The Spokesman Journal
The Spokesman
is the journal of the Bertrand Russell Peace
Foundation. It features independent journalism on peace and nuclear
disarmament, human rights and civil liberties, and contemporary
politics. Contributors include Robert Fisk, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein,
John Le Carre, Trevor Griffiths and Kurt Vonnegut to name a small
selection.
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Keep Space for Peace
The Spokesman 117
Edited by Tony SimpsonTony Simpson - Editorial
Stephen F Cohen
Cold War Chill
Bruce Gagnon - Is Missile Defence Working?
Esther Koohan Paik - Jeju meets Hawaii
Abi Rhodes - Defence against whose Missiles?
Betrand Russell - Cuban Missile Crisis – 50 years on
Gabriel Kolko - Turbulence Ahead
Zhores Medvedev - Feeding the Cities
Juheina Khaldieh reviews Jehan Helou - Palestinian Women
Daniel Jakopovich - Yugoslavia’s Self-Management
Mike Harding - Cissy Worswick Dances
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Resist Much, Obey Little
The Spokesman 116
Edited by Tony SimpsonTony Simpson - Editorial
Ken Coates – Insistent Lad
Ken Coates – Poverty and the IWC
Ken Coates interviewed by George Lambie – A Political Life
Michael Barratt Brown
The Institute for Workers’ Control
Bill Silburn – St Ann’s
Regan Scott – About Ken
John Daniels – Lifelong Comrade
Tony Benn interviewed by Tony Simpson – History Will Be Kind
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Syria and Iran
The Spokesman 115
Edited by Tony SimpsonTony Simpson
Editorial: Syria and Iran
Aisling Byrne
Regime change in Syria?
Brian Jones
Iran - lessons unlearnt
Ayse Berktay - Prison Notes
Trevor Griffiths
Habaccuc Dreams
Gabriel Kolko - Germany goes for broke
Stuart Holland - Europe needs growth
Lord Byron - Framing ideas
Christopher Gifford - Nuclear Explosions
Michael Barratt Brown - Ill fares the land
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From Hiroshima to Fukushima
The Spokesman 114
Edited by Tony SimpsonTony Simpson - Editorial: From Hiroshima to Fukushima
Terumi Tanaka - Hibakusha and Fukushima
Hachiro Sato - Fukushima’s Quagmire
Helen Caldicott - Fukushima’s Radioactive Elements
Seiji Takato - Black Rain
Hiroshi Taka - A world without nuclear weapons
World Conference Against A & H Bombs - Declaration
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Naomi Klein - Occupy!
Noam Chomsky - Academic Freedom?
John Dugard - Apartheid in South Africa and Palestine?
Alastair Crooke - The ‘great game’ in Syria
Brian Jones - Iraq's Report X
Stephanie Sampson - Building Bridges
Raymond Williams - The Country and the City
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NATO? No Thanks!
The Spokesman 113
Edited by Tony SimpsonTony Simpson - Editorial: NATO? - No thanks!
Peter Dale Scott - The Libyan War
Rick Rozoff - NATO's War on Libya
Global Network - Global Strike
Ikeda Some - translated by James Kirkup
Michio Nakano - Umeboshi
Zhores Medvedev - Fukushima
Ambassador Glyn Davies - Prime Candidate
Zhores Medvedev - Dangerous Occupation
Carmel Budiardjo - The Land of Papua
Stuart Holland - New Deal for Europe
Panos Trigazis, Bruce Kent & Colin Archer - Michalis Peristerakis
Stan Newens - Ocalan’s Prison Writings
John Daniels - Public Health
Mike Pentelow & Peter Arkell - Feargus O’Connor
Egyptian Organization for Human Rights - Appeal from Egypt
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What’s happening at Fukushima?
The Spokesman 112
Edited by Tony SimpsonTony Simpson - Editorial: What’s happening at Fukushima?
Masakazu Yasui - Letter from Japan
Katsunobu Sakurai - Appeal from Minamisome
Johan Galtung - Libya
Mustafa Barghouti - Lessons from Egypt
Alexis Lykiard - Setting Out
Merav Amir & Dalit Baum - Corporate Complicity
Michael Barratt Brown & David Browning - Paying for Higher Education
Zhores Medvedev - Dangerous Occupation
Michael Moore - America is not broke
Raoul Marc Jennar - What’s left?
Barry Baldwin - Ancient Socialism
Ian Watson - God, King, and Dennis Law
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Complicity Against Palestine
The Spokesman 111
Edited by Tony SimpsonTony Simpson - Editorial: Complicity Against Palestine
Dalit Baum - Who profits?
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine
Alice Walker - A Circle
US Embassy, London - Diego Garcia
Noam Chomsky interviewed by Amy Goodman - Exposing Western Leadership
Paul Rogers - America's shiver
Zhores Medvedev - Dangerous occupation
Jeremy Corbyn MP - Love and learning
Diane Johnstone - NATO anf US Grand Strategy
Lynne Jones - Regime change or disarming WMD
Michael Barratt Brown - Basil Davidson
Alexis Lykiard - Haiku
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What Price Austerity?
The Spokesman 110
Edited by Tony SimpsonTony Simpson - Editorial: What Price Austerity?
Mark Serwotka - Not a single job has to be lost
PCS - There is an alternative
Stuart Holland - Demythologising 'Old Labour'
Brian Jones - Failing Intelligence
Hans von Sponeck - Scared of the facts
Caroline Lucas MP - Afghanistan - Nail the Myth
Bertrand Russell - Prevent the crime of silence
Richard Falk and David Krieger - The Middle East
Rep. Dennis Kucinich - What we have to do
Carmel Budiardjo - West Papua's Plight
Jimmy Reid - We're not rats
Michael Barratt Brown - Is there not an alternative?
Stuart Holland - Act and Survive
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Reinventing Socialism
The Spokesman 109
Edited by Ken CoatesKen Coates - Editorial: Reinventing Socialism
Sidney Webb - Clause IV
Clement Atlee - 'We cannot administer capitalism'
Ken Coates - Blair's Initiative
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Ken Coates a Tribute
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Noam Chomsky - The Radical Intellectual
Henning Mankell - 'Maybe we should talk about my books'
Tony Simpson - What the Spooks Want
David Kelly - A Fresh Inquiry?
Bertrand Russell - Why I am a Guildsman
Nurit Peled Elhanan - Carnage in Gaza
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A Special Relationship ... with Truth?
The Spokesman 108
Edited by Ken CoatesKen Coates - Special Relationship?
Sir Edmund Thomas QC - Lord Goldsmith and Iraq
Bertolt Brecht - Parade of the Old New
Bob Marshall-Andrews MP -
Another Agenda
Bob Dixon - Demockracy
Scott Ritter - Britain Can't Handle the Truth
Bertrand Russell - Writing Principia
Kurt Vonnegut - Kurt is up in Heaven now
Farewell Michael Foot
Lord Judge, Lord Neuberger - Judgment
Clive Stafford Smith - Spooks sold down the river
Alexis Lykiard - The Chilcot Enquiry
Nurit Peled Elhanan - Carnage in Gaza
Dossier - Russell Tribunal on Palestine
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Regime Changers Anonymous
The Spokesman 107
Edited by Ken CoatesKen Coates - Regime Changers Anonymous
Tony Simpson - Fixing the Intelligence?
Lord Goldsmith - Law and War
Lord Steyn -
The legality of the invasion of Iraq
David Halpin - Who killed David Kelly?
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Alexis Lykiard - Haiku
John Arden - Gallows
Noam Chomsky - The US and Israel
John Berger - Al Rabweh
Mahmoud Darwish - The Dice Player
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Responsibility to Protest
The Spokesman 106
Edited by Ken CoatesEditorial
Robert Black - Lockerbie and the Law
Hans Köchler - Unfair Trial
Marcello Mega -
Lockerbie - the Cover-up
Tam Dalyell - The Crime of Lockerbie
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John Pilger - The Party of Criminal War
Noam Chomsky - Responsibility to Protest
Tony Blair - Pirate's Charter
Ken Coates - Benign Whitewash
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Reprieve - Kidnapped on Diego Garcia
Ann Talbot, Trevor Griffths - 'A New World' at The Globe
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Money Troubles ... War Crimes -
The Spokesman 105
Edited by Ken CoatesEditorial
War Crimes
War Crimes I - Gordon Brown & Others
War Crimes II -
Bob Marshall-Andrews MP
Sir Menzies Campbell MP
Michael Mates MP
David Davis MP
George Galloway MP
Alan Simpson MP
Adam Price MP
Matthew Rycroft - War Crimes III - The Downing Street Memo
E. W. Thomas - War Crimes IV - Indictment of Tony Blair
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Michael Barratt Brown - The Banks - Too Big to Fail
Jim Mortimer - What Labour Forgot
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Henry McCubbin - European Elections
James Kirkup - My A-Bomb Biography
George Lansbury - The Titanic and The Herald
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