Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Greek parliament imposes debt diktat

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As Greek finance minister Evangelos Venizelos knows only too well, the measures being imposed on all but the super rich in Greece are raisin...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

The end of the beginning

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These are the words of George Barda, a member of Occupy London, who along with dozens of others, was thrown out of the encampment outside St...
Monday, February 27, 2012

Corporate version of the CIA exposed

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Are the Yes Men – a group of anti-corporate activists who stage amazing stunts – just an insignificant bunch of pranksters? Those who contr...
Friday, February 24, 2012

Exposed: welfare-to-work industry gravy train

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The workfare scandal of forcing the unemployed to work for businesses for free or lose benefits has lifted the lid on outrageous profiteerin...
Thursday, February 23, 2012

'Booted by the suited' for opposing Glasgow centre closure

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Grace Harrington was sitting quietly in the public gallery of Glasgow City Chambers listening to Labour councillors agreeing a further £43m ...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Down with the 21st century Troika!

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Whoever coined the term ‘Troika’ for the combined staff of the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Commi...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Greeks sold into debt slavery

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“It's no exaggeration to say that today is a historic day for the Greek economy,” said Lucas Papademos, banker and unelected prime minis...
Monday, February 20, 2012

Wrecker of the Year more like it

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As a Traveller, I am sickened by the nomination of Tory council leader Tony Ball for the "Leader of the Year" award organised by t...
Friday, February 17, 2012

Demand the release of Khader Adnan!

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“I am defending my dignity and my people’s dignity and not doing this in vain.” The words of 34-year-old Palestinian detainee Khader Adnan, ...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

Women hit hardest by the crisis

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The lives of women in Britain are being devastated by rising unemployment, rising prices and the coalition's spending cuts. Unemployment...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

The fate of Greece a warning to all of us

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Greece has “reached the limits of the social and economic system”, according to its public order minister Christos Papoutsis, and its “peopl...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Don't belittle the Occupation

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As Occupy London waits on the Court of Appeal’s decision on whether the City corporation can proceed with its eviction of the camp outside S...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Whitney Houston - another untimely death

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Some critics have blamed Whitney Houston’s death on herself, saying it was “self administered”, talking of the “squandered talent of someone...
Friday, February 10, 2012

Dracula is alive and well in Brussels

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Eurozone finance ministers gave Dracula-style bloodsucking a bad name last night when they rejected proposals brought from Athens for even m...
Thursday, February 09, 2012

Save the bees from corporate greed

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Two crucial scientific studies have confirmed that pesticides and insecticides at even low, undetectable levels are linked to the massive co...
Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Beware the light at the end of the tunnel

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Some optimists are saying that things are beginning to look up because of a fall in unemployment, particularly in the US but also to some sm...
Tuesday, February 07, 2012

A tale of two Britains

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On the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birthday just about everyone wants to lay claim to the most famous author of Victorian England....
Monday, February 06, 2012

Hypocrisy all round over Syria's fate

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Manoeuvres at the United Nations over a resolution on Syria cannot disguise the hypocrisy on the part of the major Western countries and the...
Thursday, February 02, 2012

How nuclear power decision was 'fixed'

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Parliament was conned by New Labour and the ConDem coalition into supporting new nuclear power stations by distorted evidence and research t...
Wednesday, February 01, 2012

They were all in it together, not just Goodwin

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At last! Something we can agree with Labour’s former chancellor, Alistair Darling, on. Fred Goodwin (formerly Sir) should not be singled out...