March 2006
Gender pay gap: what's it worth?
by mikepower
Girls may well opt for arts degrees over engineering, but that's not because nobody has told them that engineers earn more than academics - it's because the 'male' professions have fallen out of favour even among men.
February 2006
Iraq's death squads: On the brink of civil war
by mikepower
Most of the corpses in Baghdad's mortuary show signs of torture and execution. And the Interior Ministry is being blamed.
January 2006
Independent: Palestinian with Aids barred from Israeli hospital
by mikepower
A Palestinian Aids patient has been denied permission to leave Gaza for treatment in Israel despite warnings by senior Israeli clinicians that the case is urgent.
June 2005
Blinded by the light at the end of the tunnel
by mikepower
The American public is increasingly disillusioned by the Iraq war, and Bush's triumphalism only makes things worse
The New Republic Online: Term Limits by Ryan Lizza
by mikepower
It's not President Bush's fault that he has failed on all of his major second-term initiatives.
Poor ambitions for the world
by mikepower
it would be more accurate to call the campaign: 'Slightly alleviate the most extreme aspects of poverty over the very long-term, maybe.
Should we make 'Make Poverty History' history?
by mikepower
The problem with the Live 8 jamboree is not the self-important rock stars, but the politics of low expectations.
May 2005
Immigration isn't the issue: Brendan O'Neill
by mikepower
Among the political class, ‘the immigration issue’ has become code for their own fear and loathing of the white working class.
The Quagmire: As the Iraq War Drags on, it's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Vietnam
by mikepower
. Two years after the U.S. invasion, Iraq is perched on the brink of civil war. Months after the election, the new Iraqi government remains hunkered down inside the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, surviving only because it is defended by thousands of U.S
April 2005
ei: The Case Against Alan Dershowitz: The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel vs. Alan Dershowitz
by mikepower
Alan Dershowitz is a well-known lawyer and professor at Harvard Law School, a prolific author, and makes regular appearances in the media
Jonathan Freedland: Reviled as outsiders
by mikepower
"This is so wrong. We should be on the same side."
Jewish MP pelted with eggs at war memorial
by mikepower
The sheer ignorance never mind the lack of respect is shocking. They have no idea where their freedom came from and who gave it to them.
Speech by Cindy Sheehan made at Riverside Church -- where Martin Luther King gave his "Beloved Community" speech
by mikepower
Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs....gangsters who lust after fortunes and power; never caring that their addictions are at the expense of our loved ones, and the blood of innocent people near and far.
Lecturers may boycott Israeli academics
by mikepower
Israeli academics who refuse to condemn their government's actions in the occupied territories risk a boycott by the UK's leading lecturers' union.
March 2005
As war stretches on, recruiters scramble
by mikepower
Last month, the US Army missed its monthly recruiting target for the first time since 2000. The Army National Guard and Reserve haven't reached their monthly targets since October.
A military tribunal determined last fall that Murat Kurnaz, a German national seized in Pakistan in 2001, was a member of al Qaeda and an enemy combatant whom the government could detain indefinitely at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
by mikepower
The three military officers on the panel, whose identities are kept secret, said in papers filed in federal court that they reached their conclusion based largely on classified evidence that was too sensitive to release to the public.
Dead Iraqis; Why an Estimate was Ignored, The Lancet Study Why an Estimate was Ignored
by mikepower
To the extent it was covered at all, the reports were short and usually buried far from the front pages of major newspapers. The results of the study could have played an important role in future policy decisions, but the press’s near total silence all
The Top Ten Conservative Idiots: Democratic Underground
by mikepower
Yet another list from DU. Well they're spoilt for choice aren't they?
Kevin Myers: Shall we end child-slavery in Britain?
by mikepower
Unless ruthless action is taken, the country which crushed the slave trade in the 19th century could become its European capital in the 21st.
Dick Taverne: A little pesticide does you good but 'organic' farming harms the world
by mikepower
Our health is threatened not by chemicals and GM crops but by the eco-fundamentalists and their crusade against intensive agriculture
Kevin Meyers: At last the light is shone on the IRA
by mikepower
No event in Northern Ireland in recent years has distilled the abominable and corrupted reality of life under the peace process as the murder of Robert McCartney. Half beaten to death, one eye gouged out, his throat cut, and then gutted like a fish...
Making learning uncool: The establishment disses education as much as hip-hop ‘playas’.
by mikepower
It wasn't Jay-Z who grabbed headlines by declaring that 'learning history is a bit dodgy'. That was the former education secretary, Charles Clarke.
A revolution made for TV
by mikepower
Tuesday, half a million people demonstrating in the streets of Beirut, chanting and waving flags. You probably assumed that they were protesting against the Syrian presence in Lebanon. In fact it was a rally organised by Hezbollah in support of Syria
February 2005
Johann Hari: Don't let the Livingstone row blind us to the real and growing threat of anti-Semitism
by mikepower
It seems that human rights abuses committed by Jews provoke more rage than abuses committed by others
