Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Gold soars: Dollar crashes

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The price of gold and other precious metals is fast approaching record levels. The continued weakening of the dollar against other currencie...
Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Saudi Arabia: an inconvenient truth

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So, according to a New Labour foreign office minister, Britain and Saudi Arabia’s feudal absolute monarchy should work more closely together...
Monday, October 29, 2007

Renewables target ditched

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On the day scientists announced that the Earth’s ability to soak up carbon emissions has dramatically declined, while at the same time we ar...
Friday, October 26, 2007

Simply not sustainable

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Twenty years ago, a commission convened by the United Nations put forward the concept of “sustainable development” as a way that capitalism,...
Thursday, October 25, 2007

Let them eat cake

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In the popular imagination, Queen Marie Antoinette is believed to have sparked the French Revolution when she said of the starving poor, “Le...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Global push for rice ‘suicide seed’

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The seed industry will do whatever it takes to stop farmers saving seeds. The only way it can make big money from seeds is to force farmers ...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Free Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine

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October is Black History month and it should be a time to celebrate the achievements of black heroes during the 200th anniversary of the Abo...
Monday, October 22, 2007

IMF paralysed as crisis grows

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The mass of red covering the trading screens of stock markets from Asia to Europe this morning confirms that attempts to wish away the credi...
Friday, October 19, 2007

Empty gestures in the face of climate change

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Latest warnings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show the extent of damage already done to our planet through the excesses...
Thursday, October 18, 2007

Underwater imperialism

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The results of melting ice caps may terrify the rest of us but for the oil corporations and their client governments there is a silver linin...
Wednesday, October 17, 2007

No fun being young in Brown’s Britain

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A conference at the TUC today will hear that there are 3.8 million children in Britain living in poverty, 100,000 more than last year. Endin...
Tuesday, October 16, 2007

A crisis of leadership

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The sudden resignation of the Lib Dem leader Menzies Campbell is another indication of the turmoil at the top of British politics as the mai...
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Monday, October 15, 2007

Writing on the wall for China's leaders

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One thing is certain as the Chinese Communist Party gathers in Beijing for its 17th Congress – a political earthquake is inevitable that wil...
Friday, October 12, 2007

50 years of nuclear cover ups

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Fifty years ago this week, scientists at Windscale nuclear fuel plant in Cumbria finally brought under control a fire in a stack of fuel rod...
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Thursday, October 11, 2007

Brown delivers the message

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The leaders of the CWU postal workers’ union have waited and waited for the intervention of the government in their pay and jobs dispute wit...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Israel's harsh 'reality on the ground'

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Creating “realities on the ground” is the speciality of the Israeli government. This week Israel has implemented a major land-grab around fo...
Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Next stop Iran

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One door closes another opens. Having failed abysmally to achieve their objectives in Iraq, the British government is preparing to move on t...
Monday, October 08, 2007

Running to stand still

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So Gordon Brown’s plans to cut and run before the storm of the economic crisis turns into a hurricane have fallen victim to New Labour’s own...
Friday, October 05, 2007

South African workers fight back

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As 3,000 miners emerged from three days underground at the Harmony mine at Elandsrand, it was clear that behind the growing number of accide...
Thursday, October 04, 2007

How to fight the export of jobs

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In the end, it doesn’t matter whether a firm has a Quaker tradition with close links to the local community. The bottom line is entirely abo...