In George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984, O'Brien tells Winston Smith that if he wants one image of the future he should think of a jackboot stepping
Some events this week show the temperature of the times.
Yesterday General Electric, the world's largest company by market value, it would double its research budget on environmentally
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Making the headlines on BBC online today, Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation accuses the British government of being slow in contributing to two United Nations funds which are
The Iranian regime is really worried a possible low turnout this time because it'd have serious national security consequences. Therefore they have already started to create an environment
Back on 17 April, Hot Politics! noted the masquerades of Senator James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma (Inhofe and Truth).
Hot Politics! failed to note on 19 April a complete demolition
In his history of the abolition of the slave trade, Adam Hochschild compares the position of anti-slavery campaigners in the eighteenth century to those who say today that cars
I don't think I've linked to this before. This very cool site is called The Annotated Times and it shows you who is blogging current New
Here's a bit more techie-optimism for you.
Actually, I think some might call it cyberterrorism. It's a new technology that enables thousands of people to
openDemocracy has published an article called Blogging Iran's wired election to launch Iran Scan 1384. It's written by Solana Larsen and Hossein Derakhshan. Thanks to the
Storm for Reform Three things I forgot to add early this morning when I wrote about yesterday's potentially historic meeting. Action starts with the vigil at Downing Street
Iran watchers in Washington are paying attention this morning to.... the John Bolton UN ambassador nomination hearings taking place today in the Senate Foreign Relations committee.
Why is obvious. Because
