Academy political views

An article and report on the views of academics: are they liberal or conservative?

US inequality

Great charts on inequality in the US from Mother Jones.

Tzipi Livni article

The leader of Israel's Kadima party and foreign minister during the attack on Gaza in 2008-09, Tzipi Livni's article is certainly one of the most filled-with-non-sense pieces I've seen today. There must be one contradiction or idiocies per line.

Ireland hotel workers wages attacked

Article on how hotel workers are seeing their minimum wage attacked thanks to the measures put in place by the Irish government to force ordinary people to pay for the bankers and developers' mess.

Egypt revolution

Excellent article explaining the activist strategies that have made Egypt's protests so successful.

US Korea FTA

The US-Korea Free Trade Agreement will lead to quite negative consequences for Korea, attakcing its agricultural, health care, environmental, etc. sectors.

Egypt workers

Excellent article on the role of the strikes and workers in Egypt.

Canada Afghanistan warlords

Canada has spent $41 million over four years on hiring militias and warlords in Afghanistan.

US military aid to Israel

Very good article explaining the links between the US and Israel and Egypt on the military aid front. US military aid to all countries is a gift to American military corporations since a lot of that aid must be legally used to buy US-made weapons. So the US government takes American taxpayers' dollars and gives it to US corporations straight away.

Labor at center of Mid East protests

Juan Cole says that the labor movement is at the center of the protests in Egypt and Tunisia.

Egypt

So for anybody who wasn't yet convinced that world governments are a bunch of elites together with international bodies, here it is. Many world bodies have taken a weak stance on the Egypt protests, or remained silent.

Egypt military tortures, Secret Services trained by US too

Article saying the Egyptian military is not neutral as so many mainstream commentators are saying, but arrests protesters and tortures them.
Another one saying the FBI has trained the State Security Service, involved in torture too.

Middle East protests repressed

Protests across the Middle East are repressed by governments.

Opinion polls on defense spending

Good article linking to many polls on public opinion on defense spending. The public wants to cut defense spending when it knows how much the US actually spends.

Taliban reconciliation attempts in 2002

Good article on Taliban attempts at reconciliation with the Karzai regime from 2002, rejected by the US.

EU weapons sales to North Africa

Article on EU weapons sales to North Africa. EU countries have dramatically increased their arms sales to north African countries in recent years, from €372m to €2bn, according to the European Network Against Arms Trade.

Police and Taliban equally mistrusted in Afghan South

A survey says that in the south of Afghanistan, the population distrusts the police about as much as the Taliban.

400 war criminals in the UK

Article here saying that there's no political will to get them.

Baker on debt

Dean Baker on debt: must be paid when the little people owe it but not when the government owes it in the form of pensions.

Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera and how the US tried to bomb it and killed some of its journalists.

Baker economic crisis articles

Some good articles here on the economic crisis in the references at the bottom of this article.

And the original by Dean Baker: Ireland should do an Argentina.

Military technology

Nick Turse on military technology and DARPA.