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Published in: ourNHS: InvestigationSerco and Sitel to get more public money despite track-and-trace fiasco
A third of the workforce are to lose their jobs and fewer than half of contacts reached, but outsourcing giants will...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaPan American Health Organization in intensive care
Will the continent's highest health authority suspend its operations? Or will it be forced to reduce them...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe capitalist roots of Egyptian authoritarianism: demystifying a state
The Egyptian state, did not evolve organically, an elite superimposed it, in order to fulfill dynastic ambitions.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Dangerous thoughtlessness of a coronavirus political cartoon
A cartoon associating mask orders with the Holocaust bears the hallmarks of shallow ‘culture war’ thinking.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Responsibility of the Swedish left for Sweden’s COVID-19 tragedy
Why have the Swedish authorities not taken more vigorous steps to slow the spread of a virus that has taken such an...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Chronicles of culturological quackery
The concept of culture as a 'driver of societies' that has become the lucky charm of nationalists, has its origins...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWe are doomed if, in the post-Covid-19 world, we cannot abandon non-essentials
Instead of growth and profit-seeking, a new economy needs concepts from Gandhi, Marx, the Zapatistas and the Kurdish...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationRevealed: Travel agent staff running COVID-19 track and trace
Customer service centre staff at Hays Travel have been working on Serco's heavily criticised track and trace...
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Published in: ourEconomyZimbabwe's new gold rush
Amid COVID restrictions, families, youths and women are flooding into the sector. Policy interventions are needed to...
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Published in: Home: OpinionI saw from the inside how Labour staff worked to prevent a Labour government
The work of senior Labour staffers to stop Labour winning is only just starting to come out.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLebanon’s deadly blast: when corruption turned into carnage
Since the massive explosion, the state has been absent, leaving people to fend for themselves – while leaders seem...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations‘A corruption of Conservatism’: how a cartel of Tory MPs broke British politics
In an extract from his new book, Peter Geoghegan shows how the European Research Group became a tightly organised...
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Published in: ourNHS: OpinionUndermining public law is no way to protect public health
Safeguards on everything from procurement to notifiable diseases, health inspections to freedom of information, are...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIran: how to kill a language
Zara Mohammadi was sentenced to 10 years in prison for teaching Kurdish. This is part of a state policy against minorities.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaTuberculosis and malnutrition, the pandemic of Venezuelan prisons
Venezuelan inmates are affected by diseases that threaten their lives due to lack of medical care, overcrowding, and...
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Published in: 50.50Apply for a 2020 US investigative journalism fellowship
Join our Tracking the Backlash project for six months and sharpen your investigative journalism skills. Deadline: 21...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaPetrobras alone cannot support the Amazon Fund. It needs other donors
Without Norway and Germany, Petrobras stands as the only collaborator, responsible for only 1% of contributions.
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Published in: ourEconomyPodcast: US election special #3 – the housing crisis (part 1)
In the third installment of our podcast series on the US election, we explore the history of discrimination and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWe mustn’t let Silicon Valley thinking infect our NHS
Secretive COVID contracts show how big data firms are taking over our healthcare. What are they – and the British...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The defeat of the 'real' neo-Ottomanists
It was difficult to miss the irony of commentaries on the “triumph of neo-Ottomanism” on 24 July, when Erdoğan was...