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6 Real men want to go to Iran
 So says John "Real Man" Bolton to help hype a global crisis which could
consequently be used to justify attacks on Iran ..More
3 Editorial
 Censorship..More
8 Dirty war in Colombia
Piers Hobson examines the complex and on-going war between the
government's armed forces, drug producers and traffickers, leftist guerrillas and
rightist paramilitaries...More
4 Pathfinders
Sex, shifty politicians, and a 75
year mortgage plan...More
10 Oil: the Niger delta
70 per cent of the population live on less than $1 a day, but Nigeria’s politicians
are living the high life in swank hotels and partying with Shell, Total and Agip...More
5 Letters
  Kenya, Venezuela..More
12 Transport 2055: the missing scenario
A semi-barbarous future of kalashnikovs and horses and carts, or a perpetual
energy paradise? Britain’s destiny as conjectured by ... the government!..More
9 Cooking the Books 1
World poverty not yet history..More
13 Post Office Workers Unite Across the Sectarian Divide
Workers can be split by social or religious divides, but there’s nothing like an
attack from the bosses to bring them together. In Belfast catholic and protestant
march together down the Shankhill and the Falls Road. ..More
15 Cooking the Books 2
What is capitalism’s true course?..More
14 Tourism: sea, sand - and land speculation
Across the world there is a headlong rush to develop anywhere, anyhow, to
make as much money as possible in as short a time as possible..More
16 Reviews
Books:Status Syndrome; Reds on the Green; The Court of the Red Tsar; Film:Munich..More
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18 50 Years Ago
Israel..More

18 Meetings...more

19 Greasy Pole
The whip who cracked..More

20 Voice from the Back
Same old story; Mean cities; All
right for some, and more..More

20 Free Lunch ..More

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