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You might not have heard of the Heritage Foundation, an ultra-right US think tank that has evolved into a policy arm of the Republican Party, influencing its shift to more hardline conservative positions in recent decades. Its Index on Economic Freedom, an annual appraisal of 184 national economies, applauds those that are most friendly to business, especially concerning tax codes. In other words, the most right-wing economies …
Robert Dunham, Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington DC, discusses with Wayne Brittenden the ethical and legal situation of capital punishment globally — but particularly in the US, which is the only western democracy that — at least in 29 states — can still execute its citizens.
A little-known history that needs to be told, and the US National Public Radio does a fine job.
As the Sufi poet philosopher Omar Khayyam put it: When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
Are the Green Parties doing too little too late? Have they shrunk from telling the voters the full extent of the bad news because it’s electorally unappealling? Or has their time come at last? The former leader of the Green Party of Malta, Harry Vassallo, has a background with green politics in the European Union.
Also a human rights and animal rights lawyer , he’s well qualified to give us a Green overview and to answer key questions: Was it a mistake for the Greens to engage in the parliamentary process, rather than to remain apolitical activists lobbying all parties for the urgent changes that are long overdue? Might this have been a more successful means of giving the public the unvarnished ecological truths?
Our growing list of relatively timeless interviews
Since you’ve been in the news, it seems timely to drop you a line. After all, it’s not everyone that gets a US holiday in their honour. You and Martin Luther King. The two of you could hardly be more different …
Are the Green Parties doing too little too late? Have they shrunk from telling the voters the full extent of the bad news because it’s electorally unappealling? Or has their time come at last? The former leader of the Green Party of Malta, Harry Vassallo, has a background with green politics in the European Union.
Also a human rights and animal rights lawyer , he’s well qualified to give us a Green overview and to answer key questions: Was it a mistake for the Greens to engage in the parliamentary process, rather than to remain apolitical activists lobbying all parties for the urgent changes that are long overdue? Might this have been a more successful means of giving the public the unvarnished ecological truths?
Four years ago, I traveled around America, visiting historical archives. I was looking for documents that might reveal the hidden history of climate change — and in particular, when the major coal, oil and gas companies became aware of the problem, and what they knew about it …
