2017-04-10 23:10
The fishing town of Cordova, Alaska
The U.S. Navy's Anti-Environmental Broadside in the Gulf of Alaska By Dahr Jamail
It’s war in the Gulf and the U.S. Navy is on hand t… Read More
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2017-04-10 23:00
Ami Ayalon.Ami Ayalon and Carmi Gillon speak out ahead of 50th anniversary of occupation of Palestinian territories:
Two former heads of Israel’s powerful domestic intelligence service… Read More
2017-04-10 08:00
Jockeys line up at the start of the 1993 Grand National, the only time the race has ever been abandoned.
The Grand National has become symbolic of the cruelty of horse racing. In recent… Read More
2017-04-09 23:30
Martin Linton reports on Israel’s brutal treatment of its 6,000 Palestinian conflict prisoners.
Largely ignored by the media, will be forced into the headlines by Marwan Barghouthi&r&helli…Read More
2017-04-09 23:15
This makes fascinating listening it's a telephone call between retired British Army GOC in Northern Ireland, General Sir John Wilsey and Ian Hurst. (Martin Ingram.) Hurst was a member… Read More
2017-04-09 23:00
There was something especially obscene about Turkish president Erdogan’s comparison of Angela Merkel’s Germany with the Nazis. “Nazi practices” were going on in Ge… Read More
2017-04-09 11:32
Members of South Africa's biggest union National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa who will be the bedrock of new federation.
Terry Bell reports on the launch of South Africa’s f… Read More
2017-04-08 10:04
SAS veteran Ben Griffin speaks in Belfast to republican youth activistsPeadar Whelan of An Phoblacht reports on a meeting between Veterans for Peace and young Irish Republicans.
Britis… Read More
2017-04-08 06:04
Trump takes us all into another dark night.Bob Fisk writes the Syrian war has become the most poorly reported conflict in the world. How many dead has it caused? How do we complete the figur… Read More
2017-04-07 23:00
ETA announces ceasefire back in 2010
Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) the Basque separatist group if all goes well will disarm later today, bringing to an end decades of war with the Spanis… Read More
2017-04-07 09:24
Ken would be more help to Jeremy if he spent more time tending his garden.Phil Burton-Cartledge revisits the Livingstone furore:
"Ken Livingstone is a massive dickhead. It's high time he act… Read More
2017-04-06 23:20
Jim Killock in Democratic Audit UK raises the deeply worrying prospect that the Law Commission’s dangerous proposals would Turn Whistleblowers And Journalists Into ‘Spies.&rsqu&hellip…Read More
2017-04-06 23:10
A student at the University of Exeter writes students must be able to speak openly about the Israeli occupation of Palestine:
A sleepy city tucked away in the southwest corner o… Read More
2017-04-06 23:00
Adam Feinstein’s who wrote a biography of the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda casts a caustic eye at the film 'Neruda.'
Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Billy Wilder’s… Read More
2017-04-06 11:54
Few people know for sure who was responsible for the deaths in the opposition-controlled Idlib region of Syria. What I find so shocking and downright dangerous is how the mainstream medias t… Read More
2017-04-05 23:30
Bill and Melinda Gates carbon footprint equals that of a small city as they swan around the world in their super yachts, helicopters, private jets, fleet of 4by4 cars.
Michael Rob… Read More
2017-04-05 23:10
"If you’re going to lie, make it a big one. And nowhere are they bigger than from the mouths of our leaders."
All four lie, distort, manipulate and deceive.
A History Of Lying:… Read More
2017-04-05 23:05
Middle East Eye Reports:
Human rights workers documenting abuses and advocating an end to them have been barred by the Israeli military authorities from entering and leaving the Gaza Strip… Read More
2017-04-05 23:00
Tommy McKearney asks what on earth is going on in the Republic of Ireland—or, more to the point, what form of governance is operating in that 26-county state?
Reflect for a moment on s… Read More
2017-04-05 11:01
Alianza PAIS’s presidential candidate Lenin Moreno, left, and his running mate Jorge Glas celebrate victory.TELESUR report Progressive candidate and renowned disability activist from t… Read More
2017-04-04 23:20
The alert below was put out by the Network for Police Monitoring, (Netpol) it seeks to monitor public order, protest and street policing, and to challenge and resist policing which is exc… Read More
2017-04-04 23:10
President Zuma enjoying a meal with head of the Gupta family of tycoons.Terry Bell writes South Africa’s constitutional democracy has, over the past week been shown up for the farce t… Read More
2017-04-04 23:00
Back to the future.Larry Hughes muses on what Brexit might mean, this piece first appeared on The Pensive Quill.
The media has been given a new subject to sustain what passes for journ… Read More
2017-04-04 17:26
Yesterday John McDonnell criticised government tax changes when he wrote:
Labour research reveals that the Tories’ tax changes that came into effect on 1 April will see £2.5 b… Read More
2017-04-03 23:15
The rightwing of the British Labour Party and their Blairite allies having been soundly thrashed in two leadership contest by the membership have retreated into the constituency's they stil… Read More
2017-04-03 23:10
Clive Stafford Smith
Too many of our leaders fail to offer inspiring alternatives and so society fails to move towards a better world by Clive Stafford Smith.
Torture, secret prisons, the de… Read More
2017-04-03 23:00
Protesters, including politicians and local mayors, are opposed to the uprooting of hundreds of olive trees along the route of the pipeline
Sarah Shoraka reports on a south Italian village's… Read More
2017-04-03 10:21
Darcus Howe (26 February 1943 – 1 April 2017) was an anti racist, broadcaster, writer, and civil liberties campaigner. Originally from Trinidad, Howe a… Read More
2017-04-02 23:25
Families with more than two children will be targeted by Mrs May's Tory government's benefit cuts.
Below Steven Preece reports:
Limiting child tax credits to two children could lead to a ris… Read More
2017-04-02 23:20
In a brutally honest article below Kevin McKenna points out Scottish Labour by dancing to the Tories tune in opposing a new independence referendum renounced the right to speak for working… Read More
2017-04-02 23:10
Breslin campaigning for City Council president in the Garment District in 1969 with Norman Mailer, a candidate for mayor.Dan Barry with an obituary of Jimmy Breslin which first appeared in… Read More
2017-04-02 23:00
Below Mark Perryman writes the Clash more than any band symbolised the punk and politics mix, show cased on their debut album The Clash, released 40 years ago 8th April ’77
The bi… Read More
2017-04-02 14:39
The balance of forces inside the Labour Party has moved to the left. Can the leadership respond. By Paul Mason:
Whatever else they differed on, the three intellectual traditions that built… Read More
2017-04-01 23:30
“We do not fight racism with racism. We fight racism with solidarity. We do not fight explosive capitalism with Black capitalism. We fight capitalism with basic socialism.” Bobb… Read More
2017-04-01 23:10
Colin Grant reviews Stuart Hall's posthumous memoir, the renowned cultural theorist hinges on his journey from the West Indies to the ‘mother country’
Stuart Hall, who died in… Read More
2017-04-01 23:00
South Africa is facing a political crisis after its President Jacob Zuma sacked his finance minister and reshuffled his cabinet in an overnight cabinet purge. The dramatic move late on Thurs… Read More
2017-04-01 08:00
Special event next Saturday: Take Back Control Croydon
Saturday 7 - 8 April, TMRW Hub (75-77 High St, Croydon), 10am
Ken Loach, Soweto Kinch, Sha… Read More
2017-03-31 23:10
The Canadian broadcaster David Cochrane announced on CBC news the Liberal government of Justin Trudeau will announce legislation next month that will legalize marijuana in Canada by July 1… Read More
2017-03-31 23:00
The friendship between Recep Erdoğan and Fethullah Gulen was originally one of student and preacher, however once the pupil came to believe he had outgrown his preacher the friendship f… Read More
2017-03-30 23:20
“Hatred, revenge, bitterness, these are negative emotions. The person harbouring those emotions suffers more.” ---Ahmed Kathrada
Kathrada may have had a deeply spiritual u… Read More
2017-03-30 23:15
The United States launched more airstrikes in Yemen this month than during all of last year.
I boy collect a toy from the rubble of his home after airstrikes in Yemen.Ben Hubbarb and… Read More
2017-03-30 23:10
On Tuesday, Donald Trump signed an executive order effectively dismantling the Obama administration's climate protections and policies, specifically its Clean Power Plan targeting carbon… Read More
2017-03-30 08:36
Francis Ryan writes painting sick and disabled people as ‘workshy’: that’s what Tory benefits cuts are all about:
What’s worse: kicking someone because you’v… Read More
2017-03-29 23:15
The British Labour party's national policy forum issued a consultation document on Health and Social Care, Brian Gibbons looked at the document and while he welcomes much of it he doesn… Read More
2017-03-29 23:07
Five candidates standing in the French presidential primaries
Below Andrew Coates writes former Parti Socialiste PM Valls backs centrist Macron for French presidency. This article firs… Read More
2017-03-29 23:00
Reichstag fire.
Below Frank Duvell writes in both Erdoğan's Turkey and Nazi Germany, through democratic processes authoritarian rule is imposed on previously fairly democratic… Read More
2017-03-29 08:43
When Tony Blair announced earlier this year he was setting up a new organisation many on the left believed this was simply a spoiler as the Copeland and Stoke Central by-elections were du… Read More
2017-03-28 23:30
Steven Preece of Welfare Weekly reports the former England and Manchester United star says the government is wrong to put a time limit on recovering from bereavement.
Former England capta… Read More
2017-03-28 23:15
Iraqi man sits in the ruins of his home.
Evan W. Sandlin writes when U.S. rivals committed atrocities in Aleppo, Western talking heads were appalled. But when the U.S. supports t… Read More
2017-03-28 23:10
Banjo Morton, an Ampilatwatja elder bordering the Utopia homelands. (Chris Graham)
Learn about the real history of Australia. Amy McQuire helps you dip your toe in the water… Read More
2017-03-28 23:00
Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks last Saturday at a town hall meeting in Hardwick, Vermont
Below Deirdre Fulton, a staff writer at Common Dreams reports on Bernie Sanders call for Medi… Read More
2017-03-28 08:00
It was the summer of 1984 Rosa Mireya Cardenas, on route from Panama to Nicaragua, was captured by what she believes were CIA agents at the Juan Santamaria airport in San Jose, Cos… Read More
2017-03-27 23:10
Pablo Iglesias and the mayor of Barcelona Ada Colau.
This article is part of the Democracy Futures series, a joint global initiative with the Sydney Democracy Network. The project aims to st… Read More
2017-03-27 23:00
Tyrone Irish republican Sean Mallory with his thoughts on the death of Martin McGuinness and Geordie Gilmore who were both buried in the same week. This article was first published on The P… Read More
2017-03-27 23:00
Below Michael Hudson, a research professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City, ponders on whether Donald Trump is an agent of change with a specific policy in mind, or mere… Read More
2017-03-27 11:31
…we cannot tell from contemplation of any object in the supermarket what conditions lay behind its production … We can take our daily breakfast without a thought for the myria… Read More
2017-03-27 09:51
Martin Stellman with an obituary of his friend the radical filmmaker and chicken farmer Franco Rosso:
The British film-maker Franco Rosso, who has died aged 75, always felt like an outsider… Read More
2017-03-26 23:05
One of the main reasons for the damaging shenanigans which has hit the British Labour Party since Corbyn became party leader is clearly illustrated in the piece from Skwawkbox below. While C… Read More
2017-03-26 23:00
Red Nose Day on TV is a sentimental and convenient delusion of homogeneity – we’re all middle class, we’re all in the same boat.
If we all hold our noses we cannot s… Read More
2017-03-26 10:16
Craig Murray has been in Ghana which when I was at school was called the Gold Coast, until it gained independence under the leadership of a charismatic young leader Kwame Nkrumah and the nam… Read More
2017-03-26 00:00
Daniel Hannan, Marxism, and Dishonesty by Phil Burton-Cartledge.
Yes, that is one of the right's leading intellectual lights. In his own words. His own stupid words.
I've picked this out no… Read More
2017-03-25 10:08
Now Martin McGuinness is resting in his grave I have decided to reblog a piece we published here a few years ago. Why? Because I believe it's important we get a rounded view of imported peop… Read More
2017-03-25 00:07
In an exclusive question and answer session Bob Dylan talks to rock journalist/MTV executive Bill Flanagan. Whilst it is mainly a promo for his upcoming standards three-disc set Trip… Read More
2017-03-25 00:05
Michael Doherty looks at who he believes in the long run stands to gain most from the London attack, his views on this dreadful crime is not one you will find in the mainstream media which a… Read More
2017-03-24 13:58
This tale is a bit of an oddity given the City of London is regarded by many as crook central, unsurprisingly it's not been covered much in the mainstream media, but I thought it was worth… Read More
2017-03-24 00:15
Below is an article about the so called 'white working classes' by Lynsey Hanley, the author of Estates: An Intimate History.
In the article she takes aim at those who have attempted to divi… Read More
2017-03-24 00:12
Let’s Make History We Want to Remember is a collaborative video project about how immigrants have been targeted and scapegoated throughout US history, and a call to action to make a di… Read More
2017-03-24 00:05
World by Storm writes Édouard Louis has a rapid journey in his short 23 or 24 years growing up gay and working class but getting a scholarship to 'elite' schools in France.
It w… Read More
2017-03-23 20:53
Since last years failed military coup against the Government of Recep Erdoğan thousands of Kurd's and leftists have been rounded up and imprisoned without charge. In the southeast of t… Read More
2017-03-23 00:15
Rima Khalaf.Ali Abunimah of the Electronic Intifada reports:
The head of the United Nations' West Asia commission, Rima Khalaf, has resigned over what she described as the pressure to withdr… Read More
2017-03-23 00:10
Who’s Afraid of Airat Vakhitov by Aisha Maniar, a human rights activist and writer who blogs at one small window..
By the time Airat Nasimovich Vakhitov turns 40, he wil… Read More
2017-03-23 00:05
Dilar Dirik with YPJ fighters
Dilar Dirik is from northern Kurdistan (Turkey). She is an activist of the Kurdish women's movement and writes on the Kurdish freedom struggle for an internatio… Read More
2017-03-22 18:09
Steve Hilditch reports don’t hold your breath, Theresa May tells homeless mother.
A Parliamentary Question on homelessness today from Labour MP Siobhain McDonagh either caught the P… Read More
2017-03-22 00:30
An Sionnach Fionn with a more detailed obituary of Martin McGuinness than you are likely to read in the British media, it first appeared on the Blog of that name.
Though not en… Read More
2017-03-22 00:20
To understand the forces propelling Brexit, it helps to examine the emotional residue of Britain’s lost empire by Henry Wismayer:
The story of modern Britain is, in many ways, a tal… Read More
2017-03-22 00:10
David Osland writes:
It has been a while since I last read How to Win Friends and Influence People, “fucking fools” who need to change their “fucking minds… Read More
2017-03-16 17:54
2017-03-16 00:30
It is indicative of the Tory mentality that sick people, women, children, disabled people, and young people have been hardest hit by their spiteful, nasty and unnecessary austerity measures… Read More
Work Capability Assessments Are Fundamentally Discriminatory To People With Mental Health Conditions
2017-03-15 09:00
Steven Preece of Welfare Weekly reports fit for work’ tests cause ‘suicidal thoughts’ and must be ‘redesigned completely:
Controversial ‘fit for work&rs… Read More
2017-03-15 00:30
Trump signs executive order on Obamacare
Steven Rosenfeld reports on Trumps act of barbarism:
An astounding 24 million Americans will lose health insurance by 2026 under the… Read More
2017-03-15 00:15
“We have to start winning wars again,” Trump declared. "I have to say, when I was young, in high school and college, everybody
used to say we never lost a war. We never lo… Read More
2017-03-15 00:10
Maryam Namazie
Maryam Namazie responds to Tariq Mahood on the issue of religion in the public sphere, it was first published on the Pensive Quill.
Below are my open… Read More
2017-03-14 00:35
A demonstrator with a Turkish flag walks in front of riot police during clashes in the streets near the Turkish Consulate in Rotterdam
Cengiz Candar, a columnist for Al-Monitor's Turkey Pul… Read More
2017-03-14 00:30
The world famous graffitist is using his fame and fortune to challenge hegemony on the West Bank, notes Kara Bryan
Anonymous graffiti artist and activist Banksy revealed his latest jaw… Read More
2017-03-14 00:20
Craig Murray looks into the case of the disappearing Prime Minister
I was delighted by Nicola Sturgeon’s announcement today, both the content and the manner of her making it.
I… Read More
2017-03-13 13:44
On trade, ‘Empire 2.0’, and the truth in Liam Fox’s nonsense by Adam Ramsay.
In May 1840, William Gladstone said that he lived “in dread of the judgments of God up… Read More
2017-03-13 12:49
Right of picture shows the arrest of a protester after Kazakh security services shot 14 oil workers.
Tony Blair has turned out to be one of the more disreputable prime minister the UK has ev… Read More
2017-03-13 00:36
The president who loved generals by William D Hartung
In the splurge of “news,” media-bashing, and Bannonism that’s been Donald Trump’s domestic version of a shock… Read More
2017-03-12 13:25
Sarah Champion reports on a recent visit to Palestine, she is shadow minister for women and equalities and Labour MP for Rotherham
It’s cold. Really bitterly cold. The wind is whipp… Read More
2017-03-11 12:41
2017-03-11 12:27
The #SurreySweetheartdeal. Corruption, lies and cover ups. Remember, when Theresa May laughs off questions at PMQ's, she's laughing at us... pic.twitter.com/Nr3UBYQnCz
— EalingLabour… Read More
2017-03-11 12:26
Our class needs a strong labour movement by Tommy McKearney.
Do you recall the old Joe Hill song “The Preacher and the Slave,” which included the great line “Work and pra… Read More
2017-03-11 09:54
Sinn Féin's NI Assembly leader Michelle O'Neill celebrates after winning a seat in Mid-Ulster.
Kevin Bean looks at the possibilities for Sinn Féin following the assembly elect… Read More
2017-03-10 10:00
Corporate spy Rob Moore (third from left), pictured at Geneva in 2015. From left to right is Sue Murray (Unite The Union, Britain); Dave Trigg (Unite); Rob Moore; Andrew Ramsay (CFEMU Qld);… Read More
2017-03-10 00:35
Joe Glenton is an Afghan war veteran who served in the British army for six years, after his last tour in Afghanistan he refused a second tour on legal and moral grounds, tried by courts mar… Read More
2017-03-10 00:32
Thanks to Ed Moloney who published this photo on his blog, we get an idea of the company senior members of the Trump administration keep. In the photo below US Vice-President Mike Pence… Read More
2017-03-10 00:30
Corporate Watch has a shocking report about how charities which claim to support the homeless who sleep on the streets have been working alongside Immigration Compli… Read More
2017-03-10 00:30
Monimbó writes as far as housing is concerned Philip Hammond’s not for turning.
Hammond ignored housing and in so doing merely confirmed what we already knew: he’d alread… Read More
2017-03-09 10:59
Last week Organized Rage published a review of Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor which held to account the current day apologists of the British Empire. Below in a hard hitting article Sha… Read More
2017-03-09 00:28
The press statement below from the WikiLeaks website, gives a good overview of the latest spying brouhaha focusing on the techniques of the CIA and British intelligence… Read More
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