Behind Google and Verizon lies a much more complex landscape of American companies ready to do global business selling surveillance technologies - and stay apathetic to the consequences.
Politicians and the press are locked in a cycle of increasing anti-immigrant rhetoric, presented as 'uncomfortable truth'. Yet the problem is not immigration but socio-economic inequality. Poverty and exclusion are faced by working class people of all backgrounds.
Twenty years in twenty photographs. See the introduction here in part 1.
Are there any Israelis and Palestinians who still believe in peace between them? Yes, there are, but they are implementing a different “process”. The following stories are of coexistence.
Has ‘multilevel governance’ replaced the nation state or European confederation, creating the precondition for a multilevel citizenship? Or is this just a name we give to the empty place left by the demise of the nation state?
No money or goods exchanged, just take what you want.
Sovereignty matters, but so does preventing mass atrocity. A doctrine like the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) permits us to override inertia and inaction to alleviate mass suffering, although in Syria we haven’t yet seen an effective plan for doing so. A response to the openGlobalRights debate on
האם זכויות אדם יכולות לפרוץ מעבר לגבולות האינטרס הלאומי? תגובה לג'סיקה מונטל ואיאן לוסטיק
Today, social responses to peoples' needs are being pushed to the margin by the reframing of all tasks in terms of economic gain. But the development of human capabilities depends on relationships. A different set of values is needed.
Can human rights break past the self-interest of nationalism? A contribution to the openGlobalRights debates on Emerging Powers and Human Rights and Human rights: mass or elite movement? עברית.
