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Published in: Pandemic BordersCOVID-19 in Southeast Asia: non-citizens have a right to protection too
Arbitrary differentiation between citizen and non-citizen is causing migrants to suffer the worst of the pandemic.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Is totalitarianism on the rise in the East?
We should distinguish between Orban’s rightfully penalized measures of ruling by decree and less stringent...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionSome people eat wild animals. Don't blame them for the pandemic
Speculation, half-truths, deliberate misrepresentations, Western prejudices, and the specter of ecofascism could...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Covid-19 and agriculture: the coming contradictory hunger pandemic
To conceptualize agriculture as a way of catering to the needs of the many, while protecting what is left of nature,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?COVID-19 and the bankruptcy of neoliberalism in the context of Global Shift
The coronavirus crisis could be the “opportunity of the century” for China to cement its place as the world’s global...
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Published in: 50.50If I sit back and do nothing, my family won’t survive
I invested all my savings in a tourist shop and café that was due to open in April. Now I deliver desserts to feed...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionCOVID-19 poses an existential threat to human rights activists worldwide
Authorities are using the pandemic as an excuse to increase repression, revoke rights and attack gender justice....
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Covid19: a checkmate of the West?
This is a radical challenge. The West is certainly going to lose if its politicians, academics and civil servants...
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Published in: ourEconomyA spectre is haunting the West – the spectre of authoritarian capitalism
From coronavirus to climate change, China is surging ahead of the US and its allies. Are we witnessing the slow...
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Published in: Home: OpinionWhy coronavirus hasn’t stopped Hong Kong’s protest movement
Governments are seizing the opportunity to grab power amid the crisis. Hong Kong offers a model for resistance.
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Published in: ourEconomyWill Zimbabwe’s diamonds be forever? A glimpse into a nation’s resource rich curse
Murky deals with Russian and Chinese firms mean super-exploitation in Zimbabwe's communities and super-profits for...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWe need to ramp up global public spending to fight COVID-19
The pandemic has shown us that global solidarity is not a nice idea – it is a necessity.
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Published in: 50.50Alarm as 2 billion people have parliaments shut or limited by COVID-19
Democracy groups warn of 'significant risks' to rights around the world as a growing number of parliaments shut down...
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Published in: Home: OpinionShaping a new social contract through the pandemic
The actions of governments, business, investors and civil society in response to COVID-19 will shape our futures.
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Published in: HomeThe impact of COVID-19 is all down to inequality
Coronavirus must change the neoliberal rationale, and rescue the social contract between the welfare state and the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The surveillance industry won’t save us from crises
Turning to the security industry isn’t the solution: it’s a symptom of the problem.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?COVID-19: on the epistemic condition
Indigenous cosmologies have always argued that we must treat the world as an interconnected, living organism with...
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Published in: HomeSign up to our coronavirus DemocracyWatch newsletter
Regimes around the world are rushing through anti-democratic measures. Sign up to our newsletter to follow the crackdown.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWhat does the coronavirus tell us about the West’s image of Asia – and itself?
In a time of pandemic and radical uncertainty, we face tests of individualism, governance, globalised capitalism,...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe US-China coronavirus feud leaves us all worse off
As tensions rise between China and the US, workers on both sides will be the ultimate losers.