Greg Palast’s Lady Baba-Land: The Islamic Republic of BP (BP in Azerbaijan and worldwide for Channel 4 Dispatches) If you ever suspected how filthy big business is at the top but never knew the details, investigative journalist Greg Palast‘s latest book, Vultures’ Picnic, will have your jaw hitting the floor every few pages. Greg gives […]
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Why can’t the Chinese authorities stop shooting themselves in the foot? If you are going to expel a journalist, it had better be for a more pertinent reason than reporting events accurately. It looks as if Al-Jazeera’s only English-language reporter Melissa Chan is guilty of the crime of uncovering scandals such as the perennial one
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Gary Lammin is Master of Ceremonies in The Hackney Tea Ceremony, part of The Steampunk Opium Wars debut at the National Maritime Museum on 16th February 2012. With legendary radical theatre impressario Neil Hornick as Captain Ironside. Written by Anna Chen with additional material by Gary Lammin. Additional video by Jeff Willis. The Steampunk Opium
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Away in a manger, no crib for a bed. ‘Cause Pontius Cameron had kicked them out and put Mary and Joseph on workfare. “‘Tis good. ‘Tis the Lord’s work,” saith Liam Byrne and took all the flak for what the Romans did hoping to get himself a little governorship somewhere nearer Rome. And so it
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Was it something I said? When a friend received a tea-tasting invitation from the East India Company, based in one of the swankier streets of London’s West End, we did indeed do a double-take. But, hey, a tea tasting? I’ve never been to one of those, so last night off we trundled in the spirit
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Look. Let’s get this straight. Amy Chua is nuts. In China her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, is called U.S. Mom because her maternal oddities are regarded as symptomatic of a western spiritual and psychic malaise. That her neuroses are being marketed as typical of the Chinese people as a whole (as if
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