The following is part of Howard Zinn's introduction to the 1971 American edition of
Herbert Read's collection of writings, Anarchy and Order. The collection was first
published in London in 1954. ---- The word anarchy unsettles most people in the Western
world; it suggests disorder, violence, uncertainty.

ANKARA - British Prime Minister David Cameron Tuesday urged Israel to lift the blockade of the Gaza Strip, slamming the current state of the Palestinian enclave as a "prison camp."

BP filling stations across London have been shut down by activists.

Environmental group Greenpeace said it had cut fuel supplies
to all 50 BP stations in the city. The oil firm said 35 had been shut
but 18 have now re-opened.

A US federal watchdog has criticized the US military for failing to account properly for billions of dollars it received to help rebuild Iraq.

The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction says the US Department of Defense is unab

Over the past decade there has been considerable debate on corn ethanol, most focused on whether it is a net energy yielder. The argument is generally that “if the Energy Return on Investment (EROI) of corn ethanol is positive then it should be pursued.

I am hopefully now only days from handing in the PhD I have been doing, the closing stages of a gruelling marathon.