the state
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David Kelly and the silence of British media – 10 years on By Justin Kelly
Are concerns over the official narrative “conspiracy fodder”, or have the media failed to adequately challenge the state’s account of what happened? Continue reading
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Class Warfare in Egypt By By SEAN F. McMAHON
Egypt is at war. More accurately, Egypt is experiencing yet another battle in its ongoing class war. The battle is so fierce because the primary combatants are the two most powerful social forces in Egypt, both factions of the capitalist class – the military as the state capitalist class and the Ikhwan (the Muslim Brotherhood)… Continue reading
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German authorities persecute anti-fascist protester By Martin Nowak
After seven days of proceedings, the Dresden District Court has suspended the trial of Lothar König indefinitely. The prosecution accuses König, a youth pastor from Jena, of serious breach of the peace, obstruction of justice and resisting a law enforcement officer. He is alleged to have incited protesters to engage in violence against police on… Continue reading
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HAITI: Profit-Driven “Slum Reconstruction” Will Cost “Hundreds Of Millions”
Three years after its star-studded launch by President René Préval, actor Sean Penn and various other Haitian and foreign dignitaries, the model camp for Haiti’s 2010 earthquake victims has helped give birth to what might become the country’s most expansive – and most expensive – slum. Continue reading
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The US as Superintendent of Global Capitalism: A Response by Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin
We very much appreciate these generous, perceptive and comradely comments on our book and we hope our response will contribute to continued discussions and further research. Continue reading
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Books: The Importance of State Theory By Bob Jessop
Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin’s long-awaited The Making of Global Capitalism, said to be ten years or more in the making, is ‘about globalisation and the state’. More precisely, Panitch and Gindin use its 450 pages to provide an important, informative, and well-written account of the predisposing factors, emergence, expansion and transformations, of global capitalism,… Continue reading
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Media silent on the state killing of Boston bombing witness By Tom Carter
The extraordinary silence of the American media on the state killing of Ibragim Todashev, a key witness in relation to the recent Boston bombings, calls the official account of the bombings even further into question. Continue reading
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London Declaration on Anti-Semitism: Seeking to Criminalize Criticism of Israel By Stuart Littlewood
Australian federal and state MPs have been indulging in an orgy of anti-anti-Semitism by signing en masse the London Declaration on Combating Anti-Semitism. About 300 other lawmakers from some 60 countries have also signed, according to a spokesperson from the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism. Fifty of these are Canadians, 18 are British, six are… Continue reading
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Greek Lessons From Below By Sofiane Ait Chalalet and Chris Jones
Life without papers has changed in the last five years. Earlier, before austerity and recession struck, most of the refugees could find work with wages. Without papers they were inevitably highly exploitable and many were. But now there is virtually no work with wages. On top of this terror of having no income to live,… Continue reading
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BLACK AGENDA TV – "Black Diamonds”: South Africa’s Black Millionaires Act as Middlemen for Corporate Power
An elite class of Black millionaires has “accumulate wealth at the expense of the vast majority” of South Africa’s people, said community organizer and researcher Molefi Ndlovu, on the latest edition of Black Agenda Television. These “Black Diamonds,” as they are called, have become “a sort of middleman, people who push the envelop for the… Continue reading
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The Cashless Society Arrives in Africa. The “Multipurpose” Biometric National Identity Smart Card By Timothy Alexander Guzman
It was recently announced at the World Economic Forum in Cape Town, South Africa that MasterCard and the Nigerian National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) under the government of Nigeria would form a partnership to distribute a new identity card to every Nigerian citizen. The purpose of the card is to have all Nigerian citizens participate… Continue reading
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Statewatch: Austerity, democracy and civil liberties
The Journal has been redesigned and each issue will now have a thematic focus. This issue focuses on the nexus between austerity, civil liberties and democracy. Continue reading
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New John Pilger film, Utopia, to be broadcast on ITV and released worldwide
Eleven miles by ferry from Perth is Western Australia’s “premier tourist destination”. This is Rottnest Island, whose scabrous wild beauty and isolation evoked for me Robben Island in South Africa. Empires are never short of devil’s islands; what makes Rottnest different, indeed what makes Australia different, is a silence and denial on an epic scale. Continue reading
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The reasons for the crisis on the Korean Peninsula By Alexander VORONTSOV
The initial cause is the unresolved outcome of the Korean War (1950-1953). This year marks 60 years since the end of the war and a peace agreement between its participants has still not been signed Only one Armistice Agreement exists (possibly on paper only these days), so a temporary cessation of hostilities, in other words.… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 