Looking to the Middle East, Peter ‘Hulk’ Hagen examines the role of money as a political instrument. On the 7th June, 1981, eight Israeli F-16s roared over the Iraqi desert en route to the site of Osirak Nuclear Materials Testing Reactor. They were not there to film Top Gun. Operation Opera was a controversial...
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Benjamin T. Schonewald explores the effect of the recession on voting Everyone is learning to loathe the news. Every day, there’s a new scare-story or scandal, and increasingly these terrible tales are centred around the murky and oft-misunderstood world of finance. I can’t pretend to know much more than anyone else about the recession,...
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