What other general website covers the huge Istanbul conference on women and development? Emily Esplen traces gender and care; Cynthia Cockburn burnishes gender and war; Sunlla Abeysekera brilliantly rehearses women’s activism on human rights and Srilatha Batliwala women and economic power.
As Breivik’s trial opens in Oslo we reopen our debate on Utøya. Mariano Aguirre’s considers what it means for Europe and North America, Cas Mudde’s discerns European evasion and we run an exclusive, wonderfully written, opening chapter of a young survivor’s account.
Britain is put to shame by Norway’s commitment to the rule of law as Tim Otty QC’s magnificent, authoritative overview of the UK government’s lies and criminality demonstrates, as it implements ‘secret courts’. And Clare Sambrook exposes the privatization of its police (since followed up by the BBC).
Around the world everyone is wrestling with populism, especially Catherine Fieschi. Ivan Briscoe is outstanding in his dissection of Argentina’s nationalisation of YPF, which is making markets shudder. In the Netherlands, the right gets financial support from American anti-Islamic think-tanks. On anti-Semitism, Antony Lerman takes us ‘back to basics’. Jeffrey Murer explains how the enemy Other constructs the self – a simple story with infinite applications from the individual and community to the international. And Russia witnesses the fearless rise of new hero, Sergei Udaltsov.
So what is going on? Uneconomics continues its unique coverage of how economists don’t know what they are doing. We hope its exposure will change things even if it is too late for Greece. The Syrians are on the wrack, Paul Rogers reports on the “full extent of NATO’s Afghan failure”, Howard Ramos and James Ron detail how Canada is rolling back support for critical thinking and, to end with a whistle in the wind, two American psychologists hope the Occupy movement is renewing America’s vow with the Creed of its Founding Fathers.
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