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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaUS and Iran both need a new dealBreaking the current impasse requires an interim gesture by the US which provides Iran with the incentive it needs...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionBread, Roses and Broadband too?Publicly owned fibre networks don’t just mean free WiFi. From energy grids to smart transport, they will be the...
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Published in: 50.50US isolated at ‘failed’ anti-abortion summit in NairobiConservative protests against global development conference in Kenya fail to draw crowds, or derail commitments.
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe world’s most powerful gunship cannot win the war in AfghanistanThe US responded to the Iraqi insurgency with punishment raids. It didn’t work, but today’s commanders don’t seem to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The 1989 revolutions and the Peace Movement“We saw ourselves as an anti-Cold War movement and not just an anti-nuclear movement. We wanted to end the division...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The fragile lightness of freedom: the Berlin Wall, thirty years onWhat the fall of the Wall and the last thirty years should have taught us is that without freedom there is no...
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Published in: Home: OpinionAmerica 2020: an interim report from the slough of anxietyA detailed briefing that gives pessimists and optimists alike a lot to think about.
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Published in: ourEconomyourVoices Episode 1: Whose data? Our data!In the first episode of ourVoices we explore the rise of big tech, and imagine a future where our data is used to...
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Published in: openIndia: OpinionA fine day out in Houston with Trump and ModiSelf-interest multiplied by mutual admiration made for a triumphal rally when the US president and India’s prime...
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Published in: 50.50American-led ‘pro-family’ summit in Ghana condemned for ‘shocking’ white supremacist, Islamophobic linksThe World Congress of Families, hosting an Accra ‘family and development’ event, has European allies who have called...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaArms sales are about profit and politics, not ethicsWe must expose where public dollars are really being spent and boycott or divest from the enterprises that profit...
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Published in: ourEconomyHow Bernie Sanders plans to bring economic democracy to the United StatesBernie Sanders' "Corporate Accountability and Democracy" plan will comprehensively rebalance the power between...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe could do more to stop the Turkish invasion of Rojava, but states fear a democratic revolutionAn interview with Ercan Ayboga on Turkey’s attack, Rojava’s direct democracy, and the international reaction.
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