Audio programme on last year’s Rebellious Media Conference, featuring Michael Albert, Zahera Harb, James Curran, Hilary Wainwright and others.
Tom: This week is the 8th annual Israeli Apartheid Week, celebrating the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Movement. Here is a...
Ed: Our friends at Red Pepper and openDemocracy both have voluntary editorial positions going. Here are the...
Alex: A guest post by Houman Barekat* Impasse. The people of Greece continue to resist; the markets, media...
—
Is the diet industry serving a useful purpose, or is it simply making money from human misery?
—
The university lecturers' union, UCU, has been in the lead in naming the day for the next round of strikes in the fight to defend pension rights. UCU NEC member Laura Miles gives an update and spells out what's at stake.
—
The ‘broken society’ has been used as a political tool by David Cameron, who inherited it from Tony Blair. Piyush Pushkar asks if society really is broken and if so what we can do about it
Comments [2]
—
As the threat of devastating climate change increases, psychoanalyst Ro Randall argues that society needs to find ways to acknowledge, work through, and live with the psychological implications.
Shocking, fascinating, entirely unsurprising: the leaked documents, if authentic, confirm what we suspected but could not prove. The...
David Cameron has joined eleven other centre right heads of government around Europe in calling on the European Union to put growth before...
A lot of misguided commentary has suggested that the worldwide Occupy movement is made up of a set of incoherent, know-nothing...
Useful report just published by The Palestine Center examining trends and patterns of Israeli settlers violence against Palestinians
Usdaw in talks with employers about their involvement in the Work Programme – USDAW USDAW, which represents 410,000 workers in retail and distribution, is in talks with a number of major companies...
If a stranger proves faithful, I adopt him into the family. But if a relative sins, I take a dim view of him. If poison proves helpful, it is actually an antidote, and if an antidote attacks me, it is really a...
My column is out at truthdig “How the FCC can take the Money out of Politics” Excerpt: “Big money has always been a problem in American politics, but now humongous...
It’s been a hard week for the private sector. Workfare in disarray and arrests at A4E due to fraud allegations. One word: Schadenfreude! The “something for nothing” culture where private...
There’s one assumption which seems to be shared by most of Europe’s ruling or would-be ruling elite which I find questionable - namely, that our present economic weakness is merely temporary. This...
A new series of blogposts on the hawkish rhetoric surrounding the Islamic Republic and its nuclear programme. Back in November, I wrote the following paragraph at the start of my weekly column in the magazine:It...
Wales’ First Minister, Carwyn Jones AM became the first government leader in the UK to announce his support for the Robin Hood Tax today which puts him in stark contrast to the...
Annual talks take place tomorrow between UNISON, GMB and Unite and the Local Government Employers over pay for 1.7 million local authority NJC employees. Today, UNISON...
BBC World has just lead its 9am headline with “More protests in Kabul over the inadvertent buning of the Koran by NATO troops”. The word “inadvertent” has been interpolated since...
I am now at my Accra home after some travels in Africa. There is still a sanity and courtesy in the African countryside – even in drought affected Mali and Burkina Faso – that is refreshing to the soul...
A CNN/ Gallup poll shows that nearly three quarters of Americans believe that Iran already has a nuclear weapon. (About 80% believe that it...
The Baath regime in Syria killed another 60 persons on Tuesday. About 30 were killed by troops in restive Idlib province. The Syrian military also continued to pound Homs on...
| Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License