Health and Safety - dreadful, isn't it?
"History shows that reliance on the goodwill of employers to improve workplace health and safety is insufficient: a strong state role and the HSE are needed."In April 2014 Conversativehomecharacterised...
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Watch: homeless people each share one surprising fact about themselves
In Orlando, Florida, the Rethink Homelessness project asked rough sleepers to each share a fact about themselves. Their responses may challenge the way you think.What do you think when you pass a...
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Chile's support for Palestine: two-faced on indigenous rights
Chile's diplomatic outcry against Israel has been welcomed by supporters of the Palestinian cause, but its indigenous Mapuche communities continue to face discrimination, brutality and repression at...
View ArticleNHS protest camp and a new Jarrow march - whatever it takes to save our...
Late summer brings a surge of protest against plans to close down swathes of hospital provision, even as its revealed a growing lack of beds means patients are waiting hours in ambulances.This weekend...
View ArticleThe middle: a casualty of the conflict in Gaza
There are abundant signs of the weakening of Palestinian and Israeli willingness to engage with one another. The temptation to resort only to violence must not be allowed to take hold on both the...
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Nice work: G4S wins $118 million Guantánamo contract
G4S, the UK government outsourcer that supports Israeli security services on the West Bank, will serve Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.US guards escort a detainee, Guantanamo, November 2007 (photo by Navy...
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Jewish societies and the intolerance of dissent
The conflation of Jewishness with the state of Israel is causing serious problems and plays into the hands of those wishing to legitimise the new wave of anti-semitism. The Union of Jewish Students...
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A lasting presence for IS in Iraq and Syria: interview with Romain Caillet
On 29 June, after the spectacular takeover of Mosul and other Iraqi cities, the Islamic State (IS) declared a caliphate in Iraq and Syria. How can the sudden rise to power of IS be explained? What is...
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Palestinian game-changer: the ultimate act of resistance
A call for political leadership.Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority at UN vote, April 2013. Europa Newswire/Demotix. All rights reserved.As the horrific carnage in Gaza slowly moves...
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Full monty journalism - Assange, Greenwald and Snowden
Liberal journalism has always depended on leaks. But changes in technology combined with recent events have opened up a new schism in how journalists approach the state and notions of objectivity....
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Don’t merge human rights with religion, even in Africa
In Africa, religion has often been a tool of oppression, not liberation. Some religious tenets and practitioners can help human rights, but they must remain separate from the state and the human rights...
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Why I am an anti-Zionist Jew
The Israeli government deliberately invokes terrorist attacks, rockets, and scary brown men in headscarfs to stoke the population's fear, but I am scared of the racism Zionists use to justify the...
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Egypt’s cover-up
The military-backed authorities in Egypt refused entry this week to two top officials of Human Rights Watch, seeking to launch their report on the massacre a year ago in Cairo. They blocked the...
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The enemy, six feet under
In Shirak Province, Armenia, memories of the Karabakh War still inflame; and even the cemeteries aren't always sacrosanct. Hovhannes Sukiasyan, mayor of Zorakert, bared his gold teeth and squinted at a...
View ArticleEgypt's liberal coup?
Contrary to appearances, the embrace by some Egyptian liberals of anti-democratic practices may not be in contradiction with their liberal principles. This goes to show that the ‘goods’ of liberty and...
View ArticleIslamic State, Iraq, America: a new front
A military escalation in Iraq depends on Washington's assessment of the Islamic State's power and intentions. But the jihadis are also thinking hard about their next target. The crisis in Iraq is...
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Rights and power: illiberal constitutions of Latin America
Latin American constitutions are exemplary in going beyond liberalism in the way they formulate human rights. But they are at the same time illiberal in the powers they afford the executive to limit...
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Attacks on Jews and the authoritarian tide in Europe
As the war on Gaza continues, we should analyze the attacks on Jews and their property in Europe differently from how we view the masses of people taking to the streets in protest against that war.The...
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Here come the robots?
While the rumoured AI takeover of economic life may be far fetched for technological reasons, there are also serious political and social problems limiting just how such an elite project could operate:...
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Catalonia vs Spain, a clash of two nationalisms
By targeting the Mas government, widely portrayed as extremist and irresponsible, and by refusing to negotiate on key constitutional, economic, social, cultural issues, Mr. Rajoy has – willingly or not...
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