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A meeting of French nuclear safety experts that took place this week has determined that there are still important safety...
Amply documented but rarely mentioned in news reports, the ISIS is a creation of US intelligence, recruited, trained and financed...
One of Jeremy Corbyn’s most significant, albeit unintentional, achievements is something which even the most hardened leftist would have thought...
The enormous scale of GCHQ's surveillance was revealed recently by newly published Snowden documents. The files note the growth in capabilities...
Earlier this summer, the world watched Greece try to resist a disastrous neoliberal diktat and get a painful thrashing in...
Not many people enjoy the existence of poverty. Some think it’s inevitable, others that tackling it is politically impossible. But...
Civilians have been devastated by war in which both the Saudi-led coalition and Houthis are accused of committing war crimes...
Essentially a handbook for those wanting to explore the potential of a spiritual approach to nonviolent direct action, this is...
IN A recent editorial the Guardian argued that “when debating the Syrian war, it is important to discriminate between the...
Interesting discussion hosted by WellRed films. In the almost total absence of any mainstream coverage worth watching (its mostly...
India’s incredibly ambitious – and some say, incredibly reckless – $168 billion dollar project to interlink its rivers is finally underway. On...
The Dominican Republic's sudden deportation of now-stateless Haitians is no less a crisis than recent events in Syria . Yanique’s...
Often referred to as the Switzerland of South America, Uruguay is long accustomed to doing things its own way. It...
THE HOPES raised by Jeremy Corbyn’s wonderful win in the labour leadership election for people who oppose the UK’s wars...
While other countries apply themselves to environmental challenges from climate change to nature protection, Russia - with its massive wealth...
The Egyptian military’s mass home demolitions and forced eviction of about 3,200 families in the Sinai Peninsula over the past...
All those who have been heartened by the outpouring of goodwill and solidarity shown by the public towards refugees in...
China has fined the British pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) $488.8 million (3 billion Yuan) for a “massive bribery network” to get doctors...
In autumn 2002 the Observer newspaper’s correspondent Ed Vulliamy found confirmation of a terrible truth many of us already suspected. In a world-exclusive,...
Last week a serious typhoon hit eastern Japan creating flooding that has not occurred for at least 50 years. Tokyo...
Yemen has been the target of a brutal U.S.-backed war led by Saudi Arabia. While ordinary civilians are suffering horrific...
Vince Cable is calling on progressive centre-left politicians from Labour and the Liberal Democrats to “come together” to stop the Conservatives...
There couldn’t be a more stark illustration of what is wrong with our current political system – and why Jeremy...
Following Jeremy Corbyn's landslide election as new Labour leader his new shadow cabinet is taking shape, and there are many...
The world is looking at the Syrians who have managed to escape Syria: people who have risked everything to cross...
Israeli weapons are fueling atrocities in South Sudan, according to a United Nations report that sheds new light on the...
One of Israel’s most infamous crimes occurred 33 years ago this week. In September 1982, the Israeli army surrounded the...
The Value of Land, published today by The Economics of Land Degradation Initiative, offers a shocking depiction of the state...
Dear Blairite MP, I’m writing on behalf of hundreds of thousands of Labour party members; some new, and some, like...