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Published in: ourEconomyOur hour with Michael Brooks
This week the US and international left lost a vital voice.
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationMexico's Tragic Chain: 133 journalists' lives lost
The following article features 10 obituaries of journalists killed in Mexico in 2019. They are some of the 133...
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Published in: HomeJustifying American exceptionalism: the Commission on Unalienable Rights undermines modern human rights
The problem is that the commission has provided a pseudointellectual justification for Trump’s America First...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Turkey’s presidential dictatorship
Re-converting Ayasofya takes a major symbolic step towards the President’s ideal goal of an Islamised one-party state.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationWhere are the black, female and working class people at the government press conferences?
Those most affected by the COVID-19 crisis have been woefully under-represented at the daily briefings, and it's...
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Published in: Pandemic BordersDid the COVID-19 pandemic revive nationalism?
It only took a sub-microscopic pathogen to confirm that, when a crisis strikes, it is the national framework that...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaErdogan’s private police force: a new blow to Turkish democracy
The new strengthened neighborhood watchmen can further monitor and suppress Erdogan's political opponents under the...
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Published in: HomeIn Amazonia, libraries are being set alight
The death of elders leads to irreplaceable loss of knowledge in the Amazon. Indigenous lives – and heritage – matter.
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationJournalism in Mexico: Report for a living, get killed for reporting
Since 2000, 133 journalists have been murdered in Mexico. 10 of them in 2019. Meanwhile, impunity wins in 99% of cases.
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Published in: openIndiaIndia: from populist nationalism to popular constitutionalism
A visit to Shaheen Bagh, in south east Delhi, reveals the surprising emergence of new shades of citizenship.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?‘Must say’ and ‘must not say’ words for the French President
A short guide on how to translate what is said to discover how power is imposing control in France.
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Published in: Global ExtremesBack to the future of multi-ethnic Britain
The route towards an anti-racist, inclusive Britain exists, but who is willing to take it?
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Published in: ourEconomyCOVID-19 and the garment industry’s invisible hands
The pandemic has unveiled an opaque global supply chain that is propped up by exploited labour and a quagmire of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Elections in North Macedonia: waiting for a kingmaker
How do we explain the performances of the political parties? What should one expect?
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionHow a Tory MP might reveal British spies’ failure to raise the alarm over COVID
Julian Lewis gave Boris Johnson a headache this week – he could do the same to intelligence chiefs with an early...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe clash of capitalisms?
We're constantly told that state capitalism is back. But these narratives are far from innocent.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe looming genocide against the Kurds: history should not repeat itself
Turkey’s military operations are part of an extermination policy against the Kurdish populations.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionIt started as £1. Now it’s £1 million. Where’s the mandate for letting Palantir into our NHS?
Big Tech firms are getting their feet further under the NHS's table, with very little accountability.
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightInfiltrating democracy: non-violent strategies serving violent ideologies
We must not overlook the non-violent strategies serving the hostile ideologies of the far right.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaOnly one way out: a unitary state with equal rights in Palestine-Israel
Everyone who values democracy, justice and human decency should assist the Palestinians in achieving this goal.