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Published in: oDR: Feature‘You can’t do anything useful in jail,’ says leading Russian street artistTimofey Radya talks to openDemocracy about anti-war resistance in the streets and his love for his country
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InterviewPrison has not discouraged Cuba’s leading dissidentThe human rights activist José Daniel Ferrer says recent protests have left the regime on the back foot.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt's political system is a pressure cooker: it will explodeEgypt will at some point explode in everyone's faces. The question is when, how and most of all, at what cost. How...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt: do you really want to counter terrorism?Is the failure intentional or a result of general incompetence? Because of repression or Islamic ideology? This...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt’s predictable tragedy: more instability, attacks to comeConflict and political radicalization are the lifeblood of a regime unable to wean itself off the exploitation of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow communication technology became a tool of repression: the case of the UAEWith the help of international ‘cyber security dealers’, the internet has been transformed into a central component...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe regional implications of the fall of AleppoThe lesson Arab autocrats are likely to learn from Syria is simple: under the current international climate the use...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBahrain’s uprising: resistance and repression in the GulfA review of an interdisciplinary book exploring both the contemporary uprising and Bahrain’s lengthy history of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaArab dictators: between tactical brilliance and strategic stupidityThe Arab World is becoming increasingly unstable and the current elites are using severe coercion to remain in...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAssad's secular sectarianismA historic overview of the manipulation of sect and religion by a Syrian elite only concerned with survival.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTurkey’s local elections, Erdoğan and the spectre of GeziPeople in Turkey are being forced to see the world as a zero-sum game between Berkin and Burakcan, to embrace one...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project: Christian Parenti on American Incarceration
In this excerpt from his interview for The Exile Nation Project, Parenti describes what has changed in the twelve...
