- NPT conference: half time glass half full , Rebecca Johnson
- Thailand's political transformation , Tyrell Haberkorn
- Siberian Shamans Come in From the Cold (part 3), Ken Hyder
- Greece on Edge of the Abyss, Chronis Polychroniou
- After defeat - a Labour minister starts his assessment, David Lammy
- No Melancholia please: Reflections after New Labour, Nick Couldry
- Samaranch, Kissinger and the Coca Cola company: a relentless fascist’s curious date with democracy, Clare Sambrook
- The Pope in Portugal, Sofia Diogo Mateus
The review of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in New York has passed its midpoint well on schedule, much to the relief of those who remember the angry stalemate of 2005, yet failure to get agreement on key regional and global disarmament...
The weeks of popular protests by thousands of red-shirted demonstrators in the centre of Bangkok reached a critical stage on the late Saturday evening of 10 April 2010. At that point, Thailand’s state-security forces began a crackdown against...
Making music by the Mongolian Steppe
The kamlanie at the spring, with Zoya, gave Chimit the answer to his onstage visions. He was being called. It was more than an invitation. Individuals who were singled out to become shamans could always...
For several months now the eyes of world are focused on Greece, the “weak link” in the eurozone economy, as the country is fighting to survive against bankruptcy over soaring deficits (standing at 14% of GDP), astronomical debt (at a whopping...
David Lammy was the Minister for Higher Education and Intellectual Property in the recent Labour government. He is a contributor to OurKingdom and sent us this, his immediate assessment of how Labour should respond to its defeat. While it is...
After John Major, few believed that a Labour government would prove the most effective mechanism for continuing neoliberalism, but it did. After Tony Blair, not all expected that Gordon Brown would prove the most inflexible defender of neoliberal...
I happened to be there on Capitol Hill one bright December morning when Juan Antonio Samaranch, who last month died of heart failure, aged 89, had his first and only encounter with democratic scrutiny.
It was 1999. The leader of the ‘Olympic...
The Catholic Church hasn’t been under this much scrutiny for quite a long time, perhaps ever. But, if you happened to be in Portugal during this week, namely from the 12th to the 14th May, you probably wouldn’t realise it.
The Portuguese...
Posts
