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Published in: democraciaAbiertaOperation Condor: A transnational criminal conspiracy, uncovered
The recent guilty verdict for the criminal pact between Latin American dictatorships in the 70's reminds us that the...
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Published in: HomeUnravelling the human cost of global drug policy
Why has drug prohibition had so many negative effects on communities and human rights? What changes are needed?...
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Published in: Home9 things we’ve learned from a 50-year war on drugs
Across the Americas, the model of prohibition has fuelled inequality, bloodshed, and the mass violation of human...
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Published in: HomeTrump & the real need to “figure out what is going on”
Trump said he wanted to bar Muslims from entering the country "until our country's representatives can figure out...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBetween Trump and Baghdadi
Backwards looking politics is a malaise affecting both the west and east. It breeds violence as global elites...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTrump and Islamophobia: discrimination fuels terror
For Trump’s supporters, what they believe to be the ‘truth’ is a matter of no small significance. Now, and as a...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWorld poverty: the misconceptions of the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Poverty is not an individual problem of lack of resources that can be solved through education. The problem is the...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe Continuing Tragedy of Columbus Day
The celebration of Columbus Day is not acceptable. The colonization brought with it an immense tragedy that it is...
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Published in: HomeBob Dylan: revolution in the head, revisited
The most influential and original musician of the 1960s generation remains a figure of protean creativity half a...
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Published in: openSecurityFrom Tottenham to Baltimore, policing crisis starts race to the bottom for justice
What is it about the police and urban black populations in the US and the UK? The explanation starts with two of the...
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Published in: openSecurityObama, Netanyahu, Iran, Congress and the Republican Party
An intense political battle is going on over Iran on Capitol Hill. Insular Republicans underestimate at their peril...
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Published in: openSecurityCIA torture programme cast a wide net
The CIA’s ‘deep interrogation’ and the Guantánamo detention camp came to symbolise the US ‘war on terror’. Yet it...
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Published in: 50.50A choir of lost voices: the murder of Loretta Saunders and Canada's missing women
The murder of Loretta Saunders, a young scholar who researched missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada,...
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Published in: openSecuritySecret prisons, disappearances and torture
In a ruling described by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch as “landmark”, the European Court of Human...
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Published in: 50.50Women in journalism: not a trivial subject
The biggest newspapers in the United States, Britain and Europe still reserve pages of the most serious political...
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Published in: HomeGlobe-trotting universities serve diplomacy and markets, not democracy
American liberal arts colleges are embracing collaborations with authoritarian regimes worldwide, with implications...
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Published in: HomeAn open letter to whites
From the morning of July 14: An open letter to whites about the black community and the Trayvon Martin case.
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Published in: 50.50US immigration bill: silence on the deportation of children
Unaccompanied minors best illustrate the need and mechanisms for true comprehensive immigration reform yet the...
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Published in: HomeThe radical right's final solution
The risk of violence coming from the radical right in the US is high, and increasing. But it is only the logical...
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Published in: oDRThe fable of the eagle, the dragon and the bear
How will Russia react to China’s rapid ascent as a global power? Will it develop its eastern links to spite the...