Monday, September 05, 2011

Torture exposes West's hollow claims about democracy

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The indictment gets longer. Still wanted over the illegal invasion of Iraq , former prime minister Blair could be open to prosecution over N...
Friday, September 02, 2011

'Grow or die' measure heads south

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The purchasing managers indexes (PMI) are key “grow-or-die” measures of the health of the capitalist economy. They show that it is in ser...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Chile joins year of 'global indignation'

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The political temperature continues to rise in Chile since last week’s killing of 16-year-old high school student Manuel Gutiérrez in the c...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Housing crisis is market failure

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In a league table of capitalist market failures, housing comes pretty near the top. The market’s distortions and extremes are so enormous th...
Friday, August 26, 2011

Essex council set for ethnic cleansing at Dale Farm

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Tensions are mounting as the August 31 deadline for the forced eviction of up to 400 Travelling people from their homes in Basildon, Essex ...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

The state tools up for confrontation

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The summonsing of social networks Facebook, Twitter and the Blackberry messenger service to the Home Office in London today is part of a gr...
Monday, August 22, 2011

Nato-sponsored regime change

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The jubilation of the anti-Gaddafi dictatorship fighters who have entered Tripoli is tempered by the fact that what is taking place is effe...
Friday, August 12, 2011

Challenge the hate-filled state

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The low level of debate at the emergency recall of Parliament underlines the yawning gulf between rulers and ruled, and the establishment’s ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

The real looters

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The coalition government has placed an emergency army battalion on standby and is considering authorising the use of water cannon and tear g...
Monday, August 08, 2011

The story of a riot foretold

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Riots across London are a result of rising anger against the corrupt and repressive Metropolitan Police, and against the poverty and unempl...
Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Jailed for protesting against Big Oil

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An oil contracts auction is so important, so very essential to the continuing smooth functioning of the world's most profitable industry...

It's the system, stupid

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A sketchy deal on spending cuts which allow the US debt ceiling to be raised is no more than an acknowledgement that law-makers in even the...
Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Met 'institutionally corrupt' says ex-spy

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It’s a plum number: £260,000 a year salary, Thames-side flat, luxury car complete with chauffeur and a bullet-proof pension. And there’s a v...
Monday, August 01, 2011

Arab Spring meets Jewish Summer

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The rhythmic Hebrew slogans used at many of the protests are strikingly similar to punchy Arabic lines that have reverberated throughout ...
Friday, July 29, 2011

12 weeks to pensions showdown

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The pensions confrontation clock is counting down. Twelve weeks from now, at the end of October, the leaders of the trade union movement wil...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

Ethiopia evicts farmers as starvation grows

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The Ethiopian government is evicting up to 90,000 of its own people from their land to lease to foreign investors to grow crops for export. ...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Time runs out for Obama and the constitution

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The irresistible march of economic and financial events undermines legal and constitutional structures, weakens bureaucratic constraints, ex...