Don’t Call an Ambulance
- April 13, 2011
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- Matt
So the London Ambulance Service will now have to lose 560 frontline jobs, 20 percent of the total. So, according to Unison’s regional organiser, Phil Thompson, “These cuts are so deep they may not heal. If allowed to be carried out they will put at risk the many Londoners who rely on the LAS...
Priorities
- April 12, 2011
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- Matt
Anyone who still believes we live in the best of all possible worlds would do well to read the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s background report on global military expenditure for 2010. According to SIPRI’s research the world spent $1, 630 billion on ‘defence’ last year, of which the United States spent a jaw-dropping...
Monsters at the Border
- April 11, 2011
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- Matt
There can be more to science fiction films than Dolby whooshes and hyperactive CGI special effects. Gareth Edwards’s low-budget sci-fi flic Monsters is a terrific example of what can be done with a lot of imagination and intelligence and very little money. Shot on an incredible pre-production budget of $15,000 which eventually rose...
We Killed You – But Not Intentionally
- April 09, 2011
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- Matt
Pity Richard Goldstone. Relentlessly and ruthlessly pilloried by Israeli politicians and the Zionist propaganda machine for his UN investigation which had the temerity to find Israel – and Hamas – guilty of war crimes during Operation Cast Lead in 2009, he is now having second thoughts.
Needless to say Netanyahu and Israel’s supporters abroad...
Cowards’ Justice
- April 08, 2011
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- Matt
The Obama administration’s announcement that the alleged ‘9/11 mastermind’ Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-conspirators will be tried by a military commission in Guantanamo Bay rather than in a New York federal court is not good news, but nor is it very surprising Obama’s Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr has blamed the Republican-dominated Congress...
The Trouble with Carlos
- April 06, 2011
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- Matt
I’ve just watched Olivier Assayas’ monumental study of Illich Sanchez Ramirez a.k.a Carlos ‘the Jackal’. It’s an engrossing, compelling and original work, which meticulously portrays Carlos and his world over more than five hours through a patient accumulation of scenes rather than a thrilleresque cliffhanger narrative.
This is no mean feat, given the fact that...
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