Day December 22, 2005

‘Free trade’ and war

We’ve got to face the fact that the neoliberal economic model has been underwriting conflicts all over the planet. "Unfortunately we live in a world today in which we seem to break things into little components, so we have people…

NYPD covertly at protests

Undercover New York City police officers have conducted covert surveillance in the last 16 months of people protesting the Iraq war, bicycle riders taking part in mass rallies and even mourners at a street vigil for a cyclist killed in…

Mission de-accomplished

 Iraq’s election result: a divided nation Iraq is disintegrating. The first results from the parliamentary election last week show the country is dividing between Shia, Sunni and Kurdish regions. Religious fundamentalists now have the upper hand. The secular and nationalist…