Friday, June 29, 2007

Agrofuel market madness

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Hundreds of thousands of acres of land, whether in the UK or elsewhere on the planet, will be needed to feed a giant bio-ethanol plant to be...
Thursday, June 28, 2007

GlobalTorture.com

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You might have imagined that recent media exposure of the CIA’s worldwide programme of torture and rendition flights has curbed what the Eur...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Welcome to Brown's corporate state

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Gordon Brown, who becomes prime minister today, may have a different style to Tony Blair, but the substance of New Labour remains the same. ...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

More sinister than cuckoo

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Jack Nicholson shot to fame in the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest . He played the heroic rebel McMurphy who defied the Establishm...
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Monday, June 25, 2007

Financial 'Katrina' begins to blow

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For some days now, banks and finance houses have been watching the unfolding crisis at major investment bank Bear Stearns, as it tries to li...
Friday, June 22, 2007

Post strike and globalisation

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At the heart of the looming confrontation between Royal Mail management and New Labour on one side and the Communication Workers Union (CWU)...
Thursday, June 21, 2007

Honours, lingerie and liberties

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Joseph Corre, co-founder of the lingerie company Agent Provocateur, turns down an official honour because of the war in Iraq and the governm...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Global cities - divided cities

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Global Cities, the new exhibition at Tate Modern, raises big questions about the future of humanity. In the vast Turbine Hall, a banner anno...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Climate change makes you sick

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As predicted, a rise in temperatures is causing a surge in cases of dengue fever. There are signs that climate change, combined with rapid u...
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Monday, June 18, 2007

Coming to a field near you: Zombie and Exorcist seeds

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A new crop of genetic engineering technologies are being promoted as a solution to the unwanted spread of transgenes from genetically-modifi...
Friday, June 15, 2007

Oil men warm to plans for recycling climate victims

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The Yes Men , masters at corporate identity theft who once posed as the World Trade Organisation on the world stage, have pulled off another...
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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Double standards over Israel boycott

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The denial of education, of work, of any possibility of a future lies behind the communal fighting raging in Gaza today. The Israeli, US and...
Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Climate change takes its toll in Asia

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As torrential rains continue to sweep across South China and Bangladesh, Sir David King, the UK government's chief scientist told a comm...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Google bowls a googly

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Google, the world’s most used internet search engine has been rated ‘hostile to privacy’ and placed bottom of the pile of Internet based ser...
Monday, June 11, 2007

Rendition: lies and their liars

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Who would you rather believe when it comes to "extraordinary rendition" – the British government and the Association of Chief Poli...
Friday, June 08, 2007

G8 all talk on climate change

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Pressure on the G8 to act now on climate change has failed. The world’s richest countries are not committed to a single target to reduce emi...
Thursday, June 07, 2007

40 years in an Israeli jail

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Forty years ago this week, Israel launched an unprovoked attack on Egypt and Syria. By 10 June, Israeli forces captured the West Bank, East ...
Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Taking liberties with our rights

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Director Chris Atkins says he wanted to achieve two things in making Taking Liberties : To make people laugh, and to make them angry. This p...
Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Missile shield and oil supplies

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The threat by Russian president Vladimir Putin to target Western Europe with nuclear missiles underlines a growing international instability...
Monday, June 04, 2007

Unions face up to globalisation

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It’s been a long time coming, but there are signs that sections of the trade union movement in Britain are prepared to take an international...