Globalisation and self-sufficiency
How do we avoid losing more than we gain from free trade?
World
Smart Idiots
Just because you’re educated doesn’t mean you’re not an idiot
Left Coasting : Barricading the Information Superplaza
BART starts a free speech firestorm
Imagining War
The ethical and stylistic issues in using real-life war zones as a basis for contemporary fiction
Left Coasting: Robbin’ the Hood
California’s latest attempt to escape from its low tax / no revenue straightjacket
Letter from America : Sarah, Forever
Outrage at Sarah Palin is gasoline to a forest fire….
Talking Sport : Stanley Cup Fever
On and off the field
Letter from America : It’s Alllivvveee…..
Is the media rising up from its much heralded grave?
Left Coasting : At War With Amazon.Com
Should the e-commerce giants be made to collect and pay far more taxes on what they sell ?
Away Games
The challenges (and consolations) of trying to play cricket in America
Library Carnage in David Cameron’s Big Society
Observations on free market fundamentalism, by the author of the His Dark Materials series
Left Coasting : On Edge
Earthquakes, insurance and building codes – home, and away
Getting Under Sail
Tripping on the Third World, a book excerpt
Letter from America : Four Days in Washington DC
A Long Walk Down Memory Lane…
West Papua: from Morning Star to Mourning
The freedom & democracy movement in West Papua is using non-violent action to advance its cause.
Mao Is Alive and Well (& Living in Kathmandu)
The Nepalese Experiment with Maoism hits gridloc
Letter from America : Christmas in New York
Santa’s Sleigh makes its way to the U.S. of A.
Hiding in Public
Truman to Nixon, Bush to Obama – how the US has rationalized the ‘need’ for state secrecy
Left Coasting : Open Season on Healthcare
Count the ways the medical-industrial complex is bad for everyone’s health…
Obama faces the mid-terms
Why voters are looking elsewhere for change they can believe in
Left Coasting : Fail Marks for the Smart Grid
What’s so smart about corporate energy’s transition to smart meters?
In the Kingdom of Ben Affleck
Dunkin Donuts coffee is the new Boston tea party
Left Coasting : Have Pod, Will Travel
California does some blue sky thinking about public transport
Left Coasting : The Golden State’s Silver Bullet
The proposed high speed rail link between Sacramento – San Francisco – Los Angeles is already hitting some speed bumps
Left Coasting : Family Fight
Harman vs Winograd : the Democratic Party at war, with itself
Hating Obama, Scorning Rudd
Why have they become so unpopular so quickly ?
Left Coasting: Una casa dividida
Searching for common ground among California’s Latino/Chicano/Mexicano voters
Travelling Light: Into the Ruined City
In Agdam, the past is the only thing present
Left Coasting: Deputy Dogging
Gavin Newsom goes sub-gubernatorial in California
Decline and Fall
Hebron’s spiral of despair