Thursday, January 31, 2008

Free Parvez Kambaksh!

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A World to Win calls on its supporters to oppose the death sentence passed on a 23-year-old journalism student in Afghanistan for daring to ...
Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Millions in mortgage crisis

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The thing about capitalism is that it appears to solve problems only to recreate them in a new, more dramatic form. Take housing, for exampl...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Global warming not a priority for business, survey confirms

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As the talks on a new climate change treaty to replace the Kyoto accord reached a crisis point in Bali last month, the United States represe...
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Monday, January 28, 2008

IMF rearranges deckchairs on sinking ship

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Make no mistake, the global capitalist elites know they are in a major crisis and are stumbling around trying to find a way out. The call by...
Friday, January 25, 2008

A rogue financial system

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To describe Jérôme Kerviel, the man who allegedly wiped out a year’s profits for the French bank Société Générale by making the wrong call o...
Thursday, January 24, 2008

Threat to Amazon grows

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The news of a huge rise in the rate of deforestation of the vast Amazon rainforest is one of the most serious indications yet that governmen...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Seize the initiative

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“Bloodbath in share prices”, “the dark 1970s”, “panic and desperation” – just some of the headlines littering newspaper pages and websites i...
Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Fear and panic greets Davos elite

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The fear and panic stalking the world’s stock markets is the surest expression that a global economic recession is under way with the potent...
Monday, January 21, 2008

War crimes in Gaza

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The Israelis are not the first to practice collective punishment against a subjugated people. In 1857, the British slaughtered thousands ind...
Friday, January 18, 2008

Terror from the air

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In case you thought that British withdrawal from Basra means that the suffering of Iraq and Afghanistan is coming to an end, think again. A ...
Thursday, January 17, 2008

Who is the real Luddite?

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When you hear Sir David King (ex-government chief scientific advisor) accusing green activists of being Luddites, it reminds you of those 19...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Banks’ losses threaten action on climate change

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Despite Government loans and guarantees in the region of £55billion and the sale of a choice part of its assets to J P Morgan, (perhaps coin...
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

'Nano' fears spark campaigns

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There is a growing movement against the unbridled and mostly secret use of nanomaterials in products when they have not been subjected to vi...
Monday, January 14, 2008

Coup plotters still at it

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The revelation that Britain and NATO considered staging a coup in Italy in 1976 to prevent the Communist Party (PCI) from forming a governme...
Friday, January 11, 2008

Nuclear power - the case for decomissioning New Labour

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The government’s commitment to nuclear power has everything to do with servitude to the global energy companies and nothing to do with tackl...
Thursday, January 10, 2008

Blair's new 'job' is fitting

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New Labour and money – don’t they just make a perfect fit! Former prime minister Tony Blair is taking a part-time advisory post with a US ba...
Wednesday, January 09, 2008

The year of the bailiff

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The extent to which we are cajoled, enticed, seduced and even tricked into spending more than we have – especially over the end-of-year holi...
Tuesday, January 08, 2008

New Labour wants pay cuts

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It was ever thus. When the capitalist economic system plunges into crisis, the burdens are expected to be carried by those who have to work ...
Monday, January 07, 2008

The bishop as pawn

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The term “Uncle Tom” has for a long time been a way of denouncing people of colour who ingratiate themselves with the white ruling classes. ...
Friday, January 04, 2008

The system’s broke – and Larry can’t fix it

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Any lingering doubts that the global financial crisis of 2007 would presage a deep, worldwide recession evaporated as 2008 opened for busine...