The people have finally realised that the troika-imposed austerity is not working in Portugal. In fact, the austerity packages are not working in Ireland (another good pupil of the troika), or in Greece, or Spain, or Italy.
A power-sharing political system already exists, but not the one Farhad Arian envisions. The system proposed is unrealistic, and looking to the 'International Community' to bring it into being is misguided, at best.
Before I worked in Congress, I would have said that advocating for Palestine is the most challenging foreign policy topic on Capitol Hill. But after I worked in the House of Representatives, I realized it is harder to have a rational discussion about Iran.
As Babar Ahmad looks set to face extradition to the US for his alleged involvement with a jihadist propaganda website the eight years he spent in detention testify to a disgraceful manipulation of loopholes in the British legal system.
Since the sovereignty debt crisis ‘Europe’ more often means the Eurozone of 17 nations rather than the European Union of 27 states. Now, this new ‘Europe’ is to receive political representation.
If the bell is tolling for the Liberal Democrats, they built sound-proof walls for this year's party conference. Two reports from inside tell of the marked absence of a debate on leadership, despite Clegg's appalling unpopularity, and a religious cleaving to the creed of coalition.
As Alastair Campbell basks in the celebrity limelight of British public life, the blood of the Iraq war drips from his hands. For this is a man whose war crimes, expertly expurged from the collective imagination, demand prosecution alongside those of Tony Blair.
Reports of anti-African race riots in Tel Aviv in May finally broke western media silence over one of the most contentious issues facing the state of Israel in recent years: the arrival of tens of thousands of asylum-seekers from sub-Saharan Africa.
A novelist, filmmaker and journalist makes his way to the Turkish-Syria border with the help of his Turkish left friends and contacts, to investigate the refugee camps and military camps where he says Syrian and non-Syrian fighters are undergoing training. The locals he meets seem to confirm their
The international focus on Pakistan has affected how knowledge is produced within Pakistan, and who for. Looking ahead, Pakistani research faces a multiplicity of threats, even as non-governmental voices proliferate.
