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Published in: HomeBrazil, protest and the World CupA year of social turbulence preceded Brazil's hosting of football's World Cup, with the competition itself a...
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Published in: openSecurityBrazil: a country of jangled nervesAs the World Cup opens, few Brazilians are heading for the beach to samba: behind the stereotype is a country which...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Whither Europe? The Modest Camp vs the Federalist AusteriansProposals are multiplying – especially as evidence mounts that the crisis is continuing, despite all the official...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaMoroccan political cinema and the Arab Spring: an interview with Hicham LasriI was interested by the electricity in the air, the aggression and the disarray of those in power.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Electoral winners and political losers in the right-wing Eurosceptic campCould the political success of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) in the aftermath of the 2014 European...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaNot the end of the "Arab Spring", is it?Much has happened in the Middle East in the last four years, but in Europe, the development of the state and of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaMob sex attacks and the everyday reality of street children in Egypt
What the revolutionary class are experiencing in Egypt now is only the initiation of what thousands of children on...
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Published in: civilResistanceThe contentious politics of China’s New Citizens MovementDespite their many efforts to stave off greater mobilization inspired by the ideals of the New Citizens Movement,...
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Published in: openEconomyThe economics of anxiety: neoliberalism as obsessional neurosisNeoliberalism is not a monolithic shock doctrine. It is an anxious form of crisis management, which evolves through...
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Published in: HomeBloody mess: why sovereigns fail, and how they get away with itWhen confronted with the question of how much killing is enough the answer is always more (c.f. Blair’s calls for...
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Published in: Home“We had to wait for Snowden for proof”, an exchange with NSA whistleblower William BinneyThe NSA preferred a much more expensive system of bulk collection of foreign data. That was a fatal choice as it...
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Published in: HomeAnxious subjects, political fearsIf it did not sound too eccentric or polemical, then, I would go as far as singing the praises of a politics of...
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Published in: HomeSpectre: I see a red door and I want it painted blackThe attempts to escape the nightmare of Stalinism provoke false fantasy alternatives, of vacuous democratic...
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Published in: HomeSyria, tunnel and exit
The Damascus regime is winning its war for survival; Syria's conflict will continue and even escalate. In the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSyrian conflict transforms security regulations in JordanAs fighters join Al Nusra and ISIL at an alarming rate, the Jordanian government responds with new anti-terrorism measures.
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Published in: HomeSyria on our minds – fear of youth radicalisation across the European UnionCounterterrorist and counter-radicalisation policies not only have the potential to undermine the democratic...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFraud fighters wanted in the Middle East
Egypt is just one of the places in the Arab world where scientific misconduct is tolerated. But the onus is global....
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Published in: HomeAustralia’s one hundred days of truth-tellingOperation Blame the Victims was in full swing again today as Scott Morrison insisted that it was the unarmed men who...
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Published in: HomeBrazil’s economy of violence: the 50-year nooseBrazil is indeed stuck in the past. However, this temporal disjunction is less the outcome of being economically or...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Scapegoating Europe? How discontent with domestic politics determined the EU voteThe success of far-right eurosceptic parties in the latest EU elections has been widely reported, however the...
