The Comment Factory » James Burgess http://www.thecommentfactory.com Join And Start Writing Today! Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:52:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Financial speculation makes a mockery of democracy http://www.thecommentfactory.com/financial-speculation-makes-a-mockery-of-democracy-2678/ http://www.thecommentfactory.com/financial-speculation-makes-a-mockery-of-democracy-2678/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:57:17 +0000 James Burgess http://www.thecommentfactory.com/?p=2678
  • The center-left has failed to capitalize on the financial crisis The global left needs to imagine a radical new regulatory framework with actual meaning in response to the current financial crisis. So far this hasn't happened, and it requires a...
  • The decline of U.S. democracy The Supreme Court decision raises significant new barriers to overcoming the serious crisis of health care, or to addressing seriously such critical issues as the looming environmental and energy crises...
  • The Robin Hood Tax I've been following this developing campaign, uniting charities, NGOs and trade unions, with interest. Politically, it taps into a very good instinct. The bankers got rich pursuing speculative profits through...
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  • Ian Tomlinson ruling: can we trust officers to police protests fairly? The decision not to charge the officer who struck Ian Tomlinson casts doubt on our safety at policed demonstrations...
  • Police in bras and stockings? Despite the fact that photographs from the first day of the G20 protests in April 2009 show me astride an armoured personnel carrier in black bra and blue boiler suit...
  • UK police tactics are inflammatory, but it’s futile to focus only on individual behavior The focus on the actions of individual policeman at the G20 protest in London ignores the grave errors made higher up the chain...
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