15 April, 2012 // Category: Activism, Corporate power, Foreign policy, International
In December Egyptian prosecutors and police raided 17 offices of 10 groups identifying themselves as “pro-democracy” NGOs, including 4 US based agencies. Fourty three people, including 16 US citizens, were accused of failing to register with the government and financing the April 6th protest...
23 March, 2012 // Category: Foreign policy, International, Terror/War
Last week’s massacre of 16 Afghan civilians in Panjwai by an American serviceman, and the death of six British soldiers in Afghanistan the previous week, have focused attention on the support, or lack of it, among the public for Britain’s continued military presence in the country. A YouGov...
02 January, 2012 // Category: Foreign policy, Law, Media
Even if you didn’t know much about it, you might consider the head of the official Government inspectorate of prisons an unlikely source for reactionary, authoritarian rhetoric about the UK’s “cushy” and “comfortable” prisons. You’d probably find it still more unlikely if you knew anything about...
05 December, 2011 // Category: Economy, Foreign policy, International
As part of our series of material related to the most recent edition of the Socialist Register – The Crisis and the Left – New Left Project's Ed Lewis interviewed Adam Hanieh about the international political economy of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Hanieh is a lecturer in development...
21 October, 2011 // Category: Foreign policy, Media, Politics, Racism, Religion, Terror/War, The Right
The campaigning group Spinwatch launched a report on two right-wing think-tanks at the House of Commons last week. Co-authored by NLP’s Tom Mills, The Cold War on British Muslims argues that British neoconservatives are waging ideological warfare against Muslim and left-wing groups, and liberal...
06 October, 2011 // Category: Activism, Economy, Foreign policy, International
Greg Muttitt worked for many years with the arts and social justice charity Platform, exposing the global impact of the oil industry. His first book, based on almost a decade of research, is Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq. It provides a forensic, behind-the-scenes account of...
04 October, 2011 // Category: Activism, Foreign policy, Politics, Terror/War
One night last summer Shakeel Khan and his family were at home in North Waziristan when there was a huge explosion. ‘I was resting with my parents in one room when it happened. God saved my parents and I, but my brother, his wife, and children were all killed.’ The children were five and three...
29 September, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Foreign policy, International, Racism
Greg Muttitt worked for many years with the arts and social justice charity Platform, exposing the global impact of the oil industry. His first book, based on almost a decade of research, is Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq. It provides a forensic, behind-the-scenes account of...
28 September, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, Foreign policy, International
Greg Muttitt worked for many years with the arts and social justice charity Platform, exposing the global impact of the oil industry. His first book, based on almost a decade of research, is Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq. It provides a forensic, behind-the-scenes account of...
11 September, 2011 // Category: Foreign policy, International, Terror/War
Acts of terrorism, by definition, are designed to elicit a response of shock, awe and fear in an audience, with the purpose of intimidating or coercing that audience into adopting a political response favourable to the terrorists’ agenda. My own immediate reaction to the al Qaeda attacks of 11...
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