Matt Kennard on February 8, 2010 1 Comment
1979: Reluctant UK snub for Iran’s ousted shah
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Turkish-Israeli Relations: A Turkish view-point
Burhan Gurdogan — February 8, 2010 0 Comments
The silent attitude of the U.S. means that the plans laid out for Turkey constitute the priority right now. After every crisis with Israel, Turkey gains more and more trust in the area. Following the latest crisis, Al Akhbar , a newspaper in Lebanon, defined Erdogan as a padishah (Ottoman sultan )and stated that only Turkey can make Israel understand. But despite all these developments, strategically important areas still do not trust Turkey
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Foreigners shouldn’t vote in Japan
Randy Poehlman — January 31, 2010 2 Comments
It is my contention that in order to vote in any country, you should follow the legal avenues to become a citizen of such a country and not be voting from the outside in. Although these Korean citizens and a great deal of other nationalities currently reside in Japan on a full time, permanent basis they should not be voting in Japanese elections, be they local or national
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Labour and inequality
Richard Seymour — January 30, 2010 0 Comments
New Labour has run, in many ways, the most right-wing administration since the Second World War. This is true in terms of its privatisation of housing and public services, in terms of its tax cuts for the rich and services to the City, in terms of its warmongering, and on any number of other axes that you could name. It has adopted neoliberal economics, neoconservative foreign policy, and the New Right’s agenda on race relations
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The British Family: Is it time for a change?
Karen Woodall — January 28, 2010 1 Comment
As both major parties gear up to fight the election on the once private grounds of the family, is it time for a radical rethink of the social policy that governs family life in the UK?
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Obama makes clear that Missile Shield is about Russia, not Iran
Alastair Kocho-Williams — January 28, 2010 4 Comments
While there may be an policy aspect concerned with deterring aggression from these states, Russia is the key to all of this. They are the named partner for the discussions in Obama’s speech, and it is them that the missile shield is primarily to deter
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Margaret Thatcher was angry at Carter over RUC gun ban
Matt Kennard — January 27, 2010 0 Comments
The issue dominated a large part of her first trip to the US as prime minister in December 1979. The minutes of her initial meeting with the president reveal that she “handled both the gun which the RUC at present used and that which was on order. There was no doubt that the American Ruger was much better.”
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Saddam was well regarded by British
Matt Kennard — January 26, 2010 0 Comments
“It is not often we are permitted a glimpse into the personal lives of Iraq’s leaders,” said the letter to the Foreign Office, “so by way of introduction, I enclose a touching account of a day in the life of President Saddam Hussein.”
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Obama: The dream dies
Richard Seymour — January 25, 2010 4 Comments
Obama knows this perfectly well, which is why he was blustering some while back about not running for office to serve a bunch of fat cat Wall Street bankers, and may also explain some of his tentative moves to lightly tax and regulate the parasites. Indeed, in the wake of the loss of Massachusetts, Obama has talked up his reforms yesterday, promising a ‘fight’ with Wall Street firms who tried to sink his proposals. These are not radical reforms – if the multi-millionaire Tory shadow chancellor George Osborne approves of them, they aren’t that radical
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Manifesto for the liberation of women in Iran
Iran Solidarity — January 25, 2010 3 Comments
Today, support for the ongoing revolution in Iran can and should become a vast international movement. March 8th is International Women’s Day, which this year bears the mark of solidarity with women and people in Iran in the struggle to topple the Islamic regime. We call on women’s rights activists and organisations to express their solidarity with the women’s movement in Iran, while remembering Neda Agha Soltan as the symbol of the revolutionary movement against the Islamic Republic. March 8th this year is the day of solidarity with the movement of the people of Iran for freedom!
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Better Off Deadbeat: Craig Cunningham Has a Simple Solution for Getting Bill Collectors Off His Back. He Sues Them.
Kimberly Thorpe — January 22, 2010 7 Comments
Unlike his neighbors’ homes, Craig Cunningham’s house in Northeast Dallas looks abandoned. The grass is dried out. The concrete slab under the front door is lopsided and cracked. The green exterior has faded to a toxic-looking shade. Yellow Pages pile up near the front door, and the black mailbox is stuffed full. Maybe the home has been foreclosed on. That wouldn’t be a surprise in this economy
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Unpaid overtime is killing McDonald’s managers
Randy Poehlman — January 21, 2010 0 Comments
Many McDonald’s managers estimate that they spend roughly 80 hours per month engaged in unpaid overtime. The fact that McDonald’s has been expecting managers to work 80 hours unpaid overtime for the past number of years is astonishing. This policy has led to lawsuits and deaths, but still McDonald’s Japan expects far too much out of their managers and their policies have obviously changed little. The company has been able to escape with little more than a slap on the hand, despite the fact that karoshi deaths continue to plague the corporate giant.