey Industrial Union Council AFL-CIO and the United Auto Workers Region 9-A, in 1967 he helped to organize the National Labor Leaderhip Assembly for Peace to oppose the Vietnam war.
An early member of the Dump Johnson movement
Dump Johnson movement
The Dump Johnson movement was a movement within the United States Democratic Party to oppose the candidacy of President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson to become the party's nominee in the 1968 presidential election...
, Ireland was recruited for the staff of the presidential campaign of the man who became the anti-war candidate of the Dump Johnson movement, Senator Eugene McCarthy, for whom Ireland coordinated the Mid-Atlantic region of states. Following the 1968 Democratic National Convention (at which he coordinated McCarthy's labor support and helped organize demonstrations by Convention delegates against police brutality targeting anti-war demonstrators) Ireland went to Long Island to help run the successful campaign for Congress by Allard Lowenstein, considered the principal founder of the Dump Johnson movement. After a stint as a journalist on the New York Post
New York Post
The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although – as is the case with most other papers – its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions...
and then on the Community News Service (a short-lived wire service providing news of the black, Latino, and other minority racial communuities), he resigned to manage the successful 1970 anti-Vietnam war campaign for Congress by Bella Abzug
Bella Abzug
Bella Savitsky Abzug was an American lawyer, Congresswoman, social activist and a leader of the Women's Movement. In 1971, Abzug joined other leading feminists such as Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan to found the National Women's Political Caucus...
, making her the first left radical to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives since Vito Marcantonio
Vito Marcantonio
Vito Anthony Marcantonio was an American lawyer and democratic socialist politician. Originally a member of the Republican Party and a supporter of Fiorello LaGuardia, he switched to the American Labor Party.-Early life:...
. He also managed Abzug's 1976 campaign for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from New York, which Abzug narrowly lost by 0.10 per cent of the vote to Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Daniel Patrick "Pat" Moynihan was an American politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the United States Senate for New York in 1976, and was re-elected three times . He declined to run for re-election in 2000...
. After that, Ireland returned full-time to journalism in 1977, and has remained a journalist since.
External links
- Doug Ireland's blog DIRELAND
- Doug Ireland's articles for The Nation
- Doug Ireland's articles for the L.A. Weekly
- Doug Ireland's articles for In These Times
- Doug Ireland's syndicated "Clinton Watch" columns
- Doug Ireland, "The Crisis at Le Monde: The Inside Story" (November 2004)
- Doug Ireland, "Why Is France Burning? Behind the Ghetto Riots" (Tikkun, November 2004)
- Democracy Now radio interview with Doug Ireland on "De Villepin the Wire-tapper: Chirac's New Prime Minister" (May 31, 2005)
- Ireland Debates Christopher Hitchens on George Bush and the War in Iraq
- Doug Ireland, "RESTORING PASOLINI: 30 Years Later, New Questions About Who Murdered the Italian Cultural Giant" (L.A. Weekly, August 4, 2005)
- Doug Ireland, "Introduction to Michel Onfray" (New Politics, Winter 2006)
- Doug Ireland's series of articles on the persecution of Iranian homosexuals, including six interviews with Iranian gay and lesbian torture victims