So much for an end to dynastic leadership for the Pakistan’s People Party. Bilawal, nineteen-year-old son of the late Benazir, has been appointed head of the PPP, although the role will be only nominal until he graduates from Oxford. It is Asif Ali Zardari, Benazir’s widower with a murky and corrupt past, who will actually [...]
Shocking news. Tariq Ali’s commentary is essential reading: his personal reflections are illuminating. A point he raises is that though in the short term the murder is likely to precipitate yet another crisis in Pakistan, in the long run it may provide a space for an authentic people’s movement to emerge without a dynastic leader [...]
I am trying to work out whether Nick Clegg‘s accession to the Liberal Democrat leadership is a good or a bad thing. Certainly, we could do with some good news. There are three major domains in which the New Labour project has disappointed: its willingness to partake in neoconversative killing sprees; its illiberal eagerness to [...]
The Bali accord is the latest episode in the long running saga of the United States government’s shaky grasp on reality and consequent conflict with the main stream of global opinion. Apologists for America-appeasement should take note: it took the experience of isolation, facing the rest of the world community alone in its intransigence, for [...]
Just read a great article about the way so-called “subvertising” is no such thing: how it is merely another form of social distinction by consumer choices. Years ago, when I first came across Adbusters, I wrote them a long email arguing along the same lines – that any successes of grass roots consumer action are [...]
“Conviction politicians”, cheek by jowl. “Convictable” might be more apt.
Brilliant article by George Monbiot on gullible conspiracy theorists and the damage they do to real opposition and protest movements. On a related note. The use of the word conspiratorial to refer to conspiracy theories or theorists is a lazy perversion of the English language. It should properly be used to refer to conspiracies or [...]
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