Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Dark days for rights as attacks gather pace

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A massive attack against deeply enshrined rights is gathering pace and the alarm bells are ringing in unlikely quarters. Supreme Court presi...
Monday, March 04, 2013

Eurocrats fear 'protest against entire system'

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The game is up for eurozone countries Italy and Greece and a fatal blow to the single currency may not be far behind. A deadlock of diff...
Friday, March 01, 2013

Miliband joins race to the bottom after Eastleigh

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Earlier in the week,  the key message from the Italian elections was that support for traditional politics was in free-fall. Yesterday, th...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

US heads for 'slow motion train wreck' over debt crisis

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If you thought Italy had sovereign debt issues, you should take a look at the United States . Total public debt this week stands at nearl...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Pesky voters ignore markets, vote against austerity

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When an anti-austerity, anti-establishment internet-based political movement with few policies and led by a comedian, gets 25% of the vote...
Monday, February 25, 2013

Interrogated to death in an Israeli jail

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For the Israeli authorities, stone-throwing by Palestinians is a sufficient reason for murder by interrogation. That’s the only conclusi...
Friday, February 22, 2013

Biofuels land grab a 'recipe for mass hunger'

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A few months ago, representatives of nine villages in Madagascar held a press conference in the city of Antananarivo to denounce the Ita...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

EDF has ConDems over a nuclear barrel

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So much for the so-called virtues of the free market. The Coalition government, desperate to maintain energy supplies at any price, has ab...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Italy bosses call for 'shock therapy' as recession takes its toll

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The south of Europe is fast becoming engulfed in political turmoil as the economic contraction deepens. After protests against soaring el...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

A decade of weapons of mass disinformation about Iraq

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News that the BBC is preparing a special programme to mark the 10 th anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq doesn’t feel you with jo...
Monday, February 18, 2013

Anti-Muslim witchhunt fuels Bangladesh crisis

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The brutal murder of blogger Ahmad Rajib Haider, a leader in the mass occupation of the Shahbag junction in the capital Dhaka, has deepene...
Friday, February 15, 2013

The politics of increasingly small differences

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It’s reached the point where you need a high-powered microscope to detect the differences between the major political parties. If there are...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

How the public good became Monsanto's private gain

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Agrichemical companies like Monsanto are pursuing hundreds of US farmers and farm companies through the courts, suing them for million...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Working for free nightmare is here to stay

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Jubilant opponents of the ConDems’ multi-faceted so-called Work Programme are celebrating two court judgements ruling that most of the sch...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Tunisia crisis poses renewal of the revolution

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The abrupt turns by Tunisia ’s Congress for the Republic party highlight the political fragility of the country which was the birthplace...
Monday, February 11, 2013

Horsemeat scandal driven by cost-cutting and profit

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The horsemeat scandal is easier to explain than to trace. What we have are profit-hungry, self-regulated major retailers using their power...
Friday, February 08, 2013

Real democracy needs a new constitution

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Watching the impressive Steven Spielberg film Lincoln brought home how important a constitution is to a country and the momentous, often ...