The widespread killings of Rohingya Muslims in Burma - or Myanmar - have received only passing and dispassionate coverage in most media. What they actually warrant is widespread outrage, says Ramzy Baroud.
Uri Avnery asks whether the late Palestinian Prime Minister, Yasser Arafat, was assassinated by Ariel Sharon
The people cutting open bluefin tuna nets are heroes: they are stepping in where governments have failed, to protect our common heritage, says George Monbiot.
Last month's day of action by doctors in Britain attracted a lot of criticism from the Tory press - no surprise there! Dr Tomasz Pierscionek puts forward the case for the doctors' strike and explains what really happened.
David Morgan brings to light a deeply worrying trend that exists within the Japanese modelling agency
Forget TV with informed debate when platitudes, simple emotion and 'common sense' outlooks will do, says Colin Todhunter.
Miles Caston describes the highlights of this year's Isle of Wight festival and suggests a 'greener' way to enjoy music festivals
Two new books by Slavoj Zizek have recently been reviewed by John Gray in the The New York Review of Books, here Thomas Riggins reviews Gray's article.
We may end up remembering 2012 for it's grand summer of British national pride but we must not forget the country is in a terrible state and it doesn't appear that things will get better, writes Joseph A. Daniels.
Enclosure and dispossession have driven us, like John Clare, all a little mad, says George Monbiot.