Empty Promise
October 22, 2012 6:54 pm Leave your thoughts
George Monbiot asks if scientists have got the impacts of climate change on food supply wildly wrong?
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Growth Comes with Jobs, Innovation and Access to Credit
October 20, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
David Eade talks to Parti Socialiste MP Axelle Lemaire about French President François Hollande budget for 2013
The Majority of Israelis and Palestinians Want Peace
October 20, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Susan Walpole discusses how the majority of Jews and Muslims wish to live in peace
The Liberal Democrats: Liberalism in the European sense only
October 16, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
After months of activity and apologies, the message from Nick Clegg to the left of centre voter was this: "We are not the party for you." At least, this was the message I took away with me. Not just from the Lib-Dem conference but also from the New Statesman article by Richard Reeves, Clegg's former director of strategy, writes Nathaneal Sansam.
Turkey’s Policies at a Crossroads: From Zero-Problems to a Heap of Trouble
October 13, 2012 8:51 am Leave your thoughts
It seems that media consensus has been conclusively reached: Turkey has been forced into a Middle Eastern mess not of its own making; the 'Zero Problems with Neighbours' notion, once the foreign policy centrepiece of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), is all but a romantic notion of no use in realpolitik, writes Ramzy Baroud.
The life and death of an Australian hero, whose skin was the wrong colour
October 13, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Arthur Murray died the other day. I turned to Google Australia for tributes, and there was a 1991 obituary of an American ballroom instructor of the same name. There was nothing in the Australian media, writes John Pilger.
IMT sympathiser shot in Swat – Barbarism must not prevail!
October 12, 2012 12:23 am Leave your thoughts
Earlier this week, Malala Yousafzai was brutally shot by gunmen as she was returning home from school. Masked assassins stepped onto a bus filled with terrified children, identified her, and shot her at point blank range in the head and neck.
Is Iran a threat?
October 12, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Dr Faisal Mikdadi asks if Iran is a threat and if so, to whom?
The Spanish State Faces Disintegration
October 10, 2012 1:36 am Leave your thoughts
The Spain of today is in a deep financial crisis. Rather than the country pulling together it is pulling apart. LPJ Iberian correspondent, David Eade, discusses the possibility of the Spainish state breaking up into autonomous regions
The Spectre of Communism
October 10, 2012 1:26 am Leave your thoughts
The eulogies in the media for the late Marxist historian, Eric Hobsbawm, praise his historical insight yet express bemusement at his adherence to the Communist cause. Why is there a lack of understanding as to why so many of his generation remained loyal to the cause of their youth? John Green explains.