As an Economic Hit Man (EHM) in the 1970s I spent a great deal of time in Panama. I hate...
Corruption
Our taxes pay the wages of politicians, the police and the civil service. These people take our money and our trust to look after OUR interests. When they decide to play the game for themselves and their friends its called corruption and it should always be exposed and challenged.
Greenpeace have leaked 248 pages of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiating texts, confirming worst fears of environmentalists...
Yesterday Philip Hammond, UK foreign secretary, visited a naval base in Tripoli to be shown docking facilities for British military...
The world is in the grip of a massive wave of militarism of which most of us are blissfully ignorant,...
So with a wearying predictability Iain Duncan Smith has had another epiphany and resigned. We are now invited to believe that...
In my archives there is a column or two that introduces the reader to John Perkins’ important book, Confessions of...
Tom Watson makes a commons statement and refuses to bow to the braying of the tory press and apologise for...
With honourable exceptions, those in the media are now absorbed into a system of propaganda that is no longer journalism....
China has fined the British pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) $488.8 million (3 billion Yuan) for a “massive bribery network” to get doctors...
There couldn’t be a more stark illustration of what is wrong with our current political system – and why Jeremy...
"Our governments care more about the concerns of big business than scientists' warnings about climate change." Two weeks to save...
*Boondoggle: ‘a project that is considered a useless waste of both time and money, yet is often continued due to...
I believed it myself for a few hours - after decades of media rumblings about corruption at FIFA, the FBI finally...
MPs are being handed huge subsidies to rent second homes in London whilst thousands of the capital’s poorest residents are...
WHERE was Middle East peace envoy last week as Israel invaded Gaza and committed horrific war crimes, killing over 1000...
One of the Tories’ biggest donors and a major contributor to the Scottish “No” campaign runs a vast oil-trading company...
Undercover police gathered intelligence on grieving families who were battling the Metropolitan police for justice, including the relatives of Jean...
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a comprehensive free trade and investment treaty currently being negotiated – in...
Protest and dissent are the foundation stones of modern societies and have helped secure a measure of democracy and human...
The importance of clearly communicating science to the public should not be underestimated. Accurately understanding our natural environment and sharing...
Migrant workers “no better than slaves” have suffered over 900 deaths on construction sites in Qatar’s 2022 World Cup city....
A young anti-racism protester abandoned her campaigning work because she felt intimidated by a covert police officer who tried to...
Six years after the 2008 banking crash, there have been some small tweaks, but little structural reform of the financial...
A new report from the Centre for Labour and Social Studies highlights the failure of the Banking Reform Act to...
A new book chronicles the failure of the mainstream media--and most especially the business press, including publications like Forbes, Fortune, and The...
Shocking story from Democracy Now in the US of how thousands of children in Pennsylvania were jailed by two corrupt judges who...
Much of this video is very relevant to the UK too, as we race towards the neoliberal bottom along with...
Vodafone paid no corporation tax and reduced its UK tax bill by a fifth last year. The company defends its...
.. Plans for the NHS to SELL patient care records to big pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies and research institutions are a national...