In southern Iraq too, Ottoman-era heritage decays
August 9, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Two cemeteries sprawl in this southern Iraqi town. One is for British and Indian soldiers. The other for Turkish veterans. Both died in World War I
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The Great Impostors
August 8, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Under the guise of saving the natural world, governments are privatising it and rarely will the money to be made by protecting nature match the money to be made by destroying it, writes George Monbiot.
The Russian Revolution: An Essential Condition of Success
August 5, 2012 9:20 pm Leave your thoughts
Mass Support + Iron Party = Socialist Revolution? Thomas Riggins analyses chapter two of Lenin's Left Wing Communism: an Infantile Disorder
Dance With the One Who Brung You
August 5, 2012 7:32 pm Leave your thoughts Protecting the environment, like protecting the welfare of a nation's poorest and weakest people, requires a sweeping reform of political funding, on both sides of the Atlantic, writes George Monbiot.
Independence In The Pocket Of The US: “Mera Pyara Bharat” (“I Love My India?”)
August 3, 2012 5:49 pm Leave your thoughts
With a population of 1.2bn people, many believe that India is the arena where the future direction of humanity is being played out. However, the future of humanity may not be determined in India, but by events in a much smaller country - Syria, writes Colin Todhunter.
Nothing ‘Accidental’ in Mali – More Misery Awaits
August 2, 2012 8:07 am Leave your thoughts
Northern Mali promises to be the graveyard of scores of innocent people if African countries don't collectively challenge Western influence in the region, writes Ramzy Baroud.
Spain’s other valley of the fallen
August 2, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
David Eade discusses Spain's 'Valley of the Fallen' where to this day the bones of those who perished under the Nationalist onslaught in the Civil War still lie on the ground
Beer, Vomit And Lipstick: Revolting Acts In An Age Of Crisis
August 1, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
'Freedom' within the confines of what increasingly resembles an open prison isn't much to celebrate. The actual reality in Britain is economic meltdown and social crisis, writes Colin Todhunter
Scorched Earth Economics
August 1, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts The model is dead; long live the model. Austerity programmes are extending the crises they were meant to solve, yet governments refuse to abandon them and the UK provides a powerful example, writes George Monbiot.