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Big Brother is about to be joined by his Crazy Cousin

President-elect Donald Trump will soon have access to the UK’s intelligence gathering infrastructure. The time for trust in secret intellegence sharing is over. 

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Trump’s victory: time for action

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Big Brother is about to be joined by his Crazy Cousin

President-elect Donald Trump will soon have access to the UK’s intelligence gathering infrastructure. The time for trust in secret intellegence sharing is over. 

openDemocracy.net - free thinking for the world
Credit: gato-gato-gato / Flickr
Trump’s victory: time for action

Whatever Trump's victory means, we must avoid the easy answers and evasions that got us here. Help keep openDemocracy open, and growing, so that together we can rise to this moment.

 

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Niki Seth-Smith is a freelance journalist and contributing editor to 50.50.

We were their flowers in the dustbin: Anarchy in the UK at 40

40 years ago this weekend, The Sex Pistols’ Anarchy in the UK was released. Philosophy Football’s Mark Perryman remembers

Fidel

Excerpt from Eduardo Galeano’s book “Espejos” (“Mirrors”), translated by Danica Jorden. Español

When a Man Kills a Woman

Across everything that divides societies, we share in common that men’s violence against women is normalised, tolerated, justified - and hidden in plain sight.

Chanan’s imperfect cinema dialogues

How can political cinema continue to advance the aims of activists today while avoiding assimilation into the spectacle? An interview with Michael Chanon.

Resisting the movement of control

We must fight for more transparency, and against technologies of decision-making. We cannot not do it. But this is not enough. We must learn the language of becoming other. An interview.

Fillon is a harsh austerian: on Sunday, Europeans need Juppé instead

Anti-Islam and pro-Russia, anti-LGBT and pro-Thatcher. If François Fillon wins France's right-wing primary, it will be Europe who loses.

Libyan political agreement: recipe for peace or disaster?

The United Nations-brokered Libyan political agreement has failed to bear any fruits thus far because it does not address the root causes of the Libyan crisis and only adds to its complexity.

The mainstream press in the US is obsessed with ‘objectivity’ – and that’s a problem

It’s impossible for effective political dialogue to be maintained if one side of an argument continue to lie without consequence.

Voting as an act of violence

How do you expect me to explain that this was a vote for ‘those left behind’ to all the LGBT youth, minority youth and young people from marginalized communities that I help counsel and mentor in New York?

By the numbers: Barack Obama’s contribution to the decline of US democracy

How neoliberal doctrine undermined the Obama administration and ushered in the age of Trump. 

The many sides of Jack London

Speaking to us 100 years after his death, in the era of Nigel Farage and Donald Trump, Jack London’s late novels make a fascinating spectacle of their author’s ‘white fragility’.

Big Brother is about to be joined by his Crazy Cousin. The time for trust is over.

Whatever happens over the next few years, if there is to be a storm, then it is best to prepare. It is essential that western liberal democratic societies are resilient enough to uphold their fundamental values.

Coal ash contamination in Puerto Rico

Massive arrests in protests against fugitive coal ash contamination in Puerto Rico are yet another example of highly contaminating corporation’s impunity in the Americas. Español

Our Beeb - Book Launch and Drinks Reception

Limited space is available for an evening with some of the country's top experts and influential thinkers on the BBC.

Abhor the event: voting patterns and the rise of Trump

With the Republican party going off the rails, why did so many voters act like nothing had changed? 

What peace? State disorders and non-state orders

For many, peace is just a long and complex process that will deliver very little if at all, and will mainly benefit the political and business elite.

Beyond blood diamonds: the violence behind the gold route

Illegal gold exchanges between the global North and South are fuelling violence and exploitation, but most consumers are oblivious. Español

Since I gave you a phone it’s not rape

As evidence of UN peacekeepers’ sexual violence against Black African women and girls grows, media reporting and research reinterprets this as ‘transactional sex’, through the logic of colonialism.

Transforming a victim blaming culture

Media discussions of male violence against women focus on the actions of the victim rather than the perpetrator. How can we challenge this narrative using survivor’s testimony without putting them at risk of online harassment?

Calais demolition: ‘mission accomplished’, the politics of exhaustion and continued struggles for mobility

The destruction of the Calais camp last month did nothing other than displace the already-displaced, pushing them one step closer to exhaustion.

The UK remains complicit in horrific human rights abuses abroad due to shoddy policy document

The UK government is complicit in the execution of political prisoners and protesters abroad and there are serious flaws in the government policy that is supposed to prevent this.

Trump's day one: in crisis mode

The president-elect's hope is to follow an "America first" path to domestic renewal. Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya may puncture it. 

Making our movements work for kids and families

Children have always been part of people’s work for rights and social justice, so what does it take to make activism more family friendly? 

21st century politics: Is the party over? Or is it just kicking off?

What does a modern political party look like?

Paid columnists for openDemocracyUK on the environment, corporate power and democracy

Paid freelance work: £200 per month for monthly columns over two years.

An inward looking Turkey in a turbulent Middle East

The deteriorating situation in Turkey since the failed coup raises many questions about the future of the country and its role in the region

What the victory of Donald Trump can teach us

As America’s president-elect prepares for office, it’s important to understand the nature of the new political reality — and how we should deal with it. Русский

Water rights and the peace process in Colombia

The vision of a future national territory completely full of mining, monoculture, and hydroelectric dams is a real one, and one that the current laws are on their way to realising

Trump, Putin, and the new Middle East

The election of Trump will give second wind to autocrats in the region as well as create space for the growth of Russian influence.

Tunisia’s moment of truth: process, outcomes, expectations

The historic televised public testimonies of survivors of the repressive regimes in Tunisia since 1950s can open the way for transitional justice in the country.