Empire of Capital
May 1, 2012 7:52 am Leave your thoughts
A one-sided justice sees weaker states punished as rich nations and giant corporations project their power across the world, says George Monbiot.
Tag Archive: Global
You are all suspects now. What are you going to do about it?
April 29, 2012 8:20 pm Leave your thoughts
John Pilger describes the politicising of the law in western democracies and the emergence of increasingly draconian police powers: the corollary of a contrived state of 'permanent war'. Why should this be accepted?
The state of Alternative comedy
April 28, 2012 8:51 am Leave your thoughts
This year Britain's king of alternative comedy, Billy Connolly, hits 70-years-old. Still alive and kicking. But is the notion of alternative comedy dead asks Miles Caston.
An Olympian Inspiration
April 25, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
With the Olympic Games and Paralympics only months away, Hussein Al-Alak introduces some of the key competitors of the Paralympics
The Acceptable Face of Violence
April 3, 2012 9:50 am Leave your thoughts
The recent claims about India's poverty having fallen by around seven per cent provided a stark reminder of the violent times we live in, writes Colin Todhunter.
The great ‘American’ nightmare
March 27, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Whilst some have gained much from India's economic boom, many have also lost out from the 'Americanisation of India'. Colin Todhunter discusses.
Costly ‘Freedom’ in Afghanistan: On Morbid Wars and Logic
March 22, 2012 11:11 am Leave your thoughts
The Afghans are a proud people with a long and formidable history of resistance to foreign occupation. The fact that they have always prevailed, however, should not distract from the horror they still routinely experience, writes Ramzy Baroud.
Straight to the heart
March 22, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Gay marriage: 'oh dear, oh lor', how did this become the issue of the hour? The world appears to have divided itself into two camps and I find myself in neither'- journalist and writer W Steven Gilbert shares his thoughts
What’s behind Kony 2012?
March 18, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Eugene Puryear describes some of the hidden motivations to bringing Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, to justice
Trashy beauty queens and the men who rule the world
March 17, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In 1864, Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter that predicted where the US was heading - the world he warned about is the world we now have as bankers control the money supply having the power to make or break nations. Colin Todhunter explains