BP support for Mubarak dictatorship revealed
This post by Mika Minio-Paluello first appeared on his blog over at PLATFORM, who have recently joined twitter The millions on the streets of Cairo, Alexandria and Suez are furious…
Planet Wasting Corporate Pirates
The piece by Brian Davey first appeared at Bella Caledonia Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World, By Nicholas Shaxson, Bodley Head Shaxson’s book “Treasure Islands”…
The cynical ‘Big Society’ lie
By Rupert Read I have just watched Simon Hughes MP on television saying that there 'of course' have to be cuts to voluntary services at a time of large-scale government cuts.…
‘Fight’ against the cuts will demand respect for difference
By Lisa Ansell - you can read her in The Guardian and she'll be one of the speakers at the Bright Green fringe at Green Party of England and Wales…
US Uncut is born
Carl Gibson is the founder of CIVIL USA - the first of what we hope will be many US Uncut groups. Visit the CIVIL USA website, and follow the campaign…
We remember, Mr Cameron
I was asked to write a post for UKUncut on the new campaign on banks. This was it. "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against…
Krugman misses the mark on food speculation
Murray Worthy is Policy Officer at the World Development Movement. Paul Krugman is an economist I have huge respect for, and one with whom I often agree. This made it…
Banking and money creation (part 2)
Previously, in Part One, I looked at where the money comes from for bank loans and mortgages. Here, I describe one of the many restrictions on the amounts that banks…
Banking and money creation (part 1)
Do banks lend savers' money out? Do they really create money? What are the constraints on how much money banks lend out? Did you see some animation that claimed to…
Freedom from the curse of oil
Is the writing on the wall of the house of cards? Will dictators across the Middle East fall? While Mubarak clings to power Yemen and Jordan have already seen significant…