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World Leaders including Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy, Lula de Silva, and Jose Manuel Barrosa appear on the front page of newspaper to announce a historic climate change deal, achieved thanks to a massive global disobedience campaign.
World leaders like Angela Merkel, Lula De Silva, and Ban Ki Moon appear on the front page of the 'International Herald Tribune' announcing a historic climate-saving deal. Full details here
There was only one catch: the paper was fake.
Looking exactly like the real thing, but dated December 19th, 2009, a
million copies of the fake paper were distributed worldwide by thousands
of volunteers in order to show what could be...
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We're living in a period when, according to Paul Wilson - translator of amongst others Vaclav Havel -George Orwell's newspeak is being replaced by pr speak. He speaks to Horatio Morpurgo about censorship, the cold war, and the language of democracy.
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The Ryan Report into clerical child abuse in Ireland is a shocking and sobering document that, argues William Wall, leaves the good and honest in the Catholic Church little choice. The only moral response is to reject the system
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In the 19th and 20th Centuries debate ensued about what sort of place public art galleries and museums should be - reverential temples of culture, or interactive places of learning. In this new generation, the abiding question remains, why is it necessary to go to a museum to see a dead stuffed animal or original painting that can be reproduced to a high quality on the computer screen?
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While political leaders call for a unified response to the global economic crisis, the reality of much political action has been to look after national interests. What effect, then, will the economic crisis have on the enlarged European Union?
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One year on from Operation Phantom Fury/al-Fajr, the second battle for Fallujah, the American military have been forced to admit t...
Even the Catholic church admits that the power of organised institutional religion is on the wane. Where once we (in Western Europ...
It’s big; it’s a thumb-in-your eye assault on a virgin landscape, but is it art?
Well, yes, it is actually, and th...
That a clandestine paramilitary network, co-ordinated by N.A.T.O. existed throughtout Western Europe due the Cold War is a fact. L...
As Iraqi's prepare to vote on acceptance of the long anticipated constitution, the return to prominence of Moqtada al-Sadr highlig...
Much disccusion on Turkey's accession to the EU comes from Europe looking outwards. Chris Morris, though, lived and worked in Turk...
In Central America, Washington is getting serious about a problem it helped to create. Adam Wolfe, of the PINR, examines the growi...
The Maldivian government's use of excessive force in mid-August to quell demonstrations by opposition activists demanding democrat...
In the 1960s his target was the sporting system that allowed white South Africa to compete internationally while imposing aparthei...
Twenty-five years ago 85 people were killed in one of Europe's worst terrrorist attacks, the massacre at Bologna train station. Th...
While George W. Bush and Tony Blair have consistently re-assured their electorates that all possible precautions have been taken t...
The failure of both the ratification process for the European Constitution, and to find consensus at the recent European Council s...
Live 8 aims to harness political protest, to force the G8 to agree a package to double aid, cancel debt, and reform trade. Laudabl...
How political will Benedict XVI's Pontificate be? What will his stance be on Neo-Liberalism? Will 'pelvic politics' dominate his r...
Trevor Manuel, the South African Minister for finance, famously commented on the rise of global protest movements, “I know w...
The proposed US anti-missile shield to be deployed in Poland, is called in Polish tarcza antyrakietowa, ironically, as ...
Professor Deborah E. Lipstadt became a household name when David Irving sued her for libel. The trial, Irving vs Lipstadt, in a se...
Would we accept the foundation, with tax-payers money, of political schools? For example, a neo-conservative school here, or a com...
Last month saw Australia's conservative party embroiled in a leadership squabble between current leader John Howard and party trea...
Birth in Western Europe and America has become a heavily medicalised event, where women entrust themselves and their babies to a t...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has been amply described by the Western Press in recent years, usually in terms of 'populism' ...
Horatio Morpurgo writes about the environment, flying around the globe in the process. A contradiction? Musing on his carbon footp...
Samuel Butler as a novelist has had an influence on writers as diverse as E.M.Forster and Saul Bellow. But he also contributed to ...
Italian Minister Rocco Buttiglione brought the European Commission into crisis in 2004. In a recent interview in Three Monkeys On...
By rights Henry McDonald, born and raised in the Catholic working class district of the Markets in Belfast, should have grown up R...
September 2005's Polish election followed a newly established pattern, the annihilation of the incumbent party. Robert Looby, cast...
Three years on from the Invasion of Iraq, and the human cost of this war is still unclear. While information on civilian deaths is...
Dr. Mary Condren's ground-breaking work The Serpent and the Goddess(1989) examined the relationships between women, religio...
In a personal interview, Alfonso Torres Istúriz, who works in the Moroccan Sahara with the all-too-often forgotten Sahrawi peop...
Democracy can not be spread - through armed interventions or otherwise - unless one can define what democracy is. Examining three ...
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