‘He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.’ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Far from being proof of our political emancipation, our right to vote in parliamentary elections is a symbol of power that keeps us powerless.
… Parliament Labour Party Greek Democra UK Politics And Economics Society Archive_31.jpg Far from being proof of our political emancipation, our right to vote in … By the time they died, most citizens had held political office of some kind at least once. …
Britain has fallen out of love with conventional politics. Could Swiss-style direct democracy end the current crisis of political legitimacy?
… News Swiss Democracy UK Government Parliament Polit EU Politics And Economics Archive_11.jpg Britain … has fallen out of love with conventional politics. Could Swiss-style direct democracy …
Haiti is a failed state: one of those places that just can’t seem to get its act together, despite the best efforts of benevolent Western powers. Or so the mainstream media would have you believe. Yet history tells us a more complicated story.
… Revolution USAid International Development Politics And Economics Society Archive_56.jpg … and its tortured history. The recent political upheaval in the Caribbean country … the protesters, and soon the supposed popular political discontent was transformed into an …
Once again a Shia Ayatolla is spoiling America’s plans
… Government US Iraq Baghdad Pentagon Saddam US Politics And Economics … his own people’. Having been excluded from political power, Iraq’s well-organised Shia … to cobble together a Rube Goldberg system of political caucuses, which are designed to …
Within two years, Britain could be facing a series of blackouts and the ignomony of importing the resource it once considered so plentiful from a host of politically unstable countries.
… Nuclear Carbon Dioxide Solar Wind Energy Politics And Economics Within two years, … once considered so plentiful from a host of politically unstable countries. By now sweat … that our lights stay on. Mechanical failure, political whim and blackmail threaten as much …
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory… I’m the Reverend Billy
… Rights Violations Boycotts UK US Campaigns Politics And Economics Society We interrupt … States we are now between the two national political party conventions, each in a sports … Of OUR SOULS. The great language schemes, the politics-simple slogans that banner over the …
In the past 50 years the global economy has grown by over 500 per cent... the richest fifth of the world now earn 86 per cent of global income… the poorest fifth earn just 1.3 per cent… life expectancy in the world’s most ‘developed’ countries is 79 years… in the least ‘developed’ it is still just 42… we consume 22 million tonnes of oil every day… chop down 1 per cent of the world’s forests every year… and have killed 90 per cent of the world’s big fish. Has the time come to give up on globalisation?
… Globalisation Localisation Globalisation Politics And Economics Society Archive_79.jpg … is less danger that they become empowered and politically effective. Hines’s prescription … activity does not mean localising all political decision-making. Internationally …
How the Colombian capital Bogotá defied the World Bank and the multinationals, refused to privatise and turned its water services into the best in the country
… was practically bankrupt. Staffed with political cronies who often changed with each … service into the most successful in Colombia. Political revolution In the late 1990s Bogotá underwent a political revolution, with voters electing new …
Costing £2.9 billion, the UK’s new police communication system Tetra has been described by one independent scientist as likely to cause ‘more civilian deaths than all the world’s terrorist organisations put together’
… that involves science being ‘perverted for political ends’, chronic illness and agonising … of what it produces, a financial scandal, a political scandal and, above all else, a … got to be guarded. There’s an awful lot of political pressure regarding this issue.’ He …
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory… I’m the Reverend Billy
George Bush Does Not Return to Ground Zero!
… Rights Violations Boycotts UK US Campaigns Politics And Economics Archive_46.jpg We … should walk up and take that same pose. The political people want to put him in the same …
…and it’s time to tape up the White House gate and hang the sign saying ‘crime scene… property to be confiscated… vacate premises immediately’.
… Enron Inaugural Ball White House R US Politics And Economics Archive_70.jpg …and … Lay and his Enron team are the number-one political career donors to George W Bush. Lay …
The US authorities have allowed Formosa Plastics and other chemicals corporations to poison the waterways of the Texas Gulf Coast for decades. When local shrimp-boat operator Diane Wilson found out what was going on she single-handedly set about forcing Formosa to clean up its act.
… Campaigns US Children Incineration Health Politics And Economics Pollution … get tax abatements and cheap labour, and use political corruption so they can get away with …
I’m sitting opposite the large Coca-Cola bottling plant next to the village of Plachimada in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Plachimada is a farming village of about 800 families, many of them tribal. The ugly factory looks rather out of place in such a beautiful setting, the Western Ghats mountains clearly visible in the distance.
… Globalisation Fast Food Sugar Drought Health Politics And Economics Pollution … Faced with a company wielding this much political clout, the villagers of Plachimada … Keith Hyams is researching a PhD in political philosophy at Oxford University . …
The most successful celebrity endorsement ever, Prunella Scales’ TV ads have added more than £2.2 billion to Tesco’s profts. And yet she says she really cares about the environment.
… You said: ‘Personally, I have no interest in politics, except in certain areas (where it … policies? You say you have no interest in politics unless it has something to do with … plane? You say you don’t take an interest in politics, but you have spoken out on GM …
She is our sister. That garment holds the story of her life. If we ignore it, if we do not care to understand, she suffers. And so do we.
… Human Rights Violations Boycotts Green Living Politics And Economics Investigates_11.jpg She … group of workers went in their lunch break to politely ask their factory manager to pay …
Since colonising Tibet in 1959, China has ripped out virgin forests, dug up minerals and metals, and dumped nuclear waste with little regard for the fragile ecology of the Tibetan plateau.
… Tibet China Dams International Development Politics And Economics Society … highest, most expensive – can bolster their political and financial ambitions and help … the reprieve for the Nu is just temporary, politically-expedient window dressing? ‘Maybe …
Most discussion of population misses the point. The earth simply cannot support our lifestyle.
… America Resources Pollution Population Politics And Economics Society Archive_135.jpg … (‘importation’ is the preferred term in polite society), is to show that your alleged … to the natural world. Otherwise, why would politicians say we need to balance the economy …
During the past decade or so, international trade agreements have been dramatically expanded to encompass affairs that had always previously been strictly matters of domestic concern.
… Public Health Privatisation Privatisation Politics And Economics Society Archive_25.jpg … found guilty of paying illegal commissions to political parties in exchange for obtaining …
The privatisation of global water services means billion-dollar profits for corporations and pollution, disconnection and soaring prices for consumers
… Water Human Rights Violations Fresh Water Politics And Economics Pollution Society Waste … the only US city where corporations and their political supporters have been pushing hard …
New Labour’s close ties to the fast-food industry are working against the interests of public health
… Processed Foods Food And Farming Health Politics And Economics Archive_29.jpg New … own corporation. Finally, Blair’s friend and political guru Peter Mandelson is a director …
As the world’s poorest countries sink further and further into debt, Western corporations grow fat from government-backed projects that fuel conflicts, harm the environment and have built-in kickbacks.
… US Finance World Bank Climate Change Politics And Economics Pollution Science And … these loans? In some cases to serve their geopolitical interests, but more often to serve … imbalances in today’s world: not the geopolitical one in which countries with monies …
Hoover accepted human society for what it was: rich in resources but nevertheless imperfect, unpigly. And he discovered that a solitary pig is a sad thing, almost as useless as a bee without a hive.
… He was extremely clean and painstakingly polite, never failing to greet every one of us … at the entrance to a hole or burrow; a very polite sort of sound that meant: ‘Anyone at … He was extremely clean and painstakingly polite, never failing to greet every one of us …
Some 245 Indian villages are in the middle of being destroyed by a $7 billion dam project that will consume more energy than it provides and has even been condemned by its World Bank sponsors.
… to the extremely inegalitarian sexual politics of mainstream Indian society). But … into account the huge amounts of water which political pressure will inevitably cause to be … – instead of to those with enough money and political clout to expropriate them. In a …