Monday, March 01, 2010

Fans revolt grows

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Will top flight football go the same way as the banks and collapse as debts become unpayable? Portsmouth FC is already in administration, th...
Friday, February 26, 2010

Kurds and unions victims of Turkish state repression

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While the media is full of reports of the arrest of alleged coup plotters in Turkey, the military top brass will be reassured by the continu...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Dump this 'climate justice' model now

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The world is facing an unprecedented crisis in food production. Driving the potential calamity is rapid industrialisation in three decades o...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Resistance grows as crisis deepens

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Suddenly, as if from nowhere, a wave of opposition is engulfing Europe. Workers are joining a wave of action which threatens to bring the co...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Hang on to your vote!

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So the latest opinion polls are again pointing to a “hung” Parliament after the upcoming general election, with no single party able to form...
Monday, February 22, 2010

Mafia and Italian state target minorities

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A Kafkaesque decree handed down by a magistrate in the town of Pesaro on the east coast of Italy has sentenced two human rights defenders, R...
Friday, February 19, 2010

An act of state terrorism

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The Israeli state literally gets away with murder, dealing out death and destruction with impunity, confident that friendly governments in E...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Risks ignored as Obama leads nuclear charge

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President Obama fired the starting pistol for a rush to nuclear power in the US when he announced this week that his government will offer $...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Bankers plan to bankrupt Greece

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European governments have joined forces with the likes of Goldman Sachs and a large collection of globalised banks. They are ganging up to b...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Losing 'hearts and minds' in Afghanistan

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If there was ever a discredited phrase surely it’s “winning the hearts and minds of the people”. Used by the Americans in Vietnam and more r...
Monday, February 15, 2010

Destroying the hopes of a generation

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The government is dashing the hopes of a generation of young people through cuts in education to try and claw back some of the £850 billion ...
Friday, February 12, 2010

An open and shut case

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Of course MI5 doesn’t collude in torture, as wrongly suggested in the case of Binyam Mohamed. Nor do they suppress documents. And how do we ...
Thursday, February 11, 2010

Forests under threat in carbon offsets scandal

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Campaigners fear a new surge of forest destruction as a result of both the reactionary Copenhagen Accord and a new European Union bio-fuels ...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Greek debt crisis: a warning from history

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Greece has moved centre stage as the global debt contagion engulfs Europe. But Italy, Portugal and Spain are not far behind, whilst France a...
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010

China cracks down as turmoil grows

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Signs of growing social tensions in China continue to mount, revealed by the jailing of an activist for documenting shoddy construction work...
Monday, February 08, 2010

The real price of the 'green' Winter Olympics

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The BBC animation promoting the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, begins with an Inuit athlete launching himself into a snowboarding run and, in...
Friday, February 05, 2010

Greenpeace and the Chagos Islands

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You may recently have received a petition from a well-meaning friend with a request to sign it and circulate, or it might have come to your ...
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Thursday, February 04, 2010

Profits put energy supply under threat

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Thousands more families will be forced into fuel poverty, and Britain’s energy supply is under threat, according to a shock report published...
Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Debt contagion spreads

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In the aftermath of Davos, the annual skiing trip for the bankers, businessmen and tame governments of the global economy, one key theme run...
Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Constructing a new world

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History has, of course, seen many manifestos come and go. But the social transformation needed to lift societies out of crisis do not simply...