Niall Ferguson on Henry Kissinger’s “World Order”
December 31, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
A good book review gives both the gist of the book and allows you to decide if it is worth reading
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My Glorious Brothers
December 29, 2014 5:21 pm Leave your thoughts
When I was 15 years old and a member of the Irgun underground (by today's criteria, an honest-to-goodness terrorist organization), we sang "(In the past) we had the heroes / Bar Kochba and the Maccabees / Now we have the new ones / The national youth'"
Where trade agreements are a risk to sovereignty
December 24, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
A nation's sovereign right to determine matters within its borders is put at risk where its government signs a trade agreement which includes a dispute resolution clause known as an Investor State Dispute Settlement ('ISDS') clause
What GMOs Are Really About: Profits, Power and Geopolitics
December 22, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are not essential for feeding the world
What’s in your sack, Father Christmas?
December 22, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
What's in your sack, Father Christmas?
Lenin: State and Revolution, Chapter 6: Vulgarisation of Marx by the Opportunists
December 22, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Thomas Riggins continues to guide us through Lenin's work - State and Revolution
Splendid Isolation
December 21, 2014 8:10 pm Leave your thoughts Almost a thousand Israeli personalities have already signed an appeal to European parliaments for their governments to recognize the State of Palestine
If you must eat meat, save it for Christmas
December 21, 2014 2:56 pm Leave your thoughts
From chickens pumped with antibiotics to the environmental devastation caused by production, we need to realise we are not fed with happy farm animals, writes George Monbiot.
Poem for Christmas 2014
December 21, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
A festive poem by John Gohorry
Menace on the Menu: Development and the Globalization of Servitude (Part 2)
December 18, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Me-first acquisitiveness is now pervasive throughout the upper strata of society