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Review: Unhitched - The Trial of Christopher Hitchens by Richard Seymour

Andrew Doyle | Posted 08.04.2013 | Home
Read More: Christopher Hitchens, Palestine, US Military, Falklands, UK Politics, Plagiarism, UK Culture, Al Qaeda, Islamophobia, American Politics, Politics, Margaret Thatcher, Marxism, Israel, Iraq, Imperialism, Salman Rushdie, Richard Seymour, Home News
Andrew Doyle

Towards the end of the ninth century, Pope Stephen VI had the body of his predecessor Formosus exhumed, dressed in its sacerdotal attire, and propped ...

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Are the Black Sheep Leading the Way?

D.C. Gallin | Posted 18.09.2012 | Home
Read More: Taxes, Britain, Art, Publishing Industry, Money, Captialism, Art Industry, Education Reform, Free Spirits, Imperialism, Technology, Peace, Health Care, Dc Gallin, Home News
D.C. Gallin

Artists are often the black sheep of their families. This can be chalked up to any number of factors, but it's usually because they refuse to devote their lives to making money like the rest of the world. The odd one out: the idealist who has high-flying dreams that exist beyond the material plane.

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Echoes of Sykes Picot as Syrian Conflict Deepens

John Wight | Posted 18.09.2012 | UK
Read More: Imperialism, Syria Violence, Middle East, UK News
John Wight

As the Syrian conflict moves up a gear in intensity with the assassination of key members of the regime in a bomb attack in Damascus, it would be a mistake to consider events in Syria in isolation from the rest of the region.

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The International Misery Fund

Tony Mckenna | Posted 07.08.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Imf, Global Poverty, Global Economy, Imperialism, US Politics, Christine Lagarde Imf, UK Politics News
Tony Mckenna

At its inception in 1945, the IMF was disputed by two rival tendencies. The British group, led by the brilliant economist J Maynard Keynes, envisaged an organisation which would act to regulate capital flow world-wide in order to cap national deficits, and so avoid the employment crises and economic collapses which had wracked the world economy of the 30s.

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The Necessary Force of Humanitarian Intervention

Francis Hoar | Posted 24.10.2011 | UK Politics
Read More: Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, Nato, Humanitarian Intervention, United Nations, Imperialism, No Fly Zone, UK Issues, UK Politics News
Francis Hoar

It isn't when people are proved right that they become convinced of the righteousness of their arguments. It is when they have been proved wrong.

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