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Britain’s Investigatory Powers Bill: a gift to securocrats everywhere

Given the real and present dangers, surely governments should use any and all means to protect their citizens? Right? Wrong.

By Jane Duncan

/ 25 Apr 2016

Shifty antisemitism wars

Convened by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), the Global Forum for Combatting Antisemitism has become a strategizing opportunity on how best to thwart a growing BDS campaign.

By Ben White

/ 22 Apr 2016

Processos políticos no Brasil: ¿marginais ou centrais?

By TalkReal

/ 15 Apr 2016

Political processes in Brazil: marginal or central?

By TalkReal

/ 15 Apr 2016

Response to Thomas Fazi's critique of DiEM25

A large digital assembly, properly set up, would reasonably conclude that the mechanisms of global capitalism need to be regulated, redistributing wealth from those few to the rest of us. Deutsch.

By Carlo von Loesch

/ 13 Apr 2016

The Independent. In the end, it wasn't. What next?

James Cusick, former political correspondent for The Independent, spent five months investigating why other newspapers had shut down a story about Culture Minister John Whittingdale, only to see his investigation down too. This is his personal view of the Whittingdale scandal and cover up by the p

By James Cusick

/ 10 Apr 2016

The real Whittingdale scandal: a cover up by the UK press

I spent five months with another senior journalist at the Independent newspaper investigating why other papers had shut down a story about the culture minister, only to see my editor shut the investigation down too. Here is the anatomy of a press cover-up.

By James Cusick

/ 10 Apr 2016

« Nuit Debout » : citizens are back in the squares in Paris

What distinguishes a social movement from any other kind of mobilization is the fact that it does not focus on a specific claim (such as labour reform) but challenges some of the core values of a society. Français Español Português

By Geoffrey Pleyers

/ 8 Apr 2016

The other of the others am I: risk and alterity in the Brussels attacks

An excess of security may not only increase paranoia, but can also make the ‘otherness’ much harder. Português, Nederlands, Español

By Lucas Melgaço

/ 26 Mar 2016

The ‘SYRIZA experience’: lessons and adaptations

SYRIZA did what the traditional way of doing politics dictates: supported social movements, built alliances, won a majority in the parliament, formed a government. We all know the results.

By Andreas Karitzis

/ 17 Mar 2016

Conscience in the datasphere

Hobbes’s bargain appears to be unravelling. In truth, we don’t know who is supposed to protect us from whom.

By Stephen Humphreys

/ 14 Mar 2016

The tragedy of Cologne and its aftermath – the depletion of civility

This is a vicious circle of harassment, animosity, and aggressive and uncivilized behavior that seriously undermines the resource which is crucial for successful integration.

By Petra Gümplová

/ 10 Mar 2016