A History of Idiocy
November 19, 2017 5:09 pm Leave your thoughts
I am furious. And I have good reason to be furious.
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Donald Trump Marks America’s “Heavy Toll of War” – From Vietnam
November 19, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
"One day while I was in a bunker in Vietnam, a sniper round went over my head. The person who fired that weapon was not a terrorist, a rebel, an extremist, or a so-called insurgent. The Vietnamese individual who tried to kill me was a citizen of Vietnam, who did not want me in his country. This truth escapes millions." (Mike Hastie, Former U.S. Army Medic, Vietnam 1970-71)
Tory austerity has killed more people than ISIS: Austerity as State-terrorism
November 19, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Islamic State is frequently referred to as the biggest threat facing Britons. But an even bigger one, in terms of death and social division, is austerity
Scottish Left On The Eve of the Centenary of Bolshevik Revolution
November 18, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Scottish coordinator for ICOR, Amjad Ayub Mirza looks at the effects of revisionism and reformism on Scottish left politics
Nation, language, culture – play things of the elites?
November 14, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
One vital aspect of Globalisation is that local wage traditions, built up over centuries of trade union struggles by the working class, have to give way to cheap labour that moves at the speed of money around the globe to satisfy the needs of multinational companies. Cheap labour has been achieved by making wars and creating a refugee crisis
Two Meetings
November 11, 2017 10:53 pm Leave your thoughts During the last few days, I met with two old friends: Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin
Crumbling World
November 11, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughtsA poem by Kay Channon
After the Euphoria
November 11, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts A weak government whose core values are misguided by nostalgia for a lost empire
North Korea: Radiation Leak Fears, International Double Standards and Trump’s Sudden Change of Plans
November 11, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Urgent warnings of a radiation leak have been issued after the collapse of a tunnel under North Korea's 7,200 foot high Mount Mantap
WMD in Syria just like Iraq in 2003? Contradictions in the UN/OPCW Report on Khan Shaykhun
November 11, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In early 2003 it was claimed that Iraq was a threat to other countries. Today we have something similarly ridiculous and dangerous. Supposedly the Syrian government decided to use a banned chemical weapon which they gave up in 2013-2014