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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Golden Dawn is defeated: the damage to democracy is harder to repair
In an historic verdict, an Athens Court convicted Golden Dawn leaders of running a criminal organisation, bringing...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Macron and Islamism
The targeting of Muslim food as a danger to public order was actually the first of the measures outlined in the...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWomen in the Catholic Church: An unresolved issue
“Suddenly we realized that we had our own thoughts, our own voice,” assures Colombian theologian Isabel Corpas de...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?French Muslims are now being called 'separatists'… well that’s a surprise!
To what lengths is the French government, with the complicity of the mainstream media, willing to go in reviving the...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionDon’t queer Kenyans have a right to religion?
We are fed up with being shut out of church.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaSaweto's daughter fights for justice in the Peruvian Amazon
Diana Ríos Rengifo took on the defense of the Peruvian Amazon in the fight against illegal loggers after the murder...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Next year in Jerusalem: the Serbian Embassy and Kosovo go on a pilgrimage with Trump
The Trump administration’s Christmas wishlist for one corner of the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWho’s talking about sex and modern relationships in Arabic?
Sex and relationship conversations in Arabic media are dominated by conservative figures pushing a religious agenda.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionThe philosophy of Orbán’s misguided Christian friends
Eminent conservative Christian intellectuals in the west look to new illiberal regimes for succour. Their...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Electoral glimpse of hope in Montenegro
After ruling the country for almost three decades, Milo Djukanovic no longer offered hope of a better life and...
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Published in: Home: Opinion‘Queer Eye’, Jordan Peterson and the battle for depressed men
Progressives need to learn from the Netflix show’s battles against toxic masculinity. And the Fab Five need to...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionHypocrite Russia promotes childbirth but won't protect pregnant women
The Orthodox Church and conservative officials promote motherhood – but turn a blind eye to women’s rights being...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Spirit or reason? Muslim public intellectuals in the German and European far right
The wide space available for non-white, Muslim-background figures in the European far right is key in helping the...
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Published in: 50.50Meet the Tracking the Backlash team
Say hello to openDemocracy’s special team of editors and reporters investigating threats to the rights of women and...
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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: 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...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: Investigation"They are going to kill me, and I don't want to get killed": social leader of the Colombian Cauca region
democraciaAbierta spoke with Yaneth Mosquera, social leader of the Colombian Cauca, who has dedicated her life to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Of music, mosques and angels
If President Erdoğan wishes to help restore the true spirit of Ayasofiya, he should free Osman Kavala now.
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightRacist occultism in the UK: behind the Order of Nine Angles (O9A)
As racist occultism grows, it is vital to report on and monitor this thinking, and to put a stop to this new dark magic.
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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.