Articles by Niamh Harris

Over 900 Russian servicemen and at least 100 pieces of weaponry have arrived in China to take part in the Peace Mission 2014 counter-terrorism exercises, the spokesman for the Eastern Military District, Colonel Alexander Gordeyev […]

Four nuclear reactors are to be closed temporarily following a safety alert. The need to investigate a fault in a boiler system means that the reactors will be out of action for around eight weeks. […]

The head of one of the UK’s biggest police forces is being probed in relation to his role in the investigation into a suspected sex offender. The chief constable of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) Sir […]

Here’s The Script, in four despicable acts: Act 1. Fracking boom goes bust as production from shale gas and tight oil wells stalls out and lurches into decline. Act 2. Oil and gas industry loudly […]

Despite its own admission that it will cause an up to seven-fold increase in chemical pesticide use, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is poised to approve a new type of genetically engineered seed built […]

Tens of thousands of people have signed a petition demanding the British government send hospital ship RFA Argus to Gaza to help treat the escalating number of causalities. Downing Street has so far committed a […]

Why We’re Bombing to Protect Erbil Why is Obama now re-committing the U.S. military to Iraq? Why is France strongly backing military action? Obama says it’s to protect minorities. That’s nothing new. Obama is the […]

‘This essay puts the present focus on the crisis in Iraq caused by the ISIS insurgency in the context of the historical and contemporary forces that have shaped and are still shaping the conflict in […]

Now I know that the Israeli Defence Forces are famous in song and legend. Humanitarian, courageous, self-sacrificing, restrained, willing to give their own lives for the innocents among their enemies, etc, etc. Leon Uris’s Exodus […]

First Monsanto took over our Congress, then our Supreme Court, and now they are trying to take over journalism. Without freedom of speech and fair reporting, none of us would ever know just what hideous […]