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WikiLeaks: torture, civilian deaths and Western complicity

The WikiLeaks website has released more than 400,000 secret US documents about the Iraq war covering a period up to 2009. The leaks reveal details of rape, torture, murder, the killings of civilians from helicopter gunships and many other incidents …

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The CSR blames the public sector for capitalism’s failure

The left and right offer the same bankrupt capitalist model Six million public sector workers wait with bated anticipation for the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) on 20 October

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How Capitalism killed Football

Liverpool FC for long kept out corporate influence since the establishment of the Premier League maintaining its institutional values. However the current crisis and lack of silverware has

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Life doesn’t need to be so Taxing

As the new British ConDem government went into its first summer recess, the economy, the budget, the deficit and the national debt has dominated the government’s attention ever

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Apology not enough to erase Musharraf’s traitorous legacy

On 1st Oct 2010 former Pakistani President Pervaiz Musharraf officially launched his new political party the All Pakistan Muslim League in London. He promised to bring an end

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Declassified files show Musharraf’s legacy of betrayal

As Pervez Musharraf prepares to launch his new party in the UK and once again place himself at the centre of Pakistani politics declassified documents have highlighted his

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By Sentencing Dr Aafia to 86 years the US has shown the Cruelty, Injustice and Inhumanity of its ‘Freedom and Democracy’

A US kangaroo court has sentenced Dr Aafia Siddiqui to 86 years in jail. Dr Aafia, a neuroscientist who studied at MIT, was kidnapped from the streets of Karachi

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Pakistan’s wealth of possibilities but degenerate Government is its biggest failure!

Richard Holbrook, the US envoy to South East Asia told a meeting of newspaper editors in Karachi: “The international community is not going to be

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Basel III – averting another financial crisis or protecting vested interests?

On the second anniversary of the financial meltdown that precipitated the deepest recession since the Great Depression capitalist nations have agreed a set of rules - known as

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Aggressive secularism or a new role for religion

Britain’s secular liberal establishment appears horrified by the Pope’s comments, and those of his advisor Cardinal Walter Kasper, about Britain’s secular society. The Pope said in his opening