Changing The Flag
March 31, 2014 6:59 pm Leave your thoughts
New Zealand has decided to change its flag. This was only briefly mentioned in the media here. But it is a significant example for us
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The People’s Assembly- Building an Alternative
March 31, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The People's Assembly has the potential to become the successor to the popular fronts of the 1930s in uniting the broad left writes Dr Thabo Miller
EU Financial Help For The UK’s Super Rich
March 28, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The world is no longer ruled by so-called governments, elected or otherwise. In brutal fact, those who really determine how we plebs live are the International Bankers and their Multinational Business Conglomerate cohorts
Bank Created Credit
March 25, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Former MP and member of the Labour shadow cabinet, Bryan Gould, explains how orthodox monetary policy is fundamentally misconceived
Warren’s Post Office Proposal: Palast Aims at the Wrong Target
March 24, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Investigative reporter Greg Palast is usually pretty good at peering behind the rhetoric and seeing what is really going on. But in tearing into Senator Elizabeth Warren's support of postal financial services, he has done a serious disservice to the underdogs
Hungarians believe their politicians are corrupt
March 20, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
When Transparency International issued its report on election spending on Monday the section that captured the headlines was that showing that Fidesz would spend over double the legal limit - and get away with it. Fidesz stayed quiet on this revelation but needless to say the opposition parties took to the social media immediately, writes David Eade.
The forgotten coup – and how the godfather rules from Canberra to Kiev
March 20, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Washington's role in the fascist putsch against an elected government in Ukraine will surprise only those who watch the news and ignore the historical record. Since 1945, dozens of governments, many of them democracies, have met a similar fate, usually with bloodshed, writes John Pilger.
Banks bluff in a completely legal way
March 20, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Part 8 of Eric Toussaint's series Banks Versus The People: The Underside Of A Rigged Game!
How Big Tobacco’s lobbyists get what they want from the media
March 19, 2014 8:10 am Leave your thoughts
With cigarette packs on the agenda, the BBC must be asked why it lets thinktanks argue the tobacco companies' case without revealing who their paymasters are, writes George Monbiot.
Fidesz Will Spend More Than Twice The Legal Limit in Hungarian Elections…And Get Away With It
March 19, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The Hungarian General Election takes place on Sunday April 6. The spotlight has been on the far right party, Jobbik, which will be fielding a national list at the polls