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  Published in: Home

  Justifying American exceptionalism: the Commission on Unalienable Rights undermines modern human rights

  Published on: 22 July 2020

  Written by: Kurt Mills All articles by Kurt Mills

  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

  Published on: 22 July 2020

  Written by: Murat Belge All articles by Murat Belge

  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: Pandemic Borders

  Did the COVID-19 pandemic revive nationalism?

  Published on: 22 July 2020

  Written by: Marco Antonsich All articles by Marco Antonsich

  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 Asia

  Erdogan’s private police force: a new blow to Turkish democracy

  Published on: 22 July 2020

  Written by: Serdar San All articles by Serdar San

  The new strengthened neighborhood watchmen can further monitor and suppress Erdogan's political opponents under the...

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  ANTI-SONG

  Published on: 21 July 2020

  Written by: Leonie Rushforth All articles by Leonie Rushforth

  Summer poem from the Splinters collective.

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  Axioms of choice

  Published on: 21 July 2020

  Written by: Christos Tombras All articles by Christos Tombras

  Could it be that the general interpretative framework of the standard model of quantum physics is not falsifiable as...

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  DemocracyWatch: Journalists gagged in the name of COVID

  Published on: 16 July 2020

  Some have died doing their job

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  Published in: Countering the Radical Right

  Infiltrating democracy: non-violent strategies serving violent ideologies

  Published on: 16 July 2020

  Written by: Kristy Campion All articles by Kristy Campion

  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 Asia

  Only one way out: a unitary state with equal rights in Palestine-Israel

  Published on: 16 July 2020

  Written by: Ghada Karmi All articles by Ghada Karmi

  Everyone who values democracy, justice and human decency should assist the Palestinians in achieving this goal.

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  Published in: Can Europe Make It?

  Three searing indictments of France and counting

  Published on: 15 July 2020

  Written by: Chris Myant All articles by Chris Myant

  Bastille Day 2020, with its carefully selected group of health workers, shows who is in and who out.

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  Published in: Can Europe Make It?

  Why 'Mutual Aid'? – social solidarity, not charity

  Published on: 14 July 2020

  Written by: Matthew Whitley All articles by Matthew Whitley

  Peter Kropotkin's most famous work advancing a belief in the depth of our connection to each other is titled 'Mutual...

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  Published in: Can Europe Make It?

  Poland: trouble ahead

  Published on: 14 July 2020

  Written by: Andre Liebich All articles by Andre Liebich

  Of course, it would have been worse for the Law and Justice party if Trzaskwski had won. But PiS is still worried.

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  Published in: Can Europe Make It?

  Post-pandemic university, or post-university?

  Published on: 14 July 2020

  Written by: Joan Pedro-Carañana All articles by Joan Pedro-Carañana

  We need to defend the cooperation that comes only with face-to-face dialogue, or risk the further undermining of...

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  Published in: Can Europe Make It?

  How far is a social distance?

  Published on: 13 July 2020

  Written by: Iain Galbraith All articles by Iain Galbraith

  'If we must "return to normality", let us walk in relation.'

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  Published in: Can Europe Make It?

  National stereotypes in times of COVID-19: the ‘frugal four’ and the ‘irresponsible South’

  Published on: 13 July 2020

  Written by: Luiza Bialasiewicz All articles by Luiza Bialasiewicz

  When EU leaders discuss the coronavirus Recovery Fund at the upcoming meeting of the European Council on Friday,...

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  Published in: Can Europe Make It?

  Twenty-five years after the Srebrenica Genocide

  Published on: 11 July 2020

  Written by: Lara J. Nettelfield All articles by Lara J. Nettelfield

  Accounting for the missing in Bosnia and Herzegovina and beyond, the right to a family, and the right to know.

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  Published in: Can Europe Make It?

  Srebrenica – the obliteration of memory

  Published on: 10 July 2020

  Written by: Ian Bancroft All articles by Ian Bancroft

  It is time to declare July 11 an official day of remembrance of the Srebrenica genocide; a day on which to remember...

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  Published in: Can Europe Make It?

  Citizenship stripping, expulsion and statelessness: counter terrorism measures have gone too far

  Published on: 9 July 2020

  Written by: Laura van Waas All articles by Laura van Waas

  Caught up in ‘legislative fever’ around counter-terrorism, states have too readily instrumentalised nationality...

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  Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery

  The aspirations and vulnerabilities of migrants in Ventimiglia

  Published on: 9 July 2020

  Written by: Silvia Aru All articles by Silvia Aru

  Migration policy can exact a human cost, but it rarely breaks migrants’ will to aspire.

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  Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery

  No way to find home: common stories of Eritreans in Italy and the Netherlands

  Published on: 9 July 2020

  Written by: Milena Belloni All articles by Milena Belloni

  Written by: Aurora Massa All articles by Aurora Massa

  Refugees cannot start a new life if they are not allowed to create homes for themselves.