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Published in:openDemocracyUK: OpinionThis was Scotland’s most boring election, and its most importantAnd for those Scottish voters who have previously only flirted with independence, England’s results will strengthen the idea
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Published in:oDR: Opinion106 years and 44 days of the Armenian GenocideThe US decision to recognise the Armenian Genocide has urgent relevance for the country in the wake of last year’s...
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"Freedland in closing includes the British electorate in his roll-call of systemic failure. But I think these...
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The phantasmagoria continues, in pursuit of Duns Scotus
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionStarmer has broken his promises and gone to factional war - how will Labour respond?
Shifting right has been shown to be a failed, out-of-date strategy. Will the party leadership accept the new...
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Published in: Home: NewsHow a young Afghan woman trapped at Europe’s borders found her voice
From a camp in Greece, poet and human rights activist Parwana Amiri is fighting discrimination and demanding better...
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Published in: HomeWhoever owns the youth: a Reader (Pt. 1)
The lesson here is not simply the description of violence designed to frighten children, it is in itself a form of violence
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Published in: Home: OpinionNew stage of remote warfare further diminishes military accountability
Thousands of boots on the ground have been replaced by multiple deployments of smart bombs that stay under the radar...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionCould Greece turn into another Hungary?
Insecurity breeds panic. It is only natural. This is not some Greek particularity
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionUganda’s sexual offences law is a bitter lesson for the women’s movement
Why did women MPs support a new law that entrenches oppression?
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Published in: oDR: ExplainerWhat is happening on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border?
A recent conflict over disputed territories left at least 46 dead, and hundreds more injured
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionSyrian refugees in Scandinavia fear they will be forcibly returned to Syria
Denmark has decided that parts of Syria are now safe and revoked residency permits for Syrian refugees. Will other...
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Published in: oDR: Interview‘The word feminism is still a trigger’: Russia's feminists in their own words
Four activists from the country’s regions explain how they’re trying to bring feminism to a wider audience
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe rise of Brazil’s neo-Pentecostal narco-militia
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: AnalysisThis should be the social care election – why is it being treated as anything but?
Some 30,000 died of COVID in England’s care homes. Yet with few understanding councils and the care system, social...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionThe case for five new states
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: AnalysisHow Scottish independence stopped being scary
In 2016, Scotland’s Conservatives successfully spread panic about an independence referendum. Five years on, the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Lin Shu, author of the Quixote
This year marks the 405th anniversary of Cervantes’ death. The Instituto Cervantes in Shanghai has decided to honour...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionSelahattin Demirtaş: the trial of the man who wanted to be Turkey’s president
After more than four years of being held in a pre-trial detention that the ECHR ruled ‘unlawful’, Demirtaş is due to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsTories accused of ‘unfathomable’ failure to pledge against election intimidation
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» A strange piece which doesn't mention the military assistance given by the UK to the Saudis, nor the help given to the Saudis by conscience-free, ordinary working people in...
– by ThisWreckage on: After six years of war, what is happening in Yemen? - 2021-05-09
» BY FAR THE MOST OVEREACHING ISSUES OF OUR TIME ARE CLIMATE CHANGE, MASS GLOBAL EXTINCTION AND POLLUTION. Why are these not even hinted at by whoever you are?
– by DAMUS76 on: Priti Patel’s war on Britain’s last nomads - 2021-05-08
» In 2011, the SNP's landslide victory was only partially related to the independence drive. I recall that Ashcroft's polling found that over 30% of SNP voters had voted NO in...
– by BCcantsignin on: This was Scotland’s most boring election, and its most important - 2021-05-08
» O velho sistema patriarcal capitalista, classista, rico, jurídico, militarista, religioso e segregacionista em que tentamos sobreviver.
– by Max on: A ascensão da narcomilícia neopentecostal no Brasil - 2021-05-07
» Too descriptive. No mention of the political-economy background of the phenomenon.
– by Nèd on: The rise of Brazil’s neo-Pentecostal narco-militia - 2021-05-07