By Denis Campbell
There was an unseasonable hailstorm in London today as hundreds of shoes rained down upon the entrance to Downing Street, Great Britain’s version of the White House, home to Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Chancellor Alistair Darling (Finance Minister). 
This was neither a pre-election protest, reaction to Mr. Brown’s 100,000 new jobs pledge something [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
New York Governor David Paterson is involved in a high stakes daisy petal pull game of ‘she loves me, he loves me not…’ in Albany where he contemplates who will replace Hillary Clinton in the US Senate. He is also wrestling with an enormous budget shortfall, residual fallout from replacing Governor ‘hi-priced call [...]

By Denis Campbell
I wouldn’t wish the current Democratic Congressional leadership group on any incoming President, especially not one with a mandate for change like Barack Obama. In the Jib-Jab year end film, 2008 is expelled from the room badly beaten up by crisis after crisis. Hope and change may be coming but without real Democratic [...]

By Denis Campbell
If retail times are tough, why do lackadaisical service and sales people have gainful employment in this or any country? You would think with sales projected to fall 10% or more in the 1st Quarter, companies would put their top sales and service people on the case for fear of haemorrhaging more through [...]

By Denis Campbell
Britons call him “THE” playwright. Americans recognise her more as television’s Catwoman than the sexy singer who turned heads long into her 70s. Nobel laureate ‘Sir’ Harold Pinter and music legend Eartha Kitt passed away within hours of each other Christmas Day. We are all the poorer.
Some would argue because he turned down [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
Obama’s election aside, looking back over 2008’s three most underreported story lines jumped from pages and airwaves as the brazen religious-based socially engineered hate crimes they are. Disguised by the televangelists as Biblical ‘tough love,’ folks awakened in this election and what they saw turned stomachs in its straight-faced and ignorant delivery.

 
With George Bush, Dick Cheney and several surrogates telling interviewers that the 9/11 attacks couldn’t be anticipated, they were – not surprisingly – lying. As a result, this article Charley James first published in April 2005 at The Dissident Voice bears repeating as the outgoing administration tries rewriting history. The article reveals that a CIA “mole” [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
First they closed 2,000 small local Royal Mail Post Offices, now Postman Pat’s company is looking for a business partner to sell a minority stake. I wonder if he is still quietly smiling or has his blood pressure burst a vein?
The UK Government expects a £7 billion pound deficit in the Royal Mail [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
Say what? After spending much of this year explaining the US electoral system for BBC listeners and viewers, this headline could cause coffee to spurt out of some noses in the UK. What do you mean almost? Will it ever end?
Yesterday was the 1st Monday following the 2nd Wednesday in December (I kid [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
Since he truly cares not a whit, let’s plan a real tone deaf legacy tour for George and the team. The only thing missing from the current trip is bomber tour jackets made by Bangladeshi schoolchildren earning $1 a week in wages. Is it possible for one man to have so little sensory [...]