Friday, 8 January 2010

Fleeced. A letter from the Russian provinces,

Author:
Elena Godlevskaya
Summary:
Corruption has always been part of Russian life, and the Oryol region today just offers a rather extreme example, says Elena Godlevskaya. Some of the main perpetrators have been named, but the...

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Science, defence and strategy,

Author:
Adam Elkus
Summary:
Without strategy, the science of war overtakes the art of war.

War has always been such a tremendously complex undertaking that every force waging it has sought to simplify and standardize. At...

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Living in a world of make-believe: the mythmakers of the globalising age,

Author:
Gerry Hassan
Summary:
Despite the failings of the neo-liberal model, the media still uses its advocates in City institutions, financial bodies and agencies associated with them to explain and analyse the crisis
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Is Iran heading towards another revolution?,

Author:
Ahmad Alehossein
Summary:
Iran's history contains three millennia of despotism, but also three revolutions in the past century alone. The current unrest may suggest that another is on its way. It poses formidable...

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Yemeni foreign minister rejects US intervention in al-Qaeda fight ,

Author:
Josephine Whitaker
Summary:
Yemen’s foreign minister rejects possibility of US intervention in its battle against al-Qaeda, suggesting fears that US support might do more harm than good. Aid agencies warn of return to...

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Clegg on the attack,

Author:
Stuart Weir

I don't know if I am being fair to Nick Clegg, but I read a short piece in the Guardian today on his condemnation of Labour and the Conservatives as 'corrupt'. Quite right too, their resolve to protect...

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Intelligence agencies in the United States under fire as airport security undergoes review worldwide,

Author:
Rukeyya Khan
Summary:
President Barack Obama criticises intelligence agencies for security failings as airport security undergoes review worldwide. The UN food agency suspends operations in south Somalia. A suicide attack...

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A New Year Letter to Independent Candidates from Terry Waite,

Author:
Guy Aitchison
Summary:
The next Parliament looks set to see a large intake of new MPs, quite a few of them independents. But chances are you haven't heard of the Independent Network.

The next...

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A brave new world?,

Author:
Andy Yee
Summary:
Is there a good response to China's ‘resilient capitalist authoritarianism’?

The world is heading towards the second scenario envisaged by Francis Fukuyama in his afterword to The End of...

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Can consumers save our climate?,

Author:
John Elkington
Summary:
After Copenhagen, can market forces – and consumers in particular – help address global warming? In an article originally published on

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