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# Old love, new states - The Week in 1 Minute: June 9 – 15 on openDemocracy
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/old-love-new-states-week-in-1-minute-june-9-15-on-opendemocracy/
- Published: 2014-06-14T23:06:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-23T01:40:35.000Z
- Description: The week opens alongside the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict in London, with an exhortation to listen to women on the frontline. 50.50 listens to Syrian women refugeesfleeing rape; reports uproar in India at gang rape; calls for an end to the violence of detention of asylum seeker
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: The Week in 1 Minute, #Migrated, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 17:46, #appended-excerpt

*OurKingdom* chips in with [a challenge to Angelina Jolie](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/e36d00aa53&ref=opendemocracy.net) to **meet rape survivors in a UK detention centre**. Here, [the latest tranche of the Kilburn Manifesto](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/26a26d5d09&ref=opendemocracy.net) is eager to change the terms of the debate on the economy, release the [grip of the Treasury](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/b83c645280&ref=opendemocracy.net), and can only marvel at an [‘inclusive capitalism’](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/cf83801b03&ref=opendemocracy.net) to which we are not invited.  
  
We also monitor [racism in Northern Ireland](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/a013440f9d&ref=opendemocracy.net); ask what’s [best for Scotland](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/53b1c6eb03&ref=opendemocracy.net); eavesdrop on a discussion [on independence and global poverty](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/66d302f805&ref=opendemocracy.net) in Edinburgh, and suggest that understanding UKIP means [acknowledging UK nationalism](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/51abca72f1&ref=opendemocracy.net). Anthony Barnett points out that the British Constitution is now [‘something that GCHQ makes up as it goes along’](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/8d7c3ca6e1&ref=opendemocracy.net) and says, **let’s have our rights, not Magna Bollocks!**  
  
We have more straight talking on [slavery and trafficking](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/437bf53d61&ref=opendemocracy.net), and [the Arab spring which isn’t over yet](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/09579d39f1&ref=opendemocracy.net). Making waves this week apart from the [World Cup](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/e8bb2e92bd&ref=opendemocracy.net), are: the [New Citizens Movement](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/531a2ecb3a&ref=opendemocracy.net) in China;[Podemos](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/fe6a0b45f2&ref=opendemocracy.net) in Spain, with [some interesting demographics](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/08ce63dad9&ref=opendemocracy.net); a [human chain](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/3f97df31b2&ref=opendemocracy.net) in the Basque Country; and [Öcalan’s call](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/d76ce5d2c6&ref=opendemocracy.net) for **a new kind of political Islam**. But everyone sits up as [ISIL cuts a swathe](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/8473178a0c&ref=opendemocracy.net) through Iraq and Syria.  
  
We look at [Maliki’s incompetence](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/63979c164e&ref=opendemocracy.net), [hear from Baghdad](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/af1f51ff28&ref=opendemocracy.net), and [remember Tony Blair’s record](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/38d9e431ed&ref=opendemocracy.net), as [Paul Rogers explains](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/cc82a5d463&ref=opendemocracy.net) **why any western intervention would play into the insurgency’s hands** and Hazem Sagieh finds that [Lebanon is relatively stable](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/d2de052284&ref=opendemocracy.net).  
  
We look closely at [migrant domestic work in Lebanon](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/9852812367&ref=opendemocracy.net); the [impact of Libyan asylum seekers](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/5c48eee36f&ref=opendemocracy.net) on Italy; sex attacks on [street children in Egypt](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/28fda557d4&ref=opendemocracy.net) and the [media treatment of women](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/4b992493d0&ref=opendemocracy.net); and ponder an Arab world [between liberal imperialism and oppression](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/8a450cc956&ref=opendemocracy.net). Meanwhile, there’s nothing but questions on Europe: [Who should run it?](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/0d4c1b9252&ref=opendemocracy.net) [How and why to reframe it?](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/1b059d70ca&ref=opendemocracy.net) Who are the [Eurosceptic winners and losers?](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/6b232303c2&ref=opendemocracy.net) [Whither Europe?](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/fa89ffe3a6&ref=opendemocracy.net) ask the economists.  
  
*Transformation* visits a [New Economy conference](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/ae72cc15b6&ref=opendemocracy.net) in the USA, and [exposes](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/952e137ffe&ref=opendemocracy.net) **the myth of trickle down economics** as it brings its liberation theme to a close with [a woman glad to have been a man](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/8aa219ed69&ref=opendemocracy.net), and Hollywood’s [problem with minorities](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/8a18ffca37&ref=opendemocracy.net).  
  
While eyes have been on Ukraine’s [blackmail system](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/2869c5e938&ref=opendemocracy.net) and [Russian propaganda](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/98a5276ecb&ref=opendemocracy.net)*, oDR* has been following the [galloping militarization of Eurasia](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/a5dc22c40a&ref=opendemocracy.net), [Crimea and Nagorno-Karabakh](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/3f3107be1f&ref=opendemocracy.net), [Transnistria](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/cbf4953dd5&ref=opendemocracy.net), asking [who is Igor Strelkov?](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/88520c829b&ref=opendemocracy.net) and contributing to **oD’s coverage of the** [**Open City Docs Fest**](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/6b1ef1151c&ref=opendemocracy.net) with a review of *Children404* on [Russia’s invisible youth](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/d0f2b0c37b&ref=opendemocracy.net).  
  
The [London film festival](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/48200e094f&ref=opendemocracy.net) starts this week, films including [*Master of the Universe*](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/bd606d5165&ref=opendemocracy.net), [*Judgment in Hungary*](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/d35e0180ac&ref=opendemocracy.net), [*Cairo Drive*](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/1223f99291&ref=opendemocracy.net), [*In the Shadow of War*](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/ca3355e54a&ref=opendemocracy.net), and the [*Stream of Love*](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/fde53ebd17&ref=opendemocracy.net)*.*   
  
  
**Links not to miss:**

- [Todd Gitlin in the Guardian: Where are the Occupy protesters now](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/1c0cec7395&ref=opendemocracy.net)
- [How bad neuroscience reinforces racist drug policy](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/ea904f4149&ref=opendemocracy.net)
- [Jon Naughton on big data, in the Observer](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/f7e262adb8/CMP=fb%5Fgu&ref=opendemocracy.net)
- And for your amusement: [Women ignoring men, as art](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/8e21d70de7&ref=opendemocracy.net)
  
  
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The week opens alongside the **Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict** in London, with [an exhortation](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/f71ec69b6f&ref=opendemocracy.net) to listen to women on the frontline. *50.50* [listens to Syrian women refugees](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/162f71f531&ref=opendemocracy.net)fleeing rape; reports uproar in [India at gang rape](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/75490ff0f8&ref=opendemocracy.net); calls for an end to the [violence of detention](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/a690fb7231&ref=opendemocracy.net) of asylum seekers; suggests we reclaim of [the notion of ‘victim of a system’](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/2e2a9fbbf9&ref=opendemocracy.net); and remembers the remarkable career of [Northern Ireland peacemaker](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/ebe52fa644/7262321cfa/883a4ab72b&ref=opendemocracy.net), **Inez McCormack**.