The invisible world of software backdoors and bounty hunters
Concerns about data security go way beyond Snowden's revelations about the NSA. It’s increasingly clear that the online world is, for both government surveillance types and corporate sellers, a new...
View ArticleSyria, a vital proposal
The Geneva conference offers little hope of a breakthrough to halt Syria's nightmare. This makes a different approach all the more urgent. The first round of the Geneva II talks on Syria ended with no...
View ArticleEurope, the EU and European identity
European identity was the negative construct of a Europe torn apart by world war. It was a negative outcome of an attempt to forge a European identity in the Cold War, squeezed, as Europe was, by the...
View ArticleIn Egypt, every voice is to be silenced
The battle in Egypt is now no longer about an ousted elected president or a counter-revolution taking place. As if this were not enough, it is about fundamental human rights being violated publically...
View ArticleAfter Rana Plaza
Why were NGOs left to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of the Rana Plaza factory collapse?A decade ago, it would have been extremely hard to find an NGO in Bangladesh working to support the...
View ArticleTurkey’s nightmarish adventures in censorship and surveillance on the internet
As the mayoral elections are around the corner, authoritarian surveillance and the censorship of political content is increasing on a frighteningly exponential scale.In the year 2011, Bulent Arinc, the...
View ArticleThe battle for Britain and why Alex Salmond and Independence has already won
Even if the vote is a No, independence is now a firm and plausible option which won't go away.This year is witnessing several battles for Britain – of numerous anniversaries of past military triumphs,...
View ArticleThe Syrian revolution - a view from above
Many factors contributed to the revolutionary framework, however, all the players were striving for power. The one aspect, uniting all the Syrian people, which is constantly rejuvenated, is the organic...
View ArticleThe perils and pitfalls of patriotic history
War is said to be too serious a business to be left to the soldiers. By the same token, military history is too serious to be left to the politicians. When politicians pontificate about the past it is...
View ArticleOn (not) telling the Scots what to do
To be free of Westminster's distant and venal elite is something the English should support - if the Scots can manage it, perhaps one day England might too."So to everyone in England, Wales and...
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Making everything our business: the social legacy of Rudolf Steiner
Is it possible for everyone to participate in everything, transforming themselves and society in the process? Rudolf Steiner said ‘yes,’ and his ideas are just as relevant today.Rudolf Steiner. Credit:...
View ArticlePakistan: prospects poor for Taliban talks
The announcement of talks between Islamabad and representatives of the Pakistan Taliban surprised many. Few will however be surprised if they fail.Talks between the Pakistani government and the Tehrik...
View Article‘Blokes don’t need help’
Men are more likely to be criminal, violent, alcoholic and suicidal. That’s their own fault, right? Last weekend’s Being a Man festival revealed a world that has turned its back on men’s problems....
View ArticleBeing a man: lost for words
Yiannis Baboulias went along to the Being A Man conference, hoping to explore how men who don’t want to partake in the oppressive status-quo of patriarchy, could proudly declare “not in our name, but...
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Seldon's proposals for school reform are fundamentally flawed
The British education system reflects long-standing social division. A recent Social Market Foundation paper proposes reforms combining variations of previous attempts with radical marketisation of...
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What would you do in a revolution?
Our reviewer went to the theatre to find out. Coney, a British theatre company, have framed a political experiment that places an audience at a crucial juncture in a nation's history: the success of a...
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This week's window on the Middle East - February 10, 2014
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week, Bulgaria's 'chilly welcome' to Syrian refugees.Bulgaria's 'chilly...
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Forced sterilization and impunity in Peru
Between 1995-2000, 300,000 women in Peru, mostly poor indigenous peasants who did not speak Spanish, were forcibly sterilized by the Fujimori government. The Peruvian feminist movement has been trying...
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The Liberty Train: "Because I Decide"
A women’s group on the northern coast of Spain devised a plan to fill a train full of protestors against Government proposals to reform the abortion law by destroying a woman’s right to decide. “El...
View ArticleWashington’s military aid to Israel: fake peace process, real war process
Will Americans ever acknowledge their government's active role in destroying the chances for a just and lasting peace between Palestine and Israel?We Americans have funny notions about foreign aid....
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