How Tim Pool used Google Glass to cover Istanbul protests

The G4S debacle in London is a wake-up call on outsourcing security

By Greg Barton, Monash University

Stuff happens. When organising something as big as the Olympic Games some things are bound to go wrong.

Sometimes the failures are simply funny. Just one day after its public unveiling in Trafalgar Square, the official 500 day Countdown Clock stopped counting down. It was a real-egg-on-face moment for LOCOG but harmless black comedy for everyone else.

The Shock Doctrine and Disaster Capitalism

It’s All a Grand Capitalist Conspiracy

When Milton Friedman died in 2006, the acclaim for his work was nearly universal. Even his ideological opponents, like Paul Krugman and Lawrence Summers, treated this Nobel Prize-winning economist — who taught for decades at the University of Chicago — with respect.

Naomi Klein will have none of it. In her new book, “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism,” she essentially accuses Friedman of being the godfather of a Mafia-like gang, the Chicago Boys, who have exploited the public disorientation associated with catastrophes and political crises to impose an unwanted free-market ideology on much of the world.

Xenophobia - Is Breivik mad, bad and a psychopath?

Psychiatrists in Norway who examined him say he’s as sane as you or me. But that verdict was immediately questioned by two eminent figures as Breivik went on trial for the murder of 77 people: the psychiatrists Dr Raj Persaud and Dr Ramon Spaaij, an expert on so-called “lone wolf” killers.



Russia to help Athens by buying "Made in Greece"

Russian authorities believe ordinary people should help bail out indebted Greece and urged them to buy ‘Made in Greece’, which will give Athens an estimated export revenue of up to 18 billion euros a year. In the meantime, the Russian Gazprom monopoly is eyeing a stake in the Greek DEPA state-owned natural gas company.