Guest post by Chris Girffiths It’s not been an easy summer for Barack Obama. This month has seen yet more shrieking from the right-wings as he attempts to introduce a ‘radical’ scheme to offer US Government-backed health insurance scheme so the poorest people can get medical treatment. Hardly trying to append “SR” to the “US”, [...]
Whilst I am always in favour of a ‘re-politicising’ of politics, or a reclamation of politics as an ideological entity rather than a form of droll, pseudo-scientific administration, some of the scenes in the USA this week, with Republican Party activists actively promoting a situation which is bordering on civil disorder in protest at Obama’s [...]
Hugo Chavez has a long memory. Himself the victim of a right-wing coup backed by the country’s elite, it is hardly surprising that the Venezuelan leader has been amongst the most vocal supporters of protesters in Honduras struggling to restore Manuel Zelaya, the leftist president ousted in a military coup last week. As Zelaya attempted [...]
America has always occupied a confused place in the global consciousness. It’s the land of McCarthy and Martin Luther King. The land of Hollywood dreams and Bible Belt nightmares. The land of apple pie and imperialism. That land of the free and home of the brave built by landless slaves in the home of Indian [...]
We were all so glad to hear Obama’s announcement that he would shut down Guantanamo. We all thought that this would be the beginning of the end of torture, holding prisoners without charge, and extraordinary rendition, but as we have positive news from Guantanamo, hitting the media here with the release of Binyam Mohammed, a [...]
