Romanticising Stalinism, Arseny Roginsky
The memory of Stalinism in contemporary Russia raises problems which are painful and sensitive. There is a vast amount of pro-Stalinist literature on the bookstalls: fiction, journalism and pseudo-history. In sociological surveys, Stalin...
America's new, big bomb, Paul Rogers
The United States department of defence has confirmed that it is rushing into production the world's largest ever bomb, one designed specifically to destroy underground targets. The Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) weighs just short of fifteen...
Break up the banks, Peter Johnson
The gamekeepers have turned poacher. Both Alan Greenspan and now Mervyn King have called for the composite banks to be split up, separating the ‘routine’ business of taking customer deposits and executing payments from everything else that...
Obama's role in Iran's “velvet coup”, Ali Reza Eshraghi
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his army commanders have, in their response to the street-protests that erupted across the country after the controversial presidential election of 12 June 2009, employed a routine accusation...
DPJ victory threatens Japan-US military realignment deal, Sarah Gallagher
Traditionally strong military cooperation between the US and Japan faces an unusual challenge after the newly elected DPJ questioned the relocation of the US Futenma air base to Okinawa. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates warned yesterday that...
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