The disproportionate use of violence in peaceful protests in Brazil quickly led to a radicalization of its protests. But who was responsible?
Every time the Gulf States’ rulers justify their support for violent rebels in Syria or the military regime in Egypt by appealing to the unalienable right of peoples to basic rights and representative governance, they legitimize the Arab Spring in the eyes of their own peoples, too.
The new composition of the European Parliament after the elections in 2014 is expected to be rather different. It is estimated that the number of anti-Europeans and Eurosceptics will increase from around 100 to around 200 MEPs in a total of 751 seats, reinforcing the presence of radical parties.
The Eurozone crisis has plunged southern Europeans into poverty and unemployment. It has created irreparable divisions between the north and the south of Europe. No sign of economic and political convergence is in sight. Fear not, TV will save us.
The balance of forces inside Syria and across the region makes current United States strategy perilous.
The whole structure is designed to look like any other building both outside and inside.The goal was to give the client a sense of security without giving them the feeling that they were in a bunker.
There is little systematic evidence to suggest that “ruthlessness” is, in and of itself, a critical variable.
Egyptians must brace themselves for more violence: the proponents of severely curtailed liberties in the name of national security and the advocates of illegal retribution are back with a vengeance.
From the outset Fawaz Ahmed insisted that as a Muslim he (unlike Usman Khawaja) would not wear the team shirt with the sponsor’s logo, that of Victoria Bitter.
A reply to Marco Duranti’s premise as published on openDemocracy, that “The Strasbourg court is anti-democratic, just as its founders intended.”
The Democracy Package will only have a short term effect on Turkish democracy and will be incapable of tackling the main problems in our society.
American drones are shattering Pakistani lives. But behind moral obscenity is political reality, says Maruf Khwaja.
