Big Business Loots Carbon Trading Scheme
January 30, 2009 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Fred McDowell argues that free market solutions to the problem of industrial pollution are bound to fail.
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Report from a Refugee Camp in Kashmir
January 30, 2009 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
As India and Pakistan engage in sabre rattling troops have been moving towards their forward deployments, Assed Baig asks: What about the victims of this age-old rivalry?
Anatomy of an Investigation: The Colombian State’s War Against Civil Society
January 30, 2009 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Garry Leech examines how the Colombian governmetn is using anti-terrorism as a pretext for a concerted attack on patently non-violent social organisations.
Big Brother is Watching You Masturbate
January 30, 2009 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In the week that a controversial new law on pornography came into force, Symon Hill outlines his concerns about the implications for sexual freedom, and civil liberties more broadly.
Government Watchdog Report Highlights Need for Asylum Reform
January 30, 2009 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
With a woefully inefficient asylum system letting down applicants and taxpayers alike, Sara Hall makes the case for much-needed reform.
The Inexorable Weight of Expectation
January 23, 2009 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In the week of Barack Obama's historic inauguration, Safreena Rajan examines the key issues which Obama will have to address in order to deliver on his promise of "change".
Economic Outlook Worsens as Unemployment Increases
January 23, 2009 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
With UK unemployment figures reaching a ten-year high, Christopher Vasey reviews the experts' forecasts for an even gloomier 2009.
Banks in Crisis? Take them Over
January 23, 2009 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
With politicians and financial experts grasping at straws in their efforts to resolve the worst economic crisis in decades, Mick Brooks outlines the case for the nationalisation of the banking system.
US Policy Towards Venezuela and Colombia Will Change Little Under Obama
January 23, 2009 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Garry Leech on why US policy towards its Latin American neighbours is unlikely to change significantly under President Obama.
Wife of Trade Union President Shot Dead
January 23, 2009 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
A Justice For Colombia report on the latest in a series of state-sponsored killings aimed at terrorising Colombia's labour movement.