Intelligence experts tend to agree that it is better to decentralize intelligence bodies, so that no one agency has access to too much power. Has the US taken this too far?
Public protests are mounting in Armenia over economic and political issues. But where is the Armenian opposition in all this?
In this 2007 piece, written for War Resisters’ International, Howard Clark explains why pacifists are required to develop nonviolent alternatives to organised violence. Nonviolence does not offer a ‘quick fix’, but it can set processes of fundamental change in motion.
In this 2012 essay, originally written for War Resisters’ International, Howard Clark reflects on the relationship between nonviolent strategy and dealing with fear. Social movements require solidarity and a spirit of learning in order to channel their defiance.
Last week the Italian precariat took a step beyond primitive rebellion and began to constitute itself as a politics. As its arguments take shape those involved must work to engage with communities outside of the activist world.
Are we entering the ‘bear hug’ phase in the political and economic Spanish elites’ strategy to beat Podemos, or have they begun to realise that Podemos could win?
National competences are not something one can waive away with a magic wand and reassign to international institutions. Limited sovereignty all round is the road we must travel.
It is now the US shift in institutional power that is threatening the process and undermining the President’s efforts.
The Catalanists’ democratic credentials are shoehorned into a one-size-fits-all horror story of minority nationalism that allows non-violent Catalans to be condemned in carelessly violent language.
The inaugural Global Day of Action for the Right to Health hints at a powerful idea: a global people’s movement for the right to health. In strategizing the health campaigns of the future, we must return to the work of the economist Albert Hirschman.
