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”, [...]
Watch how Barney Franks reacts to a woman pushing the Obama=Hitler line.
It’s that time again: A Weak Weekly Look at the Week. Becoz yous need edookatein, innit. Political History Ghana became the first country in Africa south of the Sahara to gain independence from colonial rule, in March 1957. Previously a British crown colony know simply as the ‘Gold Coast’, the name Ghana is derived from [...]
Twelve years too late, the leaders of the G8 agreed today to prevent global temperatures rising by more than 2C. An ‘acceptable’ temperature rise that will, according to the latest research, destroy half the rainforest. As some of the largest carbon sinks on Earth, after the oceans, the disappearance of the rainforests will make efforts [...]
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 [...]
Change…? An open letter to progressives everywhere, upon the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States of America 20th January, 2009 Change is coming to America. Or so we are told. So vile, so incompetent and so contemptuous were the Bush years, a black liberal idealist – a [...]
