North America
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Labour’s last stand in Wisconsin
Rahul Mahajan looks at the fightback against the Scott Walker’s Budget Repair Bill in Wisconsin
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Was the killing of Osama bin Laden justice or vengeance?
Phyllis Bennis writes on the killing of Osama bin Laden by a US Navy SEAL team and the ‘unfinished business’ of 9/11
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Thomas Paine, restless democrat
June 2009 marked the bicentenary of the death of Thomas Paine. Mike Marqusee celebrates the life, work and ideas of the great revolutionary who declared that ‘my country is the world and my religion is to do good’
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Attack Iran? Yes, they can
US threats, Israeli military exercises and Iranian missile tests seem like a carefully choreographed build up to the next war in the Middle East. But can the US really risk a strike on Iran? Phyllis Bennis weighs up the evidence
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America: an empire in denial
Mike Marqusee looks at the long history of US politicians’ denial of their country’s imperial reach
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Was High Court DSEi ruling aimed at stifling Bush protests?
Activists are increasingly worried that a High Court ruling made in October has given police the green light to use anti-terrorism laws to clamp down on people’s right to peaceful protest
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The dangers of Atlanticism
Atlanticism is the Achilles’ heel of European security, self-identity and collective will, argues John Williams
