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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.

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Homeless in Delhi

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

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The triumph of triviality

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

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Sir and Madam

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

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Bling, Iranian-style

Nasrin Alavi returns to a Tehran under threat from the West.

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Kabul lives

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

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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

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Myths of the Global Market

How the free market destroys life, by John McMurtry.

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Costing climate change

George Monbiot explains why action on climate change has to be driven by morality, not dollar estimates

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Free software!

Strike a blow for freedom – get rid of Windows, Word, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and the rest, says Bruce Byfield.

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