No. 1288 December 2011

December-2011 PDF

• Editorial: What Next?

• Proper Gander: Sugar Rush

• Pathfinders: Parasites Lost

• Action Replay

• Letters

• 50 Years Ago: Stalin – the God Who Fell

• Halo Halo!

• Voice From the Back

• Tiny Tips

• Cartoon: Free Lunch

• Cooking the Books: “We are the 99 percent”

• Material World: The Bottom Line on Climate Change

• Greasy Pole: Oliver Letwin – Eccentric or Fake?

• The Next War?

• Rouble-makers

• Saying Marx Is Right, Getting Him (And Capitalism) Wrong

• 2011 – A Year of Change

• To Drone or Not to Drone

• Cooking the Books: Who Controls the World?

• Book Reviews: ‘The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Surveillance’, ‘In Praise of Slow’, ‘How to be Free’

• Film Review: Walmart – The High Cost of Low Price