A Ghost Story Retailed
December 31, 2011 7:09 am Leave your thoughts
W Stephen Gilbert delivers an up-to-date, state and fate of the retail trade in Britain, it is partly warmingly, personal and anecdotal, and partly a critical overview: part one
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Book review: America and the Imperialism of Ignorance: US foreign policy since 1945
December 30, 2011 2:19 am Leave your thoughts
Dr Tomasz Pierscionek reviews a book that charts the development of America's foreign policy throughout the course of the Cold War and beyond
Bankers’ Oligarchy spells the end of democracy
December 29, 2011 3:25 pm Leave your thoughts
A qualitative change is taking place within the European Union where it is crystal clear that national independence and democracy are being dumped without formal procedure or public announcement, says John Boyd.
Light and fluid warriors
December 29, 2011 12:02 am Leave your thoughts
In the second of her interviews using the 'Lego Serious Play' method, Patrizia Bertini meets Ollie, a young occupier at the OccupyLSX camp
Palestine: Those Who Inspired Us in 2011
December 28, 2011 9:31 pm Leave your thoughts
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.
Letter to a Soldier of the IDF
December 27, 2011 6:14 pm Leave your thoughts
John Wight writes a letter in commemoration of the third anniversary of Operation Cast Lead, Israel's military assault on Gaza, it is written in the form of a letter to an IDF soldier.
Musings on the shortest day of 2011
December 26, 2011 12:46 pm Leave your thoughts
One year from today is the end of the Mayan calendar, the predicted "end of history," as the late brilliant ethnobotanist and art historian Terrence McKenna called it, says Jean Claude van Itallie.
Embellishing the Iraq War: Moral Victory, and Selective Body Counts
December 26, 2011 12:43 pm Leave your thoughts
Someone ought to let mainstream news producers know that the nearly 4,500 US soldiers killed in the Iraq war were not the only victims. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have also been killed as a result of the US invasion, says Ramzy Baroud.
Once in Unreal David’s (Big) Society
December 23, 2011 3:11 am Leave your thoughts
Stephen Gilbert asks whether Britain is a Christian country and whether Cameron's coalition government lives up to the Christian values he professes
Christopher Hitchens – an obit and opinion
December 21, 2011 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Amid the avalanche of articles and obituaries written in tribute to Christopher Hitchens in the wake of his recent passing, we have been reacquainted with the essential condition of western liberalism - moral depravity, says John Wight.