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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisA health check for democracy in Latin America
This year’s election cycle will tell us whether political systems in the region can deal with social tensions made...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThis obscure energy treaty is the greatest threat to the planet you’ve never heard of
The Energy Charter Treaty allows fossil fuel companies to sue governments for taking action on climate change. It...
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Published in: Home: OpinionA century without war is needed to survive environmental threats
Huge military budgets will not protect us from extinction. Nations must redirect spending towards human security and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThis should be Scotland’s rewilding election
Life is draining from our hills and glens. We must use the coming Holyrood election to change course, before it’s too late
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWe're hiring: fellowship focused on the Brazilian Amazon
Apply to be part of openDemocracy's Latin American section and develop an investigative project on the Amazon and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?National risk assessments: a political vaccine against the next disaster?
How do we prevent and prepare for future disasters, natural or man-made? Introducing National Risk Assessments as a...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaEcuador’s pro-mining politics dealt a blow by Indigenous, green movement
In a historic referendum, more than 80% of the electorate in Cuenca, Ecuador’s third-largest city, voted to ban...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionOf course Cumbria’s proposed coal mine is popular locally. The government offers no green alternative
In an area scarred by decades of deindustralisation and reeling from the economic fallout of COVID-19, the...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: Interview‘Barbarism or solidarity’ at stake at Ecuador elections, says indigenous presidential candidate
Yaku Pérez, the leader of indigenous party Pachakutik, is running on a green platform – but can he reach outside of...
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Published in: ourEconomyTo fix the US, President Biden must listen to those who put him in power
An unprecedented grassroots mobilisation removed Donald Trump from the White House. The incoming president would be...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaVenezuela sends oxygen and doctors to the Brazilian Amazon
At the same time, Mexico cedes vaccines to poor countries while the U.S. and Russia refuse to join COVAX.
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismPrecarity, populism, and prospects for a green democratic transformation
The proper Left alternative to the class struggle is subverting capitalism by mobilizing an ever wider and more...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Lead poisoning risks in a Greek refugee camp: environmental racism as a dangerous new normal?
Once-shocking drownings in the Mediterranean have become dangerously normalized. Will environmental racism become...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionEurope in 2021
Portugal assumes the EU presidency at a crucial moment. Amid a fluid scenario and systemic risks, the way Europe...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionRoosevelt’s ‘four freedoms’ weren't just an American idea
On the anniversary of the wartime US President’s era-defining speech, the world must once again be rebuilt – but we...
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismIs Left populism possible?
We need to fight precarity now and to ensure that, in the process, we retain and enhance the best of our...
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismA world to win and a planet to save
Left populism and socialist strategy under Corbyn – how could this prepare us for the Green New Deal? In response to...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionDonald Trump, the scorpion, and the assault on the shining city on the hill
The assault on the Capitol shook American democracy for a few hours. The lesson democracies should learn is: Beware...
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Published in: ourEconomyWhy 2021 is humanity’s make-or-break moment on climate breakdown
COVID-19 and climate change are two sides of the same coin. To overcome both we must confront their root cause: an...
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Published in: 50.50Threats and murder won’t stop South Africa’s environmental activists
Women are at the forefront of anti-mining disputes, fighting powerful corporations and state interests, while trying...