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Spot the Difference: Public Relations and Journalism
Finn Bowen asks that in light of the possible convergence of Public Relations and Journalism - once completely separate professions - can we ‘trust the truth’ the media portray? ... [read more]
Australia and Asylum Seekers: Media Perspectives
The issue is not 'boat people' but imperialist expansion explains Finn Bowen
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An Open Letter to Tiffany’s Chairman, CEO, Chief Sustainability Officer and Corporate Social Responsibility Committee
Tiffany’s should act immediately to disassociate itself from BSGR and ensure that their cut and polished diamonds are not a source of revenue for regimes guilty of gross human rights violations in Africa or Palestine... [read more]
The teratoid of US foreign policy
Since the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, the US has struggled with its foreign policy and its perceived role within global politics. Finn Bowen discusses the past, present and future of US foreign policy... [read more]
Is this the Sudanese summer?
Omar Zaki explores the recent protests taking place across Sudan and the implications for the government of President Omar Al-Bashir... [read more]
In the Panama Capers we Trust
The leaked Panama Papers, from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca & Co, are spilling the beans on the details of what the rich, powerful and greedy get up to with unseemly amounts of dosh... [read more]
Melinda Taylor: The Spy That Got Away?
On the 7th of June 2012, Melinda Taylor and three other ICC delegates were arrested in the city of Zintan in Libya by Zintani militia. How should the Australian media handle the story? Finn Bowen takes a look.... [read more]
Syria: From the sublime to the shameful
What follows is a report from a resident of Aleppo whose identity is not revealed for reasons of security... [read more]
ASLEF Tube Driver Strike: Look beyond the picket line to see the real story..
On Boxing Day, ASLEF members employed by London Underground Limited (LUL) staged a 24 hour strike and the press have been predictable in attempting to whip up hysteria and outrage, reports Karl Davis... [read more]
Iran as the Historical Tri-Continental Bridge, and Ireland? An Ethno-Cultural and Etymological Interconnectedness
Over forty years ago, a number of Irish professors visiting the University of Tehran disseminated their research findings that there is a firm anthropological connection between Iran and Ireland from the distant past... [read more]
Fracktured Britain
By downplaying all the issues that adversely affect the environment, the politicos have been mutually assuring our own demise - and theirs!... [read more]
Iran - A Travelogue to Home Away from Home
David Rhani describes his latest trip to Iran... [read more]
Yemen: A Voice in the Wilderness
Vanessa Beeley interviews a woman who fled Yemen in the wake of the Saudi-led coalition airstrikes against her country... [read more]
The Impunity Enjoyed by the Banks must Stop
The final part of the series by Eric Toussaint - The Banks and the “Too Big to Jail” Doctrine... [read more]
Iraq’s Children: Ever Expendable - From Madeleine Albright to “Save the Children.”
By 2010, seven years in to an unending war, over a quarter of Iraqi children suffered from Post Traumatic Stress disorder... [read more]
Treasure hunt in Wendish Lusatia
Tomaš Kappa tells a story about Germany’s biggest secret and a scandal, its treatment of the Sorbian people ... [read more]
Universal Credit: UC what U want 2C
The Major Projects Authority has serious doubts about the prospects for Iain Duncan Smith’s pet project, the Universal Credit, says Felix McHugh... [read more]
The ‘MENA’ region and the International Monetary Fund
Daniel Robicheau describes the lead up to the war in Syria and the involvement of the IMF... [read more]
Was the Bahraini ambassador trying to bribe British MPs?
It is interesting to receive two different news stories on the same day both mentioning the Gulf state of Bahrain and the UK Parliament, writes Iqbal Tamimi.... [read more]
Iran and the imminent prospect of another unilateral war waged by Israel in the Middle East
Israel, presumably due to its longstanding failure to reach amicable peace with Palestine and the Arab neighbors since 1967, is imminently determined to wage a unilateral war on Iran while struggling to divert internal dissent from its lingering economic and socio–political challenges and international isolations, writes Freeman Ure. ... [read more]
Fox in the Hen House: Why Interest Rates Are Rising
The Fed is aggressively raising interest rates, although inflation is contained, private debt is already at 150% of GDP, and rising variable rates could push borrowers into insolvency. So what is driving the Fed’s push to “tighten”?... [read more]
When Is there Going to be Accountability for US Wars and Aggression?
US makes new claims of WMD in Syria... [read more]
Natural England Loses Credibility
How often will Natural England (NE) be told by judges to release information about the ongoing badger culls?... [read more]
Trump, North Korea, Iran. Some Facts and “the instinct to attack.”
“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?” (Mahatma Gandi, 1869-1948)... [read more]
Branded
Perhaps the most sadly significant sign among the daily deceits currently stinking up the White House, is the redefinition of "presidential."... [read more]
“Ryancare” Dead on Arrival: Can We Please Now Try Single Payer?
The new American Health Care Act has been unveiled, and critics are calling it more flawed even than the Obamacare it was meant to replace... [read more]
Does Syria Have the Right to Defend Itself?
The Syrian government is truly fighting to defend itself against an armed opposition that is violent, sectarian and unpopular with the large majority of Syrians... [read more]
The Betrayal of Syria - US, France and Britain’s UN Ambassadors at the United Nations
“An ambassador is a … gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.” (Attributed to Sir Henry Wotton, 1568-1639)... [read more]
Two Natanz-es? The One I Eternally Adore Is . . . Real!
Natanz is the name of the ancient and tranquil township whose otherwise noble name has been excessively abused by the Western and US media circus in the past decade... [read more]
Ukraine, the price of survival: from civilian aircraft to attack drones
The Ukrainian aviation conglomerate Antonov was more than an industry; it was a legend... [read more]
Health and Humanity Part 4: MIC and BPS
The recent and ongoing reaction of the political class here in the UK to the first prominent peace-promoting party leader in recent times is a yardstick for the modern politician’s disregard to anything Eisenhower said... [read more]
Britain and Saudi Arabia - Collusion in Barbarism
Last September, Saudi was elected Chair of the UN Human Rights Council with Britain’s collusion... [read more]
Yalda: the winter solstice
Winter solstice has been celebrated by many human communities throughout the millennia... [read more]
The left wing case for quitting the EU
Much of the left would agree that the European Union does not always function in the best interests of either the European or International working class... [read more]
Cligg’s Clangers
Dorset’s wildlife campaigners are working flat out to prepare for a possible badger cull... [read more]
Aleppo a city ravaged by “Islamic State” and Imperialism
This is a report from an Aleppo resident whose identity is protected for their own security... [read more]
Re-Packaging Masculinity in Tony Abbott’s Body Politic - A Painting
In 2015 the industry of terrorism has moved into a new phase and the scenarios I painted – such as the militarisation of civil society - have gone mainstream... [read more]
Here’s to a Pretty Pink Nation
The all-Tory government has only been in place for four weeks. The amount of daft and non-think policy statements coming out would be laughable if they weren’t so dreadful... [read more]
Why Public Banks Outperform Private Banks: Unfair Competition or a Better Mousetrap?
In November 2014, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Bank of North Dakota (BND), the nation’s only state-owned bank, is more profitable than Goldman Sachs Group... [read more]
U.S. cops kill at 100 times rate of other capitalist countries
How many people are killed every year by the police in the U.S?... [read more]
Splendid Isolation
Almost a thousand Israeli personalities have already signed an appeal to European parliaments for their governments to recognize the State of Palestine... [read more]
Would Scottish Independence Mean Economic Sovereignty?
Scottish voters will go to the polls on September 18th to decide whether Scotland should become an independent country... [read more]
Bury my Heart at Gaza City
The similarities between the building of Israel and the US are astonishing. The native people are portrayed as savage, inherently violent, unable to understand peace... [read more]
The Dilemma of the Israeli Government in Gaza
The 72 hour cease-fire between Israel and Hamas did not last more than a few hours... [read more]
Owen Paterson Sacked: Is this the end of “badger bashing”?
All those working to protect our precious (and valuable) environment were greatly cheered to hear that finally we can wave goodbye to Owen Paterson... [read more]
Comparison of the Washington, Berlin, and Tokyo Consensus Zones -Which one really works?
George Tait Edwards compares three separate economic systems presently operating around the world... [read more]
Police, Guns, Action – how safe were England’s pilot badger culls?
The British government’s policy to rid England’s cattle of bovine TB by culling badgers is unravelling writes Lesley Docksey... [read more]
Syria and Ukraine: Two Elections, Diplomatic Shenanigans, Double Standards and Insurgents
Thursday 15th May marked Nakba Day, Yawm an-Nakba, “Day of Catastrophe”: the onset of the displacement of perhaps 800,000 Palestinians... [read more]
Syria and Ukraine: Two Elections, Diplomatic Shenanigans, Double Standards and Insurgents
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The Peoples Assembly - Flexing Our Muscles
Dr Thabo Miller encourages the People's Assembly to adopt an electoral strategy... [read more]
Melbourne Honours "The Auschwitz Volunteer"
Captain Witold Pilecki was a Polish hero who, amongst many of his heroic deeds in World War II, volunteered to be captured and sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp (“Auschwitz”)... [read more]
Lenin on the "Withering Away'' of the State and Violent Revolution
Lenin discusses these two topics in section four of chapter one of The State and Revolution (1917)... [read more]
Terrorism or Heroism?
The International Brigades were hailed for bravery. But British citizens who fight in Syria are damned. If only they did it for the money, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Free Rolf Kaestel: The prisoner who blew the whistle on a prison blood scandal linked to Bill Clinton
Most of us have read how difficult it has been for whistleblowers Julian Assange and Edward Snowdon since exposing state secrets, now imagine blowing the whistle from behind bars of one of America’s most notorious penitentiaries... [read more]
Waziristan: Tribal residents caught between drones, the Pakistani army and insurgents
Gohar Mehsud, a journalist from Islamabad, describes how civilians in Pakistan's tribal regions are caught between US drone strikes, assaults from the Pakistani military and Taliban activity... [read more]
The Philosophical Idealists as Comrades in Arms and Successors of Empirio-Criticism
Thomas Riggins walks us through Chapter 4 of Lenin's Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
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The Banks, Fragile Giants
Part 5 of Eric Toussaint's series Banks versus the People: the Underside of a Rigged Game shows that big banks continue playing with fire, because they are persuaded that governments will save them whenever necessary... [read more]
A journey into the vice-ridden world of banking
The primary objective of the world’s leaders is to avoid another banking and financial crash that could be worse than the one in September 2008... [read more]
Media prejudice
The 6 o'clock news may not have mentioned it but an investigation by the BBC Trust criticised John Humphrys' The Future of the Welfare State... [read more]
Reading Lenin: Materialism and Empiro-criticism [Part 8]
Thomas Riggins leads us through chapter two: the theory of knowledge of Empirio-Criticism and of Dialectical Materialism... [read more]
It Can Happen Here: The Bank Confiscation Scheme for US and UK Depositors
Confiscating the customer deposits in Cyprus banks, it seems, was not a one-off, desperate idea of a few Eurozone “troika” officials scrambling to salvage their balance sheets reveals Ellen Brown... [read more]
Barbican Centre Cleaners in Historic Strike for the Living Wage
Election Day for the Corporation of London will see a strike of cleaners at the Barbican Centre... [read more]
The Economy: Happy Days Are Here Again! For Whom?
Last week the stock market made a great leap forward. "Dow Leaps to Record" the Wall Street Journal blazoned on its front page. Thomas Riggins shows that the resurrection and coming again of the Dow is only one expression of the economy... [read more]
If markets weren't masters and economics worked for people
The choice on the one hand is for people to be a resource for a rich economy. The choice on the other is for a rich economy to be a resource for society. Alfie Stirling explains... [read more]
If you think we're done with neoliberalism, think again
The global application of a fraudulent economic theory brought the west to its knees. Yet for those in power, it offers riches, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Hard-working families. Aincha just sick of them?
Felix McHugh shines a spotlight on the propaganda spread by the mainstream parties that seeks to demonise those made unemployed or those who are too ill to work... [read more]
Police & Crime Commissioners and the Tories
The chaotic and rambling drumbeat of the Tory march has been laid bare for the questioning ears of the world once more, says Karl Davis... [read more]
The life and death of an Australian hero, whose skin was the wrong colour
Arthur Murray died the other day. I turned to Google Australia for tributes, and there was a 1991 obituary of an American ballroom instructor of the same name. There was nothing in the Australian media, writes John Pilger.... [read more]
The Mind Thieves
The evidence linking Alzheimer’s disease to the food industry is strong and is growing, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
The psychological damage of warfare
Since the federation of Australia in 1901, more than 100,000 young men have died, fighting to protect their country. But the real victims here were those affected psychologically, writes Finn Bowen. ... [read more]
Corporate Media Bashes Venezuelan Government's Law Decrees
Chavez critics don't explain Venezuelan law or how Supreme Court rulings interpret it. Nor do they report how the Enabling Law works, that the nation's Constitution authorizes it, that four other presidents used it, among many other things. How can they? It would expose their false accusations and discredit their entire argument.... [read more]