The departure of Salma Yaqoob and the withdrawal as a candidate by Kate Hudson may well mark the end of Respect. The Galloway hate-mongers seem to think the story is all about George Galloway. Galloway is “a sham”, Liberal Conspiracy has it, and Respect is a Galloway “ego-proxy” says Labour Uncut. George Galloway, warts and all, has […]
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Blairite lessons from US Presidential Election miss the whole point
Sep 10th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.David Miliband and Douglas Alexander have just spent a lengthy time in the US at the Republican and Democratic presidential conventions trying to draw lessons from them for the Labour Party. Nothing wrong with that, except that the lessons they draw are perverse.
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The US: a declining military and economic power
Aug 31st, 2012 by Michael Meacher.The news today that 3 more NATO troops have been killed by Afghan soldiers – bringing the number of such murders to 15 in this month alone and 45 this year so far – is serious enough, but it hides a much more disturbing background. It has been dismissed as a series of random killings, not […]
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Hear Irish president Michael D Higgins demolish the Tea Party
Aug 25th, 2012 by Newsdesk.This clip from 2010 has gone viral in the past few days – and for good reason. Michael D Higgins, then foreign affairs spokesman for the Irish Labour party, and now President of Ireland, takes on Tea Party radio host Michael Graham in a studio debate. As he dismantles Tea Party ideology on the Middle […]
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Paul Ryan’s nasty lesson for Britain
Aug 19th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.The arrival of Paul Ryan on the US Presidential scene not only has big implications for that election in November (perhaps the opponent that Obama really wanted), but also casts interesting light on the British political situation. Ryan’s plan is based on the now regular US Republican device of unfunded tax cuts – a device […]
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Paul Ryan: already the winner on Wall Street
Aug 15th, 2012 by David Osler.Check out the cleancut visage, the powder blue shirt/white T shirt combo and the family photographs featuring beautiful wife and three wholesome kiddies. Check out the seamless progression from PPE degree to elected office, pausing only for the obligatory stint as a special adviser cum think tank wonk. Paul Ryan emblemises a political type now instantly familiar […]
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After Barclays now it’s HSBC: will corruption at the top ever stop?
Jul 12th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.HSBC now looks to be heading for the biggest fine ever for Europe’s biggest bank. It stands accused of failing to properly implement money-laundering controls designed to prevent terrorists and others from using its services to advance their criminal ends. Two facts stand out from this case. One is that HSBC is a British bank, but […]
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The far left and capitalist crisis
May 1st, 2012 by David Osler.Recent capitalist history has thrown up sharper economic declines and higher levels of unemployment than the ones we are currently witnessing in Greece and Spain. It’s just that they haven’t occurred in nice Mediterranean countries that Britons visit for beach holidays and long weekends.
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The case against a US strike on Iran
Apr 23rd, 2012 by David Osler.As John McCain’s painfully unfunny rewrite of the lyrics to Beach Boys’ hit Barbara Ann demonstrates, at least the former Republican presidential contender can see the lighter side of mounting a US airstrike on Iranian nuclear facilities. Fortunately for the rest of the world, Barack Obama has not only shown no inclination to ‘bomb bomb Iran’, […]
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The big US-UK divide
Mar 15th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.Cameron has enjoyed portraying in Washington that the US and UK are marching in lockstep towards early withdrawal from Afghanistan. But not on what matters even more – policy towards the deficit. There are two ways to deal with a big budget deficit: one is by cutting back expenditure (austerity) and the other is growth […]
