COP Out
COP15 isn’t just a political failure it’s the failure of politics, leaving liberal lobbying exposed as a strategic model. Where does that leave us in Scotland as part of a Continue reading
Monthly Archives
Archive for: December 2009
British State Collusion Exposed
Explosive collusion allegations have been published by a US Congress body as part of its examination of a loyalist murder case dating back 12 years. This from America via Belfast. Continue reading
Copenhagen – Climate Justice
What’s emerging out of Copenhagen (the conference we cant be represented at) is a much clearer set of relations. The developed world is protecting its assets. Naomi Klein has written Continue reading
Lessons from Copenhagen
As COP 15 teeters on the edge of failure and crisis, we ask, what’s happening? First the global connections between rich and poor are being exposed. And second, as the Continue reading
Cop 15 Report
While the Scottish media rail on Salmond for having the temerity to try and have Scotland represented at Copenhagen, what slavish timorous mouth-pieces, a series of direct eye-witness reports fillt Continue reading
Your Kingdom
A strangely bitter and nonsensical piece by Tom Gallagher in Our Kingdom: “The white paper published on 30 November 2009 by the Scottish National Party (SNP) government led by first Continue reading
Invisible Wind of Change
‘The wind is invisible but we can see which way the trees lean’. – Ian Hamilton Finlay, from Proverbs for Jacobins Amidst all the gloom, relentless negativity, media bias and Continue reading
The Image and the Imagined
On CITV which is aimed at very young children (mine and yours) something called the HM Armed Forces are relentlessly advertised. In a response to my (rejected) complaint to the Continue reading
If You Know Your History…
This from last nights Conspiracy Files, BBC Two Scotland featuring a fresh faced Salmond, Dewar, Sillars and McDonald & an unrepentant George Cunningham. Well worth a watch.
Power 2010
Power 2010 is a new project, ‘a unique campaign to give everyone the chance to have a say in how our democracy works for us..’ If you haven’t heard of Continue reading
Western Sahara Activist on Hunger Strike
The Western Sahara is a disputed territory in North Africa bordering Morocco, Mauritania, and Algeria. Formerly controlled by Spain, Morocco has occupied most of the territory since 1975, just when Continue reading
