Jamie: A new film documents the courageous resistance, in the face of often brutal repression, of the villagers of Nabi Saleh.
Alex: Imagine a chap, let's call him Ed, who plays football in his local park every weekend....
David: A guest post by Ross Eventon, responding to this article on openDemocracy. “The Taliban regime” contend David...
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Does the 99% label obscure more than it reveals? Economist Robin Hahnel takes a critical look...
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In the wake of the British riots and the student protests Robert Reiner, expert in criminology and policing, considers the role of police in advanced capitalist society.
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As the race to be the Republican party presidential candidate continues Paul Street casts a critical eye over the candidates.
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As the United States attempts to maintain dominance in the Asia-Pacific region Joseph Gerson takes a detailed look at the Pentagon's new strategic guidance.
Immanuel Wallerstein’s analysis in the fourth volume of his series on the modern world system is perfectly consistent with the title. The...
Another global wave of critique and resistance would come, I told myself and anyone who asked. For many years I watched and waited. Not...
Actions such as those by the Occupy movements and UK Uncut provide transparency in an inherently unjust system.
One year after the start of a revolutionary process which swept through the Arab region and continues today, International Viewpoint asked...
Work Hours Constraints and Health A German research paper looking at Germany and the UK shows that "work-hour mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired hours) have negative effects on...
CBI Industrial Trends Survey In January, domestic and export orders and deliveries were down on the previous month. Optimisim about the business situation and export prospects still very low and...
The Daily Mail columnist talked nonsense about Iran and the IAEA on last night's Question Time. On last night's Question Time, well-known Middle East expert and respected nuclear analyst...
Time for a reappraisal. Today is Holocaust Memorial Day. So I took the opportunity to write a "Thunderer" column (£) for the Times, entitled: "I am shamed by Muslim attitudes to the Holocaust".If...
Who are the global 1%? What companies do they run? How do they escape accountability? Check out the Trans-National Institute’s powerful exposure of the social and environmental costs of global corporate power...
RBS’s award of a £963,000 bonus to Stephen Hester has provoked anger. My chart shows one reason why. In the last 12 months, RBS’s share price has underperformed the market; it has also underperformed...
The law is not blind in this country – “joint enterprise” is used almost exclusively against young black men. But I can see no reason why the principle of joint enterpirse should not apply equally to those...
I’ve been following the National Loan Guarantee Scheme. Well, someone has to. In his Autumn Statement, announcing the scheme, Osborne was specific about the reduced costs...
The Republican candidates for president once again tried to out-do the Likud Party in their devotion to the doctrine of the Iron Wall and their...
A new study published today reaffirmed the link between long working hours and depression. As the evidence of serious health risks continues to pile up, why on earth...
The Iraqi governmnet executed 34 people in a single day last week, and judicial killings are running at over 600 people a year. Extra-judicial killings by state sponsored actors are much higher, and still higher are...
Consider four issues: 1. John McDonnell objects thusly to the EU-India Free Trade Agreement: If multi-brand retailing is suddenly and without safeguard opened up to EU retailers such as...
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