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Droning on
Little is clear about the US renewal of drone strikes in Pakistan—except that they won’t be the last.Unending cycle: relatives await news after the Karachi attack. ppiimages / Demotix. All rights...
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The inevitable rise of Sinn Fein
In the aftermath of austerity in Ireland, the Labour party has seen itself virtually wiped out while Sinn Fein has continued to rise.Sinn Féin rally against Household and Water Taxes in 2012. Flickr/...
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International relations vs global governance
The great philosopher René Descartes noted: “Let's agree on definitions, and we will spare the world half its illusions.” While International Relations (IR) is still widely used in political science,...
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British values and the British Muslims
British Muslims have no problem with British values - they yearn for a more tolerant, more just, freer, and more equal society - the real question is, does Mr Gove?Michael Gove - WikimediaA mere week...
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Russia’s gamekeeper has turned poacher
Russia has a vast number of nature reserves and national parks. But the government body supposed to be protecting them is in fact destroying many of them by allowing development and mining.In Russia,...
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Serco on the stand: Death of a US tourist in UK immigration detention
For years rival healthcare companies at two for-profit immigration lock-ups failed properly to communicate. A report from Day 4 of the inquest into the death of Brian DalrympleAmerican tourist Brian...
View ArticleStopping sexual violence in conflict: gender politics in foreign policy
Consistent promotion of gender equality has to drive foreign, security and development policy if sexual violence in conflict is to be stopped, argues Anne Marie Goetz. Last week, what was billed as the...
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Sisi’s religious conquest
The purging of the Muslim Brotherhood from Egyptian politics will not necessarily put the country on the path to secularism, as Sisi finds his own ways to use religion for political ends.Egypt's new...
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Why an independent Kurdistan makes sense
By invading Iraq and mismanaging the aftermath, the United States precipitated Iraq's collapse as a unified state, but it did not cause it.The castle in the city of Erbil. Demotix/Yildiz Celik. All...
View ArticleThe case for complexity
As violence in Iraq threatens to overshadow nuclear talks between the US and Iran, we must avoid the tendency to rely on simplistic binaries, and instead recognize the linkages between these...
View ArticleAvi Mograbi making sure we don’t see something that isn’t there
The motivation becomes artistic. You want to tell a story like a good storyteller and then you become political again and then you become artistic again. At least if you are hated, maybe, you are doing...
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Catalan independence: the necessary choice
After many years of beating our heads against the wall of the Spanish state, trying to reform it into something more multi-national, we’ve come to the conclusion that it is best to simply jump over...
View ArticleA voice from inside Mosul
An interview by the Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI), with an Iraqi human rights defender (“QC”) from Mosul – on June 18, 2014What is the situation now in the city of Mosul?QC: In...
View ArticleEqual access to the asylum process for women
Despite some progress in the treatment of single female asylum seekers in the UK, women in families frequently go unheard, dependent on their husband’s asylum claim. To protect them from persecution...
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Lampedusa: Never again
The terrible migrant deaths off the Italian island have evoked horror across the continent. In a small camp in France, Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi talks to their fellow countrymen and women who have...
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Russia may create cold wars but France gets 'em while they're hot
Today's Sunday Comic excavates the tabloids to ponder how political leaders deal with their private sexuality whilst in powerVladimir & Lyudmila wedding, 1983On 6 June 2013, Vladimir Putin made a...
View ArticleThis week's window on the Middle East - June 22, 2014
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week: A voice from inside Mosul.A voice from inside MosulOnly in Egypt’s...
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Surrender on welfare
The Labour party's capitulation on social security for the young is not an appropriate response to the modern world, but a dangerous step into the past.image: http://gyakoroljuk.blog.hu/Labour’s...
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Egypt’s police: a department of thugs
Ironically, the protest which was peaceful and demanded freedom for political detainees and an end to the "protest law" ended with more of them locked up and served with trumped up charges.Mina Fayek....
View ArticlePakistan: the decade of drones
Drones may offer an appealing alternative to the US after Iraq and Afghanistan but they don’t provide genuine security.The past week has marked ten years since the first reported US drone strike in...
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