Reams have been written about how awful and oppressive East Germany was - a virtual slave state with Stasi surveillance informers everywhere. That image was rudely demolished in a curious way the other day
This bill of corporate rights threatens to blow the sovereignty of parliament unless it can be stopped, writes George Monbiot.
The West African country of Burkina Faso exploded into a full blown revolutionary situation on Thursday 30th October
In 1983 the world stood on the brink of a nuclear holocaust. War between NATO and the USSR was prevented by a high ranking NATO official secretly working for the GDR foreign intelligence service
When a high-ranking official of one country calls the leader of another country "chickenshit", it may be assumed that the relations between the two countries are not at their best
The expression "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all" is the best way to describe the reaction in the Western media to the results of Sunday's parliamentary elections in Ukraine.
The fourth article in the series The banks and the "too big to jail" doctrine by Eric Toussaint
Edward Gough Whitlam ("Gough Whitlam"), a former Labour prime minister of Australia, passed away on 21st October, 2014 at 98 years of age
About a month ago, on the eve of the Jewish New Year, the government statistical office published a set of interesting items about the population of the state
Former environment minister Owen Paterson has called for the UK to scrap its climate change targets