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Things to do before I retire
Things to do before I retire… humble thoughts from the diary of GW Bush, as revealed by Stefan Simanowitz

FOK-U: the Façade Of Kindness & Understanding
A seminar in effective leadership (PR & spin) by Peter Greenwall
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Global warming and the King’s Arms pub
Horatio Morpurgo supplies an environmental missing link.

Homeless in Delhi
Jeremy Seabrook ventures inside a night shelter in India’s capital city.

The triumph of triviality
Our culture’s tolerance for seriousness has never been lower, argues John F Schumaker.

Sir and Madam
Barry Langridge asks why India still depends on charities to rescue its children.

Bling, Iranian-style
Nasrin Alavi returns to a Tehran under threat from the West.

Kabul lives
A photographic tribute to a city that has plumbed the depths.

Israel, Palestine and the hypocrisy of power
Noam Chomsky anatomizes the current US-Israel ‘project’.
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Much ado about oil
Hugo Chávez’s new foreign policy makes sense, according to Alex Sánchez Nieto

Myths of the Global Market
How the free market destroys life, by John McMurtry.

Costing climate change
George Monbiot explains why action on climate change has to be driven by morality, not dollar estimates
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Things to do before I retire
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Kabul lives
A photographic tribute to a city that has plumbed the depths.
Edible Earth
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