While international actors discuss governance and reconstruction, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel has no intention of ending its military occupation, says RAMZY BAROUD
HaiL fellows and well met! As silly season continues to grind on with all the alacrity of a seized engine with sugar in the tank the serried ranks of the fourth estate are, once more, seeking to outdo each other with the most sensationalist takes on the completely bleeding obvious.
If they can’t find an Olympic angle they manufacture one or, as has been the case this week, rummage through the old story slush pile to see if there’s anything they can put a fresh spin on.
Take this for example: “Foreign billionaires buying up hundreds of millions of pounds worth of property in London only to let it lie empty.”
Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
Austerity in a red tie is still austerity, warns RAMONA McCARTNEY of the People’s Assembly – rally with us to demand different choices
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet


