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Brexit: Parliament Tethers Britain to a Failing Experiment
Kit Knightly
Brexit isn't going to happen. Left or Right - Lexit or Rexit - it's over. It's time to make peace with that idea. This on-going, slow-burn sabotage is hard...
Class Contempt: A Washington Post Reporter’s Prison Diary
Rostam Pourzal Journalist Jason Rezaian, born in California to Iranian immigrant parents, was arrested with his wife in Tehran midsummer 2014 on suspicion of espionage. He had a government-issued...
The “ISIS Resurgence” is Fake News
Kit Knightly
Donald Trump's decision to "withdraw" from Syria has kicked up a lot of dust - there's sympathy for the poor Kurds, concern for the stability of the region, fear...
Bayer Shareholders: Put Health and Nature First and Stop Funding This Company!
Colin Todhunter Campaigner and environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has just written an open letter to Bayer Crop Science shareholders and Chairman of the Board Werner Wenning. She has also...
Social Media: Ground Zero for the War on Ideas
Julian Glassford This time last year I cautioned, in a commentary for the libertarian e-zine Spiked, that Twitter’s leadership had finally sold-out on free speech. Much to the consternation...
WATCH: Kentucky is in Syria
"Did you know that Kentucky is in Syria? Or that Tripoli is in India? Or that Caracas is in Singapore? No? Then you must not be paying enough attention...
At the Feet of Mammon…
Philip Farruggio
Mass. Rep Jim McGovern caught in William Browder’s Magnitsky Hoax
Lucy Komisar A member of Congress you thought was a liberal is caught up in a Russiaphobe conjob. His name is Jim McGovern, and he is a congressman from...
A Coalition of Support: Parliamentarians for Julian Assange
Binoy Kampmark Australian politicians, and the consular staff of the country, are rarely that engaged on the subject of protecting their citizens. In a couple of notorious cases, Australian...
The Kurds in Syria
Philip Roddis Attempts by Third World leaders to establish independent control of their economies, in preference to their economies being used as spheres of profit-accumulation for the sole direct...
Copenhagen: Life in the Slow Lane
Colin Todhunter Indian cities are in crisis. Spend any length of time in a large city there and you will notice the overcrowding, the power and water shortages and,...
In Defence of Realism
Frank Lee One of the unstated and extant features of the post-modern age has been the demise of the Westphalian Treaty. This arrangement had in times past regulated the...
Reality Check: Chris Williamson WON his legal challenge
Kit Knightly
Unless you've been paying close attention, it’s probably hard to keep up with just how many times Chris Williamson MP has been suspended from the Labour Party – for...
Why is Hong Kong losing out to mainland China?
Hong Kong is losing to Mainland China. Its poverty rates are high, it suffers from corruption and savage capitalism. It is now the most expensive city on earth. People...
#TrumpBetrayedtheKurds: “Progressive Hollywood” Calls for War
Kit Knightly
This is the ultimate victory of the Deep State in the United States. The zenith of Trump Derangement Syndrome: The Pavlovian conditioning of the entire “liberal” establishment.
Defending the Rule of Law….with HRC in the Wings
Renée Parsons It has been more than fascinating if not totally absorbing to watch the chain of events unfold over recent days with the Democrats in open cahoots with...
Right Kind of Green: Agroecology
Colin Todhunter The globalised industrial food system that transnational agri-food conglomerates promote is failing to feed the world. It is responsible for some of the planet’s most pressing political, social and environmental...
DISCUSS: Trump pulling US forces out of Syria?
Kit Knightly
Donald Trump, the elected President of the United States of America, is going to keep a campaign promise. Maybe. Three years after winning office, largely on his “no more...
No Class
John Steppling In class society, everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of a class.”...
“Israel and the West Do Not Have the Means to Counter Iranian Technology”
Introduction by Gilad Atzmon The following is a translation of today’s Israel’s News 12 headline article. The article explores the lessons delivered by the recent attack on Saudi oil...
