Tuesday, January 08, 2013

Federal agencies spy for corporate America

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The United States is always awash with conspiracy theories, some more outlandish than others. But their source does not lie simply with...
Monday, January 07, 2013

Mid-Staffs scandal linked directly to NHS market

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In the run-up to the publication of the inquiry into health care tragedies at mid-Staffordshire, the ConDems and the right-wing media are ...
Friday, January 04, 2013

Labour is Coalition Lite

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So the race to the bottom continues as Labour and the Tories try to outflank each other by getting tough with the unemployed, the disabled...
Thursday, January 03, 2013

Climate change brings extreme rain and flooding

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As many as 5.2m UK properties are already at risk of flooding, with 2.4m threatened by rivers and the sea, and a further 2.8 million at ri...
Wednesday, January 02, 2013

'Fiscal cliff' deal robs US workers

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Given that the last-minute deal in Congress was designed to avert the US economy falling over a self-imposed “fiscal cliff”, the best way ...
Monday, December 31, 2012

When people decided that enough was enough

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Long ago, society was being overwhelmed by a series of catastrophes to which there seemed no answers. Unemployment, poverty and inequality...
Friday, December 21, 2012

Something rotten in the state of Britain

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A plot by the state against a weak government of the day, unable to govern on its own, amidst a grave economic crisis. Sounds familiar? We...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

Dirty gas gets the green light

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As the government’s experts on renewable energy form a queue at the exit, the gas specialists are moving in, counting the zeros on their...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

FT turns to Lenin in desperation

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Mark Carney isn’t due to move from being governor of the Bank of Canada to governor of the Bank of England until next July. But the intens...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Don't do it Wiggo!

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Bradley Wiggins, heroic winner of the Tour de France, Olympic gold medallist and BBC sports personality of the year, with sideburns that h...
Monday, December 17, 2012

Tories have Human Rights Act in their sights

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The imminent appearance of the parliamentary commission’s report into a new Bill of Rights is giving the Tory right an opportunity to bray...
Friday, December 14, 2012

Finucane's murder reveals the state within the state

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A state within a state signifies the fact that sections of the armed forces, police or intelligence services are running their own agend...
Thursday, December 13, 2012

Factory farming threatens antiobiotics

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We don’t have to imagine a world without antibiotics, only look at history to know what life was like before infections like typhoid, tube...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Revealed: the harsh truth behind jobs figures

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Governments on both sides of the Atlantic have good news on jobs. Apparently. The real story is of people giving up the search for work a...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Unions should resist rail and fuel price rises with civil disobedience

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Millions of people who commute to work are a just a few weeks away from a massive cut in incomes that will intensify the dramatic fall in ...
Monday, December 10, 2012

Egypt's unfinished revolution

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Egypt is experiencing the throes of the third phase of its political and social revolution. Tanks have been ordered onto the streets of C...