Stop buying, start making! Stop buying, start growing! Stop buying, start sharing!... [read more]

Social change needs good politics. Good politics needs communities. And communities need individuality... [read more]

Neoconservatives including Clintonites are pushing hard for a direct US attack on Syria to prevent the collapse of their regime change project... [read more]

As the future of public service broadcasting is uncertain, it is timely now to again ask a familiar question and to broaden the debate beyond the confines of sectional interest... [read more]

Two book reviews by outRageous!... [read more]

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Part 7 in a series of articles by Eric Toussaint - Governments submit to “Too Big to Fail” banks ... [read more]

Private banks shamefully enjoy a monopoly of lending to the public sector... [read more]

The Western world, used to its democratic frame of mind, is constantly telling Muslims in general and Arabs in particular, to build democratic governments... [read more]

Meliorism "is the view that the world is neither completely good nor completely bad, and that incremental progress or regress depend on human actions." This view holds that "By creative intelligence and education we can improve the environment and social conditions."... [read more]

Dr Faysal Mikdadi explains how education is the key to Palestinian liberation and democracy... [read more]

NOT SURE ABOUT THIS ARTICLE ER 07/10... [read more]

outRageous! is back asking the questions no one else dares... [read more]

outRageous! is back and asking the questions nobody else dares... [read more]

For years now the debate over choices of far-right supporters has created social and ethical tensions. Since the political rumble of the 1970s and 1980s, which sparked far-left and far-right tensions, the far-right membership has increased and declined more than any other political following, writes Elijah Pryor.... [read more]

It’s a great irony that although human beings, as distinct from other animals, are characterised by their ability for rational thinking, so much of our behaviour is irrational, argues John Green.... [read more]

Steve Jones calls on the left to get behind John McDonnell's candidacy for the Labour leadership.... [read more]

Looking back over the US presidential election contest, Ramzy Baroud is sceptical about the likelihood of serious "change" under an Obama administration.... [read more]

Here in the UK we’re trapped yet again by that old mantra: Hurry up and wait. It’s such a familiar fallback by now we tend to regard it as the norm.... [read more]

A new BBC season of programmes concerns ‘the novels that shaped our world.’ The perspective is the novel as a social agent, articulating experience to give it public voice.... [read more]

Referendums are part of history.... [read more]

Christianne Boudreau has worked with other parents internationally to create and promote educational programs to counter extremism.... [read more]

Place your bets, ladies and gents. Spin the wheel, round and round she goes and where she stops, nobody knows.... [read more]

It�s hard now to believe how things once were. Full-blooded socialism never found a secure place in the British experience, but through the Seventies we had something more than the piecemeal reform of social democracy.... [read more]

Throughout the world heat waves, flooding and uncontrollable wildfires have caused widespread havoc, lives have been lost, homes destroyed, livelihoods ruined. ... [read more]

Here's a tale to warm your cockles - wherever they may be... [read more]

The prime minister has been officially accused by the police on two counts of bribery... [read more]

One of the most frustrating aspects of analysing current events is just how fast the world-picture changes... [read more]

One vital aspect of Globalisation is that local wage traditions, built up over centuries of trade union struggles by the working class, have to give way to cheap labour that moves at the speed of money around the globe to satisfy the needs of multinational companies. Cheap labour has been achieved by making wars and creating a refugee crisis... [read more]

Hallelujah! At long last I have found a point on which I agree with Binyamin Netanyahu. Really!... [read more]

Baffled? Confused? Me too!... you, too?... [read more]

A team of researchers at the University of Oxford published the results of a survey of the world’s best artificial intelligence experts, who predicted that there was a 50 percent chance of AI outperforming humans in all tasks within 45 years... [read more]

I come from a fairly long line of mercantile family forebears with strong business skills and profit inspired attitudes. Although I chose not to go into business as my brothers did and I became a teacher of English, every emotional nerve in my body believed in wealth creation as being the only way forward for all.... [read more]

2016 has been the year of Brexit, Trump’s election and the defeat of the Italian prime minister Renzi in the constitutional referendum... [read more]

Would or could a different leader of this or that have altered the prospect of past, present or future... [read more]

How much should individuality be important for progressive forces? And is it possible to reconcile economic utility and individual autonomy?... [read more]

Dr Tomasz Pierscionek reviews a book by TJ Coles... [read more]

The story of the White Helmets is principally a “feel good” hoax to manipulate public perception about the conflict in Syria and continue the drive for “regime change”... [read more]

Part Three: The Palace Stinks!... [read more]

The National Health versus The Health of the Nation by outRageous!... [read more]

Former Labour shadow cabinet minister, Bryan Gould, questions the economic benefits Britain supposedly derives from being part of the EU... [read more]

During 1980 a small group was formed to act under the aegis of Michael Grylls, MP, who was then the Chairman of the back bench Industry Committee in the House of Commons... [read more]

Part 5 of the series 'Too Big to Fail' by Eric Toussaint... [read more]

There is no such thing as "international terrorism". To declare war on "international terrorism" is nonsense. Politicians who do so are either fools or cynics, and probably both.... [read more]

Global agribusiness is playing fast and loose with poor people’s lives and is profiting handsomely.... [read more]

The ways in which guns are deployed has something to do with the systems in which they are embedded... [read more]

On 5 July 2015 the Greek people overwhelmingly rejected the austerity measures imposed by the institutions that were known as the Troika... [read more]

Bryan Gould, former Labour shadow cabinet minister, says Labour's leaders must be prepared to do the hard work needed to produce a convincing alternative in line with much current and developing economic thinking... [read more]

Movies about abandoning Earth reflect the political defeatism of our age: that adapting to climate breakdown is preferable to stopping it, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]

Thomas Riggins continues to guide us through Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century... [read more]

It’s not enough to defeat Tory ideology. We also have to defeat the Tory propaganda machine that brainwashes people with their slogans and catch-phrases... [read more]

The horrific carnage we have seen unleashed in Gaza in recent weeks - a humanitarian catastrophe - would not have been politically or economically affordable without the tacit acquiescence of the global jewellery industry... [read more]

Monsanto believes it is having trouble getting its message across to the public. Last year, it began a makeover. It realised that it and GMOs have an image problem... [read more]

A Ugandan Catholic priest analyses the reasons for the existence of homophobia in Africa... [read more]

Carol Grayson asks whether the CIA website should be banned as the organisation is implicated in torture and promotes violence... [read more]

Part 2 of Eric Toussaint's review of Thomas Piketty book Capital in the Twenty-First Century... [read more]

Imagine waking up in a world where you feel good about going to work, no matter the nature of your job... [read more]

George Tait Edwards comments on the comparisons and contrasts between the policies and personalities of Shinzo Abe, the Prime Minster of Japan, and David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom... [read more]

We in Britain are often subject to the age old criticism of being insular and self engrossed. Whereas this is not strictly speaking true, there is an element of truth in this belief... [read more]

A crisis is a crucial point, a turning point, a situation that demands change or reaction in order to resolve the situation... [read more]

George Tait Edwards discusses the immense contribution that Dr Osamu Shimomura (1910-1989) made to the field of economics... [read more]

Shirley Langer, author of 'Anita's revolution', lived and worked in Cuba for almost five years in the mid 1960s. She describes how, after the revolution, Cubans managed to eradicate illiteracy in a matter of months.... [read more]

Linda Rogers reviews a novel by Shirley Langer, friend of Cuba and witness to the early years of the revolution... [read more]

It was once stated, that “those who ignore history are doomed to repeat its mistakes”. Over the past few weeks, in the northern city of Manchester, UK, the question of learning has been at the very centre of the Anne Frank + You exhibition, writes Hussein Al-alak... [read more]

George Monbiot asked whether it is about time the media stopped publishing recipes for threatened fish?... [read more]

The rich world is causing the famines it claims to be preventing, says George Monbiot.... [read more]

David Morgan brings to light a deeply worrying trend that exists within the Japanese modelling agency ... [read more]

In the last of a series of articles on the French elections, David Eade looks at the breakdown of the National Assembly elections and the way forward for Francois Hollande and the Parti Socialiste ... [read more]

David Lane reviews a collection of three volumes compiled by Craig Calhoun and Georgi Derluguian chronicling the origins and aftermath of the global financial crisis... [read more]

Karl Davis argues that those protesting against the monarchy are aiming their ire at the wrong target... [read more]

Our world view is in danger of being dictated by the digital gods. Bryan Taylor reports on how Google and the social media we revel in are moulding themselves around us.... [read more]

This rant is aimed at your crassness, Cameron. It goes to the heart of what is art, and why it's so important in preparing people for democracy, says outRageous!... [read more]

John Green asks whether we need a mass party to represent the unions and the left and to advance the interests of the entire working class (Part 2)... [read more]

The corporate newspapers are the elite’s enforcers, misrepresenting the sources of oppression, says George Monbiot.... [read more]

outRageous! thinks sports have gone Doo-£ally!... [read more]

Ramzy Baroud notes the U-turn in Turkey's foreign policy towards its neighbour Syria.... [read more]

Part 2 of an analysis by OutRageous! looking at the slavery endemic in our modern society.... [read more]

Dr Tomasz Pierscionek looks at how the state reacts when it feels its authority being usurped.... [read more]

The US deficit reduction plan makes no sense – until you remember who’s behind the Tea Party movement. ... [read more]

Now that the dust has settled on Ed Miliband's surprise victory in the Labour leadership election, Michael Prior considers the challenges facing the new leader as he seeks to move the party away from Blairism.... [read more]

Peter Tatchell argues education, not criminalisation, is the best way to protect children when it comes to sexuality.... [read more]

Ahmed Amr says the Israeli massacre of activists was a cynical and calculated act.... [read more]

Steven Colatrella picks apart the myth that free market capitalism is the most rational way of allocating resources.... [read more]

The enormous popularity of Italy's right-wing demagogue is a reflection of the corrupt cynicism of contemporary mass culture, argues Paolo Mossetti.... [read more]

The increasing concentration of ownership of media outlets into relatively few hands presents a serious threat to democratic freedom of expression, says Ramzy Baroud.... [read more]

Local papers are vanishing. George Monbiot asks: Does it matter? ... [read more]

Whoever wins the next election, 'austerity' - i.e. cutting back services for those who need them most - will be the watchword of British politics for the next few years, as Rob Sewell explains.... [read more]

Matt Genner examines the impact of the dot com revolution on democratic debate and political activism.... [read more]

George Monbiot sets a few things straight in an open letter to government minister Hazel Blears.... [read more]

With two tragic Palestinian deaths receiving international publicity, Ramzy Baroud considers the everyday suffering inflicted upon women in times of war and occupation.... [read more]

George Monbiot on why the struggle against climate change is being undermined by political short-termism.... [read more]

The Government offers us 'choice' as 'empowerment' but are they really giving us less choice as a result?... [read more]

Peter Taylor-Gooby argues that the Conservative party's latest attempt to scapegoat the poor reflects the extent to which Thatcherite individualism has poisoned British society after over a decade of New Labour in power.... [read more]

Victor Petroff believes a drastic change in energy policy is required to combat both climate change and the world food crisis. ... [read more]

If you care about hunger, eat less meat.... [read more]

Josh Lucker considers the effects of night work on workers' health.... [read more]

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