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David Miller reports on the ‘Open Stormont’ campaign in Northern Ireland – and the lobbyists’ response.

The SNP government has shown some signs of social democratic reform, but for the most part it has been business as usual, says David Miller.

Lobbying is much more widespread than is recognised, suggestsDavid Miller. Only a mandatory system of disclosures can help to put an end to it.

David Miller on recent developments in corporate lobbying of the Scottish Parliament.

Notes on the new Foreign Office minister Mark Malloch Brown and his new boss, Gordon Brown. By David Miller.

With so many academics and think tanks helping to provide the raw materials to whip up hysteria in the interests of an imperial foreign policy and a domestic crackdown on dissent, perhaps it is time for a new discipline of Critical Terrorism Studies, which might be able to interrogate official definitions of ‘terrorism’, pick apart government propaganda and focus honestly on ‘state terror’.

The P.R. projects of the pharmaceutical industry exposed.

Before the House of Commons Liaison Committee, Blair continued to evade responsibility and produce familiar, specious arguments on Iraq and Israel.

The Power Inquiry ignores the corrosive effects of P.R. and corporate propaganda on our democracy.

The story of British propaganda in Ireland in 1920 tells us of the obvious parallels between Ireland in 1920, 1971 and 2005 and between Ireland then and Iraq today.

A British government-funded fake TV news service allows mild criticism of the US – all the better to support it.

Why the mainstream media fails us on Iraq.

The government is pursuing a strategy of divide and rule. If we are to build popular forces to turn back neo-liberalism, we should confront the failed policies of the G8 head on.

In the US style system we are importing, there is no sign that media priorities are changing enough to challenge the stranglehold of the big parties with the big money.

The BBC has aired government propaganda reports under the guise of news.

The gap between how the world is and how powerful interests portray it has grown dramatically wider.