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Welcome to the memory hole - disappearing Edward Snowden
What if Edward Snowden was made to disappear? Whistleblower Peter Van Buren examines how the control exerted by governments on the internet is a threat to the very notion of human memory, social and...
View ArticleSisi’s men: anticipating the coming regime
The challenge Sisi will face, will be in keeping his outer circle intact, a challenge which will be the main determinant behind his policy-decisions. When Egyptians voted for Morsi, they had quite a...
View ArticleOn western military interventionism
Things are not as clear cut as one would like to believe: like war and peace, black and white, good or evil. As in real life, there are few obvious moral, or immoral solutions. Take Mali.On January 1,...
View ArticleRethinking security: from projecting power to preventing problems
The embrace of corporate partners by science and technology departments and the erosion of distinctions between the military and the police have been at the heart of disturbing security trends in the...
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Russia’s orphan outcasts
Many young Russians brought up in institutional care have ended up homeless because regional authorities are ignoring their responsibility to house them. Georgy Borodyansky reports from Omsk. At the...
View ArticleThe Chilean presidential elections and foreign policy
Chile has been elected as one of the ten non-permanent member of the UN Security Council (2014-2015). What might the future mandate for foreign policy look like under Chile’s new president? This survey...
View ArticleLampedusa deaths: identification and families’ right to know
It is a principle that those who perish or go missing in humanitarian disasters should be identified. This principle should also be applied to migration tragedies, though it is infrequently acted on by...
View ArticleMedia plurality - Schlosberg responds
The final installment of the conversation, here Justin Schlosberg responds to Rob Kenny's article. In response to my brief on media ownership limits, Rob Kenny helpfully moves the discussion forward by...
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Commercialisation and nationalism in Polish football
Could there be a link between the increasing commercialisation of Polish football and the rise in far-right hooliganism?An anti-racism banner is unfurled at a match between Ruch Chorzow and Legia...
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From utopia to dystopia: technology, society and what we can do about it
The superficial post-war dream that technology would solve the world’s social problems has transformed into a nightmare of electronically enabled global surveillance and suppression. Yet with...
View ArticleInside Theresa May's "hostile environment"
The British government feels obliged to make life hell for immigrants arriving in the UK. Another example of how in “Fortress Europe”, cruelty now appears routine.While the British government wants to...
View ArticleA conclusion to dystopia
Bringing in the themes explored in our project “Real Life Dystopias”, guest-editor Yiannis Baboulias examines the nature of the political and financial institutions that produce them globally.“Detroit...
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The Central African Republic facing its R2P moment of truth
The world is responding, albeit slowly, to the human rights crisis in the Central African Republic, showing that – despite all the disputes over Libya and Syria – the ideas underpinning the...
View ArticleAppraising Ethiopia’s Saudi policy
We are full well aware that we should not kid ourselves about the likely short- and long- term costs of severing all bilateral ties. What we are proposing of course is limited in scope and time....
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In Ukraine, free cheese is a mousetrap
Viktor Yanukovych has fled from Europe into the welcoming arms of Mother Russia. But as Valery Kalnysh reports, the cost to Ukraine could be high.After their president Viktor Yanukovych’s talks with...
View ArticleWashington’s wedding album from hell
The US launches drone strikes against groups or individuals whose behavior simply fits a “suspect” category: young men of military age carrying weapons, for instance (in areas where carrying a weapon...
View ArticleMandela and Cuba: another memory hole
Recognition of the role of Cuba in aiding the ANC whilst the western powers backed apartheid is hardly serviceable in maintaining the conventional Cold War narrative. Hence the media's impressive...
View ArticleIran deal: the view from Saudi Arabia
Iran’s adoption of an actively conciliatory foreign policy has set the stage for Iranian-Saudi cooperation and for further developments to take place.The November deal struck between the P5+1 and Iran...
View ArticleIsrael/Palestine: trapped by our own narratives?
This tragic historic clash - the product of centuries of virulent European antisemitism at home and rampant imperialism abroad, crowned by double or, in this case, treble dealings - is the root of the...
View ArticleIndian elections: democracy reaffirmed?
The election results which have just come in have been stunning. BJP won thumping majorities in Madhya Pradesh (165/230), Rajasthan (162/199) and a comfortable majority in Chhattisgarh (49/90).Over the...
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