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Britain’s Anti-War Movement Looks Back on Over a Decade of War
Ten years after the largest protest in British history in February 2003, activists examine Britain's legacy in Iraq and the era of continuous warfare.
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Changing Minds, But Not Policy
Fiscal austerity while the economy is depressed, and in particular when conventional monetary policy has reached its limits, was an obviously bad idea from day one.
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The Pursuit of Julian Assange Is an Assault on Freedom and a Mockery of Journalism
The British government's threat to invade the Ecuadorean Embassy in London and seize Julian Assange is of historic significance.
Ecuador Grants Julian Assange Asylum; US Seen as “Hidden Hand” Behind UK Threat to Raid Embassy
As Ecuador prepared to announce its decision on granting asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Britain threatened to raid the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
Blair, War, Olympic Deals and a Glimpse of Another Britain
Today, 4.8 million victims of Agent Orange are children, all of them shockingly deformed.
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Blame Politics, Not Economics, for This Enduring Crisis
So why the sense that macroeconomics is a mess? Iu2019d say that itu2019s essentially political.
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Britain’s Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
If Britain has not experienced a mysterious productivity collapse, it is suffering much more than acknowledged from a lack of effective demand u2014 and also has a much smaller …
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Former Prime Minister Contradicts Murdoch Testimony at Hacking Inquiry
LONDON — Starting four days of evidence by political leaders about the sway of Rupert Murdoch's newspapers over public life here, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday denied …
The Leveson Inquiry – Oh, What a Lovely Game
John Pilger describes how the Leveson public inquiry in the British press, set up following the Murdoch phone-hacking revelations, exemplifies the