Is a Tea Party movement about to kick off in Britain?
July 23, 2014 9:11 pm Leave your thoughts
A fallen government minister who fought the 'green blob' seems to be contemplating a US-style insurgency, writes George Monbiot.
Tag Archive: North America
Piketty, The Wall Street Journal, and Rational Conservatives
June 16, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Thomas Piketty's book, Capital in the 21st Century, has almost had the effect of a tsunami on economic thinking in the United States, writes Thomas Riggins
New York City Settles Fire Department Discrimination Case
April 2, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
New York City settlement of fire department discrimination is a blow against racism but panned by ultra-right New York Post
Warren’s Post Office Proposal: Palast Aims at the Wrong Target
March 24, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Investigative reporter Greg Palast is usually pretty good at peering behind the rhetoric and seeing what is really going on. But in tearing into Senator Elizabeth Warren's support of postal financial services, he has done a serious disservice to the underdogs
Give and take in the EU-US trade deal? Sure. We give, the corporations take
March 11, 2014 8:45 am Leave your thoughts I have three challenges for the architects of a proposed transatlantic trade deal. If they reject them, they reject democracy, writes George Monbiot.
An Iraq war veteran’s reflection
February 1, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Before President Obama even began the State of the Union address, two people I knew in the audience, from two defining points in my life
From Austerity to Prosperity: Why I Am Running for California Treasurer
January 25, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts Welfare payments, health care for the poor, and benefits for the elderly and disabled have been slashed. State workers have been downsized
The JFK Conspiracy Theories and Why they Still Matter Today
November 19, 2013 5:21 am Leave your thoughts
It is now fifty years ago, come November 22nd, that John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in an event that had a huge bearing on the course of history from that day on
Drop the outrageous charges on CCNY student activists!
November 15, 2013 4:06 pm Leave your thoughts
The ANSWER Coalition calls for protests and a letter-writing campaign to reinstate Khalil Vasquez and Tafador Sourov, two student leaders at the City College of New York disciplined and charged for trying to stop the closure of a student centre
New York City Mayor’s Race: Living Wage or Wage Slavery: de Blasio vs. Lhota on the Dignity of Labour
October 25, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts The election for mayor of New York City is less that a month away and Bill de Blasio's lead in the polls appears insurmountable