Piketty for Progressives
September 16, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Part 3 of Thomas Riggins's analysis of Thomas Piketty's book - Capital in the Twenty-First Century
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Hannibal ad Portas
September 14, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The last war has come to an end, the next war has not yet started, so let's use the time to speak of many things. Of Hannibal, for example
NATO weakness in the epoch of geo-political turbulence and instability
September 11, 2014 11:54 pm Leave your thoughts
The main outcome of the NATO summit that took place in Newport, Wales on 4th-5th September appears to have been the decision to launch a new 'spearhead' rapid response task force
Compassion Should Extend Beyond The Home
September 11, 2014 11:37 pm Leave your thoughts
Former MP and member of the Labour shadow cabinet, Bryan Gould, provides a riposte to Roger Scruton's piece in The Guardian
Ukraine: NATO hypocrisy over “Russian invasion” as Kiev suffers defeat
September 9, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
As politicans from across the world met at the NATO summit in Wales, the crisis in Ukraine saw an escalation in rhetoric
God Wills It!
September 7, 2014 11:20 pm Leave your thoughts For six decades my friends and I have warned our people: if we don't make peace with the nationalist Arab forces, we shall be faced with Islamic Arab forces
Oil, Blood, Confusion, Fear: Fuelling The British Public’s Appetite For War
September 7, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts Back in 2003, Tony Blair stated that Saddam Hussein could hit Britain with a missile within 45 minutes. He also said that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction
The Jihadis Return – ISIS and the New Sunni Awakening by Patrick Cockburn
September 5, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Dr Tomasz Pierscionek reviews Patrick Cockburn's latest book
The history and modern role of political Islam
September 3, 2014 8:53 pm Leave your thoughts
After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the capitalist counter-revolution in China, an immense political vacuum opened up in ideology and politics on a world scale. Article by Dr Lal Khan
Genocide in Gaza – The Silence of the Jewellery Industry is Deafening and Telling
September 3, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The horrific carnage we have seen unleashed in Gaza in recent weeks - a humanitarian catastrophe - would not have been politically or economically affordable without the tacit acquiescence of the global jewellery industry