Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Kick Israeli match into touch

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When it comes to trade boycotts, countries like the United States decide them on the basis of pure politics. Cuba and Iran – boycott. Israel...
Monday, July 30, 2007

Brown sings Bush's praises

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There are those who convinced themselves that New Labour’s close relationship with the most reactionary White House in history was restricte...
Friday, July 27, 2007

Global financial hurricane starts to blow

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Turmoil on the world’s stock markets, induced by yesterday’s sharp falls in New York, is directly connected to a crisis at the heart of the ...
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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Greenwash

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A report by top scientists published yesterday in the magazine Nature, confirms that extreme weather events, including floods in the norther...
Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Rail passengers pay the price

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If you thought rail fares were high now, wait until the transport secretary Ruth Kelly is finished with you. Yesterday she announced plans t...
Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Tale of a catastrophe foretold

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Welcome to the weather of the 21st century. That’s the message from the floods that have overwhelmed whole areas of the West of England, lea...
Monday, July 23, 2007

New Labour puts unions out to grass

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What Tony Blair started, Gordon Brown will finish. And that includes winding up what remains of democratic procedures inside the New Labour ...
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Friday, July 20, 2007

The BBC, bread and circuses

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The admission by the BBC that its programmes are not always what they appear to be raises important issues about perception, image and reali...
Thursday, July 19, 2007

Picking up the bill for Tube firm collapse

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When Gordon Brown set out to part-privatise London’s Underground system in 2001, he was implementing a New Labour strategy designed to trans...
Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Business as usual in Burma

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This week Amnesty International, Saferworld and other NGOs pointed to a breach of the EU arms embargo on Burma (Myanmar) by the Indian gover...
Tuesday, July 17, 2007

The inequality indictment

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If you wanted evidence to draw up an indictment of corporate power and the global market economy, you need look no further than the reports ...
Monday, July 16, 2007

A global war on rights

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The global “war on terror” has truly become the global war of terror against people’s human rights. In Australia, a terror suspect freed on ...
Friday, July 13, 2007

Peak oil - peak madness

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The sharp rise in the price of oil to almost $80 a barrel, coupled with evidence that production is nearing or is already at its peak, is a ...
Thursday, July 12, 2007

London NHS review smokescreen

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Radical proposals for revamping the capital’s health services intended to meet the needs of Londoners, include far more than the widely-repo...
Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Democracy, revolution and British values

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The Brown government wants to "reinvigorate our democracy" through a series of changes to the constitution. But proposals in The G...
Tuesday, July 10, 2007

How the war was spun

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Alastair Campbell’s diaries will earn him piles of money but the former Downing Street spin doctor is still playing fast and loose with the ...
Monday, July 09, 2007

Taking a leaf out of the Stasi's book

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In former East Germany, the hated Stasi – or state security police – just about had one half of the population spying on the other. While th...
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Friday, July 06, 2007

Flood victims abandoned

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From Mount Everest to Hull, the evidence of climate change is before our very eyes, as well as in the homes of thousands of people in the no...
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Thursday, July 05, 2007

Labour – ‘the natural party of business’

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This is one of those moments in history when the clouds of confusion begin to lift and it becomes easy to see how the land lies. Blowing awa...
Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Palestine: One state the only solution

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Two new books published this week by Palestinian writers offer a way forward for those currently locked in struggle in the occupied territor...
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