International
Aid is Aid, not a Bribe
Posted on February 1, 2012 by Admin | 2 Comments
by Alys Mumford Now normally I manage to resist the urge to rise to a Daily Mail article I disagree with. But for this one: ‘Well that’s gratitude! We give India £1bm in aid, THEY snub the UK and give France a £13bn jet contact’ I’ve made an exception. The article refers to a contract [...]
Colombia, fuck yeah!
Posted on January 28, 2012 by Gary Dunion | 1 Comment
Pictures from an embedded photographer on the frontline of the war on drugs show just how futile it is.
On Newt and Saul
Posted on January 24, 2012 by Adam Ramsay | 1 Comment
A couple of things have struck me about Newt Gingrich’s string of recent speeches. One is that he speaks in reasonably consistent iambic tetrameter. The other is stranger. Why does he keep talking about Saul Alinsky? I spotted it in his post South Carolina speech and asked about it on twitter. Someone pointed out that [...]
Pissing on the flag
Posted on January 12, 2012 by Jonathan Kent | 7 Comments
Another day, another scandal involving United States servicemen. This time it’s four marines pissing on the corpses of Taliban fighters they’ve killed. Each time this happens we’re asked to treat it as an isolated case. What we’re expected to believe is that when US troops misbehave it’s captured on camera and everyone knows about it. [...]
Bright Green hero: Senator Bernie Sanders
Posted on December 10, 2011 by Gary Dunion | No Comments
Today we celebrate the 1 year anniversary of an eight-and-a-half hour filibuster by independent, socialist US Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
If in six months they say they didn’t know, they’ll be lying
Posted on December 10, 2011 by Admin | No Comments
Seve Cockburn writes from Dakar. This piece first appeared on his blog. Sometime last February I sat in a meeting when people were talking about how there was going to be an extremely serious food crisis in the Horn of Africa in 3-4 months time. They talked of the possible unprecedented scale, the huge potential [...]
Don’t be fooled – the UK isn’t trying to save the climate
Posted on November 29, 2011 by Murray Worthy | No Comments
Murray Worthy, policy officer at the World Development Movement writes from the UN climate talks in Durban Cross posted from the World Development Movement’s Durban Watch blog If you have been following the news recently you could be fooled into thinking the politics of the UN negotiations have been turned on their head. It might [...]
New attacks on LGBT rights in Russia
Posted on November 23, 2011 by Admin | 1 Comment
By Nigel Warner In recent years state authorities in Russia have repeatedly tried to prevent LGBT people from campaigning publicly for their rights. This has been most evident in relation to demonstrations. Since 2005 almost every attempt to hold a Pride March, or similar, has been banned. Three such cases were the subject of a [...]
You, too, will come to love this Gideon
Posted on November 22, 2011 by Gary Dunion | No Comments
With The Real George Osborne, World Development Movement have acheived the impossible: campaigning comedy that is actually funny.
Drenched in Oil – Ulster Bank, RBS and Ethics for the Belfast Festival
Posted on October 10, 2011 by Adam McGibbon | 1 Comment
What links the suffering of the indigenous Cree Indians of Alberta, Canada, the international arms trade and the President of Belarus to a vibrant cultural event in Belfast, Northern Ireland? The answer is Ulster Bank’s sponsorship of the Belfast Festival at Queen’s; or as it’s now called, the ‘Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s.’ The [...]
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