Pussy Riot- the voice of the band members
August 20, 2012 12:31 am Leave your thoughts
In an exclusive, the LPJ has been provided with statements from each member of the Russian Band 'Pussy Riot' prior to their sentencing
The ethical case for ‘people power’
August 19, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Peter Tatchell sets out the ethics and efficacy of direct action protest across a range of issues, including OutRage!'s successful campaign against the police harassment of the LGBT community
Shifting Truths in Sinai: Who Stands to Gain from the Carnage?
August 17, 2012 11:34 am Leave your thoughts
Two Toyota Land Cruisers filled with well-built gunmen in ski masks and all-black outfits appear seemingly out of nowhere. They approach a group of soldiers huddled around a simple meal as they prepare to break their Ramadan fast. The gunmen open fire. This is not an opening scene of a Hollywood action movie. The massacre actually took place at an Egyptian military post in northern Sinai, writes Ramzy Baroud.
Economic Growth or Abnormal Swelling?
August 16, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
LPJ's India correspondent Colin Todhunter reports that India may have had eight or nine per cent economic growth until this year, but this doesn't show a true picture
Hunger Games
August 14, 2012 11:41 am Leave your thoughts
The rich world is causing the famines it claims to be preventing, says George Monbiot.
Democracy By Candlelight: Living In Fear And Kept In The Dark
August 12, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Giving people the opportunity to vote every four or five years, while in the meantime deceiving, misinforming and lying to them, has no more to do with democracy or freedom than what is happening in Syria right now, writes Colin Todhunter.
How the chosen ones ended Australia’s sporting prowess and revealed its secret past
August 10, 2012 10:44 am Leave your thoughts
John Pilger describes how sports-obsessed Australia's disappointing showing at the London 2012 Olympics have offered a glimpse of a secret past.
Neocons vs. the ‘Arab Spring’: Back on the Warpath
August 9, 2012 7:34 am Leave your thoughts The neoconservatives are back with a vengeance. While popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and other Arab countries had briefly rendered them irrelevant in the region, Western intervention in Libya signaled a new opportunity, writes Ramzy Baroud.
In southern Iraq too, Ottoman-era heritage decays
August 9, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Two cemeteries sprawl in this southern Iraqi town. One is for British and Indian soldiers. The other for Turkish veterans. Both died in World War I
The Great Impostors
August 8, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts Under the guise of saving the natural world, governments are privatising it and rarely will the money to be made by protecting nature match the money to be made by destroying it, writes George Monbiot.