Peace in Syria depends on a gradual devolution of power and diminished use of violence by non-state actors. It cannot depend on using non-state actors simply as tools for regime change.
Protests against President Dilma Rousseff are a turning point in the breakup between government and citizens in Brazil. The same process is gradually spreading to other Latin American countries. Español. Português.
Las protestas contra Dilma Rousseff marcan un punto de inflexión en la ruptura entre gobernantes y gobernados en Brasil, un proceso que paulatinamente se extiende a otros países latinoamericanos. Português. English.
Os protestos contra Dilma Rousseff marcam um ponto de inflexão na ruptura entre governantes e governados em Brasil, um processo que paulatinamente se estende aos países latino-americanos. Español. English.
To move the conversation from 'charity' to 'justice' we must stress the links between those desperately trying to reach the UK and those already here, desperately trying to survive.
Enter our new Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull. Let's be clear: the right's program will not change now that its leader has.
“You are in the best position to save your country, as was your great enemy in Syria. Is the lesson of his misrule playing no part in your current thinking?”
Fear pushes us to know the social and political determinations of refugees from a right-wing perspective ('are they potential ISIS militants?'). But compassion works by blinding us to it.
These justifications seem to be logically weak: the problem, however, is that they capture the imagination of large masses of people in Europe.
This is not only a European crisis but a global one, and it should be approached as such, involving nations throughout the world in its solution. As it did in the past, Latin America can give a hand. Português. Español.
