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Enron (Actually Worth Reading)..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/enron/story/0,11337,825401,00.html Bad company Its testosterone-fuelled traders were fixtures in Houston’s strip clubs. One division of the company spent $2m a year on flowers alone. And its executives used the firm’s corporate...

Widening Inequality and the Envy Politic

George W. Bush should be glad that CNN and CNBC are being plastered with aerial shots of crime scenes from the random killings in and around DC. Before the Washington Sniper started popping suburbanites, America was just starting to get down to a serious discussion of...

Regime Changes and Rogue States…

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story22726 Yes, we need a ‘regime change’ in this rogue state… Its government has no majority. It refuses arms monitoring. Its opponents are locked up without trial Adrian Hamilton 09 August 2002 The idea that a...

Where Did 1 Million British Men Go?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,804213,00.html ‘I’m looking for one million men’ When the results of the latest census were announced this week, it emerged that a million young British men had ‘disappeared’. The man in charge of...

Survey: Europeans Say U.S. Partly to Blame for 9/11

Of course, France — the country that brought us popular existentialism — thinks that the US brought September 11th upon themselves. Perhaps that’s an overstatement , but it does seem to be widely felt in places other than the US that such an attack...