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# Borders crossed and broken - The Week in 1 Minute: June 16 – 22 on openDemocracy
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/borders-crossed-and-broken-week-in-1-minute-june-16-22-on-opendemocracy/
- Published: 2014-06-21T23:06:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-23T01:41:01.000Z
- Description: ISIS is on the march in Iraq. We publish a dispatch from Baghdad and ask why the call to arms from Ayatollah Sayid Ali Al-Sistaniis a game changer. Paul Rogers argues that US intervention would only play into their hands, while in the Kurdistan region life appears untroubled, for now… amazingly so
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- Tags: The Week in 1 Minute, #Migrated, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 17:46, #appended-excerpt

Crimea’s Tartars [pose a problem](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/5790f4bbd0&ref=opendemocracy.net) for Russia, while Eurasia as a whole is militarizing [at alarming speeds](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/c6c3ab55b7&ref=opendemocracy.net). It’s no wonder that [borders are proliferating](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/ed2b97af53&ref=opendemocracy.net), while there are **ever-more unregulated migrants**.  
  
**For refugee week**, 50.50 publishes a report on [Tunisia’s forgotten refugees](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/5ebc644b98&ref=opendemocracy.net), Syrian women coming [out of the shadows](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/54dd2fa2f2&ref=opendemocracy.net), and shows how Refugee Studies [cannot be](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/52ccb73817&ref=opendemocracy.net) a replacement for the failure of politics. In Egypt, the response of El-Sisi to sexual assault [must be backed by more action](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/78804757e9&ref=opendemocracy.net), while we hear how the coup that installed him has only strengthened the [Egyptian deep state](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/a727f858be&ref=opendemocracy.net).  
  
Italy is struggling to acknowledge that **mafia** is now also [a problem for the north](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/a0ff707f2c&ref=opendemocracy.net). In the UK, [a young activist wonders](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/4c909fc6e8&ref=opendemocracy.net) if she, like peer Jenny Jones, has been labeled a ‘domestic extremist’. The [rise of Sinn Fein](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/c5ba1938b6&ref=opendemocracy.net) in Ireland looks unstoppable, while Northern Ireland needs to remember the [legacy of Inez McCormack](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/b3138bbfa5&ref=opendemocracy.net), an architect of the parallel peace process.  
  
We [analyze](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/80c5819ed5&ref=opendemocracy.net) the supporters of **new party Podemos in Spain** and ask [who should run Europe](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/b29a2c75ba&ref=opendemocracy.net). David Cameron is against Juncker, but is Britain [becoming completely irrelevant](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/369a58cb1e&ref=opendemocracy.net) in the EU? [What is the meaning of Europe](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/76ad888b6b&ref=opendemocracy.net) anyway?  
  
We publish **two very different arguments on climate change**: one [embracing surrender](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/212c946470&ref=opendemocracy.net), realism and grief; the other arguing that [the fight is not lost](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/233ba6cbf4&ref=opendemocracy.net). Two deaths are in the courts years later: that of a [US tourist](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/ba89c8becb&ref=opendemocracy.net) who died weeks after being detained in the UK; the other of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, whose [killers have been sentenced](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/13b4977450&ref=opendemocracy.net) but not those who hired them.  
  
On [their trip to India](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/01324325df&ref=opendemocracy.net) during the elections in April, Niyati Keni was compelled by widespread misogyny to **give her 7 year-old daughter a feminist education**. India’s elections taught [another lesson](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/b56388270f&ref=opendemocracy.net) to one voter. We also hear how basic income [transformed the lives](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/d12d5f2af2&ref=opendemocracy.net) of villagers in Madhya Pradesh.  
  
Aamer Rahman [talks about](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/e720329d08&ref=opendemocracy.net) his comedy and **accusations of being ‘racist against white people’**. We discuss why the New Economy movement [is so white](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/c418bedfcd&ref=opendemocracy.net) and what exactly [the difference](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/bac1c5d8d0&ref=opendemocracy.net) is between ‘victim’ and ‘survivor’ in feminist language. Anthony Barnett [responds](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/4b6028b0a7&ref=opendemocracy.net) to the anniversary of Magna Carta by demanding rights, not ‘Magna Bollocks’. Finally, an unusual song theatre production[celebrates war correspondents](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/716acb3dba&ref=opendemocracy.net).  
  
  
**Links not to miss:**

- [What would Keynes do?](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/aa879864a1&ref=opendemocracy.net) Paul Mason, New Statesman.
- [How an arrest in Iraq revealed Isis's $2bn jihadist network](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/c1f7c4a89f&ref=opendemocracy.net), The Guardian.
- [Video debate](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/d7938fdd91&ref=opendemocracy.net) between Thomas Piketty and Ryan Bourne of the Institute of Economic Affairs, Channel 4 News.

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ISIS [is on the march in Iraq](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/a38e88f818&ref=opendemocracy.net). We publish a [dispatch from Baghdad](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/63704e54d4&ref=opendemocracy.net) and ask why the **call to arms from** **Ayatollah Sayid Ali Al-Sistani**is [a game changer](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/0cb20bd62e&ref=opendemocracy.net). Paul Rogers argues that US intervention would only [play into their hands](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/e311487724&ref=opendemocracy.net), while in the Kurdistan region life [appears](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/e6e60d9c54&ref=opendemocracy.net) untroubled, for now… amazingly so given the conviction of some that an [independent Kurdistan now must make sense](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/4f8131ddb2/7262321cfa/527a7086b2&ref=opendemocracy.net) for everybody.