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As the Green New Deal goes mainstream, it needs protecting from liberalism
YouTube screen grab With the flash of the Sunrise Movement's occupation of Nancy Pelosi's office and the bang of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joining them, the Green New Deal has exploded into…
Orlando is first and foremost an LGBTIQA issue
Vigil held at Coventry Pride for the victims of the Pulse shooting. Image: Coventry Pride On Sunday the 19 of June, a gunman opened fire on Pulse, a popular LGBT…
‘Fanning the flames of a peaceful revolution’: Green US presidential candidate Jill Stein
Jill Stein speaking at Occupy Wall Street in 2011. Photo: Wikimedia To anyone watching the 2016 US presidential race unfold, the big talking point seems to be the unprecedented rise…
The good, the bad and the ugly: Global Green leaders discuss the Paris climate talks
Flood Wall St West, San Francisco Financial District, September 28, 2015. The mural reads: “Stop Climate Chaos Profiteers #FloodTheSystem”. Photo by Peg Hunter On Monday, the Global Greens hosted a…
How the spectacle of politics is running the day
Photo by Mike Mozart of JeepersMedia Has politics lost all sense of reality, creating a spectacle at the expense of public voices? On Sunday whilst walking through Hyde Park I…
From splendid isolation to solidarity – a tale of divestiture
#truth at #tli — Resource Generation (@ResourceGen) July 11, 2014 In finance and economics, divestment or divestiture is the reduction of some kind of asset for financial, ethical, or political…
LOLBoris and LOLObama
OK, I'm going to make a clear prediction: Barack Obama is gonna win. I should add that, when Gordon Brown was 10 points down in 2010, I predicted he'd be…
Pissing on the flag
Another day, another scandal involving United States servicemen. This time it's four marines pissing on the corpses of Taliban fighters they’ve killed. Each time this happens we’re asked to treat…
3 things we’ve learnt on Libya
1) This isn't just a No Fly Zone. Today, there have been reports of French planes bombing Libya, and firing from the air at tanks. So, the first thing that…