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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Foxes in the hen house: COP21 fuelled by four of Europe's worst drivers
Some of Europe's worst contributors to climate change are sponsoring COP21. Let’s bring power back to the people....
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Published in: ourBeebAfter Paris: live news should challenge narratives, not recreate them
After the Paris attacks there is a desperate desire on the part of major news organizations to create and drive the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCharlie Hebdo and western denial
The recent attacks in Paris were the latest round in a conflict of violence, not of “values”. The primary...
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Published in: HomeSix (possibly) civilising uses of incivility
Civilisation depends on some incivility, carefully applied. It depends also on civility, liberally applied
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Published in: openSecurityCharlie Hebdo: how journalism needs to respond to this unconscionable attack
The killings at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo highlight the threat to media workers in a world where free...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The 2015 UN conference on climate change: towards a new EU failure?
Will the 2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris be another conference of big...
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Published in: HomeUn autre imbecile, eating
In a rainy Paris our Sunday Comics author finds riches that more than compensate for a failed business meeting
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Published in: openSecurityMonuments to resistance
With the rise and repression of popular political protest on the streets of southern Europe, new monuments to...
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Published in: openSecurityThe return of the state to the Parisian banlieue
Eight years since the 2005 Parisian riots and French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault announces a ‘return of the...
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Published in: 50.50A French debate on prostitution
Back from Paris where she has been interviewing prostitutes, politicians, police, and feminists who argue both for...
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Published in: openSecurityLibyan rebels encircle Sirte as Gaddafi son presses for resistance
Libyan rebel forces encircle Sirte, as Saif al-Islam Gaddafi presses for resistance. South Korea appoints Yu Woo lk...
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Published in: HomeWho killed the poet?
Bardo and Ophelia at the triumphal arch: will the censored verses of Hamlet reveal to us who killed the poet? An...
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Published in: Home20, 2000 and 2: the three shadows of Facebook
The eternal campus of the global middle class; the solution to the injunction to love ones fellow; a riskless...
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Published in: HomeReligious secularity
Is there a difference between secularity and secularism? Are they both essentially Christian, or essentially...
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Published in: openSecurityFrance approves sale of high-tech warship to Russia
International concern about sale of French amphibious warship to Russia. US aims for new sanctions on Iran “within...