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Flight MH17 – Imperialism and the art of hypocrisy
The blame game commenced immediately. Without waiting for an investigation or any hard information whatsoever, Washington lost no time in pointing an accusing finger at Moscow... [read more]
University of Terror
Some days ago, a man committed an act of terrorism in the center of London, a city I love.... [read more]
Neocons vs. the ‘Arab Spring’: Back on the Warpath
The neoconservatives are back with a vengeance. While popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and other Arab countries had briefly rendered them irrelevant in the region, Western intervention in Libya signaled a new opportunity, writes Ramzy Baroud.... [read more]
Misunderstanding the FARC
Garry Leech on why the media's so-called 'experts' on the Colombian guerrilla group keep getting it wrong.... [read more]
Health and Humanity Part 3: Charity Begins At Home
Increasingly, it appears charities and NGOs are behaving in a corporate fashion, which may or may not be a good thing.... [read more]
Spying an opportunity
Stephen Gilbert argues that surveillance over the whole population involves an erosion of our basic liberties. We give away our rights at our own peril.
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The Fake Enemy
Netanyahu doesn't care. Peace is the last thing he has on his troubled mind. He is far more committed to the eternal conflict with both the Arabs and the Iranians. After all, what would life be like without enemies?... [read more]
WMD in Syria just like Iraq in 2003? Contradictions in the UN/OPCW Report on Khan Shaykhun
In early 2003 it was claimed that Iraq was a threat to other countries. Today we have something similarly ridiculous and dangerous. Supposedly the Syrian government decided to use a banned chemical weapon which they gave up in 2013-2014... [read more]
In One Word: Poof!
Poor John Kerry. This week he emitted a sound that was more expressive than pages of diplomatic babble.... [read more]
Crisis: The Worst Since the 1930s
Michael Roberts argues the present economic slump is merely the first stage of a long-term deflationary depression.... [read more]
How to Fund a Universal Basic Income Without Increasing Taxes or Inflation
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]
President Kong
The real sad fact is that in every single speech since the inauguration, the main theme – indeed, almost the only theme - of President Donald Trump is I – I – I.... [read more]
Squaring the Circle
This week, President Rivlin published a peace plan. That is not a usual act by a president, whose office is mainly ceremonial.... [read more]
Iraq: US, UK Fabricated WMD Threat
The scorched earth onslaught of 2003 and subsequent years of bombings brought further radioactive pollution in orders of magnitude. The US is now bombing again.... [read more]
A Lonely Lawyer
By now every Israeli has seen the TV clip several times - showing a 14-year old Arab girl being shot dead... [read more]
UN Farce: Saudi Arabia to Head Human Rights Council
The UN has appointed Saudi Arabia’s envoy to the United Nations Human Rights Council to head (or should that be “behead”) an influential human rights panel... [read more]
Absolutely Bloody Bonkers!
At a Badger Trust seminar a few days later a great debate took place between both pro and anti-cull experts... [read more]
State and Revolution (conclusion)
Thomas Riggins concludes his analysis of Lenin's work - State and Revolution... [read more]
Monsanto’s Biotech Public Relations Makeover: Lubricating the Wheels of the GMO Trojan Horse
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]
Piketty for Progressives
Part 1 of Thomas Riggins's analysis of Thomas Piketty's book - Introduction to Capital in the Twenty-First Century... [read more]
Who is Winning?
Uri Avnery asks what history would look like if it were written in the style of the "Solid Cliff (a.k.a. Protective Edge) operation?... [read more]
Pakistan ambassador calls for ban on drones at UN conference as several persons reported killed in latest strike
The CCW Meeting of Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) took place from 13 to 16 May 2014 at the United Nations in Geneva... [read more]
Ukraine: US Ambassador to Moscow’s 2008 Cable: “Nyet, Means Nyet – Russia’s NATO Engagement’s Red Line.”
Headlines in the mainstream Western media, and Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague, obediently echo White House propaganda... [read more]
The People's Assembly- Building an Alternative
The People’s Assembly has the potential to become the successor to the popular fronts of the 1930s in uniting the broad left writes Dr Thabo Miller... [read more]
The Mockery of Banking Discipline
Part 7 of Eric Toussaint series, Banks versus the People: the Underside of a Rigged Game... [read more]
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]
The Assassination
From the first moment, I did not have the slightest doubt that Yasser Arafat was assassinated... [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]
Obama's rogue state tramples over every law it demands others uphold
For 67 years the US has pursued its own interests at the expense of global justice – no wonder people are sceptical now, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Obama's rogue state tramples over every law it demands others uphold
For 67 years the US has pursued its own interests at the expense of global justice – no wonder people are sceptical now, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Iraq Ten Years On: What You Don’t Hear!
10 years on from the invasion of Iraq, Hussein Al-Alak examines the long term psychological effects of the occupation... [read more]
Justice This Time Around: Will Goldstone's Report Deliver?
Israel has arrogantly dismissed the findings of a new, detailed UN report into Israeli war crimes in Gaza, as Ramzy Baroud explains.... [read more]
The Great Depression
Michael Roberts argues that the big "bailouts" of financial institutions have exposed the fallacy behind the "free market" ideologies which have dominated British and American political and economic systems for the past thirty years.... [read more]
Economic Outlook Worsens as Unemployment Increases
With UK unemployment figures reaching a ten-year high, Christopher Vasey reviews the experts' forecasts for an even gloomier 2009.... [read more]
Trump and Syria: “The worst case scenario is now our reality.”
As all becomes ever more rapidly surreal it seems that, barring a miracle, Draft Dodger in Chief, Donald Trump might trigger a world war, over an incident in Syria which is entirely evidence free.... [read more]
Pity the Almond Tree
The prime minister has been officially accused by the police on two counts of bribery... [read more]
Election Theft in Honduras
Honduras is in crisis. The national election took place on Sunday 26 November. Results posted that night showed the challenger Salvador Nasralla with a 5% lead with 57% of the votes tallied... [read more]
Political commentators
Political commentators have long been puzzled by the fact that, right across the globe and for several decades, the political left has been in retreat and – more than that – has apparently been unable to mount any significant challenge to the growing neo-liberal hegemony which has dominated western democracies since the 1980s... [read more]
Tory austerity has killed more people than ISIS: Austerity as State-terrorism
Islamic State is frequently referred to as the biggest threat facing Britons. But an even bigger one, in terms of death and social division, is austerity... [read more]
North Korea - As Trump Threatens, the Nation Still Struggles with America’s Lethal Legacy
“Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman or child is likely to be displaced, tortured, killed or ‘disappeared’ … More often than not, the United States shares the blame.” (Amnesty International, 1996) ... [read more]
Not Feeling But Falling
With extraordinary candour Theresa May has admitted that the case for the free market is not the given she believed it to be... [read more]
Crusaders and Zionists
Caesarea was built by King Herod some 2000 years ago and named after his Roman master, Augustus Caesar. It once again became an important town under the Crusaders, who fortified it.... [read more]
Lament in an Insane World - Saudi Arabia: The Tragedy of the “Ships of the Desert.” Stateless, Expelled Camels.
The last straw will break the camel’s back.... [read more]
Against Da Law (Part 2)
The law is indeed trickier than a snake, and can slip under obstacles and slither away into the undergrowth. It leaves in its wake tattered truth and battered justice... [read more]
Parliamentary Riffraff
When Adlai Stevenson ran for the presidency, he was told "Don't worry, every thinking person will vote for you." "But I need a majority," Stevenson famously replied.... [read more]
Eminent Psychiatrists Express Deep Concern at President’s “dangerousness”, “instability”, and “unpredictability.”
The insane threats also come from a man who achieved five draft deferments during the Vietnam war, thus has no knowledge even of what one bullet can do, let alone the vapourising monstrosities he seems to think he has divine power to unleash on a whim.... [read more]
Cui Bono?
Cui bono – "who benefits" – is the first question an experienced detective asks when investigating a crime.... [read more]
Confessions of a Megalomaniac
I was invited by Mahmood Abbas, the President of the Palestinian National Authority, to take part in joint Palestinian-Israeli consultations in advance of the international conference in Paris.... [read more]
The Health Of Humanity Post 2016
So here we are a year on. And what a year it’s been.... [read more]
Remember Naboth
An incredible piece of legislation is now being debated in Jerusalem.... [read more]
Why Donald Trump Is Right To Look East
The investment potential of the Russian economy offers good reasons why it is time for the West to take a more positive attitude towards the country. The President-elect might be doing everyone a favour in the long run, David Morgan argues.... [read more]
Brexit has its day in court!
The third day of November 2016 was an historic day for parliamentary democracy. It was a day on which an investment fund manager and a hairdresser took on the might of the UK government in the High Court and won... [read more]
Death in Yemen - UK Arms Sales to Saudi and the “Proper Use” of Illegal Weapons
Amnesty has been pressing the British government on Saudi Arabia’s use of outlawed weapons, only to be told sanguinely that UK Ministers have been provided with “assurances” by Saudi Arabia “of their proper use.” Work that one out: “proper use” of illegal weapons.... [read more]
WOMEN WORK TO ADDRESS SILENCE OVER WAR ATROCITIES IN POST-CONFLICT BOUGAINVILLE
In the northern coastal villages of Hako Constituency on Buka Island, in Papua New Guinea’s eastern autonomous region of Bougainville, life to all appearances is carefree... [read more]
The ICC Will Not Prosecute Tony Blair - Others Are Planning To
The ICC will examine the Chilcot Inquiry Report for evidence of abuse and torture by British soldiers but have ruled out putting Tony Blair on trial for war crimes... [read more]
Iraq Outrage: Chilcot Inquiry Publication Delayed: “ to avoid embarrassing Tony Blair.”
"Nothing justifies killing of innocent people." (Tony Blair, CNN, 15th January 2015)... [read more]
Clean eating versus industry
During the eighties and nineties here in the UK we were broadly encouraged to eat lower fat spreads such as margarine, associated with a push for polyunsaturated fat consumption... [read more]
Holocaust Education and the Iraqi Community
Holocaust Memorial Day takes place each year on the 27th January and is marked on that day to commemorate the liberation of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, by the Soviet Union’s Red Army... [read more]
European Union Throws Greece and Refugees to the Sharks
"Hypocrisy, the most protected of vices." Moliere (Jean Baptiste Poquelin, 1622-1673)... [read more]
Iraq’s Greatest Danger Yet: Collapse of: “The most dangerous dam in the world.”
It is hard to believe anything more catastrophic could befall Iraq. Now though comes a truly apocalyptic warning - that Mosul itself, Baji, Tikrit, ancient Samarra could be engulfed in a flood of literally biblical proportions... [read more]
An Unlikely Story: the Radio Times sells badger culling
The latest issue of the Radio Times must be making anti-badger culling people spitting mad... [read more]
Extreme, Extremer, Extremest
By 1967, the situation was quite different. The causes of the new war were disputed, David had turned into Goliath, a world-wide Cold War was on... [read more]
The Citadel Is Breached: Congress Taps the Fed for Infrastructure Funding
In a landmark infrastructure bill passed in December, Congress finally penetrated the Fed's "independence" by tapping its reserves and bank dividends for infrastructure funding... [read more]
Iran and Saudi Arabia: The latest skirmishes and its impact on Syria’s future
The regional power struggle between Iran and Saudi Arabia has intensified as a result of Riyadh’s summary execution of Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr... [read more]
Adolf, Amin and Bibi
It is not very pleasant when serious people around the world – historians, psychiatrists, diplomats – ask themselves if my prime minister is completely sane... [read more]
Petition to UK Parliament: Arrest Tony Blair for War Crimes in the Middle East. A few reasons why
Tony Blair’s assertions in Parliament in 2002 were integral in the excuse for the illegal invasion and ongoing bloodbath now also engulfing Syria... [read more]
Lord Mandelson Speaks
The most damaging aspect of Lord Mandelson’s initiative, however, is not what is said, but what is not said... [read more]
Quantitative Easing for People: The UK Labour Frontrunner's Controversial Proposal
British MP Jeremy Corbyn has proposed a “People’s QE” that has critics crying hyperinflation and supporters saying it’s about time... [read more]
Ideological reforms vs Greek democracy
Bryan Gould, former Labour shadow cabinet minister, explains how Europe is witnessing a triumph of ideology over common sense ... [read more]
Modern Ukraine RIP (Born 1991- Died 2014)
Dr Tomasz Pierscionek explains how Ukraine, as it once was, no longer exists... [read more]
Kissinger and Shultz on 'The Iran Deal'
The Wall Street Journal on 8 April turned over an entire editorial page to former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and George Shultz... [read more]
Cats in a Sack
A fight is going on. A fight of all against all. A fight without rules or limits... [read more]
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Bomb?
My father once taught me how to withstand blackmail: imagine that the awful threat of the blackmailer has already come about. Then you can tell him: Go to hell... [read more]
California Water Wars: Another Form of Asset Stripping?
In California’s epic drought, wars over water rights continue, while innovative alternatives for increasing the available water supply go untapped... [read more]
So you want to help Africa Owen Paterson? Then stop promoting ideology and falsehoods to push GMOs
Former UK Environment Minister Owen Paterson this week accused the European Union and Greenpeace of condemning people in the developing world to death by refusing to accept genetically modified crops... [read more]
Iraq Invasion: The “Six Wise Men” Tony Blair Ignored
“Nothing justifies killing of innocent people.” Tony Blair, CNN, 15th January 2015... [read more]
Menace on the Menu: Development and the Globalization of Servitude (Part 1)
In his book ‘The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective’, economist Angus Maddison noted that India was the richest country in the world and had controlled a third of global wealth until the 17th century... [read more]
Ukrainian parliamentary elections: if you don’t have anything nice to say
The expression “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all” is the best way to describe the reaction in the Western media to the results of Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Ukraine.... [read more]
Has the Swedish Left Lost Again?: The 2014 Electoral Implosion, Civilian Deindustrialization and the Swedish Dilemma
Part 2 of Jonathan Feldman's analysis of the recent Swedish general election... [read more]
Who is behind ISIS?
I have no idea where the Islamic State/ISIS/ISIL or whatever name it uses came from, and I'm just as baffled by the roots of its violent ideology... [read more]
Meeting in a Tunnel
The Israeli media are now totally subservient. There is no independent reporting. "Military correspondents" are not allowed into Gaza to see for themselves, they are willingly reduced to parroting army communiqués, presenting them as their personal observations... [read more]
Is a Tea Party movement about to kick off in Britain?
A fallen government minister who fought the ‘green blob’ seems to be contemplating a US-style insurgency, writes George Monbiot.... [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]
Iraq: US: Insurgents Have Chemical and Nuclear Material – “Minimal Risk.”
On 11th and 12th June, ISIS gained control of the Al Muthanna former chemical weapons complex where, in the 1980s, Iraq developed weapons believed to be on par with, then, the US and the former Soviet Union... [read more]
A Coup? Nonsense!
Journalist and former member of the Israeli parliament, Uri Avnery, describes how the Israeli Defence Force is held on a pedestal... [read more]
India: a vote of despair
Dr Lal Khan provides analysis on the Indian elections and the landslide victory of the BJP... [read more]
Capitulating To Monsanto And Wall Street: What Future India?
The Indian Oil and Environment minister has added fuel to the debate about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) by approving field trials of 200 GM food crops on behalf of companies like Monsanto... [read more]
A Shameful Chapter
How would the US react to a declaration that the Palestinians would not conduct negotiations with an Israeli government that includes semi-fascist parties?... [read more]
Chemical War: The Ties That Bind
Few countries in the Middle East have experienced the same level of chemical attacks as the Iraqi people writes Hussein Al-alak... [read more]
Banks bluff in a completely legal way
Part 8 of Eric Toussaint's series Banks Versus The People: The Underside Of A Rigged Game!... [read more]
The accessories to war crimes are those paid to keep the record straight
The BBC's Today programme is enjoying high ratings, and the Mail and the Telegraph are, as usual, attacking the corporation as left-wing... [read more]
In Defence of Lenin
Following the 90th anniversary of Lenin's death, Rob Sewell reviews his legacy... [read more]
The Disenchantment Of British Voters With Democracy
Former MP and member of the Labour shadow cabinet, Bryan Gould, explains the need for politicians to restore public faith in the value of government and democracy in order to cure voter disaffection ... [read more]
Iraq’s Persecuted Christians
The Christmas day attacks against Iraq’s Christian community has once again thrust this besieged and dwindling minority back into the media writes Hussein Al-Alak... [read more]
Forget Conspiracy Theories, The Truth Is Often More Shocking
Dr Tomasz Pierscionek shows how truth can be stranger and more shocking than fiction... [read more]
Greek Capitalism at a Critical Point
Greek capitalism continues to be the weak link of the Eurozone as it is still under the “intensive care” of the EU support mechanisms for the fourth consecutive year and is in recession for the sixth consecutive year... [read more]
Who is killing the people of Iraq?
The United Nations recently warned that the ongoing turmoil inside Syria and Iraq has formed a situation where "the battlefields are merging” into one, writes Hussein Al-Alak... [read more]
Italy: an economy based on free labour
A leading phenomenon of the Italian job market is the ability of employers to rely on an abundant supply of free labour. Patrizia Bertini explains... [read more]
From Ragged Trousered Philanthropists to Label Wearing Ostriches?
Frank Owen, the lead character in Robert Tressell’s novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, expressed his frustration at the dismissive response of his fellow workers to his arguments for a better society... [read more]
FDR’s American Economic Miracle 1938-44, or the First Economic Bomb - The USA from 1938 to 1944 (Part 1)
George Tait Edwards reveals the secret of America's economic boom during the the FDR years
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Why Radical Islam is Growing and How to Deal with It
After the 9/11 tragedy there has been a surge in the radical Islamist movement writes Ola Onikoyi... [read more]
The Counter-Enlightenment
What happens to people when they become government science advisers? Are their children taken hostage? Is a dossier of compromising photographs kept, ready to send to the Sun if they step out of line? George Monbiot writes.... [read more]
The End of Money
It’s Time to End Our Slavery to the Money-System declares Oliver Thompson
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Political Barbed Wire
Why are 97 per cent of our rivers shut to the public? A millionaire minister’s amazing conflicts of interest give you a clue, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
Book review: The Contradictions of Real Socialism
David Lane reviews The Contradictions of Real Socialism, a book by Michael A Lebowitz... [read more]
Lying Around Like Dogs In Ditches
Just two weeks ago in the London Progressive Journal I wrote of the hundreds of Republican supporters seeking refuge at La Sauceda who were rounded up by Franco’s forces and slain at El Marrufo in Andalucía in the Spanish Civil War, today I report on another burial that took place on Sunday, writes David Eade.... [read more]
Betrayal Without Remedy: The Case of the Missing Wages
Thomas Riggins explains how the US company Hostess Brands Inc. took its workers' wages and used them to cover its own expenses ... [read more]
Trials and Tribulations in Turkey
Turkey’s lamentable human rights record and its attempts to intimidate independent Kurdish organisations was the theme of an important seminar held on the 18 September in Garden Court Chambers, London. David Morgan reports.... [read more]
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]
Democracy By Candlelight: Living In Fear And Kept In The Dark
Giving people the opportunity to vote every four or five years, while in the meantime deceiving, misinforming and lying to them, has no more to do with democracy or freedom than what is happening in Syria right now, writes Colin Todhunter. ... [read more]
Shadow of London “Orbit” in Bosnia: Steel, Blood, and the Suppression of Memory
As ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel company, invests 19.2 million pounds of steel to construct a monument marking London’s Olympic Games, a disturbing story is emerging about the refusal to memorialise a former concentration camp in Bosnia it owns today... [read more]
Starving and Broke: Yemen’s Renewed ‘War on Terror’
Yemeni forces continue to push against fighters affiliated with al-Qaeda. Their major victories come on the heels of the inauguration of Abd Rabbuh Mansur al-Hadi, who is now entrusted with the task of leading the country through a peaceful transition writes Ramzy Baroud.... [read more]
Bahrain: a microcosm that typifies the intensifying dilemma of the Arab regimes
David Rahni discusses the political deadlock in Bahrain... [read more]
A Putsch Against War
Uri Avnery reveals that in Israel senior military officers and intelligence chiefs are speaking out against President Binyamin Netanyahu's calls for war with Iran. However, Netanyahu ignores their warnings and carries on regardless... [read more]
The symbolic violence of reality television
Prior to the encroachment of neo-liberal policy into the economic and cultural landscape of Britain, television programmes we would typify as ‘entertainment shows’ were built around the dominant working-class lifestyle and values, writes Tom Chivers.... [read more]
BDS: Power of the People at Work
The recent University of Pennsylvania BDS conference, organized by student group, PennBDS, was the latest example to illustrate both the effectiveness of the global movement and also of the real worry felt by supporters of Israel in the US, writes Ramzy Baroud.... [read more]
How Can We Save the British Economy from Third Rate Status?
Following the decline of the manufacturing sector, in recent years, Dr Jonathan Feldmann discusses ways in which Britain could go about redeveloping its industrial base... [read more]
The State of Racism in Britain
UK society is dead. Or that is what its detractors would like you to think. Many will point the finger not at our leaders or themselves but towards those who they believe don’t belong here - immigrants and asylum seekers, writes Chris Bath.... [read more]
The King's speech
Uri Avnery discusses the implications of a parliamentary bill that would seek to push the Palestinian population out of the West Bank and into Jordan... [read more]
The War on Libya: Behind Appearances - Part 2
An in-depth critique and analysis of the beginnings of the civil war in Libya and what was at stake for all parties involved in the final conflict, split into three parts. (Part 2)... [read more]
Blog: Lies Lies Lies
outRageous! - Lies about the recent gunplay in Kabul and the stuff no one wants you to know.... [read more]
Facing up to Trauma
Hussein Al-Alak reveals the scale of mental health trauma amongst soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan... [read more]
The lasting legacy of 9/11
Since the September 11 2001 attacks the world has witnessed the best and worst of humanity, writes John Wight.... [read more]
The Banker who knows his Kapital
John Green translates and reflects on an interview with Edgar Most formerly of Deustche Bank and of the GDR State Bank, where he considers capitalism vs. socialism.... [read more]
‘Dying to Win’: Newt Gingrich’s ‘Terrorism’
Bush may be gone, but right-wingers in the US are still exploiting public fears of terrorism to pursue their foreign policy agenda, as Ramzy Baroud explains.... [read more]
World Cup Fever Starts To Cool
The football World Cup is one giant consumerist showcase, argues Steve Jones.... [read more]
Facebook and Muslim Outrage: Gleaning the Wrong Lesson, Again
Ramzy Baroud bemoans yet another controversy about Muslim intolerance towards 'blasphemous' artistic output.... [read more]
Choice… or No Choice: We Say John4leader!
Steve Jones calls on the left to get behind John McDonnell's candidacy for the Labour leadership.... [read more]
Karzai’s Washington Visit: The War Awaiting Kandahar
Ramzy Baroud on who's really behind the puppet regime in Afghanistan.... [read more]
Gay Footballers and Fans to get FA from the FA?
Peter Tatchell urges the Football Association to push ahead with a planned anti-homophobia campaign which has mysteriously stalled this week. ... [read more]
Venezuela Steps Up Aid Effort to Haiti and Questions US Military Deployment
Kiraz Janicke on the Venezuelan government's response to the humanitarian crisis in Haiti.... [read more]
Product Placement – Why UK Television Viewers Should be Worried
The UK government is bowing to business pressure and looking to lift the ban on product placement in television programmes, as John Green explains.... [read more]
The Real Climate Scandal
A scandal over faked evidence has been a boon to climate change deniers. George Monbiot looks to redress the balance.... [read more]
Obama: Progress Towards Fulfilling Manifesto Commitments
Chris Vasey reckons it's been a promising first few months in the White House for Barack Obama. ... [read more]
Venezuela and Argentina Increase Cooperation in Gas, Agriculture, and Finance
James Suggett on the latest Venezuelan-led initiative to further economic cooperation between Latin American states.... [read more]
The Economic Crisis and Poor Countries
Mick Brooks compares the 'boom and bust' economics of the past twenty years with similar patterns in the 1920s and 1930s: once again it is the poorer nations that stand to lose the most.... [read more]
Israel Investigated, But Will It Repent?
Ramzy Baroud issues a call for justice for the victims of Israeli violence.... [read more]
The Internet: A Democratising Force or Information Overload?
Matt Genner examines the impact of the dot com revolution on democratic debate and political activism.... [read more]
The Proceeds of Crime
The US and British governments have created a private prison industry which preys on human lives, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
Banks in Crisis? Take them Over
With politicians and financial experts grasping at straws in their efforts to resolve the worst economic crisis in decades, Mick Brooks outlines the case for the nationalisation of the banking system.... [read more]
Unsettling Signs: Buzzwords, Politics and US Elections
Looking back over the US presidential election contest, Ramzy Baroud is sceptical about the likelihood of serious "change" under an Obama administration.... [read more]
Interview: Michael Albert on the Communal Councils in Venezuela
Michael Albert is a prominent activist and economist and a co-founder of Z Magazine. Adam Gill spoke to him about the Venezuelan government's radical "Consejos Comunales" initiative, aimed at deepening participatory democracy.... [read more]
The Immigration Minister Can’t Be Serious
Sara Hall on the junior minister who's picking a fight...with NGOs and asylum seeker charities.... [read more]
Bush's Last Bullet: Why the US Attacked Syria
In the aftermath of the appalling US raid on Syria, Ramzy Baroud examines the familiar double-standard in the mainstream discourse on what constitutes unacceptable policy and aggression.... [read more]
March Against Hatred: Racism in Russia
In the week that hundreds attended a symbolic "March Against Hatred" in St Petersburg, Sara Hall examines the worrying rise of racially-motivated violence in Russia.... [read more]
The Patron Saint of Charlatans
George Monbiot asks: How does Christopher Booker get away with it?... [read more]
Colombian Government Contravened Geneva Conventions in Hostage Release Operation
Campaign group "Justice for Colombia" on how Colombian government forces impersonated Red Cross workers as part of their recent hostage release operation, violating the Geneva Conventions and potentially endangering the lives of Red Cross workers in the future.... [read more]
Merchants of War: A Letter to the Times Newspaper
Mehrnaz Shahabi's recent letter to the Times newspaper exposes media deception as the sabre-rattling o Iran continues.... [read more]
Washington Determined to Strike Iran
Washington sabre-rattling suggests the US will press ahead with its aggressive designs on Iran, regardless of the truth about the alleged threat posed by Iran, and regardless of the consequences. ... [read more]
Venezuela’s Only Contacts with FARC were for Humanitarian Exchange Says Minister
Venezuela's foreign minister has refuted US-sourced allegations that Hugo Chavez has been financing the Colombian rebel group FARC.... [read more]
Shadow Networks: Violence, War and Plunder in the Great Lakes Region of Africa
Colonial rivalry and capitalist exploitation are at the heart of the violence in the Congo.... [read more]
How Iraq’s Once Effective Healthcare System Was Sold Down the Nation’s Two Rivers
On top of one million dead, war has shattered an Iraqi healthcare system already decimated by sanctions.... [read more]
