Perhaps the saying that fascism always begins at home is not so far fetched. But it is a little late to look at one aspect and then declare that this is the beginning. Unfortunately for the highly propagandized US population there has been a slow creep toward a fascist nation occurring for [...]
Branding The “War on Terror“ Global Power Relationships Shift as Competition for Resources Intensifies As competition for oil, water and other resources intensify, global power relationships are shifting, providing backdrops for a string of conflicts from Iraq to Libya. Brazilian-born journalist Pepe Escobar, one of the [...]
Obama and Labor Friends Without Benefits By David Macaray Obama and Labor Friends Without Benefits What this article discusses is not a uniquely US happening. The Labour movement in many instances and countries has broken down into tokenist [...]
The Stasi archives office in Berlin. Photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images The researcher, the pope and the Stasi’s friends in the west Pieced-together files give rise to claim that West German pastor submitted a report on Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI reddit this Helen Pidd in Berlin guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 23 November 2011 13.42 GMT Article history [...]
London is often seen as a safe haven from repression and violence [Reuters] Many citizens first settled in the UK as asylum seekers, refugees and economic migrants to escape corrupt policing practices in their countries of origin, where torture and human rights abuses are endemic. Victims of police torture arrived in the UK from numerous [...]
Since 1961 some 200 nuclear bombs have been exploded, mostly in the atmosphere [GALLO/GETTY] Much of the world marked the 50th anniversary in early August of the Berlin Wall’s construction. But, while that Cold War abomination has truly been consigned to history’s dustbin, September 1 marks another 50th anniversary, one that resonates far more directly [...]
On August 13, 1961, 50 years ago this month, the Berlin Wall went up in Germany. This barrier divided a country, segregated families and separated friends, and its existence would cast a pall over the country for the next 20 years. As a stark symbol of the Cold War, the wall existed in [...]
Ursula Bach, who fled to West Germany at 18. She was six months pregnant at the time the Berlin Wall went up in 1961, and was never to see the father of her child again. Photograph: Ursula Bach-Puyplat When she heard the news that would cause her separation from the father of her child for [...]
What do we do about the power of the corporate media? Here’s one answer. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 12th July 2011 Is Murdoch now finished in the UK? As the pursuit of Gordon Brown by the Sunday Times and the Sun blows the ¬hacking scandal into new corners of the old [...]
