Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Junk bonds frenzy points to a new crash

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After five years of austerity budgets, the headline on the latest survey from global financial information services company Markit sums it u...
Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Aux armes, citoyens!

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The sheer arrogance of the Tories and their Lib Dem poodles as they go about making the poorest and the most vulnerable targets for benefi...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Climate change adding to health inequality

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It's the Easter holidays, when households might have traditionally planned a Sunday feast of roast lamb, peas, roast potatoes, mint sa...

Banks in 'collateral crunch' as debts mount

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Thousands of high school students took to the streets outside parliament in Nicosia yesterday. They were protesting against the harsh con...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Labour's 'opposition' to bedroom tax is phony

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The campaign against the “bedroom tax”, with over 660,000 households due to start losing significant amounts of housing benefit from Easte...
Monday, March 25, 2013

Dancing to the tune of the far right

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Prime Minister David Cameron has chosen the pages of the Sun newspaper to launch a crackdown on immigrants.  In what the tabloid calls his...
Friday, March 22, 2013

ConDems consign Kyoto to the dustbin

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Big and dirty - that's the energy future envisaged by the Coalition government and backed up with tax breaks in the budget. The Co...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Political system 'incapable' of solving crisis, warns leading Tory

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The ConDem government’s plan to, in effect, engineer a state-financed, speculative housing boom in a bid to stimulate expansion, sums up t...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Resistance by Cypriots deepens eurozone crisis

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The deepening crisis in Cyprus , where every single MP voted against plans to steal a portion of people’s savings, has thrown eurozone lea...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Beware the threat of rule by Privy Council

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The agreement of the three main parties to use the Privy Council to create a Royal Charter to impose controls over newspapers shows their ...
Monday, March 18, 2013

Cypriots angry against bail-out at their expense

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Punish the poor, protect big investors and retain Cyprus as an offshore banking haven for oligarchs. That was the meaning of measure rammed...
Friday, March 15, 2013

Big Pharma more of a threat than a cure

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The absurd notion that taxpayers should give money to the drugs industry as an incentive to develop a new generation of antibiotics demonst...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Climate change reduced to a 'security' issue

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Whilst publicly claiming climate change is no block to business as usual, and even a potential source of green profits, the world's ru...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Exploitation on the rise as recession deepens

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Today’s forlorn protest by the TUC designed to put “pressure on chancellor George Osborne to change course” as he puts his final touches ...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Speculators cash in as homelessness grows

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While homelessness grows and people struggle to pay exorbitant rents, rich property speculators in central London are cashing in. The...
Monday, March 11, 2013

Action needed NOW as CO2 emissions take off

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Hopes of holding the global rise in temperatures to 2˚C, an increase that would be disastrous in itself, have vanished after figures just ...
Friday, March 08, 2013

The age of profit has reached its limit

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In the wake of the worldwide scandal of meat products boosted with horse, investigations into contaminated cakes sold by IKEA are certain ...