The rebel strongholds of Benghazi, Misrata and Zintan have become increasingly independent of Tripoli’s new regime Chris Stephen The Observer, Sunday 10 June 2012…
By Niall Ferguson and Nouriel Roubini Is it one minute to midnight in Europe? We fear that the German government’s policy of doing “too…
By Stephen Lendman Global Research, June 9, 2012 This writer’s recent book titled “How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Banking, Government Collusion and Class…
By John Sfakianakis An exit from the euro would be catastrophic for Greece. I appreciate that there are no quick fixes for the crisis.…
Jane Smiley is the author, most recently, of “Private Life,” a novel. June 6, 2012 Types of novels come and go, but fiction possesses…
2012-06-07, Issue 588 Are you that concrete jungle Crumbling under the weight of Maneuvering, manipulative matatus Where passengers are shuka’d at whim Are you…
By Xan Rice With Mali’s north under rebel control, fears are growing that a breakaway Islamist state could emerge Near the banks of the…
by Greg Linster How do you know what you think you know? What counts as knowledge and what doesn’t? These questions speak to a…
With the US heatwave and Europe’s rain, records are tumbling. Formerly rare occurrences are becoming the new normal John Vidal guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 4 July…
by Keith Somerville Keith Somerville is a lecturer in journalism at the School of Arts, Brunel University in Uxbridge, on the outskirts of London.…