Banking Reform
Society needs banks, but is not currently well served by them. They are abusing their economic power: The finance sector continues to increase the wealth of its employees and shareholders […]
» Read moreInvading Iraq – a misuse of power
In an article on 6 March 2013, entitled 10 years later, Arianna Huffington drew attention to the way in which political power was used in deciding to invade Iraq in […]
» Read moreEuropean Convention on Human Rights
An article in The Mail on Sunday, on 3 March 2013, celebrated the British Home Secretary’s proposal for Britain “to pull out of the discredited European Convention on Human Rights […]
» Read moreA European financial-transactions tax
A leading article on Europe’s proposed financial-transactions tax, in this week’s Economist, is eloquent on the problems it would encounter. For example, many financial transactions would simply move elsewhere. The […]
» Read moreDrone strikes
As reported by HuffPost, drone strike limitations are being considered by Congress. The article doesn’t mention one very good reason for limiting the use of drones: their propaganda impact. As […]
» Read moreBritish referendum on EU membership
Many British people distrust the EU’s mission, its competence, its democratic accountability and its value for money. David Cameron’s speech on 23 January 2012 has been seen by many as the beginning […]
» Read moreGun Control
Following the massacre in Sandy Hook Elementary School on 14 December 2012, the question of gun-control in America is being debated. The subject raises some interesting issues of governance, which […]
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