Russia-Israel: domestic politics and serious blowback
The Ukraine and Gaza crises alike demonstrate the risks of aggressive policy based on short-term calculations. Vladimir Putin and Binyamin Netanyahu's war-as-politics invites damaging long-term...
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Britain – the state of the nation
TheNew York Times has called it a ‘crisis of identity.’ I think that is to put too much blame on the British people. I would call it a crisis of leadership. David Cameron chats with his Chinese...
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Brazil, drawing political conclusions from the 2014 World Cup
Most Brazilian coaches do not have any international experience and do not even speak English. That has posed a huge barrier to a greater exchange of ideas, tactics and best practice.The 2014 World Cup...
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Independence after the crash
Pick at the SNP's currency proposals and you unravel an ultimately reactionary agenda.A National Bank of Scotland note, 1949: https://www.scottish-treasures.co.uk/note_box_photos.htmHere is a useful...
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The Human Rights Commissioner needs to get down to business
Amidst many priorities, the High Commissioner must focus on the problem of ensuring companies respect human rights, at a moment when a hard fought consensus on how to do so is at risk of unravelling....
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Sharing has been monetized – from Task Rabbit, which allows you to pay people to go grocery shopping, to websites where you can rent a puppy for the weekend. But goodwill is best left off the...
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An inconsistent story doesn't mean you're lying: on psychology and the asylum...
Psychological research shows that honest people, particularly when traumatised, will remember events inconsistently. Judges in asylum cases need to listen to the best scientific evidence on human...
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Yes: the radical case for Scottish independence - review
The radical case for Scottish independence is convincing, and should be considered by the left all across the UK.The referendum on Scotland’s independence takes place on September 18th this year. The...
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Zapatista women’s revolutionary law as it is lived today
This essay on the Zapatistas’ Women’s Revolutionary Law twenty years on, draws on Zapatista women’s reflections, together with a decades-long engagement with indigenous feminism and Zapatismo. Engaging...
View ArticleProtecting girls’ rights: ending forced marriage
One step the Obama administration can take immediately is to develop a comprehensive strategy outlining the actions it will take to end child marriage globally. Lyric Thompson asks whether it will do...
View ArticleHIV disclosure: changing ourselves, changing others
When will policy makers, politicians and academics start to think upstream, in order to change their own and their employees’ attitudes towards HIV before seeking to change the attitudes of others?This...
View ArticleEnding forced marriage in the UK: the problem with top down policy
As the GIRL Summit opens in London today, Sajda Mughal argues that the failure to include working with perpetrators and changing mindsets in affected communities on the agenda, means that the root of...
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Why social movements need the radical imagination
Book extract: The radical imagination often emerges most brilliantly from those who encounter the greatest or most acute oppression and exploitation, and is often stunted and diluted in those who enjoy...
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This week's window on the Middle East - July 22, 2014
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week: Ghassan's memories.Ghassan’s memoriesPalestinian resistance, the...
View ArticleLife must go on in Palestine
Outside the shop in Ramallah there are a few who stand holding posters that express their condemnation for the situation in Gaza, but not enough to block the streets or cause any real problems.On...
View ArticleIt's the morality, stupid!
Why do Britons want more policing, prisons and punishment? The political left need to incorporate morality into analysis and debate around crime.If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, then...
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Occu-Kashrut and ethical Jewish consumerism
Summary: For some, a boycott of products made in Israeli settlements - Occu-Kashrut - is an ethically motivated act of Jewish religious practice. As a result, Israel’s new law against boycotts...
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We need more humans, not more heroes
Summary: Exaggerated by the growing celebrity culture of social change, hero worship is on the rise. In the process we risk rendering ourselves perpetually mediocre. Credit: http://www.taringa.net. All...
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The remains of MH17
Summary: There has so far been little sign of the cooperation which could lead to some form of closure for the MH17 bereaved. But that could be changing… The re-purposed Soviet-era refrigerator cars...
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Stem the tide of Northern Ireland’s ‘culture wars’
Summary: Since the advent of the peace process, the conflicts over cultural identity in Northern Ireland have become increasingly fraught with danger. In order to head off a crisis, political elites...
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