January 2018
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Top ten Climate & Capitalism articles in 2017
5 January 2018 — Climate&Capitalism Readers’ choices The 109 articles we published in Climate & Capitalism in 2017 were read by more people than ever before. These were the most popular … Continue reading
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Think Tank-Addicted Media Turn to Regime Change Enthusiasts for Iran Protest Commentary By Adam Johnson
Since the outbreak of mass demonstrations and unrest in Iran last week, US media have mostly busied themselves with the question of not if we should “do something,” but what, exactly, that something should be. As usual, it’s simply taken for granted the United States has a divine right to intervene in the affairs of… Continue reading
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Secret Trade Deals
Giant corporations suing our government. Restricted access to medicines we all need. That’s what the government is considering in a trade deal right now. Continue reading
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Andrew Hill
4 January 2018 — Jazz on the Tube One of my all-time favourite pianists, who I once met at a friend’s house in Brooklyn in 1975. Continue reading
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3 January 2018 Black Agenda Report
3 January 2018 — Black Agenda Report Freedom Rider: Who Killed Erica Garner – Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist Eric Garner could not get justice for her father, but she succeed in exposing Barack Obama’s naked cynicism and hypocrisy… Continue reading
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Anglo Saxon alliance helps its ally to kill another 54 civilians – running amok?
Widely reported: on 26 December, airstrikes on a crowded popular market in Al Hayma sub-district in Attazziah district, Taizz Governorate led to at least 54 civilians being killed, including eight children, and 32 others injured including six children. More than 350 high-profile figures including six Nobel peace prize laureates, former military generals, politicians, diplomats and… Continue reading
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2018: British armed drone operations reach a crossroads By Chris Cole
In December 2017 the RAF announced that British Reaper drones had reached the significant milestone of flying 100,000 hours of combat operations. The hyper-asymmetric nature of drone strikes, enabling so-called ‘risk-free’ war, has long raised concerns that the technology would tempt politicians into engaging in permanent war. As we enter 2018, it seems that UK… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 