26 August, 2011 // Category: Foreign policy, International, Terror/War
Gilbert Achcar is a Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of a number of books on global politics, imperialism and the Middle East, most recently The Arabs and the Holocaust: The...
24 August, 2011 // Category:
The riots this month have spooked Britain. They’ve spooked the public and the politicians. In a time of panic, there has been a disturbing right-wing backlash, characterized by a refusal to engage with the causes of the riots, calls for more police power and less civil liberty, and arbitrary,...
24 August, 2011 // Category: Media
When the Leveson Enquiry was announced in July, the Press Complaints Commission immediately stated its intention ‘to review its own constitution and funding arrangements, the range of sanctions available to it, and its practical independence’. This, it said, would be a ‘key contribution to...
22 August, 2011 // Category: Activism, Corporate power, Media
The media have some explaining to do in Britain and elsewhere. Taken as a whole they keep seeing things that aren’t there, like weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. And they keep overlooking things that are there, like the shadow banking system. There is clearly a problem with the system that...
19 August, 2011 // Category: Corporate power
As I’ve delved deeper into politics I’ve been struck by just how many activists on the left who might otherwise self-identify as anti-capitalist, socialist or defenders of personal freedom, are quite willing to accept corporate control over the technology they rely on. Having been involved in the...
16 August, 2011 // Category: Terror/War
In the second installment of a two part interview, Joshua E.S. Phillips discusses his new book, None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture (Verso, 2010), with Philipp Grote. Part one can be read here. Your description of arriving at the entrance to a US military base in...
15 August, 2011 // Category:
David Edwards and David Cromwell are the editors of Medialens, they spoke with NLP’s Edward Lewis on the significance of the News International scandal and its likely implications for the British media. You write about the depredations of the corporate media, viewing them as forming a system of...
12 August, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Media
PR. Those two little initials seem so harmless, don’t they? The very use of PR as a prefix seems to diminish whatever follows, by rendering it faintly ridiculous. PR person. PR stunt. Two decades later, the popular image of public relations still bears traces of the 1990s sitcom Absolutely...
12 August, 2011 // Category: Culture, Economy, Gender equality, Philosophy and Theory, Vision/Strategy
Jonathan Rutherford is professor of cultural studies at Middlesex University and editor of Soundings journal. He is co-editor of The Labour Tradition and the Politics of Paradox as well as author and editor of books on culture, gender and politics. He spoke to Edward Lewis about the challenges...
09 August, 2011 // Category: Foreign policy, International, Law, Terror/War
Joshua E.S. Phillips is an American investigative journalist who has reported from much of Southern Asia as well as the Middle East. He has written for the Washington Post, Newsweek and The Nation, amongst others, and has broadcast radio features on the BBC and NPR. In 2006 he began investigating...
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