Bread and Circuses in a Digital Age
February 27, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Bread and circuses have always been a central aspect of ruling class hegemony and a means of keeping the masses in a soporific state
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Lenin on the “Withering Away” of the State and Violent Revolution
February 25, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Lenin discusses these two topics in section four of chapter one of The State and Revolution (1917)
Captain Boycott Rides Again
February 24, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
It has always been a secret ambition of mine to have a Bagatz ruling bearing my name
Melbourne Honours “The Auschwitz Volunteer”
February 22, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Captain Witold Pilecki was a Polish hero who, amongst many of his heroic deeds in World War II, volunteered to be captured and sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp ("Auschwitz")
Only Eight Per Cent of Abortions in Spain Would Be Legal Under the New Law
February 19, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
There have been many words spoken in Parliament in Spain about the new repressive anti-abortion law proposed by Rajoy's Partido Popular Government
How we ended up paying farmers to flood our homes
February 19, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
This government let the farming lobby rip up the rulebook on soil protection - and now we are suffering the consequences, writes George Monbiot.
An Extended Review of “Princes of the Yen” by Professor Richard Werner
February 18, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
George Tait Edwards reviews "Princes of the Yen", the latest book written by Professor Richard Werner
‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ war – and the struggle of memory against forgetting
February 17, 2014 6:48 pm Leave your thoughts
The regime that Washington created in the South, the "good" Korea, was set up and run largely by those who had collaborated with Japan and America, writes John Pilger.
Terrorism or Heroism?
February 17, 2014 6:39 pm Leave your thoughts The International Brigades were hailed for bravery. But British citizens who fight in Syria are damned. If only they did it for the money, writes George Monbiot.
Bowe Bergdahl, US soldier captured by Taliban: A reflection on his words and time for prisoner exchange
February 16, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Carol Grayson reports on the status of Bowe Bergdahl, an American held prisoner by the Taliban since 2009, and provides a transcript of the unedited version of a video of Bowe which the Taliban recently released