Hydraulic fracking is the process of releasing gas and oil from shale rock: huge quantities of water, proppant (usually sand ) and chemicals are injected at high-pressure into hydrocarbon-bearing rocks
In their new book Union Jackboot: What Your Media and Professors Don't Tell You About British Foreign Policy, doctors T.J. Coles and Matthew Alford discuss a range of topics, including neo-colonialism and the hypocrisy it necessitates.
A poem by Geoffrey Heptonstall
The commercialization of public spaces in British cities and elsewhere in the industrialized world is going on apace.
October was a brutal month for the stock market
Place your bets, ladies and gents. Spin the wheel, round and round she
goes and where she stops, nobody knows.
The Saudi clan of nearly 100,000 have spent their nation’s vast wealth on self-indulgence, military adventurism, and fabricating a historical narrative in their most luxurious palaces
A poem by Simon Cockle
At the geographic centre of Europe, Berlin is a microcosm of European history.
The October 16 issue of NY Review of Books has an article by Janine di Giovani titled “Why Assad and Russia Target the White Helmets”. The article exemplifies how western media promotes the White Helmets uncritically and attacks those who challenge the myth.