RAMZY BAROUD looks at how Western media are being forced to kowtow to the Establishment’s war narratives
The great and the not-so-good...
PADDY McGUFFIN takes a look at the week's top stories
It's a funny old world isn't it? And I don't mean "ha ha" funny.
For the last 10 days the eyes of the world have been on the Philippines and the environmental devastation wrought there by Typhoon Haiyan.
Thousands of lives have been lost and many more displaced by what some commentators are calling the worst catastrophe since the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004.
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STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
There are only two things that stand between workers and the musket’s volley today - the ballot and the union, asserts MATT KERR
While the immediate impact is disastrous, the US president’s actions could lead more nations to seek greater trading stability by refocusing their economies towards each other and countries such as China, writes ROGER McKENZIE



