Friday, August 31, 2007

Katrina's victims still paying the price

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Two years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Today, many of its people are still suffering. They are the victims of government b...
Thursday, August 30, 2007

Profit mono-culture food threat

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Transnational corporations, seeking profitable solutions to a post-oil world, are driving a change of land use that will outstrip all previo...
Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Targeting young people

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The shooting last week of 11-year-old Rhys Jones has become a signal for the Conservative leader David Cameron to talk about “anarchy in the...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Opposing the new EU treaty

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The gathering storm over the new European Union treaty, focused on the growing demands for a referendum, raises deep issues about the nation...
Friday, August 24, 2007

Middle East war danger grows

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The failure of the US occupation in Iraq carries with it the threat of a pre-emptive war in the Middle East sponsored by Washington and laun...
Thursday, August 23, 2007

UN throws in towel on climate change

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The United Nations is preparing to throw in the towel on achieving further cuts in the emission of greenhouse gases by the world’s industral...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

September 11 - the real conspiracy

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The real conspiracy over the September 11 attacks on the United States involves a determination by the authorities to cover up a report into...
Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Putin rehabilitates Stalin

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There are few families in Russia today untouched by the horrors of the Stalin period. Nearly everyone has a story to tell about a relative w...
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Monday, August 20, 2007

Composting the state

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The Camp for Climate Action at Heathrow brought activists, local communities and others opposed to the building of a new runway at the airpo...
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Friday, August 17, 2007

'In the eye of a cyclone'

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For those who believe that some sort of regulatory control of global capitalism would curb corporate and financial power, the events of the ...
Thursday, August 16, 2007

The global pyramid scam

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After a week of attempts by central banks to resuscitate global financial markets by injecting cash, the contagion continues to spread aroun...
Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Canada joins terror witch-hunt

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As the police use anti-terror laws to harass climate protesters at the Heathrow climate camp, governments around the world are making copyca...
Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Targeting the climate camp

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The lurid media headlines aimed at the climate action camp, combined with systematic police harassment, just about sum up the state of Brita...
Monday, August 13, 2007

A universe of fantasy finance

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The turmoil in the world’s financial and stock markets that erupted at the end of last week prompted a panic release of funds into the syste...
Friday, August 10, 2007

Iraqi unions threaten 'mutiny' over oil law

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The struggle over future control of Iraq’s oil is coming to a head, with parliament deeply divided over American proposals designed to benef...
Thursday, August 09, 2007

Postal leaders duck the fight

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Postal workers start another series of actions today which are scheduled to last on and off for two weeks. But there is a real danger that t...
Wednesday, August 08, 2007

The sweatshop Olympics

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There will be celebrations in China today to mark the one-year countdown to the start of the 2008 Olympic Games. But it will be business as ...
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Painful times for borrowers

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Those driven into insolvency as they try to keep a roof over their heads will take little comfort from the knowledge that they are the victi...
Monday, August 06, 2007

‘We are living in the stone age’

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Three headlines from a country in the fourth year of foreign occupation: ‘Armed robots to go to war in Iraq’; ‘Power cuts worsen as grid col...
Friday, August 03, 2007

A business friendly climate Bill

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The Climate Change Bill is, above all, business friendly. In fact, it is so weak that a Commons committee this week published a damning indi...