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  • 28 Mar 2013
    Obama was in Israel...and also in Palestine and Jordan

    Hope solely in an America-tailored and enforced settlement between Israelis and Palestinians today is nothing more than a chimera, says regional expert and Ekklesia associate Dr Harry Hagopian, in the wake of the US President's regional visit. Moreover, the two peoples will only manage to draw nearer to a peaceful resolution of the conflict if Israel acknowledges that it is occupying and colonising another people on their land and desist from applying those oppressive measures that are apartheid-like.

  • 26 Mar 2013
    Cameron urged to put tax at heart of global anti-poverty action

    Leaders working on an anti-poverty plan, including David Cameron, have been told to ensure it helps poor countries collect the tax billions they are owed.

  • 23 Mar 2013
    Earth Hour: Uniting people to protect the planet

    Earth Hour claims to be the single, largest, symbolic mass participation event in the world.

  • 21 Mar 2013
    Big challenges ahead for Archbishop Justin Welby

    Justin Welby is enthroned as the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury today, in a service the scale, pomp and circumstance of which considerably exceeds the true cash worth of the Church of England at the moment, many may feel.

  • 21 Mar 2013
    Let Scotland lead the way on nuclear weapons

    While I’ve been out campaigning for the Scrap Trident Coalition, a fairly commonly voiced objection to the elimination of nuclear weapons from Scotland is that; “It’ll cost jobs at Faslane.”

  • 18 Mar 2013
    A free press: sidelining the threat of private and corporate power

    The disagreement about Leveson purports to be a debate about 'press freedom'. In those terms, it is monstrously distorted. Powerful interests are disingenuously trying to portray as lingering 'state control' a reasonable attempt to give an arms-length independent regulatory framework legal underpinning as a matter of last resort.

  • 17 Mar 2013
    Nationwide protests against Bedroom Tax downplayed by BBC

    Some 17,000 people across Britain have taken part in demonstrations against the government’s controversial ‘Bedroom Tax’ this weekend.

  • 16 Mar 2013
    Bedroom tax: 57 varieties of nationwide protest

    Thanks to Dr Éoin Clarke (BedroomTax@hotmail.com) and his website, The Green Benches (http://www.greenbenchesuk.com/), named after the colour of seats in the UK House of Commons, a list is available of the 57 peaceful protests against the government's Bedroom Tax - the majority of which take place on Saturday 16 March 2013. Details can be confirmed through the hyperlinks in brackets below.

  • 13 Mar 2013
    Rohingya Journalism Fund: exposing the terrible truth

    The Rohingya of Burma are a desperate people. Considered “illegal immigrants” without basic citizenship rights by Rangoon, they subsist in impoverished townships and refugee camps where they live in constant fear of the threat of external violence.

  • 12 Mar 2013
    Scottish referendum franchise to be extended to 16 and 17 year olds

    A Bill to give every 16 and 17 year old a vote in the 2014 independence referendum has been formally introduced to the Scottish Parliament.