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World Food Production Crisis - Worsening

Tue, 10/08/2010 - 3:04pm
New research published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that rice yields in many parts of Asia over the last 25 years have fallen already by about 10-20 per cent due to ...
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Changing the Game in Pakistan - letter in today's Evening Standard

Mon, 09/08/2010 - 9:26am
This is my letter on latest developments in Pakistan/Afghanistan published in today's Evening Standard:The fuss over David Cameron's comments on Pakistan exporting terror and his subsequent ...
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Peak Coal Has Arrived

Sat, 07/08/2010 - 7:36am
A new peer-reviewed study in the journal Science has concluded that world coal production will peak next year. The study finds that on a business-as-usual scenario of exploitation (i.e. without ...
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Pakistan's Double Game

Mon, 02/08/2010 - 4:07pm
Prospect Magazine has today published my analysis of the US-Pakistan terror nexus on its blog here:Since the release of 90,000 pages of classified US military intelligence on operations in ...
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My New Book: A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization

Wed, 14/07/2010 - 12:41pm
My new book, A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: and how to save it, published by Pluto Press in the UK and distributed by Palgrave Macmillan in North America and Australia, is due out ...
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Feature in Emel Magazine

Wed, 14/07/2010 - 12:38pm
My wife and I are featured in this month's issue Emel Magazine. I forgot to post this here, so, here it is:Healing Hearts
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7/7, Terror and Torture: Protecting the Deep State

Wed, 07/07/2010 - 2:36pm
Five years on from the London tube bombings, we remain no closer to a full, complete and impartial understanding of the terrible events of that day. Today, the coalition government has ...
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McChrystal Falls: Another Casualty of a War We're Losing

Fri, 25/06/2010 - 8:03pm
It is no surprise that President Obama decided to sack General Stanley McChrystal after he and his aides were quoted criticising the president and other senior administration officials in Rolling ...
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New York Review of Books: The Radicalization of Race Politics in Israel

Wed, 02/06/2010 - 10:08am
The latest issue of NYRB has an eye-opening and lengthy piece by Peter Beinart on what he calls "The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment", which essentially explores the deepening divide ...
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Professor Jake Lynch: Why the Flotilla Massacre Shows We Need to Take Action Now

Wed, 02/06/2010 - 9:49am
An excellent brief analysis from Jack Lynch, Director of Sydney University's Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies - the IDF's attempts to storm and control the boats were illegal, constituting an ...
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The Flotilla Massacre - Israeli Commandos Fired Unprovoked Into Sleeping Civilians: Eyewitnesses

Mon, 31/05/2010 - 10:39pm
What really happened? Well, the Israeli story, at face value, is difficult to take seriously. The activists on board the Flotilla were not peace activists, they are "terrorists" and "terrorist ...
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