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Lucky Bastards of The 20th Century: The Story of The Economic Bomb
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]
The UK leaves Europe but will the English language remain?
Though the UK leaves Europe, its English language will remain to unite Europe. ... [read more]
Central Bank Digital Currencies: A Revolution in Banking?
Several central banks, including the Bank of England, the People’s Bank of China, the Bank of Canada and the Federal Reserve, are exploring the concept of issuing their own digital currencies... [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]
The Many Major Uses of Investment Credit Creation: A brief walk through the observed results so far, and the future possibilities made available through Shimomuran Economics
Money is the measure of all things and personal wealth sets the boundaries of what the individual and his or her family can afford... [read more]
Nuclear power, the energy of protest: The future could be renewable
With proper commitment and investment in renewable energy and a push towards an alternative model of development, the future need not resemble the past or indeed the increasingly catastrophic present, writes Colin Todhunter. ... [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]
From Liberal Hand-wringing to the Political Economy of Assassination: The Charleston Shootings and Mainstream Society’s Complicity in Murder (Part 2)
The ways in which guns are deployed has something to do with the systems in which they are embedded... [read more]
The role of the state in the space race
In April 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, when Vostok 1 made a successful orbit of the Earth. ... [read more]
The Imminent Prospect of a US-Iran Breakthrough worries the Hawks
The international community grapples once again with the imminent prospect of a “nuclear deal” between the US (P5+1) and Iran before the extended deadline of November 24 arrives... [read more]
A Brief Guide To Early Chinese History: The Mongol Conquest Of China And Its Consequences
George Tait Edwards introduces the next in a series of articles about early Chinese civilisation to help put into context the country's recent economic rise... [read more]
Unmanned Drones- the future of warfare?
The London Progressive Journal gives its take on current events in our editorial column... [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]
Banks Are Becoming Obsolete in China—Could the U.S. Be Next?
The U.S. credit card system siphons off excessive amounts of money from merchants. In a typical $100 credit card purchase, only $97.25 goes to the seller. The rest goes to banks and processors. But who can compete with Visa and MasterCard?... [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]
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]
Monsanto, Syngenta, Pioner et al: With Friends in High Places, the GMO Biotech Sector is Kicking Open the Door to Europe
The proposal to hand back some decision powers to member states of the European Union regarding GMO approvals is currently being discussed, writes Colin Todhunter... [read more]
Acquiescing to Big Biotech: The Deceptions and Falsehoods of the GMO Lobby
British Environment Secretary Owen Paterson is a staunch supporter of the GMO sector despite mounting evidence pointing to the deleterious health, social, ecological and environmental impacts of GMOs... [read more]
The GM Biotech Sector's Complete Contempt For Democracy: Don't Be Fooled By The Propaganda
Strategically placed politicians and scientists are conveying the message that GM food is both safe and necessary... [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]
Capitalism and crisis
Nelson Wan provides an overview of Marx's explanation for why capitalism goes into crisis, discussing the inherent contradictions within the capitalism system... [read more]
Why Not Create A Scottish Pound and Adopt Investment Credit Economics to Scotland’s Benefit?
On 21 February I sent an email to the Government of Scotland, suggesting it would be an immense advantage to the “Yes” campaign for Scottish independence if the Scots adopted a policy of having their own currency when independent... [read more]
In India, a spectre for us all, and a resistance coming
Neoliberalism has failed the vast majority of India's people. But the spirit that gave the nation independence is stirring, writes John Pilger.... [read more]
Special Report: Interview with British “jihadis” and what you won’t read in the “Tackling Extremism in the UK” report
British journalist, writer and film producer Carol Grayson conducts an exclusive interview with a member of the Taliban and a British born 'Jihadist' ... [read more]
Currently Mistaken Ideas in Western Economics and Their Suggested Corrections (preferably soon) Part 2
Economist George Tait Edwards straightens out some of the economic myths taught at Western universities (Part 2 of 2)... [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]
CCS sidelined by tenuous financing
Energy Consultant, Jeffrey Michel, discusses the problems with using CCS technology to reduce global warming... [read more]
The Alternative 2013 Spending Review, Or What Mr Osborne Could Have Said If He Understood Macro-economics
The Spending Review by George Osborne contained no surprises. But suppose Mr Osborne really understood economics and actually wanted to improve the British economy. George Tait Edwards provides a constructive speech for a competent chancellor... [read more]
On summer solstice, my £100 bet against solar power ends - who won?
Solar may be popular but environmentalists must be hard-headed about how to reduce CO2 in the cheapest way, writes George Moniot.... [read more]
The end of nuclear power? Careful what you wish for
Flawed and stalled as the plans for toxic waste may be, at least they exist. There is no way to clean up CO2, the greater evil, writes George Monbiot.... [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]
Genetic Modification: A Pandora's Box
Tomasz Pierscionek dissects the arguments on both sides of the GM controversy.... [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]
America Polarized in Turmoil
United, we must take back our country from the ultra-supremacists in the White House... [read more]
Health and Humanity: Conclusion
A healthy human, with a foundation of biopsychosocial health, could hope to find their purpose in life... [read more]
Labour and the Trident Question
We all knew that Trident missiles would become an issue when Corbyn became leader of the UK Labour party... [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]
The Self Hating Arab
It felt odd to speak on Skype to a friend in war torn Syria. We had not seen each other since our school days in the 1960s... [read more]
Pakistan government shames itself over Israeli drone connection… no friend to Gazans
Last year July 2014, Mansoor Jaffar, a senior journalist for Al Arabiya, wrote a scathing article critcizing Pakistan for its “zombie-like response" to the Gaza killings... [read more]
What GMOs Are Really About: Profits, Power and Geopolitics
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are not essential for feeding the world... [read more]
Interstellar: magnificent film, insane fantasy
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]
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]
Has the Swedish Left Lost Again?: The 2014 Electoral Implosion, Civilian Deindustrialization and the Swedish Dilemma
Part 1 of Jonathan Feldman's analysis of the recent Swedish general election... [read more]
Interview with Robert Braun (Part 2 of 2)
Dr Robert Braun, veteran politician and senior member of Hungary’s opposition party, MSZP, speaks with Dr Tomasz Pierscionek about Hungary’s transition from Eastern Bloc state to neo-liberal democracy and describes the challenges currently facing the country... [read more]
Education, Work and Cooperation: Abolition of the wages system, institutional hierarchy and bosses
The third in the series of articles by Steven Colatrella titled 21st Century Cosmopolis: Constitution for a Better World... [read more]
Happy Independence Day? India, Monsanto, GMOs and the Bigger Picture
On 15 August, India will mark its 67th anniversary of independence from Britain. It may seem strange to some that a nation would publicly celebrate its independence while at the same time it less publicly cedes it to outsiders... [read more]
A Civilisation based on self-governed cities and townships and universal access to citizenship
The first in the series of articles by Steven Colatrella titled 21st Century Cosmopolis: Constitution for a Better World... [read more]
Tiananmen: the massacre that wasn't
What really happened 25 years ago in Tiananmen Square?... [read more]
The myths about Marxism
The past two decades have witnessed a barrage of propaganda against Marxism and its revolutionary heritage from the mainstream media... [read more]
Artists and the Law: Exploring A Jurisprudence Of New Capabilities
When I first heard the suggestion that the judiciary and greater Parliamentary oversight could redress the reckless use of new capabilities by Britain's security service GCHQ, an image flashed into my mind of a 1903 painting by Australian impressionist Tom Roberts - known locally as The Big Picture... [read more]
The farce of the Hinkley C nuclear reactor will haunt Britain for decades
We need nuclear power. But the government has plumped for outdated technology at the worst price imaginable, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
The Shimomuran Economics Solution to the Western Economic Crisis
George Tait Edwards explains how investment credit creation could resurrect Western economies... [read more]
A Tale of Two Prime Ministers
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]
Eight Questions for Western Government Economic Advisors
Economist George Tait Edwards MBE asks Western economists eight direct questions... [read more]
The Empire Trapped: The US’ Unpromising Role in the New Middle East
Since the Second World War, US foreign policy has been largely predicated on military adventures, by severely punishing enemies and controlling ‘friends’. Diplomacy was often the icing on the cake of war, writes Ramzy Baroud.... [read more]
The true 'creatives' - let them eat cake? Or, in India, poor quality rice
The LPJ's India correspondent, Colin Todhunter, describes how India's true wealth creators are increasingly sidelined as temples to global capitalism spring up across the country... [read more]
A future apology
Mark Chivers apologises prospectively for our generation's lack of action in safeguarding the planet ... [read more]
‘The Internet is a Game Changer’
With news coverage gradually moving towards a 'paperless world' in the internet age, Ramzy Baroud considers the implications for political journalism.... [read more]
Chavez Inaugurates Internet Centre to Facilitate Popular Power in Venezuela
Tamara Pearson reports on a Venezuelan government initiative to improve public access to the World Wide Web in Venezuela.... [read more]
The Naming of Things
George Monbiot suggests one small way in which the collapse of biodiversity could be slowed.... [read more]
Iran, Israel and Latin America: The Media States Its Case
Ramzy Baroud scrutinises the mainstream media consensus on the designated enemies of the US.... [read more]
The Population Myth
George Monbiot says people who claim that population growth is the big environmental issue are shifting the blame from the rich to the poor.... [read more]
Venezuela Reiterates Commitment to Multipolar World Following Israeli Accusations
Israeli intelligence is using the relationship between Iran and leftist leaders in Latin America to stoke up fears in relation to Iran's nuclear ambitions, says Tamara Pearson.... [read more]
We Must Fight to Keep the Post Public
With both mainstream political parties apparently united in their determination to privatise the UK postal system, Mick Brooks makes the case for resisting so-called "part-privatisation".... [read more]
Venezuela and China Expand Joint Oil and Investment Accords
James Suggett on the strengthening of trade ties between China and Venezuela. ... [read more]
Financial Meltdown Deepens
In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Michael Roberts examines the present financial slump. ... [read more]
Brown Inches Closer to Ingsoc
Tom Bangay on why Brown's Britain is sleepwalking into a surveillance society.... [read more]
Venezuela’s Chavez Pushes for New World Financial System in Argentina
James Suggett on Venezuela's increasing influence in economic policy across the South American continent. ... [read more]
Making a Killing from Hunger
Leading NGO GRAIN on why we need to overturn food policy.... [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]
Syria: Trump’s Tomahawks, Double Standards - Using Chemical and Radioactive Weapons for Profit?
In a nauseating irony, exposed by the Palmer Report, Trump may have profited from the deaths he caused.... [read more]
The Zoroastrians’ Future? A religion deemed in decline but a vibrant culture now gone global burgeons and thrives!
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The Invisible Diasporan (Part 1)
Mallards Cottage was where I wrote my first novel. I called it The Return. I used to dream most of its events – the very plot was born of a dream on Christmas Eve of 1976... [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]
Happy Holiday Season…
Most Iranians are believers and practitioners of the single golden rule of treating others as you would expect to be treated... [read more]
The War on Weed Part II: Monsanto, Bayer, and the Push for Corporate Cannabis
California’s “Adult Use of Marijuana Act” (AUMA) is a voter initiative characterized as legalizing marijuana use... [read more]
Dear UK, I am European
I have grown up unable to say where I belong, due to having two passports and two nationalities which taught me to look at the world from two very different angles... [read more]
Is Dumbing Down a Reality?
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]
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]
Just A Ride
The Wachowski Brothers’ 1999 Film 'The Matrix' centres upon the concept that the modern world may not be all we perceive it to be... [read more]
INET Should Rename Itself IPNET Because Preventing New Economic Thinking Is What it Does
INET is a cheerleader and supporter of the Washington Consensus... [read more]
Monsanto's 'Hand of God': Planned Obsolescence Of The Indian Farmer
Global agribusiness is playing fast and loose with poor people’s lives and is profiting handsomely.... [read more]
From Liberal Hand-wringing to the Political Economy of Assassination: The Charleston Shootings and Mainstream Society’s Complicity in Murder (Part 1)
The larger social architecture defined by the academic, political and corporate ties of the gun lobby helps explain how we could systematically take the fight to the NRA... [read more]
Rewriting Democracy: Scotland’s movement towards independence with a National Yes Registry
Many people thought (and hoped) that Scotland voting No in its Independence Referendum last year had laid that idea to rest. Far from it... [read more]
GMOs: dogma instead of science
There are clear signs that the producers of GMOs and the regulators are suffering from a siege mentality... [read more]
A poem for The Great Shimomura
There once was a man who had a plan to double the income of Japan... [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]
Israeli Prime Minister to appear before the US Congress
The much hyped up appearance of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before the US Congress... [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]
On gloves, rubber and the spatio-temporal logics of global health
Over the last decades and not least through the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, health initiatives have received unprecedented attention and funding... [read more]
Piketty for Progressives: Part 4
Thomas Riggins continues to guide us through Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century... [read more]
It's time to shout stop on this war on the living world
Our consumption is trashing a natural world infinitely more fascinating and intricate than the stuff we produce, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
The Dangers of Form Agnosia
Kate Zagoskina describes the West's tendency to shut its eyes to the bigger picture and ignore the link between action and consequence... [read more]
Has the Swedish Left Lost Again?: The 2014 Electoral Implosion, Civilian Deindustrialization and the Swedish Dilemma
Part 3 of Jonathan Feldman's analysis of the recent Swedish general election... [read more]
Genocide in Gaza – The Silence of the Jewellery Industry is Deafening and Telling
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]
Washington's madness in Ukraine
What is happening right now in Ukraine may not just be another conflict that will rumble on for a few years and then slowly end in a messy compromise... [read more]
Metro Gaza
Israeli journalist and former member of the Knesset, Uri Avnery, suggests a solution to the ongoing conflict in Gaza... [read more]
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Sound Science and the GMO Biotech Sector's Version of Science
Coming from the GMO biotech industry, or its political mouthpieces, the term “sound science” rings extremely hollow... [read more]
Israel: International Anger Mounts
“The situation involving Palestine
and Israel is an undeclared war, in which the aggressor, Israel, has
destroyed the Palestinian economy, robbed people of their land,
unilaterally changed borders, and unilaterally built a wall of exclusion
to keep Palestinians out of their land... [read more]
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]
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]
Rethinking Economics The Washington Consensus vs the Tokyo Consensus Background
On Tuesday 6 May 2014, I published a blog about ”Shimomuran Economics and the Rise of Japan”... [read more]
Sovereignty of Self-Governed Cities and Abolition of National States and Capitalism
The second in the series of articles by Steven Colatrella titled 21st Century Cosmopolis: Constitution for a Better World... [read more]
Scotland – Independently Great: an English view of the Scottish Referendum
While most of us are happy to trade, to buy products from other countries, to take part in what is now a “global community”, we want to do it on our own terms... [read more]
UK: Prime Minister Finds God, Bans Bishops, Priests, the Poor – and Crutches
When Prime Minister David Cameron pulls a stunt, or indeed, announces a “ground breaking” new policy, it is pretty well guaranteed to back fire. Indeed, his coalition government policy U-turns are heading for encyclopaedic... [read more]
Women, Fertility and the Rise of Modern Capitalism: Review
Thomas Riggins reviews an article by Alberto Alesina from the Harvard Economics Department - Women, Fertility and the Rise of Modern Capitalism... [read more]
We can still celebrate bonfire night without burning toxic waste
Dioxins released when we set fire to our junk on Guy Fawkes night are entering the food chain, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
From Obamacare to trade, superversion not subversion is the new and very real threat to the state
Rightwing politicians and their press use talk of patriotism to disguise where their true loyalty lies: the wealthy elite, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
In the wake of the German elections – the all-too-soon forgotten Euro Hawk drone scandal
The German federal elections have just run their course and the CDU/CSU gained the lion’s share of the public's support. Apparently the electoral results were unaffected by the major political scandal of the summer... [read more]
Why is Apple so shifty about how it makes the iPhone?
The paragon of modern tech risks losing its shine by dodging queries about Indonesia, and an orgy of unregulated tin mining, writes George Monbiot.... [read more]
The Failure of Innovation in the Anglo-Saxon Economies
George Tait Edwards examines the role of innovation in economic development... [read more]
The Origin of Shimomura’s Japanese Economic Miracle, or the Second Economic Bomb - Japan from 1946 to 1965 (Economic miracles Part 2)
Japan was the first Asian country to demonstrate how a self-confident culture, with adequate leadership, could rapidly adopt Western industrial technologies while preserving the integrity of their domestic cultural legacy... [read more]
A Critique of the analysis of Karl Marx within the BBC’s ‘Masters of Money’ Series
David Benbow critiques the BBC's ‘Masters of Money’ episode, aired last year, that focused on the economic theories of Karl Marx... [read more]
The Master Economist Dr Osamu Shimomura - Probably the Greatest Economist of the 20th Century After John Maynard Keynes
George Tait Edwards discusses the immense contribution that Dr Osamu Shimomura (1910-1989) made to the field of economics... [read more]
Shimomuran Economics: The No-Debt Investment Credit Creation Path to More Rapid Economic Growth
George Tait Edwards MBE makes the case for the urgent implementation of Keynesian economics to stimulate growth, based on the economic model's previous success in the US, China and Japan... [read more]
The End of Money
It’s Time to End Our Slavery to the Money-System declares Oliver Thompson
... [read more]
Frozen Assets
Why are we exploiting unconventional gas when we can’t afford to burn existing supplies? George Monbiot asks the crucial question.... [read more]
Smart Phones, Dumb Companies
Phone companies do too little to ensure the minerals they use are conflict-free. Here's what you can do to hold them to account, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
Welcome to the Shammies, the media awards that recognise truly unsung talent
There are awards for everyone. There are the Logies, the Commies, the Tonys, the Theas, the Millies ("They cried with pride") and now the Shammies, writes John Pilger... [read more]
A Different War in Gaza, and the War Ahead
Ramzy Baroud writes, in life, some phenomena cannot be explained by ordinary logic or technical language, let alone official discourses. How did Gaza manage to fight back with such ferocity and undying vigour in quelling the latest Israeli war despite years of a bloody siege and one-sided war in 2008-9?... [read more]
Who Needs an Unstable Middle East?
Being a supporter of Palestinian statehood used to be a more lonely road than it is now. It was difficult to mention Palestine in public because it was such a 'dirty' word, Susan Walpole writes... [read more]
Why drone assassinations just don't work
The London Progressive Journal gives its take on current events in our editorial column... [read more]
Review - Health Care Reform and Globalisation: The US, China and Europe in Comparative Perspective
David Lane reviews a book which illustrates the global nature of developments in healthcare: Health Care Reform and Globalisation: The US, China and Europe in Comparative Perspective... [read more]
Mass media directing the masses
Luke Innes looks at the effect of mass media on the working class in Britain... [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]
Hooked On Treachery
Edward Bernays is known as the father of modern advertising/propaganda. Colin Todhunter emphasises and how we must and indeed can break free of the addictions and fears being promoted daily.... [read more]
Hunger Games
The rich world is causing the famines it claims to be preventing, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
Bosnia and Croatia: What is the tie with Iran?
Professor David Rahni uses etymology to explain how different cultures may have more in common with each other than they think... [read more]
From MI5 to Islamabad, safe in our hands: death, destruction and spymaster saviours
Colin Todhunter explains that the US had its fingers all over much of the Arab Spring since before day one.... [read more]
Passage to Ecuador: Chomsky, Assange, sham justice, sham democracies
The mainstream corporate media has been fooling the public for decades. It fails to shine a light on important decisions that are made behind closed doors by unaccountable corporate players, senior politicians and unelected bureaucrats, writes Colin Todhunter.... [read more]
Bahrain: a microcosm that typifies the intensifying dilemma of the Arab regimes
David Rahni discusses the political deadlock in Bahrain... [read more]
Do not be fooled by India's media love affair with Hillary Clinton
You always know when a high-ranking US politician is in India. Much of the media turns sycophant. It happened when Obama visited in 2010, and it occurred again as Hillary Clinton recently touched down in Kolkata but despite the media spin, India is not engaged in any form of bilateralism with the US, says Colin Todhunter. ... [read more]
Obama’s Afghan Pledge is Grossly Misleading
As the US President hints at a withdrawal from Afghanistan, R.M. Harrison wonders whether he has taken heed of the old saying “those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it”. ... [read more]
You are all suspects now. What are you going to do about it?
John Pilger describes the politicising of the law in western democracies and the emergence of increasingly draconian police powers: the corollary of a contrived state of 'permanent war'. Why should this be accepted?... [read more]
Noncommittal for kindle or less than kind?
The Kindle - an infinity of reading or a bibliophile's nightmare? Stephen Gilbert shares his thoughts on the matter.... [read more]
Israel Vying for War: Attacking Iran Will Not Repeat History
One would think that the years between 1991 – the first war on Iraq - and 2003 would have been enough to convince US-led Western allies that economically besieged, politically isolated and war torn Iraq had no capacity for producing WMDs, writes Ramzy Baroud.... [read more]
New beginnings
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]
Palestine: Those Who Inspired Us in 2011
2011 had its share of tragedy. Human lives were lost in Palestine. But hope was also sustained by the sacrifices of numerous ‘ordinary’ people, says Ramzy Baroud.... [read more]
Slavery for Dummies- Part three
The third and final part of an analysis by OutRageous! looking at the slavery endemic in our modern society.
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Global Development: Aid the myth of Western support
Elijah Pryor shows the true effect of Development Aid on poor countries... [read more]
Slavery for Dummies
OutRageous! takes a look at the slavery endemic in modern society. ... [read more]
Out of the Ashes
Now is the time to start planning for a new economy, not dependent on growth. ... [read more]
The Hunt for FARC Commander Alfonso Cano
The Colombian military has had numerous successes targeting high-ranking leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in recent years. Its two greatest successes were the killing of secretariat members Raúl Reyes in 2008 and Jorge Briceño, alias “Mono Jojoy,” last year. By Garry Leech... [read more]
Venezuelan UN Speech Criticises "Market Totalitarianism"
The Venezuelan ambassador to the UN, Jordge Valero, has delivered a stinging attack on global capitalism's failure to guarantee basic human rights, as Tamara Pearson reports.... [read more]
Smoke on a Bridge: Lebanon Awaits a Verdict
Ramzy Baroud reports from Lebanon on the thoughts of one of its citizens on the future of the country.... [read more]
The Real Cost of the Banking Crisis
Mick Brooks reviews the Bank of England's assessment of the banking crisis.... [read more]
Worker Self-Management Introduced in Guayana, Venezuela
Tamara Pearson on a bold Venezuelan government initative to radically democratise a number of state-owned industries.... [read more]
Money’s Hunger
Industrial civilisation is trashing the environment. George Monbiot asks: should we try to reform it or just watch it go down? ... [read more]
Walled In
Science and humanities students view each other with incomprehension: blame our dumb, narrow schooling, says George Monbiot.... [read more]
War With the Ghosts
George Monbiot asks: what are our nuclear weapons for, and who controls them? ... [read more]
Election 2010: Whoever Wins, We Are in for Cuts
Decades of compromise have left the Labour party unfit to meet the challenges of the present crisis, writes John Green.... [read more]
The Useless Logic of Round Numbers
The media fixation with pointless symbolic milestones serves to trivialise the everyday misery of victims of US violence, argues Ramzy Baroud. ... [read more]
An Odyssey for Justice
Ramzy Baroud celebrates the spirit of international solidarity that has provided crucial practical and moral support for the Palestinian struggle in recent years.... [read more]
A Paradigm Shift in Singapore: Yet Apec Offers No Clear Answers
Ramzy Baroud on the high-profile international summit held in Singapore this week.... [read more]
End the Embargo on Cuba
Rob Miller calls on the US and UK governments to end the anachronistic, brutal and illegal blockade of Cuba.... [read more]
Preview of Ramzy Baroud's 'My Father was a Freedom Fighter'
Stephen Lendman previews the forthcoming book by journalist, campaigner and regular London Progressive Journal contributor Ramzy Baroud.... [read more]
Should We Seek to Save Industrial Civilisation? A Debate with Paul Kingsnorth
Guardian journalist George Monbiot discusses climate change with the Oxford-based environmentalist Paul Kingsnorth.... [read more]
Colombia’s FARC Weapons Claim A “Dirty Campaign”
Kiraz Janicke on the latest round in the ongoing war of words between the Venezuelan and Colombian governments.... [read more]
Blue Desert
George Monbiot asks: Why is no one brave enough to stand up to the fishing industry? ... [read more]
Remembering the Indonesian Killings
The Indonesian massacres of 1965-66 rank among the biggest mass murders of the 20th Century. Looking back on this tragic episode, Nathaniel Mehr asked Noam Chomsky for his observations on the significance of US and British support for the massacre. ... [read more]
Venezuela’s Chávez Declares Support for Obama’s Nuclear Disarmament Pledge
James Suggett on the Venezuelan president's declaration of support for a worldwide disarmament campaign.... [read more]
President Obama Announces $1 trillion ‘New Deal’ Programme
Christopher Vasey on the Obama administration's new initiative to kick-start the US economy.... [read more]
Interview: Antonio Navarro Wolff talks to London Progressive Journal
Samuele Mazzolini met prominent Colombian politician Antonio Navarro Wolff, the governor of the southern department of Nariño, to discuss the many social and political problems affecting Colombia.... [read more]
Working Time – Britain’s Opt-out to End?
Fred McDowell on an EU-led initiative to end British workers' "right" to opt out of the 48-hour maximum limit on the working week.... [read more]
Congress Confronts Its Contradictions
George Monbiot on why it's ordinary taxpayers who will pay the price for the incompetence of big finance.... [read more]
Venezuela and South American Allies Advance Integration
James Suggett examines the latest steps of an ambitious initiative to bring about the economic integration of a number of South American countries.... [read more]
The Working Class Must Not be Left to Pay for Wall Street Mess
Socialist Appeal's Walter Leon on the far-reaching implications of the financial crisis. ... [read more]
The Contest for the Centre
Matt Genner on how the ongoing struggle for the political centre ground is undermining democracy.... [read more]
Why the Russian Invasion of Georgia is a Blessing for Misguided US Foreign Policy
Professor William Hickey on why the Georgia crisis has highlighted the cynically self-serving basis of US foreign policy.... [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]
The Magic Pudding
George Monbiot on why the US government still pouring billions into missile defence.... [read more]
Nuking the Treaty
George Monbiot argues Iran is the least of the world’s offenders against non-proliferation.... [read more]
Venezuela Bridges Diplomatic Fissures and Polishes Alliances in European Tour
James Suggett on the latest phase of Hugo Chávez's tour of Europe.... [read more]
The End of "The End of History"
David Brandon examines the discredited view that world history came to an end when the Berlin Wall came down.... [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]
Ecuador's President Correa in Conflict with Indigenous Movement
Samuele Mazzolin on why the Ecuaodorean president's agenda for modernisation and wealth redistribution has brought him into an unlikely conflict with the country's indigenous groups.... [read more]
The BBC vs Hugo Chavez
Stephen Lendman on the biased coverage of events in Venezuela.... [read more]
“Perverse Intention” Behind Colombian Rebel Documents Says Venezuelan Foreign Minister
James Suggett on the latest in the Andean diplomatic crisis.... [read more]
Pro-Death
George Monbiot considers the implications of attempts to reverse progress on abortion.... [read more]
