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Published in: openSecurityIncarcerating America
The urge to reform the prison system should be applauded, but alternative forms of confinement are becoming...
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Published in: openSecurityBehind the rise of the private surveillance industry in Central Asia
Multinational companies–including two listed on the NASDAQ–have been quietly providing Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThree signs that privatised rail is unsustainable
Railway privatisation has failed. It's time to put the public in charge.
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Published in: ourNHS"Should there be competition in the NHS?"
OurNHS openDemocracy Editor Caroline Molloy debates with Andrew Haldenby, head of the Reform think tank, in a...
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Published in: openSecurityWhy the murder rate in Honduras is twice as high as anywhere else
Honduras' perfect storm of machismo, repression, corruption and impunity make it the murder capital of the world.
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Published in: ourNHSThe wrong medicine
The overwhelming weight of evidence suggests market-based reforms are bad for healthcare, finds the latest report by...
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Published in: openSecurityThe arrest of Cristian Labbé breathes new life into Chile's human rights struggle
New charges indict one of the most ensconced figures on the Chilean right, and a symbol of the enduring impunity for...
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Published in: openSecurityFailure is success: how American intelligence works in the 21st century
Is repeated failure actually the key to the success and endless expansion of the US intelligence community?
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Published in: ourNHSVote Yes for the NHS - independence is the best chance to protect Scotland's NHS
The NHS has become the burning issue of the Scottish Independence Referendum. OurNHS takes a close look, and finds...
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Published in: openSecurityEbola: between public health and private profit
Known to the international community since 1976, why has the world dragged its feet for decades to find a vaccine...
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Published in: openSecurityQuiet legacies and long shadows: the Obama era of counterterrorism in the Sahel-Sahara
Despite the crumbling facade of its interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, America is preparing for a new century of...
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Published in: openSecurityThe Fourth Branch: the rise of the national security state
Though the US may be finally addressing some of the fictions propping up its security policies, the question...
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Published in: openSecurityA fox whispering in your ear: corporate solutions to climate change
No industry, especially one as powerful as the fossil fuel industry, is going to allow governments or international...
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Published in: ourNHSShould politicians summer reading lists include 'unthinkable' ideas for the NHS?
Corporate think tanks hope their bravely unthinkable suggestions to "fix" (or kill) the NHS are on politicians'...
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Published in: openSecurityCorporate hegemony and the Keystone Pipeline
Environmental management consistently projects an image that the risks of climate change can be managed and the...
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Published in: ourNHSThe only 'parity' for mental health is that it is being cut and privatised as well
Mental health services are amongst the hardest hit by cuts and privatisation. A new Charter suggests how people can...
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Published in: openSecurityThe creation of a border security state
Americans may increasingly wonder whether NSA agents are scouring their meta-data, reading their personal emails,...
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Published in: ourNHSNuffield Trust report exposes Tory lies on Welsh NHS
David Cameron claimed last week that the Welsh border was "the dividing line between life and death". A new Nuffield...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy we should all be alarmed about our new university 'businesses' and their enforcers
As has become clear, the universities are colluding with police and even the unions to clamp down on student protest...
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Published in: ourNHSDon't believe Cameron's hype - the Welsh NHS has much to teach the English
Cameron this week labelled the Welsh NHS 'a scandal', and some Blairites have echoed him. But Wales is 'doing more...