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Bad science, health risks, and the EU/US trade treaty
Whether on GM foods, pesticides, or pharmaceuticals, the EU/US trade treaty aims to strip away higher European regulations that protect public health but hinder corporate profits.Image:...
View ArticleCrimea's referendum: four dangers
The planned vote to transfer Crimea from Ukraine to Russia will plant the seeds ofgreater conflict in the peninsula, says Natalia Mirimanova.A referendum can be a proper instrument of direct democracy....
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Harper’s discordant notes
Unlike the US, Canada has always had a positive reputation in the strife-tone Middle East as an impartial broker and peacemaker. Until now.They liked what they heard: Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu...
View ArticleSyria in the context of the Arab Uprisings
These are videos of a conference on Syria that took place in London, February 2014.Roots & grassroots of the revolutionThe dynamics of the Syrian Uprisingby Joseph Daher of the Revolutionary Left...
View ArticleHuman rights and the ‘new’ Latin American left
A decade of progressive politics in Latin America has left a mixed human rights record; somewhat positive as regards economic and social rights, many setbacks in the protection of civil liberties, and...
View ArticleIt's more complicated than you think
The digital world is more complicated than is understood by those holding our public institutions to account. In the somewhat arcane context of the Information and Record Management Society 2013...
View Article'Fair pay' at universities, as long as you're full time
'Fractional Staff' appear to be severely underpaid and neither the universities nor even the unions seem at all interested. Worse, at times, they are actively hostile.Earlier this year, a wave of news...
View ArticleKey NHS recommendation to "put patients first" rejected by government advisors
Government advisors today rejected the main recommendation of the QC who investigated failings of care at NHS hospitals - to re-write the NHS Constitution to make clear "patients come first". The...
View ArticleTroop withdrawals and women’s rights in Afghanistan
The ‘liberation of Afghan women’ was part of the dominant rhetoric used by international forces to justify military intervention and the ‘war on terror’ in post- 2001 Afghanistan. Yet, Afghanistan’s...
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South Africa: Gender equality and morality as citizenship
Twenty years after South Africa's first democratic elections, Chantelle de Nobrega explores what we can we learn about sex, gender and morality in democratic transitionsPoster by Judy Seidman of the...
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Greece is the future of Europe
Austerity and popular resistance are essential to a political diagnosis for contemporary Europe. Political developments in Greece will show whether the future of Europe is one of neoliberal...
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Lebanon and the Syrian refugee crisis
It wasn’t as if Lebanon didn’t have troubles enough, with a shaky government finally formed last month. But the Syrian refugee crisis is taking a huge toll on a country which desperately needs...
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Putin, Crimea and the legitimacy trap
The Kremlin sees events in Ukraine through the prism of its own domestic politics and is anxious to prevent the type of democrats-and-nationalists alliance that brought down Yanukovych. Its actions in...
View ArticleEgypt, an escape from reality
The spread of absurd conspiracy thinking reveals a hard truth about Egypt's condition, says Hazem Saghieh.Have you heard the news? Apparently, kofta - the grilled meat-pastry popular in the middle east...
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Five thoughts on abolishing the Met
Whilst seemingly necessary and incisive, recent calls to 'abolish' London's Metropolitan police do not go nearly far enough.In his debut column for the Guardian, Owen Jones advocates the abolition of...
View ArticleThe unbearable burden of being an intellectual in today’s Turkey
The motto 'we will let neither the assailants nor the sufferings they have inflicted upon us determine our future' seems quite fitting for both past and current generations of Turkish thinkers. Is this...
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The paradox of ethnic homogeneity - a Hungarian example
Hungarian nationalists have been trying to promote the idea that we are an "ethnically homogenous" people - an idea that is patently absurd!Hungary is a country with a colourful ethnic history....
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Back to the future: America's new model for expeditionary warfare
In a world of supposed cutbacks, the US military continues to quietly move into Africa in a distinctly below-the-radar fashion. The Pentagon’s newest tactic: refight the colonial wars in partnership...
View Article25 years of MIPIM is enough
Real estate managers, asset dealers and city sellers at this years MIPIM, the world's biggest property fair, will for the first time be met by a Europe-wide coalition, calling for an end to the great...
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Mr Putin's mercenaries
The Kremlin claims that its every step in Crimea fully complies with international law. But does President Putin understand that, under international law, Ukraine could either arrest or shoot those...
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