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The Business of Killing

The corporate manslaughter bill has been neutered to please employers

Only when nomads settled on fertile land did the notion of progress take root

A coup against social Europe has been foiled – for the time being

How can MPs represent us when they earn up to 95% of their income from outside interests?

The new crime bill permits the police to stop almost any demonstration.

Climate change exposes progress as a myth

Where has Iraq’s money gone?

Some people who engage in foreign conflicts are called terrorists. Others are about to be licensed by the government

The US media is creating a world of make believe.

Sweden proves the neoliberals wrong about how to slash poverty.

Bush and Blair no longer seem able to see the difference.

Why have we paid £93m for a £15m bridge?

Bush’s attempt to wreck the climate talks follows an established pattern of self-destruction

Why does no one care that the world’s worst conflict has broken out again?

We should welcome the return of the big wild mammals

Undercurrents and Schnews are both ten years old, and still blooming.

Even the government’s private finance success story turns out to be a roaring failure

The adoption of biofuels would be a humanitarian and environmental disaster

Big business is seeking the freedom to kill its workers

There is a precedent for the Bush Project, but it’s not fascism