Mass surveillance has to end, on June 7th we're having a day of action to consider how we can make that happen. Let's face it, the government has no intention of rolling back surveillance unless the public make them.
What is being done around the world to mark the first anniversary of the Snowden leak.
Current rules give smaller parties like the Greens and National Health Action Party little chance to break through - could a few small changes breathe fresh air into Britain's failing political system?
In Newark, New Jersey, inquiries into an applicant’s criminal history are delayed until a conditional offer of employment is made.
Do detention companies deliberately escalate tensions so they can extract more money from governments? Bart Denaro, Antony Loewenstein, Ramesh Fernandez and Brynn O'Brien shine a light on a thriving trade in human misery.
What are we meant to conclude from the ‘rise of the far-right’? The narrative tells us that being objective, moderate and ‘technical’ rather than factionalist is what is needed in ‘times of anxiety’.
Asylum seekers arriving in the UK are dispersed to make their own way to major cities in remote regions to be interviewed by the Home Office. Most arrive disorientated and harassed before a long interview that will determine their future. Acts of hospitality are lifelines in this hostile system.
It is time to stop name calling and try to reach a better understanding of people's attitudes to belonging, home, territory and migration.
Cedant arma togae (Let arms yield to the toga!) is written in the epigraph to the Project. It took nearly three centuries to materialize, and in June 1979, the first European Parliament elected directly by the citizens was implemented.
Thomas Picketty's work shows us that growth is not the solution to the world's problems, and is further confirmation that the system is broken.
Regardless of the regime's record of arbitrary arrest and torture, the UK Home Office is pursuing the deportation of a 19 year old democracy protestor back to the Kingdom of Bahrain.
