radical ecology

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Sunny Hundal is openDemocracy’s social media editor.

Digital Liberties

How to fight for digital human rights?

Child safeguarding cloaks state surveillance and data exploitation
Jen Persson
Theresa May’s counter-extremism plan will create an incompetent police state
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
What does ‘mainstream media bias’ mean in a digital age?
Mitchell Labiak
What the Romans did for us: on the age-old art of propaganda
Jemimah Steinfeld
Creatives need to get political. And quick.
Matt Saunders
A new digital trade agenda: are we giving away the Internet?
Burcu Kilic and Renata Avila
First, admit we have a problem
Matthew d’Ancona
The cold intimacy that comes when the TV calls your name
David Beer

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

Technical, geopolitical, or transformative: what future for the Eastern Partnership?
Laure Delcour
'Practical wisdom' and EU integration
Can Büyükbay
Serbia’s choice: EU membership or eastern promises?
Srdja Pavlovic

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

TTIP: we were right all along
Thomas Fazi
TTIP and the right to protect personal data
Keno Franke
What we talk about when we talk about TTIP
Sam Lowe
The great rebranding: how the EU tried to fool us into thinking it has removed ISDS from TTIP
Virginia López Calvo

The struggle for freedom and food sovereignty: a letter of solidarity to the farmers of Syria

Julia Z 24 June 2014

The loss of control over processing agricultural goods, such as turning grains into flour, have made it easier for the regime to punish large regions with starvation, and will in the future make it easier for foreign powers to grab hold of Syria through its dependent state.